Gabourey Sidibe To Make Feature Directorial Debut With Thriller ‘Pale Horse’
Gabourey Sidibe is making her feature debut with psychological thriller Pale Horse, which is scheduled to shoot this fall https://t.co/gjBAsWQWoj Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 6, 2021
As if being an Oscar nominated actor and an author wasn t enough, Gabourey Sidibe is also adding film director to her resume.
Written by Asabi Lee and Paul Hart-Wilden (Wolf Town), and based on a story by Chris Courtney Martin (The Last Laugh), Pale Horse centres around Naia, a highly regarded but reclusive African-American YA author living with MS. Naia finds herself enveloped in a dark mystery when she gives shelter to a man who escaped captivity with her long-lost brother.
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Some of the finest lockdown digital theatre has addressed the absence of its real-world counterpart. Iâm thinking of the National Theatre of Scotlandâs Ghost Light, which invoked the spirits of performances past and postponed. Alphabetti in Newcastle upon Tyne is up to something similar with this trio of audio plays, written âin reaction to a lonely theatreâ. Three writers conjure with the associations of an empty stage, an unpopulated auditorium, an interval bar
sans drinkers. Footage from inside the abandoned Alphabetti, a Mary Celeste adrift on Covidâs waves, accompanies their words.
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Justin Moorhouse will be among entertainers at The Last Laugh Comedy Club in Sheffield City Hall s memorial hall.
The club, which runs ever weekend in Sheffield City Hall’s memorial hall, is preparing to come back with a bang on May 28 this year.
Toby Foster, who curates the club, has kept busy during its temporary closure with his Breakfast Show on Radio Sheffeld, guest appearances on Ricky Gervais Afterlife and a secret project with Netflix.
But the comedian is chomping at the bit to get back to live shows at the City Hall. He said: “I’m curating the club for the forseeable future, so I get to book my favourite acts into one of the best clubs in the country. It’s a stunning room, the best on the circuit, and a magnificent place for acts to play.”
Thomas Middleditch will pay $2.6 million to ex-wife Mollie Gates in a deal the exes agreed upon as part of their divorce settlement.
The Silicon Valley actor, 39, and Gates, a 33-year-old costume designer, agreed to the civil settlement of the payment, which will span until December of 2022, US Weekly reported on Wednesday.
Gates had filed to split from the Emmy-nominated actor in May of 2020 to put an end to their four-year union.
The latest: Thomas Middleditch, 39, will pay $2.6 million to ex-wife Mollie Gates, 33, in a deal the exes agreed upon as part of their divorce settlement.
In the settlement, the outlet reported, the Canadian actor will keep two Los Angeles properties he owns, a condo and a house, as well homes in Big Bear Lake, California and Canada.
The Mother Lode: In the COVID-19 era, is it too soon to laugh?
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Is it OK to find humor in the COVID-19 pandemic?
“What the hell else can we do at this point but laugh?” my friend told me.
But what if you lost a loved one to COVID-19? And then there are long-term side effects, suffering from long-haul COVID, “multiorgan effects,” or PTSD, which can be caused by distance learning trust me. Not so funny. People in India are not laughing these days.
I’ve struggled with this for the past year when writing about COVID. I look back at articles I wrote in February and March 2020 and want to climb under the covers and eat Haagen-Dazs white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream by the gallon while watching “Outlander” again.