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A lot of people have a lot of opinions about Hulk Hogan, but if it weren’t for one iconic match back in 2002, Dwayne Johnson probably wouldn’t be where he is right now.

We are talking about ‘WrestleMania 18’, back when WWE was still WWF – A match that remains timeless even over two decades later. This was Hogan’s first ‘WrestleMania’ match since ‘WrestleMania IX’ in 1993.

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Hogan had obviously already established himself as a wrestling legend, and Johnson was one of the hottest faces in the company’s history at that time. ‘WrestleMania 18’ marked an Icon vs. Icon match where two generations would be colliding in the ring.

Needless to say, look at the crowd that night!

The biggest crowd pop of all time!

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Whether he's preening and seducing as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" or running amok while rocking a flattop haircut in "Falling Down," Michael Douglas has long established himself as one of those actors who will bring his A-game to the table every time. However, if movie buffs who like to keep up with acting legends have been wondering what Douglas has been up to recently, the answer is as simple as it is sad: Not a lot, at least when it comes to acting. Yes, projects like 2023's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" and the 2024 Apple TV+ miniseries "Franklin" have kept the actor on screens both big and small, but as Douglas himself recently stated during a press conference at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he hasn't actually worked in a few years now:

"I've had a very busy career. Now, I have not worked since 2022, purposefully, because I realized I had to stop.

Leave it to Larry David to get both ironic and meta in a single short cameo.

14 Larry David: ‘Hannah Montana’

Larry David turned Hannah Montana into Curb Your Enthusiasm when he and his daughters made a very meta cameo: the girls complained that their dad wasn’t famous enough to get a table at a fancy restaurant.

13 Justin Bieber: ‘CSI’

CSI star Marg Helgenberger said that while Bieber was “very nice to me,” he was “kind of a brat” and locked one of the producers in a closet.

12 Prince: ‘New Girl’

Prince was a huge fan of the show, a fact no one knew until his manager reached out to Zoey Deschanel with a very scam-coded message: “Hello, I am manager to legendary artist Prince. He is loving the show New Girl. He would like 2 B on the show.” They eventually made it happen, and the episode was...

The View‘s only conservative co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, revealed that she has cried backstage “at least a half dozen times.”

On a recent episode of the show, Sunny Hostin said that she’d never felt the luxury to cry at work, to which Griffin responded that she does cry backstage, but hides it.

“I have cried at this job at least a half a dozen times, are you kidding? Have you done this job?” Griffin said.

Griffin and her cohosts regularly clash on the show over varying political opinions, especially on topics relating to Donald Trump and the 2024 presidential election. She said, “This is a very hard job to do,” and that it’s difficult to “have the only opinion that’s different at a table of five people.”

Griffin recently described Trump’s decorating style as “somewhere between Pablo Escobar and Liberace. He loves the gold tchotchke.”

During the election,...

Gordon Gekko has (mostly) left the building. Michael Douglas made headlines over the weekend when he announced the he would be stepping back from acting during an appearance at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

"I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop," said the veteran actor and producer, who last appeared onscreen in 2023's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. "I had been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set. I have no real intentions of going back."

At the same time, Douglas acknowledged that — just like Sean Connery — he's going to be careful about never saying never again. "I say I’m not retired because if something special came up, I’d go back, but otherwise, no."

Douglas attended Karlovy Vary to screen a restored...

After collecting ballots from prominent film lovers from around the globe, the New York Times released what they're declaratively calling "The 100 Best Movies from the 21st Century," awarding the top spot to Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" with David Lynch's magnum opus "Mulholland Drive" in second place.

As entertaining as it is to pore over this "definitive" list, the real fun comes from poring over the individual ballots that participants have sent in. They give us an illuminating look at a filmmaker or actor's particular taste, like how Julianne Moore thinks "Superbad" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" are some of the best films of the century (which they are).

These individual ballots also give us a chance to appreciate other smaller movies that didn't make the cut, like how Flight of the Conchords and "What We Do in the Shadows" star Jemaine Clement's list spotlights the excellent Iranian vampire movie...

On today’s episode of Radio Andy’s “Smith Sisters Live,” special guests Raven-Symoné and Miranda Pearman-Maday took on the challenge of describing each other’s interior decorating styles.

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“That’s easy,” Miranda told hosts Lauren, Rachel, and Mariah Smith. “Raven is gaudy, eclectic, bohemian … She’s a maximalist who also is obsessed with Indian and Moroccan but then also French like Marie Antoinette … meets Liberace.”

“Beige,” Raven joked of Miranda’s style. “No, Miranda — this is her favorite word. She says that she’s chic … and I don’t know what that means, because what she considers chic, I consider boring.”

Lauren, Rachel, and Mariah Smith — entertainment experts and real-life sisters — take listeners on a daily detail-obsessed deep dive into pop culture during “Smith Sisters Live,” 9–10am Et every weekday on Radio Andy (Ch.

William Dozier's 1966 TV series "Batman" is a brilliant, sublime comedy series, and may easily be one of the best ever made. Its title hero (played by the genius Adam West) and his sidekick Robin (equal genius Burt Ward) delivered their lines in an ultra-earnest fashion that was clearly satire, but that never once winked or hinted to the audience that they were in on the joke. They were square-jawed stalwarts who stood for righteousness in the face of cartoon anarchists who represented counterculture, sexuality, or just good old-fashioned prankstership. The world of Batman was broad and ridiculous, and "Batman" presented a TV series that somehow both vaunted and ridiculed that universe. 

The villains on Dozier's show were typically played by well-regarded actors who took the opportunity to cut loose a little, or were hard-working professionals who loved sinking their teeth into goofy-ass comedic roles. The Joker was played...

Apple TV+ has booked Oscar-nominated talent for its latest limited series. Jude Law and Andrew Garfield will portray the iconic Las Vegas act Siegfried and Roy for Wild Things. The casting alone should attract audiences, but the source material is packed with drama.

Law and Garfield will play Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn, respectively, based on the Apple original podcast Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy. Writer, showrunner, and executive producer Jon Hoffman moves over from Hulu's Only Murders in the Building to helm the series.

Apple promises eight hour-long episodes for the miniseries. The streaming service describes the upcoming show as "the wild ride relationship tale of two of the greatest showman-magicians in history who, along with their white tigers, are tasked with turning Sin City into a family-friendly destination," per a press release. Expect the series to pay special attention to the duo's final Vegas show in the aftermath...

Jude Law and Andrew Garfield are about to star as two of the most quintessentially '90s icons in a new limited series for AppleTV+. The two Brits are set to play Siegfried FIschbacher and Roy Horn, respectively — better known as the magical Las Vegas duo Siegfried & Roy. The limited series (currently set up for an eight-episode run) is based on the Apple Original Podcast, Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy, and has been in development since 2022. Production is slated to begin in the fall of 2025.

According to reporting from Variety, John Hoffman (who co-created Only Murders in the Building alongside its co-lead Steve Martin) developed the series and will serve as executive producer, showrunner, and director. Law and Garfield will executive produce in addition to starring. Elsewhere in the production side of things, Matt Shakman is attached to executive produce and direct the first episode, while Brian Grazer, Kristen Zolner, Natalie Berkus,...

Did Benedict Cumberbatch Improvise The Savage Exchange Between Doctor Strange & Iron Man In Infinity War? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Benedict Cumberbatch proved he was a real-life sorcerer of sass during Avengers: Infinity War. That now-iconic line where Doctor Strange called Tony Stark a “d*uchebag”? Totally improvised. It was not in the script, but there was no going back once it happened.

Avengers: Infinity War mashed together Marvel’s mightiest heroes, including Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, for the first time. As expected, personalities clashed. Especially when Doctor Strange crosses paths with Tony Stark. Sharp minds, sharper tongues, and zero patience.

Right from the get-go, Strange and Stark bickered like two grumpy professors at a conference. Stark could not stop calling Strange “the wizard.” Strange, in return, had some magical shade of his own. When our very own Iron Man snarked, “What exactly is your job,...

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In the latest season of Black Mirror, Issa Rae’s Hollywood A-list actor Brandy Friday is thrown into an immersive high-tech remake of a vintage romantic movie, “Hotel Reverie”. There’s sweeping shots of a grand lobby in black and white, lush gardens, grand pianos, wealthy octogenarians with tiny dogs — and all the glamour and nostalgia of the bygone Golden Era of Hollywood.

It’s hard to still...

Jimmy Kimmel is wondering why President Donald Trump is so “anti-dei” when he has “the same taste as Liberace.” On Thursday’s (April 17) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host touched on Trump’s recent renovations to the White House, which so far includes lots and lots of gold. “President Trump has been doing an extreme makeover of the White House. Everything’s gold now,” Kimmel said before showing a photo of the White House adorned in gold ornaments, gold picture frames, and gold tables. “Look at this room… it’s all gold.” “The press secretary called it ‘The Golden Office for the Golden Age,’ which is quite a spin,” the comedian continued. “And for such an anti-dei kind of guy, you wouldn’t think he’d have the same taste as Liberace? But he does.” Liberace was, of course, a world-renowned pianist and entertainer known for his flamboyant excess both on and off stage.

After announcing a 90-day pause on his tariffs last week, President Donald Trump made a series of adjustments to the presidential portraits in the grand White House entrance hall.

His latest addition to the grand foyer is a colorful painting of himself in the moments after last year’s attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. The portrait shows his face bloody from his injured ear, his fist raised in triumph. In order to display the portrait, Trump moved a modernistic portrait of Barack Obama across the hall, replacing one of George W. Bush. Bush’s portrait was moved into the stairway that leads to the private residence.

The painting of Trump is slated to stay in the foyer for a few months before being replaced by a more traditional portrait. Trump has also ordered a big painting of Abraham Lincoln to be moved out on the stairway into the cross hall...

Less than a week after HBO's original movie Mountainhead received a title and a premiere date, it's already ski jumped into the top five in Gold Derby's Best TV Movie Emmy predictions.

Why? The telefilm about a group of billionaire friends who deal with a financial crisis while at a swanky ski resort has an awards-worthy pedigree both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Mountainhead is written and directed by Jesse Armstrong, the seven-time Emmy winner for Succession. This marks his directorial debut.

The cast is led by Steve Carell , Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef as the four main billionaires. They're joined by Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, Daniel Oreskes, David Thompson, Amie MacKenzie, and Ava Kostia.

Recent Emmy history has been a wipeout for made-for-television movies, particularly in the acting categories, as the format has mostly been abandoned in favor of limited series.

Stars: Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Eric Dane, Jimmy Fails, Alba Baptista | Written and Directed by Jimmy Warden

Borderline, the debut feature from director Jimmy Warden, is an ambitious well-executed blend of psychological thriller, dark comedy and the classic home invasion. Set in the 1990s, the film centres on Sofia (Samara Weaving), a pop superstar whose life spirals into chaos when Paul (Ray Nicholson), a delusional and obsessive fan, escapes from a mental institution and invades her Los Angeles mansion. Paul, convinced Sofia is his destined-to-be bride, transforms her home into a surreal wedding venue, complete with decorations, vows, and a warped sense of romance. Sofia, with the help of her loyal bodyguard Bell (Eric Dane) and her could be, maybe, real boyfriend Rhodes (Jimmy Fails – who I think gets the best line of dialogue of the movie) must navigate Paul’s psychological games and survive the night. Produced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap,...

RuPaul's Drag Race Live has been serving Las Vegas realness since 2020. Five years (and countless tucks) later, the concert residency celebrated its 1,000th performance on Sunday, and a chorus of queens from MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race commemorated the occasion by strutting their stuff on the pink carpet. The Queen of Drag herself, RuPaul Charles, also made a surprise appearance.

The immersive stage show takes place nightly at the Flamingo Showroom at the Flamingo Hotel. The cast is constantly changing to allow for new contestants, with the current lineup consisting of Jaida Essence Hall, Morphine Love Dion, Ginger Minj, Asia O'Hara, and Plane Jane.

The top six queens from Season 17 were also in attendance at the live show: Suzie Toot, Sam Star, Lana Ja'Rae, Jewels Sparkles, Onya Nerve, and Lexi Love. One day earlier, this sextet sashayed around the strip, posing at the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and the...

It's hard to see from the outside just how strange the cult of celebrity is. When someone rises to the level of fame that creates a true 'movement' around their art, an entire society, sometimes even the world, gets caught up in the ideas of their genius. We rarely get a moment to look at this, and what it means or could lead to, because we are all under the spell. Opus wants to solve that problem, with writer/director Mark Anthony Green holding a mirror to this phenomenon from the very first frames of the movie. We watch in slow motion as people of all ages and walks of life 'rock out' to some pop-phenom's music. Becoming the observer of this makes it all instantly silly, strange, and a bit creepy.

But it's not that weird. We've seen fans drooling, falling, and dying for glimpses of their celebrity idols for decades.

A magnum opus? Mark Anthony Green's filmmaking debut is not. His Opus inspects celebrity cult status through pop superstardom with the same unease as a Midsommar or The Sacrament, except oddly restrained. High points are undeniable: John Malkovich as a Liberace x Mercury idol, very A24-coded styles, and Ayo Edebiri being Ayo. It's undeniably accomplished on technical fronts for a coming-out feature, but problems with the third act's payoff diminish Opus' devilish appeal.

Storytelling revolves around Malkovich's scene-stealing Alfred Moretti — a bedazzled, flamboyant musical legend who announces his first album in decades. Industry media players are invited to his secluded desert compound for a private listening party: music journalist Stan Sullivan (Murray Bartlett), paparazzi extraordinaire Bianca Tyson (Melissa Chambers), mega influencer Emily Katz (Stephanie Suganami), podcaster Bill Lotto (Mark Sivertsen), and television personality Carla Armstrong (Juliette Lewis). The only outlier is Sullivan's employee, Ariel Ecton (Edebiri), an...

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” sparked controversy over the weekend after it became more widely known that AI was used during postproduction for enhancing stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian language dialogue. The subject of AI already puts many in Hollywood on edge, but it’s also being increasingly used in filmmaking. In this case, its use comes in a film that is considered among the Oscar frontrunners. But how was it actually used, and did the use of AI influence the performances in any way?

Writer-director Corbet was quick to release a statement, saying that it did not. “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” asserted Corbet as part of a statement to Variety. “They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy.

Francisco San Martin, the actor best known for his work in Days of Our Lives and Jane the Virgin, died Thursday. He was 39.

A report by the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office confirmed that San Martin died by suicide.

San Martin appeared as Dario Hernandez on Days of Our Lives from 2010-2011, where he was featured in 59 episodes of the popular soap opera. San Martin continued his career in the soap sub-genre in 2017 on 16 episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful, the same year he acted in the CW’s Jane the Virgin for seven episodes, where he played Fabian Regalo del Cielo alongside Gina Rodriguez.

Hailing from Mallorca, San Martin was raised in Montana, where he began acting in children’s theater, before he moved back to Spain as a teenager and worked as a model. There, he continued taking acting classes and appeared in various stage, television and...

Hidden in the hills of Los Angeles’ bohemian Laurel Canyon neighborhood lies a dark secret, a tale of mystery and corruption that has gone unsolved for over four decades. In the summer of 1981, four people were brutally murdered in a Canyon home, their battered bodies discovered in a scene of horror.

Yet the identity of the killers and their precise motives remained frustratingly obscured despite a lengthy police investigation. Now, crime author and former reporter Michael Connelly is reexamining the case in his new documentary series, The Wonderland Massacre.

Bringing his journalistic skills and true crime expertise, Connelly serves as our host and guide through this shadowy, unsolved case. Joining forces with Alison Ellwood as director, their goal is to finally shed light on the “Wonderland” murders by piecing together new clues and perspectives.

Connelly conducts in-depth interviews with the original investigators and personalities linked to the crime. Among them is Scott Thorson,...

SNL or Saturday Night Live has just reached it's 50th season! That is a lot of years of comedy, coming from some of the most talented comedians and celebrities alike, performing opening monologues and skits.

When done right, these moments leave a lasting impact, whether they are touching on current affairs or events of the past. Seeing as how Halloween is right around the corner we wanted to compile a list of 7 of the best Halloween moments in SNL history.

From the nostalgic to the downright sidesplitting, which moments do you think made our list?

1. Michael Keaton on Trick-or-Treating (Season 8)

Our list begins with something a little different. While no one can deny that Michael Keaton has been exuding humor and star power from the beginning, his monologue about Trick-or-treating has us feeling a little nostalgic.

Who doesn't remember Trick-or-treating as a kid? Who doesn't recall how lucky they felt...

The Wonderland Massacre & The Secret History of Hollywood opened viewers' eyes about one of the most infamous true crime stories ever. The MGM+ docuseries not only revisited the shocking Los Angeles murders, but it built upon the Audible podcast to create a more immersive experience. Making that possible was director Alison Elwood, who tackled a project unlike anything she'd ever done before.

It was Elwood who had the idea of turning author Michael Connelly, best known for his Bosch novels, into a TV detective as she put him on camera. In an interview with Cbr, she spoke about making that decision and shaping the visual style of the four-episode series to make it distinct from the podcast as well as other true crime shows. Plus, she reveals what she found the most surprising along the way.

Cbr: The Wonderland Massacre & The Secret History of Hollywood is such a startling docuseries.

The final episode of MGM+'s docuseries, The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood, is now available to stream. In it, best-selling crime novelist Michael Connelly (the mind behind Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer) goes back through the 1981 murders on Wonderland Avenue, a case that embodied the sex and drugs era of Hollywood and inspired Boogie Nights. The murders span several corners of history and pop culture, involving famous porn star John Holmes, kingpins such as Pablo Escobar, mafiosos like Eddie Nash, and even Liberace and his boyfriend, Scott Thorson.

Connelly may be best known for his Harry Bosch novels, which have resulted in 10 television seasons worth of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, but he also has a long and storied history as a journalist. He put his investigative skills to excellent use when putting together his Audible Original, The Wonderland Murders & the Secret History of Hollywood, but...

TV Fanatic has an exclusive sneak peek at The Wonderland Massacre & the Secret History of Hollywood series finale, teasing killer Eddie Nash’s fate.

The series digs deep into multiple murders on Los Angeles’ Wonderland Avenue on July 1, 1981.

The story has surprising Hollywood ties from porn star John Holmes to Liberace’s one-time boy-toy Scott Thorson.

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If you think you’re unfamiliar with Thorson, you might not be. He wrote Behind the Candelabra, an explosive behind-the-scenes look at his life with Liberace.

Thorson’s involvement with The Wonderland Massacre harkens back to his Liberace days when the relationship that lifted him up sent him spiraling down into the darkest recesses of Hollywood amidst porn stars and drug dealers.

This wild case epitomized a chaotic era in Los Angeles, marked by sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and murder. It’s the true story that served as the inspiration for Boogie Nights,...

Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has had a career of almost 50 years in feature films. In his distinguished career, Douglas has been nominated for two Oscars and won both of them — as producer of the 1975 Best Picture winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and as Best Actor for 1987’s “Wall Street.” For his film work, he has also been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards, winning three — two for producing “Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Romancing the Stone” and one for his performance in “Wall Street.” And as a member of the cast of 2000’s “Traffic,” Douglas won a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Ensemble. One of his biggest box office successes was also “Fatal Attraction” opposite Glenn Close.

The proud son of screen legend Kirk Douglas returned to the small screen with “The Kominsky Method,” for which he won a Golden Globe and earned SAG and Emmy nominations.

While fans of Rick and Morty will reportedly have to wait until 2025 for new episodes of the show, Adult Swim has been attempting to fill the lengthy gap between seasons with the bizarre new Rick and Morty: The Anime spin-off, as well as a brief, Rick and Morty-themed recreation of another beloved cartoon series.

Adult Swim recently aired a new bumper that painstakingly replicated the opening of Batman: The Animated Series, but with Rick Sanchez in place of the Caped Crusader. And instead of two random bank robbers, he’s battling noirish interpretations of Mr. Meeseeks and Mr. Poopybutthole, who still look less ridiculous than some legit Batman villains.

For some viewers, the knee-jerk reaction to this short might be skepticism, considering that both Rick and Morty and Batman fall under the Warner Bros. Discovery corporate umbrella. After all, it sure seems like a clear-cut example of brand synergy, like...

Scott Thorson, best known as the former lover of entertainment icon Liberace, died on Aug. 16 in Los Angeles at age 65. The cause of death has not been disclosed, though sources indicate Thorson had been battling cancer and heart issues at a local healthcare facility.

Thorson gained notoriety for his 1988 memoir Behind The Candelabra: My Life With Liberace, which detailed his six-year relationship with the flamboyant pianist. The book served as the basis for an acclaimed HBO film starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

In the memoir, Thorson made several startling claims, including that Liberace had paid for plastic surgery to make Thorson resemble a younger version of himself. These allegations first surfaced in 1982 when Thorson filed a $113 million palimony lawsuit against Liberace. The case was settled out of court in 1986, with Thorson receiving $75,000, three cars, and three dogs.

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Scott Thorson, the former lover of Liberace and a key witness in the trial for the 1981 killings known as the Wonderland Massacre, died in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. He was 65 and was a patient at a Los Angeles healthcare facility. Thorson had been suffering from cancer and a heart condition.

Thorson, who later legally changed his name to Jess Marlow, brought a $113 million palimony lawsuit against Liberace in 1982 that attracted a great deal of media attention. After the suit was filed, Liberace continued to deny he was gay and stated in court depositions that Thorson was never his lover. The case was settled in 1986; Thorson received $75,000 cash, as well as three cars and three pet dogs, valued at $20,000. Liberace died in 1987 of HIV/AIDS-related ailments.

In 1988, Thorson published “Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace,” a memoir about his time with Liberace. It included claims that the entertainer paid for Thorson to get plastic surgery,...

The Los Angeles Herald Examiner’s Mika Gilmore compared it to Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece “Citizen Kane.” The L.A. Times’ venerable critic Robert Hilburn thought the film succeeded due to the star’s “presence” and the Hollywood Reporter’s Duane Byrge proclaimed it “sensitive and highly visual, this Albert Magnoli-directed film is an accomplished and sophisticated example of storytelling “

But not every critic 40 years ago went crazy over Prince in his landmark musical “Purple Rain.” The New York Times’ Vincent Canby was even a bit cruel in his criticism of Prince, who died at the age of 57 in 2016. Though he admitted the legend’s performance scenes “can be a riveting spectacle,” Canby noted in repose he looked like a “poster of Liza Minnelli in which someone has lightly smudged a mustache. When astride his large motorcycle, as he is from time to time, the image suggests one of Jim Henson...

Coming into a series that has been on for two seasons doesn’t always leave a lot of room for new ideas, but costume designer Christina Flannery says she was thrilled with the opportunity to embellish and elevate the established characters for the third season of The Righteous Gemstones. “Time had passed, so we were able to show that the three siblings were taking over the church and I was able to push my own look into it for sure,” she says. “The costumes of season one and two are great, but I definitely think that my injection of these psychedelic neons and rhinestones took the baseline and allowed us to fold out the characters more.”

The main task was to dress the Gemstone siblings—Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam DeVine)—as they take over their father’s megachurch. “For Jesse’s character, I spent more...

Jeannette Charles, an actress whose uncanny resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II launched a movie career that included scene-stealing moments in National Lampoon’s European Vacation, The Naked Gun, and Austin Powers sequel Goldmember, died June 2 at a care home in Great Beddow in Essex, England. She was 96.

Her death was announced by daughter Carol Christophi to UK publications The Mirror and The Standard. “Mum was a real character and a force of nature,” Christophi said in a statement. “She had an amazing life.” In an interview with UK radio station Lbc, Christophi said, “She was always respectful of the Queen and adored the Royal Family. We will miss her dearly.”

In a 2022 essay for The Guardian, Charles explained how she began her career as a lookalike. “Before I had children,” she wrote, “I’d worked as an au pair and a typist, but I’d always wanted to act. I’d been in amateur productions,...

Snatch Game is a staple on RuPaul's Drag Race, but they've been playing a twisted version of the game: Snatch Game of Love. Rather than just filling in the blanks in the original form, the queens have the added test of making their answers fit into the world of love, which hinders their comedy potential and forces them into a universe that their character may not fit. For those tried and true comedy queens, they're able to overcome the twist. But for those already struggling in the comedy department, it's just painfully cringy to watch. This season, between dueling Liberace's, a poor attempt at an iconic John Leguizamo character, the dog that played Lassie, and a notorious Drag Race character, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 9's Snatch Game went off the rails and lacked the laughs it deserved. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars needs to go back to...

“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” continued its 9th season on Friday, May 24 with the third episode featuring returning queens from seasons past. Making their way back into the Werk Room for the second time are Angeria Paris VanMichaels (season 14), Gottmik (season 13), Jorgeous (season 14), Nina West (season 11), and Plastique Tiara (season 11). Three queens are returning for the third time: Roxxxy Andrews (season 5 and All Stars 2), Shannel (season 1 and All Stars 1), and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo (seasons 10 and 11).

In addition to their chance at the coveted crown, this season the queens are competing to have a $200,000 contribution, provided by The Palette Fund, to a charity of their choice. Series judges RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage will be joined on the dais by friends and series regulars Carson Kressley, Ts Madison, and Ross Mathews as well as a rotating cast of guest judges to help determine episodic winners and their choice for “next drag superstar.

The theme of the 2024 Met Gala was “The Garden of Time” — based on a story by J.G. Ballard – but, really, the theme of all Met Galas always has been: Go big or stay home!

While there have been myriad gorgeous gowns, jewels and natty tuxes over many Met Gala years, what do the most dress-obsessed actually remember? Cher half-naked. Lady Gaga’s change of dress performance art. Billy Porter’s royal entrance in Egyptian armor and entourage. Katy Perry as a chandelier. They all proved: It doesn’t pay to stay staid — even if staid means gorgeous.

So the question comes down to: Does one do good outrageous? Or outrageously bad? Both the bad and the beautiful always get the most ink — sometimes, you can’t tell the difference. With such risky looks, it’s a toss of the coin. If you’re Cher, you can pull off anything. Everyone...

Michael Douglas played Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, in the MCU. Douglas has appeared in all three Ant-Man films, starting with the first one in 2015. However, he was not entirely happy working in the latest film in the trilogy since the filmmakers failed to implement his one wish for his character. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was a disaster at the box office and it is highly doubtful whether Douglas would appear in another MCU film.

Michael Douglas as Hank Pym in Ant-Man

Douglas’ Hank Pym is a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, entomologist, and physicist. He was a friend and colleague of John Slattery’s Howard Stark and Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter. Interestingly, Douglas chose the Ant-Man role after a few failed projects.

Michael Douglas May Not Return To His Role After Ant-Man 3 Failed To Fulfil His Wish

Ant-Man actor Michael Douglas’s one...

Michael Douglas doesn't do biopics very often. He is currently starring as the inventor and great American founding father, Benjamin Franklin, in the new Apple TV+ series, Franklin. If it's half as good as his first foray into playing real-life people, the streamer will indeed have another hit. In Steven Soderbergh's 2013 Behind the Candelabra, the Hollywood icon rolled the dice and took on the role of Liberace, the inimitable flashy and bedazzled musician who wowed audiences with his piano-playing skills and one-of-a-kind stage presence spanning the late 1930s all the way into the early 1980s.

Singer-turned-actor Frank Sinatra badly wanted to play The Joker on Batman to showcase his acting chops, recognizing the artistic value of the role. He was right to be interested in the role, the outwardly trivial Joker character luring in top-tier actors for its complexity and prestige in the coming decades. Actors like Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix redefined the gangster, turning a comic villain into a true icon, no longer needing Batman to flesh out the character.

What do Heath Ledger, Mark Hamill, and Frank Sinatra have in common? Not much, but had the Batman TV show producers taken Ol' Blue Eyes up on his offer, we might have witnessed one of the weirdest transformations in pop culture history. Sadly, we'll never get to find out how Frank Sinatra got those scars.

We can merely fantasize about what the singer would have looked like on the American Broadcasting Company serial,...

Michael Douglas, Kyle MacLachlan, Ella Purnell and Daniel Brühl are among the high-caliber stars who will take part in the seventh edition of Canneseries. The robust lineup, unveiled today by Canneseries’ artistic director Albin Lewi at a press conference in Paris, boasts the world premiere of Apple TV+’s “Franklin,” starring Michael Douglas as one of the Founding Fathers, and Disney+’s “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” with Daniel Brühl as the acid-tongued designer.

“Franklin,” which will also close the event, is directed by industry veteran Tim Van Patten, behind “Boardwalk Empire” and “Games of Thrones.” Douglas won an Emmy for playing Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra.”

MacLachlan and Purnell will be on the ground to present the international premiere of “Fallout,” the much-anticipated Prime Video show that’s based on a massively popular video game. Both will be feted during the 7th edition of the event, picking up the Canal+ Icon...

Michael Douglas plays Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV+’s new limited series “Franklin,” a project he was drawn to for one reason: tights.

“I’m sort of at the point in my career where I’m trying different things,” Douglas said Monday during the show’s panel at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. “I never did a green screen film before the Marvel stuff and comedy was fascinating, so I wanted to do [‘The Kominsky Method’]. And in close to a 60-year career, I’d never done period, so I wanted to see how I looked in tights. Thank God I didn’t have to wear a wig.”

All jokes aside, the two-time Oscar winner wanted to tell the story of the vital role Franklin played in America’s democracy. In 1776, at 70 years old and without diplomatic training, Franklin headed to France with his grandson and secretary, Temple...

A scene from the Korean action drama-adventure Ransomed. Courtesy of Well Go USA.

South Korea has exported a slew of first-rate action flicks in the past few years, and Ransomed counts as another. Most have been based on cops vs. bad guys within the country. This one, supposedly based on real events, takes us to Lebanon in the 1980s. It also plies the waters of plot complexities and suspense more, without sacrificing the action component.

As factional wars rage within Lebanon, one group kidnaps a Korean diplomat, holding him for over a year before finally demanding a $5 million ransom. A foreign-service colleague, Min-joon (Ha Jung-woo), volunteers for the risky task of delivering the cash and returning with the hostage, even though he’s been a desk jockey without any military that would prepare him for the likely difficulties in achieving the rescue. Corrupt police are swarming the airport, waiting to...

“AGT: Fantasy League” premiered on January 1 with the first set of 10 performances in “Qualifiers 1.” The new spin-off series marks the return of former judge Mel B as she joins Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel in a head-to-head competition to mentor an all star ‘AGT’ act through the season to victory. Terry Crews is back once again for hosting duties.

Over eight weeks of shows, the judges’ Dream Teams of 10 will be narrowed down until only one stands as the newest AGT champion and takes home the $250,000 cash prize. That act will also give their mentor the first coach’s win in AGT history. In the four qualifiers, 10 acts perform with one receiving the week’s Golden Buzzer and five others advancing to the next round based on an audience vote.

Monday night’s show featured performances from Billy and Emily England and Kodi Lee from Simon’s team; Jon Dorenbos,...

Movies and television have been competing for the same audience's time and money since TV was invented, but they've also formed a strange symbiosis. There have been a heck of a lot of movies based on TV shows, and a heck of a lot of TV shows based on movies.

Some of those shows based on movies have been major pop culture milestones, like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "The Karate Kid," and "Friday Night Lights." And of course a whole lot of been almost completely forgotten, like the sitcoms based on "Dirty Dancing," "Working Girl," and "Animal House."

But one thing these TV shows usually have in common is that they're almost always based on a hit movie. It's not surprising when a blockbuster like "M*A*S*H" or "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" gets turned into a television series. It's even common for smaller, but critically acclaimed films...

Marty Krofft, the savvy businessman who partnered with his older brother Sid to amass an entertainment empire fueled by such mind-blowing kids TV shows as The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, died Saturday. He was 86.

Eight years younger than Sid, Marty Krofft died Saturday in Los Angeles of kidney failure, his family announced.

“There’s nobody better on this planet,” Sid said of his brother in a 2000 interview for the Archive of American Television website. “I get a dream, and Marty gets it done.”

The pair already were well-known theatrical puppeteers when they were recruited in 1968 to design the costumes for the live-action portion of NBC’s The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

Their four furry animal characters (Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky), members of a rock band, were an instant hit on the Saturday morning show, which ran from Sept. 7, 1968, to Sept. 5, 1970 (and in...

We have some bad news for fans of Chapelwaite.

The horror drama will not be returning for a second season.

Co-creator and Executive Producer Jason Filardi took to X to share the sad news.

"I'm afraid Captain Boone's story ends on that beach of weathered, Maine sand," Filardi posted.

"There will be no Season 2. Thank you to all the Chapelwaite fans!"

Chapelwaite launched in August 2021, with the development of a second season being announced shortly after.

But with a lack of updates, fans were left pondering what would become of the series.

Unfortunately, it's likely that no episodes were produced for the planned second season, and Epix becoming MGM+ likely changed the streamer's priorities away from making the new season.

Set in the 1850s, the Chapelwaite follows Captain Charles Boone (Adrien Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher's Corners,...

MGM+ has given the green light to true crime docuseries The Wonderland Murders & The Secret History of Hollywood.

The four-episode series is based on Michael Connelly’s podcast of the same name and will explore the infamous Wonderland murder case in 1980s Los Angeles. Connelly is also the author of the Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer series.

Alison Ellwood will direct the limited series.

“I love Alison’s work and look forward to working with her and MGM+,” Connelly said in a statement. “The Wonderland murders left an indelible impact on Hollywood, and exploring it with the original detectives and witnesses is exciting, and is going to help us answer many of the questions that are still out there.”

Here’s more about the case:

On July 1, 1981, four people were discovered severely beaten to death in a suburban home in Laurel Canyon on Wonderland Avenue. The murders’ aftermath spans two...

Flabber is a phantasm trapped in a pipe organ in Hillhurst Mansion, but he becomes a key character when the kids release him and he grants them their wish to become Beetleborgs. Flabber is a kind and quirky character who helps the Beetleborgs by giving them advice and guidance on defeating monsters. His spells often backfire, but his unorthodox style and potent strength make him a unique and memorable addition to the show. The original design for Flabber looked very different, with carrot-orange hair, a protruding nose, and an oversized striped blazer. However, the changes made to his appearance in Big Bad Beetleborgs were well-received by both the audience and the studio.

Flabber (Billy Forester) is one of the main characters of Big Bad Beetleborgs, the Fox Kids live-action superhero series. Premiering in 1996, Big Bad Beetleborgs was one of the many Power Rangers-like superhero shows that's often forgotten amidst...

Hollywood has many prolific actors, but few can rival Matt Damon, who has starred in 83 movies since his debut in 1988. And in 2023, he is adding even more incredible projects to his resume. After portraying the sports marketing executive in the biopic Air, the actor is also set to appear in Oppenheimer as Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr., who is best known for constructing the Pentagon.

Damon's vast filmography consists of films from most genres, ranging from action to comedies, and as such, each fan can single out at least one blockbuster they like. However, in his vast body of work, a few projects are way better than the rest because of the actor's performance and the overall production.

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Invictus (2009)

Matt Damon has appeared in more biopics than most of his fellow actors, and in Invictus, he plays another iconic figure —the legendary Springboks flanker,...

Saúl Armendáriz, the real-life gay wrestler known as the "Liberace of lucha libre," quit school at 15 years old to pursue professional wrestling full-time. Armendáriz transitioned from playing a gladiator-themed villain to becoming an exótico wrestler, embracing a flamboyant persona that allowed him to express his true self. Cassandro, the film centered around Armendáriz, showcases his rise in the wrestling world and his historic achievement of becoming the first exótico to hold a championship title.

The Gael García Bernal-led Cassandro is based on the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a real-life gay wrestler who has long been dubbed the “Liberace of lucha libre.” For viewers who want to get a sense of the origin story of both Armendáriz and his titular wrestling persona, Cassandro is a great place to start. Marking the scripted feature debut of Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams', Cassandro is one of those feel-good biopics that soars,...