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Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85. Roman died Saturday afternoon at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday. His daughter told the entertainment trade Deadline that he suffered a heart

View gallery Image Credit: Backgird/MEGA Paris Hilton, 41, looked like she was having an incredible time during her recent one-year anniversary trip in the Maldives with Carter Reum. The socialite wore a red one-piece swimsuit and white-framed heart shaped sunglasses as she had fun in the water, in photos taken at the beautiful location. She

Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” has died. She was 63. Her publicist, Judith A. Moose, announced the news on social media, writing

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A Montreal dancer who has gained fame on TikTok is about to bring her infectious energy to living rooms across the country. Angie Augustin, or Citron Rose as she’s known online, has just become a big part of Ubisoft’s wildly successful Just Dance video game franchise. She appears in Just Dance 2023, dancing a routine

An exceedingly calm, pleasant, and old-school thing to do during Art Basel Miami Beach is to go to Joe’s Stone Crab, put your name down with the maître d’, and quaff stiff cold drinks while you wait in the tropical weather for your table. When you get there, you order stone crabs, hash browns, creamed

View gallery Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Kim Kardashian took her daughter, North West, to Paris Couture Fashion Week on the Nov. 24 episode of The Kardashians. Kim wanted North to see her at work to prove that work can be fun if it’s something you’re passionate about. For one of North’s outfits on the trip, she

Nostalgic ’80s film fans can now own the very property where the “Truffle Shuffle” was first put out into the world. The classic Victorian-style home where the gang from The Goonies plotted out their treasure hunt is up for sale. From left to right, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Josh Brolin, Ke Huy Quand and Sean

Rian Johnson’s whodunnit has all the trappings of a Thanksgiving movie, without ever mentioning the holiday. There’s family infighting, Chris Evans in a cable-knit sweater, foggy fall weather, and even a political allegory about the treatment of people of color. And the family could use a refresher ahead of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,

View gallery Image Credit: SplashNews Now, that’s a loving mother! Poosh maven Kourtney Kardashian revealed that she doesn’t simply love her seven-year-old son, Reign Disick — she’s so devoted that she keeps his hair in a secret drawer. “I have Reign’s hair, because we didn’t cut his hair until he was five,” she said during

Chris Hemsworth has announced that he will be taking a break from acting after receiving news that he has a heightened genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The Australian actor learned that he has two copies of the APOE4 gene, which can increase one’s chances of developing Alzheimer’s eight- to 12-fold, and is associated with

A twice-impeached former president announced his third run for the presidency last week from the gold-leafed ballroom of his Palm Beach club. It was inevitable, perhaps, despite many Republicans wishing he’d held off from announcing before next month’s Senate runoff in Georgia. Of course, Trump serving his own needs shouldn’t be surprising given his last disastrous foray into a

View gallery Image Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock When it came time for the 2022 American Music Awards to celebrate the legacy and impact of Lionel Richie, it took multiple superstars – including one of Lionel’s fellow icons. Charlie Puth and Stevie Wonder kicked off the tribute to Lionel, 73, this year’s recipient of the Icon Award. Stevie,

Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children’s series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” has died. He was 49. Justine Hunt, Frank’s manager, said in a statement Sunday that Frank passed away. She did not name the cause of death or say when he died, but asked for “privacy of his family

Mohamed Al Fayed makes his grand entrance to The Crown’s lavish universe in the fifth-season episode “Mou Mou,” which rewinds seven decades to the businessman’s humble beginnings selling Coca-Cola in the slums of Egypt. The flashback is ironic given that the controversial figure—who restored Paris’s Ritz hotel and revamped London’s Harrods department store in the ’80s, allegedly manipulated

View gallery Image Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock Emma Thompson is a British actress who has won an Oscar for both acting (Best Actress for 1992’s Howard’s End) and writing (Best Adapted Screenplay for 1995’s Sense & Sensibility) The star was married to Hollywood actor/director Kenneth Branaugh from 1989 to 1995, and recently claimed she was ‘blind’

If trying to buy tickets to Taylor Swift‘s upcoming tour felt like “going through several bear attacks,” the Blank Space singer agrees with you. In a statement posted to Swift’s Instagram account on Friday, the singer criticized Ticketmaster‘s messy handling of ticket sales for her upcoming The Eras Tour. On Thursday, Ticketmaster cancelled the general

The director John Waters has been collecting contemporary art for decades, and he’s built a trove full of some pretty idiosyncratic works. Take, for instance, Karin Sander’s Gebrauchsbild (2010). The artist did nothing to the canvas. She’s never been on the same continent as the canvas. She just told her dealer, Friedrich Petzel, to leave it in the backyard

View gallery Image Credit: MEGA Kourtney Kardashian, 43, loves a good birthday bash, and that’s exactly what she threw for her hubby, Travis Barker, 47, on Nov. 16. The Kardashians star hosted a lavish surprise birthday party at Crossroads Kitchen, a vegan celebrity hotspot located in Los Angeles. In a video, shared by Travis’ stepdaughter Atiana De La

Brendan Fraser says he will not attend the Golden Globes next year, even if he is nominated for his lionized performance in The Whale. The actor’s decision not to attend the glitzy award show stems from an incident in which Fraser, 53, claimed he was sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, a former president of the

View gallery Image Credit: Netflix Aimee Garcia is bringing about the change she wants to see in Hollywood. The Lucifer actress stars in the new Netflix holiday film Christmas With You, which premieres on November 17. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Aimee about why she was drawn to this film in particular amid the holiday movie

Classical composer Yannick Nézet-Séguin is among the leading Canadian Grammy nominees this year with a strong showing coming from an array of other homegrown talents. The Montreal native picked up five nominations across four classical music categories, which put him neck-and-neck with Serban Ghenea, who is up for record of the year for his mixing

The images of Hemsworth in his sunset years appear in episode four of the National Geographic series, which premieres all six of its episodes on Wednesday on Disney+. The show, produced by Black Swan filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, features Hemsworth exploring the aging process with doctors and researchers and engaging in challenges, travel, and training designed

View gallery Image Credit: SplashNews Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley‘s daughter Leah just turned 14 and looks so grown up! The teen, whose birth was documented on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant back in 2009, posed for several silly photos with her dad, in an Instagram post he shared in honor of her special day on

Jay Leno says he’s been seriously burned in a gasoline fire. The former Tonight Show host confirmed to Variety that he is in hospital in stable condition. “I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire,” Leno told the entertainment industry publication in a statement. “I am ok. Just need a week or two to

View gallery Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Saweetie, 29, looked epic at the Teen Vogue Summit on Nov. 12 and debuted a short blonde bob! The rapper, who is known for having longer and darker locks most of the time, flaunted her new look along with a fashionable outfit. It included a black crop top

A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall. The jury also plans to award additional punitive damages. Veering from sex to red-carpet socializing to

View gallery Image Credit: Dario Alequin / SplashNews.com Somebody’s been watching mom! Kim Kardashian‘s daughter North West, 9, took a cue from her SKKN maven mama, 42, and posted her very own step by step morning and evening beauty routine. In a 45 second video clip posted to TikTok on Friday, November 11, North woke

Adidas plans to sell more Yeezy designs in the new year, though rapper Kanye West, who created the popular shoes, will not be involved. The German-based company cut ties with West, who legally changed his name to Ye, in October. Ye was dropped following intense public pressure for Adidas to end its partnership with the