CBS News issued a scathing rebuke of a new report that Norah O’Donnell accepted a substantial salary cut as part of her new contract. The New York Post reported that after a tense contract negotiation that spilled into public view, the CBS Evening News anchor accepted a reduced salary in April that saw her annual intake slashed by more than half. The Post […]
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Sheryl Sandberg, who has been chief operating officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that she will be stepping down from the role after 14 years. “When I took this job in 2008, I hoped I would be in this role for five years,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday. “Fourteen years […]
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The jury has reached a verdict in the blockbuster defamation trial between actors and ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. After spending roughly six weeks in the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom, the jury determined that Heard is guilty of defaming her former spouse in a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post. Heard was found guilty on all counts, as the jury […]
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Jesse Watters floated unconfirmed rumors stating that during Paul Pelosi’s DUI arrest over the weekend, the husband of the Speaker of the House tried to bribe police and asked, “Do you know who I am?” Pelosi was arrested by Napa County Police on Saturday night on suspicion of DUI after he allegedly ran a stop sign and collided […]
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Over a month since its debut, Piers Morgan’s Talk TV show has landed with a thud in Britain’s prime time ratings – having shed more than 80 percent of its audience since launching on April 25th. The late April debut of Pier’s Morgan: Uncensored averaged 317,000 viewers on its 8 p.m. debut in the U.K. Unfortunately for Morgan, that […]
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Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have reunited for Book Club 2 – the Next Chapter. The comedy from Focus Features, Endeavor Content and Makeready has started production on the sequel to the 2018 comedy Book Club, about friends who undergo romantic awakenings after reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Other returning castmembers include Andy Garcia, Don Johnson and Craig T. Nelson. And […]
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Matthew Morrison’s stint as a So You Think You Can Dance judge will be short-lived. The former Glee star and Broadway veteran is departing the show — whose 17th season premiered just nine days ago — after violating its competition protocols. Reps for Fox declined to comment on the nature of the violation. “Having the opportunity to be a […]
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Tom Cruise’s star-spangled blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” capped off Memorial Day weekend with a box office debut for the record books. The sequel, which sees Cruise return to the cockpit after 36 years, collected $156 million in its first four days of release. Those ticket sales were enough to overtake Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: […]
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George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91. Along with his partner and childhood friend Howard West, Shapiro was personal manager to comedy greats Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman and Carl Reiner, among others. He and West […]
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Actor Jon Voight, a vocal supporter of former president Donald J. Trump and the Republican party, has released a statement calling for stricter gun control laws in the United States. “There should be proper qualifications for gun ownership,” Voight said in a video released through his official Facebook page. “Proper testing. One should only own a […]
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Jimmy Kimmel offered two powerful and heartfelt commentaries on the Wednesday and Thursday episodes of his eponymous show regarding the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and they’re both worth watching. Kimmel’s Tuesday show had been taped prior to the shooting, so Wednesday was his first time to comment on the tragic events. He broke down […]
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A dynamic that may decide the fate of the defamation duel between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard emerged on Friday during closing arguments: Depp played up evidence that he argues vindicates him of abuse, while Heard played up standards of law that she argues must lead the jury to find in her favor. Over six weeks of trial, dozens […]
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Detective Kevin Bernard has turned in his badge one more time. Anthony Anderson, who reprised his character from the series’ original run in the new Season 21, will not be returning for Season 22. As Deadline reported in November, Anderson had signed a one-year deal and has chosen not to continue on the upcoming season, which has […]
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Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi series The Orville: New Horizons is soon to debut on Hulu after its first two seasons aired on Fox, and the creator and star clearly has strong feelings about the move. Prior to the show’s premiere screening at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, MacFarlane took the stage and wasted no time poking fun at the […]
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Jennifer Lopez is remembering her Shades of Blue “partner in crime” Ray Liotta, who died today at the age of 67. Lopez and Liotta starred on the police drama series, which aired on NBC from 2016-2018. Lopez played Detective Harlee Santos and Liotta portrayed her colleague Lt. Matt Wozniak. “Ray was my partner in crime on Shades of Blue […]
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The press line at tonight’s season 3 premiere event for Hulu’s series The Orville: New Horizons has been canceled in light of yesterday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas which killed 19 children and two adults. It’s the latest showbiz event that’s been scaled down as angry, sad and questioning sentiments are being broadly expressed across the political spectrum in […]
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A juicy new documentary about the life and public battles of late real estate mogul Leona Helmsley is currently in production, Variety has learned exclusively. The film will contain never-before-heard tapes of Helmsley and her archrival Donald Trump, as well as “smoking gun” evidence that will question the tax evasion case brought on her by Rudy Giuliani in […]
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James Corden and Stephen Colbert, like many of the network late night hosts, had already taped their shows Tuesday when news broke of the Texas elementary school shooting that has so far left 19 kids dead. But both took a few minutes on each program to address the tragedy. Standing in front of a dimly lit audience, […]
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“As you are all aware, there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” Matthew McConaughey wrote in a message posted to social media tonight. The Oscar winner spent the first 12 years of his life in Uvalde, which is about 80 miles west of San Antonio and where today 19 students and 2 […]
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The red carpet premiere for season two of Apple TV+’s Physical, set to take place on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, was canceled following news of the elementary school shooting in Texas earlier in the day. “Out of respect for today’s tragedy in Texas, tonight’s screening of Physical season two will be a private event with no press,” read a statement from Physical‘s […]
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The season finale of FBI has been pulled by CBS after the tragic school shooting in Texas. The episode titled “Prodigal Son” hits close to the news given that it involves the team preventing a school shooting. The official synopsis of the fourth-season finale written by showrunner Rick Eid and directed by Alex Chapple: As the team investigates a deadly […]
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American acting icon Christopher Lloyd is set to join Simon Pegg and Minnie Driver in the cast of a dark comedy called “Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose,” TheWrap can reveal exclusively. “Nandor” comes from writer and director Adam Sigal (“Chariot”) and is filming now in Leeds in the United Kingdom, with Lloyd due to […]
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Kellyanne Conway, former senior counselor to President Donald Trump, described Jared Kushner as “shrewd and calculating” in her forthcoming book, and claimed that he knew “no matter how disastrous a personnel change or legislative attempt may be, he was unlikely to be held accountable for it.” According to a copy obtained by the Washington Post of her memoir, Here’s the Deal, which […]
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A woman has been removed from the Cannes red carpet after making a pro-Ukraine protest. The woman stripped off all of her clothes and fell to her knees screaming in front of the assembled photographers, according to eyewitnesses. Security guards were seen rushing over to her and covering her with a coat. The woman was wearing […]
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Saturday Night Live is set for its biggest change in a number of years. Deadline understands that a number of long-featured stars including Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson are expected to leave the show at the end of this season. It comes after creator Lorne Michaels admitted that he was expecting this year to be a […]
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