The star of the HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice after she tearfully testified under oath that her beloved pet chimpanzee Tonka had died —when in reality, the primate was sitting in her basement. Tonia Haddix could face up to 20 years in prison …
Read More »Judge Rules Video Inside Gene Hackman's Home Can Be Released, but Bodies Must Be 'Blurred'
A New Mexico judge ruled Monday that video taken inside Gene Hackman’s home during an investigation into the actor’s startling death last month can be released to the public — but only with redactions that remove any images showing the partially mummified bodies of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. …
Read More »'I Want to Live in a World Where There's More Magic': Inside the Making of 'Sea Lion Cow'
Ivan Cash knew it was a mad idea: Conceiving, planning, and shooting a music video in 24 hours, especially after the director and his crew had spent the last five days on a grueling commercial shoot in New York City. They’d gone into overtime every day, including the last, a …
Read More »Jason Statham Is the Last of the Strong, Silent Types
Action megastar Jason Statham still looks powerful for a man inching toward 60. And the older he gets, the more worn and lived-in his face becomes, like my therapist’s leather couch. So what if he doesn’t take off his shirt as much anymore? He’s built like a wrestler, but graceful, …
Read More »John Oliver Hammers Trump Admin Over Signalgate and Deportations: 'Deeply Unserious People'
John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight on Sunday by assailing officials in the Trump administration for Signalgate and its handling of mass deportations, labeling them “ deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things with massively serious consequences.” ”It’s true, they put a journalist in their group chat,” Oliver said, “something [Jeffrey] …
Read More »Wile E. Coyote Is Heading to Court as 'Coyote vs. Acme' Finally Lands Theatrical Release
Wile E. Coyote’s legal battle with the Acme Corp., accused of sabotaging his skirmishes with the Road Runner by way of faulty products, is heading to court as Coyote vs. Acme finally heads to movie theaters. Warner Bros. shelved the film in 2023, but widespread backlash led to it being …
Read More »'The White Lotus' Episode 7: Sleeping With the Frenemy
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The White Lotus, “Killer Instincts,” which is now streaming on Max. If this were one of the previous White Lotus seasons, it would be finale week right now. We would know who the dead body was that Zion saw drifting in …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Clueless Trump Officials Text War Plans to High School Girls' Group Chat
Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Everyone in White House's War Chat Scandal
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …
Read More »'SNL': Mikey Madison Comforts Wounded Crime Boss Husband With Catchphrase Comedy
Saturday Night Live host and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison portrayed the wife of a fatally wounded crime boss who, in his final moments, wants to hone his stand-up comedy routine alongside her. After patriarch Marco (Andrew Dismukes) is shot through a window by unseen assailants, he admits to …
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