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Ethan Hawke Recalls Thinking “We’re Going to Meet the Queen” Before Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” Music Video
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Tiffany Haddish Explains Her Stand-Up Comments Over University Protests: “Do It Better. Really Be Effective”
The actress-comedian had earlier made remarks during her stand-up show at the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke Festival, saying of the campus demonstrations, "There's not genocide at the college."
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Dozens of Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested Near Met Gala
A spokesperson for the NYPD confirmed that 27 people were arrested on Monday evening on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, a few blocks from one of the biggest celebrity and fashion events of the year.
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Drake’s Security Guard Shot Outside Rapper’s Toronto Home Amid Kendrick Lamar Beef
Toronto police are investigating a drive-by incident that left a man seriously injured and in the hospital.
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Murder in Paradise: The Killing of a VFX Legend
Deep in the lush mountains of the Caribbean island of Dominica, amid stands of lemongrass, giant ferns and palms, three roads converge where two lives ended, violently. A few weeks before Christmas, the bodies of Daniel Langlois, a French-Canadian philanthropist and Hollywood animation centi-millionaire, and his partner, Dominique Marchand, were found at that spot, in […]
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Kevin Spacey to Stand Trial in U.K., Again, Over Sexual Assault Civil Claim (Report)
Kevin Spacey is due to stand trial in the U.K. again, likely in 2025, over a lawsuit by a man, who alleges that the actor sexually assaulted him, Reuters reported. The alleged sexual assault took place in August 2008, with the trial on Tuesday expected to start in early 2025, Reuters reported. The actor has […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Canal+, Amazon Prime Deals for Max in France
Warner Bros. Discovery said on Tuesday that it has struck a bundling partnership with French pay-TV giant Canal+ for its June launch of streaming service Max in France. Max will become available in France, the Netherlands and Belgium on June 11, with customers in Belgium also receiving early access before the full launch on July […]
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UCLA Pro-Palestine Protests and Search for Attackers Continues Following Removal of Encampment
Tension at the University of California, Los Angeles, continued over the weekend and into Monday when professors protested outside an A-list gala at the school on Saturday night and another several dozen students were detained on Monday, while investigations into the mob that attacked the pro-Palestine encampment on campus last week continued. Despite the mass […]
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Pulitzer Prizes 2024: Justin Chang Wins for Film Criticism, Greg Tate Receives Special Citation
Film critic Justin Chang won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for varied and “richly evocative” work that telegraphs how Americans see movies now. The New Yorker‘s current film critic won the prize on Monday for his 2023 work at the Los Angeles Times, where he worked until early 2024. Other nominees in […]
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Columbia University Cancels Main Commencement After Weeks of Pro-Palestinian Protests
Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but it will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week and next, the school announced Monday. “Based on feedback from our students, we have decided to focus attention on our Class Days […]
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Drake Denies Predator Allegations in New Kendrick Lamar Diss Track: “I’ve Never Been With Anyone Underage”
The Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud continues to escalate after the Canadian rapper released “The Heart Part 6,” a new diss track Sunday night that pushed back against some of the sexual predator allegations made by Lamar in a series of songs released over the last week. The biggest rap feud in years has increasingly become vitriolic […]
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UCLA Leadership Under Scrutiny Over Slow Response to Attack on Pro-Palestine Encampment
Facing criticism from California’s political leaders, school faculty and students, UCLA’s chancellor is placing blame for the upheaval that overtook the university’s campus this week on “instigators” and “outside agitators” whose “terrifying” violent acts ultimately ended the weeks of pro-Palestine protests with the removal of an encampment by police and hundreds of arrests on campus. […]
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RespectAbility Expands Entertainment Lab From Six Weeks to Five Months
RespectAbility’s Entertainment Lab for disabled professionals is making a big change for its sixth year. Whereas the program had run for six weeks every summer even when it pivoted from in-person to virtual with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it is now expanding to five months. The change will allow the lab […]
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President Biden to Award Michelle Yeoh, Phil Donahue and Mike Bloomberg the Medal of Freedom
President Biden on Friday announced that he would be awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a handful of names familiar to the world of media and entertainment. The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor that the President can bestow, and is given to those “who have made exemplary contributions […]
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Nicholas Galitzine on “Setting Boundaries” and Not Engaging With the “Toxic Parts of Hollywood”
Nicholas Galitzine is opening up about how he manages the extra attention that comes with his more recent rise in fame. The actor, who has found stardom in recent years with his roles in 2022’s Purple Hearts, 2023’s Red, White & Royal Blue and now, Prime Video’s The Idea of You, told IndieWire that it’s […]
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Tiffany Haddish Started Fake Social Media Account to Find and Call Trolls: “People Think They Can Just Say Whatever”
Tiffany Haddish opened a fake Instagram account to track down her online trolls and sometimes call them on the phone, the comedian said this week. In a new profile with the Los Angeles Times, Haddish said she faces intense Internet bullying, which worsened after the since-dropped 2022 legal complaint alleging that Haddish and comedian Aries […]
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