Ariana DeBose made her Saturday Night Live debut as host this week, detailing in her opening monologue her Golden Globe win for playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’s rendition of West Side Story. “Now, not many people know this, but ‘West Side Story’ is actually based on another classic tale of …
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Actor and comedian Bob Saget, 65, died this past Sunday, in a Florida Ritz-Carlton hotel room, of causes yet to be determined, just a few hours after performing a gig in Jacksonville as part of his 2022 comedy tour and at 12:42 a.m. tweeting his last public words: “I’m happily …
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Jude Law’s Albus Dumbledore returns with a hefty mission in the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third installation of the Harry Potter spin-off series hitting theaters April 15, 2022. “The world as we know it is coming undone,” Dumbledore warns. “Grindelwald’s pulling it apart with …
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In the first trailer for season four of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) is done with downplaying her comedy act for opening gigs — for now on, she’s saying what she wants and if the business has to change to make her a headliner, then so be it. …
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Actress Julia Garner slips into the skin of a scammer in the first trailer for Shonda Rhimes’ latest Netflix series Inventing Anna. The nine-episode limited series, which premieres on Feb. 11, follows the story of Anna Delvey — the former New York socialite who pretended to be a billionaire German …
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When Netflix executives scheduled the release of a seven-part docuseries on the wild world of private exotic animal zoos (or, more accurately, the people who run them) to debut on March 20, 2020, little did they know that they were contributing to what would become a cultural phenomenon. Of course, …
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Like catching a roadrunner without getting an anvil dropped on your head, adapting animated stories into live action is a high-risk endeavor. There are so many things you can do with relative ease in the former medium that create enormous difficulties in the latter. It’s not just about spectacle and …
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On Saturday Night Live‘s recurring “Dionne Warwick Talk Show” sketch, Ego Nwodim plays the iconic singer who is constantly confused — and occasionally spooked — by contemporary musicians. This week, that meant artists like Miley Cyrus (played by Chloe Fineman) to Post Malone (Pete Davidson) to Jason Mraz (Kieran Culkin) …
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The ambitious new Western The Harder They Fall (in theaters and streaming on Netflix now) begins with a winking disclaimer: “While the events of this story are fictional . . .” the opening title card reads, “These. People. Existed.” The feature debut of writer-director Jeymes Samuel stars Jonathan Majors as the outlaw Nat …
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Screenwriter Dylan Meyer put a ring on it. In an interview with Howard Stern via E! News, Kristen Stewart said her partner of two years has proposed to her. “We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart said on SiriusXM’sThe Howard Stern Show. “I wanted to be proposed to, so …
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