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Kaley Cuoco is getting real about her past injuries.

Kaley Cuoco very nearly lost her leg.

It Happened in Hollywood podcast, “Leaving Las Vegas” writer-director Mike Figgis revealed that he, as well as Cage, didn’t see so much as a cent hit their bank accounts after the film.“Nicolas and I never got paid,” Figgis said.Figgis claims he was due $100,000 for his directing fee, which he never received.“They said the film never went into profit,” he said of the now-defunct Lumiere Pictures, which financed the $4 million film.The film, adapted from the 1990 John O’Brien novel of the same name, follows Cage’s character Ben Sanderson, a Los Angeles screenwriter who moves to Las Vegas and endures a grueling battle with alcoholismIt raked in $32 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director, best-adapted screenplay, best actress for Elisabeth Shue, and best actor for Cage, which he won.Figgis isn’t dwelling over the lack of compensation over 27 years later.“Whatever,” he said.

HBO Max has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to How To Be a Bookie, the first comedy for the streamer from one of Warner Bros. Television’s top showrunners, Chuck Lorre, co-creator/exec producer of HBO Max’s most watched off-network series, The Big Bang Theory. Actor-comedian Sebastian Maniscalco (The Irishman) is set to star in the single-camera series, which Lorre is co-writing with one of his close associates over the past decade, Nick Bakay. It is comedy king Lorre’s first sale since the start of the pandemic.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order to a new comedy series from Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay with Sebastian Maniscalco set for the lead role, Variety has learned. The single-camera show is titled “How to Be a Bookie.” HBO Max has given it an eight-episode order. Per the official logline, “A veteran bookie (Maniscalco) struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low.” Lorre and Bakay serve as co-writers and executive producers on the show. Maniscalco will executive produce in addition to starring, with Judi Marmel also executive producing. Warner Bros. Television is the studio. Chuck Lorre productions is currently under an overall deal at WBTV. The show marks Lorre’s first series at HBO Max.

EXCLUSIVE: Colman and Raúl Domingo have signed on as executive producers, under their Edith productions banner, on Chuck Schultz’s . The documentary film, featuring veteran actor Sharon Washington (Joker, The Kitchen), takes us on Sharon’s journey as she writes her award winning first play “Feeding the Dragon” about her childhood growing up in the St. Agnes Library in New York City.

Roy Trakin There’s a famous photograph by Henry Diltz of Joni Mitchell playing guitar in Mama Cass Elliot’s Laurel Canyon backyard, with David Crosby holding up a joint in back and Eric Clapton sitting cross-legged watching transfixed. There, in the foreground, is Cass’ nine-month-old daughter Owen, teething on a film canister. “I often wonder what I was thinking,” says the now-55-year-old mother of two kids in their 20s, who lives in Encino with her husband of 31 years. “Clearly, I was thinking about that film canister. It was all pretty surreal, pretty cool.” Owen Elliot-Kugell, the only child of Mama Cass of the Mamas & the Papas, the seminal co-ed group that came to define the sound of 1960s hippie culture, has for years spearheaded the campaign to get her mother a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony will finally take place on Monday, Oct. 3 on a stretch of Hollywood Blvd. between Sycamore and LaBrea alongside the stars of Sidney Poitier and Tyne Daly, with the likes of bandmate Michelle Phillips and good friend John Sebastian on hand to mark the occasion.

Coolio, the Compton-raised rapper with the trademark braids who won a Grammy in 1996 for his No. 1 smash “Gangsta’s Paradise” from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer-starring film Dangerous Minds, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, his manager Jarez Posey told Deadline. He was 59.

Nicolas Cage's son, Weston Coppola Cage, is all grown up with a family and career of his own, but it looks like he's inherited some of his famous dad's sense of style. The 31-year-old musician made a rare public appearance in photos published on the Daily Mail away from the stage when he stepped out recently in Los Angeles rocking snakeskin pants and matching cowboy boots.RELATED: Who are Nicolas Cage's four ex-wives? From Lisa Marie Presley to Patricia ArquetteAt 6ft 4inches, Weston, certainly turned heads and his long hair was worn loose and he sported a beard and eye-liner too. WATCH: Remember Nicolas Cage in The Scorceror's Apprentice Weston was filming and took his crew into a restaurant as he dined in front of the cameras.Nicolas shares Weston with actress Christina Fulton and Francis Ford Coppola is his great-uncle. He has made his father incredibly proud and Nicolas gushed about how talented he is.READ: Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim to divorce after 11 years of marriageMORE: Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata celebrate major first after Las Vegas wedding"He can do things I dream about doing, compose music, sing, act, sculpt and cook and now he is a loving father," the actor said at the time. To see my son with my grandson is as close to a sense of blissful completion I ever had."A post shared by Weston Cage Coppola (@westoncagecoppola)Weston is a proud father himself Weston has also heaped praise upon his dad and says he's a great father because of him."I believe that a lot of the morals and philosophies that I will teach to my son definitely comes from my father," he told ET.

Smashing Pumpkins played a gig in Chicago last night (September 20) and debuted a brand new song – listen to ‘Empires’ below.‘Empires’ will appear on the band’s new three-part “rock opera” album, ‘ATUM’, which was announced yesterday and previewed by first single ‘Beguiled’.Following on from 2020’s ‘CYR’, the forthcoming 33-song album serves as a sequel to the band’s classic double records ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ (1995) and ‘Machina/The Machines Of God’ (2000).Listen to the live debut of ‘Empires’ below.Speaking to NME about the new record, Billy Corgan said: “When you decide to do a three-act, 33-song rock musical in 2022… [Laughs] you’re definitely stepping in it! Because there’s a lot of people who believe less is more these days. I’m on the opposite side – I actually think more is more!”While ‘Beguiled’ feels like a bold statement of intent, Corgan admitted that there were “probably about seven other songs” that could’ve been used to introduce fans to the ambitious ‘ATUM’ era.“With 33 songs, I was sort of Switzerland on the whole thing,” he told NME.

Forever a kid at heart! JoJo Siwa responded after a social media troll criticized her for taking girlfriend Avery Cyrus to Chuck E. Cheese for date night — and she had no shame about her restaurant of choice.

Pretty in pink! Kaley Cuoco hit the red carpet for the 74th annual Emmy Awards on Monday, September 12, positively glowing in an ultra-feminine frock and makeup look.

Jean Smart is adding another feather to her cap. For the second consecutive year, the 70-year-old actress took home Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance on . Smart beat out Rachel Brosnahan (), Kaley Cuoco (), Elle Fanning (), Issa Rae () and Quinta Brunson ()«Thank you for a second time honoring this show,» the now five-time winner said while accepting her award onstage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles during the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. Smart won last year's Lead Actress Emmy for her performance on the HBO Max series. «As we all know season two of a show is kind of a litmus test,» Smart continued on Monday night, adding that the cast and crew had passed with flying colors. «The crew went above, above, above and beyond,» she said.Smart's win last year came in the wake of the death of her late husband, Richard Gilliland.