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Tom Weiskopf, one of the stars of the 1960s and 1970s Professional Golf Assn. tour and later a broadcaster for CBS and ABC, has died at 79 of pancreatic cancer

It was tree time instead of tee time Friday at the 87th Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

Sam Bennett is one of the top golfers at the 2023 Masters — and everyone wants to know all about the reigning U.S. Amateur champion.

A new spring in his step! Phil “Lefty” Mickelson showed up at the Masters 25 pounds lighter following his recent weight loss journey.

Angelique Jackson Following a buzzy world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, HBO Films has acquired the U.S. rights to the docudrama “Reality,” starring Sydney Sweeney. In the film, directed by Tina Satter, Sweeney portrays Reality Winner, a woman convicted of leaking a confidential report on Russian election interference to the media. The film contains verbatim dialogue from the unedited transcript of a FBI audio recording, capturing a tense 90 minutes as the FBI interrogates Winner at her home in 2017. The whistleblower — a former U.S. Air Force member and National Security Agency translator — was sentenced to five years in prison. Satter makes her feature directorial debut with the film, based on her 2019 stage play “Is This a Room.” She also executive produced the project and co-wrote the screenplay with James Paul Dallas.

Jessica Kiang In the widely covered story of the U.S. intelligence operative harshly sentenced in 2018 for leaking a confidential report on Russian election interference to The Intercept, the accidental (in)appropriateness of the operative’s name was always an eyecatching detail. Could one of recent reality’s most highly public losers actually be called Reality Winner? Playwright Tina Satter’s enormously compelling film-directing debut adds another layer of cosmic irony to that nominative determinism. In using the title “Reality,” and being scripted verbatim from exchanges recorded by the FBI during Winner’s 2017 surprise interrogation, Satter not only vividly revisits the story, she also makes us question the very relationship between a narrative film and the truth it claims to expose. Reality can be stranger than fiction, but “Reality” fuses the two to become stranger, and more riveting, still. 

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So much for Tiger Woods’ planned return to competitive golf this week.

Love after controversy! Tiger Woods’ personal life has been a topic of conversation for decades, but has he found The One in Erica Herman?

Always by his side! Scottie Scheffler has given credit to wife Meredith Scheffler throughout his golf career.

UPDATE 4/3/2022: Tiger Woods took to Twitter on Sunday (April 3) to give his fans an update on where he stands in returning to the Masters. “I will be heading up to Augusta today to continue my preparation and practice,” he wrote. “It will be a game-time decision on whether I compete.” He also gave a shout out to the winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, writing, “Congratulations to 16-year-old Anna Davis on an amazing win at the @anwagolf and good luck to all the kids in the @DriveChipPutt.”

Tiger Woods fueled rumors he was making a return to golf next week at the Masters after he reportedly played 18 holes in Augusta, Georgia on Tuesday (March 29). The golf icon, 46, hasn’t participated in a PGA Tour since the 2020 Masters after he suffered a harrowing car accident in February 2021.

Artem Chigvintsev is getting back out on the dance floor! The pro dancer was forced to leave the tour after coming down with pneumonia, but is now ready to return. Fans will be delighted to hear that a rep for the tour, which is going on until March 27, tells ET that Artem will be back performing as early as this week. This week, the tour will be in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, and Augusta, Georgia, on Friday. News of Artem's return comes just over a week after the pro's fiancée, Nikki Bella, gave ET an update on his health.

Naveen Kumar Everyone knows more than they let on at the top of “Is This a Room,” a taut and pulse-prickling docudrama conceived and directed by Tina Satter.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterLorraine M. Snebold, a veteran local TV marketing executive who most recently worked for Nexstar’s NewsNation, died Sept.

In 1946, it took the blinding of an African-American army veteran to get some white Americans to see—from a federal judge to the president of the United States.

Hideki Matsuyama has made history!

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Danny Ray spent years as the emcee for James Brown, and part of his job during performances was draping capes on the Godfather of Soul.Ray was 85 when he died Feb.

On April 14, 2019, a wicked Chicago ice storm swept over the McCormick Convention Center greeting Jedis with their lightsabers, princesses in their cinnamon bun wigs, and Sith Lords, some with what sounded like asthma, at the “Star Wars” celebration. About 860 miles separate Chicago from Augusta, Georgia; nevertheless, two marquee events stood still.

Paulina Gretzky, 31, showed love and support for her fiance Dustin Johnson, 36, when he made history and won the 2020 Masters golf title for the first time in Augusta, GA on the afternoon of Nov. 15.

The best players in golf are currently competing at The Masters in Augusta, Ga. and we have new photos from the event!

Paulina Gretzky is her fiance Dustin Johnson’s biggest fan! The model, 31, attended the 2020 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia to cheer on the former world number one, as he played nine holes on November 12. The blonde beauty wore a pair of tight white jeans and a grey tank top with a low, scoop neckline. She carried a dark dress shoulder bag and a protective face mask in a similar color, as she styled her blonde dresses in loose waves.

33-year-old transgender woman Felycya Harris was found dead from a gunshot wound in a park in Augusta, Georgia.

Tate Taylor “Get on Up” director Tate Taylor pays tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman, who died Aug. 28 of colon cancer at age 43. Chadwick and I were on our way to Augusta, Georgia to meet James Brown’s family.