Angelina Jolie will star in Oscar-nominated director Pablo Larraín’s next movie, a biopic about famous opera singer Maria Callas. Titled “Maria,” the film “tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris,” according to its logline. Steven Knight (“Spencer,” “Peaky […]
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A New York jury has sided with Kevin Spacey in a $40 million civil lawsuit, finding that the Oscar-winning actor did not molest Anthony Rapp when he was a teenager and is not liable for battery. After roughly 80 minutes of deliberations, jurors reached a unanimous decision that Rapp’s lawyers had failed to prove that Spacey “touched […]
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Jesse Lee Soffer isn’t leaving the Windy City just yet. The actor, who made his final appearance on “Chicago P.D.” earlier this month, will be returning to direct episode 16, Variety can exclusively reveal. The episode will air in 2023. Soffer starred in 189 episodes of NBC’s police procedural, portraying Det. Jay Halstead. In August, he confirmed that the 10th […]
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Chelsea Handler will host the 2023 Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association said Thursday. The 28th annual awards show will take place Jan. 15, airing live on The CW from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Handler had a seven-year run as the host of E!’s Chelsea Lately, during which she was the only female late-night talk […]
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Ari Emanuel is encouraging businesses that work with Kanye “Ye” West to pull their involvement with him following the rapper’s recent antisemitic remarks. In an op-ed for the Financial Times published online Wednesday, the Endeavor CEO wrote that West’s business partners, including companies that profit off his music — such as Apple, Spotify, Adidas and his touring partners — should […]
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CBS President and CEO George Cheeks told TheWrap on Wednesday that even if NBC plans to dump its 10 p.m. hour shows, CBS does not intend to follow suit. “We are committed to 10 p.m. and continuing our ratings success in that time period,” Cheeks said in a statement. Some of the network’s biggest hits […]
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Howard Stern lashed out at Kanye West during the Oct. 19 episode of his SiriusXM radio show (via Mediaite). West has courted controversy in recent weeks for making antisemitic statements, most recently in an interview with Chris Cuomo where the rapper cited the “Jewish underground media mafia.” Stern compared West to Hitler and criticized his defenders who cite mental […]
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Jake Tapper took Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to task for her endorsement of various conspiracy theories over the years. The CNN host called Greene an “extremist” who is tolerated and even “embraced” by her fellow Republicans because of her preternatural ability to fundraise and receive the clout that goes with it. Tapper then aired a series of clips interspersed with his […]
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The move to cut “The Drew Barrymore Show” from an hourlong format to two half-hour segments has paid off for the syndicated talk show, which saw a 60% boost in ratings from this time last year, according to NNTV’s Tuesday ratings report. The daytime talk show that debuted in September 2020 saw the sharpest annual increase of […]
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Durham has been leading an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into possible connections between Donald Trump and the Russian government, dating to his time as a candidate for president in 2015. Around that time, the Hillary Clinton campaign indirectly funded the efforts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled raw intelligence on Trump gathered from sources, many of whom […]
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Kanye West made yet more anti-Semitic remarks on Monday, this time telling NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo a “Jewish underground media mafia” has it out for him. West has been restricted on social media for appearing to threaten Jews on Twitter. He has since agreed in principle to buy the far-right social media platform Parler. In a now-deleted tweet, he wrote, “I’m a […]
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ABC’s “Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” has found its Lumière, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts in Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”), David Alan Grier (“In Living Color”) and country music star Shania Twain, respectively. Rounding out the ensemble cast are Rizwan Manji (“Schitt’s Creek”) as Gaston’s loyal sidekick, LeFou; Jon Jon Briones […]
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Timothy Dalton has been cast in “1923,” the “Yellowstone” prequel series coming to Paramount+. He will play Donald Whitfield, a powerful, self-confident man who reeks of wealth and the lack of empathy it requires to attain it. He is intimidating and nefarious and is used to getting what he wants. He joins previously announced cast members […]
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Tucker Carlson delivered a puzzling monologue about Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) and suggested he’s currently part human and part machine after suffering a stroke in May. The Fox News host also misled viewers by stating Fetterman is unable to speak on his own. Fetterman is currently in a tight race with Republican Mehmet Oz to be the Keystone […]
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Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of $965 million in damages to the plaintiffs of the defamation trial surrounding his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. The 15 plaintiffs of the case included the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, as well as a former FBI agent suing Jones. A […]
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Motherboard, a vertical of Vice, says it has obtained leaked footage from Fox News’s recent interview with Kanye “Ye” West that did not make it to air. The apparent leak marks a major breach for the cable news outlet, which aired West’s interview with network star Tucker Carlson on October 6. The tech publication alleges that it […]
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Jimmy Kimmel labeled Tucker Carlson and Kanye West as white supremacists during his opening monologue Monday. In a scorching rant, the ABC host detailed the recent debacles involving West including his clothing line featuring “White Lives Matter” t-shirts and anti-Semitic tweets that lead to his account being locked. In response to West’s tweet, Kimmel said, “he should change his name from […]
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Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and acclaimed actors of stage, film and television, died at her Los Angeles home today in her sleep, just five days short of her 97th birthday. Her death was announced by her family. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully […]
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Tucker Carlson didn’t address an anti-Semitic tweet by Kanye West after speaking with the rapper in a softball interview last week. In fact, the Fox News host continued to support the musician. Last week, West raised eyebrows after donning a “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Fashion Week, along with right-wing pundit Candace Owens, who is also Black. The slogan is […]
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SAG-AFTRA on Monday called for the resignations of three Los Angeles council members and the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, after the council president was caught on tape making racist and homophobic remarks. The actors’ union joined a chorus of outrage that followed the leak on Sunday of an hourlong conversation, in which […]
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The Season 2 premiere of “Ghosts” saw a 50% increase in viewership after seven days of multiplatform viewing, Variety has learned exclusively. The episode brought in an impressive 6.15 million viewers when it first aired, according to Live + Same Day data, and CBS confirmed that delayed viewing via DVR and other platforms brought that number to 9.23 million. Live + […]
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“Stevie, stick to writing fascist speeches,” Law & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni wrote to former Trump White House Director of Speechwriting Stephen Miller today on Twitter. Earlier Miller, who allegedly helped write Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, had called the actor “the guy with the most unwatchable Law & Order spin-off” and “a very angry — and very ignorant — far-left ideologue” for making […]
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Supporters turned out in droves for the 2022 Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Gala on Saturday night. Celebrities from Chris Pine to Jimmy Kimmel showed up to honor the hospital’s lifesaving work, dance the night away and, of course, enjoy a one-night-only performance from Justin Timberlake. Held at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica and hosted by Pine and his […]
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In a scathing Instagram post, Meghan McCain wrote she has “zero tolerance for this sh*t” after Kanye West’s anti-Semitic posts, lambasting not just the troubled rapper but also her fellow conservatives for promoting him. A short recap, since this past week’s news cycle has been roughly 17 months long: after getting big ratings for his appearances on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show (including a segment in which he trafficked in […]
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Ah, the perils of live punditry. The hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend learned the hard way this Sunday why it’s best to know what you’re talking about before you go on air. In an early morning segment, they defended Kanye West — whose unlikely support for Donald Trump has made him a bonafide celebrity on Fox News — after he […]
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