‘Wolf Hall’ Author Hilary Mantel Remembered By Writers, Directors and More

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to end its long-running writers and directors training program, which the conglom announced Tuesday as part of a series of layoffs and budget cuts at Warner Bros. TV Group, drew a strong rebuke from different parts of the industry, including a stinging statement on Wednesday by the Directors Guild of America. But what Warner Bros. Discovery hadn’t followed up to explain — and quickly revealed on Wednesday — is that its Writers Workshop and Directors Workshop will live on (albeit it, in a somewhat different form, details TBD) but now move from Warner Bros. Television and be housed inside the conglom’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion unit.

is the latest woman in Hollywood to call out comedy actor Bill Murray for inappropriate behavior. While he hasn't been accused of anything, let's say, evil, Davis does recall him crossing a professional and personal boundary in a hotel room in 1989, when the two were filming Quick Change.In her new memoir, according to , Davis writes that she met Murray in a hotel suite where he “insisted” on using some kind of “massage device” on her.

Puck.The 72-year-old comedian allegedly began “kissing” the “much younger” staffer’s body and “straddling” her, according to Puck, and she claimed she was unable to move because of his weight.The Post has reached out to Murray’s rep for comment.Witnesses claimed to Puck that Murray tried to kiss the woman, but they were both wearing masks.However, the accuser claimed to Puck that Murray defended his actions, allegedly saying they were meant to be playful, but the unnamed staffer “interpreted his actions as entirely sexual” and was “horrified.”In April after Page Six revealed that he got “handsy” on set, Murray went on CNBC and was asked about what happened, to which he said: “I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way. As of now, we are talking and we are trying to make peace with each other.”“The world’s different than it was when I was a little kid. Things change, times change,” he added at the time.A source told Puck that Murray felt remorse, especially considering it caused people to lose their jobs on set.The woman reportedly filed an official complaint and her allegations were backed up by another staffer who saw it happen, the report claimed.

Geena Davis' first interaction with her "Quick Change" co-star Bill Murray involved being greeted with a device she calls "The Thumper." In an interview with The Times on the precipice of her new book release, "Dying of Politeness," Davis recounted meeting Murray for the first time in a hotel suite. She alleges the "Ghostbusters" actor introduced himself with "a massage device he insisted on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing.

“Dying of Politeness,” claiming that the now-72-year-old Murray allegedly greeted her in a hotel suite with a massage device that he insisted on using on her, even though she refused. “That was bad,” Davis told the Times. “The way he behaved at the first meeting… I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldn’t have got the part.“I could have avoided that treatment if I’d known how to react or what to do during the audition,” she said.

Zack Sharf Geena Davis writes in her new memoir, “Dying of Politeness,” about a “bad” experience she had with Bill Murray when the two were making their 1990 crime comedy “Quick Change,” which Murray co-directed with Howard Franklin. Davis details an uncomfortable first meeting with Murray in a hotel suite, followed by a time on set when Murray repeatedly screamed at her in front of the crew. As summarized by The Times UK (via NME): “She’s introduced to [Murray], she writes, in a hotel suite, where Murray greets her with something called The Thumper, a massage device he insists on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing; later, while they’re filming on location, Murray tracks Davis down in her trailer and begins screaming at her for being late (she’s waiting for her wardrobe), continues to scream at her as she hurries onto the set and even as she gets there, in front of hundreds of cast, crew, curious passers-by.”

Michaela Zee editor Selena Gomez gets candid in the upcoming Apple TV+ documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me.” “Just be who you are, Selena. No one cares about what you’re doing,” Gomez says in the trailer, which was unveiled Monday in honor of World Health Mental Day. “It’s about who I am, being okay with where I am. I am grateful to be alive.” Directed and produced by Alek Keshishian (“Madonna: Truth or Dare”), “My Mind and Me” chronicles Gomez’s health journey over the course of six years, including her struggles with lupus, depression and anxiety. A Grammy-nominated artist, Gomez has sold more than 210 million singles worldwide and amassed over 45 billion music streams globally. On the television side, Gomez plays Mabel Mora in the Emmy-nominated series “Only Murders in the Building,” starring opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short. She has also ventured into the unscripted side with her popular HBO Max cooking show “Selena + Chef,” which recently released its fourth season.

Christina Hall is denying ex Ant Anstead's most recent claim. One day after Anstead filed court docs alleging that his and Hall's 3-year-old son, Hudson, is being «exploited» by the HGTV star, Hall fired back with a court filing of her own.In Anstead's court filing, obtained by ET, he noted that, since he sought -- and was denied — emergency temporary orders in April, he and Hall resolved «a lot» of their custody issues and Hudson «has now adapted to the new 50/50 custodial schedule.» In Hall's court filing, which ET obtained, she called Anstead's statement «grossly misleading» as «Hudson has always been well adjusted to that schedule,» which has been in place for more than a year.According to Anstead, the one «unresolved issue» is that of «whether or not it is in Hudson's best interests to have his name, image, and likeness exploited in commercials and he be compelled to appear on Christina’s 'reality TV' shows.»«Christina has already exploited Hudson in numerous paid promotions on social media,» Anstead claimed.

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The mayor of a small northwest Georgia town has died in what’s being described as a freak accident.

Congratulations! After a jury vote, Taylor Hale became the winner of Big Brother season 24, taking home the impressive $750,000 prize during live Sunday, September 25, finale.

Olivia Rodrigo is supporting Alanis Morissette on her big night!

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https://t. co/SM5UlOBFtwBen Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptations of the Wolf Hall novels, also paid tribute. “She was an extraordinary woman.

The Associated Press. The cause of death was a stroke, The New York Times reported, citing her literary agent Bill Hamilton.

Manori Ravindran International Editor At the time of her untimely death, British author Hilary Mantel was consulting on the TV adaptation of her most recent novel, “The Mirror and the Light” — the conclusion to her critically acclaimed Tudor trilogy that began with “Wolf Hall.” The two-time Booker Prize-winning author’s sudden death at 70 was announced on Friday by her publishers, sending shockwaves among her fans and the literary and TV industries — but especially her inner circle of collaborators who were in constant touch with Mantel. Peter Kosminsky, the BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated director and screenwriter, has known Mantel for “many, many years,” he told Variety over the phone on Friday. Kosminsky directed the Golden Globe-winning BBC and PBS drama “Wolf Hall,” and the pair have been collaborating more recently on a BBC adaptation of “The Mirror and the Light,” which covers the last four years of the life of Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance), before his fall from grace and death by execution in 1540.

the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70.Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.The publisher said Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of this century.”“Her beloved works are considered modern classics.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize-winning British novelist best known for the books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” has died. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her publishers 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins U.K. on Friday afternoon local time. A cause of death has not yet been shared. In an identical statement posted on social media, 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins wrote: “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.”