Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, and David Oyelowo have all portrayed civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., whose Atlanta sit-ins, Montgomery bus boycotts, and peaceful protests desegregated the nation. When Kelvin Harrison Jr. was first offered the role, he was overwhelmed by the weight of the historical figure and …
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Netflix shared the first look at Squid Game’s much-anticipated second season as part of a montage highlighting the streaming service’s 2024 releases. The brief clip at the end of the “Next on Netflix” previews picks up where Season One left off: With Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun — the survivor of the …
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What can one do when stuck on the metaphorical Paramount Mountain other than sing with Creed? On Wednesday, Paramount Plus shared their fever-dreamish Super Bowl commercial starring Drew Barrymore, Patrick Stewart, Miami Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa, Peppa Pig, and Arnold from Hey Arnold as they figure out how to get over …
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Tiffany Haddish made a surprise appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday and accepted a plea deal that dismissed her two misdemeanor DUI charges in favor of a reckless driving conviction. The hush-hush hearing was added to the calendar two weeks before Haddish was due for a pre-trial appearance on …
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Emma Stone recently shared her long-held dream of appearing as a contestant on Jeopardy!. But as she confirmed during an appearance on The Late Show, not Celebrity Jeopardy!. “I don’t want to do Celebrity Jeopardy!,” Stone told host Stephen Colbert when asked why she didn’t just sign on for the …
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Jimmy Kimmel mocked the ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories revolving around Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl during his monologue on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. “There’s some serious crazy talk about Taylor Swift and Joe Biden going around right now,” Kimmel said. “You expect to hear this from a couple …
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Abbott Elementary will be back soon, but some of the beloved characters are trying on new personalities for the school year. The hit sitcom returns to ABC with a one-hour block of episodes on Feb. 7. In the new trailer, typically inept principal Ava Coleman (Janelle James) has returned for …
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There are few movie-marketing gimmicks more enticing than the suggestion of a secret — a twist or revelation so shocking, so earth-shaking that it changes everything you thought you knew about a film, its characters, yadda yadda yadda. The audience’s curiosity is piqued, then they become co-conspirators: Once you know, …
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The Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, aptly titled “#Scandoval,” concluded with a dramatic exchange between Tom Sandoval, two-timing paragon of Angeleno scumbaggery whose five-percent ownership stake in one of West Hollywood’s seediest bars made him think he was the second coming of Steve Rubell, and Scheana Shay, an aspiring pop …
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W ho better to play a New York high society socialite than Chloë Sevigny, the former club kid turned fashionista who was profiled by Jay McInerney for The New Yorker at 19? In 1995, one year after that infamous piece hit newsstands, Sevigny would star as a Manhattan teen who …
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