Threads, a brand-new social app from Instagram that bears more than a passing resemblance to Twitter, has already pulled in a massive user base, notching 50 million signups just a day after launch. The Silicon Valley shakeup is exacerbating tensions between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, with attorneys for the …
Read More »'Finding Nemo' Set the Standard for How We See the Ocean on Film
Science and animation are tied together like a moon to a planet. While they exist on distant planes and their connection is invisible, to animate is to have a fundamental understanding of science and movement. The job of both an animator and a scientist is to understand the building blocks …
Read More »This Is Alden Ehrenreich's Year. We're Just Living in It.
It’s been five years since Alden Ehrenreich’s last film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, crash-landed in theaters. The then-twenty-something Angeleno had beat out 3,000 actors — Miles Teller, Taron Egerton, Ansel Elgort, Rami Malek, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson among them — for the role of young Han Solo in the much-hyped …
Read More »Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, Dancer and Longtime Ellen DeGeneres Sidekick, Dead at 40
Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the dancer and television personality who spent years as Ellen DeGeneres’ DJ/sidekick on her daytime talk show, has died. He was 40. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner confirmed that Boss died at a hotel or motel on Tuesday, Dec. 13, and that the cause of death …
Read More »Ellen DeGeneres, Kalen Allen Remember Stephen 'tWitch' Boss: 'Your Existence Alone Was Revolutionary'
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss worked alongside Ellen DeGeneres for seven years of his long career as a dancer and television personality. After rising to fame with attention-demanding performances on So You Think You Can Dance? in 2008, he joined Ellen in 2014 as a resident DJ and was named executive producer …
Read More »Ellen DeGeneres, Bored in Retirement, Launches YouTube Series About Her Hobbies
Just five months after Ellen DeGeneres exited her long-running daytime show, the host is returning, albeit to a much smaller screen. About Time For Yourself… with Ellen, premiering weekly on DeGeneres’ YouTube page, will find the “retired” host doing what bored retired people do: Crocheting, bird watching, and other time-killing …
Read More »Charlie Puth on Getting (Allegedly) Ghosted by Ellen's Label, Recording with BTS' Jungkook — and His New Album's Songwriting Secrets
Charlie Puth‘s strong new album, Charlie, is the product of two break-ups —one with a longtime business associate, the other with a girlfriend. “It was a loss at one time of two relationships that I thought I needed to succeed,” he says in a revealing interview on the new episode …
Read More »Michelle Obama Book Tour Recruits Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres as Moderators
Michelle Obama has recruited a star-studded collection of celebrity moderators to join her upcoming book tour in support of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, set for release on Nov. 15. The 13-date tour (find tickets here) will feature appearances from varying guests for each Live Nation-produced event, …
Read More »Greyson Chance 'Stands Behind' Claims Against Ellen DeGeneres: I Wrestled With 'So Much PTSD'
Greyson Chance is reflecting on the recent claims he made against Ellen DeGeneres in a recent Rolling Stone interview, in which he accused the former television host of controlling behavior over his career when he was a teenager. On Thursday evening, Chance shared a TikTok video addressing the article, saying, …
Read More »'Completely Abandoned': Greyson Chance Is Finally Ready to Talk About Ellen
& #8216;This is the first time I’ve been honest about her, and this is the last time I want to talk about it.” Greyson Chance and I are sitting in the Hollywood Hills home of producer Brett McLaughlin on a warm August morning. The quaint spot is where Chance — …
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