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Samuel L. Jackson is glad to be pals again with frequent collaborator Spike Lee.The Marvel actor, 74, began feuding with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, 66, back in 1992 after they had a fight over Jackson’s salary for the epic “Malcolm X.”The “Pulp Fiction” star was actually set to star as Baines — a character that Albert Hall was later cast in — for Lee’s drama about the civil rights activist.Jackson got candid about how his dispute with the “BlacKkKlansman” director came about in a recent chat with Vulture.“I actually read with most of the people who auditioned for ‘Malcolm X.’ But it was still down to that Spike Lee scale-plus-10 salary thing,” Jackson said, referring to the system created by the Screen Actors Guild that allows 10% of an actor’s paycheck to go to their agent.

Everyone has something to say about “The Idol.” Since even before it premiered, the Max series — the “sick and twisted” brainchild of Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson — has been slammed for “too graphic” sex scenes and excessive displays of “breast and ass,” as well as a particularly “nasty” steamy segment that Tesfaye was forced to defend.The “torture porn” drama, which premiered with 900,000 viewers, follows Jocelyn, portrayed by Lily-Rose Depp, a troubled pop star who becomes increasingly enraptured with the mysterious, rat-tail-donning Tedros (Tesfaye). Now, even a famed snack brand is trying to crumble the show’s cookies.After it was prematurely reported that the show would be canceled after only one season, the official Oreo account replied with more fire than one might expect from milk’s favorite cookie.

Cruz replied: “I don’t think Senate Democrats, if you had video of Joe Biden murdering children dressed as the devil under a full moon while singing Pat Benatar, they still wouldn’t vote to convict.”Cruz’s comment may have been a reference to the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s 1980 hit “Hell Is For Children”— but the song actually condemns child abuse. Benatar was all fired up Friday when she took to Facebook to post “Nice try!”She shares the Facebook page with her husband, Neil Giraldo, 67.When reached for comment, a rep for Benatar referred The Post to the Facebook post.The Post also contacted a Cruz spokesperson for comment. Meanwhile, Benatar’s fans roasted Cruz on Twitter for the rant.

fellow retired talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 65 — and it’s complicated.“She texted me a few weeks ago checking in, seeing how I’m doing, and I asked her how she’s surviving not being on TV,” O’Donnell told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Thursday.“It’s a big transition. But we’ve had our weirdness in our relationship. I don’t know if it’s jealousy, competition or the fact that she said a mean thing about me once that really hurt my feelings.”She explained to the outlet that DeGeneres said the “mean thing” during an appearance on “Larry King Live.”The Post reached out to reps for DeGeneres for comment.

told GQ in a new video feature about his “most iconic” characters. “As like, a funny way of doing it.

never” watch the third installment, even though he has a producer credit on the movie.Last July, Stallone posted to Instagram a photo-illustration of a vampiric Winkler sucking the blood out of Rocky. It has since been removed from the site but can be seen on Deadline Hollywood.In the caption, he wrote, “Throughout history so many artists in every industry, recording, painting, writing, you name it have been destroyed by these blood suckers Who have destroyed so many families, lining their pockets with other people[‘s] work.”He’s also described Winkler as “Presumed to be the most hated, untalented, decrepited Producer in Hollywood.”Representatives for Winkler, 91, did not respond to a request for comment.It all began in the mid 1970s, when a friend of Stallone’s arranged a meeting with producing partners Bob Chartoff (now deceased and Winkler — who is now a seasoned movie producer on films such as “The Irishman,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Right Stuff.” Stallone, a struggling actor, told them about his idea for “Rocky.” The producers asked him to write the script on spec.

new album “Trustfall,” her “Summer Carnival 2.0” concert tour and her relationship with the Queen of Pop.The interview took an unexpected turn when Stern asked 43-year-old Pink about her dynamic with 64-year-old Madonna.Pink explained that Madonna is a “polarizing individual,” like herself. She added that Madonna reportedly isn’t fond of her.“Why wouldn’t she like you?” Stern asked the crooner.

“Watch What Happens Live” on Thursday night, Ripa alleged that she has been “targeted” and unfairly maligned due to her silence on the issue. “I wish I had set the record straight in real time,” she proclaimed.

parody songwriter Weird Al Yankovic tweeted a touching photo with the late rapper Coolio, shortly after the ’90s rap sensation died on Wednesday at 59 from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles.But it wasn’t so long ago that the two artists had beef over the funny man’s successful spoof of the rapper’s 1995 Grammy-winning “Gangsta’s Paradise,” featured on the triple-platinum certified soundtrack to the film “Dangerous Minds.” Yankovic’s chart-topping cult favorite “Amish Paradise” sarcastically depicted the plain people as hardened street folk. Coolio had expressed disapproval ahead of the track’s release.“They asked me if they could do it and I said no and they did it anyway,” the rapper told Uncensored Truth Podcast in 2021.

an Instagram post that cheekily pokes fun at him.West’s initial message, which has since been deleted, claimed he didn’t write many of his past viral tweets, including one from two years ago in which he said he didn’t find “Friends” amusing — though, now in hindsight, he “wishes” he had penned that one.In response, Cox posted a clip showing herself dancing to West’s 2008 hit “Heartless” while she scrolls on Instagram, pausing when she see’s his post.West’s deleted caption read, “I actually didn’t write the tweet that said ‘Friends wasn’t funny either’ but I wish I had. I’d love to know who thought of that.”As the camera zooms in on the “Friends wasn’t funny” sentence, Cox furiously switches off her speaker and puts her phone down before walking away.

showed the two working on music together in a recording studio. In the first of five pics, the legendary duo locks hands while Diddy speaks into a smiling Dre’s ear. The second still shows the pair vibing to their collaboration, as the third and fourth pictures capture the “Coming Home” rapper Diddy intently listening to the “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” mastermind.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood,” the pip-speak literary master’s legendary bon mots had warped into a cartoon bitchiness better suited to “Hollywood Squares” than a Paris Review soirée. Addled by drugs and alcohol and twisted by the suicided-death of his social-climbing mother, Capote hadn’t published anything of real significance in a decade. But for nearly as long, he had dangled a tantalizing promise to the press and public: a quintessentially Capote-ian “nonfiction novel,” titled “Answered Prayers” that would tattle-tale on high society’s most salacious scuttlebutt.

getting into a back-and-forth over West “harassing” his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, during their divorce, the “Daily Show” host is now speaking up for the rapper’s humanity. Noah addressed the “Heartless” mogul in a long-winded monologue on his show in March.

Us Weekly. “There are bigger issues in this world than this,” Natasha reportedly added.

Newsweek reported.In the episode, Rogan and guest Tony Hinchcliffe were discussing how genius and madness can seem intertwined in Tinseltown.“To be one of those people, whether it’s Mel Gibson or any of these actor types, to be insanely good in a movie, you’ve got to be a little crazy,” posited Rogan. He was referencing how the controversial Australian superstar is perhaps equally famous for alleged anti-semitic slurs and angry telephone messages as he is for his Oscar-winning films.Hinchcliffe, 37, then cited the infamous Oscars slap as evidence of how Will Smith’s “King Richard” role impacted his psychology, prompting the UFC commentator to respond: “He’s an amazing actor right? He shows emotion in his film, it’s so real.”“The guy’s probably always on the verge of crying, it’s probably a mess,” added Rogan, who also blamed Smith’s mental state on his fraught relationship with wife Jada Pinkett Smith.“I mean, the way his wife smiled after Chris Rock got slapped,” exclaimed the comedian, referencing the notorious “Best Smacktor” incident, in which the Oscar winner slapped Rock over a bald crack about Jada, who has alopecia.“The whole thing was just, oh my god.

Dave Chappelle’s attacker.The 68-year-old shock jock criticized the supposed showbiz double standard during a Wednesday episode of “The Howard Stern Show.” “This guy jumped up on stage and attacked Dave Chappelle,” Stern fumed into the mic, Mediaite reported. “As soon as that happened, did they let him go back to his seat and laugh and sit next to his wife and then give them an award? No! They took him backstage, they broke his arms and hands so bad.”He added, “They f – – king beat the s – – t out of him.”Stern was referring to the viral incident in which Isaiah Lee, 23, tackled the “Half Baked” star while armed with a fake gun during the “Netflix Is a Joke” festival in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

latest role is a boxing trainer in “The Survivor,” which is based on the true story of Harry Haft, who survived Auschwitz by being forced to box other prisoners for the officers’ entertainment. He had a brief pugilistic career in the US and his last fight was against future champ Rocky Marciano.“Being a Latin man I understand genocide,” the Colombian-born actor said about the Holocaust.

fired from “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” after getting in a heated spat with Channing Tatum over Will Smith’s infamous “Hitch” slap.“This report is completely inaccurate,” a spokesperson for the 48-year-old “Crash” star said in a statement. Meanwhile, a representative for Warner Bros. said that Newton, who left the London set after 11 days, had reportedly departed on her own volition “to deal with family matters.”The bombshell went against a prior report by The Sun, which stated that the Emmy winner had been canned from the “Last Dance” following an “unimaginably vicious” tiff with Tatum, 41.

trashing Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning Western “The Power of the Dog,” saying he feels terrible for calling the film “a piece of s–t.”The 77-year-old actor offered up the mea culpa on Sunday, more than a month after making disparaging comments about the flick on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast. “First, don’t go do a podcast whose call letters are WTF,” Elliott joked during Deadline’s Contenders TV event on Sunday. He went on to claim that “The Power of the Dog actually “struck a chord” with him.

Will Smith infamously smacked Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Twitter debated whether the incident would’ve happened if Ricky Gervais was in Rock’s shoes. Well, the comic recently weighed in, claiming he wouldn’t have mocked Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss as Rock had done — but rather would’ve targeted her open relationship.

now-notorious Oscars 2022 “Hitch” slap, claiming that while he thinks the actor was “wrong,” he understood “the sentiment.” The infamous “Juice” tweeted histhoughts Tuesday in a now-viral video with nearly 900,000 views as of Wednesday morning.Simpson, 74, was referring to the incident that occurred at the Sunday’s Academy Awards, when the 53-year-old best actor winner for “King Richard” smacked Rock, 57, for cracking a divisive bald joke about his wife Jada Pinkett- Smith, who’s been open about her ongoing struggle with alopecia.“Hey look, it was unfortunate,” said the former Buffalo Bills running back. “I think Will was wrong.” Nonetheless, Simpson said he “understood the feeling,” explaining: “In my life, I’ve been through a lot of crap and I was raising two young kids, and every comedian in the country had an O.J.

Will Smith infamously smacked Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, social media debated whether the incident would’ve happened had another comic hosted the event. One name that came up frequently was comedian Ricky Gervais, who responded by teasing his proposed Oscars speech in a series of tweets with thousands of likes.“I’d start with ‘Hello,'” wrote the 60-year-old creator of “The Office,” who has MCed the Golden Globes five times, but never the Academy Awards.The comic continued, “I hope this show helps cheer up the ordinary people watching at home.

The slap that was heard around the world! The Oscars moment between comedian Chris Rock, 57, and newfound Academy Award-winner, Will Smith, shocked audiences—and the world. The uncensored confrontation—which has apparently been a long-time coming—inspired viral memes and airplay worldwide, easily being the awards show’s most talked about moment. Despite wonderful speeches, lovely fashion and wild after parties, nothing else stood out quite as much as this bizarre and polarizing interaction.

cracked a bald wisecrack about Smith’s actress wife, who’s been open about her ongoing struggle with alopecia. In response, Smith, 53, who had just won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in “King Richard,” strolled onto the stage and slapped the comic across the face — before taking a seat and warning Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your f—king mouth.”Brzezinski, 54, for one, didn’t take kindly to Smith’s fight knighting, insisting that his soulmate was more than capable of defending herself, the Wrap reported.“Jada Pinkett Smith is one of the most empowered, helpful to women, women that I’ve ever, you know, seen out there in front,” Brzezinski said on Monday’s episode.

Will Smith controversially slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, incensed social media watchdogs swarmed the verified Twitter timeline of Will Smith — a random Twitch gamer and podcaster with the same name as the best actor Academy Award winner for “King Richard.” Now, Smith’s wrongfully accused digital doppelgänger has decided to troll those who thought he was the Oscar winner, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter,.For those who’ve been living under a pop culture rock, the incident occurred after Smith, 53 (the actor) smacked the 57-year-old comic for cracking a divisive bald joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who’s been open about her ongoing struggle with alopecia.Needless to say, Will Smith, a previously little-known gamer with a blue check mark, was quick to react to his celebrity counterpart’s smackdown, tweeting: “whelp.”“I’m sorry if you’re offended,” added Smith in a followup Tweet. The social media civilian even commented how the viral Oscars incident contrasted with the “In Memoriam” segment, writing: “Hopefully all anyone remembers at the end of the show is this inappropriately upbeat ‘In Memoriam’ segment.”“Gonna keep tweeting through it,” Smith added, before retweeting a follower who had quipped “Everybody hates Chris.”Whelp.The comments came after an army of social media bozos mistook the gamer for the “Hancock” actor — despite that fact that he explicitly mentions that he’s “notthatwillsmith” on his Twitter bio.“Bruh control ur anger issues,” tweeted one social media Sherlock Holmes, to which a Smith defender replied, “Bruh, learn to tweet the right person.”Another Twitter sleuth wrote, “I over react to stuff all the time.

Kylie Jenner actually Tammy Hembrow-beaten into baby-name submission?Well, the 27-year-old Australian fitness model’s online Wolf pack seems to think so. Hembrow fans are celebrating her presumed victory against Jenner, 24, after the billionaire beauty baron announced she and boyfriend Travis Scott, 30, have renamed their newborn baby boy, formerly known as Wolf — which is the name of Hembrow’s 6-year-old son. “No way did Kylie Jenner change her son’s name.

Jesus spacewalks? Following reports that comedian Pete Davidson canceled his anticipated space voyage with Blue Origin, the public is calling for an unlikely replacement — his love rival Kanye West. The social media campaign comes amid the two celebrities’ highly publicized tiff that began after Davidson started dating Ye’s estranged wife Kim Kardashian.

swatting down the actor’s “sexist” criticism of her 12-time Oscar-nominated flick, the auteur isn’t backing down, challenging him to a mock “shootout.”The best director Oscar nominee threw down the gauntlet during a Friday appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter Podcast.”“Okay, Sam, let’s meet down at the Warner Brothers lot for a shootout!” Campion, 67, told host Scott Feinberg. “I’m bringing Doctor Strange [the iconic Marvel character portrayed in films by Benedict Cumberbatch, who also starred in “Dog”] with me!”She was responding to the 77-year-old Western icon’s inflammatory appearance on Marc Maron’s “WTF Podcast” two weeks ago, in which he’d labelled her opus a “piece of s–t.” The “Tombstone” star also compared the characters to Chippendales dancers “who wear bowties and not much else.”During his bizarre tirade, the “Roadhouse” star had singled out Campion, claiming that despite being a “brilliant director,” the New Zealand-born auteur was unfit to direct a Western set in Montana in the early 20th century.“I love her previous work, but what the f – – k does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American West?” Elliott ranted, further slamming her decision to film the Western in her motherland.The comments didn’t sit well with Campion, who criticized Elliott’s cowboy credentials in the THR interview.

The New Yorker and discussed her life in the spotlight.She told reporter Tavi Gevinson that she ran into Perry, 34, at the Corinthia Hotel in London back in 2012 and the pair talked about rivalries in the industry as well as how making enemies is not worth one’s time.“She said, ‘So Stevie, who are your rivals?’ And I said, ‘I don’t have rivals.’ And her big blue eyes got bigger and bluer,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said. “And I said, ‘No Katy, I don’t, and neither do you. You are Katy Perry, you’re who you are, you do what you do and you’re great at it.

remains popular for the hilarious — and sometimes inappropriate — hijinks of four single, aging women who share a home in Miami. But while the on-camera chemistry between Rose Nylund (Betty White), Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) and Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) still charms viewers, the mood was decidedly different behind the scenes.The latest episode of “The Originals,” a podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Andrew Goldman and produced in partnership with Los Angeles Magazine [LINK TK], includes an April 2021 interview with the sitcom’s casting director Joel Thurm, who recounts how the leading ladies, especially Arthur, really felt about White — who died this past New Year’s Eve, weeks before her 100th birthday.“Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, ‘Oh, she’s a f – – king c – – t,’ using that word,” Thurm says on the podcast.

“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” back in 2019, and although they never explicitly confirmed their relationship, they didn’t deny widely held speculation that they were an item.

longstanding feud with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — by practically begging the superstar to appear with him in the car chase franchise’s penultimate flick. The actor extended his online olive branch to the fellow muscle man who many fans believe suggested Diesel was a “candy ass” and “chicken s–t” in a scathing — but blind — Facebook attack back in 2016.“My little brother Dwayne … the time has come.

Daily Mail reported.“At 18, I found that incredibly irritating,” the four-time Oscar nominee continued.

Spike Lee and Nets star Kevin Durant.

Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has taken to social media to rail against long-ago partner David Gilmour for considering him “irrelevant” and “banning” him from the group’s website and social media, complaining that his solo projects are not allowed to come up for mention while those of Gilmour’s wife are promoted.

The coronavirus lockdown has artists so bored that Noel Gallagher, former Oasis guitarist and one half of rock music’s most contentious sibling rivalry, is leaking his own rough cuts.