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All the Stars Who Attended Kate Berlant’s One-Woman Show Opening Night at Pasadena Playhouse
The stars came out for Kate. Kate Berlant’s one-woman show with the one name title opened at the Pasadena Playhouse on Jan. 21, and the night featured a parade of bold-faced names in the 91101. Checking out the 75-minute production — written and performed by Berlant with direction by Bo Burnham — were Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, […]
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Sundance: Why Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld Are in Park City for 2024 Festival
By Monday afternoon, the buzz hit Main Street: the Seinfelds have arrived at the Sundance Film Festival. The superstar comedian accompanied his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, to Park City for the world premiere of her Sundance documentary Daughters, held just after noon Monday at the Ray Theatre. And what an event it proved to be. “Daughters […]
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How Malia Obama Spent Sundance: A Neon Party, Filmmaker Q&As and Too Short at Tao Park City
Malia Obama stepped onto a red carpet last week for the first time, with good reason. The former first daughter hit Park City for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her short film The Heart, an 18-minute directorial debut that snagged a spot in the U.S. short fiction films program of the 2024 edition. The […]
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Rambling Reporter: Selena Gomez Can’t Stop Quitting Instagram
Selena Gomez Can’t Seem to Quit Social Media “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” The words of Mark Twain work surprisingly well when applied to Selena Gomez’s relationship with social media. The most followed woman on Instagram, fresh from a viral moment […]
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Robert Downey Jr. Looks Like He’s Having More Fun Than Anyone This Awards Season
It’s barely mid-January, but Robert Downey Jr. is already proving to be MVP of awards season. Not only is the veteran actor picking up trophies left and right — he triumphed at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards for his turn as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer — he’s dishing out some […]
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Rambling Reporter: Lenny Kravitz Clarifies BET Slam
This week in Rambling Reporter: On the heels of Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony where Netflix’s Queer Eye picked up a sixth straight trophy in the structured reality category, we’ve learned why the new season will be one episode short; Lenny Kravitz sets the record straight again on his BET Awards comments to Esquire; […]
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Hollywood Returns to Golden Globes’ Party Circuit and In-N-Out Still Rules (for Winner Paul Giamatti)
The Golden Globes are dubbed the “party of the year,” and with every great event in Tinseltown, there’s typically a long wind up and a ton of ancillary shindigs. But 2024 is a new year and Hollywood is not the same place it once was. On Friday evening, however, the scene outside Chateau Marmont mirrored […]
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Selfies With Bill Hader, a Timothee Chalamet Conspiracy Theory and Seat Next to Studio Power Players: Inside Taylor Swift’s Night at Golden Globes
Taylor Swift may have worn a glittering green gown by Gucci, but she found herself in a golden era Sunday, if only for a few hours, and what a time it was. The superstar singer touched down at the Beverly Hilton for the 81st Golden Globes to honor a nomination in the new cinematic and […]
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Why Soho House West Hollywood Is Really Pressing Pause on New Members
Amid a boom in private membership clubs across Los Angeles over the past several years, the hunt for new blood to add to the ranks has been intense. In a surprising move, Soho House is shutting the gates to preserve the exclusive vibe. In a letter to members obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Soho House […]
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Olivia Rodrigo Debuts “good 4 ur GUTS” Erewhon Smoothie in Collaboration With Health-Ade
Move over, Hailey Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo is ready to take over Erewhon’s smoothie counter. Fresh from a performance on Saturday Night Live, the pop rocker, who is nominated for six Grammy Awards, has debuted “good 4 ur GUTS,” a new smoothie in collaboration with leading makers Health-Ade that is being sold at L.A.’s luxe grocery […]
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Party Down: A Much Less Merry Christmas in Hollywood
Happy holidays? Eh, maybe. As the industry tiptoes out of a brutal 2023 that delivered a months-long work stoppage due to two labor strikes and widespread layoffs and budget cutbacks, the ripple effects are crashing into the holiday party circuit. There are fewer invites for the month of December compared to years past and sources […]
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‘Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson on Hard-Fought Lesson That Changed His Life: “I Almost Didn’t Survive”
When it comes to red carpet interviews, one minute is fair, three minutes is great and 10 minutes, well, that just never happens. Alan Ritchson generously proved to be an exception to the rule on Wednesday night when the Reacher star spent a chunk of time speaking with The Hollywood Reporter inside L.A.’s Culver Theater, […]
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Producer Howard Rosenman on His Love Affair with the Legendary Leonard Bernstein — Subject of Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’
Howard Rosenman made his way to a screening of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro at the Academy a few weeks back, and admits that before he took a seat, he really wanted to not like it. The veteran producer (Father of the Bride, Call Me by Your Name) tried to sell a project based on the life […]
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Tom Holland Talks Grueling ‘Crowded Room’ Shoot, Taking a Year Off From Acting and Seeking Advice From Zendaya
With Akiva Goldsman’s The Crowded Room, Marvel superstar Tom Holland netted a career first by executive producing a TV show and taking on not only the lead role of Danny Sullivan — a character inspired by Daniel Keyes’ 1981 nonfiction book The Minds of Billy Milligan, about the first person to be found not guilty […]
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David Alan Grier on Why His Surprise Cameo as Black Santa in ‘Candy Cane Lane’ Reminded Him of ‘Black Panther’
As the Candy Cane Lane premiere red carpet heated up Nov. 28, two publicist elves worked their way down the press line to remind journalists not to spoil the big reveal from the Reginald Hudlin-directed holiday adventure. The Prime Video release, penned by Kelly Younger, stars Eddie Murphy as a recently unemployed man on a mission […]
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David Mandel Recalls Norman Lear 2017 Emmys Moment
Norman Lear was my babysitter. Every day, the school bus would drop us off, and in the two hours or so until my mother got home, I was “taken care of” by Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time and Sanford and Son. Later on, as I got more interested in […]
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