No doubt Tom Hanks was the heart and soul of Big. But Elizabeth Perkins, who played Susan in the 1988 movie, just revealed that the star wasn't originally chosen to step atop that iconic piano as Josh. During a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Perkins told host Andy Cohen that another Oscar winner was originally cast as the film's lead. "Robert de Niro was actually cast in the role of Josh in the movie Big,"

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ASAP Rocky switched up the lyrics to his song, "Telephone Calls," from Cozy Tapes: Vol. 1 while performing at Rolling Loud in Miami on Sunday. In doing so, he dissed his former collaborators, ASAP Bari and Ian Connor. Rocky has been distancing himself from both of them since they faced separate sexual assault allegations over the years. "Call up young lord ASAP Bari, he a bitch/And the young boy Ian Connor, he a bitch.

Wang Xiaoshuai, director of “So Long, My Son” and “Red Amnesia,” will be the most senior mainland Chinese director to present a new film at a major Western festival this year. That may be a reflection of the growing political and economic separation between China and the West over the past couple of years — with COVID an additional irritant. But tough times can also breed innovation. Wang’s latest, “The Hotel,” a chamber piece about a small group of Chinese tourists trapped in a hotel in Thailand during the early days of the pandemic, was inspired by events that Wang personally endured in 2020.