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The first thing you see when you walk into the foyer of Monica Lewinsky’s apartment is a neon-pink sign that reads “Always ­Believe That Something Wonderful Is Going to Happen.” Her Los Angeles home is sunny and bright, with books lining the shelves, smiling snapshots of family and friends, and artwork filling nearly every wall. She shows me the large, framed photograph her father took of an iceberg on a trip to Antarctica, and a small print that reads “Lovey Dovey,” which the artist Ed Ruscha made for her.

Monica Lewinsky is launching her first podcast.

The show, titled Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky, will see Lewinsky in conversation with guests on what it means to “reclaim what has been lost or taken from them.” Initial guests include actor and writer Alan Cumming, tech journalist and author Kara Swisher, actress and activist Olivia Munn, actress and writer Molly Ringwald, singer and songwriter Joanna “JoJo” Levesque and author Anne Lamott.

The show, which is part of the Wondery slate, debuts Feb. 18, with episodes available widely or early to Wondery+ subscribers.

“These are meaningful and surprising personal conversations through the prism of reclaiming,” Lewinsky said. “Whether it’s the Sisyphean task of redefining a co-opted narrative, rerecording a music catalogue to reclaim ownership, decluttering a physical space to find freedom, or even a small moment of choosing peace over escalation in a personal argument, the way people reclaim utterly fascinates me. Reclamations can encompass loss,...

Billie Lourd is paying tribute to her late mom Carrie Fisher.

The Star Wars actress passed away on December 27, 2016 at the age of 60.

On the eighth anniversary of Carrie‘s passing, Billie, 32, penned a message about living with grief.

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Eight years after Carrie Fisher’s death, daughter Billie Lourd is getting candid about how her grief has made her appreciate life more.

The actress took to Instagram on the eighth anniversary of her mother’s death to share an old picture of them when she was a child and a lengthy caption about what this day means to her.

“I always dread this day,” she wrote. “I spend so much time leading up to it thinking about how awful I’m going to feel. And my dread is usually right. I woke up this morning with a dark cloud over me. But when my kids woke up the dark cloud dissipated and made way for bright glowing sunshine.”

She compared the anniversary of Fisher’s death to an “emotional tropical storm” when it rains a lot, but the light in between is more beautiful than any other day without storm clouds.

Billie Lourd is acknowledging the dark feelings of grief on the eighth anniversary of her mom Carrie Fisher’s death. On Friday, the actress remembered her late mother with an emotional tribute, describing the “dread” of mourning Fisher as an “emotional tropical storm.”

“It has been 8 years since my mom died. As my son would say ‘That’s a lot!’ I always dread this day,” Lourd wrote on Instagram. “I spend so much time leading up to it thinking about how awful I’m going to feel. And my dread is usually right.

Who says you need a project to appear on late night? On Thursday, Amy Poehler swung by “Late Night with Seth Meyers” without any projects to promote, but to instead talk about the books she’s been reading this year and to make Meyers laugh so hard he was incapable of sound.

The memorable moment happened roughly seven-and-a-half minutes into the pair’s interview. While talking about Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” Meyers excused himself to sneeze.

“Oh my god, a sneeze! Everybody stand up!” Poehler cheerfully said.

As the audience cheered and jumped to their feet, Meyers buried his head in his hands, unable to contain his laughter. During the roughly 30 seconds he was laughing, only a couple of his chuckles could be heard. His response caused Poehler to burst into laughter too.

Poehler initially explained she came onto her former “Saturday Night Live” buddy...

Fifteen minutes into the debut episode of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s podcast, the power is knocked out by a bomb cyclone. Her guest, Jane Fonda, continues speaking, unaware the connection is lost, and Louis-Dreyfus frantically attempts to reconnect, amid a few choice swear words and a blaring home alarm.

Rather than edit it out, Louis-Dreyfus saw it as an asset and kept it in the episode: “It’s just funny. So, I figured why not? Let’s include it. Everybody can relate too. I was so tense.”

The Veep and Seinfeld star was inspired to create Wiser Than Me after watching the 2018 documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts and reflecting that older women, despite having cultivated decades of wisdom, are rarely heard from. In each episode of the podcast, Louis-Dreyfus asks guests, including Diane von Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Carol Burnett, about their careers and relationships, as well as their views on sex,...

On June 10, 2023, screenwriter Ed Solomon ("Men in Black," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," "Full Circle") tweeted the following:

"Wanted to gauge interest on something. If I were to do a series of Zoom workshops during the strike (was thinking Q & A sessions on various parts of the craft of writing), would anyone show up?"

Within minutes, he received a Dm from The Black List founder Franklin Leonard, who, along with his team, including the company's senior vice president Megan Halpern, was offering to help facilitate the types of conversations Solomon wanted to have. A couple of weeks later, Word By Word was officially up and running.

With its title taking inspiration from Anne Lamott's writing book "Bird By Bird," which Solomon calls "the best book [he's] ever read on writing," the weekly Zoom sessions are free and open to the public, feature major figures from the world of screenwriting as guests,...

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has a new memoir coming out on April 6th.

The book, titled Beautiful Things, will center on Biden’s ongoing struggles with substance abuse, according to its publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Although acquired in late 2019, the memoir was reportedly kept under wraps due to then-President Donald Trump and other conservatives’ ongoing scrutiny of Joe Biden’s business dealings –—and Hunter Biden’s involvement — during the election.

Hunter Biden, who turned 51 on Thursday, is the only surviving child of the president,...

The past several months indoors have left me not only with a need for quality streaming content but also a desire to be reminded of what it truly means to be human. Luckily for me, Netflix's The Midnight Gospel, created by comedian Duncan Trussell and Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward, accomplishes both in an original, visually exciting way, making it a series that, in my opinion, everybody absolutely must watch.

The animated show follows Clancy Gilroy (voiced by Trussell) as he travels to a series of dying worlds, interviewing different creatures along the way for his "spacecast" (his universe's version of a podcast), using his malfunctioning multiverse simulator. The show combines real conversations from Trussell's podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour with trippy visuals, making it both relatable and surreal at the same time.

This series serves as a much-needed reminder of the parts of life that connect us all...

The small miracle of “Adventure Time” in its earliest season came from creator Pendleton Ward’s ability to juggle ingredients that shouldn’t work so well together. The show was silly and profound in equal measures, treating that balance as the ultimate yin and yang. “The Midnight Gospel” brings that same notion to ambitious new heights, shedding the pretense of a “children’s show” that sometimes hindered the reach of “Adventure Time” and chases big ideas right out of the gate. It’s mind-blowing in the best possible way.

On some level, “The Midnight Gospel” has a much simpler premise than “Adventure Time”: Ward and co-creator Duncan Trussell have joined forces to animate select conversation from the comedian’s soul-searching and occasionally boisterous podcast, “The Duncan Trussell Family Hour,” where he interviews a range of characters about their life philosophies and usually their meditation practices. At the same time,...

Billie Lourd shared another musical tribute to her late mother Carrie Fisher on the third anniversary of her death, this time with a cover of John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.”

Along with the cover, shared on Instagram on Friday, Lourd posted a quote about loss from author Anne Lamott: “You will lose someone you can’t live without and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly–that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

Lourd, who also lost her grandmother, actress Debbie Reynolds, on this day in 2016, has often turned...

Billie Lourd is paying tribute to her grandmother Debbie Reynolds.

On Saturday, three years after Reynolds died on Dec. 28, 2016, Lourd shared a throwback photo with her grandma to Instagram. In the sweet image, a young Lourd beams while posing next to Reynolds, who was the mother of Lourd’s mom Carrie Fisher.

Fisher died at the age of 60 on Dec. 27, 2016, after having a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles, just two days before Christmas on Dec. 23. Reynolds died the day after her daughter’s death from a stroke at the age of 84.

Lourd, 27, left the caption simple,...

Debbie Reynolds loved Christmas — so much so that she kept a tree up year-round — but her final holiday was marred by tragedy.

The late acting legend, who died on Dec. 28, 2016 just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher, had prepared a Christmas celebration for her family that would never be enjoyed, her friend and writer Sue Cameron tells People.

“When Carrie was flying in on the plane [from London], Debbie had already made sure the table was set. The menu, everything,” Cameron says.

Despite the preparations, the family — which included Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd — wouldn’t enjoy the prepared feast.

“But there was no Christmas dinner,...

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He told the audience at the third and final presidential debate that “nobody has more respect for women than I do.” But minutes later, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slammed his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton by calling her a “nasty woman.”

The comment came as the former Secretary of State was discussing Social Security â€. a program she plans to add money to if elected on Nov. 8.

“I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security trust fund,” Clinton, 68, explained. “That’s part...

Last Thursday, Brock Turner, a 20-year-old former Stanford University student, was sentenced to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party in January 2015. The sentence drew widespread criticism; prosecutors had asked Turner be sentenced to six years, according to CNN.Turner was convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault. Turner had admitted to the sexual contact but maintained it was consensual.Below is the 12-page victim impact statement written by the victim and read in court to Turner after his sentencing. The statement is printed in its entirety.Your Honor, if it is all right,...

Last Thursday, Brock Turner, a 20-year-old former Stanford University student, was sentenced to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party in January 2015. The sentence drew widespread criticism; prosecutors had asked Turner be sentenced to six years, according to CNN.Turner was convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault. Turner had admitted to the sexual contact but maintained it was consensual.Below is the 12-page victim impact statement written by the victim and read in court to Turner before his sentencing. The statement is printed in its entirety.Your Honor, if it is all right,...

Honoring the best in social media, the 2014 Shorty Awards nominees were announced on Monday (February 24).

On April 7th, winners will be celebrated at the New York Times Center in a live-streamed ceremony at ShortyAwards.com.

Among the nominees are Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Chloe Moretz, One Direction, Justin Bieber, and Demi Lovato.

Honored for their web-based projects were Amy Poehler's "Smart Girls at the Party" Tumblr and Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" web series. Check out the nominees below.

#Actor

Aaron Paul, @aaronpaul_8

Joshua Malina, @JoshMalina

Orlando Jones, @TheOrlandoJones

Arthur Aguiar, @Aguiarthur

Shahrukh Khan, @iamsrk

Misha Collins, @mishacollins

Dylan O'Brien, @dylanobrien

#Actress

Felicia Day, @feliciaday

Lena Dunham, @lenadunham

Retta, @unfoRETTAble

Lua Blanco, @Lua_Blanco

Sophia Abrahão, @sophiaabrahao

Chloë Grace Moretz, @ChloeGMoretz

Miranda Cosgrove, @MirandaCosgrove

#Band

Fifth Harmony, @FifthHarmony

One Direction, @onedirection

Big Time Rush, @bigtimerush

The Script, @thescript

Tokio Hotel, @tokiohotel

5 Seconds of Summer, @5Sos

EMBLEM3, @EmblemThree

#Celebrity

Aaron Paul,...