Bill Cosby’s June trial for the alleged 2004 sexual assault of a then-
Temple University employee is expected to last about two weeks, a
Pennsylvania judge said today. Jury screening for the trial scheduled
for June 5 is likely to start May 22 or May 29 in Allegheny County,
where the jurors will be chosen, Judge Steven O’Neill said this morning
in his Norristown, PA, courtroom. If convicted, Cosby could end up
behind bars for up to a decade.
Bill Cosby
Now that Jordan Peele has a hit
movie under his belt with Get Out,
he’s officially gotten out of the world
where he got his big break. Key &
Peele went off the air in 2015 — and
now you’d probably have to kidnap
and brainwash Peele before he ever
went back to the sketch-comedy
world.
Peele,
who’s
always
maintained that he fell into comedy
on the road to making films, has
confirmed that his sketch-comedy
career is indeed finished. He wants to
“focus on writing, directing and
producing” instead of playing Barack
Obama forever. .
Jordan
Peele
Bill Hader
Insecure star Issa Rae is joining Bill Hader in the drama-comedy
Empress of Serenity, directed by Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
author and screenwriter Jesse Andrews. Good Universe is
producing Empress of Serenity, centered on a lawyer who’s
coerced into taking an ocean cruise in order to bond with his
estranged father. Production is planned for August. Hader plays a
man whose elaborate plan to win back his ex-wife is upended
when he is guilted into a month-long mega-cruise with his widowed
father. Rae plays a reclusive kindred spirit in the cabin next door
who becomes both the aid and the obstacle in his plan.
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Issa Rae