Peter Bart: Lesley Stahl And Counting The Obstacles To Invading The Media Boys Club

Royal Mint has launched a new collection featuring Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit. The coin maker has teamed up with Penguin Random House for the unique collection, which will be the only Peter Rabbit issue in 2021.

My face-to-face meeting with Scott Rudin was brief. “You’re fired, Scott,” I said.

Joy Division‘s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ for a new t-shirt to raise funds for Music Declares Emergency’s No Music On A Dead Planet.The campaign, which has been backed by the likes of Billie Eilish and Foals as well having shirts designed by Thom Yorke and others, is this week launching the Turn Up The Volume Campaign – calling upon the music industry to “reinforce its commitment to action on the climate emergency”.

Burt Lancaster, the hugely versatile actor with a background as a circus acrobat. The words form the title of a 1996 documentary about the star, and also serve as a metaphor for the risks Lancaster took in his film career, both as an actor resolutely refusing to be typecast, and as a powerful and fearless independent producer, one of the first Hollywood stars to form his own production company.

On April 15, Buckingham Palace shared more about Prince Philip‘s funeral, which will take place on Saturday, April 17. Of the details the public learned, one stood out the most. Prince William and Prince Harry will not walk side-by-side in their grandfather’s funeral procession, which will be led by their father Prince Charles.

“The Oscar show will have so much wattage, sunglasses may be required to watch.” So proclaims an Academy release this week, deftly ignoring the gloomy clouds hovering over Oscar weekend (voting opens today).

Proximity Media founders Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian (Searching) have bolstered their production banner with the addition of Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Ludwig Göransson, RCA Records senior veep of marketing Archie Davis and Emmy winning filmmaker Peter Nicks.

We can’t be the only ones who’ve paid way too much money to see our favourite stars perform live, with the slight hope that they might pick us out of the crowd and get down on one knee. Surely? Well, for some lucky fans their dreams of dating their famous crush really have come true.

Safiyya Vorajee has shared touching videos of her baby daughter Azaylia Cain to mark eight months since her birth.The 34 year old welcomed her first child with her former Ex On The Beach star boyfriend Ashley Cain, 30, last August, but soon after received the devastating news that she had been diagnosed with leukemia. Since heartbreakingly announcing that their baby girl may now only have "days to live", the pair have brought her home to make her as comfortable as possible.

Lauren Graham’s longtime partner and “Parenthood” co-star Peter Krause has an interesting way of coping during the pandemic.

Lauren Graham’s longtime partner and “Parenthood” co-star Peter Krause has an interesting way of coping during the pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTwo CBS veterans, Peter Dunn and David Friend, are leaving their top roles at CBS’ local-stations division as an investigation continues into allegations they were abusive to women and employees of color.“Peter Dunn, President of the CBS Television Stations, and David Friend, Senior Vice President of News for the Stations group, will not return to their positions and will be leaving the Company.

Jodie Turner-Smith is starring in a new photo spread for MatchesFashion and she curated the piece!

Hollywood’s great re-awakening seems at hand. Sort of.

Peter Berg, the filmmaker behindDeepwater Horizon, Hancock, and Friday Night Lights,and his banner Film 44 have signed a first-look deal at Netflix to produce and direct live-action films and series. The pact comes just over a year after his last feature directorial effort, the action thriller Spenser Confidential, debuted on the streamer and become one of the company’s biggest hits of last year.

Petr Kellner, Czech Republic’s richest man, has died at the age of 56 in a helicopter accident that killed five in Alaska on Saturday.