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Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t want the public to see reminders of his immediate predecessors when they visit the White House. Portraits of former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and George H.W. Bush have been relocated from prominent public display to the top of a staircase that few people can access, CNN reported.

According to two CNN sources familiar with the matter, Trump ordered staff to put Obama’s portrait at the top of the Grand Staircase that leads to the White House residence, an area only a few...

[Editor’s note: This interview contains minor spoilers for Season 14 of “King of the Hill.”]

For almost 15 years, “King of the Hill” was one of the most reliably funny and consistently comforting shows on network television. Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ animated sitcom managed a tricky balancing act: Its protagonist, the old-fashioned traditionalist Republican Hank Hill (Mike Judge), maintained politics out of date with a changing culture, and with views often more conservative than many of the writers on the show’s staff.

But the series also admired Hank’s positive attributes — his work ethic, his fundamental decency — never reducing him to a one-note stereotype. In many ways, the show had its cake and ate it, too. It was a lightly satirical portrait of conservative America that conservative viewers themselves could enjoy, a series that treated its characters — from the strait-laced Hank to the conspiracy-theory-spouting Dale Gribble (Johnny Hardwick) — as both objects of laughter and endearingly lovable despite their flaws.

Now,...

Jane Morgan, the elegant American singer who dazzled audiences in Paris nightclubs, on just about every TV variety show of her era and at the Oscars and had a hit record with the lovely standard “Fascination,” has died. She was 101.

Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.

A classy performer known for her silky smooth phrasing, Morgan moved from New York to France in the late 1940s to build her career before returning the U.S. and becoming a very popular singer through the mid-1960s.

She recorded about 40 albums around the world and sang in five languages, making her a true international star.

Morgan appeared dozens of times on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a welcomed recurring guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall and The Hollywood Palace and...

As the final month of the summer box office season begins, theaters will have a trio of demo-targeting films — adult comedy, family animation and body horror — to offer moviegoers alongside returning “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and the other four-quadrant tentpoles from July’s slate.

On tap for the big screen: Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s “The Bad Guys 2,” Paramount’s revival of the George Bush-era comedy “The Naked Gun,” and Neon’s critically lauded date night film from hell “Together.”

None of these films are projected to take No. 1 from “Fantastic Four,” but “Bad Guys 2” is projected to take the No. 2 spot with an opening weekend in the $20 million range against an $80 million budget. The first “Bad Guys” earned a $23.9 million opening in April 2022 and went on to earn $97 million domestic and $250 million worldwide.

“The Naked Gun” is projected to take third with an opening in the mid-to-high teens.

Sam Rockwell is looking back at playing George W. Bush.

In the 2018 movie Vice, the 56-year-old Oscar-winning actor portrayed the 79-year-old former President.

While appearing on Hot Ones, host Sean Evans asked Sam if any mannerisms have lingered after playing characters.

Keep reading to find out more…“I had a twitch in my chin that wouldn’t go away,” Sam said of playing Bush. “And I couldn’t figure it out. It was like twitching right here, and I was taking magnesium, I went to the doctor. I was like ‘what the f–k is this? It’s twitching, you see it’s twitching.’”

“And it was because I was overworking this muscle because I was talking like this,” the White Lotus actor continued. “Everyday I was talking like that and this f–king muscle was getting overworked and that’s what was happening. The day I finished playing George Bush it went away.

Stephen Colbert deserves all those Emmy Awards for his work on The Late Show, but when it comes to wickedly sharp satire, the CBS host can’t hold a candle to “Stephen Colbert.”

That “Stephen Colbert” was the fictional, right-wing political commentator who got his start on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show before launching his own Comedy Central vehicle, The Colbert Report. He brought home an armful of Emmy, Grammy and Peabody Awards for his savage parody of Fox News roundtable talkers.

Posing as “Colbert” gave Colbert latitude to influence culture in the way a regular comedian never could. His show introduced new vocabulary into the American lexicon, including truthiness, that quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. Truthiness was so sticky that it was named the American Dialect Society Word of the Year for 2005. The Colbert Report...

There is a non-zero chance that a character in the Simpsons canon was directly responsible for arming Afghan Mujahideen fighters — including Osama bin Laden — during the Soviet-Afghan War, and I’m not talking about George H.W. Bush.

Ever since the show’s inception, the Simpsons writers’ room has been full of the kind of worldly, annoying nerds who play My Dinner with Andre arcade games and say things like “Spring forth, burly protector, and save me!” For a cartoon about the dumbest fictional town in America, The Simpsons had some serious brainiacs crafting the immaculate Golden Age seasons, and the Harvard-educated comedy writers were constantly sneaking esoteric references to classic literature and world history into many of the best episodes of television ever.

As such, we can hardly call it a coincidence that, in the Season Four episode “New Kid on the Block,” the Simpson kids’ hip new babysitter...

“Saturday Night Live” legend Dana Carvey recently discussed his role as President Joe Biden on the podcast “Fly on the Wall.” Carvey, who appeared in several sketches during the 2024 election cycle, portrayed Biden distinctly different than predecessors like Jason Sudeikis and Jim Carrey.

“I knew that he was compromised mentally, I mean, it was obvious,” Carvey said (via Variety). “But it was a delicate thing in the comedy world. There were a lot of people who did not want to do anything that would kind of ding him in an awkward way.”

Carvey said, though, that his job was simply to create a version of the former president that could make everyone chuckle.

“That’s the key, if I can do Biden, if I can make Biden funny to everybody, then I am where I want to be… And to make it funny, it had to be recognizable,” he said.

The Simpsons has had its fair share of dumb controversies over the years, from the Bart Simpson T-shirt backlash of 1990, to President George H.W. Bush’s public condemnation of the show, to the time the nuclear power industry took issue with Springfield’s three-eyed fish.

Now, in the year 2025, The Spectator, the conservative U.K. magazine, has flat-out called the show “evil” in a new article. Has anyone checked to see if there’s a way to switch the series to “Good”?

“Marge Simpson is dead. But does anyone care?” begins the article titled “The Simpsons May Be Genius — But It's Also Evil.” After referencing the recent viral controversy involving Marge’s Simpson’s (bogus) death, the author, James Delingpole, notes that he’s a longtime fan of the show, specifically its (also bogus) knack for predicting real world events, such as the “Trump presidency.”

“I’m now beginning to...

Bob Geldof didn’t mince words about those in charge across the pond as he celebrated 40 years of Live Aid.

“The thuggery of Musk, and Vance and Trump, this confederacy of dunces, these abject fools,” he said at an event launching a set of BBC Live Aid shows late last week.

Geldof was bemoaning how rather than upping charity as the world flounders under several generational catastrophes, the response from the U.S. and others has been to “cut it off.”

“These ketamine-crazed narcissists swing their f**king hedge trimmers around their heads and say, this weekend, we’re feeding U.S. Aid to the wood chipper,” he added of the end of the U.S. Agency for International Development. “Seriously, the strongest nation on Earth, the most powerful man on the planet, and the richest individual ever seen in the history of our world… cackle, over feeding U.S. help to the weakest,...

Will Forte admits Will Ferrell is a tough act to follow.

While chatting with fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum Amy Poehler on her “Good Hang” podcast, Forte, who joined the show in 2002 after Ferrell’s final season, discussed the burden of playing George W. Bush on “SNL.”

“It was a huge cast,” Forte said. “It was, like, 17 people, you’re trying to get you’re stuff on, you’re trying to get noticed. And then I got, somehow, the George Bush role.”

Although it was a great opportunity to prove himself, Forte explained that impressions were not his strong suit, and that his placement in the role of Bush was “a match not made in heaven.” On top of that, Ferrell’s take on Bush is one of the most iconic impersonations in “SNL” history, setting Forte’s bar impossibly high.

“Will Ferrell was George Bush! He was George W.

Will Forte knows he was not the right performer to take over as George W. Bush on “Saturday Night Live” after Will Ferrell.

During his guest appearance on the latest episode of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” Forte told Poehler that he knew immediately it was the wrong call to cast him as Bush after Ferrell departed the sketch comedy series in 2002. “It was a huge cast. It was like 17 people,” Forte recalled of his “SNL” class. “You’re trying to get your stuff on, right? You’re trying to get noticed and then I got, somehow, the George Bush role.”

“I don’t do impersonations, and it was a match not made in heaven,” Forte said. “[Will] made it such his own thing that they should have just retired it. But, of course, you can’t retire the sitting president on ‘SNL.’ Somebody has to be doing it, and I...

As President Donald Trump weighs sending U.S. forces to help Israel bomb Iran — and potentially plunge the nation into a new war — his decision is being influenced by bellicose on-air content at Fox News. The favored network of the president has put forth a parade of hosts, guests, and professional commentators with an effusively pro-war and pro-regime change message.

According to an administration official and another close associate of the commander-in-chief, Trump’s heavy consumption of Fox News content is increasing his appetite for direct military confrontation with Iran.

One of the greatest episodes from The Simpsons’ Golden Age almost had a very different ending, but it’s probably for the best that Richard Milhous Nixon died when he did — he didn't seem like much of a beer-and-nachos President.

In January 1996, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara decided to get away from the world of politics that had taken up so much of their lives and move to a town where people followed current events about as closely as they paid attention to nutritional science. In the Season Seven Simpsons episode “Two Bad Neighbors,” the Bushs found that life in a small town can be every bit as tense and destructive as the White House Situation Room during Desert Storm, as the neighbor and his miscreant son drive the former President to insanity before running him out of town.

Then, in the closing scene of the Simpsons classic,...

All over America today, it’s No Kings Day, as the people rise up to make the kind of protests none of us thought we’d ever need to make in our lifetimes. It’s a day for defiance, for solidarity, as we watch the whole idea of a constitutional republic get dismantled piece by piece — not just by one man, but by a regime, an entire political party that no longer even pretends to have a platform, committed to the abolition of American democracy.

So what better day to blast Pavement?...

Hours before tanks rumbled into Washington for Donald Trump’s military parade, ground shaking applause erupted in DC for someone who couldn’t be more opposed to everything the president stands for — author and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.

The renowned journalist traveled from New York to the nation’s capital for the world premiere of Steal This Story, Please!, a documentary chronicling her work over many decades to give voice to the voiceless, make the powerful accountable, and to support democracy as the foremost means to safeguard human rights and human dignity.

“Okay, let’s go,” Goodman says at the beginning of the film, an instruction to her camera person as she spots P. Wells Griffith III, the climate change policy adviser to Pres. Trump in his first administration. The year is 2018, the location the Un Climate Summit in Poland, and Goodman is trying to get an answer to...

These days, The Simpsons is considered a staple of modern pop culture, beloved by both children and adults. But there was once a time when the cartoon family were considered hugely controversial — keep in mind, this was long before they started hanging out with Minnie Mouse and Winnie the Pooh.

Not long after The Simpsons first began in 1989, the show was blasted by First Lady Barbara Bush and President George H.W. Bush, who famously proclaimed in a speech that Americans should be “a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.” And if the Bushes hated the early seasons of the show, they must have really hated it when they became literal villains in Season Seven.

Then there was the widespread hysteria over Bart Simpson-branded T-shirts, which were banned in multiple schools and pulled from the shelves of JCPenney stores, despite the fact that they...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants members of the U.S. military to have the authority to arrest protesters in Los Angeles.

According to a letter obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle, Noem wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday requesting that he authorize “DoD forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them.”

Noem’s request came on the eve of Hegseth’s...

President Donald Trump announced he is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting people the federal government alleges are undocumented immigrants.

In his memo deploying the National Guard, Trump left the door open for the Pentagon to deploy active duty military to Los Angeles. Trump wrote that “the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.

It’s not news that the documentary market continues to be in flux, particularly for political documentaries, with many filmmakers complaining about a lack of distribution channels. So it’s good news that Netflix has closed a hybrid licensing deal for six documentary films that played well at festivals over the past year, but were not acquired by any distributor. Rather than leave the orphans in limbo, Netflix opted to give this group of diverse titles a distribution home.

The films include Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s “The White House Effect” and “In Waves and War,” Chris Smith’s “Devo,” Kimberly Reed’s “I’m Your Venus,” Matthew O. Henderson’s “A King Like Me,” and the late Sacha Jenkins’ “Sunday Best.”

This out-of-the-box Netflix deal gives the docs Netflix Original status in English-speaking territories the U.K., United States, and Canada. In territories outside the English language, they are available non-exclusively.

Flight 149: Hostage of War is the title of a new Sky feature documentary that recounts “one of the most extraordinary — and until recently, officially denied — chapters of the Gulf War,” the Comcast-owned company said Friday in unveiling a trailer for the original film that will debut in the U.K. and Ireland in June.

“On Aug. 2, 1990, just after Saddam [Hussein]’s forces storm Kuwait, a civilian flight unwittingly touches down in the middle of the war zone,” reads a synopsis for the doc. “The passengers and crew find themselves trapped, held as hostages by Saddam Hussein, becoming pawns in a rapidly escalating international crisis that will reshape the Middle East.”

Calling the doc “an unflinching exploration of a geopolitical scandal,” Sky also highlighted the stakes. “For over three decades, the British government denied any prior knowledge of the invasion before the plane’s ill-fated landing. Now, new information...

American novelist, screenwriter, and producer David Benioff helped build Game of Thrones into what it is today, but the behind-the-scenes stress left a serious mark. The experience was so overwhelming, it pushed him to give up something most celebrities are constantly tempted by, especially in today’s digital age.

During a 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he opened up about the toll it took, how deep it cut, and why he had to step away from something that once felt impossible to resist. Let’s unpack what finally made Benioff say, “I’m out.”

David Benioff stopped googling himself after Game of Thrones season 2 David Benioff and D.B. Weiss at the 2016 Sdcc | Image by Gage Skidmore, liensed under Cc By-sa 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

“The last time I Googled myself was Season 2 of Game of Thrones, and I’ve never done it since.” Yep. Co-creator of one of the most GOATed series,...

While watching Mountainhead, I was struck by the film’s biting commentary—sharp, fast, and cutting deep. From a character casually quitting George H.W. Bush to the chilling observation, “The worse the disease, the more valuable the cure,” and my favorite line, “That’s why I’m so excited about the atrocities,” the film wastes no time pulling punches.

Mountainhead is about how the uber-wealthy exploit everyday people for financial gain, always under the guise of serving the “greater good.” But that “greater good” usually starts with lining their pockets, driven by unchecked hubris. The film plays like a modern-day version of Risk, where nations collapse at the push of a button—and every ounce of suffering is just another opportunity to profit.

Max’s Mountainhead Review and Synopsis

The film opens with Hugo (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s Jason Schwartzman), a millionaire who is sadly not a billionaire, preparing...

On the potential cusp of freedom after decades behind bars for the 1989 shotgun murder of their parents, Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez will have to wait a bit longer to know their fates.

In a rebuke to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, the Menendez brothers were resentenced May 13 to 50 years to life, which makes them eligible for parole. At the much delayed hearing, L.A. Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic ruled that Lyle, 57, and Erik, 54, did not pose “an unreasonable risk” if they were released, almost 30 years after their 1996 sentencing to life without parole.

To that end, the siblings’ scheduled June 13 clemency board hearings ordered earlier this year by Gov. Gavin Newsom have shifted. “Since the ruling makes them immediately eligible for parole consideration as youth offenders, it is the Board’s intent to convert the June 13, 2025, clemency hearings to initial parole suitability hearings,” Scott Wyckoff of the...

Shonda Rhimes has created and produced a slew of iconic shows over the years. Now, one of them is heading to Netflix.

In a post on X, the streaming service announced that Scandal is officially moving back to Netflix, and will be available on June 17. The political series aired between 2012 and 2018, and was previously available to stream on Hulu. The show stars Kerry Washington as a crisis manager who specializes in "fixing" political situations and scandals. The character was loosely based on Judy Smith, who served as George H. W. Bush's Deputy Press Secretary. Smith was also a producer on the show.

Scandal is back on Netflix June 17! pic.twitter.com/nUML3o1mBG— Netflix (@netflix) May 19, 2025

In Scandal, Olivia Pope, a former media consultant to the president, is the person to go to when a scandal needs fixing. But following a romantic entanglement with President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) behind his wife's back,...

Next month is about to be an exhilarating ride for fans of this critics-approved and award-winning political thriller, seven years after its final broadcast. In a quiet move by Netflix, Scandal, led by Kerry Washington, has been added to the June 2025 lineup in the U.S., according to What's on Netflix, with all seven seasons set to return to the streamer. The ABC series debuted on April 5, 2012, and last aired on April 19, 2018, with its one-hundred-and-twenty-fourth episode, also the Season 7 finale “Over a Cliff,” which garnered more than five million viewers.

On June 17, 2025, Scandal will return to Netflix, five years after being removed from the streamer in May 2020. Netflix first picked up the drama well over a decade ago, with Seasons 1 to 3 added in September 2014 and new seasons arriving every year thereafter shortly after they wrapped up airing. The final season was then added in May 2018, only two years before all...

Twenty years after an infamous television moment involving Kanye West and Mike Myers, Saturday Night Live spoofed the incident on their Season 50 finale, with Myers portraying himself alongside Kenan Thompson’s Ye.

In 2005, during a televised fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina, West went off-script on live TV by declaring that then-president George W. Bush “doesn’t care about Black people,” all while he stood next to a mortified Myers.

A lot has changed with the rapper in the past two decades, as it is quickly made clear in SNL’s “Mike Myers Elevator Ride” sketch.

Is there anything scarier than being stuck alone in an elevator with Kanye West? In the season finale of “Saturday Night Live,” Mike Myers steps into an elevator alongside host Scarlett Johansson, only for them to be joined by a sunglass-wearing Kanye West (played by Kenan Thompson). Terrified, Johansson quickly exits the elevator, leaving Myers stuck with Ye.

West begins the nightmarish ride by asking how Myers has been since the last time they saw each other, which was at “that Hurricane Katrina Benefit where I said George Bush doesn’t care about Black people and you just had to stand there looking stupid,” referencing West’s infamous 2005 rant during NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief.

Myers asks West what he’s been up to in the meantime, to which Kanye replies, “I’m in the KKK now,” before asking after Myers’ children. “My kids?” Myers responded nervously. “My kids are safe.

Saturday Night Live has been giving us plenty of big-name reunions in its landmark 50th season… but we weren’t expecting this one.

Former cast member Mike Myers appeared as himself in a sketch on Saturday’s season finale, entering an elevator and getting greeted by fans. When the elevator stopped, though, he was confronted by a figure from his past: rapper Kanye West, played by Kenan Thompson in a black sweatshirt and sunglasses. (Quick history lesson: Myers and West appeared together at a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005, with Myers forced to stand by awkwardly as Kanye ranted...

American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden tells us that having the power to shape narratives and influence preferences is the key factor to becoming a superpower. The fact that the US forces were able to eliminate Osama bin Laden not only served as proof of their military prowess but also gave us an idea about the nation’s soft power. It showed how the US crossed several roadblocks and made sure that nobody questioned its authority or its way of doing things. So, let’s go through the events that led to the death of Osama bin Laden and find out how US intelligence agencies were able to pull it off.

What happened after 9/11?

On 11 September 2001, a dastardly act by an infamous terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda, shook the foundations of American society. Two planes had been intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center, and a plane had even targeted the Pentagon. From John McLaughlin,...

According to a former White House official for Bush, the US federal government has secretly spent trillions building doomsday bunkers to house the rich and powerful.

The official, 74-year-old Catherine Austin Fitts, appeared on an episode of Tucker Carlson‘s podcast to discuss the bunkers, which were allegedly commissioned in 1998. Fitts had previously served as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during former President George H. W. Bush’s term. She claimed that $21 trillion in taxpayer dollars were funneled into the project between 1998 and 2015.

Fitts, who also made many wild claims, such as that the Covid-19 vaccine had DNA-modifying ingredients, provided no evidence for her claim other than a 2017 report from Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore indicating that “unauthorized spending” was uncovered during that year. After two years of going through records related to documented underground bases, Fitts compared her research against the missing cash and her guess...

President Donald Trump can’t decide if taxing the ultra rich is worth it.

In a Friday morning Truth Social post, the president wrote that “Republicans should probably not do it, but I’m Ok if they do!!!”

“The problem with even a ‘Tiny’ tax increase for the Rich, which I and all others would graciously accept in order to help the lower and middle income workers, is that the Radical Left Democrat Lunatics would go around screaming,’Read my lips,’ the fabled Quote by George Bush the Elder,” Trump wrote,...

President Donald Trump recently shared an AI photo of himself as a Pope, following the death of Pope Francis, and not everyone found it so amusing.

New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan disapproved of the Truth Social post, which came just days after the passing of the religious leader, and just before the conclave set to take place at the Vatican to select the new Pope.

He told reporters he hoped Trump “didn’t have anything to do with that,” via The Hill.

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“Well, you know, it wasn’t good,” the cardinal added when asked whether he was offended.

The cardinal is part of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and has been an ally of the president.

Bishop Thomas Paprock said the president should apologize.

“This is deeply offensive to Catholics especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of...

When Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, it hooked millions with its gritty storytelling, complex characters, and shocking twists. However, one scene in Season 1 sparked a controversy that went beyond Westeros, tying a beloved character, Ned Stark, to a real-world political figure: George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President.

The sharp-eyed fans noticed something odd in the background of this scene: a prop head on another spike that looked eerily like George W. Bush. This bizarre prop choice in the show’s finale, “Fire and Blood,” created a media storm, raising questions about artistic intent, political commentary, and the consequences of carelessness in production.

Game of Thrones Season 1’s problematic prop choice A still from Game of Thrones | Credits: HBO

In the Game of Thrones Season 1 finale, a gruesome moment unfolds: Joffrey Baratheon orders the execution of Ned Stark, and his severed head is displayed on a spike. It is a gut-punch for viewers,...

Mark Bessette debuted his storyline this season on 90 Day Fiance.

The reality TV newbie introduced himself to viewers in Season 11 of the flagship series alongside his fiancee, Mina Bessette.

As he shared during his solo confessionals, Mark, 59, makes a living in aviation.

The father of three shared he works as a pilot, flying privately owned jets for clients.

Mark has flown high-profile passengers in his lifetime, including some celebrities and athletes.

He’s also flown Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

In addition to working as a pilot, Mark earns a living in a similar line of work.

Here’s a look at Mark’s jobs and how much money he makes as a multi-faceted businessman.

Mark has worked in the aviation field since the 90s

In addition to his work as a pilot, the West Ossipee, New Hampshire, resident also...

Neil Young took the stage for the first time this year at the Bernie Sanders/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in front of 36,000 people at L.A.’s Gloria Molina Grand Park. The bill also included Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jeff Rosenstock, Dirty Projectors, Indigo De Souza, the Red Pears & Raise Gospel Choir.

Young came out gripping his 1953 Gibson Les Paul, better known as Old Black, shortly after a fiery speech by Service Employees International Union President April Verrett. He teased the opening notes of “Rockin’ In The Free World...

Robert Snow, a veteran Secret Service agent who served as a technical adviser on films including In the Line of Fire, The American President and Air Force One, died March 22, his family announced. He was 93.

Snow had retired after spending 33 years with the Secret Service when he was called on for his expertise during the making of Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire (1993), starring Clint Eastwood as a CIA agent haunted by the JFK assassination.

“In Taxi Driver and other films, we were portrayed as monosyllabic idiots who can’t complete a full sentence and [only] stand on the corners with dark glasses,” Snow told the Chicago Tribune in a 1997 interview. “Until In the Line of Fire, there was nothing to show what the Secret Service really did.”

He worked with Petersen and Eastwood again in the 1997 films Air Force One and Absolute Power, respectively, and on two X-Men movies,...

Taylor Swift is regarded as one of the most prominent entertainment figures of the 21st century. With years of hard work, determination, and sincerity toward her music, Taylor Swift is known to be one of the best-selling music artists. Her Eras Tour’s success and popularity have helped her to top the list of highest-grossing touring artists. Swift’s aura is pretty hard to match up to.

The first billionaire with music as the primary source of income, Taylor Swift’s personal life has also been a subject of discussion amongst people. Her high-profile relationships have always garnered the attention of the audience, and sometimes her feud with Kanye West. The Grammy Award-winning rapper recently went on a hate spree and made some shocking claims about Swift’s relationships.

Taylor Swift in Blank Space video | Credits: Taylor Swift’s YouTube Kanye West claims Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber had a...

In a back room of a Luxembourg Hotel, Tim Roth sips a coffee, leans back, and asks me what else I’ve got. We’ve only been talking for ten minutes, but something about the actor’s quick-fire London gab has caught me off guard. I quickly scour my notes, eyes landing on “Sepp Blatter,” the disgraced former FIFA president who Roth played in United Passions, a much-derided puff piece from 2014. “Oh, my God,” the actor responds. “Oh, that was terrible. But that meant getting the kids through college with no student loans. And it worked!”

When the time comes to take stock of Tim Roth’s remarkable career, Blatter’s name won’t trouble the opening paragraphs. Yet there is something strangely fitting about its place in the Roth oeuvre: as emblematic of the actor’s wild variety of choices as the willingness to take a check or two...

Val Kilmer, the legendary actor who brought iconic characters to life in Top Gun, The Doors, Heat, and Batman Forever, passed away on April 1, 2025, at the age of 65. Hollywood is still mourning the loss of Kilmer, who left behind a legacy of unforgettable performances and deep artistic conviction. One of his most poignant reflections came during the press tour of his 2006 movie Déjà Vu, a $180 million sci-fi thriller.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Kilmer spoke candidly about how filming in post-disaster New Orleans opened his eyes to the US government’s failure. Known for his fierce commitment and often unfiltered honesty, Kilmer called the government response to the disaster “personally embarrassing.”

Val Kilmer in Deja Vu | Credit: Buena Vista Pictures Val Kilmer reflected on his movie, Déjà Vu, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Shot just months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Tony Scott directed and Jerry Bruckheimer produced,...

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Kanye West seems to think Taylor Swift is the invisible hand that’s kept him off the Super Bowl halftime stage. In a recently deleted post on X, the 47-year-old rapper opened up about why he believes he’s never been offered the coveted spotlight, despite decades of musical influence.

He came up with reasoning which seemed like a cocktail of controversy and bad blood and some political and some personal.

Why Kanye West Thinks He’s Been Blacklisted

According to the Daily Mail, the Yeezy founder pointed to three pivotal moments that he believes shut the Super Bowl door on him – “George Bush don’t care about Black people. The Taylor Swift movement moment. Wearing a Maga hat.”

Together, he says, they’ve marked him as too hot to handle, even before he “went full Nazi.” And while he once stood...

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"The Simpsons" never shied away from violence. Indeed, the show arguably benefitted from the controversy caused by depicting a father who routinely strangles his own son. The Simpsons were not your typical TV family, and that was the point. The show and the Fox network on which it's still broadcast were ushering in a whole new small screen generation, much to the chagrin of then-President George Bush, who famously lamented that American families should be a lot more like the Waltons and "a lot less like the Simpsons."

But even when Bush was uttering that ill-informed sneer, it was already too late. "The Simpsons" might have had a strong emotional core and often delivered heartfelt episodes that affected audiences much more than an animated comedy ever should. But it was also, much like the show's de facto mascot in the early years,...

James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump led off Saturday Night Live this week, explaining the new tariffs that sent everyone’s retirement savings into the national trash bin. It wasn’t much of a surprise to see Trump joined by Elon Musk, once again brought to life by Mike Myers in his less-than-triumphant return to the show.

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This week, Musk is wearing a cheesehead despite his ill-advised, expensive and embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. “I’m an idiot,” he concedes. “I should have just bought Wisconsin.”

Almost as soon as Myers’ Musk enters the sketch, Johnson’s Trump is sending him on his way. “Elon is great, but, sadly, it’s time to never see you again, okay?” he says. “You got to get back to Tesla, right?”

Musk’s government exit is (hopefully) happening in real-life, but Saturday Night Live appears to be sending Myers off as well.

It wasn’t hard to guess how the recent Saturday Night Live starring Mikey Madison would kick off last weekend. Surprise, surprise — the cold-open sketch skewered the week’s hottest political story, with Andrew Dismukes as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unintentionally entering the group chat of a group of teenage girls.

Just another meh sketch in a long run of meh cold opens over the past, well, decade or so. Somewhere during the show’s run — was it Will Ferrell’s George Bush impression? Tina Fey as Sarah Palin? — Lorne Michaels decided that America demanded SNL’s political take to open every show. “A high-energy cold open is important to (Michaels), and he often has the writers start from scratch on Friday or even Saturday,” according to Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. “The idea is, if you begin the show with a home run, then momentum...

Last May, Netflix grabbed significant headlines and millions of viewers with The Roast of Tom Brady, a three-hour comedy event in which some of the industry’s top comics — including Kevin Hart and Nikki Glaser — brutally mocked the legendary NFL quarterback to his face.

The streamer will host a similar mockery this May with The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: Celebrating Conan O'Brien. The event, which Netflix will premiere on May 4, honored O'Brien on Sunday night at the embattled Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and quickly turned into an unofficial roast of President Donald Trump.

“I just really miss the days when you were America’s only orange a--hole,” Sarah Silverman said during her tribute to O’Brien, one of several references to Trump.

During his segment, John Mulaney goofed on Trump for his apparent enthusiasm for the camp musical Cats, suggesting the Kennedy Center would soon be...

Neil Young has canceled his plans to perform a free concert in Ukraine ahead of his upcoming European summer tour with the Chrome Hearts, citing safety concerns.

Earlier this month, Young wrote on his official website, “We are currently in talks and will make the announcement here at [the Neil Young Archives]. Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.”

However, an official date for the show was never scheduled, and on Thursday, Young delivered the unfortunate news that the concert was off entirely. “We had a good venue, close to a shelter, but the...

Russell Crowe and Industry'sHarry Lawtey will be starring in the upcoming film adaptation of the Cold War spy thriller novel, Billion Dollar Spy. Akiva Goldsman (producer of the recent Star Trek series) will be reuniting with Crowe, as they both worked on A Beautiful Mind, per Deadline.

Amma Asante, who won a BAFTA for A Way of Life, is directing and Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan has written the latest draft with Benjamin August (Remember) having penned an earlier draft. The original novel was written by David E. Hoffman, who covered the White House during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush years. He was the Washington Post's Moscow Bureau Chief for several years.

Billion Dollar Spy was originally set to star Armie Hammer and Mads Mikkelsen, but Hammer's controversies saw him fired in 2021, and the film went into limbo.

The film adaptation is beyond the development stage and already in...

Hollywood has a long history of making films about journalism, as classics like All the President’s Men and The China Syndrome presented reporters in a heroic light during a period in history when viewers desperately wanted honesty. America’s relationship with the news media has rapidly changed over the next several decades, resulting in a journalistic industry that is more divided than ever before. While reactions to news controversies can be overblown at the time that they emerge, it is often worth it to reflect on these instances and examine what the real motivations were. Truth is a highly informative examination of a major controversy on 60 Minutes in 2004 that had a significant impact on the reelection of President George W. Bush.

If there’s one thing you can rely on “Saturday Night Live” for, it’s delivering good celebrity impressions. Some are so good, in fact, that they draw the actual celebrity into a sketch with them.

Most recently, it happened when then-Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by just before the 2024 election to give Maya Rudolph’s version of Kamala Harris a pep talk. But this is a tradition that goes back literal decades. So, we rounded up each one we could find.

You can relive them below.

Eddie Murphy and Tracy Morgan

During the “SNL50” celebration, the show brought back “Black Jeopardy,” featuring Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy as contestants. Of course, Eddie Murphy was actually playing Tracy Morgan.

Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph

Like we mentioned above, Kamala Harris made a surprise stop at 30 Rock just days before the 2024 election, giving her fake self, as well as the country at large,...

In the blizzard of executive orders, Resolute desk pronouncements and mass firings of President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, it’s easy to lose sight of what has been happening at the FCC and its chilling effect on the media.

The agency typically gets few headlines, engaged as it is in policy calls over arcane topics like spectrum allocation. But as the chief regulator with oversight over broadcasting, the FCC wields authority over media companies large and small, and that is where its Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr has sought to rattle the industry in his initial month.

Just this past week, Carr announced an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion policies of Comcast and NBCUniversal, and vowed that other media companies would face the same scrutiny. He targeted PBS and NPR for their underwriting practices, while warning that their government funding would be in the crosshairs of congressional Republicans.