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King Crimson ’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox dropped a cover of Britney Spears ’ “Toxic” and showed their support for Spears in her ongoing conservatorship fight . The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what looked to be their kitchen. Fripp deftly recreated the lead synth riff of “Toxic” with some lightning-quick guitar playing, while Willcox delivered a delightfully over-the-top vocal performance. In an explicit nod to Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle, the video featured a prominent #FreeBritney hashtag, while after the performance, both Fripp and Willcox held up handmade “We Love You Britney” signs. (There’s also a bonus blooper clip at the end of Fripp and Willcox getting distracted midway through the performance and cracking up.) Fripp and Willcox launched their Sunday Lunch series last year, starting with a variety of little bits and … [Read more...] about King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Toyah Willcox Cover Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’

Leon Gast , the veteran filmmaker who won a Documentary Feature Oscar for helming the 1996 “Rumble in the Jungle” pic When We Were Kings , died Monday. He was 85. The news was confirmed by the Woodstock Film Festival, of which Gast was a founding advisory board member and a 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. Gast also won a Spirit Award, a Sundance Special Jury prize and a DGA Award nomination for When We Were Kings, which he also produced and edited. It told the fascinating story about the 1974 heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The filmmaker later produced and directed The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013), which aired the following year on PBS as under the Independent Lens banner . Gast won a News & Documentary Emmy and an International Documentary Association Award for that project. Related Story Showbiz & Media Figures We've Lost In 2021 - Photo Gallery Gast began his movie … [Read more...] about Leon Gast Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘When We Were Kings’ Documentarian Was 85

Getty Burger King has a funny way of promoting gender equality -- because it said something totally sexist about women ... as a way to plug a new initiative supporting them. Yes, this is what honchos at BK's British office thought would be a good campaign to hype a new scholarship program -- tweeting early Monday, "Women belong in the kitchen." As the Internet started dragging them, BK added ... "If they want to, of course. Yet only 20% of chefs are women. We're on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry by empowering female employees with the opportunity to pursue a culinary career. #IWD." See what they did there? Piss off everyone with one disgustingly misogynistic tweet, then hit 'em with ... wait, we're doing a good thing! BK says the scholarship is meant to uplift their female employees, who wanna move past fry cook and be bona fide chefs. BTW ... March 8 is International Women's Day -- a worldwide holiday aimed at celebrating … [Read more...] about Burger King Says Women Belong in the Kitchen, Sexist Culinary Campaign

British entertainment formats Would I Lie To You? and Killer Camp are being remade in the U.S. by The CW with The Good Fight creators Robert and Michelle King exec producing the former. The youth-skewing network is adapting the two shows as part of an expanded unscripted line-up, which includes a U.S. version of Whose Line Is It Anyway, World’s Funniest Animals and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Would I Lie To You? , which has run on BBC One for 14 seasons, sees a team of celebrities try and ascertain truth from fiction with questions and stories. The UK series is hosted by Gavin & Stacey star Rob Brydon with Back and Peep Show star David Mitchell and Not Going Out star Lee Mach as team captains. It will be remade by Ink Master producer Truly Original, which is owned by Banijay, the company that now owns original UK producer Zeppotron. The Good Wife and The Good Fight exec producers Robert King, Michelle King will exec produce alongside … [Read more...] about The CW To Adapt BBC Non-Scripted Format ‘Would I Lie To You?’ With Robert & Michelle King As EPs

It took him more than two decades to get his film about the fabled Ali-Foreman fight in Africa to the screen. Leon Gast, the celebrated Oscar-winning documentarian behind When We Were Kings , which chronicled the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, has died. He was 85. Gast died Monday, according to his friend and fellow documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. No other details of his death were immediately available. Gast also executive produced Bill Siegel's 2013 PBS documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali , which was awarded a news and documentary Emmy. His final film, Manny (2014), co-directed with Ryan Moore, centered on another champion boxer, Manny Pacquiao. When We Were Kings (1996) received special jury recognition at Sundance en route to winning the best documentary Oscar and a Spirit Award. The film tells the story of how Ali reclaimed the heavyweight title in Kinshasa , Zaire, with a stunning eight-round knockout of the … [Read more...] about Leon Gast, Oscar-Winning Documentarian Behind ‘When We Were Kings,’ Dies at 85