The family that Stallones together, stays together — even if there are bumps along the way. Jennifer Flavin opened up about getting to know herself as an “empty nester” prior to her brief split from husband Sylvester Stallone.
08.05.2023 - 16:43 / deadline.com
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed funding last week for the state’s public television network, a decision he says was triggered in part by content he has deemed “indoctrination” of children.
Calling the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority an “outdated system,” Stitt said in an interview with Fox News Digital, “The big question is why are we spending taxpayer dollars to prop up or compete with the private sector and run television stations? And then when you go through all of the programing that’s happening, the indoctrination, the over-sexualization of our children, it’s just really problematic, and it doesn’t line up with Oklahoma values.”
An OETA spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.
But Stitt’s move signals a potential new move in the culture wars, which has seen conservative communities move to ban books from school and public libraries over content they find objectionable. Stitt’s office has pointed out material it has found objectionable, pointing to a segment of Let’s Learn in that featured Lil Miss Hot Mess reading the book, The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.
Ken Busby, a board member of Friends of OETA, told local KTUL that not the governor’s effort was to try to dictate content. He said that those decisions should not be “because one person or one body says, ‘Hey, we think you should look at the world differently.’ We’re not doing it that way. We’re doing it based on those we serve.”
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The family that Stallones together, stays together — even if there are bumps along the way. Jennifer Flavin opened up about getting to know herself as an “empty nester” prior to her brief split from husband Sylvester Stallone.
Blake Shelton is saying goodbye to after 23 seasons, 12 years and nine wins, and his wife, Gwen Stefani, couldn't be more proud!Gwen couldn't be at the season 23 live finale on Tuesday, but she shared an emotional message for her husband in a pre-taped package.«Who would have thought that this Orange County girl and this country guy from Oklahoma would find each other on the set of » Gwen marveled, sharing how meeting and falling in love with Blake changed her life.«When I first came on the show, our lives were having this parallel destruction happening,» she added, referring to their separate divorces, «and then next thing you know, Blake and I start becoming besties, and falling in love.»Gwen even teared up, as she shared what it means to her «to find my soulmate, it's hard for me to even talk about it without getting super emotional.» And she couldn't help but share a proud message, noting, " is gonna go on, but Blake's legacy will be there forever.«Gwen's message left Blake grinning ear to ear and he shared with host Carson Daly that he and Gwen were just as surprised by their love story as everyone else.»At least once a week, we stop and go, 'Can you believe that happened?'" he said with a laugh.
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, and Jane Campion’s The Piano.If you’re looking for the movies making a splash at this year’s festival, you can check out the biggest names and those running for the main prize below.Jeanne du BarryOpening this year’s festival is Jeanne du Barry, written, directed and produced by Maiwenn (Polisse). Its inclusion by the festival has sparked some controversy due to Johnny Depp, who plays King Louis XV in his first feature performance since winning his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.
Parent chat! Robert De Niro asked Sebastian Maniscalco‘s dad for tips before playing him in the upcoming movie About My Father.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s accent has caused some confusion following the first trailer for Killers Of The Flower Moon.Based on the book by David Grann, Martin Scorsese’s western crime drama follows the FBI investigation into a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, after oil is discovered on their land.After the first trailer debuted on Thursday (May 18), some viewers raised eyebrows at the authenticity of DiCaprio’s southern accent.One viewer wrote: “Did Leo just invent a new accent, has anybody ever sounded like that?”“Love him but why does scorsese feel the need to inflict leo dicaprio doing a terrible accent on us every decade or so,” another added.You can check out more reactions below.Did Leo just invent a new accent, has anybody ever sounded like that? https://t.co/DaAngciJZQ— paul (@YNMIDK) May 18, 2023Someday, Leonardo DiCaprio will find an accent he can deliver. It may not be now, and it may not be soon, but when he does, I’ll be there waiting for him.— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) May 18, 2023will watch and im sure it’s great but my tolerance for leo dicaprio accent work is wearing https://t.co/ZpyD1OlSvw— unidentified flying objet d’art (@konstantinlvn) May 18, 2023Killers of the flower moon looks real interesting, but my god Dicaprio's accent is in Benoit Blanc teritory— Jard (@JaredOfLondon) May 18, 2023It rocks that DiCaprio can’t do a southern accent without sounding like a goofball but keeps getting cast as a guy who is supposed to sound like Sam Elliott— bergs (@aseriousmang) May 18, 2023I can’t fucking wait to go around everywhere doing an impression of Leo’s fake Southern accent for the next 3 months after seeing this https://t.co/bSkgrruCbH— my life is a living hell.
Robert De Niro called Donald Trump “stupid” at the Cannes Film Festival while discussing his character in Killers Of The Flower Moon.The actor, who plays twisted cattleman William Hale in Martin Scorsese’s western crime drama, compared his character to the former US president during a press conference at the festival.“I don’t understand a lot about my character,” De Niro said (via Variety). “Part of him is sincere. The other part, where he’s betraying [the Osage people], there’s a feeling of entitlement.
Martin Scorsese got emotional after receiving a nine-minute standing ovation at the premiere of Killers Of The Flower Moon, taking place at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.At the end of the film, the legendary director walked into the Grande Theatre Lumiere at Cannes Film Festival to greet the audience. He appeared grateful and emotional as he reacted to the standing ovation, thanking the crowd over and over again.After nine-minutes of applause, Scorsese told the crowd: “I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like this.”9-minute standing ovation for Martin Scorsese at the premiere of his next film Killers of the Flower Moon.
adapted from David Grann’s book of the same name — is set in Oklahoma during the 1920s and depicts the serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, which was later dubbed the Reign of Terror and led to the formation of the FBI. The Post reached out to Scorsese for comment.“It’s taken its time to come around, but Apple did so great by us, shooting out there … there was lots of grass — I’m a New Yorker,” said the “Goodfellas” director in a post-film speech.
For those who treasure a sense of place in movies, the new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a film set for release by Paramount in October, brings a flicker of hope. (Pete Hammond’s Cannes review is here.)
didn’t do it. “We went after the screenplay almost from an anthropological perspective,” DiCaprio said. “Marty was there every day.
Martin Scorsese unveiled “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma.
got a boisterous 9-minute standing ovation after the three-hour epic premiered Saturday at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival.Leonardo DiCaprio, director Martin Scorsese and the rest of the cast soaked up every second of the ovation displayed at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. posted a snippet of the thunderous applause, and outlet's co-editor-in-chief, Ramin Setoodeh, reports that the nine-minute standing ovation is «the biggest and loudest» of the film festival so far.According to, Scorsese took the mic after the ovation and addressed the excited crowd.«Thank you to the Osages,» he said. «Everyone connected with the picture.
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered to the biggest and most thunderous standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival so far on Saturday night. The 3 hour and 26 minute epic look at greed, racism and a dark and largely unexplored chapter of American history, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone. It kept the crowd so enraptured that they sprang to their feet and started applauding for 9 minutes after the credits ended and the lights came up. Cannes clearly loved what Scorsese, returning to the festival for the first time since 1985’s “After Hours,” had brought to the South of France. And that’s good news for Apple Original Films, which gave the auteur a reported $200 million budget to realize his vision, hoping he’d deliver one of his signature explorations of criminality. Many of those movies, however, unfolded on the mean streets of New York. This movie is set in northeastern Oklahoma as members of the Osage Nation are murdered in a systematic fashion.
Reba McEntire is reflecting on her relationship with boyfriend Rex Linn, admitting that they didn’t fall in love the moment that they met.
The Family Stallone (Paramount+), a new fly-on-the-wall show featuring Sylvester Stallone and his family, the actor explains why he has signed up to this. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my daughters are grown up. Wouldn’t it be great if I could spend some serious time with them where they couldn’t escape?’”It’s also just a teeny bit possible that Stallone was sweet-talked into this by his three daughters, Sistine, Sophia and Scarlet, because they’ve seen the Kardashians become insanely famous and would like a piece of that.
Trayvon Martin’s death, and last week announced a new effort targeting four communities — Newark, New Jersey; Omaha, Nebraska; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Yonkers, New York — where the program will expand its offerings for boys and young men of color.The initiative encompasses issues from helping young people prepare for school to reducing gun violence. In the interview, Obama acknowledged that the efforts are taking place amid widespread gun violence and a national stalemate about how to address it.“We are unique among advanced developed nations in tolerating, on a routine basis, gun violence in the form of shootings, mass shootings, suicides,” Obama said.“In Australia, you had one mass shooting, 50 years ago, and they said, ‘Oh, we’re not doing that anymore,'” he said.
EXCLUSIVE: In 2016, the hottest book in Hollywood hadn’t even been published yet. Circulating in galley proofs, it was the latest non-fiction work from author David Grann, whose 2009 book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon had recently been filmed by James Gray and produced by Plan B. His new book was another mouthful — Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — and it proved just as tasty.
The return of Raylan Givens has been set: FX has announced the summer premiere dates for some of its most critically-beloved shows.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic At his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony Friday, Blake Shelton was both celebrated and shamed by three guest speakers that have loomed large in his life over the last dozen years, as “The Voice” host Carson Daly thoroughly roasted him, wife Gwen Stefani waxed lovestruck (still), and former fellow judge Adam Levine split the difference. Shelton did not refrain from comic comments of his own. He mentioned that, as an aspiring singer from Oklahoma, getting a star on the Walk of Fame had not been primary among his career goals. “It was just never on my radar,” he told the assembled crowd on Hollywood Blvd. “I had a dream of being a country singer and hearing myself on the radio one day, and I never, ever thought that that path would lead me here. … So, like, this is shocking to me that this even happened. … I’ve been telling people for the last few weeks that I’m getting a Hollywood Square. ”
Blake Shelton now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!