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Spike Lee has apologized for speaking up for Woody Allen — saying he was “wrong” for defending the filmmaker against “cancel” culture. The “Do The Right Thing” director took to Twitter to walk back his defense of Allen, who has been accused of molesting his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was 7 years old. “I …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Yankees. If Gleyber Torres becomes a liability at shortstop, will Yankees quickly pivot and move him back to …
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Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island” was pulled unceremoniously — and mysteriously — from drive-in theatres last week, reports Variety. The semi-autobiographical film, which offers a comic take on SNL star’s Pete Davidson’s childhood in the borough, was instead released Friday for video only. “There was no explanation,” from Universal, one drive-in theater owner …
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Don’t expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon. In a new Netflix stand-up special, “8:46” that dropped for free Friday night via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans. “You watch one shooting after …
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Rapper and actor Method Man has launched a cannabis brand that aims to spark conversations about racial injustice. The Wu-Tang Clan veteran has dubbed his line of pot TICAL, an acronym for “Taking Into Consideration All Lives” that’s also the title of his 1994 debut solo album. Method Man, whose legal name is Clifford Smith, …
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Dave Chappelle does not hold back in a new Netflix special titled “8:46,” which the streaming platform surprise debuted for free on its YouTube comedy channel late Thursday. In a set rife with his signature searing social commentary (warning: the language is raw), the comedian touches on everything from George Floyd’s death to being unable …
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A Minneapolis manufacturing company whose plant was set on fire by rioters plans to leave the city, saying that city officials afforded them no assistance in handling the destruction. “They don’t care about my business,” 7-Sigma Inc.’s president and owner, Kris Wyrobek, told The Star Tribune about Minneapolis public officials. “They didn’t protect our people. We …
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Billionaire Leon Black is going to the mat with America’s largest mattress maker. Black’s Apollo Global Management is suing Serta Simmons over “an unlawful scheme” to lower its $2.4 billion debt stack without the approval of all of its lenders. The alleged scheme, which would give Serta an extra $200 million in cash while also reducing …
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Apple has set a July 10 release date for “Greyhound,” the World War II drama that stars Tom Hanks, who wrote the script from C.S. Foreste’s novel “The Good Shepherd.” The film will make its global premiere exclusively on streaming service Apple TV+ in more than 100 countries. “Greyhound” was slated to be released theatrically by …
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British rapper Stormzy is donating 10 million pounds (more than $12,590,000) to UK-based causes that empower black people over the next decade. “The uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit is that black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life – simply due …
Spike Lee has apologized for speaking up for Woody Allen — saying he was “wrong” for defending the filmmaker against “cancel” culture. The “Do The Right Thing” director took to Twitter to walk back his defense of Allen, who has been accused of molesting his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was 7 years old. “I …
