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Over the weekend, Huma Abedin and Alex Soros were married, a celebration complemented by a large array of A-list attendees.

In addition to the celebrities present, such as Anna Wintour and Nicky Hilton, Soros and Abedin also welcomed many political figures, including Kamala Harris, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

Abedin served as Clinton’s aide for over 25 years.

In an interview with Vogue published on Saturday, Clinton shared, “I’m looking forward to being a witness to their marriage; to the celebration that we all are going to be part of; to seeing so many longtime friends gathered in one place to really enjoy being part of Huma and Alex’s start of their married life.”

She added, “I think we all could use some fun, so I’m looking forward to all of it.”

Soros is the third-eldest son of billionaire George Soros,...

Former congressman and convicted sex offender Anthony Weiner stopped by “The View” on Friday morning, and while he was there, the ABC hosts pulled no punches when it came to addressing his past scandals.

To introduce the man, moderator Joy Behar (Whoopi Goldberg does not appear on the show on Fridays) reminded the audience of his “series of, shall we say, sexting scandals” and then wryly asked the audience to “please welcome the very contrite Anthony Weiner.” When Behar asked if “contrite” was the right adjective, Weiner agreed but immediately took the opportunity to swipe at a past political interview on the show.

“Yeah. By the way, was this where Kamala Harris was sitting when she blew up her campaign?” Weiner quipped. “Was this the spot? I hope I don’t have the same fate.”

"I got into recovery. I tried to make my life better. And now if I...

ABC’s The View brings a mix of prestige talent, Broadway names and political heat to the table next week, with a guest lineup led by Julianne Moore, Sarah Snook, Sarah Silverman, Ashley Tisdale and Justina Machado. The week wraps with The Political View, featuring former Congressman and current NYC Council candidate Anthony Weiner. Now deep […]

Julianne Moore, Sarah Snook, Sarah Silverman, Ashley Tisdale, Justina Machado Set For ‘The View’ May 26–30; Anthony Weiner To Appear On ‘The Political View’...

Ever since August 2024, fans have gotten a chance to peek behind the curtain of entertainment PR. With Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni caught in a very public and messy legal drama following It Ends With Us, the audience found out more about what happens behind the scenes.

Words like astroturfing, smear campaigns, and crisis PR weren't terms regular people were familiar with if not working in the PR industry. Following the ongoing legal drama, which includes defamation, sexual harassment, and smear campaign claims, everyone got a peek at what publicists and PR specialists deal with. Everyone expects the legal drama to end up becoming a documentary at some point, and Netflix is one step ahead, winning a bid for a drama series about a PR crisis, Deadline reports.

The upcoming drama will star Lizzy Caplan as a crisis PR executive who "helps high-profile clients navigate the worst days of their...

Netflix has snagged an of-the-moment drama about a crisis PR consultant, with Lizzy Caplan attached to star.

The currently untitled show comes from A24, Vox Media Studios and American Horror Story: Delicate showrunner Halley Feiffer. Netflix outbid several other outlets for the project and has begun development on it. It’s based on a New York magazine profile of PR executive Risa Heller, whose firm specializes in crisis communications and has represented the likes of Jeff Zucker, Anthony Weiner and Jared Kushner.

Netflix declined to comment.

The potential series will follow Caplan’s (Fleishman Is in Trouble, Zero Day) character, the premier crisis PR fixer in New York, who helps clients navigate the worst days of their lives while trying to maintain her own image as a wife and mother without any crises of her own.

The world of crisis communications has had a moment in the spotlight recently as...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, a drama starring Lizzy Caplan as a crisis PR executive has landed at Netflix for development, Deadline has learned. A rep for the streamer declined comment.

As Deadline previously reported, the untitled project, from American Horror Story: Delicate showrunner Halley Feiffer, A24, Caplan’s Westborn banner, Marti Noxon‘s Tiny Pyro Productions and Vox Media Studios, hit the marketplace last month amid the ongoing Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal drama that has put crisis PR in the spotlight. The timely project quickly drew five offers, including inquiries from Hulu, Netflix and Amazon.

The potential series is based on the New York Magazine article “Get Me Risa Heller!” by Shawn McCreesh. The article profiles crisis PR veteran Heller, who has worked with the likes of Jeff Zucker, Mario Batali, Anthony Weiner, Jared Kushner and Jeffrey Toobin.

Written by Feiffer, who will serve as showrunner,...

“Late Night Talk Show Host” isn’t generally considered to be one of the most dangerous professions. At least not now that the job rarely requires hosts to come into close contact with Crispin Glover.

But last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s segment about Elon Musk’s Doge cuts ended with a literal cut.

The problems began when Stewart brought out his “Wanna Be An Accountant Starter Kit” to see if he could help Doge find some areas where government spending could be reined in. After hammering away on a calculator, next to a “World’s Most Dad” mug, while wearing green visor, Stewart pointed out that while Musk has targeted things like “Va nurses” and “iguana Std studies,” the government spends billions subsidizing oil companies and Big Pharma, who in turn, reward the Americans whose tax money bankrolls their industry with their “highest drug prices in the Western hemisphere.

Jon Stewart shocked his Daily Show audience on Monday when he cut his hand on a broken mug and continued delivering the monologue while bleeding.

Stewart cut his hand when he smashed a mug while speaking about the prescription drug prices. He moved the hand under the desk after looking at it and said “I might be going to the hospital soon.”

A few minutes later, guests caught a glimpse of the blood when he moved his fingers above the desk. As the audience gasped, he said: “I’m fine!”

The lively moment was part of a longer segment about Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency department, which Stewart mocked by offering his own suggestions on how to cut spending. “How about we just take the $3 billion in subsidies we give to oil and gas companies that already turned billions in profits?” he said to cheers. “How about we just...

Exclusive: Crisis PR experts’ job is to be invisible fixers, staying behind the scenes while navigating their clients’ way out of a scandal. The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni saga changed that, with crisis PR veteran Melissa Nathan front and center in the duo’s legal war. And now a timely drama about a fictional crisis PR executive played by Lizzy Caplan has hit the TV marketplace, sparking interest and landing five offers, with Hulu, Netflix and Amazon among those pursuing, I hear.

No one would comment but the untitled series, from American Horror Story: Delicate showrunner Halley Feiffer, A24, Caplan’s Westborn banner, Vox Media Studios and Marti Noxon’s Tiny Pyro Productions, is inspired by the New York Magazine article “Get Me Risa Heller!” by Shawn McCreesh, sources said. The article profiles another crisis PR veteran in Heller, who has worked with the likes of Jeff Zucker, Mario Batali, Anthony Weiner,...

In September, former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy dropped a bombshell report in his newsletter, Status: New York Magazine had placed political reporter Olivia Nuzzi on leave after her editors became aware of an inappropriate romantic relationship between her and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The revelation triggered an ethics crisis that rippled throughout much of Washington, D.C., media. Nuzzi — who had been engaged to Politico correspondent Ryan Lizza — was one of New York’s most prominent writers and the face of its political coverage. She had profiled Rfk Jr.

New York Magazine put Washington, D.C., correspondent Olivia Nuzzi on leave after learning she allegedly engaged in a romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a source told The Hollywood Reporter.

The magazine shared in a statement with THR on Thursday, “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures.

“Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the statement continued. “An internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. We regret this violation of our readers’ trust.

Huma Abedin, former top aide to Hilary Clinton, is getting married to Alex Soros, son of billionaire political activist George Soros.

Abedin, 47, and Soros, 38, announced their engagement on Wednesday via Instagram. They posted a photo of Soro getting down on one knee with a scenic backdrop.

“This happened… We couldn’t be happier, more grateful, or more in love,” the caption said.

The couple met during the fall of 2023 at a mutual friend’s birthday party. Soros proposed to Abedin in New York City in May. The couple recently traveled to Italy for a formal celebration.

This will not be Abedin’s first marriage. The MSNBC contributor was married to former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) from 2010 to 2017. She filed for divorce after Weiner pleaded guilty to transmitting explicit content to a minor in May of 2017. The ex-couple shares one child, a 12-year-old son, Jordan.

Last year, Soros assumed control...

In Episode 2 of the “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show,” we watch the recently out-of-the-closet 37-year-old comedian cheat on his first real boyfriend. In Episode 3 we watch him, dressed in a tux, stop to get a hot dog and miss his best friend’s wedding ceremony. In Episode 4, Carmichael asks his father about his 40-year affair and the other family he kept hidden — a story at the heart of Carmichael’s Emmy-winning stand-up special “Rothaniel.” Cornered by the cameras at a campfire during the father-son road trip, the elder Carmichael is visibly uncomfortable, refusing to talk on camera, and asks his son permission to go home.

The reaction on social media was fast, loud, and furious. Many were shocked by Carmichael’s behavior; more were in disbelief he’d document it for the world to see every week on Max. Some went as far as to question his ethics, accusing him of...

“Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show” can trace its origins back to at least one unlikely source: disgraced former U.S. representative Anthony Weiner.

Before the series from creators Carmichael, Ari Katcher, and Eli Despres, which premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival, Carmichael’s pie-in-the-sky idea was to play a version of Weiner in the project that ultimately became “Reality Show.” And that prospect was initially even more compelling to the creators than the series that resulted.

“Can we just make a movie of Jerrod trying to get ‘Weiner’ made?” Despres recalled onstage after the series’ SXSW premiere.

And while that premise isn’t without its intrigue, the “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show” that eventually came to be is something else entirely. It is, simply, a docuseries about the comedian’s life that dwells deeply, sometimes uncomfortably, on his relationships with love, sex, and loneliness. The three episodes shown were “Emmys,” “Mike,...

Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, has moved on from her tumultuous past with her ex-husband, Anthony Weiner. In a social media post on Valentine’s Day, she shared a photo of herself cozying up to Alex Soros, the son of influential philanthropist and billionaire George Soros.

The Instagram photo, originally posted by Soros, shows the couple snuggled together in a romantic booth adorned with rose petals at a restaurant in Paris. A lively sticker hat wished “Happy Valentine’s Day” hovered atop the image.

Abedin is 47 years old and nearly a decade older than her new boyfriend.

Abedin and Weiner, known for a series of high-profile scandals, ended their marriage seven years ago. Weiner gained national attention in 2011 when he inadvertently tweeted a link to an explicit photo of himself. Although he initially denied any involvement, he eventually admitted he engaged in explicit...

“These are the papers… this is secret information” Trump can be heard saying in a recording of a 2021 meeting held at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort, audio of which was obtained by CNN on Monday.

CNN first reported on the existence of such a recording in May, just days before Trump was indicted by the Justice Department on charges related to their investigation into his hoarding of classified documents post-presidency.

CNN plays a recording of Donald Trump discussing classified documents:

"It's like highly confidential…This is secret information." pic.twitter.

Bradley Cooper, 47, and Irina Shayk, a Russian model, 36, were spotted sharing a hug on the streets of New York this week while walking hand-in-hand with their five-year-old daughter Lea De Seine.

Cooper, who recently starred in The Nightmare Alley, and Shayk started dating in 2015 and went public as a couple in 2016. They welcomed their little girl Seine in 2017, eventually calling it quits in 2019 and co-parenting the child.

Cooper was recently rumored to be dating Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner‘s ex and Hillary Clinton‘s close confidante for months.

Shayk was also seeing others after her split with Cooper, being briefly linked to Vito Schnabel and Kanye West.

It was reported that the duo were thinking about getting back together. Shayk added fuel to the rumors as she posted a photo of the two of them on August 28, looking cozy on a beach vacation in the Bahamas, captioning the snap with a red heart emoji.

Exclusive: Freida Pinto (Mr. Malcolm’s List) is developing Huma Abedin’s New York Times bestselling memoir Both/And, A Life in Many Worlds into a TV series through her production company, Freebird Films. Pinto will star as Hillary Clinton’s top aide and longtime advisor in the project, which is set up at Entertainment One through Freebird Films’ first-look deal there. Pinto and her producing partner Emily Verellen will executive produce alongside Abedin.

“Telling my story in Both/And has been an empowering and liberating experience,” Abedin said about her memoir which she said explores “the power of family, of friendship, of commitment” as well as “the feelings of love, loss, betrayal, trauma, re-birth.”

Both/And, Abedin’s first book which was published Nov. 1, 2021 by Scribner, tells her story. Born in Michigan and raised in Saudi Arabia, Abedin, who is of Indian-Pakistani descent, has spent her entire career in public service and national politics,...

They're far from the shallow now. Bradley Cooper is dating Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to Hillary Clinton and ex-wife of disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, according to multiple reports. The two have been seeing each other for a few months after being set up by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, a source told Page Six. While it's unclear exactly when their romance began, Cooper and Abedin were both in attendance at the 2022 Met Gala in May. However, they were photographed separately on the red carpet at the star-studded fashion event, which is co-chaired by Wintour. The relationship news comes more than three years after Cooper's breakup...

Bradley Cooper is in a relationship with Huma Abedin, People reported on July 12. The pair both appeared separately at the Met Gala back in May, and Anna Wintour, a friend of Abedin's, is rumored to have set them up, according to Page Six.

Cooper, 47, separated from his ex Irina Shayk in 2019 after four years together. The pair share daughter Lea De Seine, who was born in 2017. The actor opened up about parenthood to People in June, telling the outlet that despite his struggles with self-esteem and addiction, "everything changed" when he became a father. "Every single thing is absolutely shaded by, or brought into glorious colors, by the fact that I get to be a father to a wonderful human being," he said.

Cooper, who starred in and directed 2018's Oscar-winning "A Star Is Born," is set to star as Leonard Bernstein in the film "Maestro," which he will...

Huma Abedin is chief of staff for Hillary Clinton. Born in the United States and raised in Saudi Arabia, she has spent the entirety of her career in politics and public service. Her memoir, "Both/And," reflects on her political career and personal life, including her days on Clinton's presidential campaigns and her marriage to former NY Rep. Anthony Weiner.

In "Both/And," I write about the night in 2011 Anthony admitted to me that he - and not a hacker - had tweeted an inappropriate picture from his account: "I was simultaneously filled with rage and stunned to my core. It felt like a bolt of lightning had struck me and run straight through my body. That bolt was the only thing keeping me standing upright."

I was angry on behalf of my child, I was angry on behalf of his constituents, and anger 100 percent got me through those first few weeks.

“The Comey Rule” premiered on Showtime over two nights on September 27 and 28 of last year telling the story of James Comey’s (played by two-time Emmy winner Jeff Daniels) tenure as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The two-part limited series frames Comey’s time as the head of the FBI through two of the most high profile investigations the agency conducted. The first is the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary and Comey’s decision to announce that the investigation was being reopened (due to a connection with former congressman Anthony Weiner) less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election. The second part of the series examines Comey’s navigation of the agency’s investigation into the campaign of President Donald Trump (played by Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson) and possible connections it had with the Russian government.

Remember Anthony Weiner? In case you’ve forgotten, he’s a former congressman from New York who served two years in federal prison and now has to register as a sex offender because he sent lewd photos of himself to an underage girl. Weiner — who was previously embroiled in multiple other sexting scandals that derailed his political career — also found himself as a key character in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election loss, when his laptop became a centerpiece in an FBI investigation just days before Election Day.

Weiner was released from prison in 2019 and while he’s kept out of the public eye since then, a recent New York Times story on the disgraced political put Weiner back in the news. During an interview published this week, Weiner even suggested embarking on a new career selling “political memorabilia,” potentially including an Nft of his career-ending photo. Stephen Colbert had some...

Jimmy Kimmel had a surprise guest during his monologue on Thursday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who showed up to explain the state’s new vaccine lotto — and, we guess, to get some fun publicity amid the recall effort.

In case you hadn’t heard, Newsom announced a new vaccine incentive program on Thursday worth $116 million. That includes $50 prepaid grocery store gift cards for the next 2 million people who get vaccinated, with the leftover money — $16.5 million — to be split between 10 winners. And yes, eligibility is retroactive: Even Californians who have already been vaccinated are eligible for the prizes, which will be announced June 15.

Early on in Kimmel’s monologue, he explained that he’s largely been doing in-studio shows in front of his staff, but “to liven things up, we’ve been inviting one or two vaccinated people per week to sit in our audience.

“Democrats are now the party that can’t tell the difference between Anthony Weiner and Al Franken,” said Bill Maher at the close of Real Time on Friday night. He went on to bemoan the increasing rigidity of the Left and the increasing, well, liberalism of the Right.

“Once upon a time the Right were offended by everything. They were the party of speech codes and black lists and moral panics and demanding some TV show had to go. Now that’s us. We’re the fun-suckers now. We suck the fun out of everything: Halloween, the Oscars, childhood, twitter, comedy.”

Maher continued as part of his New Rules segment, “American government works best like a mullet: Republicans do business in the front, Democrats party in the back.”

“[GOP Congresswoman] Marjorie Taylor Green is reportedly into polyamorous tantric sex,” said the disbelieving host. “And Ashley Babbitt, the Maga warrior who died storming...

There is perhaps no story that has brought out more schadenfreude than the downfall of Rep. Matt Gaetz. As Rolling Stone noted earlier today, the right-wing Florida congressman, Trump supporter, and QAnon hero is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for allegations that he used Apple Pay and Cash App to pay multiple women for ecstasy-fueled sexual encounters at various Florida hotels, including possibly a 17-year-old girl.

No charges have been filed against Gaetz, and in a statement released by Gaetz’s office, a spokesperson said, “Matt Gaetz has never paid for sex.

Is it possible for something to feel dated and too soon at the same time? Watching The Comey Rule, Showtime’s two-part limited series (premiering tonight) about former FBI Director Jim Comey’s rocky four-year tenure straddling the Obama and Trump administrations, is in some ways like stepping into a distant period piece. In the opening minutes, we meet Comey on the morning of his job interview with Obama at the White House. Comey (played by Jeff Daniels) stares into his closet, mulling which navy suit to wear. His wife eventually picks one for him.

We have our first look at Jeff Daniels as James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in The Comey Rule. And to be honest, it appears eerie in more than one way. The new two-part miniseries event hails from Showtime and creator Billy Ray, who among other credits wrote Captain Phillips and the adapted screenplay to the first Hunger Games movie. So the true story aspirations of the former and dystopian vision of reality television stars in the latter appear to merge in this visibly stirring image of James Comey, the all-American hero on screen.

The series will be divided between two nights, with the first about Comey and the FBI’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the second installment focused on Comey’s fateful meetings and relationships with now President Trump, which led to Comey being fired from his position of FBI Director and the...

As Americans were increasingly forced into pandemic lockdown in March, Covid-19 restrictions began to ease in China. And in the aftermath of China’s loosened social distancing rules came reports of soaring divorce rates, a shot across the bows of any couple headed into isolation, a Trans-Pacific admonishment: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

The lockdown has been difficult on everyone, but sheltering-in-place as a couple is a Sartrean nightmare all its own. Every quirk becomes an annoyance, every annoyance becomes a provocation, every provocation becomes a fight, and every fight ends with you reading Yelp reviews of divorce lawyers.

It’s lucky, then, that one of the best shows of 2019 was attuned specifically to the issues that couples face — even when not in mandatory lockdown — an incisive, revolutionary glimpse into what’s necessary to make a relationship work and how love isn’t enough to help another person thrive.

As Americans were increasingly forced into pandemic lockdown in March, Covid-19 restrictions began to ease in China. And in the aftermath of China’s loosened social distancing rules came reports of soaring divorce rates, a shot across the bows of any couple headed into isolation, a Trans-Pacific admonishment: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

The lockdown has been difficult on everyone, but sheltering-in-place as a couple is a Sartrean nightmare all its own. Every quirk becomes an annoyance, every annoyance becomes a provocation, every provocation becomes a fight, and every fight ends with you reading Yelp reviews of divorce lawyers.

It’s lucky, then, that one of the best shows of 2019 was attuned specifically to the issues that couples face — even when not in mandatory lockdown — an incisive, revolutionary glimpse into what’s necessary to make a relationship work and how love isn’t enough to help another person thrive.

A year ago, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond, of the Beastie Boys, premiered an extended theatrical evening in which the two got up onstage and chronicled the band’s 30-year history, from soup to nuts (pun intended), with photographs, TV and film clips, home videos, animated doodads, and other archival tidbits flashing on a screen behind them. The event, which premiered in Philadelphia, was staged by Spike Jonze, who had directed several Beastie Boys videos, notably the epochal ’70s-cop-show prankfest he laid over the big beat of “Sabotage.” Jonze approached the show as if it were the live-theater version of a documentary — the key difference being that Horovitz and Diamond wrote out what they were going to say beforehand, reading their recollections off a teleprompter (with a good deal of joshing spontaneity) and shaping it all, with the assistance of Jonze, so that the evening had the personalized flow and detail of a memoir.

As disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein sat in a New York City courtroom learning of his guilty verdict on rape and sexual assault charges on Monday, his ex-wife Georgina Chapman was nowhere to be seen.

Weinstein, 67, was found guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree and acquitted on three other charges, according to The New York Times.

Chapman, 43, who married the disgraced producer in 2007 and announced their split in 2017, has kept a low-profile since he was accused of victimizing more than 80 women. The two reached a divorce settlement in January 2018.

The fashion...

Near the end of Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres’ “The Fight,” one of the documentary’s central subjects, Aclu deputy director Lee Gelernt, is preparing for a quick hit on NBC News. The lawyer, best known for his work for immigrants’ rights, is minutes away from a live appearance discussing the state of the Aclu’s lawsuit against the government for its family separation policies. As the clock ticks down, a breaking news alert diverts everyone’s attention elsewhere: to the latest ruling in another Aclu-involved case, this one involving President Trump’s transgender military ban. Gelernt is forced to pivot, preparing talking points and official reactions before he’s thrust onto live television to sound off on yet another one of the over 100 lawsuits the American Civil Liberties Union has filed since Trump took office. It’s perhaps the most illustrative moment in the latest film from the trio behind “Weiner,...

Elyse Steinberg, one of the co-directors of the new documentary “The Fight,” was inspired to learn more about the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) shortly after Donald Trump moved into in the White House.

“Seven days into Trump’s presidency,” she recalls, after the travel ban in Muslim-majority countries was issued in January 2017, “I joined the protestors on the steps of the Brooklyn courthouse.” That day, from a distance, she spotted Lee Gelernt, one of the lawyers arguing against the ban. He had a triumphant — and bewildered — look on his face as he walked outside, where he heard the crowd chanting: “Aclu! Aclu!”

“He was a person never expecting to be in the maelstrom,” Steinberg says. “And I immediately recognized that being next to this guy, fighting against Trump, was where we needed to be.”

After three years and more than 400 hours of footage, the result is “The Fight,” about...

Sunnyside, the new NBC comedy starring Kal Penn, follows Garrett Modi (Penn), the youngest New York City Councilman ever who was living the American Dream but gets lost in his way amidst the power and glamour of politics. When his career ends after being busted for public intoxication, he’s hired by a diverse group of hopefuls who dream of becoming American citizens and believe he can help – giving him a new sense of purpose and a chance for redemption, as long as he remembers where he came from.

During the show’s panel presentation at the summer TCA press tour, Penn talked about how the “patriotic comedy” came together. When asked to pitch his dream project years back, he named the two things he loved: “I love making people laugh, comedy is my first love, and I love America,” he said.

Also, being from the East Coast, “a lot...

Anthony Weiner is on the prowl again -- and one of his first orders of business was filling his gut with some Mexican grub in NYC. The disgraced Congressman and recently released ex-con was chowing down Saturday night at a Mexican restaurant in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. We're told he hit up a place called Rosa Mexicano ... a popular chain in the city. We don't know what Anthony ended up eating, but witnesses say...

Anthony Weiner is officially a free man, after doing the remainder of his time at a halfway house for prison inmates ... and he's elated. The disgraced former Congressman walked out of a residential re-entry center in NYC Tuesday morning, where he's been since February after transferring there from a Massachusetts federal prison. Weiner, who was barely holding back a smile, said it's good to be out, adding ... "I hope to be able to live a life of integrity and service.

T-minus 4 days until Anthony Weiner is back on these streets. The disgraced ex-Congressman will finally complete his stay at a halfway house on May 14, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As we first reported back in February ... Weiner got out of prison, but was not yet a free man. He was transferred to a residential re-entry center in NYC. Once he's officially out, he'll be under supervised release for 3 years and he'll have to...

Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from prison, TMZ reported. Weiner had been serving a 21-month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass. after he was caught exchanging sexual texts with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina. The center where he was held offers treatment for sex offenders.

Weiner is still not free, though. He has now transferred to a Residential Reentry Management facility, either living in a halfway house or confined to his home, according to TMZ, which reports that Weiner secured an early release...

Anthony Weiner is no longer behind bars, but the disgraced ex-U.S. Congressman still has a few months in federal custody before he's freed ... still earlier than originally expected. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Weiner's been transferred out of a Massachusetts prison and into the custody of a Bureau of Prisons residential re-entry center in New York. We're told he's either in a halfway house or home confinement. Weiner's now in pre-release status, which inmates...

Is the photograph of John Wayne Bobbitt’s severed penis one of the original dick pics? The beginning of a long tradition of phalluses in the public eye? Copious coverage of the 1993 Bobbitt scandal — John Wayne’s wife, Lorena, sliced off his member in a fit of rage, prompting a months-long media spectacle and tabloid notoriety for the couple — kicked off two decades of penises inserting their way into the national discourse. Brett Favre, Anthony Weiner, Jeff Bezos… Take your pic(k). It is impossible not to consider this ongoing...

The Ami-Jeff Bezos scandal is set up to dominate headlines for a while. Who knows where it will lead? In the third world, an oligarch-president proxy war playing out in public like this usually presages a coup.

If this were Thailand or Uruguay, bookies would already have odds on a Bezos-Mark-Zuckerberg-Sundar-Pichai junta being in power by May.

This scandal will at least drag us through unprecedented legal and ethical conundrums. Can the president use the surveillance powers of the state to go after political enemies? Can a billionaire...

The wait is almost over! Nexflix docu-series Making a Murderer became a worldwide phenomenon following its release in December 2015. The twisted story surrounding Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey — who were convicted of murdering Teresa Halbach in 2005 — has audiences torn over whether or not Avery committed the murder or if he was framed by local police. Now, the new trailer for Season 2 is here, and you better believe we'll be clearing our schedule on Oct. 19. Check it out: Netflix VP of original content, Cindy Holland, told USA Today last January: "The story is still ongoing, so you will see new episodes coming sometime this year as this story continues to unfold." Meanwhile, production is officially underway for Convicting a Murderer, a follow-up to Making a Murder. The new series — directed by documentary filmmaker Shawn Rech — is not a sequel but rather a follow-up Rech and his longtime filmmaking partner, attorney Andrew Hale,...

It was only a matter of time before Anthony Weiner's underage sexting cost him his marriage. Huma Abedin filed for divorce from her estranged husband — whom she wed in 2010 — last year, but they've since called it off to work matters out "privately." "In order to reduce any impact of these proceedings on their child, the parties have decided to reach a settlement swiftly and privately," Abedin's lawyer, Charles Miller, and Weiner's attorney, Margaret Donohoe, said in separate statements back in January. According to Page Six, however, experts said the real reason for the sudden change of heart may have been to shield one another from a potential federal probe. Earlier this year President Donald Trump urged the Justice Department to investigate Abedin for keeping classified emails on Weiner's laptop. "Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid [sic], Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords...

Two months after a Florida man was arrested and charged with the murder of his 39-year-old wife, local police are investigating the case and trying to find out his motive for the alleged killing of Shanti Cooper-Tronnes. David Tronnes, 50, is currently in custody at the Orange County Jail without bond and the State Attorney’s Office released interviews with the former couple's friends and family members — and many of them hinted that money may have been the underlying issue in Shanti and David's marriage, The Orlando Sentinel reported. "Dave was doing things that was [ticking] her off as it pertains to money," one of Shanti's friends revealed, according to The Orlando Sentinel. The pal went on to explain that David told Shanti that he only wanted to pay "one-third" of the rent that he shared with Shanti and her young son. According to Shanti's friend, David acted "weird" when it came to paying for groceries.

Disgraced ex-Congressman and former NYC mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner may be coming home early. Nearly one year after he began his 21-month prison sentence for sexting with an underage girl, Weiner is set to be released early for good conduct. The now 54-year-old — known for his online sexual exploits as "Carlos Danger" — has been a "model inmate" while imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Ma, the NY Post reported Monday. According to prison records, he is scheduled to be released in May 2019, three months earlier than his initial August 2019 date. Anthony Weiner and his son participate in the NYC Pride March in 2016. Credit: Getty Images In May last year, Weiner pleaded guilty to one charge of transferring obscene material to a minor after communicating with a 15-year-old girl from January to March of 2016. "I was a very sick man for a very long time," he said before the sentencing,...

Before Anthony Weiner accidentally tweeted a picture of his bulging groin, and before Bill Clinton “did not have sexual relations with that woman,” there was Colorado Senator Gary Hart, who torpedoed his very credible shot at the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination because he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. Like Weiner and Clinton (but more charismatic than both of them combined), Hart was a passionate statesman motivated by a genuine desire to better the lives of his constituents. And, like Weiner and Clinton, none of that seemed to matter from the moment Hart was caught with his pants around his ankles.

Judging by Jason Reitman’s lucid but lifeless attempt to dramatize the final weeks of his campaign, Hart’s scandal was the beginning of the end for political discourse in this country. The film takes that fact for granted. The twin questions that drive “The Front Runner” from...

Errol Morris’ look at Steve Bannon, Alexis Bloom’s dissection of Roger Ailes, and James Longley’s unflinching portrait of life in war-torn Afghanistan are just a few of the politically charged documentaries that will screen as part of this year’s New York Film Festival.

The annual gathering for cinephiles and Oscar hopefuls has unveiled the complete lineup for its Spotlight on Documentary section, and it’s filled with some of the biggest names in non-fiction filmmaking. These directors are turning their cameras not just on agitprop masters and geopolitical hotspots, they’re also highlighting artistic giants, social justice champions, and off-beat fashion photographers.

The festival, which is presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, appears to be leaning into the polarized present. The selections include “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes,” which is directed by Bloom, the filmmaker behind “Bright Lights;” “The Waldheim Waltz,” director...

Washington — Gonring, Spahn and Associates, the Los Angeles-based government relations, public relations, and philanthropy firm, is opening a D.C. office led by Kevin Ryan.

The firm, headed by Andy Spahn and Jennifer Gonring, has long represented clients such as Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Ryan, who has been vice president of Gonring Spahn, is being promoted to partner.

“The Washington of today is so unpredictable and it’s more critical than ever that our clients have a foot on the ground and a seat at the table,” Ryan said. In an interview, he added that there is a greater interest among clients in what is happening in D.C. The firm also has clients involved in telecom issues, education technology, and green energy.

Ryan lived in D.C. earlier in his career, working for the Democratic National Committee, and Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 campaign, and also on...

Georgina Chapman is speaking out for the first time since over 60 women accused her estranged husband Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

In a profile for Vogue‘s June issue, the 42-year-old fashion designer describes the emotions she’s been dealing with since the scandal first broke last fall.

“There was a part of me that was terribly naive — clearly, so naive. I have moments of rage, I have moments of confusion, I have moments of disbelief! And I have moments when I just cry for my children,” she emotionally explained. “What are their lives going to be? What are people going to say to them?...