Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal had a lot to say after Kyrie Irving was recently criticized as having supported a documentary film that features antisemitic tropes. During TNT’s Inside the NBA on Tuesday, the analysts shared their thoughts about Brooklyn Nets star Irving tweeting a link to the 2018 film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America on Thursday in a post […]
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Mehmet Oz declared the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to be an Atlantic-bordering region on Monday, apparently unaware the Keystone State is hopelessly landlocked. Oz joined Fox News host Sean Hannity to discuss the high stakes of the race to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). Oz is in a tight race with Democrat John Fetterman, according to the polls. Throughout his campaign, […]
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom sat down with CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett over the weekend and offered his candid assessment of the factors behind this week’s attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which left him in the hospital after being assaulted with a hammer at their San Francisco home. “I’ve seen the dehumanization of Nancy Pelosi,” […]
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Taylor Swift scores one of the most historic weeks in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as she becomes the first artist to claim the survey’s entire top 10 in a single frame. Swift surpasses Drake, who logged nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 for a week in September 2021. Leading […]
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Donald Trump Jr. made waves on social media after sharing various posts mocking the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi — the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Trump Jr. has now deleted those posts. On Sunday night, he retweeted a picture of a “Paul Pelosi Halloween Costume” which depicted a pair of underwear and a hammer. Paul Pelosi, […]
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Saturday Night Live sent up Kanye West‘s ejection from Skechers with an ad parody in which the sneaker company is torn between repudiating Ye and bragging that he chose them to get kicked out of. The imploding rap icon was escorted out of Skechers headquarters this week amid a flurry of entities dropping him over his campaign of anti-Semitism. On this […]
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Face the Nation anchor Margaret Brennan absolutely fricasseed Republican Congressman Tom Emmer over a #FirePelosi post featuring video of him firing a gun, repeatedly blocking his attempts at evasion. Just days ago, Emmer posted a tweet featuring video in which he fires a machine gun at a shooting range, and wrote “13 days to make history. Let’s #FirePelosi.” Within 48 hours, a suspect […]
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Self-styled Chief Twit Elon Musk has deleted a reply to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the attack on Paul Pelosi in which he shared an outrageous conspiracy theory from a fringe website. A suspect named David DePape allegedly broke into Speaker Pelosi’s San Francisco home early Friday morning and violently attacked her husband Paul while asking for the speaker’s whereabouts. He has since been […]
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“Black Adam” conquered the box office again in its second weekend in theaters. The Warner Bros. comic book adventure, starring Dwayne Johnson as a baddie who promises to change the “hierarchy of power” in the DC universe, collected $27.7 million between Friday and Sunday, a standard (for a superhero movie) 59% decline from its opening […]
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Elon Musk has countered speculation that he would immediately reinstate all permanently banned accounts — such as former President Donald Trump’s — and make sweeping content policy changes now that Twitter is firmly under his control. In a tweet shared on Friday, Musk said Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” before making any […]
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Singer-pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, the hell-raising, larger-than-life rock ‘n’ roll pioneer and latter-day country star, has died, according to a rep, Zach Farnum. He was 87. His death had erroneously been reported by some outlets on Wednesday. “Judith, his seventh wife, was by his side when he passed away at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, south of […]
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer was overcome with emotion as he apologized for being wrong about Facebook’s parent company, Meta. Meta stock over the past month has plunged as it was $138.61 on Oct. 3, the first day of trading this month, to just over $98 on Thursday. The company’s revenue decreased in the third quarter. In June, Cramer encouraged […]
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The end has come for City On A Hill. Showtime has canceled the drama series after three seasons, Deadline has confirmed. The Season 3 finale will now serve as the series finale. The third season launched in September. Sources tell Deadline the decision was made awhile back, prior to the regime change which saw longtime Showtime Networks CEO […]
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CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht on Wednesday warned staffers that there would be “noticeable change” to the network that will affect employees, budgets and projects. In a memo, Licht wrote, “There is widespread concern over the global economic outlook, and we must factor that risk into our long-term planning. All this together will mean noticeable change to […]
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Selena Gomez has had to put her upcoming plans on hold. On Wednesday (Oct. 26), the singer and Rare Beauty mogul shared that her scheduled appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has been canceled due to her testing positive for COVID-19. “I’m not going to be on Fallon tonight. I ended up getting COVID but am resting and […]
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The upcoming episode of “Call Me Kat” will include a title card paying tribute to Leslie Jordan after his death at age 67 in a car accident on Monday. Titled “Call Me Uncle Dad,” Season 3 Episode 5 will air on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. Since the debut of “Call Me Kat in 2021,” Jordan starred in the comedy […]
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In what may be the toughest blow, ego-wise, in the fallout from Kanye West’s antisemitic rants last week, Forbes announced today that the rapper is no longer on its glitzy list of the world’s billionaires. A chief cause for the change was Adidas ending its relationship today with Ye, as he is now known. He had been among the first hip-hop […]
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James Corden admitted he was “ungracious” to a staffer at New York City restauranter Keith McNally‘s Manhattan establishment the Balthazar last week. On The Late Late Show, Corden came before the cameras for the first time since it was alleged he threatened a negative Yelp review over a bit of egg white in what was supposed to be […]
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Production on Season 3 of “Call Me Kat” will pause production following the death of Leslie Jordan, Variety has learned. The actor died on Monday in a car accident age 67. Season 3 is currently airing on Fox, having premiered on Sept. 29. Since the comedy series debuted in 2021, Jordan has held the series regular role of Phil, the head […]
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Andy Cohen is apologizing to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais after the Bravo host received backlash from viewers. During the second part of the RHOBH reunion, Lisa Rinna admitted that she was the one that threw Beauvais’ autobiographical book in the trash and not Erika Jayne who had shared the moment on Instagram. While talking about the situation at the […]
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Kanye West is no longer a client at CAA, Variety has confirmed. In addition, a completed documentary about West will be shelved in light of his recent antisemitic comments, MRC studio executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley announced in a memo on Monday. “This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not […]
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Leslie Jordan, the goofy character actor perhaps best known for his Emmy-winning turn as Beverley Leslie, the cynical foil to Megan Mullally’s Karen Walker, on Will & Grace, has died. He was 67. Jordan was at the wheel of a BMW when he crashed into the side of a building at Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Street […]
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Three of Hollywood’s top agency chiefs are now calling on the entertainment industry to cut ties with Kanye West given the rapper and fashion mogul’s antisemitic rhetoric on multiple platforms and interviews. On Sunday evening, UTA chief Jeremy Zimmer sent a companywide memo to staff titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments’ “embolden […]
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Allen Media Group, the African American-focused news, lifestyle, sports and entertainment platform founded by Byron Allen, is set to launch The Grio With Eboni K. Williams and The Grio with Marc Lamont Hill, a daily two-hour news block beginning Monday, October 24. It will also be available via TheGrio streaming app. Hosted by author and television personality Williams, and author, activist, and scholar Hill, each […]
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