Bravo’s Below Deck was recently lauded for its handling of sexual misconduct when a producer on Below Deck Down Under broke the “fourth wall” and intervened when one cast member, Luke Jones, tried to get into bed naked with another cast member, Margot Sisson, without her consent while she was …
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With a strike looming for members of the Screen Actors Guild, whose new deadline for SAG-AFTRA to come to an agreement with Hollywood studios and producers is set to expire at midnight on July 12, and SAG-AFTRA agreeing to federal mediation, actors say they don’t have a lot of faith …
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Ten-time Latin Grammy nominee Laura Pausini will be honored as the 2023 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year later this year, celebrating the Italian singer’s 30 years as a multi-lingual musician and advocate for social justice. She’s the first woman to earn the distinction since Shakira in 2011. In …
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Spinning heads, seared flesh, holy incantations in Latin: could it be… Satan? We have reached the 50th anniversary of The Exorcist, William Friedkin’s blockbusting, genre-transforming horror landmark that has been parodied, sequelized (on multiple occasions), and firmly embedded in the collective cultural consciousness. And now along comes The Pope’s Exorcist, …
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Watching Mafia Mamma, a slapstick farce about a middle-aged American woman who abruptly inherits an Italian mob empire, you can imagine its star, Toni Collette, in an episode of The Sopranos. She’s got Carmela‘s icy-blonde look and, by the end of the movie, commands a room like Tony. But here, …
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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have said I do … again, and again, and again. Unless you’ve been living under a pop-culture rock of some kind, you’re probably aware that Kourtney and Travis tied the knot last year in not one but three separate wedding celebrations. First came the (not-so-legal) …
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“The mafia is a world based on deception and lies. I continued to live in the lie because I was forced into a double identity anda life in a secret location. Today even the smallest lie weighs on me.” —Piera Aiell Pupetta Maresca — murderess, mafiosa, diva, film-star wannabe — …
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