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Actress, wife, and mother Kimberly Williams-Paisley lost her voice for two years. The According To Jim star revealed she experienced a “terrifying” two years as she was “trapped in my own body.” She could barely whisper during this time.

What happened to the Hallmark star? Here is her story.

Hallmark Kimberly Williams-Paisley – Instagram Kimberly Williams-Paisley Underwent Two ‘Terrifying’ Years Unable To Speak

Kimberly Williams-Paisley fans may wonder why they have not seen her in two years. That is because she went through a “terrifying” ordeal. The Father Of The Bride star revealed to People that she could not speak for two years. During this time, she did not act. Moreover, the actress, who has been married to country legend Brad Paisley for over two decades, felt “Invisible” as she navigated this serious situation. She avoided family and friends as she could do no more than whisper during this time.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley is opening up about enduring a medical ordeal for two years.

In her People magazine cover story published on Wednesday, the Father of the Bride actress and wife to Brad Paisley shared that in the fall of 2022, her voice disappeared and she couldn’t speak louder than a whisper for two years due to a voice disorder.

“I felt trapped in my own body,” Williams-Paisley said. “There was so much shame involved. I felt invisible.” As a result she turned down acting jobs and withdrew from loved ones.

Williams-Paisley would go on to learn that she had a partial paralysis of her left vocal cord and had to undergo surgery to correct the problem. “I had to fight to be heard. Now, no matter what my physical voice is, my voice underneath is stronger. I feel more confident. I know myself better,” she said.

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“Father of the Bride” and “According to Jim” actor Kimberly Williams-Paisley revealed to People magazine that she could not speak for two years due to a partial paralysis of her left vocal cord, which forced her to to turn down acting roles. Williams-Paisley had surgery in August to correct the health issue after two years of feeling “invisible.” The vocal cord paralysis left her unable to speak louder than a whisper and “I felt trapped in my own body.”

“There were days when I grieved and sobbed,” Williams-Paisley said about the two years she spent in near silence. “I wondered, ‘Who am I without my voice?'”

Williams-Paisley first noticed issues with her voice in November 2022 while attending an annual fundraiser for Alzheimer’s. She was supposed to welcome guests to the event but “I put the mic to my mouth, and nothing came out. It was terrifying.”

The actor...

Mr. Rambo deserves our all the treats and all of our love! It's a particularly impressive year for dog movies - and here is another one that goes right on the list of dog movies that deserve our admiration in 2024. Aside from the Hollywood offerings like Arthur the Dog and Dog Gone, there is a growing selection of indies that are winning over dog lovers worldwide. Black Dog (my review) from China and Dog on Trial (my review) from Switzerland both premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The Friend with a huge great dane in it just premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. And this one from Egypt titled Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo just premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival this fall. It's an adorable, heartfelt tale of a man who goes off on an adventure to find a safe forever home for his dog after...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ran an undercover sting on a Georgia-based animal training firm that services the major studios and networks. Then the activist group filed a Feb. 21 complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Usda’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service tells THR that it’s reviewing the matter. “Aphis takes all animal welfare-related complaints very seriously,” says a spokesperson.

The company, Atlanta Film Animals (Afa), disputes PETA’s claims related to a variety of its creatures, from monkeys to cockatoos. It also counters that it has evidence it will share with the federal agency that, in at least one instance, the clandestine operative failed to adequately provide medication to a pair of elderly pigs — which the organization denies.

In a statement provided to THR, the company portrayed PETA’s...

February is considered the month of love for movie lovers and hopeless romantics everywhere.

For this reason, the Hallmark Channel has given February a special name – Loveuary.

One of their new movies this month is called A Taste of Love.

The romantic comedy tells the story of a culinary chef named Taylor with big dreams and aspirations.

She’s determined to make a name for herself in the restaurant industry because she wants to be respected in her field.

While visiting her hometown, she reconnects with her childhood sweetheart and receives an offer that’s tough to refuse. Here are some details about the main cast members.

Jesse Kove and Erin Kahill are the leading stars

Jesse Kove is the actor who plays Jacob in A Taste of Love. You might also recognize him from movies and TV shows like The Holiday Proposal Plan, Bring Me a Dream, On Eings of Ragles,...

The made-for-tv movie was a programming staple for the broadcast networks in the 1970s and 1980s. While it fell out of favor in the 1990s and was even dropped as an Emmy Awards category for three years beginning in 2011, it has been on an upswing as of late. This year, a whopping 61 telefilms are in contention for the five nominations that will be revealed on July 12. Last year, there were only 48 options, compared to 41 in 2021 and 28 in 2020.

All 20,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 26 to cast their 2023 Emmy Awards nominations ballots for their favorite TV movies. A new rule change will require each voter to make no more than five selections in this category, whereas there was previously no limit. As opposed to the Oscars, voters for the Emmys do not rank their choices and nominees are determined by a simple tally.

Just like on the limited series ballot,...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself. There will be regular updates to reflect new developments.

*Best Drama Series*

Frontrunners

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Crown (Netflix)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Major Threats

Andor (Disney+)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

1923 (Paramount+)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

The Old Man (FX)

The Boys (Amazon)

Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)

Bad Sisters (Apple...

One was fiercely focused, the other accident-prone. They both made it.

The careers of Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise first collided exactly 40 years ago when the two very young but ambitious actors showed up at an Oklahoma location to assume their roles in The Outsiders, directed by Francis Coppola.

Although thrilled by the opportunity, they didn’t exactly click: Asked to share hotel rooms, Cruise had his agent demand a single because the actor wanted to study his script each night. Lowe found another roommate for camaraderie.

On opening night, Lowe angrily discovered most of his scenes had been cut while Cruise’s had survived. It was an ominous portent because Cruise soon moved on to hits like Risky Business and Top Gun. Lowe struggled with early disappointments like Class and Masquerade.

(L-r) Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise in ‘The Outsiders’

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Five years after a torrential storm walloped Santa Barbara County that resulted in deadly mudslides, evacuations were ordered Jan. 9 for the enclave of Montecito and some neighboring areas as downpours once again sparked threatening conditions.

Trees toppled, highways were closed and flash floods — as seen in a startling video shared by Montecito resident Ellen DeGeneres and in images of a man kayaking in downtown Santa Barbara — hit the region, which is also home to such names as Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

“Scenery, weather, lifestyle, there is nowhere like it and real estate prices have gone through the roof,” Lowe, the star of Dog Gone and 9-1-1: Lone Star, tells THR by email. “But,” he adds, “there’s no free lunch! When you live this close to mother nature, sometimes you’re going to feel it.”

At Rosewood Miramar, The New Wilderness cocktail...

Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill’s romantic comedy You People debuted at the top of the Netflix English-language film list for the week of January 23 to January 29.

The film, in which Hill also stars alongside Eddie Murphy, racked up 55.65M hours viewed in its first week on the streamer. That put it leaps and bounds above the No. 2 spot, which went to the Lily Collins-led thriller Inheritance with 11.6M hours viewed.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is still sitting in the No. 3 spot, putting up another 9.7M hours viewed. Also on the list were Puss in Boots, Devotion, Dog Gone, Pale Blue Eye, Sing, Matilda the Musical and Trolls.

While it didn’t make it onto the Top 10 in the U.S., Netflix also says that All Quiet on the Western Front received a bit of an Oscars buzz boost, with viewership increasing 190 over the previous week. The film,...

That ’90s Show made its entrance onto the Netflix Top 10 for the week of January 16 to January 22, after only three days on the service. The That ’70s Show spinoff series brought in 41.1M hours viewed, coming in at No. 5 on the list of most-watched English-language series.

Ginny & Georgia Season 2 is continuing to heat up the charts, staying afloat at No. 1 with 87.4M hours viewed in its third week. Season 1 also stayed on the list, coming in at fourth place with 43.3M hours viewed — being pushed out of the No. 2 spot where it sat last week by Vikings: Valhalla Season 2.

Wednesday remained at No. 3, racking up another 45.7M hours viewed. Also on the list were Vikings: Valhalla Season 1, Kaleidoscope, Emily in Paris Season 3, New Amsterdam, and Season 11 of The Walking Dead.

As for the film side of things, Dog Gone shot up from No. 4 last week to the top spot...

If you want to see the #1 film in the world (and see it properly), you need to buy a ticket at a movie theater. And that likely will remain the case for “Avatar: The Way of Water” (Disney) for the indefinite future.

But it’s different for the #2 and (it appears) the #3 top-grossing titles in domestic theaters, at least as of Tuesday. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal/19.99) marks its third week atop all three VOD charts we track. And multiple sources indicate that “M3GAN,” following the studio’s normal strategy for films that debut in theaters to less than 50 million, will add home rental platforms as well. (Universal did not respond to a request for confirmation).

“Puss” came out on only the third weekend of play in theaters, yet in successive weekends stayed strong. Its hold in consecutive weekends was down 19 percent, up 7 percent, down 21 percent this weekend.

Netflix took the ax (or in this case the “Hatchet”) to all other streaming platforms this week, running the table and claiming every single spot on this week’s Wrap Report with the newly released documentary, “The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker,” climbing to the top spot.

The Wrap Report provides an exclusive first look at the most-watched movies and individual TV programs from the past week across both linear television and streaming from data analyzed from Samba TV’s panel of more than 3 million households drawn from over 25 million connected TVs balanced to the U.S. Census.

In a week full of Netflix news, this week’s top performing programs only further cemented the streamer’s dominant position in today’s crowded content field. Announcing last week that it had topped its own projections in subscriber growth after it debuted its ad-supported plan, it’s clear Netflix has no plans to...

Stars: Colton Tran, Victoria Moroles, Anna Grace Barlow, James Gaisford, Johnny Berchtold, Patrick Fabian, Jonathan Bennett | Written by Luke Genton | Directed by Colton Tran

Snow Falls opens with a warning sign, a pair of ravens sitting on the sign welcoming the characters to the town of Snow Falls. A bigger warning sign for the viewer however should be the squabbling going on inside their vehicle. Complaints about someone studying, somebody sitting with their feet on the dash, or someone else not wearing a seat belt. The kind of pointless bitching that makes you wonder why these people hang out together.

But the five of them, Kit, Em, Eden, Andy and River are on their way to spend New Year’s Eve at a massive “cabin” owned by River’s family. “This is your second home?” “Third if you count the one we’re building on Martha’s Vinyard”.

Apart from playing Kit,...

This weekend, Netflix is adding a TV series set in the 1990s, a French historical drama TV series, and a French comedy TV series to add some balance. Last weekend, the streaming giant didn’t see much licensed content added to its catalog, with the limited series Scattered Barriers, the Indian movie Thai Massage, and the Nollywood movie The Wait, but it brought the true-crime documentary The Hatcher Wielding Hitchhiker, season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla, and the drama movie Dog Gone, starring Rob Lowe.

This weekend, Netflix will add a variety of licensed content, with the first seasons of the Japanese TV series Miu404 and Quartet, the thriller movie The Devil To Play, the documentary The Pez Outlaw, season 1 of the Korean TV series Awaken, the Turkish documentary Sweetie, season 28 of The Real World, and season 2 of the anime series Demon Slayer. As for original content, Netflix will bring one of its most anticipated TV shows,...

That ’70s Show sequel That ’90s Show, Kenya Barris’ feature directorial debut You People and Pamela Anderson documentary Pamela, a Love Story are some of the much-anticipated projects coming to Netflix this month.

Hitting Netflix on Jan. 19, That ’90s Show focuses on the teenage daughter of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), who is spending the summer of 1995 with her grandparents, Red and Kitty (Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp). Soon the Forman home fills up with a group of new friends. Grace, Prepon and fellow That ’70s Show stars Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Wilmer Valderrama are all set to make guest appearances in the sequel series.

Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are just some of the big names starring in Barris’ feature directorial debut, You People, written by Barris and Hill and hitting Netflix on Jan. 27. In the rom-com, Hill’s Ezra Cohen and Lauren London...

Netflix has unveiled its 2023 feature film slate, consisting of 49 titles.

The streamer’s feature slate has slimmed down significantly from 2022, when 86 films were announced. It should also be noted that nine of the films on today’s list were originally set for release as part of last year’s lineup. Those titles are Dev Patel’s feature directorial debut Monkey Man, Jennifer Lopez actioner The Mother, George C. Wolfe’s civil rights drama Rustin, John Ridley’s Shirley, the Adam Sandler vehicle Spaceman, the Jamie Foxx-starring They Cloned Tyrone, the starry comedy We Have a Ghost, Kenya Barris’ first feature You People and South Korea’s Jung_E.

In addition to several of those titles, Netflix has revealed premiere dates for works by such acclaimed filmmakers as David Fincher (The Killer), Zack Snyder (Rebel Moon), David Yates (Pain Hustlers) and F. Gary Gray (Lift) and by TV titans like...

There are no surprises on Netflix‘s English-language TV and film charts in the U.S. for the week of January 9-15.

Season 2 of Ginny & Georgia, which premiered January 5, is again No. 1 on the TV side of things. The season racked up another 162.7 million hours viewed in its first full week on the service. That’s in addition to the impressive 180.47M hours viewed it had already drawn in the first few days of release.

The first season of the family dramedy soared to No. 2 (up from fifth place the week prior), tallying another 63.2M hours viewed.

Wednesday is still sitting at No. 3 with another 57.8M hours viewed, while Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 came in at No. 4 with 55.4M. Kaleidoscope, Emily in Paris Season 3, New Amsterdam, Season 11 of The Walking Dead and The Recruit also made the list.

As for the film chart, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is still uncovering more viewers.

Peaceful coexistence between theaters and home platforms, and the latter showing more interest in awards-elevated titles, stand out as themes this week in VOD play. Throw in signs that Nicolas Cage, always a draw for home-oriented feature films, is as strong as ever, and two unheralded titles standing out at Netflix above higher-profile originals, and the result is several interesting developments this week.

In its second week of home video play, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal/19.99), released in theaters just over a month ago, repeats as #1 on all three VOD charts we follow. In the meantime, the film gained six percent this weekend in theaters, crossed the 100 million mark, showing signs that concurrent availability does little harm, at least to a family title.

This week, the Golden Globe awards and nominations from other prime industry group saw little reaction in theatrical returns other than a consistent interest in...

New year, new Netflix! January 2023’s slate can keep viewers entertained amidst all the gray skies and rainstorms, with new original films like “Dog Gone” starring Rob Lowe to classics like “Forrest Gump” starring Tom Hanks. Those who can’t get enough of the adrenaline of “Top Gun: Maverick” can stream the original film on Netflix now, too.

Other genres well-represented in the batch of new titles on Netflix in January include the whodunnit and rom-com, with several options like “The Pale Blue Eye” and “You People” landing as Netflix originals. For those in a more serious mood, “Brokeback Mountain” is now available. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” promises fun for the whole family with Illumination animation, child-favorite characters and a throwback to songs of the seventies for parents.

Here are some of the best new movies to watch on Netflix in January 2023:

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Rob Lowe is getting candid about how he’s been affected by the flooding at his home in Santa Barbara, California, due to the uncharacteristically heavy rain that’s been hitting the area in recent days.

Appearing at the Los Angeles premiere of “Dog Gone”, Lowe opened up about he and his neighbours were finally able to exit after a large tree had fallen on the street, blocking their way out.

“I’m lucky to be here tonight,” Lowe told Extra, as reported by People.

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“We were trapped for a day and a half. Cut off, so there was a big tree down on my road and nobody could get in or out,” Lowe continued.

“I just got a winch on my truck, so it was perfect,” he added. “I got to break it in and it worked.

This weekend, Netflix is welcoming a true crime documentary, the second season of a TV series about the Viking Age, and a drama movie based on a book. Last weekend, Netflix kicked off the first week of 2023 with the addition of the action movie 10 Minutes Gone, season 2 of Love Island, and season 11 of The Walking Dead, along with the documentary series Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, season 2 of Ginny & Georgia, Nicolas Winding Refn’s TV series Copenhagen Cowboy, and the mystery thriller movie The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling.

This weekend, Netflix won’t see much licensed content added to its catalog, with the addition of the limited series Scattered Barriers, the Indian movie Thai Massage, and the Nollywood movie The Wait. All eyes, then, will be on this weekend’s original content, which is bringing titles from different genres, so there surely be something for everyone to enjoy.

Dog Gone is a movie directed by Stephen Herek starring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. It is based on a book by Pauls Toutonghi.

A tv style saccharine movie with all the sickly sweet elements to delight the more family oriented viewers and create one or more ulcers for reviewers: full of clichés, easy, schematic and totally formulaic.

Storyline

A guy whose girlfriend has just dumped, gets a new friend, Gonker, with which, I guarantee, he manages a longer and more sincere relationship. The problem happens when he loses his dear friend and the guy will do everything he can to reunite with his friend… aided by his father, who has just arrived on his graduation day.

About the Movie Dog Gone (2023)

Well, we have Rob Lowe who, obviously, has had better days in his career doing this family movie about dogs which, without going very much beyond the evident,...

Exclusive: Kyle Gallner (Scream 5) and Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) have been cast in lead roles in Blumhouse Television and Epix’s latest dramatic-thriller The Passenger directed by Carter Smith.

The film follows Randolph Bradley (Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.

The Passenger is executive produced by Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse Television, and Lauren Downey.

Gallner recently starred in Scream 5, the Paramount Players feature film Something’s Wrong with Rose, and the Ben Stiller produced Dinner in America. Other credits include Outsiders for WGN, Disney’s The Finest Hours, and Warner Bros.’ Beautiful Creatures.

He is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency,...