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The Golden Bachelor host Jesse Palmer has issued his best wishes in the wake of the divorce announcement from contestants Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist. The couple announced Friday that they are divorcing after three months of marriage. Palmer posted an image to Instagram of himself, Nist, and…

Few followers of cinema could dispute the influence of Francis Ford Coppola, the director of such cinematic masterworks as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. But when Eleanor Coppola, who sadly passed away yesterday, set her camera on the action behind the scenes of Apocalypse Now, she would lay the…

To outsiders, Eleanor Coppola, who died Friday at age 87, presented as soft spoken and unassuming, yet as someone who always understood exactly what was going on. When I first met her she was playing the role of the perfect ’60s “hippie chick” who hung with…

When you have William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, on your show, you get to ask the Star Trek questions you’ve always wanted answered. That’s what Bill Maher managed to do on Friday’s Real Time, as he probed one of pop culture’s most interesting moments — the interracial kiss between…

It almost sounds like a Hallmark movie. Young man grows disenchanted, decides to seek a simpler life. But Ryan Paevey isn’t following a script. Instead, he is re-evaluating things. "Sadly, no word of a [Hallmark] film," Paevey wrote via X on Tuesday after fans asked whether he'd be in any new…

O.J. Simpson was on everyone’s mind today after his death, and Conan O'Brien took the opportunity to salute his late friend, comic Norm Macdonald, who continued doing Simpson jokes on Saturday Night Live even after being warned by NBC higher-ups to knock it off. Sitting Thursday with CNN's Jake…

The Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti (PEAK) announced their PEAK Conversations panel, sponsored by Amazon MGM Studios, will take place in Los Angeles on May 1. The first celebration of Pasifika women in Hollywood will feature and highlight the achievements Moana and Mean Girls actress…

Bradley Cooper almost quit The Place Beyond the Pines. During Indiewire’s Screen Talk live at the New Directors/New Films festival, writer/director Derek Cianfrance — who co-wrote the feature with future Sound of Metal director Darius Marder — said Cooper didn’t like what he read after receiving an…

Oliver Stark has called out the online trolls objecting to his 9-1-1 storyline regarding his character’s bisexuality. "If you are one of the smaller group of people commenting on my posts about how this has ruined the show, I would like you to know that I truly don't care," the actor wrote on his Ins…

I'm not overly fond of politics. Given a choice, I'd rather talk food, or faraway places. But I do have a weakness for political films — or, more precisely, films about political campaigns. The best of them have been sharp, often witty, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Craymer would just love it if Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig could just make herself available to complete the Mamma Mia! movie trilogy. "Hey, Greta, if you're free to do anymore projects…" jokes Craymer, the driving force that has kept the “Money, Money, Money” pouring into the box…

Sir Paul McCartney is a fan of the Cowboy Carter rendition of his song, Blackbird, which he originally wrote in 1968. “I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird,'” McCartney wrote Thursday on Instagram. “I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil…