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Al Schultz, a top CBS makeup artist for The Carol Burnett Show and several groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcoms including All in the Family and Good Times and was married to Vicki Lawrence for nearly 50 years, has died. He was 82.

New York Times that he never physically assaulted the “Vogue” singer, 65, when they were married from 1985 to 1989.Penn recalled the time that his home was raided by the SWAT team after Madonna called the police because she was concerned about guns in the house.“I said: ‘I’m not coming out. I’m going to finish my breakfast,’ ” Penn said in the interview published Saturday.

Biopics about popular musicians are major moments for the actors who land the roles, and that was certainly the case for Austin Butler!

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Donna Langley wants you to look on the bright side. NBCUniversal’s chief content officer underscored the need for optimism in this troubled time in Hollywood – where austerity reigns, jobs are scarce and creatives are vexed by the approaching AI revolution. “Everybody is talking about the doom and gloom of our industry, but we have to be believers,” Langley told legal legend Ken Ziffren on Friday, keynoting UCLA’s annual entertainment symposium.

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Donald Sutherland, who died Thursday at age 88, included one of the most controversial sex sequences in Hollywood history. The nookie was so realistically shot, many audience members at the time believed it was genuine. Some still do.“We did a good job, it’s very real,” cinematographer Anthony B.

Donald Sutherland has heartbreakingly passed away at age 88, with his family sharing the news on social media in a touching tribute.The Canadian actor had a career in Hollywood spanning over seven decades and was awarded a number of accolades, including Emmy, Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. In recent years, he is known for portraying President Snow in The Hunger Games. Donald's cause of death has not been shared.

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Matthew McConaughey is looking back at his two-year break from Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES — Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a fundraiser for President Joe Biden that took in a record $30 million-plus for a Democratic candidate, according to his campaign, in hopes of energizing would-be supporters for a White House contest they said may rank among the most consequential in U.S. history.George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

Jessica Alba opened up about her Hollywood career and the pressure of being presented as a sex symbol at the start of it.

Lulu Wang remembers Nicole Kidman spiraling down a psychological rabbit hole in Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 dream-like masterpiece Birth where a woman believes that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. “That’s my favorite,” Wang declares, much to Kidman’s delight — and surprise. During the making of Prime Video’s Expats drama series, based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s second novel, The Expatriates published in early 2016, they both discovered that they had the same ‘get up and do it’ sensibility. As Kidman put it: “You’ve got to roll up your sleeves and do it.” Followed by a cry of “Don’t just sit there, let’s do it, let’s do it.” Wang says it’s “super rare” to meet someone like Kidman. “It feels pretty rare because there are a lot of people who talk about meeting more female directors. But I think that the evidence is in the resume. You can talk about it all you want and shout about it, particularly if you are somebody who has a particular status in Hollywood where your name green lights projects, and you are not using your name to green light projects with women at the helm. If you’re not doing it, then who’s going to do it?

K.J. Yossman Despite its title, “How to Rob a Bank” is not an instructional video on how to commit crime. Instead, as its co-director Stephen Robert Morse tells Variety, it’s a documentary about “the consequences of crime.” The doc, which dropped on Netflix last week, focuses on a prolific ‘90s Seattle bank robber called Scott Scurlock, whom the FBI soon nicknamed Hollywood due to his penchant for elaborate disguises.

EXCLUSIVE: The Little, Brown imprint Voracious has set a fall 2025 publication date for two books exploring the creative genius of Quentin Tarantino in the making of Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, and Inglourious Basterds.

Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘Dancing In The Dark’ music video.Yesterday, the Friends and Scream actress took to Instagram to join in on the viral ’80s dance trend, for which young social media users ask their parents to recreate how they danced in the 1980s over ‘Smalltown Boy’ by Bronski Beat.The clip sees Cox start off wearing a blue jacket as she waves her arms in the air before shrugging and taking the jacket off to reveal a Bruce Springsteen t-shirt. She then begins to dance like she did in the ‘Dancing In The Dark’ music video before the post cuts to clips of said music video.A post shared by Courteney Cox (@courteneycoxofficial)Cox, who was fairly unknown at the time – she only had one acting credit to her name for As The World Turns – was cast as a fan for the 1984 music video.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is addressing backlash from Hollywood Jewish figures over an exhibit celebrating Hollywood’s Jewish roots.

Tatiana Siegel A prominent Hollywood marketing and branding guru has raised eyebrows by telling staffers that they should refrain from working with anyone who is “posting against Israel.” Ashlee Margolis, founder of the Beverly Hills firm The A List, wrote an email to her staff about a new mandate to hit “pause on working with any celebrity or influencer or tastemaker posting against Israel.” The company, which is a fixture on red carpets and is at the forefront of brand integration with celebrities, works with such companies as CAA, UTA, Lede Company and Wolf Kasteler Public Relations. In the email, Margolis stressed that there was a distinction between what she deemed acceptable and unacceptable social media posts about the country and its current military operations in Gaza.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Thailand has some of the most comfortable cinemas in the world, but a film release slate that rarely strays far from the mainstream – mostly Hollywood tentpoles and Thai commercial titles – leaving art-house and documentaries short shrift. So, the Thursday arrival in Thai cinemas of a documentary feature is a welcome exception to the rule.

Kristen Lopez When the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a report surveying film roles for Native Americans last October, of the 100 highest-grossing theatrical movies released between 2007 and 2022, only one had an Indigenous performer in a lead role. Yet when speaking to Native creatives and performers, there is an overwhelming sense of optimism for what’s to come for their representation in entertainment.