Saturday Night Live host Quinta Brunson sang about what it’s like being under five feet tall–something that Sabrina Carpenter popped in to say she could relate to. The Abbott Elementary creator and star, who last hosted SNL in April 2023, prefaced her showtune: “I’m proof you can do anything you …
Read More »Charley Scalies, 'The Wire' and 'The Sopranos' Actor, Dead at 84
Charley Scalies, who starred in the second season of The Wire and also appeared on The Sopranos, died May 1 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. Scalies died in a nursing facility in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, his daughter Anne Marie Scalies confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. “Best …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Trump Signs Oddly Specific Executive Orders
Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump signed a host of new executive orders about pet issues like The New York Times‘ Connection word game and baby boomer Bill Belichick’s relationship with a woman born during the George W. Bush administration. Trump (James Austin Johnson), who signed more executive orders in his …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Trump's Pope Dream, Stock Market Pleas
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump imagining himself as the next Pope, as well as the president’s claim that he actually isn’t ruining the economy and Americans should just “be patient.” “Well, guys, it happened. Last night, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the …
Read More »Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock Will Have a 'Speed' Reunion in Untitled Romantic Thriller
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock together again! On Friday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the two actors — who starred in 1994’s Speed — will be joining forces again as the leads for an upcoming, untitled romantic thriller at Amazon MGM Studios. The project reconnects the two actors with Speed …
Read More »Logic's 'Paradise Records' Trailer is a Rollicking Chronicle of a 'Hero's Journey'
Seven years ago, Logic announced that he had written a comedy film. “I love range, as far as acting, from like drama and all types of stuff, but if I’m going to come out the gate, I just want to make people laugh,” he said during On Air With Ryan …
Read More »Jeremy Renner Says He Turned Down 'Hawkeye' Season 2 Because They Offered 'Half' the Money
While a second season of Marvel‘s Hawkeye has yet to be confirmed, Jeremy Renner opened up about why you won’t see him in any follow-ups. During an interview for the High Performanceapp, the actor said that he won’t be coming back to the Disney+ seriesbecause he was offered “half” of …
Read More »'Rust' Is Both a Tribute and a Major Tragedy
There is an alt-timeline in which Rust, writer-director Joel Souza’s pulpy and pathos-fueled Western, is just another tale of an outlaw in his autumn years. It’s simply the latest entry in a genre whose century-plus history is filled with similarly modest sagebrush epics. After a brief theatrical run, a slightly …
Read More »Blake Lively Reflects on 'Intense Year' in First TV Interview Since Justin Baldoni Lawsuit
The most recent press tour Blake Lively participated in ended in an avalanche of legal battles when she sued her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni last year. Now, the actress is making the rounds to promote her latest film, Another Simple Favor. She’s been able to …
Read More »Marcello Hernández Is Comedy's Lovable Chaos Agent
T rying to find the end of the line outside of the Helium Comedy Club in Alpharetta, Georgia, is nearly impossible right now. You walk for blocks and blocks, passing girls in high heels with Bad Bunny screensavers on their phones, middle-aged couples who drove in from the surrounding suburbs, …
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