Disney - 2017(SHANGHAI) -- Despite being the highest paid star in Hollywood -- at least as of a few years ago -- Johnny Depp has some mixed feelings about the movie business. At the the historic world premiere of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Shanghai, China, Depp was asked by Entertainment Tonight what advice he'd give his younger self. The 53-year-old said, laughing, "I would have said get out […]
ABC/Lou Rocco(NEW YORK) -- Saturday Night Live alum Tracy Morgan has forgiven the Wal-Mart truck driver who caused the crash that nearly killed him. Speaking to New York magazine's Vulture ahead of the premiere of his new Netflix special, Staying Alive, Morgan said he forgave the driver in order to move on with his life. "The hardest part about all of this was forgiving that driver ... because if I didn’t do that, we wouldn’t be sitting […]
Verve Records(NEW YORK) -- NBC has announced that its next live musical will be a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's groundbreaking 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Casting has just begun, but Robert Greenblatt, chairman, NBC Entertainment, says the network wants to "fill out this classic show with as many recording artists as possible to give proper voice to what is the original rock opera score.” Lloyd […]
Verve Records(NEW YORK) -- NBC has announced that its next live musical will be a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's groundbreaking 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Casting has just begun, but Robert Greenblatt, chairman, NBC Entertainment, says the network wants to "fill out this classic show with as many recording artists as possible to give proper voice to what is the original rock opera score.” Lloyd […]
FOX/Chuck Hodes(NEW YORK) -- Wednesday's episode of Empire, "Absent Child," begins with a meeting between the Lyon and Dubois families. Cookie accuses the Dubois' of using their power to get Child Protective Services to take away baby Bella. The Dubois' deny it and call out the Lyons for being messy and ruining Angelo's career aspirations. After the meeting, Anika, Kareem and Thirsty go to Child Protective Services to get back Bella. Unfortunately, an agent tells […]
NBC/Will Heath(NEW YORK) -- As if it wasn't already a no-brainer that Melissa McCarthy will reprise her Sean Spicer impersonation when she hosts Saturday Night Live this weekend, she seems to confirm it in new promo released on Wednesday. The clip opens with the Ghostbusters star prancing through the halls of NBC's 30 Rock, lip-syncing to "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story. She's greeted by a trio of smiling makeup artists -- played by SNL cast members Mikey Day, Kyle Mooney and Melissa Villaseñor -- who work their magic on McCarthy, until she […]
ABC/Adam Taylor(NEW YORK) -- Perspective staff members of Steve Harvey's upcoming Los Angeles-based daytime talk show may want to think twice before exchanging pleasantries with the TV personality. A lengthy email purportedly sent to the staff of his current show Steve Harvey, which tapes in Chicago, was published on Robert Feder's Chicago media blog on Tuesday, and it reveals the 60-year-old comedian has neither the time nor the patience for socializing. The memo reads in part: "There will be no […]
BrianAJackson/iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, WV) -- In a 3-2 decision Thursday, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that anti-gay assaults are not protected under the state's hate crime law, according to court documents obtained by ABC News.The decision emerged from the State of West Virginia vs. Steward Butler case, which involves an April 2015 incident during which Butler allegedly directed homophobic slurs at two men he saw kissing on the sidewalk […]
Redheadedhornet/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW ORLEANS) -- As New Orleans began the process Thursday of removing the remaining Confederate-era monuments in the Louisiana city, officials said they are facing “intimidation, threats and violence” amid their efforts to dismantle the statues that were erected decades after the Civil War to honor the “Cult of the Lost Cause.”The city aims to take down four prominent Confederate-era monuments. The Battle of Liberty Place monument, which officials said […]
