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Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre will host a special screening series to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the podcast “You Must Remember This,” created and hosted by Karina Longworth. Longworth has now spent a decade examining the untold histories of show business — including watercooler seasons spent revisiting the Manson murders, the Star Wars franchise and the life and career of Joan Crawford. The Egyptian, owned by Netflix, has curated a three-day screening series featuring the films of Hollywood bombshell Kim Novak.Novak was the subject of the “lost” and first-ever recorded episode of “You Must Remember This.” Longworth has previously said a corrupted audio file and “large swaths” of copyrighted music led to the shelving of the episode, which will finally be released [Editor’s note: In the TV series that launched and catapulted Ryan Murphy to stardom, “Popular,” a fictional girl’s room at a Southern California high school was named for Novak after a donation from the star.

Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters released advertisements employing AI-generated video of the Grammy winner peddling Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads — which can be found across all social media platforms — show Swift, 34, standing next to the Le Creuset Dutch oven, which, according to the official website, runs anywhere from $180 to $750 depending on the size and style.

Variety. Approved by both Stewart’s estate and family, the sleep time app managed to re-create the voice of the Hollywood legend, who died in 1997 at the age of 89 due to pulmonary embolism, through AI voice-cloning technology. “Well, hello.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s a wonderful… robot? An AI-generated voice of Jimmy Stewart, the legendary Hollywood actor who died in 1997, reads a new bedtime story on the Calm sleep and meditation app. The voice of Stewart, who starred in films including “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “Vertigo” and “Rear Window,” was recreated for the Calm story using AI voice-cloning technology. The project has the consent of Stewart’s family and his estate (managed by CMG Worldwide).

It wouldn’t be horror movie season without a couple of trailers for slashers, right? With Eli Roth finally making his “Thanksgiving” trailer from “Grindhouse” a full-blown feature film, it’s safe to assume audiences don’t need another holiday-set slasher this year. Not so fast.

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner was one fifth of one of the most successful bands of all time, but admits her teenage daughter isn’t all that impressed.The 51-year-old popstar shared on Wednesday that her teenage daughter Bluebell Madonna, 17, stops short of calling her Ginger Spice days “cool”, and settles for “vintage cool” instead. “She thinks it’s sort of vintage cool. Vintage ‘90s are back,” she said.

“The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage” by Nick de Semlyen (Crown).“In the context of these ’roid-rage, superhuman heroes we had at the time, this character seemed like a pu–y.”The character in question, of course, was John McClane, who transformed Bruce Willis from a wise-cracking, Chandler Bing-esque TV banterer into an action movie legend with the 1988 now-classic. Even though it almost killed him.

Carla Renata Ingmar Bergman had Liv Ullmann. Woody Allen had Diane Keaton and Christopher Guest had Catherine O’Hara — that’s how actor John Michael Higgins summed up the stature of O’Hara’s work on screen with Guest and other top directors during a wide-ranging Q&A held Saturday as part of the sixth annual USC Comedy Festival. The Emmy-winning O’Hara was honored with the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters of Comedy Award at the festival, in recognition of her long, and often underrated, career in film, TV, stage and sketch comedy. The Okie Foundation honors the lives and work of two comedy legends, Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie. Jack Okie won a supporting actor Oscar for Charlie Chaplins’ 1940 satire “The Great Dictator.” Victoria Okie was a comedy trouper who had supporting roles (as Victoria Horne) in numerous films, most memorably opposite Jimmy Stewart in 1950’s “Harvey.”

The Oscar-nominated Argentina, 1985 shines a light on everyday people doing extraordinary things — real-life superheroes not unlike the fictional tales told by Marvel to much fanfare. The film’s protagonists are based on real-life people led by prosecutors Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo who took on an unwinable case against Argentina’s military junta for crimes against humanity and put on a fight that inspired a nation.

President Joe Biden trekked to Beltsville, MD, this afternoon to tape an appearance with Jay Leno and his show Jay Leno’s Garage.

confirmed that Patton passed Thursday, Aug. 18 at an assisted living home in Georgia.Patton dazzled screens in the 1940s, starring as the female lead in 1947’s “The Burning Cross” and 1948 Western “Black Eagle.”Born in 1925 in Cleveland, the Ohio-native was raised in Portland, Oregon before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

compelling this film is over 70 years after it was initially released. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a man who gave up on his personal dreams in a selfless act for his town and future wife.

Dan Stevens tapped into Cary Grant’s performance in The Philadelphia Story to inform his role as a romance-driven robot in Bleecker Street’s I’m Your Man, Germany’s official entry in the International Feature Oscar race.

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesOnce the estate of Santa Monica founder Sen. John P.

It’s only appropriate that NBC leads Christmas Eve TV ratings with its presentation of It’s a Wonderful Life. The 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed won Thursday night with a 0.6 in the adults 18-49 demographic while 4.47 million viewers tuned in to feel some Christmas joy and hope.

Tom Hanks says Jimmy Stewart was not one for memorabilia but he did keep one particular piece.

I blame Frank Capra and John Ford and Aaron Sorkin … and even Steven Spielberg. Because of them, my idea of American politics was forever captured by the image of a rumpled Jimmy Stewart standing up to the forces of evil in Mr.

Pete Davidson is set to take on an iconic role in the beloved Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life for a very worthy cause.On Monday, November 23, Deadline confirmed that the 27-year-old Saturday Night Live star is leading a live virtual table read of the 1946 holiday film.

Melania Trump was the viral star of Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.

The daughter of Hollywood Legend Jimmy Stewart, Kelly Stewart Harcourt, denounces the comparison of Donald Trump to the “It’s A Wonderful Life” lead.

The daughter of the late Jimmy Stewart criticized a speaker of the ongoing Republican National Convention who invoked the legendary actor's classic film, It's a Wonderful Life during a speech. In a New York Times letter the editor, Kelly Stewart Harcourt wrote that adviserNatalie Harp's comparison ofPresident Donald Trump to George Bailey, the protagonist of the 1946 holiday film, played by Stewart, was outrageous.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDon’t be ringing any bells for Donald Trump just yet.

Natalie Harp, a cancer survivor, made reference to the film ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ comparing Donald Trump to George Bailey, the main character in the film, played by my father, Jimmy Stewart,” Harcourt wrote in a letter to the New York Times published Thursday.She went on, “Given that this beloved American classic is about decency, compassion, sacrifice and a fight against corruption, our family considers Ms.

Pope’s family announced her passing and plans for a June 27 celebration of life.Pope was born as Florence Margaret Pope in Montclair, N.J., and graduated from Smith College with a major in theater in 1951.

Peggy Pope, the veteran character actress who appeared on Broadway andSoapand played the tipsy office secretary Margaret in the hit 1980 film9 to 5, has died. She was 91.

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