Sarah Paulson has offered the first glimpse of her portrait of Linda Tripp, the woman whose recordings of conversations with President Bill Clinton’s mistress, Monica Lewinsky, almost ended his administration. Paulson said on social media that filming has begun on the Impeachment series of episodes on American Crime Story. Paulson plays the frumpy Tripp in the episodes, which examine how Tripp, […]
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File under Tweets With a Bad Shelf-Life: Kellyanne Conway’s 2016 tweet hyping President Donald Trump’s 306-vote electoral college victory as a “landslide” has come back to haunt her now that CNN has projected president-elect Joe Biden has defeated Trump with, yes, 306 electoral votes. “306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic,” wrote Conway, who was Trump’s campaign adviser when he […]
Read moreCCH Pounder talks with Ross Crystal about her role as Dr. Loretta Wade on the CBS Series “NCIS New Orleans” and returning to work during COVID-19, following the area’s most recent hurricane.
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Casey Wilson has joined the increasingly stacked cast of Apple TV+’s The Shrink Next Door, which is based on the popular podcast. The eight-episode limited comedy series details the bizarre dynamic between psychiatrist-to-the-stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (played by Parks and Rec alum Paul Rudd) and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Will Ferrell). Over the course of […]
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Call it Super Bowl Weeknd. Pepsi just announced that Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd will be performing at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. “We can’t wait to welcome multi-award winning artist The Weeknd to the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show stage,” said Adam Harter, senior vice president of PepsiCo’s Sports, Media and Entertainment division. […]
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This hasn’t been the best month for the 45th president of the United States. On Wednesday, a Georgia federal court judge rejected a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN. Trump’s campaign filed its complaint back in March. It targeted an opinion piece from Larry Noble, a former general counsel at the Federal Election Commission […]
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Maren Morris won a leading three awards at Wednesday’s 2020 CMA Awards, bringing home three, for single of the year, song of the year and female vocalist of the year. It was the first win in any of those categories for Morris, whose song “The Bones” was a smash in both the pop and country fields during […]
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Jeffrey Toobin has been fired by The New Yorker following an investigation into last month’s incident in which he exposed himself on a work Zoom call. Toobin announced his dismissal in a tweet on Wednesday, writing: “I was fired today by @NewYorker after 27 years as a Staff Writer. I will always love the magazine, will miss my […]
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Put Mads Mikkelsen atop the list of actors being considered to replace Johnny Depp in the David Yates-directed Fantastic Beast 3, the third installment of the Harry Potter spinoff based on the JK Rowling fantasy franchise. Sources said he is Yates’ choice to play Grindelwald and he is in early talks. The aim is to keep on track a picture […]
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The cast and crew of Saturday Night Live is used to rolling with the punches, but this weekend was particularly hectic. After the networks finally announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had won the election, the costume department had just under three hours to re-create Harris’s all-white acceptance-speech look for impersonator Maya Rudolph. The vice-president-elect stepped onto the stage around 8:30 p.m. […]
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As news of the passing of beloved “Jeopardy!” game-show host Alex Trebek continues to ripple through the entertainment industry and trivia community alike, many are wondering: After nearly four decades at the helm, who could possibly replace Alex Trebek? For one out of two of the respondents to a 2019 Morning Consult poll, that answer is: no one. […]
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Shut down for almost two weeks because of positive coronavirus results among the crew, Reagan is back in front of the cameras, and with the 40th POTUS’ first wife cast. The Dennis Quaid-starring movie resumed production on November 5 in Oklahoma after getting the green light from medical officials. I’m told that the film directed by Sean McNamara restarted with […]
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News of a potential coronavirus vaccine sent shares of movie theater chains soaring on Monday. For the first time in a long time, it seems, cinema owners and investors see hope for a sector that has been decimated by the public health crisis. “We have not heard good news for awhile, and this is unqualified good news,” […]
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Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto abruptly cut away from a Trump campaign press conference led by Kayleigh McEnany Monday afternoon. The White House Press Secretary was speaking in her dual role as campaign spokesperson and was addressing President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to refuse conceding the election, after news outlets projected he has lost. “There is only one party in America […]
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Norm Crosby, the deadpan mangler of the English language who thrived in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s as a television, nightclub and casino comedian, has died. He was 93. Crosby’s daughter-in-law, Maggie Crosby, told the New York Times that the comic died Saturday of heart failure in Los Angeles. Early in his career, Crosby realized he needed […]
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Alex Trebek, the polished host of Jeopardy! who for more than three decades was the man with the answers — all in the form of a question, of course — has died. He was 80. Trebek died early Sunday morning surrounded by family and friends, Jeopardy! confirmed on social media. On March 6, 2019, the game show icon revealed that he had been […]
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Following the news on Saturday that former Vice President Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 presidential election, Hollywood activists took to social media to celebrate a historic victory: California Sen. Kamala Harris becoming the country’s first woman elected as Vice President as well as the first Black and South Asian person in the role. […]
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Norman Lear on Saturday morning said in all his 98 years, he never had a “more joyous” morning than when he learned Joe Biden had defeated Donald Trump to become the next president-elect of the United States. The iconic television show creator and producer said in a video posted to social media, “I could not […]
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It should come as no surprise, the Hollywood industry is over the moon over Joe Biden winning the 2020 presidential election — even if we had to wait a few extra days to find out. Reactions began pouring in immediately after Pennsylvania, the state in which Biden was born, was called on Saturday morning in favor […]
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Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Friday night, as several thousand votes were still being counted in the tight presidential race, urging Americans to remain calm and sketching out his plans to unify the country. In his address, the former vice president made clear that “we don’t have a final declaration of […]
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Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller told CNBC on Wednesday he “hoped for a repudiation” of President Donald Trump but “that has not happened.” Diller also said he doesn’t think the outcome of the undecided presidential election will have “any effect on business.” If anything, “government’s going to be divided. That’s probably good for business,” Diller, a major […]
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Fox News Channel’s primetime coverage of Election Night 2020 topped all television networks and set a record for the most-watched Election Night coverage in cable news history, according to early data from Nielsen Media Research. FNC’s primetime coverage averaged 13.7 million total viewers and nearly 5 million in the 25-54 demographic, beating ABC, NBC, CBS and all […]
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Are you having “fun” tonight? John King sure is. Over on CNN, the chief national correspondent is manning the map on the “magic wall” and telling anchor Wolf Blitzer how “fun” things like the count in Florida are. “This is why elections are fun,” he said at one point, talking with Blitzer about the continually changing […]
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Are you having “fun” tonight? John King sure is. Over on CNN, the chief national correspondent is manning the map on the “magic wall” and telling anchor Wolf Blitzer how “fun” things like the count in Florida are. “This is why elections are fun,” he said at one point, talking with Blitzer about the continually changing […]
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On the eve of the 2020 presidential election, Michael Moore — who famously foresaw a Donald Trump victory in 2016 — was not making any predictions about how the race between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden would go. “I don’t think people are complacent this time, and I think most people are not taking […]
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