‘Station Eleven’s Emily St. John Mandel & Patrick Somerville Team For ‘The Glass Hotel’ & ‘Sea of Tranquility’ Series Adaptations In Work At HBO Max

Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are getting fans excited for their new series!

party, Beanie Feldstein was asked what she wanted for its theme. The answer was obvious to her and anyone who knew her: “Funny Girl.”Even at that tender age, Feldstein was a super fan of the musical, blasting the cast album and watching the Barbra Streisand-led film about Ziegfeld Follies comedian Fanny Brice on repeat.“I thought you could just go to Party City and buy a Barbra Streisand-as-Fanny Brice balloon, like you could buy an Elmo one,” says Feldstein.

On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned the heat up on the campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Sydney Sweeney is seriously as multifaceted as it gets! The Euphoria star just unveiled her latest project and it's one very close to her heart.MORE: Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney is engaged to longtime boyfriendIt will come as no surprise to fans of the upcoming actress that her latest project has in fact nothing to do with acting, and actually all to do with none other than auto parts.The White Lotus star is not only well on her way to becoming a household name in Hollywood, but she is also a skilled car mechanic.WATCH: Euphoria season two had fans on the edge of their seatsMORE: Sydney Sweeney unveils transformation for new movieSydney has previously showed off her impressive talent on TikTok through her ultra popular car account, Syd's Garage, where over a million followers have watched her for months repair the vintage car of her dreams, a red 1969 Ford Bronco.The 24-year-old routinely shared updates with followers of how the project was going, posting videos of her installing fuel pumps, painting grills, and even drafting custom parts for the car.Now the project has officially come to an end, and the result is incredible.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“The only way that this could be more elegant,” said Father John Misty as he surveyed the crowd in New York’s legendary Rainbow Room, a venue that epitomizes elegance, “is if we had three tables heaped with shrimp cocktails.”He wasn’t wrong. The opulent venue, opened in 1934 and located on the 65th floor of 30 Rock, has multiple chandeliers, a sunken, circular dancefloor and a 15 or so floor-to-ceiling windows offering breathtaking views of Midtown Manhattan and beyond, with the Empire State Building’s nightly light show occasionally distracting from the performance onstage.

Did you know that Sydney Sweeney likes to work on cars?!

according to Deadline. The star-studded off-Broadway production is scheduled to open May 4 and run through May 17.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNetflix has promoted Emily Feingold to vice president of communications, Variety has learned exclusively.The experienced and well-liked executive will now oversee communications for the streaming giant across the United States and Canada. She reports to Rachel Whetstone, Netflix chief communications officer.“I am thrilled that Emily has been appointed as Netflix’s new VP of communications.

Emily Feingold, who joined Netflix in 2017, has been upped to VP of communications with oversight of the U.S. and Canada.

Patricia MacLachlan, author of the best-selling and award-winning 1985 children’s book Sarah, Plain and Tall and its sequels that were turned into three popular early 1990s Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movies starring Glenn Close, died March 31 at her home in Williamsburg, Mass. She was 84.

Patrick Demarchelier, Mexican actress Salma Hayek took to social media to share one of the black and white portraits the French fashion photographer took of her decades ago. “Saddened by the news that photographer @patrickdemarchelier has left us, leaving behind a legacy of images that capture an era,” she wrote.

Todd Gilchrist After almost 50 years as an interviewer, comedian and talk show host, David Letterman’s pedigree on stage feels so firmly established that it’s hard to imagine a situation where he’d be intimidated. But the first time that he performed during open mic night at The Comedy Store back in May of 1975, the Indianapolis native admits that he was deeply afraid to squander what he saw as an opportunity to break into the entertainment industry’s major leagues.

Kim Kardashian keeps meeting more of Pete Davidson’s family! The reality star reportedly was introduced to the Saturday Night Live funnyman’s grandparents in Staten Island, while she visited New York on a recent trip to New York, according to TMZ. Kim, 41, apparently had an impromptu meeting with the 28-year-old comedian’s grandparents, while saying hi while he worked on a movie.

Apple announced on Wednesday that Jemima Kirke of Netflix’s “Sex Education,” and HBO’s “Girls”, and Nico Tortorella of Hulu’s “Younger,” and AMC’s “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” have joined the cast of its limited series “City on Fire” from “Gossip Girl” duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.Ashley Zukerman, Xavier Clyde, Max Milner, Alexandra Doke, Omid Abtahi, Kathleen Munroe and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” star John Cameron Mitchell have also been added as series regulars.They join already announced cast Chase Sui Wonders as a murdered NYU student and Wyatt Oleff as her friend who stops at nothing to solve her death.Kirke plays Regan, the daughter of a Manhattan real estate scion who strives to succeed on her own; Tortorella is William, a brilliant, but self-destructive artist living in Manhattan; Zukerman is Keith, Regan’s husband; Clyde is Mercer, William’s boyfriend who moved to New York from rural Georgia to write the next great American novel. Musician Milner is Nicky Chaos, a charismatic activist and revolutionary with a group of followers who wage war against the 1%; Doke is Sewer Girl, who’s part of Nicky Chaos’ crew; Abtahi is Detective Ali Parsa, the workaholic detective assigned to Samantha’s case; Munroe is Detective PJ McFadden, a no-nonsense cop working the case alongside Detective Parsa, and Mitchell is Amory, an influential and ruthless executive in Manhattan.The Apple Studios murder mystery is based on the novel of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg, and set in 2003 while police are also trying to catch a serial arsonist.Principal photography is underway in New York City.“City on Fire” is produced by Apple Studios for Apple TV+.