Month: August 2017

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RuPaul’s life to be subject of new Hulu series

RuPaul with Lady Gaga on "RuPaul's Drag Race"; image courtesy VH1(NEW YORK) -- RuPaul's got a new TV show on the way. The star of RuPaul's Drag Race will be the subject of Queen, a forcoming dramedy on Hulu produced by J.J. Abrams, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Queen will tell the story of RuPaul's rise from club kid to drag queen, gay icon and global star. RuPaul --  born RuPaul […]

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Jimmy Kimmel says former Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama reached out about his son

ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- After Jimmy Kimmel opened up about his newborn son's emergency heart surgery in May, he received an outpouring of support from fans. Kimmel tells the Hollywood Reporter he also received "very nice" letters from former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as several members of Congress after he pleaded on-camera for politicians to enact universal health care. Kimmel said health care […]

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Rebel Wilson suffers concussion while shooting new movie

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rebel Wilson isn't letting something like a little concussion keep her down. The Pitch Perfect 3 star took to Instagram on Tuesday to reveal that she suffered a concussion while shooting her upcoming movie, Isn't It Romantic, on New York's Long Island earlier that day. "Started the day with a fall that led to a mild concussion...yet somehow looking not bad at 7pm...," she […]

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Entertainment

Donald Glover’s not interested in being “the next Ron Howard”

Donald Glover with his 2016 Critics Choice Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, for “Atlanta”: Robby Klein/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Atlanta creator and star Donald Glover talks about his legacy in this week's The Hollywood Reporter cover story, and, among other things, reveals why he doesn't want to be the next Ron Howard. Glover, who will play Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo film, directed by Howard, says, “I […]

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Facebook launching new video service, Watch

Image courtesy Facebook(NEW YORK) -- Facebook is getting into the video content business with a new service called Watch, the company announced Wednesday. Watch will feature content from a variety of media partners including Billboard, which will launch a show called "How It Went Down," in which musicians will recount crazy stories; Time, Inc., which will offer "Celeb Moms Get Real," a show in which famous mothers talk about parenthood; […]

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Jane Fonda, Robert Redford reunite for ‘Our Souls at Night’

Kerry Brown/Netflix(NEW YORK) -- Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, who last starred together on screen in 1979's The Electric Horseman, will reunite in the upcoming Netflix movie Our Souls at Night. The film, also starring Bruce Dern and adapted from Kent Haruf's novel by The Fault in Our Stars writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, features Redford and Fonda as a pair of Colorado neighbors whose spouses died years […]

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Taylor Swift’s mom takes the stand: “He sexually assaulted her. *That* guy.”

iStock/Thinkstock (DENVER) -- Taylor Swift's mother, Andrea Swift, delivered some emotional testimony Wednesday afternoon in Denver, at one point looking at David Mueller -- the deejay who's suing her daughter -- and declaring, "He sexually assaulted her. That guy." Mueller is suing Swift, saying her claim that he groped her during a meet-and-greet in 2013 is false, and caused him to be fired.  Swift has countersued, claiming assault and battery […]

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Ousted White House aide Anthony Scaramucci to make late-night TV debut with Stephen Colbert

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci's 15 minutes of fame aren't up yet. Scaramucci, who was ousted after less than two weeks on the job, following an expletive-filled interview with The New Yorker in which he excoriated other White House aides, will be making his first late-night TV appearance Monday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "On Monday 8/14 […]

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Orlando day care worker charged in death of 3-year-old left in hot van for nearly 12 hours

Orlando Police Department(ORLANDO) -- A Florida day care worker has been charged in the death of a three-year-old who died after he was allegedly left in a hot van for nearly 12 hours, according to police.Little Miracles Academy employee Deborah Denise St. Charles, 51, was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child by culpable negligence for the death of Myles Hill, the Orlando Police Department said.Myles was […]

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