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Ripley with Sherlock actor Andrew Scott, was set to stay at the Hotel Danieli.But he was refused entry after his vaccination card was found to be out of date, according to the Gazzettino newspaper.A ‘Super Green Card’ is needed in Italy to provide proof of vaccination to enter all indoor venues in the country including restaurants, hotels and public transport.Vaccination passes are currently valid in Italy for nine months after the date of the last dose, whether that is the second or third jab.NME has contacted representatives for Malkovich for comment.Malkovich is expected to be in Italy for the next month filming the TV adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr Ripley, which was made into a film in 1999 with Matt Damon taking up the lead role.Three years later, Malkovich played an older version of the lead character in Ripley’s Game.The forthcoming Showtime series will see Ripley played by Andrew Scott, with Malkovich and Dakota Fanning also starring.Set in the 1960s, the new show will see Ripley hired by a wealthy New Yorker to travel to Italy to convince his wayward son Dickie to return home. But along the way, Ripley starts to weave a complex web of deceit with murderous consequences.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFor a decade, Lena Dunham has kept more than busy, executive producing TV series like “Camping” and “Generation” and putting out her memoir. Yet she’s been notably selective about her main slate of projects, and “Sharp Stick,” which premiered tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, is her third major act.

WASHINGTON -- ABC’s “This Week” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Sens.

News of rock and roll singer Meat Loaf’s death at age 74 was a shock that caught many by surprise. As the Broadway performer and "Bat Out of Hell" crooner receives a much-deserved send-off from a who’s who of Hollywood and showbiz, one part of the late "Hair" star's life – his nickname Meat Loaf – seemingly remains obscure.

NEW YORK -- There's a brutal calculus that goes on in John Mellencamp's mind these days. Time is not on his side, and he knows it.“I am 70.

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon is set to be given a 'Great Scot' award at a glittering ceremony in New York.

health scares over the years.“Bat Out of a Hell,” his mega-selling collaboration with songwriter Jim Steinman and producer Todd Rundgren, came out in 1977 and made him one of the most recognizable performers in rock. Fans fell hard for the roaring vocals of the long-haired, 250-plus pound singer and for the comic non-romance of the title track, “You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” an operatic cautionary tale about going all the way.

Meat Loaf, the hardworking singer and actor whose Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums ever and who played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died. He was 74.

Jimi Hendrix has filed a lawsuit claiming that the estates representing his late Jimi Hendrix Experience bandmates, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, do not have the right to sue them for copyright claims.Dorothy Weber, the lawyer representing Experience Hendrix, LLC and Sony Music Entertainment, filed the suit on Tuesday (January 18) in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York.According to Rolling Stone, it comes after a letter Sony Music received in December from British lawyer, Lawrence Abramson, in which he claimed the label owed Redding and Mitchell’s estates performance royalties for roughly 3billion streams of the Experience’s songs.Abramson didn’t specify an amount they were looking for but did say that “such streaming figures and sales is estimated to be in the millions of pounds”. He added: “Ignoring this letter may lead our clients to commence proceedings against you and may increase your liability for costs.”The letter prompted Weber to take acton on behalf of Experience Hendrix and Sony, who claimed they were unable to be sued by the defendants because both Experience members previously signed waivers.Weber has alleged that Mitchell signed a document in September 1974 releasing the Hendrix estate from legal claims and agreeing not to sue the Hendrix estate. She’s claimed that Redding, too, signed a similar document in April 1973.

John Mellencamp no longer takes his life for granted after he suffered a major health scare in 1994. "I had lots of doctors going, ‘John, your cholesterol’s way too high and you smoke,’" the "Hurts So Good" artist told People magazine on Tuesday. "I’d go, ‘F--k it.’ I learned my lesson after I had a heart attack at 42." According to the outlet, the 70-year-old picked up smoking when he was 14.

The final episode of Bob Saget’s podcast dropped earlier this week more than a week after the comedian died unexpectedly at age 65.  The actor was found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Fla. after a lengthy comedy show, sending shockwaves throughout the country as fans and loved ones mourned the loss.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News is going to get out of Washington in January of 2022 so it can figure out who will be coming to Washington in 2024.When Chuck Todd appears on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press Daily” Wednesday and Thursday, he will do so from Georgia, where he will meet Georgia officials and candidates for office, all part of a bid by NBC News to fan out across the nation to find the most important stories that will affect this  year’s midterms and the 2024 presidential race.“You cannot be a national news organization and cover the campaign process from Washington and New York,” says Carrie Budoff Brown, the NBC News senior vice president who oversees “Meet The Press” and has been assigned to oversee the unit’s midterms coverage. “You really need to get out of those two places.” Over the next weeks and months, NBC News correspondents will seek out influential people in battleground states and try to suss out emerging storylines in hopes of getting ahead-of-the-curve information to news and politics aficionados.

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Nguyen, the award-winning writer, director and producer behind horror-romance The Housemaid (Cô Hầu Gái), has signed with Cinetic Media for management.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNoah Beck, the social media phenom who has amassed more than 32 million followers on TikTok alone, has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.Originally from Arizona, the 20-year-old Beck played soccer for the University of Portland and went viral within a month of creating his TikTok account during the pandemic. He moved to L.A.

Ben Foden would love his children, Aoife and Tadhg, to go to university in America. The rugby star, who is currently competing on Dancing On Ice, sat down with wife Jackie Belanoff-Smith for a catch up with OK! and revealed he'd love his eldest kids to go to college in America.The star, 36, shares Aoife, eight, and Tadhg, six, with ex-wife Una Healy, 40, and the children currently live in Ireland with their mother. Ben, who is in the UK to focus on Dancing On Ice, is currently based in New York with his businesswoman wife Jackie, and says he would love for Aoife and Tadhg to consider university there.

Forging a new path. Anna Marie Tendler is looking to the future with hope after finalizing her divorce from John Mulaney.

EXCLUSIVE: BET+ has put in development Cayne,  a drama based on Ian K. Smith’s Ashe Cayne novel The Unspoken, from Rosewood screenwriter Gregory Poirier and Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s SMAC Entertainment.

Domhnall Gleeson has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Steve Carell in The Patient, FX’s 10-episode half-hour limited series from The Americans creative duo Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, and FX Productions.