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Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out as a vocal advocate for a “national divorce” between liberal and conservative states. But “Morning Joe” economic analyst Steve Ratner warned Thursday that red states would experience “huge economic deficits” if such a move succeeded.“[Red states] wouldn’t have money for their projects, they wouldn’t have new bridges, they wouldnt have federal installations in their districts, they wouldn’t have food stamps, they wouldn’t have Medicaid to help cushion their residents against extreme poverty,” he explained.

Barbara Broccoli is perplexed as we grab a moment alone (well, not exactly alone alone; we were surrounded on all sides) at the swanky soirée Saturday for BAFTA Film Awards nominees at the National Gallery just off Trafalgar Square.

David Beckham, started his career at Arsenal's academy, which he left in 2015. READ MORE: Victoria Beckham is the spitting image of Harper and David looks identical to Brooklyn in loved-up throwback He also modelled from 2014 onwards, appearing in Vogue China, Miss Vogue, Dazed Korea, and more. In 2016, Brooklyn photographed a Burberry campaign.

, and alongside Elvis Presley in, has died. She was 84.According to multiple reports, Stevens died Friday in Los Angeles following a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.Before making a name for herself on the big and small screen, Stevens was a  Playmate and appeared on its centerfold page in January 1960.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have appallingly snubbed Till this year when it came to Oscar nominations, but the President of the United States today had nothing but accolades for the Chinonye Chukwu directed film about the 1955 lynching of civil rights activist teenage Emmett by racists and his mother’s relentless fight for justice.

Mariska Hargitay has made quite a name for herself starring as the Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU for over twenty years, but before her, her mom and dad were just as famous as she is now.Yes, television's favorite detective is in fact a "nepo baby." Her parents were Jayne Mansfield, often considered a counterpart to Marilyn Monroe, and Mickey Hargitay, a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe.However, famous as Jayne was – she was a Playboy Playmate and starred in movies such as A Guide for the Married Man and Dog Eat Dog – her fame was unfortunately short-lived, having died in a car crash in 1967.

14-year-old Emmett Till, in Mississippi. “We’re talking about people who perhaps chose not to see the film, we’re talking about misogynoir- like it comes in all kinds of ways, whether it’s direct or indirect,” she said on an episode of the podcast “Kermode & Mayo’s Take.” “It impacts who we are.”Misogynoir, a term coined by Black feminist author and activist Moya Bailey in 2008, refers to misogyny and prejudice directed at Black women. Her comments came after “Till” director Chinonye Chukwu accused the Oscars, as well as the entertainment industry, of being “aggressively committed to upholding whiteness,” after she wasn’t nominated for best director. “We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating unabashed misogyny towards Black women. And yet.

A married couple say they are ready to start a family - despite their 61-year-old age gap. Miracle Pogue, 24, and Charles Pogue, 85, first met in 2019, when she was working in a launderette.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off an Independent Spirit Award nom for his supporting role in the hit crime thriller Emily the Criminal, Theo Rossi has signed on for The Getback, a new Tubi-bound indie from Mutiny Films.

EXCLUSIVE: Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions is developing a series based on Kiese Laymon’s coming-of-age novel Long Division.

Barrett Strong, artist and songwriter credited with having given Motown its first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want),” has died. He was 81.

Sibling rivalry! Peyton Manning and Eli Manning and Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are among some of football’s most acclaimed pairs of brothers to play in the National Football League (NFL).

Tosin Cole was larking about on the set of the Warner Bros  House Party reboot in Los Angeles when an email dropped from casting director Kim Coleman (BlacKkKlansman) about Emmett Till’s story.

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The Motion Picture Association has hired two executives for its U.S. government affairs team.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

The 2022 College Football Playoff semifinals, which will send Georgia and TCU to the national championship, scored for ESPN networks.

Bob Penny, a poet and professor who after retirement appeared in small parts in movies including Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama and My Cousin Vinny and in the TV series In the Heat of the Night, died December 25 in Huntsville, AL. He was 87.

Not going anywhere. Lacey Chabert publicly showed her support for Hallmark Channel after Candace Cameron Bure addressed her decision to part ways with the network.

Chinonye Chukwu’s feature drama Till for MGM’s Orion and United Artists Releasing will be honored with the Stanley Kramer Award at the 34th annual Producers Guild Awards, taking place at The Beverly Hilton on February 25, 2023.

College football’s bowl season kicked off Friday with the Bahamas Bowl and Cure Bowl, with seven more set for Saturday as the first batch of 43 postseason games through December. The run culminates January 9 with the College Football Playoff’s national championship game at SoFi Stadium, home to the L.A. Rams and L.A. Chargers and last year’s Super Bowl.

A Hallmark queen! Lacey Chabert has become one of Hallmark Media’s biggest stars after making her network debut in 2010 — and she has no plans of stopping anytime soon.

Sister squabbles. Amid Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears’ ongoing family drama, the pop star is seemingly sending a message about her sibling’s confidence.

Till co-writer/director Chinonye Chukwu joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: LA3C awards-season event to talk about the importance of making the film, creating a safe space on set, and casting Danielle Deadwyler.

Entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) today announced that it has promoted six to agent/executive, including Kate Arenson, Jessica Brown, Sydney Chance, Emmett Gordon, Ron Jordan, Sydney Lipsitz, Peter Morton, and Andi Wong.

Ho, Ho, Oh No! LeAnn Rimes was forced to cancel two of her upcoming holiday concerts after doctors discovered bleeding on her vocal cords. 

On and off screen, Danielle Deadwyler implores us to not “look away”. Her eyes convey a quality that filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu recognized when she cast the Atlanta native to portray Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till, who was abducted, then lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. When her son’s tortured, misshaped body was shipped home to Chicago, Till-Mobley insisted on an open casket to ensure mourners witnessed first-hand the life-ending cruelty her sweet boy had suffered. “We can’t look away either,” Deadwyler says. “We have to look.”

Back to in-person attendance for the first time since 2020, the Sundance Film Festival is leaning into its independent roots with a timely 2023 line-up that examines the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conflict in Iran and the dangers of technology, as well as documentaries on author Judy Blume, Michael J Fox, Brooke Shields and the Emperor of Rock’n’Roll himself, Little Richard. 

A Biloxi, Mississippi man has been arrested following allegations that he bit off another man’s nose after a heated argument over a round of golf.

The 1950s can inspire various forms of nostalgia. Three films this Oscar season give life to that bygone era in three very different ways. Till gives a historically accurate representation of the period, heavily based on newsreels and photos documenting the Emmett Till case. The decade gets a rose-colored perspective with Don’t Worry Darling, taking a more opulent and luxurious lens to the Golden Age in America, while Living takes on 1950s London, showing a more restrained aesthetic and color palette than its American counterparts. 

Peacock has announced that the groundbreaking romantic comedy Bros — the first from a major studio to center on two gay men — will begin streaming exclusively on the platform on December 2nd.

UPDATED: The Georgia Supreme Court revived the state’s restrictive abortion law Wednesday, again banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, at least temporarily.

Watch Below: Morgan Freeman reading Justin Bieber’s song is everything!It was a surprising cameo since the American actor was the face of the American bid on the World Cup, yet fans were left confused after noticing the actor’s glove covering his left hand. However, the beige gove is nothing new - with the actor wearing it since 2008, following a serious car crash in Mississippi.  The actor was part of the opening ceremony.In 2008, Morgan Freeman was involved in a serious car crash.

Till tells the powerful story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice after her 14-year-old son Emmett Till was lynched in rural Mississippi in 1955.The drama from Orion Pictures, MGM Pictures and United Artists Releasing stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till. Chinonye Chukwu directed and co-wrote the script with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp.

EXCLUSIVE: Kat Foster has joined the ensemble of Nadine Crocker’s Desperation Road opposite Garrett Hedlund, Mel Gibson, Ryan Hurst, Woody McClain and Pyper Braun.

EXCLUSIVE Willa Fitzgerald has joined the cast of Nadine Crocker’s Desperation Road opposite Garrett Hedlund, Mel Gibson, Ryan Hurst, Woody McClain and Pyper Braun.