Month: August 2020

Allan Rich — a longtime character actor in Hollywood, who bounced back from being blacklisted — has died. The thespian passed away in New Jersey over the weekend due to complications from progressive dementia … this according to his family. He was residing at an assisted-living facility called the Lillian Booth Actors Home, which houses
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Ellen DeGeneres. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been pulled by one of Australia’s top television channels after former and current staff made explosive allegations about the show’s on-set culture. Channel Nine has stopped airing DeGeneres’ long-running chat show following weeks of controversy surrounding alleged misconduct from top producers. The television channel is instead airing re-runs
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Comedian Hannibal Buress has announced a five-city tour of Midwest drive-in theaters in support of his latest comedy special Miami Nights. He released the special for free on YouTube in July. Check out the full run of tour dates below. Much of the special centers on a 2017 incident in Miami during Art Basel in
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Donald Trump opened his first speech of the Republican National Convention today by telling the live crowd chanting the usual “four more years.” “If you want to really drive them crazy, you say 12 more years.” The Washington Post says he was joking. The New York Times calls this a “provocation.” It is—and it isn’t.
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Scott Peterson death sentence in the murder of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son has been overturned. We’ve got five things to know about the convicted killer. The California Supreme Court has overturned Scott Peterson’s death sentence for the 2002 killing of his 27-year-old wife Laci, who was eight months pregnant with their
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Berlin Film Festival is set to introduce gender-neutral acting prizes in an effort to create a more “gender-sensitive” film industry. The decision makes it the first major film festival to introduce gender-neutral acting awards. The change was announced today (August 24) by Berlin Film Festival joint directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. “Instead of the
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Beyonce is back with another visually striking music video … and Queen Bey says it’s got a very important message in these seemingly impossible times. Beyonce just dropped the music vid for her song, “Brown Skin Girl,” and it’s not your typical eye-candy experience. The video’s really artsy and features appearances from her daughter, Blue
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The ACLU has now entered into the fray of the legal battle between Britney Spears and her father, Jamie Spears. On August 19, the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted, “People with disabilities have a right to lead self-directed lives and retain their civil rights. If Britney Spears wants to regain her civil liberties and get
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Trumpus transformatus! Brendan Gleeson – best known for playing Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody in the ‘Harry Potter’ films – looks just like Donald Trump in ‘The Comey Rule,’ it’s scary! Forget Voldemort. Brendan Gleeson transforms into someone much scarier in The Comey Rule, the two-night, four-hour event taking place on Sept. 27 and 28 on Showtime.
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