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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe comedy community and “Ghostbusters” fans everywhere are remembering Ivan Reitman, who died Saturday at 75. Actors and filmmakers, including several people who worked closely with Reitman, paid tribute to the Canadian director and producer who directed the megahit “Ghostbusters” and helped ignite the movie careers of comedians including Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.Reitman also directed “Meatballs” and “Stripes,” and produced films including “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Space Jam,” “Up in the Air” and last year’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.”Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, said in a statement, “Tonight, the lady with the torch weeps, as do all of us at Columbia, and film lovers around the world. Ivan Reitman was an inseparable part of this studio’s legacy, but more than that he was a friend.

O’Shea’s Beer Garden is planning a two-week long Irish festival, kicking off on St Patrick’s Day.

PBS was the top winner in the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards on Tuesday, with four honors for outstanding broadcast and digital reporting in the public interest.

J.K. Simmons is hard at work on his new movie!

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are living their best life on vacation with their kids Dylan and Carys. On Wednesday the actor shared a photo posing happily with his kids in front of a gorgeous waterfall in Portsmouth, Dominica. He tagged their photographer Catherine in the pic and wrote “Good Morning” in the caption. The family was all smiles after making it to their waterfall destination that likely took a hike to get to.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentHere, Variety talks with Fernando León de Aranoa, director of the Javier Bardem-starring “The Good Boss” (“El Buen Patron”), Spain’s Oscar entry, which is a big box office hit on home turf and has scored more Spanish Academy Goya nominations than any other film in history.What does it mean to you to be shortlisted for the best international feature Oscar?I feel a mix of joy and responsibility. It means following the steps of some of the greatest Spanish filmmakers who have done it before, being among a group of brilliant directors from all over the world and having the opportunity of showing “The Good Boss” to a wider audience.What’s been the most challenging aspect of your campaign thus far?To make our film visible amidst the strong contenders.

Has any Broadway production in recent (or even not so recent) memory arrived with as much emotional baggage – or carried it as lightly – as the visually and sonically ravishing MJ? The Michael Jackson musical, as unlikely as such a prospect might have seemed a year ago, now appears poised to take Manhattan with the same hurricane force that the real Jackson funneled when he moonwalked into television history on Motown 25.

After that jaw-dropping trailer, Real Housewives of New Jersey fans are more than eager to take in everything the latest season has to offer. During an EXCLUSIVE interview with HollywoodLife, new “friend of” to the cast, Traci Lynn Johnson, teased some juicy details ahead of the drama, promising an “explosive” season with plenty to look forward to.

Frank Rizzo Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play “Intimate Apparel,” where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration between Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera, those passions fly free, revealing the operatic heart of “Intimate Apparel” in a new opera adaptation of this story of a 35-year-old Black seamstress aching for love in 1905 New York.The tight construction of the play, with its spare two-hander scenes and focus on the lives of ordinary and overlooked people, makes it a natural as a stripped-down chamber opera.

After that jaw-dropping trailer, Real Housewives of New Jersey fans are more than eager to take in everything the latest season has to offer. During an EXCLUSIVE interview with HollywoodLife, new “friend of” to the cast, Traci Lynn Johnson, teased some juicy details ahead of the drama, promising an “explosive” season with plenty to look forward to.

Holy cow, this may be the most direct repudiation Britney Spears has launched at her sister!

Police helicopters have been drafted in for the search for missing Scots woman Lynn McPaul who has been missing for four days.

Grimes has never been one to mince words. Discussing her new track on today's episode of Apple Music's Zane Lowe Show, she revealed that releasing it was more Columbia Records' decision than her own. "I always say a bunch of stupid shit and get in trouble, but either way, this is the label executive decision song," she told Lowe.

One of Hollywood’s most powerful and prestigious law firms is expanding its rooster and name.

Lana Del Rey has performed a new song with country singers Nikki Lane and Sierra Ferrell, titled ‘Prettiest Girl In Country Music’.Del Rey made a guest appearance during Lane’s show in Austin, Texas, over the weekend, where the trio sang the track for the first time. Speaking to the audience about the song, Del Rey said that she was inspired by a story Lane had told her about being hit on by an older man.“Nikki told me a little story about him about he had a little meeting with her and he crept a little too close to her, and he said, ‘How does it feel to be the prettiest girl in country music?’ and I was like, ‘Bleh!’,” she explained, adding, “So immediately I wrote a little chorus and then we expanded.”Watch the footage – captured by a fan – below:It’s the second new Del Rey song fans have been treated to recently, with the singer sharing ‘Watercolor Eyes’ last week.

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Lourdes Leon shared a comfortable and casual, makeup-less selfie to her Instagram Story on Thursday January 20. The 25-year-old model, fresh off of modeling for the Savage X Fenty Valentine’s Day campaign, posted a mirror photo, where she rocked an oversized purple sweatshirt, and comfy-looking pair of sweatpants. Lourdes — who often goes by Lola — looked super relaxed, as she took the photo of herself with her hair tied back in a ponytail.

Britney Spears' fiery public feud with sister Jamie Lynn Spears continues. Spears 40, took to Instagram Wednesday to repost a statement she deleted quickly after posting Tuesday.