“A League of Their Own” and “Big” star Tom Hanks took to social media on Tuesday to pay tribute to director Penny Marshall. “Goodbye, Penny. Man, did we laugh a lot! Wish we still could. Love you. Hanx,” he wrote after news broke of her passing. Marshall, who passed away at age 75 on Monday due to diabetes complications, directed Hanks […]
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A group of advertisers say they are pulling their commercials from Fox News Channelhost Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. program, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” after remarks he made last week about immigration. The passel of sponsors includes SmileDirectClub, Nautilus Inc.’s Bowflex, Ancestry.com, NerdWallet, Indeed.com and Pacific Life Insurance. Carlson sparked the controversy during last Thursday’s broadcast, noting that he felt […]
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Penny Marshall, the beloved star of Laverne & Shirley who went on to make Hollywood history as the director of beloved films Big and A League of Their Own, died peacefully at her home on Monday of complications from diabetes. She was 75 years old. “Our family is heartbroken over the passing of Penny Marshall,” Marshall’s family wrote in a […]
Read moreWrestling’s inner sanctum, preserved the secrets of professional wrestling for years and years.Throughout the 20th century, before a mainstream dormant in popularity experimented beyond the old, protective narrative, nobody ever really took pro wrestling at face value. Perhaps in the 1910s, but that’s about it. They knew it was in some way predetermined; they just […]
Read moreMichael B. Jordan knew he had to step his game up for the role as he faces off against Ivan Drago’s son in Creed 2 and we all know that there’s some bad blood between the Creeds and the Dragos. It’s going to take some serious training-which is exactly what Jordan did to get into […]
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Year after year, a ton of incredible films are released only to end up going largely unnoticed, and 2018 is no different. But don’t worry about missing out on all the future classics slipping under the radar – we’ve got the scoop on the very best… I Kill Giants Thoroughbreds Disobedience Searching Blindspotting The Miseducation […]
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Leslie Moonves will not be getting his $120 million severance, as CBS concluded after a months-long investigation that there is, indeed, merit to numerous claims that its former CEO sexually harassed several women over the course of decades. Word came of the decision Monday via a statement from CBS, and few were surprised. Only weeks […]
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The worlds of sports and entertainment have grown increasingly intertwined over the years. Celebrities have become regular (and regularly photographed) attendees at professional baseball and basketball games and, of course, the Super Bowl halftime show has always been an entertaining spectacle of big-name musical celebrities amid the year’s most-watched sporting event. Meanwhile, more and more professional athletes […]
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Jude Law burst into the Hollywood spotlight with his role in 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and has since worked with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Oscar nominations and a host of other critical considerations have followed in his wake. Kids today might know Law best as John Watson in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films, and perhaps […]
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President Donald Trump on Sunday again blasted “Saturday Night Live” and what he called “one sided coverage” on networks like NBC, hinting at legal action to battle “Democratic spin machines.” “A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live,” Trump tweeted […]
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The Philippines’ Catriona Gray was named Miss Universe 2018 in a competition held in Bangkok on Monday, besting contestants from 93 other countries and delighting her home nation. The 24-year-old singer and model attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music. When she was 13, her mother had a dream that she’d win the contest. Gray wore […]
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Gayle King is furious about the upheaval at CBS — and could be prepared to walk, Page Six is told. After Page Six reported that CBS is ready to revamp King’s “CBS This Morning,”we’re told King may not even stay at the network. The co-anchor gracefully handled the exit of co-anchor Charlie Rose in November 2017, taking the reins […]
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Sixteen, emerald-eyed, blond, an aspiring model with a confident streak and a painful past: Babi Christina Engelhardt had just caught Woody Allen’s gaze at legendary New York City power restaurant Elaine’s. It was October 1976, and when Engelhardt returned from the ladies’ room, she dropped a note on his table with her phone number. It […]
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In another win for Sony’s stable of Marvel films, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swung to $35.4 million in its domestic debut — the best December opening ever for an animated film — laying the course for a strong run over the year-end holidays. The critically acclaimed film, produced by Philip Lord and Christopher Miller, reveals a shared universe […]
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an unlikely national rock star. But the woman known as “the notorious RBG” is now the subject of a second film about her this year — in theaters on Christmas Day. On Saturday evening, the Brooklyn native appeared in person, expressing love for her hometown of New […]
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Tony Braxton has been nominated for Grammys again for her latest album, but these days the singer is also focusing on acting — and flexing her producing muscles. “I find that I really love everything about film and film-making,” the multiplatinum-singer said in a recent interview. “I just really love movies, whether TV or anything […]
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Instead of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” it was a “Wonderful Trump” on “Saturday Night Live.” The NBC variety show kicked off its holiday show Saturday night with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump playing the George Bailey role and getting to see what it would be like if he were never elected president. “Wow, everyone looks so different,” Baldwin’s […]
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Just hours after “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson posted a message on social media that said he “really [didn’t] want to be on this Earth anymore,” he was absent from the final 2018 live sketches of the late-night sketch comedy show. But although Davidson did not take part in the sketches or appear behind the […]
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The investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against former CBS President Les Moonves has revealed that actress Eliza Dushku was paid a confidential settlement of $9.5 million from the company, after she alleged that co-star Michael Weatherly sexually harassed her while filming Bull last year, the New York Times reported Thursday. Dushku, who was hired to play the love interest of Weatherly’s character on […]
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Death can’t stop Stan Lee from showing up in the latest movie featuring his most famous creation. The Marvel comics icon continues his long tradition of cameos in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a CGI animated movie in theaters now that’s full of Spider-people. Lee showed up briefly in Ralph Breaks the Internet and we’ll see him in upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universemovies, but […]
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Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein bragged about sleeping with Jennifer Lawrence to a woman that he allegedly sexually abused for years, according to the woman’s new lawsuit. In the suit filed anonymously by a Jane Doe in L.A. county the woman claims that Weinstein performed oral sex on her against her will and as she was sobbing he told her, […]
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The Television Academy announced new rules for the 2019 Emmys Thursday night, including setting the minimum length for qualifying television movies at 75 minutes. The rules changes also included the addition of an Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Underscore) award, and restructuring the choreography categories as follows: Outstanding Choreography for Variety […]
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