Rock to perform live on Netflix
Chris Rock is going where no comedian has gone before — live on Netflix.
The streaming giant said Thursday that Rock will perform on the company’s first live global streaming event. The comedy special is set to stream in early 2023, but few other details were revealed.
“Chris Rock is one of the most iconic and important comedic voices of our generation,” Robbie Praw, Netflix vice president of stand-up and comedy formats said in a statement. “We’re thrilled the entire world will be able to experience a live Chris Rock comedy event and be a part of Netflix history. This will be an unforgettable moment, and we’re so honored that Chris is carrying this torch.”
This will be the first significant test of live streaming on Netflix, potentially opening the door for other programs to get the live treatment.
Obama shares stories of coping in book:
Michelle Obama said she struggled with a “crushing sense of hopelessness” after the 2020 presidential election that was brought on by the death and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a summer of political and racial unrest and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“I was in a low place,” she said. Then she got an idea.
“Everyone was searching for some answers of how to cope. And for some reason they were asking me, ‘What do you do?’ I had to start thinking about that,” the former first lady told People magazine in an interview pegged to Tuesday’s release of her second book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.”
In the book, former President Barack Obama’s
wife tells how she steadies herself during these anxious times and how she works at overcoming her lifelong fear of change and doubts about herself.
People posted a report on the interview on its website on Thursday, and it appears in the magazine’s Nov. 21 issue.
Fonda says nonprofit’s work has become more important:
Jane Fonda says the work of the Georgia-based nonprofit organization she founded to prevent teenage pregnancies has become “far more important” in the months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion it guaranteed to women in the United States.
While a post-Roe world will be harder on girls because they are the ones who would have to carry a baby, the work to fight teen pregnancy must also
focus on adolescent boys, said the activist and Oscar winner, who was in Atlanta for a fundraiser Thursday.
“Things are much, much harder for boys and girls now and, so, teaching them skills around their reproductive health, how to stay healthy, how to stay pregnancy-free, how to say no, how to have agency over their body, these things are more important than ever,” Fonda said.
Fonda, 84, founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention in 1995.
Nov. 12 birthdays: Actor Wallace Shawn is 79. Musician Booker T. Jones is 78. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 78. Singer Neil Young is
77. Actor Megan Mullally is
64. Actor Rebecca Wisocky is 51. Actor Tamala Jones is
48. Actor Ashley Williams is 44. Actor Cote de Pablo is 43. Actor Ryan Gosling is
42. Actor Anne Hathaway is 40. Singer Omarion is 38.