Barry Newman, who was behind the wheel of a “super-charged” Dodge Challenger in Vanishing Point, a 1971 film featuring several breakneck police chases, and later starred as a defense attorney on the NBC series Petrocelli, has died. He was 92 and died May 11 in a New York hospital, with his death confirmed by social media posts from […]
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In a change that shakes up the Sunday show landscape, Chuck Todd is exiting as the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, with Kristen Welker succeeding him beginning in September. Todd will become chief political analyst for NBC News, working on long-form journalism and producing the Chuck Toddcast and Meet the Press Reports. Todd announced the news at the end of the program Sunday morning. […]
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In another blow to indie filmmaking and more jobs lost, the Artists Equity production of Unstoppable has been halted against the backdrop of the writers strike, we hear. Logically, these stopped productions will return when the strike ends, at the latest. The news comes in the wake of picketers forcing Unstoppable to shut down on Wednesday, which was lensing at USC in Los […]
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Sean Hannity was booed by the audience during his town hall with former President Donald Trump on Thursday after the Fox News host suggested Trump could tone down his insults in an effort to appeal to moderates. During the event, Hannity said, “People ask me, ‘Why does he have to fight so hard? Why doesn’t he pick his […]
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Billy Joel has revealed that his Madison Square Garden residency is coming to a close next year after 10 years. “I’m kind of flabbergasted that it lasted as long as it did. My team tells me that we could continue to sell tickets, but ten years, 150 shows – all right already!” the Grammy-winning singer said in a […]
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Former President Donald Trump was recorded in the summer of 2021 acknowledging “he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran,” CNN detailed Wednesday in a bombshell report. The tape has been obtained by federal prosecutors who are investigating Trump’s retention of classified documents. Since the August 2022 raid on his private residence […]
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For one night only, the “Sex and the City” universe will be whole again. Variety has learned that Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” Max’s revival of HBO’s “Sex and the City.” But she will only appear in one scene. According to sources, Cattrall shot […]
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Forty-fifth president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tore into his former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and called her “milktoast” following McEnany’s appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Tuesday. “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,” Trump wrote in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, misspelling ‘milquetoast’. “I am 34 points up on […]
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Al Pacino and his girlfriend Noor Alfallah are expecting a child, his rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Although his rep didn’t share details on their relationship, TMZ, who was the first to report the news, said the 83-year-old actor has been linked to the producer since April 2022. The Godfather actor also shares a 33-year-old daughter, Julie Marie, […]
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After revealing at the Succession Season 4 premiere that she was, indeed, pregnant with her first child, Sarah Snook took the occasion of the show’s finale as an opportunity for a full-circle moment in which she announced the birth of that same child. Sharing a photo to Instagram of herself settled in to watch the finale with a little […]
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “With Open Eyes,” the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” now streaming on Max. After four riveting, profane seasons and two best drama Emmys (so far!), “Succession” — the story of the Roy dynasty — came to an end on Sunday night. Creator Jesse Armstrong, who conceived the story of the […]
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George Maharis, the star of “Route 66” who went on to appear on “Fantasy Island” and other shows, died Wednesday in Beverly Hills. His friend and caretaker Marc Bahan announced his death on Facebook, writing that he was “above all a great guy who would do anything for anyone. My dear friend, you will be terribly missed.” […]
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NBC drama series The Blacklist, now in its 10th and last season, is moving into its final weeks with some changes ahead. Beginning June 1, the show, which currently airs on Sundays at 10 pm, will move to Thursdays. Back-to-back episodes will air that night, June 1, at 8 pm and 9 pm, with subsequent episodes airing weekly […]
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Beyoncé’s has added her thoughts on today’s death of Tina Turner, who passed at age 83. “My beloved queen. I love you endlessly,” read Beyoncé’s message, posted on her website. “I’m so grateful for your inspiration, and all the ways you have paved the way. You are strength and resilience. You are the epitome of power and […]
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Mark Levin, who hosts Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, tweeted a link to Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign fundraising page shortly after the Florida governor announced his candidacy on Wednesday. The post did not go over well with supporters of former President Donald Trump, who is also running for the Republican nomination. DeSantis officially announced in a glitch-ridden Twitter […]
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Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis’s Twitter Space, in which the Florida governor was set to announce his run for president, suffered repeated technical failures on Wednesday. The Twitter Space eventually shut down after some 20 minutes of technical failures and was relaunched shortly thereafter. David Sacks, the tech investor who hosted the event, said at one point as the […]
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Tina Turner, the trailblazing rock star who set world records for ticket sales — and whose dramatic triumph over domestic abuse and the music industry itself made her a feminist icon — has died. She was 83. Turner died Wednesday “after a long illness” in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, her reps announced. […]
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The political partnership between Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene entered a new level of strangeness when the Georgia congresswoman reportedly dropped a huge chunk of dough on…the House Speaker’s used chapstick. Politico’s Olivia Beavers reported that House Republicans held a conference on Tuesday morning which consisted of a 15 minute fundraising auction for McCarthy’s chapstick. Greene won the auction, according to Beavers, with […]
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Comcast has unveiled Now TV, a new streaming offering for $20 per month that will combine a live TV streaming service, free ad-supported streaming TV channels and a subscription video on-demand service. NOW TV will include more than 40 live channels, including A&E, AMC, Food Network, Great American Family, Hallmark Channel, The History Channel, IFC, […]
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Amazon head Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, are engaged, an insider close to the couple tells Page Six exclusively. The pair are currently in the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival, where they have been hitting the star-studded party circuit while staying on his $500 million yacht with a mermaid resembling Sanchez adorning the prow. […]
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The Washington Post added a significant correction to conservative writer Marc Thiessen’s column slamming the media and the FBI over John Durham’s special counsel report. The Durham investigation concluded last week with the assessment that the FBI and the Justice Department should not have launched their probe into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election. The Durham report argued the intelligence […]
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Actor Harrison Ford was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or Thursday. As the most prestigious award at the Cannes Film Festival, it was given just minutes before the first public screening of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Ford joins a list of honorary Palme recipients that includes Ingmar Bergman, Jane Fonda, Clint Eastwood, […]
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SAG-AFTRA announced Wednesday that it will hold a strike authorization vote as it seeks to get its “ducks in a row” ahead of June 7 negotiations with the major studios. The vote does not mean that the performers’ union will necessarily join the Writers Guild of America on the picket lines after its contract expires on […]
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Disney CEO Robert Iger wasn’t bluffing earlier this month when he said on an investors call that the company was rethinking its plans to increase its investments in Florida amid “retaliation” from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). Now Disney is cancelling plans to build a massive nearly $1 billion office complex in Orlando, costing the state more than 2,000 six-figure […]
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Jesse Watters purportedly attempted to fact-check NBC News reporter Ben Collins on Wednesday night. The result was a misleading segment that most charitably could be chalked up to a misapprehension of the facts – or less charitably, a willful distortion of what actually occurred. On Friday, Collins published a story about how horrendous videos of cats and dogs being tortured […]
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