Missy Elliott Tears Up at Hollywood Walk of Fame After-Party During Toasts From Janet Jackson and LL Cool J (EXCLUSIVE)

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe show must go on.That’s what Broadway’s latest production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” did Friday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, but not before director Marianne Elliott paid tribute to the late composer, who passed away just hours before at the age of 91.

After an incredible career, Salma Hayek is having her name permanently etched in Hollywood history.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIf you think the first season of “The Great” was naughty, wait till you see what’s coming up in season 2.“Nothing’s off limits,” Elle Fanning, who plays Catherine the Great in Tony McNamara’s fictional account of her reign, told me Sunday at the Hulu show’s red carpet premiere at The Sunset Room in Hollywood. “We’re unfazed.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Jane Campion is not a fan of superhero movies. “I hate them,” the Oscar winner told me at the AFI Fest screening of her new drama, “The Power of the Dog.” “I actually hate them.”Campion offered her thoughts when I asked if she would be interested in directing a superhero movie.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMelissa McCarthy says Monday night’s InStyle Awards at the Getty Center was her first big public outing since the onset of the pandemic.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKaia Gerber is dipping her toe into some more acting.The model, who appeared on Ryan Murphy’s FX series “American Horror Story: Double Feature,” stars as Daisy in an upcoming table read of “The Great Gatsby.” The Acting for a Cause reading will benefit amfAR.“Having the opportunity to play Daisy was such an honor,” Gerber told me Monday.

Cole Sprouse cozies up to girlfriend Ari Fournier at the Christian Louboutin and InStyle dinner held at San Vicente Bungalows on Sunday night (November 14) in West Hollywood, Calif.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNicole Ari Parker has signed with CAA.The actor will next be seen in “And Just Like That…,” HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” reboot with original stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis. The series premieres Dec.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt’s been 14 years since Kirsten Dunst last played Mary Jane Watson in the “Spider-Man” franchise.Dunst now says that she’s open to returning to the web-slinger’s world. “I would do it.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAs Hollywood grapples with the accidental shooting death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, I had the chance to talk with “Squid Game” writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk about the safety precautions taken on the set of his intensely violent series. “We of course have a prop master, but also in Korea, we’re not really a gun-owning country, so only the police can have and own a gun,” he said.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPenélope Cruz will be honored at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2021 Film Benefit.The event, presented by Chanel, will return as an in-person gala on Dec. 14 at the New York City museum.“Penélope Cruz has mesmerized cinema audiences since 1992 as an artist who is as compelling in action-adventures as she is in auteur-driven pictures,” Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at MoMA, said in a statement Tuesday.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFour-time Grammy winning singer-songwriter-producer Missy Elliott was honored Monday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Ciara and Lizzo (pictured below, filming Elliott’s acceptance speech on their phones) were among those to introduce Elliott at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce ceremony — fittingly, Elliott’s star was placed outside the new location of the giant Amoeba Music record store on Hollywood Boulevard, which will also be a location for stars for

Gallery: He's called WHAT?! You'll never believe the REAL names of these stars! (BANG Showbiz)"You have no idea what you have done for so many Black girls. We don’t deserve you.

Lizzo gave an emotional speech at Missy Elliott‘s Hollywood Walk Of Fame induction yesterday (November 8), praising the rapper for all she’s done for “so many Black girls”.Elliott said she was “humbly grateful” to be honoured with a star. “It’s just a blessing to dream big and it truly happened,” she explained during her acceptance speech outside Amoeba Records on Hollywood Boulevard.

Missy Elliott on Monday (November 8).“I’ve come here 20-something years ago and just used to walk past all these stars and just imagine,” Elliott said during an emotional acceptance speech outside Amoeba Records on Hollywood Boulevard. “It’s just a blessing to dream big and it truly happened.

Missy Elliott just hit a huge career milestone!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMissy Elliott is an artist with few peers or precedents — a wildly innovative singer-songwriter-producer and music video pioneer whose work has cast a long shadow over the past quarter century. Almost immediately from their arrival in the mid-1990s, she and longtime collaborator Timbaland reshaped the sound of hip-hop.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHaaz Sleiman says he was close to tears when he learned of Disney’s response to “Eternals” being banned in several Middle Eastern countries because of the MCU film’s LGBTQ+ content.“They stood their ground and said, ‘Nope, we are not going to compromise the integrity of our film,’” Sleiman told me Friday afternoon.