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Katie Couric had some touching words on her daughter's wedding day. On her website, the 64-year-old journalist posted the speech she gave at her daughter, Ellie Monahan's, wedding in Port Jervis, New York, earlier this month.The 29-year-old screenwriter tied the knot with Mark Dobrosky over Fourth of July weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie March has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for management in all areas.

The filmmakers behind "Framing Britney Spears" are speaking out about the documentary’s impact on the pop star’s ongoing conservatorship court battle.  The documentary from the New York Times debuted on FX on Hulu in February and shined a light on the situation that the "Toxic" singer has been putting up with for the past 13 years under her father’s legal conservatorship.

Isaiah Stokes, who has appeared on the television shows Law & Order and Boadwalk Empire, has been indicted for murder.

NEW YORK -- The television rating for baseball’s All-Star Game sank to a record low but viewers increased by 1%.The American League’s 5-2 win over the National at Denver on Tuesday night featuring Shohei Ohtani as the first two-way All-Star got a 4.5 rating and 11 share, and was seen by 8,237,000 viewers ages 2 and up, Fox said Wednesday.The previous low rating was 5.0 for the American League’s 4-3 victory at Cleveland two years ago, which had an 11 share and and was seen by 8,140,000

Matthew Chernov When John Carpenter’s action classic “Escape from New York” premiered 40 years ago on July 10, 1981, moviegoers were treated to a dystopian nightmare unlike anything they’d seen before.

Lea Michele has shared a throwback snap of the late Naya Rivera on the one year anniversary of her death. The Glee alum took to her Instagram Stories on July 8 to post a photo of Naya performing Funny Girl hit “Don’t Rain on My Parade” during season five of the show. She also added the dove with olive branch emoji to the post, which actually had a deeper meaning than perhaps what meets the eye.

New money, suit and tie — and a 32,000-square-foot estate.  The fairy tale mansion featured in Taylor Swift’s "Blank Space" music video — which has more than 2.8 million views on YouTube — is up for auction with a massive price cut.  Located in Glen Cove, New York, the residence is known as Winfield Hall and is complete with 56 rooms, space for 11 cars, 16 fireplaces, and even comes with an actual clock tower, according to Jam Press.  (Google Maps/Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Initially

On the day of the start of the NBA Finals, ESPN’s premiere daily NBA show was missing from its schedule. Instead, according to the New York Post, viewers who tuned in at 3 p.m., ET on Tuesday found the two-man team of Jalen & Jacoby, who are usually The Jump‘s lead-in. A subsequent Jump schedule spot on ESPNH2 at 4 p.m., ET was replaced by the network’s Highly Questionable.

PHOENIX -- ESPN has replaced Rachel Nichols as its sideline reporter for the NBA Finals following a report detailing critical comments she made about Black colleague Maria Taylor.The network announced Tuesday that Malika Andrews would handle that role for the series between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks.Nichols, who is white, has been the sideline reporter for its top national games this season and for last year's NBA Finals.

“Blank Space” music video — which has more than 2.8 million views on YouTube — is up for auction with a massive price cut. Initially asking $20 million, the 12-bedroom, 10-bathroom Long Island property is now asking for a starting bid of only $7 million. In 2015, Swift, now 31, won a MTV VMA award for Best Female Video for “Blank Space.”  In the video, Swift can be seen living in an opulent mansion and playing house with model Sean O’Pry.Located in Glen Cove, New York, the residence is known as

The New York Times reported on Sunday that several of the company’s top NBA analysts had considered boycotting this year’s playoffs over how ESPN handled the situation.After the video spread internally at the network and was later partially leaked by Deadspin, Taylor told ESPN execs that she had decided to not finish covering the NBA season.

Lea Michele attended the Alice + Olivia Pride “Prom” event at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, benefitting the Ali Forney Center. Katie Holmes attended the 25-year anniversary screening of Julian Schnabel’s remastered film presented by Chanel at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of the culmination of Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Art Awards. Nikki Reed teamed up with LOCI to create a collaboration of sustainable sneakers.

Commission on Human Rights called “a pattern of violating the NYC Humans Rights Law.”The report cited allegations of a hostile work environment, misconduct and sexual harassment at the network. According to a news release, the settlement requires that Fox News remove mandatory confidential arbitration clauses from the contracts of on-air talent and other employees for a four-year period when they file the claims under New York’s commission.

Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”) is set to star in Studiocanal’s ”The Monster of Florence,” a six-hour limited series based on The New York Times bestseller “The Monster Of Florence: A True Story” by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi.“The Monster of Florence” relates the extraordinary real life investigation carried out by American fiction writer Preston and Italian crime reporter Spezi into what Studiocanal describes as “one of the most riveting and notorious serial murder cases in European

Britney Spears’ brother-in-law Jamie Watson has defended the singer’s family, days after her revelatory courtroom testimony.Watson, who is married to the singer’s sister Jamie Lynn Spears, told The New York Post that Spears’ family only wanted “the best for her”.It comes after the singer addressed an LA Superior Court hearing remotely last week, delivering a 24-minute testimony in which she called for an end to her conservatorship.Among other claims, Spears alleged that while under the

The #FreeBritney movement aren’t exactly fans of Britney Spears’ family right now — so her brother-in-law has decided to come to their defense.