Bradley Cooper recently said he would have taken a different approach to adapting A Star Is Born, his new film with Lady Gaga, had he known in advance about the recently resurfaced sexual harassment claims against one-time producer Jon Peters. “If I had known all those things, I would have …
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Stephen Colbert addressed the resignation of Leslie Moonves, who abruptly resigned from his position as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS on Sunday. “It’s never a good sign when you’re the subject of a Ronan Farrow double dip,” Colbert quipped during his monologue on Monday’s The Late Show …
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In an exclusive web clip, John Oliver offered a series of “retractions” for mistakes he’s previously made on Last Week Tonight. In lieu of a new episode of the HBO series, Oliver reminded viewers that even he can’t be right 100 percent of the time. “I wanted to take a …
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Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges reunite as concerned mother and troubled son in the first teaser for the upcoming family dramaBen is Back. The brief yet intriguing clip opens with a close-up of Ben Burns’ (Hedges) boots crunching in snow as he walks past a tire swing and up to …
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Sam Rockwell is worth seeing in anything, no matter how dire the circumstances in which the acting dynamo might find himself trapped. But Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity …
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Castle Rock has just leveled up. That’s the big takeaway from this week’s episode (“Filter”). From the start, the show had a baseline level of quality — talented cast, understated writing, a keen eye for everyday American evil and a willingness to aim for “eerie” rather than “over the top” …
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Talk to Scotty Bowers, and he’ll tell you that he banged and/or blew every major star of Hollywood‘s Golden Age. (The 95-year-old is likely to use a more salty, colorful phrase that rhymes.) Bette Davis? Yup, he slept with her. Walter Pidgeon? That character actor used the old “come take …
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The principal cast from Downton Abbey will reprise their roles for an upcoming movie via Focus Features and Carnival Films. Series creator Julian Fellowes wrote the film’s screenplay and will produce with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge; Brian Percival (The Book Thief, About a Girl), who helmed the series’ pilot …
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As Occupy protests spread in the fall of 2011, rattling elites and offering a brief, tantalizing vision of grassroots uprising, the most uncompromising and confrontational arm of the would-be revolution was in Oakland. At its center was Boots Riley, the longtime radical activist and frontman of the hip-hop group the …
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Kendrick Lamar, Questlove, Chuck D and Melissa Etheridge are among the record-setting 928 members invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that oversees the Oscars. Other new members from the music world include Prince & The Revolution’s Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin, Sufjan Stevens, …
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