Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka are stepping out for a dinner date.
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OSF HealthCare, a Catholic hospital system out of Illinois, has restricted the employee health plan benefits it offers to LGBTQ employees.The health care system changed its policy by narrowing the insurance plan’s definition of “infertility” from any person unable to get pregnant to “the inability for a married couple of opposite sex spouses to conceive.” According to Bloomberg News, OSF HealthCare has characterized the policy shift as attempting to “assist married opposite sex spouses” in conceiving a child.OSF HealthCare operates around 147 medical facilities in Illinois and Michigan, with over 24,000 employees. By amending the definition of fertility, only straight people — more accurately, employees in opposite-sex relationships — will be able to have their fertility treatments covered by their employee health care plan.Given the Catholic Church’s stance on homosexuality and marriage, it is not surprising to see religious institutions or religiously-affiliated employers adopting policies that exclude LGBTQ individuals from benefits typically offered to married couples.Critics were quick to denounce OSF HealthCare’s new policy, arguing that an employer is not denying treatment to some of its workers due to “objections to the treatment they are seeking” — as it might in the case of an abortion or gender confirmation surgery — but merely due to their LGBTQ identity.Peter Romer-Friedman, an attorney who is representing a same-sex male couple who claims they were denied coverage for in vitro fertilization under New York City’s health insurance plan, told Bloomberg that he believes OSF HealthCare’s actions are a clear “violation” of federal workplace discrimination.
Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka are stepping out for a dinner date.
Cara Delevingne is hanging out with some friends!
Cara Delevingne is explaining those photos of herself at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.
Cara Delevingne and Jimmy Fallon are forever connected… by real estate. The 29-year-old model-actress, who celebrates her 30th birthday next month, stopped by on Wednesday and opened up about buying Fallon's former New York City apartment. «I live in your house. I sleep in your bed, is that weird?» she joked. Fallon was thrilled to hand over the keys to his beloved pad — in a reported $10.8 million deal — where he says he's lived since his 20s. «When you sell an apartment, you're like, 'I hope someone cool buys it and someone creative buys it and someone loving buys it,' and you check all those boxes,» the 47-year-old comedian gushed of Delevingne, who said she hadn't changed a thing about the property's aesthetic. «It's one of the most incredible places I've ever lived in, obviously, but I just can't believe it.
Sex and the City ever so slightly. The original gang was older; one was missing; and some new friends had arrived to . While Sex and the City creator Darren Star wasn’t involved with And Just Like That, he perhaps wanted to do some riffing of his own, as evidenced by the new Netflix series Uncoupled (July 29).
The recent limited series “The Offer” reminded viewers that before Albert S. Ruddy was taken seriously as the producer of “The Godfather,” he was often dismissed as the guy who created “Hogan’s Heroes.” Similarly, another key architect of the New Hollywood of the 1970s — director and producer Bob Rafelson — would find himself earning greater respect as the man behind such iconic, essential American films as “Five Easy Pieces,” “The Last Picture Show” and “Easy Rider” than as one of the creators of “The Monkees.”The difference, of course, is that “Hogan’s Heroes” is the kind of old sitcom contemporary audiences would call “problematic,” while “The Monkees” has endured both as a screwball piece of television and as the launching pad for a band that’s beloved to this day.
In the wake of recent spate of shootings that have disrupted TV productions in Chicago and New York, Hollywood’s unions and the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee are discussing how best to increase safety for casts and crews filming on location.
Audrina Patridge is opening up like never before about her time as a reality TV star and her past public romances. ET's Denny Directo spoke with star about what fans can expect from her new book,, which will be released on July 26.In her memoir, Patridge writes about her intense connection with her on-off flame, Justin Bobby Brescia, and how she's never had that spark like that with anyone else. «Justin is always going to be that guy.
Tanya Kersey, founder of the Hollywood Black Film Festival, died Monday of cardiac arrest in in Rancho Cucamonga, California. She was 61.
Chloe Grace Moretz and Gary Carr shared a laugh on the set of their upcoming series, The Peripheral, while filming in New York City on Monday (July 18).
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were spotted in New York ahead of the Duke of Sussex's keynote speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.The royal couple were seen entering the Manhattan headquarters of the United Nations, with Harry set to address the assembly at its annual celebration of Nelson Mandela Day.The day pays tribute to the late-leader of South Africa, speaking of his legacy and his fight against apartheid for which he spent 27 years in prison before eventually being elected the country's first black leader. Prince Harry, 37, will be the keynote speaker at the event, and will talk both about the legacy of Nelson Mandela as well as talking about the effects of climate change and world hunger.
Hallmark Channel has unveiled the official first look at A Holiday Spectacular!
She Said has been released – check it out below.The film adapts the book by investigative journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporter who wrote the exposé about the Hollywood producer.A synopsis for She Said reads: “Two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped propel the #MeToo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.”Take a look at the trailer here:Kantor and Twohey reported the story which broke on October 5, 2017, collecting allegations of sexual harassment and assault many women had made against Weinstein, dating back several decades.She Said is set to be directed by Unorthodox director Maria Schrader, from a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.Carey Mulligan recently starred in Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which was also described as a post-#MeToo film.In a four-star review, NME wrote: “From the opening bars of ‘Boys’ to Cassie’s distinctive nurse costume and candy-coloured wig, Fennell has delivered an aesthetically astute directorial debut that’s packed with verve – and hides an important message just beneath its pastel-coloured shell.“The framing of women’s trauma on-screen is slowly evolving (see I May Destroy You and I Hate Suzie) and Promising Young Woman, even with its imperfections, is no exception.”
The first trailer for “She Said”, the film about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, has been released.