Nyong’o’s goal after Oscar win was not to trip
NEW YORK (AP) – Looking back, Lupita Nyong’o says the moments after she won her Academy Award this year were a blur and time stood still.
But she says in the July issue of Vogue there’s one thing she does remember: worrying she would trip on her way to the podium.
“It’s not cute if you follow Jennifer Lawrence — it’s not cute if you’re the second one!” she laughed, referring to Lawrence’s famous stumble while collecting her best-actress Oscar the year before.
The 31-year-old actress has a steady path ahead of her.
She will voice a character in Jon Favreau’s take on Disney’s The Jungle Book and landed a role in Star Wars: Episode VII. Plus she’s going to co-produce and star in an adaption of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah, saying the story blew her away.
The July issue of Vogue goes on sale Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles.
HBO to air segments of Beyoncé concerts
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyoncé is headed back to HBO.
The network announced yesterday that it will air four 10-minute segments of her concerts ahead of True Blood. Dubbed Beyonce: X10, the segments will air Sundays at 8:55 p.m. Eastern starting June 29.
The final season of True Blood premieres Sunday.
The footage is from Beyoncé’s Mrs. Carter World Tour, which wrapped in March. She launches a co-headlining tour with Jay Z next week.
The Beyonce documentary Life Is but a Dream debuted on HBO last year. The network said it was the most viewed music special on the channel since 2003.
The megastar is riding high off the release of her self-titled fifth album, which has sold 2 million units. It features the hit, Drunk in Love.
Dave Chappelle’s comeback lands in New York
NEW YORK (AP) – Comedian Dave Chappelle’s hesitant, slow-motion comeback reached a big-tent crescendo when he performed a nearly two-hour set at New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall that seemed to officially announce his long-awaited return.
Chappelle, who famously abandoned his acclaimed and lucrative Comedy Central show in 2005, has largely shunned the public eye since last year resuming his stand-up career. In his wide-ranging act Wednesday, Chappelle made up for lost time, catching up to a decade of racial and societal change, and his own life changes, from having children to his return from self-imposed exile.
“I’m just back out here earning enough money to disappear again,” he said mid-set as the sold-out crowd howled, collectively hoping he was joking.
The show was the first of nine scheduled for Chappelle at Radio City, easily his biggest platform in years. Music acts like the Roots, Nas and Janelle Monae are to join him later, but the kick-off show began with the veteran Washington comic Tony Woods as the opener and an intro from, of all people, James Lipton.