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“People don’t very often go out looking for a ‘Jeffrey Wright type,’ you know?” says Jeffrey Wright with a laugh. “There’s not a lot of films that are written for a Jeffrey Wright type, so I have to sometimes do a little morphing.”   He’s won a Tony and an Emmy, and has starred in

On Tuesday night, King Charles brought together a group of senior royals, including Queen Camilla, Prince William, and Kate Middleton to Buckingham Palace for the second state banquet of his reign. The spectacle aimed to celebrate a state visit by South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon-hee and emphasize the importance

At the turn from the Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway into the Mauna Kea Resort on the Kona coast of Hawai’i Island, I pulled over to the side of the road and told my wife to take over driving. We were supposed to meet our former landlords from California for lunch at the resort’s beachside restaurant, but

Comedian Matt Rife has issued what appeared to be a mock apology to angry viewers of his heavily criticized Netflix special, directing them to a website selling special needs helmets. The 28-year-old American comic had been swiftly gaining popularity online ahead of the Nov. 15 release of his comedy special Natural Selection. After it dropped

Image Credit: TLC Kody Brown’s fractured family dynamic continues to have an impact on his children. In the October 15 episode of Sister Wives, Savanah Brown and Breanna Brown open up about the demise of their sibling relationship in the midst of the family chaos. Savanah, 18, who is Janelle Brown’s daughter, explains to Christine

In early 1969, Ken and Dub, two music fans from Los Angeles, found themselves in possession of some unreleased Bob Dylan songs recorded in 1967 that had been sent as demos to his music publisher. Copies of the acetate recording spilled out among people working in the recorded music industry. Ken and Dub, both employees

On Thursday, Princess Eugenie celebrated her fifth anniversary with Jack Brooksbank with a video that featured a few never-before-seen shots from their 2018 wedding. It’s soundtracked by the song “You’ve Got the Love” by Florence and the Machine, and tucked at the end of the video was the first photo showing Jack and Eugenie with

Image Credit: Dan Wooller/Shutterstock Bill is married to Tamara Hurwitz. They met in 1980. Bill and Tamara have three kids together. Bill Pullman has had a movie-worthy love story for over 40 years. The Sinner actor married Tamara Hurwitz right before he kickstarted his acting career, and they’ve never been apart. Over the years, Tamara

Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed what happened between her and Chris Rock immediately after her husband, Will Smith, slapped him across the face during the 2022 Oscars ceremony. The incident has been referred to as “the slap heard around the world,” after Rock made a G.I. Jane joke about Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia

Phil Mickelson has always been obsessed with money, owing to a life of conspicuous consumption (his own Gulf-stream IV, etc.), a visceral hatred of paying taxes, and a self-described gambling addiction. In 2013, he made a flippant comment to reporters bitching about California’s state income tax, touching off one of the many uproars in his

Image Credit: Marion Curtis/StarPix for GIFF/Shutterstock Jenna Bush Hager, 41, let it slip on Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna that her four-year-old son, Hal, still sleeps in a crib. The confession came about as she was discussing an unrelated topic, David Beckham‘s militantly organized closet, with her co-host Hoda Kotb. “Hal is

There are few personalities that unite Canadians quite like Mr. Dressup. For 29 years, spanning an impressive 4,000 episodes, the beloved children’s show host appeared on television screens across the country, inviting kids to explore his iconic Tickle Trunk alongside a legion of puppet sidekicks, including the cherished duo of Casey and Finnegan. And although

Image Credit: Trask Smith/CSM/Shutterstock / Casey Flanigan/imageSPACE/Shutterstock Taylor Swift secretly spent time with her rumored boyfriend, Travis Kelce, after he celebrated his 34th birthday without the singer, according to a new report. An insider told US Weekly that Taylor, 33, flew from Nashville to Kansas City “to see Travis” on Friday, October 6. The “Style” singer and

Michael Chiarello, the celebrity chef who inspired a generation of eager home cooks with his passion for food and entertaining, has died. He was 61. Chiarello’s company, Gruppo Chiarello, announced the Food Network star’s death on Saturday. Chiarello died at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Calif., where he was being treated for

Illustration by Geoff Kim. Nimona Nimona arrived on Netflix this summer and earned passionate support from its admirers. Praised for its queer themes and its unique visual identity, the animated film follows framed knight Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) and the shape-shifting Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz) on a quest to exonerate the former, earning the latter

Partway through Ross Gay’s The Book of (More) Delights—a year’s worth of short essays on quotidian pleasures, reprising a project from 2019—the author finds himself on a coffee shop porch, the first to arrive for a meeting. The latecomer sends an apology text, and Gay taps out a five-word reply.  “No sweat take your time,

Arnold Schwarzenegger wants young people to be comfortable with failure and struggle — characteristics he claims are necessary to develop mental resiliency. In a Wednesday interview for SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, the 76-year-old action star worried that modern society is raising “a generation of wimps and weak people” overly concerned with hurting feelings. “It’s nice

“This is the opening of a film about Sarah Bernhardt, if I could get anyone to do it,” she says, drawing her hand through the air. “You start on a mirror, and the hand comes in the frame, and someone is trying to put on the eyeliner and it’s smudging. You have to erase it

Image Credit: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock Caitlyn Jenner, 73, looked back on the time she first met Kris Jenner, 67, and revealed she felt it was “love at first sight,” in a new interview with The Times. The former spouse of The Kardashians star also admitted she was “infatuated” with her after they went on a blind

Pamela Anderson is done with makeup. For the last few months, the Ladysmith, B.C.-born Anderson — who for much of her career was best-known as a Hollywood bombshell and Playboy model — has ditched her makeup almost entirely, opting instead for a relaxed, fresh-faced look with her freckles on full display. Even at the most

On the last Saturday in September, Jay Jopling, the founder of London gallery White Cube—and so far as I can tell, the only art dealer to ever make the British GQ best-dressed list—was standing on the sidewalk outside his new Upper East Side gallery. For more than a decade, Jopling had been angling to open

Image Credit: CBS Big Brother 25 premiered on August 2. There were 17 houseguests at the start of the season. Jared was the latest houseguest to be evicted. Big Brother 25 has been action-packed from the very beginning. This season’s houseguests are constantly gaming and the alliances continue to form and fall apart. Former Survivor player Cirie Fields

Nearly three decades after Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, a self-described “gangster” made his first court appearance to answer for the hip-hop legend’s death. Duane “Keefe D” Davis, 60, stood shackled, wearing a dark-blue jail uniform and plastic orange slippers at the Wednesday hearing in Clark County.

Madonna’s divorce from Sean Penn was finalized on January 25, 1989, the same day Pepsi announced an unprecedented agreement with her. She would release her new single, “Like a Prayer,” during a Pepsi commercial in exchange for $5 million and Pepsi’s sponsorship of her next tour. The ad marked the first time a record would

Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Brian Austin Green admitted “it has been a challenge” raising his openly gay son, Kassius. However, the Beverly Hills 90210 alum, 50, eventually realized that it “isn’t different” from raising a heterosexual child.  “Honestly, it was unknown for me,” Brian admitted during an appearance on NSYNC member Lance Bass’ “Frosted

Grimes, the mother of three of Elon Musk‘s children, has sued the billionaire businessman over parental rights, claiming he hasn’t let her see one of their two sons, multiple outlets are reporting. The Canadian singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, has claimed Musk will not give her access to one of their children, according

When Christian Friedel was first approached to star in The Zone of Interest three or so years ago, he had no idea what the movie was about, nor whom he’d be portraying. The German actor sent in a tape for director Jonathan Glazer, simply introducing himself as instructed; sometime later, he received the offer to

Image Credit: Mediapunch/Shutterstock Where else would Dick Van Dyke be? The iconic 97-year-old actor was spotted in photos you can SEE HERE visiting Disneyland with his much-younger wife Arlene Silver on Monday, October 2. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star appeared relaxed and casual in a blue shirt and grey pants, with black shoes and a

Michael Gambon, the prestigious stage and film actor best known for playing the wise wizard Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter, has died. He was 82. In a statement released Thursday, Gambon’s wife, Lady Anne Gambon, and his son, Fergus, said the actor died “peacefully.” “We are devastated to announce the loss of Sir Michael Gambon,”

Image Credit: Shutterstock Gwyneth Paltrow, 51, praised her ex-fiance Brad Pitt‘s popular Le Domaine skincare line, in a new interview. The actress, who dated the actor, 59, before they got engaged in December 1996, praised the product and called it “beautiful,” in a new interview with The New York Times. “It’s good,” she told the