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Bill Cosby Granted Appeal In Pennsylvania Sex Assault
Jamie Foxx Reveals His Ongoing Transformation For Mike Tyson Biopic
In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The 82-year-old Cosby has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. He's serving a three- to 10-year sentence.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case, including the judge's decision to let prosecutors call
Jamie Foxx is showing off early signs of his transforma- tion into Mike Tyson for the upcoming--and long awaited-- biopic.
"A few months ago we started the journey...The first but biggest task is to transform the body...with a regiment of pull-ups, dips and push-ups," he wrote on Instagram, adding that he's "off to a pretty good start" but has "a ways to go."
According to TODAY, Foxx shared the Instagram pictures to friend and restaurateur Mark Birnbaum's Insta- gram Live show Catching Up and said he's been doing 10
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Netflix Renews Kenya Barris’ ‘#blackAF’ For Season 2
#blackAF starring Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones
Rihanna's 'ANTI' Still Making Billboard Chart History 4 Years After Its Release
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five other accusers to testify about long-ago encounters with the once-powerful actor and comedian.
pull-ups, 60 dips and 100 push-ups every day to bulk up. The project has been around for many, many years at this point, but has only started ap- pearing like a greenlit project
in May 2019, when Foxx posted an image of him and Tyson. Originally the project was set to be directed by Mar- tin Scorcese and would be distributed by Paramount.
Kenya Barris’ #blackAF is returning for a second season at Netflix.
The Black-ish creator will once again play an exaggerated version of himself, with Rashida Jones as his wife Joya, in the comedy.
Barris is a busy fella; the re- newal comes days after Dead- line revealed that he was
teaming up with Happy singer Pharrell Williams to develop a Juneteenth musical feature for the streaming service.
He told Deadline, “I won’t re- ally, really, really get into it until we’re in the room because I want it to be fresh, but I defi- nitely know I want to talk about real s**t. We want it to be really special.”
New music from Rihanna is still nowhere in sight, but her Navy is clearly holding themselves over with her pre- vious work in the meantime.
The Barbadian singer’s eighth studio album ANTI has offi- cially charted every week since its release on January 28, 2016 —atotalof224weeksasof Tuesday (June 23). With that number, ANTI has now be- come the longest-charting album by a Black female artist
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in Billboard 200 history, ac- cording to a tweet from Chart Data.
Fans have been anxious for new music from the Roc Na- tion singer for some time, but ANTI still remains her latest release over four years later. In April, she even had to check fans after they continued to bombard her with inquiries about a new album – which she was particularly not appre- ciating amid the pandemic.
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