Tom Cruise returns his Golden Globes amid HFPA controversy

LOS ANGELES -- Two stolen hand-carved religious artifacts, sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries, were returned to the Thai government on Tuesday in a ceremony more than 50 years overdue.The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) antiquities had been stolen and exported from Thailand — a violation of Thai law — roughly a half-century ago, authorities said, and donated to the city of San Francisco.

KFI-AM radio host Tim Conway Jr. and his executive producer, Sheron Bellio, have been suspended this week without pay for a skit they performed on May 3 that was filled with Asian-American insults and racist stereotypes. The suspensions came after pressure from Guy Aoki, the civil rights leader and founding president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans.

A post shared by Los Angeles Public Library (@lapubliclibrary)The clip got so much traction, it even got a shout out from Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, who hailed the track “song of the day” on his Twitter page.The band were previously handpicked to open for Bikini Kill at the Hollywood Palladium in 2019.That brought them to Amy Poehler’s attention, after which they contributed music to her recent Netflix movie Moxie.Meanwhile, Bikini Kill recently postponed their planned 2021 tour

Haley Bosselman editorThe Los Angeles Public Library kicked off its celebration of AAPI Heritage Month on May 4, in line with its “TEENtastic Tuesdays,” with a performance from youthful Los Angeles band The Linda Lindas.But it wasn’t until today that their set exploded over social media when the LAPL posted their performance of “Racist Sexist Boy” to its social accounts. “Song of the day!,” Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello proclaimed on Twitter.

Things seem to be going well for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck!

If you saw Lady Gaga on Monday (May 17), you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking this is not the same woman who once wore a dress made out of meat. Gaga, 35, was the picture of casual comfort while running errands in Los Angeles.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAbout a decade ago, Samantha Ofole-Prince got a message from a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Ofole-Prince, who is Black, grew up in the United Kingdom, and had been writing entertainment stories from Los Angeles for publications in the U.K., Africa and the Caribbean.The HFPA member — whom Ofole-Prince declined to identify in order to protect her from controversy — wanted to meet.

Standing by his word. Tom Cruise has spoken out five months after a leaked clip revealed him screaming at the crew on set of Mission: Impossible 7.

Tom Cruise didn’t hold back in his latest interview with Empire. The actor, 58, discussed his explosive December 2020 rant to the Mission: Impossible 7 crew, who were filming overseas amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The expletive-laden rant stemmed from some crew members not following safety guidelines on the set, which Tom took issue with. “I said what I said,” Tom told Empire, via The Los Angeles Times.

Seth Rogen's new book, «Yearbook,» is filled with lots of surprises, including a wild encounter he and Judd Apatow allegedly had with Tom Cruise, when Rogen and Apatow were invited to Cruise's Los Angeles mansion to talk comedy. The meeting came while the funny man was filming  with Apatow — about a year after Cruise famously interrupted an interview with Oprah Winfrey by jumping up and down on her couch.Rogen opened up about the bizarre meeting during an interview with Howard Stern

Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been in question for months, ever since the Los Angeles Times exposed its loose financial practices and lack of diversity. But with NBC’s announcement on Monday that it would not broadcast the Golden Globes in 2022, it began to seem that the HFPA might not survive the crisis.Within the group, there has been infighting over how to reform and how to respond to its critics.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAdd Neon to the growing list of companies boycotting the Golden Globes.The indie studio behind “Parasite” and “I, Tonya” minced no words about what it sees as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s failures to enact meaningful reforms in the wake of a Los Angeles Times report that revealed that the group had no Black members.

investigative report by the Los Angeles Times into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, that notoriously rackety organisation which administers the Golden Globes, has shown an eminently corruptible body drenched in antediluvian attitudes; this has resulted in NBC cancelling its TV coverage of next year’s ceremony and Tom Cruise handing back the three Globes he has personally won over the years.

Wow, we knew the Golden Globes were in trouble, but we didn’t expect this to ever actually happen — they might be done for good!

The future of the Golden Globes – and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the small group of international journalists who decide the nominees and winners every year – is currently up in the air.

The possibility of Bennifer back together again caused quite a commotion after Page Six released photos of the formerly engaged couple hanging out.