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US politics
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

TMZ Turns Its Pitiless Lens on Politicians

TMZ has expanded its focus to include politicians, highlighting their perceived irresponsibility while enjoying leisure activities during government crises.
Film
fromConsequence
4 days ago

Why Isn't There a Movies Hall of Fame?

Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame recognizes artistic legacy through a democratic voting process, unlike many awards in Hollywood.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
5 days ago

TMZ staffs up a new team in D.C. to cover "pop culture and politics"

TMZ expands coverage to Washington D.C. to explore the intersection of pop culture and politics amid a government shutdown.
#hollywood-history
Pets
fromSFGATE
6 days ago

In a wealthy LA suburb, a hidden pet cemetery to the Hollywood stars

Tawny the lion, an early MGM star, is interred at Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, a historic site for beloved pets.
Pets
fromSFGATE
6 days ago

In a wealthy LA suburb, a hidden pet cemetery to the Hollywood stars

Tawny the lion, an early MGM star, is interred at Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, a historic site for beloved pets.
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Celebrity on celebrity: are we losing the art of the big star interview?

Wealthy businesspeople are increasingly held accountable, yet interviews among elites lack critical perspective and often become mutual admiration sessions.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 months ago

In Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2025

Jazz drummer, composer and band leader Jack DeJohnette began playing drums in his school band at the age of 14. In 1969, he joined Miles Davis' band and played on the iconic album "Bitches Brew." He played with other jazz legends, including Keith Jarrett and Chet Baker. He won a Grammy Award in 2009 for his album, "Peace Time," and another in 2022 for his album, "Skyline."
Music
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

Oscars 2026 in pictures: Stars on the red carpet at the 98th Academy Awards

For Hollywood's biggest night, celebrities pay as much attention to their red-carpet attire as their speeches. It's a night to leave a mark not just on Hollywood but on best-dressed lists and even make fashion history.
Fashion & style
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Omission impossible: why the Oscars can never get their In Memoriam tribute right

The Academy's in memoriam selection process involves a committee narrowing hundreds of candidates to approximately 30 names, making omissions of notable figures inevitable despite public outcry.
#academy-awards
Film
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Oscars: Hollywood to hand out one award after another

The 98th Academy Awards ceremony features Conan O'Brien as host for the second time, with 'Sinners' leading with 16 nominations and Jessie Buckley favored to win Best Actress for 'Hamnet'.
Film
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Geoff Keighley Says Oscars CEO Blocked Him After Criticizing Omission Of His Father

Geoff Keighley publicly criticized the Oscars for omitting his father David Keighley, an IMAX pioneer who died in 2025, from the In Memoriam segment.
Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

Live: The 2026 Oscars Moments That Actually Matter

The 98th Academy Awards features Sinners leading with 16 nominations, while the ceremony unfolds with unpredictable outcomes and potential controversies typical of Oscar history.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

What to Expect From the Oscars Telecast (And What We'd Change)

The 98th Academy Awards will air Sunday with Conan O'Brien hosting; success depends on film selections, acceptance speeches, and production choices like clips and musical performances.
Film
fromKotaku
1 month ago

The Oscars' Tie Was Just One Bit Of Drama From The Show

Best Original Song winners for 'Golden' were abruptly cut off during their acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, sparking criticism from viewers who felt the treatment was disrespectful compared to other winners' speaking time.
Film
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Highlights from the 2026 Oscars hosted by Conan O'Brien: from big wins to heavy goodbyes

Paul Thomas Anderson won his first Oscar after 14 previous nominations, winning best adapted screenplay, best director, and best picture for 'One Battle After Another' at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Oscars: Hollywood to hand out one award after another

The 98th Academy Awards ceremony features Conan O'Brien as host for the second time, with 'Sinners' leading with 16 nominations and Jessie Buckley favored to win Best Actress for 'Hamnet'.
Film
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Geoff Keighley Says Oscars CEO Blocked Him After Criticizing Omission Of His Father

Geoff Keighley publicly criticized the Oscars for omitting his father David Keighley, an IMAX pioneer who died in 2025, from the In Memoriam segment.
Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

Live: The 2026 Oscars Moments That Actually Matter

The 98th Academy Awards features Sinners leading with 16 nominations, while the ceremony unfolds with unpredictable outcomes and potential controversies typical of Oscar history.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Oscars: Hollywood's big night begins on the red carpet

When it's a nominee... it just feels like this big important moment and I just really want to honor it. They'll be photographed usually more than some others and then I do imagine what it would end up looking... with an award.
Fashion & style
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Jane Fonda questions Barbra Streisand's Oscars tribute to Robert Redford

Jane Fonda expressed confusion about why Barbra Streisand was selected to honor Robert Redford at the Oscars instead of her, citing her four films with Redford compared to Streisand's one.
#oscar-fashion
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Red carpet fashion: What some of the biggest stars have been wearing this awards season

Oscar nominees wore designer gowns and suits from luxury brands including Chanel, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Tom Ford at pre-awards season events.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Red carpet fashion: What some of the biggest stars have been wearing this awards season

Oscar nominees wore designer gowns and suits from luxury brands including Chanel, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Tom Ford at pre-awards season events.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Inside the Vanity Fair' Oscar party, where Madonna whispered to Brad Pitt and Courtney Love's manager was banned

Courtney Love came up to me. She goes, Gray, Gray, you've got to let my manager in,' recounts Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair. I said, Why?' She said, He's got my money, he's got my car keys, he's got my drugs.' I said, Look, Courtney, I just can't deal with this right now.
NYC LGBT
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Access Hollywood Canceled After Nearly 30 Years

Since its 1996 debut, Access Hollywood has aired nearly 12,000 episodes. Yet its most infamous segment was one that never made it to broadcast: in October 2016, weeks before the presidential election, The Washington Post obtained footage of then-candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments about women to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.
Media industry
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
19 years ago

Where the heartthrob is at home

Colin Farrell purchased a $4.3 million Hollywood Hills villa featuring luxury amenities including a wine cellar, infinity pool, and four bedrooms across 4,000 square feet.
#oscars-ceremony
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2026 Oscars

This year's Oscars ceremony successfully celebrated film through thoughtful hosting, diverse award winners, and production quality that prioritized respect for cinema over self-importance.
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Oscars 2026 live: Hollywood prepares for its biggest night of the year

Multiple films compete for major Oscar categories tonight, with 'Sinners' favored to win the inaugural Academy Award for Achievement in Casting, while 'The Perfect Neighbor' leads the Best Documentary race.
fromVulture
2 months ago

A Grand Theory of Celebrity and Who-dom

And by "Who-dom," I don't mean the Seussian variety but the taxonomy coined by 's Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger: the vast, sub-stratospheric tier of celebrity occupied by figures whose fame is intensely meaningful to some and virtually nonexistent to everyone else. Whos are defined in opposition to Thems, the indisputable celebrities known to most except those living under a rock or who willingly reject the very notion of pop culture,
Books
Miscellaneous
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Martin Short's daughter Katherine dies at 42

Martin Short's daughter Katherine Elizabeth Hartley Short died at age 42 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her Hollywood Hills home.
Photography
fromVulture
2 months ago

Chappell Roan Got the Photographers to Stay Quiet

Chappell Roan's public confrontations with rude photographers have prompted photographers to act more respectful and quieter at major red-carpet events.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2026 Actor Awards

The Actor Awards ceremony combines Oscar glamour with unpredictable humor while celebrating actors voting on actors, featuring notable upsets and memorable moments alongside questionable decisions like relegating stunt awards to the red carpet.
Music
fromVulture
2 months ago

Which Celebrities Rocked 'ICE OUT' Pins at the Grammy Awards?

Celebrities at the 2026 Grammys wore "ICE OUT" and "BE GOOD" pins to honor ICE victims and publicly protest ICE, including onstage "Fuck ICE" statements.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.nydailynews.com
1 month ago

Jamie Lee Curtis pays tribute to late ex-boyfriend Robert Carradine

Jamie Lee Curtis mourns ex-boyfriend Robert Carradine's death by suicide at 71, remembering their 1970s romance as her first experience with domesticity and partnership.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Digested week: despite the Golden Globes being a joke, the audience keep turning up

The truest thing ever said about the Golden Globes was by Tina Fey when she hosted the awards in 2019 and described the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of junket hacks, as operating out of the back booth of a French McDonalds. The HFPA was disbanded in 2023 after allegations of racism, but 95 former members retained voting rights and on Monday, the show went on.
Television
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Rise of the veavage: how one look came to rule the red carpet

The 'veavage' trend features deep V-shaped necklines extending from neck to navel, prominently displayed at major awards shows by celebrities including Kristen Bell, Jenna Ortega, and Zendaya.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Daddy Issue Oscars

Marty Supreme's ending—featuring Timothée Chalamet's emotional breakdown in a maternity ward—has sparked significant debate about whether it represents genuine character transformation or unwarranted sentimentality.
#catherine-ohara
Film
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
1 month ago

Reminiscing About Meeting (and Dating!) Movie Stars From Hollywood's Golden Age - San Francisco Bay Times

A TV and radio broadcaster shares memorable encounters with celebrities who visited to promote their work, highlighting humorous and authentic moments from interviews.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

As stars wear black at Valentino's funeral, tributes are dressed in red

To honour him, the cover of Vogue Italia's February issue out this month will be a take on Valentino red, while Donatella Versace wore a bright red suit when she went to pay tribute to her fellow designer, as he lay in state in Rome on Thursday. If most of the mourners at his funeral on Friday including the actor Anne Hathaway, and fashion's Anna Wintour,
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Baftas' biggest drama is the red carpet fashion battle

Paul Mescal stepped up early with a big swing, hard-launching his relationship with Gracie Abrams with a red-carpet kiss. The frayed rolled cuffs and Henley collar of his Prada shirt gave him the air of having walked to the red carpet straight from the boards of Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Method dressing is the new power dressing, and this could be the season of Hamnet-core: see, also, Archie Madekwe's doublet-shaped Dior jacket and Elizabeth-adjacent sparkly ruff.
Fashion & style
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

'Overnight I lost everything': 17 acting careers ruined by a single role

Certain films can permanently damage an actor's career trajectory, with specific roles becoming inextricably linked to their public image regardless of talent or prior success.
Film
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Conan O'Brien Breaks Silence on Rob Reiner's Death: "It's Just So Awful"

Conan O'Brien, close with Rob Reiner and Michele Singer, was stunned by their deaths after their son Nick's arrest and lauded Reiner's extraordinary filmmaking legacy.
Film
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

7 celebrity outfits that missed the mark at the 2026 Actor Awards

The Actor Awards ceremony held at the Shrine Auditorium featured a 1920s-30s Hollywood glamour dress code theme, with mixed results in celebrity adherence to the styling direction.
Film
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Conan O'Brien says he was 'in shock' over Rob Reiner's death hours after his party

Conan O'Brien described feeling shocked and devastated after Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead and their son was charged with their murders.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Conan O'Brien breaks silence on Reiner murders following his holiday party

Nick, 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of his father, director Rob Reiner, and mother, producer Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead at their home on Dec. 14. The night prior, the couple who also shared son Jake, 34, and daughter Romy, 28 attended O'Brien's holiday party with Nick, who a source previously told People was freaking everyone out [and] acting crazy.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Pigs, punchups and a foaming red carpet: 10 amazing Baftas moments ranked

However, when Russell Crowe won for A Beautiful Mind in 2002, it was his speech that got edited out. That was because he decided to recite the Patrick Kavanagh poem Sanctity, and it went on and on. When Crowe realised what had happened, he tracked down the show's director at the afterparty, pinned him against a wall, called him a cunt and then allegedly kicked three chairs across the room.
Film
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

This Is the Weekend That Will Decide the Oscars

Sinners secured enough BAFTA wins to remain competitive in the Best Picture race against One Battle After Another before final Oscar voting.
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