Nostalgia — it AIN’T what it used to be. Right around the halfway mark of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a.k.a. the fourth time out for Eddie Murphy‘s streetwise detective, our man Axel strides to the front desk of a posh L.A. hotel. He’s rockin’ his usual Detroit-plainclothes-chic uniform of …
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Over the weekend, my phone blew up with texts from TV comedy writers who were in the middle of watching the latest season of The Bear. Some were enjoying the new episodes, others were frustrated by them, but not one person said this story of toxic workplaces, addiction and mental …
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Who wants to dance with the stars when you can cuddle up with a cat? Jason Mraz asked himself this question last year as he ascended the leaderboard week after week on the 32nd season of Dancing With the Stars, according to an interview he gave on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s …
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Since production resumed on Rust following the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, getting the Alec Baldwin-led film back on track hasn’t been easy. Safety officer and consultant Paul Jordan believed the process would be “very straightforward” in the aftermath of the tragedy, but quickly learned otherwise as crew members …
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Chet Hanks is putting his foot down against cultural appropriation — at least when it’s white supremacists and racists appropriating “white boy summer” for hate speech and memes. On Instagram, Hanks (son of Tom and Rita Wilson) ostensibly responded to a recent report from the Global Project Against Hate and …
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In the trailer for Prime Video’s Jackpot, John Cena and Awkwafina discover what it would be like if The Purge was real but only for people who play the lottery. Out Aug. 15, the film follows Awkwafina’s Katie — the proud owner of a winning lottery ticket with a bounty …
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Late Monday afternoon, July 1, a minor piece of movie release news dropped: Part one of the highly-anticipated movie adaptation of the smash musical Wicked would hit theaters a few days earlier than expected. It’s still slated to drop around the Thanksgiving holiday, but in bumping the release date from …
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Kit Harington’s Sir Henry Muck is ready to take his green tech energy company public — or at least he thinks he is — in the new Season Three trailer for Industry. As the bank Pierpoint takes a bet on Muck’s company, Lumi, for its IPO, he appears to question …
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Robert Towne, the screenwriter and director whose Oscar-winning work in the 1974 filmChinatown enshrined him in Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. Towne died at his home on Monday, his publicist Carri McClure confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. During his celebrated career, Towne wrote the Hal Ashby …
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Sherri Papini, the Redding, California, mother who faked her disappearance, plans to open up about her 2016 kidnapping hoax in a forthcoming Investigation Discovery docuseries. The ID docuseries, slated for 2025, will feature exclusive interviews with Papini and individuals close to Papini about her false abduction, the media firestorm that …
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