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Is the Venice Film Festival Big Enough for Brad and Angelina? (No.)
How Brad Could Bump Into Angelina in Venice Running into an ex at a party can be awkward. But imagine if the party is the Venice Film Festival and the exes are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. That potentially incendiary meet-cute could well happen, as both are starring in films that seem to be probable […]
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Newsflash! Nicholas Galitzine Is Not a Real Royal
Nicholas Galitzine: The Artist Formerly Known as a Prince? He’s played Cinderella’s Prince opposite Camila Cabello, the Prince of England in Red, White & Royal Blue and next will play He-Man, Prince Adam of Eternia, in Masters of the Universe. But is Hollywood’s latest “It” boy an actual prince? There has been a ton of […]
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Why TCM Fans Are Glitching About David Zaslav
Who’s Behind TCM’s Glitches? Cue David Zaslav’s Evil Laugh In recent weeks, the biggest mystery on TCM has been … what the heck is wrong with TCM? The classic movie channel has lately been plagued with what might generously be called technical difficulties. It started on May 3, when a showing of the 1982 Steve […]
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The Man Who Stole Brad Pitt’s Girlfriend
The Man Who Stole Brad Pitt’s Girlfriend and Other True Tales He’s gone to war with Mike Ovitz, made peace with Steven Seagal, forded rivers in Thailand with Brandon Lee and once swiped Brad Pitt’s fiancée. And now director Dwight Little — the 68-year-old auteur behind such notable 1980s and ’90s movies as Marked for […]
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ScarJo Puts a Muzzle on Open AI’s Latest Bot
Scarlett Johansson Wins the Robot War Against Sam Altman Remember last November when Sam Altman got fired from Open AI — before he was swiftly rehired — after his board of directors determined that the CEO had not been “consistently candid” in his communications? Well, it starting to look like maybe the board had a […]
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Cannes’ Midcentury Glory Years: Cary Grant, Brigitte Bardot and More Grace the Croisette (Photo Gallery)
Palais Intrigue Warren Beatty and his Splendor in the Grass co-star (and then girlfriend) Natalie Wood on the steps of the Palais du Festival, 1962. Queen Elizabeth A bejeweled and becrowned Liz Taylor grabs a seat, and all the attention, at the 1957 edition of the festival. Bonjour, BB! French actress Brigitte Bardot at the Ninth […]
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Why Hollywood Can’t Finish a Janis Joplin Biopic
Hollywood Tries (Just a Little Bit Harder) But Can’t Make a Janis Joplin Film Jim Morrison got one. Jimi Hendrix, too. And Kurt Cobain. And now, with Back to Black, Amy Winehouse is getting one as well. But there is one member of the so-called 27 Club — artists who share the same tragically young […]
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The O.J. Simpson Movie That Owen Wilson (Among Others) Won’t Be Starring In
A New O.J. Movie Stars the Controversial Charlotte Kirk (But Definitely Not Owen Wilson) Hey, Hollywood, anybody interested in a partially finished film about how O.J. Simpson might have been innocent? One that stars Charlotte Kirk — the English actress best known for her previous role in taking down moguls Kevin Tsujihara and Ron Meyer […]
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Conor McGregor Brags That He’s the Highest-Paid First-Time Action Star. Dwayne Johnson May Beg to Differ.
Conor McGregor vs. Dwayne Johnson: Who Cashed the Bigger Check? Did Conor McGregor really set a world record with his Road House payday? That’s what the onetime UFC superstar has been bragging about in recent weeks, claiming he’s now “the highest paid first-time actor of all time.” If true — and McGregor, 35, hasn’t disclosed how […]
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Rambling Roundup: Oscar Parties Were Full of Phonies (But Some Got Kicked Out)
Oscar Parties Are Full of Phonies (But They’re Getting Kicked Out) Winning an Academy Award opens a lot of doors, especially at Oscar-night afterparties. One of Hollywood’s sacred red carpet rules is that merely holding an Oscar can be a golden ticket to just about every swell soiree in town. But in recent years, some […]
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Billie Eilish’s Long-Lost Choir Teacher Speaks Out (Exclusive)
Billie Eilish’s Oscar Speech Shout-Out Speaks Up Before the Oscar ceremony, an announcer begged nominees not to waste airtime by name-checking their agents and publicists in their speeches — but nobody said anything about thanking old choir teachers. “Ms. Brigham, thanks for believing in me,” Billie Eilish gushed while accepting the trophy for best original […]
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Rambling Roundup: Has the Bromance Between Ari Emanuel and Joel Silver Gone Bust?
Ari and Joel: Bromance on the Rocks? One of Hollywood’s most enduring — and mystifying — high-powered friendships may have finally blown up, at least for the moment. Sources tell Rambling Reporter that Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and longtime pal Joel Silver are no longer speaking after the famously hotheaded Lethal Weapon producer allegedly became […]
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