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And just like that, the long-awaited return of the Big Brother pressure cooker is squarely in the rearview mirror, and the BB25 houseguests are back to their alliance-forming, clue-missing ways. Last night’s episode saw a solid chunk of time devoted to playing out the pressure cooker HOH competition, which included cameo videos from BB6, 7,

Celine Song’s A24 film about a life left behind is finally out on streaming this week—and well worth your time. By Raymond Ang August 27, 2023 Teo Yoo and Greta Lee star in A24’s Past Lives, one of the must-watch movies of 2023.Courtesy of A24 via Everett Collection When the trailer for Celine Song’s Past

For the anniversary of her debut album, Ariana Grande is celebrating ten years of Yours Truly by recalling memories with some of the people who helped create it. On TikTok, the singer shared memories of her time with ex-boyfriend Mac Miller from her early music career. The story came up on Saturday as she did

Actor and writer Arleen Sorkin tragically passed away at the age of 67. As of now, there is no official family statement. She played the prominent role of Calliope Jones on the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives, but she was best known as the voice and inspiration of the iconic antagonist Harley Quinn

Controlling the distribution of music — and thus making sure composers get paid for their labour and talent — has been a problem that dates back to the invention of the printing press. In 1498, less than 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg revealed the printing press, a savvy entrepreneur named Ottaviano Petrucci received a patent

The ascendance of Ahsoka, from the Clone Wars to the new Rosario Dawson-starring Disney series, opens up exciting new paths for storytelling. By William Goodman August 25, 2023 Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano might be one of Star Wars’ last hopes to take the franchise into new storytelling territory.Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. To its detriment in

This week, the trailer for the third season of The Morning Show was released, getting fans super excited for another round of the soapy drama about a wildly popular morning show hit with controversy after controversy. Some spoilers below. Season 2 ended with a dramatic cliff-hanger as the show grapples with the beginning of the

By Staff The Associated Press Posted August 25, 2023 9:35 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Bray Wyatt died Thursday, WWE announced. He was 36. Wyatt, whose real name was Windham Rotunda, died “unexpectedly,” according to an article on the WWE website that did not mention a

At Price Is Right, Barker would win 16 Daytime Emmys, earning prizes for producing and hosting, as well as a lifetime-achievement Emmy awarded in 1999. The year before, after he’d taped 5,000 episodes at Studio 33 at the CBS Television City studio in Hollywood, the network renamed the stage the Bob Barker Studio. In 2003,

There are a lot of questions to address when you decide to make a live-action version of a beloved piece of animation. But among the most difficult is, “How close do we get to the original, and where should we establish our own identity?” What makes this quandary so difficult is that not everyone is

Divorce proceedings between Kevin Costner and his estranged wife Christine Baumgartner are getting more heated. In new court documents obtained by People Magazine, Baumgartner, 49, asked Costner to provide any and all financial records relating to an extramarital affair. In the documents filed Monday in the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, Baumgartner requested Costner, 68,

Ryan Reynolds pulled a move he doesn’t often do for his wife Blake Lively: share an Instagram post with essentially no trolling in it. For her 36th birthday, Reynolds posted a carousel of romantic shots of the couple together and, in his caption, reflected on the depth of his love for his wife of more

The producers of The Crown have promised they’ve “delicately” depicted the death of Princess Diana in an episode in the show’s upcoming season. Speaking onstage at the Edinburgh TV Festival, executive producer Suzanne Mackie said the show’s crew have done their best to handle the portrayal in a caring manner. “The show might be big

After two years of talks online and in book clubs (yes, Good Morning America, but I prefer Smart Brown Girl), Zakiya Dalila Harris’ workplace thriller The Other Black Girl finally has a trailer and premiere date! Adapted to screen by Harris, the show stars Sinclair Daniel and Ashleigh Murray with frequent duo Jordan Reddout and

A 43-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with stalking after police said they were notified he was going door to door looking for Drew Barrymore’s house. The incident comes just three days after Barrymore was escorted off stage during an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, when an audience member

Last year, Meghan Markle played a game of ping pong with Prince Harry in a video promoting the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf. Now, a spokesperson for the couple has confirmed that the duchess will be joining her husband in the German city for the games, which begin on September 9 and run through September

The young British star has done it all, from catering wakes to folding clothes at Hollister to acting in Cannes darlings. He’s adjusting to his newfound fame—and learning to avail himself to moments of pure serendipity. By Iana Murray Photography by Joe Cruz August 25, 2023 Football shirt by Commission. Trousers by Marine Serre. GQ

The movie exodus from 2023 has claimed another victim. The Dune: Part Two release date has been changed from Nov. 3rd and will now move to March 25, 2024, Warner Bros. confirmed.  The second half of filmmaker Denis Villeneuve‘s sci-fi saga fell victim to the ongoing Hollywood writer and actor strikes, which have been expected

Miley Cyrus put enormous care into the words she sings in her new track “Used to Be Young.” The singer shared the lyrics to the track three days before its August 25 release. She shared that she originally wrote the song over a year ago while working on her album Endless Summer Vacation, then kept

In news that makes you “huh?” The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is attempting to stage a comeback this year via a worldwide broadcast of four mini-fashion shows in four different countries on September 26, which will be broadcast on Amazon Prime Video. Honestly, who is asking for this? Did someone stumble their way onto a

For former TV writer Patty Lin, working on the smash sitcom Friends wasn’t the “dream job” she expected it to be. In her upcoming memoir End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood, Lin said the star-studded cast of Friends — including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry — would “deliberately tank” jokes, knowing it would

Harry Tsang moved to Los Angeles about eight years ago. He was ready to make the switch from his previous base of Orlando to operate on a bigger stage. At 32 years old, he prides himself on his experience in the social media business—“I’m among the oldest, basically,” he said. Within a couple years of

It was all because of a chess game. By Heven Haile August 23, 2023 Photographs: John Fetterman, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte Over the weekend, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman destabilized the public with a selfie. “Lost a bet with Karl,” he captioned his Twitter post. To the surprise of many, his signature peppered goatee was

Over on X (a.k.a Twitter), Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, who are streaming their prerecorded interview as debate counterprogramming, spent some time bashing Fox News. “Fox is way down, as you know,” Trump told Carlson. “They just don’t have a lot of credibility, Tucker––you know that perhaps better than anybody.” He then described the April

The 2024 Super Bowl is still half a year away, but talk of Taylor Swift playing the halftime show has picked back up in August 2023. All evidence points to Swift not playing at the big game in 2024—or even in the near years to come. A source told Daily Mail on August 23, “She

Former Trump lawyer and ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has turned himself in at the Fulton County jail in Georgia for processing. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set his bond for $150,000. The conditions for his bail agreement are similar to those of the other RICO defendants in Fulton County’s case regarding 2020 election interference. He

Donald Trump was impeached twice, incited an insurrection, is facing multiple state and federal indictments—and looks like the future of the Republican Party. Don’t expect any real alternatives Wednesday night in Milwaukee: The GOP debate stage is a sea of faded mimeographs of the OG. The guy running perpetually in second place, Ron DeSantis, is

As Hollywood wages war over the future of movies, Harmony Korine and a gang of video game designers and AI artists are holed up in a house near Mar-a-Lago building it. By Zach Baron Photography by Harmony Korine August 23, 2023 Harmony Korine, flanked by characters from his latest cinematic projects. Just up the beach

Hollywood studios and streaming services on Tuesday released the terms of a revised proposal to striking writers, but the union urged members to continue picketing as the new offer failed to address all their concerns. The Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) had walked off the job on May 2 after negotiations reached an impasse, and were

In October 2019, Prince Andrew sat for an interview with Emily Maitlis, one of the BBC’s star reporters. The disastrous interview went viral, and within weeks, Andrew announced he was taking a “step back” from his public work as a senior royal in disgrace. In the new documentary Secrets of Prince Andrew, Maitlis said she