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By the time he was nominated for Best Actor in Elia Kazan’s adaptation of the second half of John Steinbeck’s novel, James Dean was dead and buried. This was the only one of his starring vehicles to be released while he was alive. Reportedly Steinbeck felt the movie was as good or better than the book. Great use of early CinemaScope.

Diana Ross is a legend among legends!

The 73-year-old singer was honored with the Lifetime Achievement at the 2017 American Music Awards on Sunday, closing out the show with a memorable speech and performance.

Dazzling in a black dress with matching silk gloves and a gorgeous statement necklace, the music icon took the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles following a pre-taped message from Barack and Michelle Obama, and a few sweet words from her 29-year-old son, Evan Ross.

"This is the family. We love you so much, so very much," she gushed while accepting the prestigious accolade with her family by her side. "This is all about love. This says it all, this is my family and I'm sending love out there to all of you.

"I really love being here," she continued, "and I feel so humbled by this. I love you all. I think you know that. Thank you so much...

Here we go

My favorite genre of movies are ones in which Saoirse Ronan:

- wants to go to New York

- goes to New York

- fights with her mom

- leaves her mom

- cries over letters from her mom

- slowdances w/ a Nice Irish Boy

- hooks up w/ a Charismatic Italian Boy

- goes to church a lot pic.twitter.com/R98O7fnNbj

— Kate Halliwell (@Kate__Halliwell) November 10, 2017

Should we have a "Lady Bird" week where we truly obsess? Considering it. More After The Jump including Wonderstruck, Justice League, Star Wars ghosts, and kindred spirits in James Dean fandom...

Steve McQueen died at the age of 50 on Nov. 7, 1980, after suffering cardiac arrest. The Indiana native made a name for himself starring as the rugged antihero in classic 1960s films like Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Magnificent Seven; he was dubbed "The King of Cool" thanks to his good looks - That sandy blond hair! Those piercing baby blues! - laid-back attitude, and penchant for doing his own stunts. We're paying homage to Steve McQueen with a look back at his most memorable (and most handsome) photos over the years. Scroll through to see them all now. RelatedThe Cursed Car That Played a Part in James Dean's Untimely Death...

Dennis Hopper was a legend. His tumultuous career — replete with soaring highs and harrowing lows — was matched only by his turbulent and unruly personal life. The director behind the prototype for American independent cinema, the classic “Easy Rider,” Hopper’s career began alongside that of James Dean, whom he shared the screen with twice, before bottoming out with his ambitious disaster “The Last Movie” when he was blackballed by the industry for his indignance and difficult attitude.

Continue reading ‘Along For The Ride’ Needlessly Adorns Dennis Hopper’s Legacy With Saintliness [Review] at The Playlist.

The Burtka-Harris clan has won Halloween — again.

Late Monday night, Neil Patrick Harris shared a photo of himself, husband David Burtka and their 7-year-old twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace decked out in their midway best.

For their 2017 family ensemble — posed in front of a carnival backdrop — Harris took on the role of ringmaster, while Burtka dressed as a creepy clown. Gideon opted for a “World’s Strongest Man” costume, and his sister Harper rocked a full face of hair as a bearded lady.

“Hurry, hurry! Step right up and behold the Burtka-Harris Halloween Carnival of Curiosities! #happyhalloween,” Harris, 44, captioned the post.

With big-budget reboots and franchise sequels contributing to Hollywood's downward spiral at the box office, more studios are channeling their movie properties into diverse entertainment ventures including internet streaming and online gaming:

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Zac Efron has a real sense of humour. Related: Tracee Ellis Ross Reveals Her Rihanna, James Dean Fantasy The former “High School Musical” heartthrob invited Vogue to his home for an edition of the publication’s “73 Questions”. Efron, 29, blasted his way through a series of interesting topics about his most-worn wardrobe item, funniest on-set story, his […]...

Fergie and Josh Duhamel threw fans for a loop when they announced their separation after eight years of marriage in early September. Since not much else is known about their split - other than the fact that Fergie and Josh are maintaining a united front for the sake of their 4-year-old son, Axl - we thought we'd take a look back at the couple during happier times. Here are a few things you may not know about Fergie and Josh's glamorous wedding. RelatedFergie Dated These 2 Famous Men Before She Settled Down With Josh Duhamel Fergie and Josh exchanged "I dos" in front of 375 of their closest friends and family. They tied the knot in a traditional Catholic ceremony at the Church Estate Vineyards in Malibu, CA, on Jan. 10, 2009. The venue was adorned with tons of magnolia trees that were filled with thousands of white roses. Their wedding rings were one of a kind.

Tracee Ellis Ross has put a lot of thought into her ideal love scene. 

The 44-year-old actress dished on that topic and more during her chat for Vogue's 73 Questions. 

"I'm going to make it a threesome," Ross revealed of her ideal sex scene. "Rihanna and James Dean. And me, of course." 

While her love scene may be difficult to accomplish, Ross seems to have already worked out a few details. 

Exclusive: Tracee Ellis Ross Reflects on Significance of Her 'Black-ish' Emmy Nomination

"[My favorite time of day is] between 3 and 6:30 p.m. Everything good should happen during that time. Favorite time to nap. Favorite time to take a bath. Favorite time to have a cocktail, favorite time to have sex," she teased. 

Watch Ross' full interview below. 

Making an appearance during Ross' interview is her brother, Evan Ross, and his wife, Ashlee Simpson, who recently celebrated their daughter, Jagger's, second birthday. 

See more in the video below. 

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2017-09-14T06:32:21-07:00Farrah Abraham Puts Rejuvenated Lady Parts on Display

If you thought it was impossible for Farrah Abraham to lower the bar any further in terms of the classiness of her behavior, she might have a surprise in store for you. Claiming that she is proud of her latest plastic surgery, a vaginal rejuvenation procedure, she went on an adult website this week to show off the results live on camera. It's not exactly shocking coming from the Teen Mom 2 star, who has done porn in the past, but it certainly sets a new standard for how low some reality TV stars are willing to go for fame and fortune.

Via The Sun.

Celebrity Big Brother star Farrah Abraham is set to return to porn - this time taking part in live sex chats with fans via webcam.

The reality star has even...

Farrah Abraham's ready to raise the curtain on her rejuvenated vagina -- she's got a big debut in the world of online cam shows. The teen mom/stripper/porn star/author landed a deal with CamSoda ... and will premiere on the site Wednesday evening. Farrah's no stranger to cameras in the bedroom, but this will be the first time she's doing it since her umm ... tune-up. You'll recall 26-year-old Farrah had the surgery back in August.

When Kip Moore released his debut album, Up All Night, in 2012, it was a success almost out of the gate. With hits like “Something ‘Bout a Truck,’ which Moore’s sexy, raspy delivery managed to elevate out of country’s truck rut, “Hey Pretty Girl” and “Beer Money,” the album put the Tifton, Georgia, native in the spotlight. But despite critical kudos, his sonically ambitious second album Wild Ones underperformed, and suddenly the town that hailed him as a new original voice got busy writing his swan song. It was, Moore tells People, “a kick in the teeth.”

But the...

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We talk to the actor behind one of cinema's great villains - Terminator 2's Robert Patrick...

It's more than 25 years since Terminator 2: Judgment Day first emerged, but actor Robert Patrick still carries the same cool, shark-like look of his shape-shifting villain, the T-1000. When Patrick fixes me with his sharp blue eyes, I can almost imagine his right arm quietly morphing into a sharp, chrome spear... and then he smiles, lets out a raucous laugh and the illusion is, thankfully, broken.

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In London to promote the 3D re-release of T2, and it's testament to how well-made James Cameron's sci-fi sequel is that it holds up so well all these years later. For his part, Robert Patrick doesn't appear to have tired being...

Robert Patrick was so perfect for the role of the liquid metal T-1000 villain in James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgement Day. What's crazy is that he originally didn't have the part. According to Patrick, Cameron had originally cast another actor in the role. That actor was rock star, Billy Idol!

As you know, the classic movie is being re-released in theaters in 3D next week and when talking about the film with THR, Patrick revealed:

"Billy Idol was set to do the role of the T-1000, as I understand. I can tell you that I saw Billy's image when I went to Stan Winston after I got the role. Unfortunately, he got into a motorcycle accident and busted up his leg, so he wasn't able to physically do what the role demanded."

Damn, that's pretty crazy. It's really hard to imagine Idol in the role of the T-1000. I...

One of the greatest action classics of the 1990s almost had a very different, ”Rebel Yell”-y sort of vibe. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, which recently talked to Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick about the film’s upcoming re-release, and who revealed that his star-making turn as the icily lethal T-1000 almost went to singer Billy Idol instead. “Billy Idol was set to do the role of the T-1000, as I understand,” Patrick said. “I can tell you that I saw Billy’s image when I went to Stan Winston after I got the role. Unfortunately, he got into a motorcycle accident and busted up his leg, so he wasn’t able to physically do what the role demanded.”

Speaking of those demands: Patrick—whose agent apparently sold him to the movie’s casting directors as a steely hybrid of “David Bowie and James Dean”—talked about ...

Gina Rodriguez just turned another year older, and she’s showing off her birthday suit in celebration!

The Jane the Virgin star rang in her 33rd year of life on Sunday and took to Instagram days later to give a snapshot of how she kicked off her birthday.

“I woke up 33 with james dean staring at me and a faux fur blanket keeping me warm,” Rodriguez, who sports a bikini in the Instagram image, wrote Tuesday.

In the picture, the actress showcases her fit figure as she stands in a living room — where a portrait of late actor James Dean...

Gina Rodriguez is looking good!

The Jane the Virgin star took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off her fit figure in a tiny blue printed bikini.

Watch: Exclusive: Gina Rodriguez Reveals Boyfriend's Adorable Reaction to Her 'Prom Pic' With Brad Pitt

"I woke up 33 with James Dean staring at me and a faux fur blanket keeping me warm. #FeelingMyOats," Rodriguez captioned her Instagram pic.

Related: Gina Rodriguez Wishes TV Dad Jaime Camil a Happy Birthday -- See the Sweet Post!

On July 30, the Golden Globe winner celebrated her 33rd birthday and shared an adorable picture with her boyfriend, Joe LoCicero, who is also a "Leo baby."

"A couple that is barefoot together stays together. I want all my birthdays with you.

Siempre Viva! 13 Diabolical Facts to Eulogize the 25th Anniversary of Death Becomes HerSiempre Viva! 13 Diabolical Facts to Eulogize the 25th Anniversary of Death Becomes HerKurt Anthony7/31/2017 10:20:00 AMWe would like to talk about….Madeline Ashton.

Actually, we’d like to talk about Death Becomes Her! The iconic dark comedy celebrates its 25th anniversary today and we could drop dead from excitement!

Death Becomes Her made its theatrical debut on July 31, 1992, turning heads as it reached the number one spot at the box office upon its release. Along with the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the film has since gone on to earn over $149M worldwide, thus achieving its immortal status as a cult classic.

Under the killer direction of Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Death Becomes Her features a frighteningly talented cast (Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini), otherworldly special effects, and satire...

Heading for Spring Break somewhere? Long before Girls Gone Wild, kids of the Kennedy years found their own paths to the desired fun in the sun, and most of them came back alive. MGM’s comedic look at the Ft. Lauderdale exodus is a half-corny but fully endearing show, featuring the great Dolores Hart and the debuts of Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton.

Where the Boys Are

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1960 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date July 25, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Connie Francis, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton

Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Barbara Nichols, Chill Wills.

Cinematography: Robert Bronner

Art Direction: Preston Ames, George W. Davis

Film Editor: Fredric Steinkamp

Original Music: Pete Rugolo, Neil Sedaka, George Stoll, Victor Young

Written by George Wells from a novel by Glendon Swarthout

Produced by Joe Pasternak

Directed by Henry Levin

Ah yes, in 1960 first-wave Rock...

Martin Landau, the Oscar-winning Ed Wood actor who appeared in Crimes & Misdemeanors, North by Northwest and the Mission: Impossible TV series over a career that spanned over 50 years, died Saturday at the age of 89.

Landau died following "unexpected complications during a short hospitalization" at the UCLA Medical Center, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.

The actor spent five years as a newspaper cartoonist in his native New York before deciding to focus on acting; As Landau often stated, he and Steve McQueen were notably the only two applicants accepted into...

Los Angeles – His acting career spanned from working with Alfred Hitchcock to Tim Burton. Along the way, he had significant TV and film roles including a Best Supporting Oscar win for portraying Bela Lugosi in Burton’s “Ed Wood”. Martin Landau died in Los Angeles on July 15, 2017. He was 89.

He was one of the rare actors known both for distinctive parts in both television and film, and had a revival in his career towards the end of his life. Besides working for directors Hitchcock and Burton, he also has roles in films by Woody Allen, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Francis Ford Coppola and Frank Darabont. On television, he had an early role on “Mission: Impossible in the 1960s, and another on the cult series “Space :1999”

Martin Landau in a 2013 Appearance in Chicago

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Martin Landau was born in Brooklyn, New York,...

After making his mark on TV, the actor came into his own in his later years, with remarkable performances in Ed Wood and Crimes and Misdemeanors

•Martin Landau: a life in pictures

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Martin Landau was the handsome, intelligent, reflective actor who was respected for first-class work in the theatre, and for his consistency and professionalism in films and TV in the 60s and 70s. But he gloriously came into his own in movies in his later years. Landau grew into his gravitas, and also into bittersweet human comedy and tragedy, in ways that were unavailable to him as a younger man. Landau was destined to be the career-opposite to his friend and contemporary from the early, hungry days in New York – James Dean. Maybe he would have ended his days regarded as hardly more than a safe pair of acting hands,...

It is a spooky story and one that clearly bothered Alec Guinness. 

On Sept. 30, 1955, James Dean died after his Porsche 550 Spyder was in a devastating accident while he was cruising along California 46.

The cultural icon was 24. 

In 1977 interview on the BBC's Parkinson Talk Show, unearthed by Heat Vision, a somber Guinness recalls how he warned the young man that if he drove that car, he would be killed. That conversation took place the evening of Sept. 23, 1955, just one week prior. 

It all happened when Guinness and a friend were turned away from a packed restaurant...

Brad Pitt is basically James Dean when he wears a white t-shirt, and we can barely handle it. See the new pics of Brad looking happy and relaxed in Los Angeles after his trip to Glastonbury Festival, where he reportedly Pda'd with Sienna Miller, here!

Before fame propelled Brad Pitt above the heights of the Hollywood sign, he was an overly polite, amateur actor who was almost passed over for the role of the seducer-meets-robber J.D. in the 1991 film Thelma and Louise. Now, a new book reveals inside details of his sex scene with Thelma (played by Geena Davis) — a scene so “racy” that it kick-started his reputation as a sex symbol and, if left uncut, would have shot the movie’s rating “past R.”

The young Pitt wasn’t director Ridley Scott’s first (or even second) choice, Becky Aikman reveals in her book,...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.

This week’s question: “The Book of Henry” has been assailed by critics. But let’s look beyond this particular reviled new release. What’s the worst movie you’ve ever reviewed?

Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie), Vox

It’s unfortunately not even a contest: “God’s Not Dead 2,” which I reviewed for Flavorwire and then wrote about it further for Thrillist. (The first movie is actually far worse, but I didn’t review it.) They’re actually not the worst-made movies I’ve seen, but as a Christian and a film critic, I find them so actively offensive and cynical that it’s somehow even more depressing. I didn’t derive any joy from the process, but it felt important that I write about it.

Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko), Pajiba/Cbr.com...

Before Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective or even In Living Color, there was only one way to experience the comedy magic of Jim Carrey: onstage. Over countless late nights in the ‘70s and ‘80s, thousands of people watched stand-up comedians such as Carrey hone their craft at the Los Angeles club The Comedy Store. The beginning of his 10,000-mile journey from Ontario, Canada, to stardom in the U.S. began with a single step on stage at the legendary venue, which serves as the setting of his new Showtime drama, I’m Dying Up Here, exploring the lives and careers of up-and-coming comedians.

“I came here when I was 17, on a bus, basically, and got off at The Comedy Store,” Carrey told Et in 1992, which at the time was just two years into his run on the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. Run by co-founder Mitzi Shore (also mother to the actor Pauley...

Joe Hyams, the highly respected publicity executive who worked at Warner Bros for more than 40 years, died today. He was 90. Hyams, who had served in the Marines before coming to the entertainment industry, was relied upon by studio heads, filmmakers and celebs going back to the days of John Wayne, James Dean, Burt Lancaster, Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini. But one of the longest-lasting relationships in town was between him and his friend Clint Ea…...

A title like Promised Land can be appreciated for its duality: primarily meaning a land of promise but also, in another sense, a land that was promised. We’re talking about the United States of course, or rather filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is in his latest documentary. It’s an abstract road movie, fueled on disillusionment and rock and roll, and one that attempts the quite ambitious task of sketching out a narrative line to link the rise and decline of the nation with the rise and decline of Elvis Presley. If Jarecki struggles a little with this alchemy at times it is because Promised Land is essentially three movies in one: a detailed account of the King’s career; a loose account of the last 80 years of American politics; and a musical performance film. It can be a little jarring to shift between those gears but the director has form...

Actor likened to James Dean in his youth who was adopted in middle age by hip directors such as Quentin Tarantino

Michael Parks, who has died aged 77, was a softly spoken character actor who enjoyed a prolific and chequered film and television career, largely in the exploitation genre. In middle age he was adopted as something of a mascot by the hip directors Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith. “Michael was, and will likely for ever remain, the best actor I’ve ever known,” said Smith, who directed him as a menacing preacher in Red State (2011) and as a sinister seaman with a bizarre walrus fixation in Tusk (2014). Both roles were written especially for him by Smith, who said: “He will take a page of dialogue and deliver it in a different way than anybody else.”

Parks had appeared earlier as the mobster and drug-runner Jean Renault in David Lynch...

Brad Pitt's belt is doing big work these days.

While promoting his Netflix movie, War Machine, the 53-year-old actor -- who has appeared noticeably slimmer lately -- has been giving off some major '90s vibes with his baggy pants. To be fair, that was a very sexy decade for the A-lister, who was voted Sexiest Man Alive in 1995 and five years later in 2000.

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Watch: Brad Pitt Has ’Nothing to Hide' and 'No Secrets' Following First Tell-All Interview Since Angelina Jolie Split

Et first spotted the style in April when Pitt appeared at the premiere of The Lost City of Z in Hollywood, California, wearing some roomy slacks.

Just this week, he stepped out again in several loose-fitting looks. On Tuesday afternoon, the father of six waved to fans outside The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in New York City, while dressed in a pair of tan, high-waisted trousers...

It takes a lot to stand out when you’re standing between Robert Mitchum and John Wayne. And it surely isn’t easy when you’re also standing in front of the venerable Howard Hawks. But this was the position 25-year-old James Caan found himself in when he took on the role of Alan Bourdillon Traherne, otherwise known as Mississippi, in Hawks’ 1967 Western, El Dorado. Though Hawks was nearing the end of his filmmaking career (this would be his penultimate movie) and Caan was just at the start of his (following two features and about five years of extensive television work), they were each entering the project under similar circumstances. Indeed, it was their shared experience on the disappointing Red Line 7000 (1965) that left them both wanting. It may have been a personal letdown for Caan, but that film’s poor reception wasn’t a deal-breaker as far as his prospects were likely to continue.

He’s taken one of the most fascinating and unconventional routes with his stardom.

The thinkpiece-industrial complex is running at full speed this spring to update the cinephile community’s consensus of major stars. In case you’re behind, adjust your opinions to reflect the following changes: Reese Witherspoon is still good, Kristen Stewart is now really good, Anne Hathaway is great because her haters were sexist, and Nicole Kidman is underappreciated despite receiving an Oscar nomination this very year.

One star whose evaluation has yet to appear from the hot take factory is Robert Pattinson, who features in two theatrical releases this April, Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert (quickly dumped in theaters and VOD over two years after its 2015 Berlin premiere) and James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. Five years ago, the cultural ubiquity of “R-Pattz” was so enormous that the future President of the United States tweeted about him six times...

“Here is the screen’s most shocking exposé, of the ‘Baby-Facers’ just taking their first stumbling steps down Sin Street U.S.A.!” Robert Altman’s first feature film is far too good to be described as any but an expert step toward an impressive career. But he had to deal with a young actor who drove him up the wall, Tom Laughlin.

The Delinquents

Blu-ray

Olive Films

1957 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 72 min. / Street Date March 21, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98

Starring: Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Richard Bakalyan, Rosemary Howard, Helen Hawley, Leonard Belove, Lotus Corelli, James Lantz, Christine Altman, George Mason Kuhn, Pat Stedman, Norman Zands, James Leria, Julia Lee, Lou Lombardo.

Cinematography: Charles Paddock

Film Editor: Helene Turner

Second Unit Director: Reza Badiyi

Produced, Written and Directed by Robert Altman

The hoods of tomorrow! The gun molls of the future!

Ah, the glorious Juvenile Delinquency film, or J.D. Epic,...

In many ways, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are the quintessentially cool Californian couple. She has her effortlessly tousled and endlessly aped locks, perennially perfect golden tan, and deep and abiding passion for paddle boarding; he channels all of the bad boy charm and understated acting chops of James Dean with a collection of motorcycle jackets to prove it. And this week the pair are proving that California is more than just a state, it’s a state of mind, taking their particular bohemian joie de vivre to the chic streets of Paris.

The couple have been on a stylish...

Nine years after Heath Ledger’s death, members of his inner circle share memories of his zest for life and his troubled final days. Subscribe now for the emotional new details and never-before-seen photos — only in People.

He was the guy who would show up at your door unannounced at 7 a.m. for breakfast, or load his friends into a motor home for an impromptu trip to Mexico, or pour everything he had into his work.

In this week’s People cover story, Heath Ledger‘s friends and family say the star crackled with life and lived each moment to...

By strange and fortuitous coincidence, my meeting with Jack Garfein fell upon the nexus of several intersecting moments in history. It was Friday, January 27th — International Holocaust Remembrance Day. One week earlier, Donald J. Trump was sworn to office as forty-fifth President of the United States; and in the ensuing weekend, allegations of Trump’s unpunished sexual misconduct, callous attitudes toward women and courting of radical right-wing supporters helped bring about the Women’s March on Washington, one of the largest mass protests in the nation’s history. All around, people are anxiously reading the past with tenuous hopes and fears for the future. History, so often a thing defined after the fact, is currently in violent and furious motion.

Jack Garfein is living history, and he’s not shy about telling it. Born to Ukrainian Jews in 1930, Mr. Garfein personally witnessed as a child the rise of Nazi Germany...

Luke Perry still has that bad boy swagger about him, but in his new series, Riverdale, we've noticed one major difference from his James Dean-like image of the '90s -- his hair.

"In the first season of Riverdale, I let Archie have the cool hair," Perry, 50, explains to Et's Nischelle Turner. "You notice that my hair's not so great, because I wanted to give him a head start. I told him in the second season I'm coming to get you. By the end of it, I'm going to have the coolest hair on TV!"

Watch: Jughead and Betty's 'Riverdale' Romance Continues in This Adorable Sneak Peek!

Perry plays a devoted single dad on the dramatic series, based on the Archie Comics, while newcomer K.J. Apa plays his son, Archie.

It's been nearly 17 years since Beverly Hills, 90210 took its final bow, but with reboots like Girl Meets World and Fuller House, it might be...

Like every Edgar Wright movie since “Shaun of the Dead,” the director’s fifth feature, “Baby Driver,” takes a ludicrous concept and turns it into a brilliant exercise in high style and a rush of big ideas. The director’s most ambitious work to date is a wildly successful romantic heist comedy, propelled from scene to scene with a lively soundtrack that elevates its slick chase scenes into a realm that develops its own satisfying beat.

If Busby Berkeley made “Grand Theft Auto,” it might look something like this exuberant comic caper, in which young getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) speeds through highways and back alleys seemingly impervious to police advances so long as he has a smooth beat to guide his maneuvers. Operating under the employ of robbery maestro Doc (a stern Kevin Spacey), Baby quietly works off a debt to his boss by hauling two-bit criminals out of harm’s way,...

James Deen’s membership site JamesDeen.com won this year’s Xbiz award for Adult Site of the Year — Performer. “It is an extreme honor to win this award,” he said in a statement. “It means so much to me that the adult industry has been so supportive and such a great family of people. Being told that JamesDeen.com is one of the better websites is a super cool feeling and I plan to make it even cooler in the upcoming years.” JamesDeen.com is known for its “Do A Scene With James Deen,” where women can apply to act out a scene with.

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By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

There’s a bit of a unique situation happening in the best adapted screenplay category this year. While every single person up for that trophy are first-time nominees, our attention is focused on the one posthumous contender: August Wilson. With the man behind Fences up for a trophy, he becomes the person with the second-biggest gap between their death and a potential Oscar win in history.

The Academy nominated Wilson in the best adapted screenplay category for Fences — directed by Denzel Washington who also starred in the film alongside Viola Davis — along with a talented group. Other nominees include Eric Heisserer for Arrival, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi for Hidden Figures, Luke Davies for Lion, and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight. Not only is Wilson the only posthumous nominee here but he is the only...

Rebel with a Cause: Interview with the star of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Felicity JonesRebel with a Cause: Interview with the star of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Felicity JonesIngrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine12/14/2016 9:42:00 Am

Can you feel it — an imbalance in the force?

It’s been there since 1977 when Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope arrived in theatres with young Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) appearing as the film’s single female lead opposite a galaxy full of male heroes and villains.

Although a princess, Leia was also a leader in the rebel force fighting the evil Empire. Unfortunately, her place in the Star Wars universe took a turnfor the worse in the next two films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as her role devolved into that of Han Solo’s maybe girlfriend and, worst of all,...

Helen Mirren has been in the spotlight for nearly five decades – and that’s exactly how she wants it.

Although the 71-year-old actress admits the thought of aging once made her cringe, she now realizes it’s much better than the alternative.

“The best thing about being over 70 is being over 70,” Mirren says in an interview with Aarp The Magazine for its December/January Issue. “Certainly when I was 45, the idea of being 70 was like ‘Arghhh!’ but you only have two options in life: Die young or get old. There is nothing else. The idea of dying young when you...

Despite some heavyweight performances, this pugilist biopic is overshadowed by some very distinguished forebears

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Another weekend, another boxing biopic, another young star looking to make a name for himself. Stepping into the ring has been a rite of passage for talented, mostly method-friendly young actors for six decades or so now, starting with (non-method) Errol Flynn as “Gentleman Jim” Corbett in 1942 and Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano in Robert Wise’s Somebody Up There Likes Me (a role inherited from James Dean) in 1956. The most influential, of course, were Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky (not a biopic, but no matter) and Robert De Niro’s Jake Lamotta in Raging Bull, but in recent years all manner of pretenders have taken a shot at the crown.

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For the past six days, Doc NYC has screened numerous documentaries that shine a light on untold stories, marginalized figures and crucial history. Tomorrow, the festival comes to an end, but before it closes, the festival will screen Takuji Masuda’s new film “Bunker77,” the true story of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and heir to a sugar fortune, who lived fast and died young. A classic American rebel in the vein of James Dean and Andy Warhol, Bunker turned his back on his fortune to live a simple life out of the public eye. He pushed surfing’s boundaries by riding very short boards in Hawaii and the Jeffrey Bay in South Africa. He also mentored skateboard legend Tony Alva and collaborated with filmmaker Kenneth Anger, leaving behind a complicated, nuanced legacy. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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The Nic Cage-starring thriller is a complete mess, but has moments of audacious brilliance. It shows that, at 70, Schrader is still taking creative risks

Age is not mellowing 1970s wunderkind writer-director Paul Schrader one bit. Now aged 70 and essentially an outcast in Hollywood, he’s spent the past few years, the sunset of his career, doing what his contemporaries were doing at the dawn of theirs half a century ago for Roger Corman: savouring the untold creative freedoms available to inspired artists on Z-movie budgets. Since The Canyons – in which he cast the most mercurial household name in the States, Lindsay Lohan, and its most famous (and, as it turned out, most creepy) male porn star, James Deen – he’s been making his movies like a film student, improvising, stunt-casting, rewriting on set,...

If Beverly Hills, 90210 premiered while you were still in elementary school, then you spent a fair amount of time thinking about what high school would be like, with its parking lot full of BMWs and one station wagon, its one class a day, its illicit trips to Mexico with your rich boyfriend and its hallways full of 25-year-olds. All the while, you just assumed you would have immaculately blown-out bangs, jeans that taper at the ankle, brightly colored socks and vests and blazers galore! Skirts over shorts suit your fancy? Go for it! And as for you fellows, tucking in your shirt is always the right answer—unless you want people to think you're some James Dean type who lives in a hotel. Such was the...

Warren Beatty’s fascination with director and aviation tycoon Howard Hughes began in the 1970s, when he saw Hughes in a hotel in Los Angeles. Now, forty years since that encounter and almost twenty years since his last directorial effort, “Rules Don’t Apply,” written, directed, produced and starring Beatty as Hughes himself, finally hits theaters at the end of the month. The film debuted at AFI Fest on the evening of November 10, and the first reviews are praising Beatty’s vision, but craving more substance.

In his review for IndieWire, our own Eric Kohn wrote that, while the film is beautifully rendered, the story tends towards the harmless: “A sweet, old-fashioned Hollywood romance that just so happens to involve Howard Hughes as a supporting character, Beatty’s long-gestating project is a modestly enjoyable, well-acted nostalgia piece with just a touch of edge. As passion projects go, this one’s disarmingly slight in its ambitions,...

Elia Kazan remains one of the of the most notable and accomplished of American auteurs, whose post-wwii informed filmography provided the framework for fluctuating representation of masculinity as well as a platform for the method school of acting, directing names like Marlon Brando and James Dean in some of their most iconic portrayals of the brooding, bruised American male psyche.

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