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Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, June 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” This week marks the 700th episode of Real Time With Bill Maher and features a one-on-one interview with Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist and author of the new book “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up.” This week’s panel discussion ... Read more...

Bill Maher hits a significant milestone this week, logging his 700th episode of Real Time on Friday, June 20, at 10:00 Pm Et on HBO. To mark the occasion, he’s assembled a panel that hits all the show’s signature notes: humor, political sparring, and a dash of literary wit. Leading the guest list is Pulitzer […]

Real Time with Bill Maher: Dave Barry, Paul Begala, Rep. Wesley Hunt...

Former Vanderpump Rules star James Kennedy was arrested on December 10, and new reports suggest that Bravo looked into his actions as part of an investigation last year — suggesting they knew something was amiss.

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News of James' misdemeanor domestic violence arrest was made public on December 12, and Vpr fans felt both vindicated and frustrated.

Specifically, viewers broadly opined that it was a "matter of time" before James' on-screen behavior would culminate in off-screen harm.

On the day the news broke, Vpr fans immediately pointed to what they said was a clear pattern of his behavior evident on the reality TV show:

"Shocker. James has always been abusive towards his girlfriends. People didn’t...

Tim Allen hasn’t been making a ton of movies or TV shows lately, but he has been making a lot of headlines for being a giant asshole. There were the reports that Allen previously threw his Home Improvement co-star Patricia Richardson under the bus during contract negotiations with ABC, allegations that he exposed himself to “Tool Girl” Pamela Anderson in 1991 and claims that he was “so fucking rude” while working with Casey Wilson, which seems especially egregious because he was literally dressed like Santa Claus at the time.

So it’s not entirely shocking that a new anecdote about Allen being a dick to his collaborators just dropped.

As reported by Slash Film, director Barry Sonnenfeld’s newest book, Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood, describes the process of making the 2002 film Big Trouble. The largely forgotten crime comedy starred Allen, as...

Hasan Minhaj was part of the box office hit It Ends with Us, and he was asked about all the rumored on-set drama that ensued between director/star Justin Baldoni and the cast – including star Blake Lively.

If you don’t know, the film was released over the summer but the press tour was shrouded with rumors that began after the cast did not pose with Justin at the film’s premiere. It was then discovered that numerous cast members were not following Justin on Instagram. Hasan and Justin both follow one another.

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When asked by Esquire about the controversy behind-the-scenes, Hasan shared, “I can’t speak to other people’s experience, but everybody was very professional and cool to me. It was lovely and everybody was lovely, and it is just as disillusioning for me, because I’m like, what happened? Wait, what’s going on?...

If you can worm through the detritus of overt influence, homage, and repetition of battered tropes, Bad Monkey on Apple TV+ might be worth your time. Inherent to the process of adaptation -- from book to TV -- is that words become flesh, and in the magic of incarnation, certain things come to light that might have lived and looked very differently within the mind. On paper -- the book by Carl Hiaasen -- Bad Monkey is not only attuned to the oddball frequencies of characters who comprise Florida's most interesting, mildly threatening aspects but is rendered in language of the distinctly Orange State lineage. It is rhythmically alluring, with each page devoted to at least two gags, a minor plot nudge, and someone saying something so ridiculously matter-of-fact about an incredible occurrence that you'll be more charmed to the end in a single sitting. The show has a little...

Remember when people read novels? That might seem like an inane statement to those seeking out this review or the story of Amy Tan, but it’s hard to remember the last time a novel dominated the conversation outside the now seemingly narrowed world of people who regularly read fiction. The documentary “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” waxes nostalgic for that time, immersing us in the author’s meteoric success with “The Joy Luck Club” in 1989 as a blockbuster work of fiction, while also showing how that level of success and her self-informed pressure to deliver a massive followup, plagued her on a personal level. As the final film from James Redford (son of Robert Redford), this PBS “American Masters” entry is a riveting portrait of the artist, exceptionally crafted and entertaining enough even for those unfamiliar with Tan’s groundbreaking contributions to Asian American literature.

For one, Amy Tan is just cool.

Billy Wilder movies, Johnny Carson interviews tonight on TCM Billy Wilder is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening tonight, July 8, 2013. But before Wilder Evening begins, TCM will be presenting a series of brief interviews from The Tonight Show, back in the old Johnny Carson days — or rather, nights. The Carson interviewees this evening are Doris Day, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, Chevy Chase, and Steve Martin. (See also: Doris Day today.) (Photo: Billy Wilder.) As for Billy Wilder, TCM will be showing the following: Some Like It Hot (1959), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Spirit of St. Louis (1958), and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Of course, all of those have been shown before and are widely available. Some Like It Hot vs. The Major and the Minor: Subversive and subversiver Some Like It Hot is perhaps Billy Wilder’s best-known film. This broad comedy featuring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis...

I'm exhausted, pretty sure I'm getting sick, and have a headache more often than not. I'd say this was related to the end of the semester, but I think it's just that May is approaching which basically marks the beginning of summer here in North Cuba and the change of seasons always does screwy things to me. I'm lucky enough to be fleeing town in Mid-May so I don't have to stick around part of for what one prominent South Floridian writer (Dave Barry) referred to as "Giant Armpit Season" which falls roughly between June and September. You can spot the tourists pretty easily those months because they're the ones outside. Also, they always look surprised when the afternoon monsoons roll up. Don't get me wrong, I love the whole jungle meeting the ocean sort of environment down here, but when it's so humid I have to grow gills to...