Hollywood Grapples With Autism Portrayals Onscreen: "This Is a Responsibility You Need to Take Really Seriously"

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt realized the world was about to change while celebrating his 61st birthday. It was March 8, 2020, and Holt was with his wife, children and grandkids.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAlmost inevitably, Hollywood will help shape the cultural memory of the COVID-19 pandemic.But how?Several quarantine films have already come out, but they haven’t quite hit the mark.

On the evening of March 12, 2020, Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen and James Williams sent out note to the series’ cast and crew, informing them that “Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed effective immediately.

Thursday March 11 will mark one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. To mark the grim anniversary, NBC News has set a primetime special, to be anchoredfrom the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, and Today co-anchor SavannahGuthrie.

If, a year ago, there had been a guarantee that by March 2021 there would be three COVID19 vaccines being administered to millions daily, Hollywood would have been overjoyed. When cinemas started closing stateside and film and TV studios told workers to stay home, few allowed themselves to think of this moment, much less plan for it.

Lester Holt, along with Savannah Guthrie, will anchor an NBC News special on Thursday, Covid One Year Later: Life After Lockdown, marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 lockdowns and a full crisis that has touched all parts of society.

Cardi B has hit out at TV network bosses at E! for examining her rise to stardom in an upcoming E! True Hollywood Story episode.The singer’s life story is set to be featured on the returning series next week, but Cardi has insisted that she did not approve of the way in which her life will be presented to US viewers.“I love E!.

Zendaya is opening up about her career in Hollywood.

Ellen Pompeo is the most recent star who’s speaking up about the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Ellen Pompeo has penned an open letter to “White Hollywood”, telling them to get their act together regarding diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Ellen Pompeo penned an open letter the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and “White Hollywood” a day before the 2021 Golden Globes.

Angelique Jackson Nearly nine months after premiering on Netflix, Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” will finally debut on the big screen in Los Angeles.The Vietnam War drama will be presented in a special screening event at the Hollywood Legion Theater drive-in on March 5 and 6, the first time the film will be presented theatrically in L.A.In addition to the two-night run, another free screening is planned for Hollywood Post 43 military veterans in celebration of National Vietnam War Veterans Day

Marilyn Monroe lookalike claims to have captured creepy footage of the 'ghost' of the Hollywood star in what was once her home.Jasmine Chiswell, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, is a dead-ringer for the late A-list actress and has taken social media by storm with her 1950s pin-up style after moving from Scotland to LA.She even lives in Marilyn Monroe's former £1.9million mansion in the Hollywood Hills, which the star shared with her husband Joe DiMaggio during their marriage in 1954.The Instagram

Here’s some #HollyGOOD news: Lady Gaga’s dog walker Ryan Fischer, is recovering well after being shot in Hollywood.Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs Koju and Gustav were stolen during a walk with her dog walker Ryan Fischer, in Hollywood just before 10pm on Wednesday, February 24th. Thankfully, Lady Gaga’s third dog Miss Asia was able to escape.

Lee Daniels tells ET’s Nischelle Turner as the game-changing filmmaker looks back on his career in Hollywood, which includes directing Oprah Winfrey in as well as helming, the first major biopic about the legendary jazz singer since 1972’s.

Scandals involving the anti-Trump Lincoln Project PAC, which was backed by some of the entertainment industry's most powerful figures, has thrust donors and activists into a quandary in the post-Donald Trump era. At stake is the durability of the big-tent coalition that was just barely able to remove Trump from office last November.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystThe cutting edge of production technology is getting cornered by the video game business instead of the usual Hollywood companies.North Carolina-based Epic Games, creator of the global phenomenon “Fortnite,” is making a name for itself out West by providing its Unreal Engine software to TV and film productions looking to shoot with a new set of tools loosely known as virtual production.