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Robert Downey Jr. checked in frequently with Jeremy Renner after the latter’s 2023 snowplow accident. In an interview with People, Renner joked that the Oscar-winning actor’s FaceTime calls felt “like we were dating or something.” “He’s like, ‘Dude, the most important thing is you look good. I…

Q, a 26-year-old entertainer from Kansas City, Missouri on RuPaul’s Drag Race, has revealed she was diagnosed as HIV-positive two years ago. “I am doing something very sentimental for the runway today,” she said before Friday’s show. “It’s inspired by the generation of gay people that we lost to…

The Greek provocateur seemed to be smiling throughout Oscar night. In the past he'd delivered films with titles like Dogtooth and The Lobster, and his newest, Poor Things, was now stockpiling the statuary even as Hollywood's filmmaking elite looked on…

We've raised a cheer for the March 10 Oscar broadcast's audience bump, up 4 percent, to 19.5 million viewers from 18.8 million a year ago. The total should stretch toward 21 million when digital viewers over seven days are finally added in. (Social media…

In a video posted to Instagram by Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, the late night comic asked Messi, the canine star of Best Picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall, to lift his leg on a few joke ideas. “What do you think of this?” Kimmel asked. “Casting is a huge part of any film. Without casting…

Elle King took to Instagram on Sunday and spoke out about her performance at a January tribute to Dolly Parton. During her stage time, she slurred words, forgot lyrics, and cursed, the latter a major no-no at the staid Grand Ol’ Opry. King, 34, was one of multiple country stars who took the stage…

Numbers don’t lie, goes the saying. Or do they? Zack Snyder believes they can sometimes disguise the truth, as he related to Joe Rogan in a recent chat. Snyder’s Rebel Moon was distributed by Netflix, and that service’s methods of accounting may disguise how successful the film was, Snyder…

A hit song by Bananarama in the ’80s told us that Robert De Niro’s Waiting. Tonight, on Real Time with Bill Maher, he finally got the chance to get a few things off his chest. Maher tried to balance things between show business chat and trying to draw out De Niro on a few political topics. He…

"That movie was the President's idea, not mine, but it was a demand, not a suggestion." The speaker was Jack Warner in a 1947 foreshadowing of his Donald Trumpian style. I recalled his remarks this week as I drove onto the Warner Bros lot, the fabled…

How do you capture Jenne Casarotto? She was at the intersection of theatre, film and television. It all, seemingly, swirled around her. Not just around her.  It was the brilliant team that she assembled at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, the agency that's been at the epicenter of UK arts culture…

Truth be told, I'm not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security's a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me. And watching at home isn't much better. Who really wants to turn on the television at 5 — oops, make that 4 — o'clock on an…

Emma Heming Willis wants the media to do better on reports about her husband and their family life since his condition progressed from aphasia to frontotemporal dementia (FTD). "It's Sunday morning and I'm triggered," she wrote today in an Instagram Story. "I just got click-baited. I'm just…