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Reports of the Queen’s demise were greatly exaggerated… by your third-favorite celebrity gossip blog. By Grant Rindner February 25, 2022 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the start of the Platinum Jubilee at a reception in the Ballroom of Sandringham House, the Queen’s Norfolk residence on February 5, 2022. (Photo by Joe Giddens / POOL /

Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film MASH, died Thursday. Kellerman died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said. She was 84. Kellerman had a career of more

A Nova Scotia teenager has bounced his way to a Guinness World Record by solving more than 200 Rubik’s cubes while on a pogo stick. Saul Hafting, a 16-year-old from Annapolis Royal, which is about two hours outside of Halifax, smashed the record back in October by completing 211 cubes in an hour and 12

Tom Holland literally went the distance for his girlfriend Zendaya. The Spider-Man actor flew to Rome and surprised her with a dinner date at Antica Pesa in the city’s Trastevere neighborhood on Wednesday, Page Six reports. Holland was in New York City doing press for Uncharted on Monday. Multiple sources told the outlet about the

Maksim Chmerkovskiy shared another video update from his home country of Ukraine, letting his followers know that while he and his family are “safe,” the situation in the country right now is still “pretty dire.” The Dancing With the Stars coach posted two videos to Instagram on Friday to keep people informed of what’s happening

NOTE: The embedded video content below contains language that might not be suitable for all audiences. Please watch at your own discretion. In celebration of Black History Month, TikTok is spotlighting the contributions of its Black creators by amplifying their talents through the second annual Black TikTok Trailblazers list. On that list is Toronto rapper

With the premiere of Batman’s next live-action movie The Batman drawing ever closer, it’s time to get … well, batty! Rumors about the plot and the major villains have been flying ever since the first trailer dropped, and none have been more tantalizing or mysterious than whispers of Gotham’s spooky Freemason-inspired secret society, The Court

With the city’s status as an art capital increasingly secure, its restaurant and bar scene—from Hollywood to Echo Park—is rising to meet a new kind of demand. Jay-Z and Beyoncé may have already even crowned a winner. All that plus the great NFT sale that wasn’t, the burgeoning art bona fides of…LaGuardia, and more in

A list of organizations providing support as war breaks out with Russia. By Grant Rindner February 24, 2022 A person holds a sign that reads “Stop War Help Ukraine” during a “Stand With Ukraine” rally at the Russian Mission on February 24, 2022 in New York City. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images The Russian military invasion of

The year was 2000, Jesse Jackson was leading protests about Black voter suppression and 537 votes separated Al Gore from victory in the presidential election—but Gore didn’t want to talk about disenfranchisement or race, as Andrew Rice chronicles in his new book, The Year That Broke America. By Andrew Rice February 24, 2022

Big Brother Canada is back for its 10th season, and once again the house will be filled with Canadians from across the country eager to get their hands on the $100,000 prize — and yes, of course, the title. Premiering Wednesday, March 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Global, Big Brother Canada will follow 16

Jennifer Lawrence and her husband Cooke Maroney’s little one has arrived. The actress has given birth to her baby in the Los Angeles area, TMZ reports. Lawrence has not released any statement on the news. The name, gender and birth date of the child haven’t been revealed. Lawrence told Vanity Fair in November that she

Not that we need to be any more paranoid than we already are in 2022, but Marvel is about to make us second guess some of our favorite comic book movie superheroes with their alien infiltration-meets-spy series Secret Invasion! As Stella once tattooed onto Piper’s arm in Orange is the New Black: It’s time to

Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival unveiled the headliners for its 15th edition this upcoming summer, and organizers say the event has been three years in the making. A news release issued Wednesday says the three-day event set for late July includes performances from the Foo Fighters, A$AP Rocky and Dua Lipa. “We wanted to

Or as it should be subtitled, the making-of The College Dropout. By Insanul Ahmed February 23, 2022 Kanye ‘Ye’ West in jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy.Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s new three-part Kanye West documentary, jeen-yuhs, has generated a ton of conversation since part one debuted last week. Directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, the doc

Pamela Adlon is huddled in a booth at Art’s Delicatessen in Studio City, staring out the window at the occasional weirdo passing by on a sunny weekday morning. It’s so deserted inside that the staff vastly outnumbers the customers, and Adlon greets each masked waiter who stops at her table as if they are the

To combat slumping ratings, the Oscars are undergoing a radical slimming down, with eight awards to be presented off-air during next month’s telecast of the 94th Academy Awards. In a letter sent Tuesday to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the group’s president, David Rubin, said that the awards for film

Kate Middleton arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark on Tuesday for her first solo overseas tour in five years. The royal is paying a two-day visit to the country to kick off the year-long celebrations for Queen Elizabeth‘s Platinum Jubilee, as well as promote her Early Year Foundation. This is the second time she’s visited Denmark in

Micaiah Carter is at once youthful and wiser than his years. Case in point: The young photographer has already lensed the likes of Pharrell, Zendaya, Missy Elliott, and Jennifer Lopez with a careful composition, intimacy, and striking color balance that both uplifts and celebrates his subjects. Carter’s know-how has made him one of the most

Jane Marczewski, the America’s Got Talent contestant known by her artist name “Nightbirde,” died Saturday after four years of living with breast cancer. She was 31. Marczewski inspired audiences around the world last year when she performed an original song during an audition for the America’s Got Talent judges in June. An emotional Simon Cowell

Philip Crowther, an International Affiliate Correspondent for the Associated Press, has gone viral with a supercut showing him deftly delivering the news in six languages. Obviously, this feat is not truly “effortless”—it would have taken an enormous amount of effort for Crowther to master so many different languages. But the ease with which he appears

Like her director, Jane Campion, Kirsten Dunst liked to take naps during filming breaks on The Power of the Dog. “I’ve become resentful of the morning, which is really bad for an actress, because we wake up so early for work,” Dunst says. “The older I get, the grumpier I am—so that nap at lunch

“Artists tap into personal experiences for inspiration, and I don’t begrudge anyone that.” By Grant Rindner February 17, 2022 NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 26: Jake Gyllenhaal attends the 74th Annual Tony Awards at Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)Dimitrios

The streaming revolution is changing the way film composers get paid and exposing the flaws of a system where big names farm their scores out to uncredited “ghost composers.” Now, the artists actually writing the music are demanding recognition—and a fair share of the profits.  By Mark Rozzo February 21, 2022

As far as anyone can tell, there isn’t much that actually happens over the course of Lexi Howard’s semi-autobiographical play, which consumes the bulk of Euphoria season 2’s penultimate episode. Lexi, as herself, debates the importance of social status within the high school hierarchy; compares her late-blooming breasts to her sister’s far more considerable assets;

That makes sense. I had an adviser in college, and because I was always trying to do a lot of different things, she would say, “You can’t be all versions of yourself at once.” But I feel like your career is so intertwined, it’s a high-level example of someone actually pulling that off. Well, I

Peak TV can be a cruel and unforgiving landscape. With more content available than ever before, it’s all the more difficult for new shows to break out and capture an audience. One casualty of the competitive field is FX’s adaptation of the graphic novel series Y: The Last Man. FX pulled the plug on the

The pricey gadget was originally created for last year’s Donda. By Grant Rindner February 18, 2022 Ye attends the Kenzo Fall/Winter 2022/2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 23, 2022 in Paris, France.Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images By all accounts, it seems like Kanye West’s Donda 2 is really going

On Friday, Tom Holland addressed rumors that he and his girlfriend Zendaya had bought a house together in South London. The question came up while he was appearing on Live with Kelly and Ryan. The Spider-Man actor seemed baffled by the story, explaining he heard about it from friends. “I’ve had so many people call