Sound the trumpets: 20th Century Fox, a name and klieg-lit logo that stretches back 85 years in Hollywood, is dropping the word Fox, a move that may prevent consumers mistakenly thinking the movie studio has anything to do Rupert Murdoch’s polarizing Fox News media empire. The Walt Disney Company bought most of Mr. Murdoch’s entertainment assets last […]
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Canada’s largest newspaper says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t welcome to live in the famously friendly country because it’s unconstitutional. In a scathing editorial, The Globe and Mail says the royal couple’s plan to move to the land of maple syrup and hockey violates laws that keep the once-British-ruled country at arm’s length from […]
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David Simon says he was first approached to adapt Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America shortly after the 2012 election — but he didn’t think the novel, an alternate history in which Charles Lindbergh rides an isolationist and antisemitic wave to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, was timely. “I enjoyed the novel. It’s a […]
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The Peabody Award are moving to Los Angeles. For the first time in its 80-year history, the ceremony will take place in L.A. This year’s ceremony is set for June 18 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The Peabody Awards have been handed out in New York every year except for the 50th anniversary, when the […]
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The 2020 Academy Award nominations have landed — with a few shockers. Chiefly among them is a snub for Jennifer Lopez‘s Golden Globe-nominated performance in Hustlers. The actress, 50, failed to land a Best Supporting Actress nomination on Monday morning, with Little Women‘s Florence Pugh and Richard Jewell‘s Kathy Bates surprising in the competitive category. Lopez has been a […]
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Rapper Cardi B appears to have backed off her desire to leave the United States and move to Nigeria as she is now floating the idea of running for U.S. Congress. Cardi B declared on January 3 that she was “picking” the “tribe” that she wanted to join upon moving to Nigeria after going off on President […]
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Joker leads the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards, which were unveiled Monday morning. The film earned a total of 11 nominations — the most of any comic book-based movie ever — including best picture, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, best directing for Todd Phillips and best adapted screenplay for Phillips and Scott Silver. In addition to Joker, eight […]
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Edd Byrnes, who gained fleeting fame as Kookie, the ultra-hip, wisecracking parking attendant on the jazzy 1950s-’60s ABC detective series 77 Sunset Strip, has died. He was 87. Byrnes, who years later played the smooth-talking Vince Fontaine, a Dick Clark-like dance contest host, in Grease (1978), died unexpectedly Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, his son, […]
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True to her word, Phoebe Waller-Bridge put the Ralph & Russo suit she wore to the 77th annual Golden Globes up for sale on Ebay on Thursday. All proceeds will aid relief efforts in Australia as bushfires continue to rage. “We have hatched an amazing plan with Ralph & Russo — we are going to auction it off and the money […]
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Buck Henry, the legendary screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of Saturday Night Live, died tonight of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Health Center in Los Angeles. He was 89. A family member confirmed the news to Deadline. Henry scored a pair of Oscar nominations — one […]
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Jeopardy host Alex Trebek took a victory lap Wednesday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, a day after ABC’s Greatest of All Time tournament gathered an impressive 14 million live viewers. During his 45 minutes before the press corps, the 79-year-old game show host was asked about retirement — “thinking about retiring and retiring are two […]
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Silvio Horta, creator of ABC’s popular series “Ugly Betty,” was found dead in a Miami motel room on Tuesday in an apparent suicide. He was 45. Sources tell Variety that Horta died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A representative for Horta confirmed his death, but declined to comment on the nature of it. The American version of […]
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During a deposition in November, Charlie Rose was pushed to address sexual relationships with co-workers. The ousted CBS Morning anchor admitted to having romantic relationships with women who worked for him, but his attorneys stopped him from providing details about the interactions or whether he felt any remorse about his conduct. Nevertheless, Rose did explain why those […]
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Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has purchased a 60-second commercial slot during Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV next month, a rare move for a presidential campaign given the outrageous cost for advertising on TV’s most-watched show. Spokespeople for both Fox and Bloomberg’s campaign did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. “The biggest […]
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Often, the best moments at the Golden Globes don’t even make the telecast. When you’re inside the Beverly Hilton, where the ceremony takes place, Hollywood’s first awards show of the year can feel like attending a high school homecoming game. There’s free-flowing booze. There’s lots of hugging and talking between the plays. And there’s a mad beeline […]
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Harvey Weinstein has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in Los Angeles County, deepening the legal peril faced by the fallen Hollywood mogul as his trial on similar charges in New York City is set to begin this month. The charges stem from accusations brought by a pair of women who say Weinstein […]
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With Laura Dern who clinched the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture as divorce attorney Nora Fanshaw in Marriage Story. More from Laura on our Golden Globe Edition of ‘Showbiz Express’ Radio on Monday.
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With actor Pierce Brosnan at The Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills just before he went onstage to introduce his two sons who are serving this year as Golden Globe Ambassadors
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The biggest party in Hollywood is about to kick off. The 2020 Golden Globes are on Jan. 5, signaling a wrap on a season full of binge-worthy shows and buzz-worthy films. During the live honors at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Hollywood will raise a glass — or two or three or four — to the […]
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The last time actress Katherine Kendall saw Harvey Weinstein was at a party after the 2010 premiere of The King’s Speech that she attended with a friend. “I turned a corner and there he was,” says Kendall, best known for 1996’s Swingers. “I felt my knees buckle and I wanted to leave immediately.” Kendall, who also teaches dance […]
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David Stern, the former longtime commissioner of the NBA, died Wednesday following a brain hemorrhage, according to a statement from current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. He was 77. “David took over the NBA in 1984 with the league at a crossroads,” Silver wrote. “But over the course of 30 years as Commissioner, he ushered in the modern […]
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Jack Sheldon, the extraordinary West Coast jazz trumpeter and singer who played “The Shadow of Your Smile” for the big screen, served as Merv Griffin’s sidekick and voiced characters on Schoolhouse Rock!, died Friday, his longtime manager, Dianne Jimenez, reported. He was 88. Sheldon performed the haunting “The Shadow of Your Smile” on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard […]
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Zac Efron’s morbid title for his new reality series “Killing Zac Efron” hit dangerously close to home when the actor was forced to receive medical treatment while on location in Papua New Guinea. Efron confirmed on Instagram Sunday that he had gotten sick in Papua New Guinea, but “bounced back quick and finished an amazing 3 […]
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