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After 10 years away from any kind of film or TV set, Cameron Diaz is officially, well, back in action with her new film “Back in Action.”

Now streaming on Netflix, the film centers on Emily and Matt, two CIA operatives who learn they’re having a baby together. Shortly thereafter, their plane home is compromised and crashes, giving them the opportunity to fake their deaths and go off the grid to raise their family as civilians.

Of course, secret past lives can’t always stay secret forever. When theirs catches up with them, the now-parents are forced onto a new mission, this time bringing their kids along.

If you’re here though, you probably know all that. You probably also know that the film has an 11-minute credit sequence, which you might not have watched, and you’re just looking for the songs in the film. Well, we’ve got you.

There’s a reason we keep coming back to the heist movie genre, again and again and again. That’s because although most movies would have you believe that committing crimes is bad, we can’t help but respect a character who does it well. Robbing a little old lady on the street is unforgivable, sure, but robbing a wealthy old lady who keeps her hoard of ill-gotten money in an impenetrable vault surrounded by lasers and mercenaries? You gotta respect the moxie of anybody who even tries. And if they succeed, well dang, good for them. It sounds like they earned every penny.

There’s no shortage of classic heist movies, but with income inequality on our minds, and billionaires actively destroying everything decent about this planet every single day, the genre seems particularly alluring in the 21st century. Maybe that’s why we’ve had so many classic...

Olivia Hussey, who dazzled moviegoers as the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli‘s noteworthy 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, died Friday at her Los Angeles home of breast cancer. She was 73.

The Argentina-born actress died “surrounded by her loved ones,” according to an announcement on her official Instagram account. “Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom, and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her,” the post reads.

She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008.

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Hussey was just 15 when she starred opposite British actor Leonard Whiting, 16, as Romeo in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Both were unknowns. The Paramount-distributed film, co-written by Zeffirelli, was nominated for the best picture Oscar and three other Academy Awards, and she received a David di Donatello prize and a Golden Globe for her efforts.

Hussey also...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn’t get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey’s best-seller. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Maureen Stapleton, Van Heflin, Jean Seberg, and Jacqueline Bisset headlined Airport, which became the second-biggest box-office hit of the year and earned nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Hayes. Airport also established the template for subsequent movies: trapping all-star casts on a plane, a ship, or a high-rise.

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Producer-director-writer Irwin Allen took disaster movies to the next level — so much so he was dubbed “The Master of Disaster.” Allen, who enjoyed great success on the small screen in the 1960s with the series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, and Lost in Space, brought his disaster savvy to the...

Jonah Hill’s rise to stardom in Hollywood was a coming-of-age comedy that still rules as one of the best comedy films of the 2000s, Superbad.

The film saw three teenagers, played by Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, making plans to party and lose their virginity before their high school graduation. Interestingly, Hill found his debutant co-star Mintz-Plasse annoying to film with.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera in Superbad | Credits: Columbia Pictures

Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg based the characters of Hill and Cera on themselves during their senior year, hence the characters were named Seth and Evan. Rogen and Goldberg started developing the script in 2000 and it took seven years for them to see their vision on the screen.

Jonah Hill absolutely hated filming with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Superbad Christopher Mintz-Plasse in a still from Superbad | Credits: Columbia Pictures

Christopher Mintz-Plasse made his debut in...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling the year’s most talked-about movies continues with Better Man, Paramount’s musical biopic based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. The script was penned by Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole and Michael Gracey.

Gracey directs the uniquely personal film about Williams, capturing his wit, resilience, and extraordinary journey. From boyband stardom with Take That to a record-shattering solo career, the film explores the highs and lows of his success. And only Williams could get away with telling his life story through the unique lens of a chimpanzee, a truly unexpected perspective that distinguishes this biopic from others.

Gracey explains the inspiration for portraying Williams as a monkey came from Robbie himself.

“Rob would say things like, ‘I’m up the back dancing like a monkey,’ or ‘I was completely out of it,...

“The sun is sinking in the West / The cattle go down to the stream / The redwing settles in her nest / It’s time for a cowboy to dream.”

Those immortal lyrics from Paul Francis Webster kick off one of the loveliest scenes in movie history, from one of the greatest Westerns of all time: When Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson sing “My Rifle, My Pony, and Me” in “Rio Bravo” — a glorious moment when the plot of the movie more or less comes to a halt and you just spend some time hanging out with these characters and the extraordinary talents inhabiting them. After all, cinematic artistry expresses itself through so very much more than just plot. And the pleasures of cinema so much more than just the sum of “what advances the story.”

Victor Erice clearly feels the same way and pays magnificent tribute to this “Rio Bravo” moment...

Though she is an indie pop superstar in her own right, Lykke Li says writing a song for someone else to sing was her “dream in life.” So when her longtime friend and colleague Andrew Wyatt reached out for her help on a finale song for “The Last Showgirl,” the Pamela Anderson vehicle, about a veteran Las Vegas performer having to come to terms with her revue shuttering, Li was happy to oblige.

Over breakfast at the famed Tower Bar in Los Angeles, she and Wyatt reflected on the road that led them to their Golden Globes and Critics Choice Award-nominated song for “The Last Showgirl” titled “Beautiful That Way,” written with and performed by Miley Cyrus. The pair have known each other for decades, having both worked extensively in Sweden even having co-founded an artists collective and record label called Ingrid in 2012. “We feel very lucky,” said Wyatt. “We...

It’s that special time of year when holiday music gets played 24/7, to the joy of Christmas fanatics, and the existential horror of every single person working in the customer service industry.

But while we’ll no doubt be hearing a lot of Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby and (shudder) Jimmy Fallon this year, one name that hasn’t become synonymous with holiday music is Eric Idle.

The Monty Python star recently alluded to this fact on social media, bemoaning that Spotify has seen a spike in streams for Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” but not his own seasonal track. Of course, that could have something to do with the fact that Idle’s holiday song features the less than savory title: “Fuck Christmas.”

You see, unlike other classic Yuletide tunes, which generally celebrate the spirit of the season, Idle’s song is nearly two full minutes of vitriolic Christmas hate,...

James Bond is one of the most celebrated characters in the literary and cinematic world alike. The adventures of the suave British spy have entertained audiences for decades. To play the role of James Bond on screen is a highly coveted opportunity among actors. And since the release of the first Bond film, Dr. No in 1962, only six actors have officially played 007 in the Eon Productions franchise. And they will go down in history for having played the icon that is James Bond.

However, the lineup of “actors who have played James Bond” would have looked very different, had things gone differently in some places. Many desperately sought the role; while the number of actors who were offered and almost chosen to play the MI6 agent and decided not to, is not small either.

It will be interesting to look back at the past and see which actors missed out...

Earl Holliman, the actor best known for playing Angie Dickinson’s boss on the 1970s NBC cop drama Police Woman, has died. He was 96.

Holliman died Monday in hospice care at his home in Studio City, his spouse, Craig Curtis, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Holliman won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for portraying Katharine Hepburn’s girl-crazy kid brother in The Rainmaker (1956) — he beat out Elvis Presley for the role — and then appeared in another Burt Lancaster film, as Wyatt Earp’s assistant in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).

In the George Stevens epic Giant (1956), the Louisiana native played the son-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s characters, was the cook in Forbidden Planet (1956) and appeared as the brother of John Wayne, Dean Martin and Michael Anderson Jr. in Henry Hathaway’s The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).

Holliman also portrayed a man with amnesia in a deserted town...

If you’re an awards watcher, you might have noticed that this year’s Oscar season discourse feels a bit more…rabid than usual. Stan accounts on Twitter getting involved, online back-and-forth about actresses’ work before their films have even been released, a general air of slavish devotion to projects that feels more than slightly cultish. What’s going on? Well, this is just what happens nowadays when two of the biggest pop stars on the planet are in the Oscars conversation. We can only imagine the response IndieWire will get for this list of the 10 best film performances by pop stars.

This November saw the release on Netflix of “Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard’s extremely divisive modern musical about a Mexican cartel boss who pursues her dream to transition and live as a woman. This week, after a relentless marketing campaign, Jon Chu’s adaptation of the popular “Wizard...

You know a comedian had a dark side when he made an entire movie about a clown who witnesses and participates in the Holocaust and that’s still not the most disturbing decision he ever made.

Like too many of his contemporaries, the so-called “King of Comedy” wasn’t exactly chivalrous when it came to his treatment of women or his subjects. In fact, when Jerry Lewis was asked which female comedians he admired at the Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 1998, he infamously responded, “I don’t like any female comedians. A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.” And, to absolutely no one’s surprise, Lewis’ less than stellar treatment of women (and people in general) extended past his...

Andrew Stevens pays loving but not hagiographic tribute to his late mother, famed actress Stella Stevens, in his documentary recently showcased at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. The film convincingly makes the case that its subject, best known for her performances in such pictures as The Poseidon Adventure and The Nutty Professor, is severely underrated, both as an actress and social activist. Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet aims to rectify that perception and, thanks to numerous clips of her work and effusive commentary by the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Vivica A. Fox, it succeeds beautifully.

The filmmaker (who appears frequently) admits that his relationship with his mother was rocky, to say the least, in the early years. Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Stevens got married at age 16 and had Andrew, her first and only child, six months later. The marriage soon dissolved, and when she moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career,...

Seth MacFarlane is most famous for creating (and voice acting in) crass comedy cartoons like "Family Guy" and "American Dad." His love for animation was sparked by primetime TV's first cartoon sitcom, "The Flintstones," but animation is not MacFarlane's only passion -- he also loves show tunes and musicals.

Indeed, MacFarlane's all-time favorite movie is "The Sound of Music," Robert Wise's 1965 musical epic starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. As he put it to Wired when revealing his favorite film, "Can you believe that? Who would've thought? 'The Sound of motherf***ing Music.'"

"The Sound of Music" adapted the 1959 stage musical of the same name, which itself was based on the true story of the Austrian Von Trapp family, a family of singers who escaped their Nazi-conquered homeland in 1938. Andrews plays the future Mrs. Von Trapp, Maria. Initially a free-spirited nun sent to be a governess to Captain...

As The Voice finished its Season 26 Battles Monday night, we got one duet after another that would’ve barely qualified as a Tiff. But toward the end of the evening, things picked up in a big way, ultimately leaving us high from a face-off that that was a genuine knockout. Read on, and we’ll discuss all of the showdowns…

Team Bublé: J.Paul (Grade: B-) defeated Kamila Kiehne (Grade: D) on “Toxic” | Not an auspicious way to start an episode. J.Paul and Kamila’s Battle immediately veered into train-wreck territory, with Britney Spears’ hit being altogether the wrong song for him,...

Frank Sinatra delivered some of the most compelling renditions of music in the 20th century. One of his best known was his 1960s masterpiece, “Strangers in the Night.” However, Old Blue Eyes wasn’t that fond of that particular piece of music. He called it “a piece of s***.”

‘Strangers in the Night’ was a hit single and album by Frank Sinatra

Strangers in the Night was a 1966 studio album by Frank Sinatra. The title track was released as a single that same year and hit number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 and Easy Listening Charts.

Far Out Magazine reported that Sinatra hated it when his songs became too popular. This was the case with “Strangers in the Night” which the singer called “a piece of s***” and “the worst f***ing song I’ve ever heard.”

Songfacts spoke to Charles Pignone, Senior Vice President of Frank Sinatra Enterprises, who...

Shirley MacLaine is making a ghastly racket. It sounds like a combination of retching and the “aack” noise that the protagonist of that old “Cathy” comic strip used to make whenever she was nauseated, horrified, infuriated or you name it. We’re discussing an encounter that MacLaine had with Donald Trump in the ’80s, when she went to look at an apartment in one of his buildings. “In his head, I could see he was undressing himself and me, and I got out of there very fast,” MacLaine writes in her new book, “The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.”

MacLaine is even more animated when I ask her what she made of the real estate developer turned Maga leader. “Did you hear me shriek?” she asks. “I think that says it all.” She pauses for dramatic effect before delivering a final, emphatic: “Yuck!”

Even at 90, MacLaine,...

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Satellite and streaming radio platform SiriusXM will debut more than two dozen holiday-themed channels this season, including a new one that will see the radio service partner with NBC late night comedian Jimmy Fallon, the company affirmed this week.

The channel, called “Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday Seasoning Radio,” will offer a mixture of holiday classics that are hand-picked by Fallon himself, intertwined with funny stories, holiday-themed dedications to fans and an inside look at the making of Fallon’s new album “Holiday Seasoning” that will drop in November. It will be exclusively available on SiriusXM’s streaming radio platform.

A number of other SiriusXM fan favorites will return this year, including “Hallmark Radio,” “Mannheim Steamroller Channel” and “Trans-Siberian Orchestra Radio.” Most popular channels will be available on the satellite and streaming radio platform, while a handful will be exclusively to the SiriusXM app for phones,...

It’s a well-established fact that the respective creators of South Park and Family Guy hate each other, and that’s to be expected — theater geeks just love drama.

The animated comedy community is rife with rivalries, and some are much friendlier than others. Ever since the Golden Age of Warner Bros. and Disney, the cartoon business has always had a healthy spirit of competition between the power players that can occasionally spill over into ugly acrimony — like how Seth MacFarlane responded to a Simpsons gag about Peter Griffin being a clone of Homer by having Quagmire straight up sexually assault Marge and murder her family. However, MacFarlane’s most heated and most personal feud somehow isn’t with the predecessor series to which his Family Guy is so often compared, but with the outspoken creative duo of Trey Parker and Matt Stone who made their feelings about MacFarlane’s...

Ashton Kutcher and Sean “Diddy” Combs were friends for years. While Kutcher has reportedly come to regret their association following allegations of abuse against Diddy, he spoke highly of the hip hop mogul when they were friends. Diddy even wanted to form a new Rat Pack with the actor. As a result, Kutcher began referring to him as Frank.

Ashton Kutcher and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs created Rat Pack personas for themselves

Kutcher and Diddy were good friends. At a dinner in 2003, Diddy told Kutcher he wanted to start a modern Pack, modeling themselves after A-listers in the 1960s, like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. Diddy claimed the role of Sinatra for himself and told Kutcher he could be Martin.

The personas stuck. In an interview, Kutcher even referred to Diddy as Frank.

“Me and Frank got onstage,” he told Rolling Stone. “I was in hype-man mode. I...

It hardly needs repeating, but director John Carpenter is known for making multiple horror classics, including "Halloween," "The Fog," "Christine," "The Thing," "Prince of Darkness," "In the Mouth of Madness" and "Vampires." Although Carpenter doesn't have a notable, recognizable style or motif in his filmography (apart from recurring actors) he does seem to possess a subtle, natural mastery of filmmaking craft that makes all his films, even the bad ones, imminently watchable.

Carpenter loves horror, of course, but oddly, he's not a horror guy at heart. He possesses an old-world workman's attitude when it comes to filmmaking, just sort of sussing out, by instinct, how to shoot a scene, regardless of genre. Carpenter has given multiple interviews where he's talked about monster movies and sci-fi flicks that inspired him, but moreso, Carpenter talks about the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, two American filmmakers best known for their high-profile Westerns.

From the ashes of Brat Summer, all hail the rise of But Also Still Brat Autumn. Charli Xcx’s world conquest with her zeitgeist-seizing Brat just keeps surging on her fantastic remix album, recruiting a dream team of big names to admit that it’s obvious, she’s their number one. The auteur who soundtracked the summer chanting “I wanna dance to me” has plenty of famous friends who agree — Lorde, Ariana, Billie, Matty, Robyn, and more. So Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat is more...

Reba McEntire may have handed out The Voice’s trophy in Monday’s episode (recapped here), but the battle hasn’t even begun, much less the war. On Night 4 of the Blind Auditions, Snoop Dogg recruited a hot swinger, Michael Bublé scored a contestant who could be the next Todd Tilghman, and Gwen Stefani added to her team a youngster whose vocals are as sweet as her demeanor. And if you read on, we’ll discuss all of them.

J.Paul (Team Michael), “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)” — Grade: A | “That was perfect,” Michael told this three-chair...

Michael Bublé revealed that he made jazz his own by “emulating and copying” other artists. The singer modernized the genre and made it popular again. How did he do it?

“Sway” With Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is well known for her Christmas music. In addition, he is known for his jazz music like “Sway” and “Feeling Good.” However, he is flexible as recently did a song with Jason Derulo, “Spicy Margarita.”

Married to Luisana Lopilato since 2011, the two have four kids together and the singer has mentioned before how important his family is to him. Both he and his wife have previously paused their careers for his son, Noah when he was struggling with liver cancer.

Now, the music star is a coach for The Voice. However, he rejected the position more than ten times before finally accepting it. Fans get to see...

Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho is releasing a new sci-fi film called “Mickey 17” in January 2025. The movie stars Robert Pattinson in the title role of Mickey Barnes, an “Expendable” sent to help colonize the icy planet Niflheim. What makes Mickey unique is that he continuously dies in the name of science, with his memories and body replicated each time.

The movie is based on Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7.” The first trailer provides a glimpse at Mickey enduring various violent deaths. It shows Pattinson bringing his intense acting style to portray multiple versions of the same character. As more Mickey clones coexist, chaos and excitement reportedly ensue.

Bong is known for blending social commentary with dark humor in movies like “Snowpiercer” and “Okja.” “Mickey 17” appears to examine themes of identity and human worth in a futuristic setting. The director sweeps last year’s Academy Awards for “Parasite” and...

Robert Pattinson dies, and dies, and dies in the new trailer for Bong Joon-ho’s latest project “Mickey 17.”

Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller follows a down-on-his-luck Mickey (Pattinson), who signs up to die without reading the fine print. Mickey has donated his life to science, testing the limits of human nature and capabilities. But when one version of him dies, a clone is created in its place, retaining most of his memories and prepared to take on the next deadly mission.

Here’s a bit of what happens: Mickey drowns in lava, gets his hand chopped off in outer space and freezes to death, as Dean Martin’s “Ain’t’ That a Kick in the Head” plays brightly in the background, hinting at the tone of Bong’s forthcoming project.

“Even on my 17th go-around, I hate dying,” Mickey says in the trailer...

What do you do after you've won the Oscar for Best Picture? If you're Bong Joon-ho, you get right back to work to make another banger, and choose to make it potentially weirder and more studded with Hollywood stars than anything you've made before. The first full trailer for Bong's "Parasite" follow-up "Mickey 17" is finally here, and his adaptation of Edward Ashton's trippy sci-fi novel, "Mickey7," looks great — darkly funny, unnerving, and, yes, trippy.

The first sneak peek of the new movie came over a year ago, in December 2022. At that point, "Mickey 17" was due to hit theaters by early 2024, but it was subsequently delayed by what The Hollywood Reporter previously referred to "post-strike production shifts," which no doubt gave the movie's team more time to make it as sharp and cinematic as possible in post-production.

"Mickey7" and Bong's new movie both follow the life of an "expendable,...

Norm Macdonald’s most popular impression on Saturday Night Live was Burt Reynolds, the ‘70s action-comedy star who… Wait, what’s this? Mr. Reynolds has entered a new name on the podium. He’d now like to be referred to as “Turd Ferguson.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Turd Ferguson. It’s a funny name.”

By his own admission, Macdonald wasn’t much of a sketch comedian, preferring to stay behind the Weekend Update desk and deliver one-liners. But he made an exception when it came to Reynolds. “I knew that if I did an impression of him it would get a laugh because he has such great comic timing and delivery,” Macdonald told Paste Magazine in 2018 after Reynolds’ passing. “So it was really stealing his persona to get laughs, you know. But I could never figure out a way. This guy that I wrote with, Steve Higgins … me and Higgins...

In celebration of the 'Tsukimi' (literally 'moon-viewing') festival on September 17 in Japan, a brand-new illustration unveiled on the official Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian accounts today perfectly captures the immortal words of Dean Martin: "When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore ." Tsukimi (moon-viewing) Illustration Related: Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Anime Hops to It with Bunny Day Visual Based on the light novels by Sunsunsun and Momoco, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is directed by Ryota Ito ( Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie ), who also serves as series composer, at studio Doga Kobo alongside Yuhei Murota ( Love Live! series) as character designer and chief animation director. Crunchyroll is simulcasting the anime and describes the story: Alya is a transfer student enjoying popularity at her new high school, often sporting a cold shoulder while earning high marks in class.

Not unlike that of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, whose off-screen friendship raised the bar on their on-screen chemistry across several Rat Pack films, George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s smooth-operating, cross-demographic appeal speaks to a timeless allure. Theirs is a brand of debonair masculinity that seems to only exist in the Hollywood imaginary, and it’s one that writer-director Jon Watts’s action comedy Wolfs is content to lazily coast on.

The witty repartee between Clooney and Pitt’s characters, two professional fixers who find themselves hired for the same job, feels like the only thing holding the film together. Scene after scene finds the men trying to exercise their masculinist domination over each other—a dick-wagging contest that grows old fast. And when they aren’t ribbing each other, they’re sexily standing around brooding. It’s like watching an episode of Variety Studio: Actors on Actors...

Superstar singer Robbie Williams displayed his signature cheekiness at the world premiere screening of Michael Gracey’s musical biography Better Man when he asked members of the audience at the Telluride Film Festival to “suspend your absolute bigotry” over a word that most Americans find offensive.

Williams joined Gracey to introduce the electrifying musical extravaganza at the festival’s Chuck Jones Theater.

Smiling as he took the microphone, Williams offered “a word of warning” on what “may be a trigger warning for you all, especially the ladies.”

Pleading — begging even — for their understanding, he continued to caution that “there’s a word that comes up in this movie several times,” and begged to be allowed to explain “culturally” why the word is used in the film.

He explained that there are “70 million people in the U.K., there are 26 million Australians, there are five million Irish people. We all don...

The ventriloquist act that opens for Adam Sandler in his new special Love You is working hard to win over the crowd. “How’s he doing?” Sandler asks a world-weary guy operating the theater audio board.

“He’s doing good,” the guy croaks in unconvincing fashion.

A stray dog passes through the worn-down theater halls. Sandler looks to his entourage: “Who booked this place?”

As Sandler prepares to take the stage, he crosses paths with the ventriloquist and his dummy, wearing a cap with “Lester” bedazzled across the front. “Great audience,” says the puppetmaster.

“They made me feel real,” agrees Lester, the bespectacled puppet.

“Willie and Lester, you guys,” says Sandler. “This means a lot to me. The crowd loves you.”

While Willie Tyler and Lester might be unknowns to younger viewers of Sandler’s special, his admiration for the comic duo is genuine. The veteran ventriloquist act has been...

60s Gold (Ch. 73) wants to know: What are your favorite summer songs from the 1960s? The votes are in, so now it’s time to join us as we play your picks in order. Hear the full countdown throughout the rest of the summer in cars or on the SiriusXM app with a subscription and free trial.

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“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” – The Rolling Stones

“A Boy Named Sue” – Johnny Cash

“A Hard Day’s Night” – The Beatles

“A Whiter Shade Of Pale” – Procol Harum

“Ahab The Arab” – Ray Stevens...

Alain Delon, the striking French leading man known for his uncommonly beautiful, coldly calculating villains in Le Samouraï and Purple Noon, has died. As confirmed by his family to France’s Afp news agency, Delon died Sunday after years of health complications stemming from a 2019 stroke. He was 88.An icon of French cinema,...

Alain Delon, one of the biggest international movie stars of all time, has passed away at 88. The actor, who’d been in poor health in recent years, is widely considered one of the most iconic French stars ever. First rising to fame as part of a new crop of actors during the French New Wave, Delon was the first person to play Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley in Purple Noon, while also starring in classics such as The Leopard, Rocco and His Sisters and many more.

Yet, it was his role as the cold, calculating hitman in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai which remains the part he’s arguably best known for. Playing an impeccably dressed killer named Jeff, who is double-crossed by his employers, pretty much every hitman movie in the last fifty years owes a debt of gratitude to his performance. Chow Yun-Fat’s style in A Better Tomorrow...

Sal (Gael García Bernal) with Zoe/Ava (Renate Reinsve) in Piero Messina’s Another End

Piero Messina’s Another End, starring Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, and Bérénice Bejo circles around a big what if. If you could bring back those you love, what would that look like? From the mysterious start onwards - the shower head, the herbal tea, a cookie with lemon peel, a husband taken from an apartment to a hall of stretchers where people rest like larvae or caterpillars, ready to transform to the haunting tune of Dean Martin crooning “Non Dimenticar” - Another End (a highlight of the 23rd edition of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema in New York) casts a spell to investigate the power of memory. Shot in part at La Défense, west of Paris, the film’s future setting is very much constructed from a...

I’ve never understood when people say there’s never anything good streaming. There’s always something for everyone, especially on Hulu (this writer’s go-to). The problem is finding it. That’s where Show Snob comes in.

Hulu has a little bit of everything. If you’re into animated comedy, Solar Opposites and Futurama premiered their newest seasons. Wrestling fans have shows like Dark Side of the Ring. There are also a plethora of dramas like The Handmaid's Tale and crime docs like Demons and Saviors.

Here are six Hulu shows you should watch this year. There’s a variety so everyone with different tastes can find something. Let’s begin with one of the most anticipated shows of the year.

Only Murders in the Building

Release date: Tuesday, August 27

Now entering its fourth season, Only Murders in the Building will have more stars than ever. That means the...

Deep in the forests of central France stands an oak tree, its boughs stretching up towards the sky after over two centuries of growth. It is around this ancient tree that the documentary Heart of an Oak observes the hidden lives and seasonal changes of the animals inhabiting its branches and roots. Directed by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux, the film spends 18 months filming the myriad creatures that call this singular location home, from tiny insects to playful squirrels and birds.

Through patience, camerawork, and without the use of narration, the directors give viewers a glimpse into the intricate relationships and daily struggles that unfold both above and below the ground. In the tree’s crevices live families of mice raising their litters, while overhead jays zip between nests and robins court.

Less visible is the bustle of activity in the moist soil as beetles and bugs go about their work.

Mitzi McCall, the trailblazing comedian, actress and half of the comedy duo McCall and Brill, died Thursday in Burbank. She was 93.

Born on Sept. 9, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, her comedic talents were evident early in life, leading to a distinguished career that spanned over seven decades. She emerged as a prominent voice in the male-dominated comedy world, paving the way for future generations of female comedians.

McCall’s legacy is perhaps most enduringly marked by her work with her husband, actor and comedian Charlie Brill, as part of the comedy duo “McCall and Brill.” The pair became television staples, gracing numerous variety shows, including a memorable appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” during The Beatles’ American debut in 1964 — a moment that has since become television history.

Mitzi’s career began in the late 1940s with a stage debut at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in “Strange Bedfellows” in 1948. In the early 1950s, she...

Comedian and actress Mitzi McCall of comedy duo McCall and Brill died Thursday at 93 years old, according to a statement from her representative. She died in Burbank at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, surrounded by loved ones.

McCall began in the 1950s and made a name for herself on the comedy scene. She was best known for her work as a team with her husband, Charlie Brill. They became mainstays on the era’s variety shows, including “The Ed Sullivan Show” — and were even on the episodes where The Beatles made their American debut.

“Mitzi McCall’s life was a testament to the power of laughter, and her influence on the world of comedy will be remembered for years to come,” the statement from her representative reads. “Her legacy will live on through the countless laughs she inspired and the doors she opened for future generations.”

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Mitzi McCall, the delightful actress and sitcom writer who partnered with her husband, Charlie Brill, in a sketch comedy act that famously floundered between sets by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, has died. She was 93.

McCall died Thursday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, her family announced.

The pint-sized Pittsburgh native also played the dry cleaner’s wife who wears a fur coat owned by Jerry’s mom on the 1994 Seinfeld episode “The Secretary,” and she was the mother of Carol Leifer’s optometrist character on the 1997-98 WB sitcom Alright Already.

McCall had a thriving career as a voiceover artist; she played Mother Goose on Mother Goose and Grimm and worked on other animated projects including The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Paw Paws, Darkwing Duck, Yo Yogi! and Ice Age (2002).

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Robert Logan, who succeeded Edd “Kookie” Byrnes as the valet parking attendant on the famed ABC detective show 77 Sunset Strip and starred as the dad in a series of return-to-nature adventure movies, has died. He was 82.

Logan died May 6 of natural causes in Estero, Florida, his son, Anthony Logan, told The Hollywood Reporter. His family chose to wait until this week to announce his death.

After Gerald Lloyd Kookson III was promoted from parking attendant at Dino’s Lodge — a nightclub owned by Dean Martin — to partner and private investigator at the detective agency next door, the Brooklyn-born Logan joined Warner Bros. Television’s 77 Sunset Strip to play his replacement, another hipster named J.R. Hale.

On the swanky series that starred Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith as the crime solvers Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer, respectively, Logan portrayed Hale on 50 episodes of the show’s final two seasons,...

Desi Arnaz Jr. has made a rare appearance online. The 71-year-old son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is admittedly a bit of a recluse, but his sister, Lucie Arnaz, got him out of the house recently. Continue reading to see the photos she shared.

Lucie Arnaz Shares Rare Pic Of Desi Arnaz Jr.

On Saturday, Lucie shared a couple of photos featuring her younger brother Desi. In the caption, she thanked Nick Luckinbill for a wonderful meal with their “special guest,” referring to her brother. She wrote, “Desi is alive and well, my friends – just likes to stay a bit ‘undercover.'”

Lucie went on to share that she was in Las Vegas for the weekend with her husband, Larry. There was a tribute to him during the 35th Anniversary of Star Trek V celebration at The Treksperts Convention. He played Spock’s brother, Sybok, in Star Trek V.

Nearly ten years after director George Miller returned to the post-apocalyptic wasteland and redefined the action genre with Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian auteur returned to replace Charlize Theron with Anya Taylor Joy to tell the origin story of the warrior who helped Mad Max cross that fury road in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. And regardless of how underwhelming its box office may be, this high octane prequel will surely stand the test of time alongside the rest of the Mad Max saga, certainly more so than another follow-up from Warner Bros. to a car racing franchise way back in 1984, when the late great Burt Reynolds bid farewell to the formula comedy genre that made him a superstar alongside an all-star cast (Jackie Chan! Frank Sinatra! Tony Danza!) with Cannonball Run II.

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From Hundreds of Beavers to In a Violent Nature and Sasquatch Sunset, all have chosen to limit or refrain from dialogue to bring audiences closer to those that cannot speak for themselves

As the old adage goes “nature is red in tooth and claw” but this year’s environmental cinema focuses on a bloodier violence which is far from inevitable. The black and white slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers, the gory slasher In a Violent Nature and cryptid movie Sasquatch Sunset all chose to limit or entirely refrain from dialogue in order to offer strange odes to the environment which highlight humanity’s lasting impact on the natural world.

Opting for physicality over dialogue, these three films follow in the footsteps of nonverbal nature documentaries such as Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda and Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux’s Heart of An Oak. These documentaries offer much more than simple meditative depictions of wildlife and,...

Bob Newhart, the beacon of humor, turned his natural stammer into a trademark of his comedic repertoire, drawing laughter and admiration on the screen. With his dry wit & the unassuming charm of a next-door neighbor, the late actor donned the hat of a bewildered psychologist in his hit series, The Bob Newhart Show, framing a niche for himself. But his stammer, a stroke of serendipity, was the brick and mortar of an illustrious career.

Bob Newhart in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) | Paramount Pictures

It had once provoked the perfect riposte from a clueless TV producer, who failed to see the goldmine in Newhart’s stuttered gold. The latter defended his signature stutter, quipping that his stammer wasn’t merely an act, but rather the hammer with which he forged his palatial “Beverly Hills” house.

Bob Newhart’s Epic Response to Producer’s ‘No Stammer’ Request

Bob Newhart,...

Bob Newhart, the iconic comedian and actor who launched a more than six-decade run in show business in 1960 with his introduction of a deadpan, stammering everyman character whose popularity he rode well into his 80’s with a Grammy-winning comedy album and a pair of beloved Emmy-nominated sitcoms, is dead. He was 94 and passed away at his home on Thursday following a short illness. His longtime publicist Jerry Digney announced his death in a press release.

Newhart burst on the scene in 1960 with his album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart,” the first comedy album ever to top the Billboard charts. It won three Grammy Awards in ’61, including Album of the Year, Spoken-Word Comedy Album and New Artist. Newhart’s first two albums of comedy monologues (the second called “The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!”) in fact held Billboard’s top two spots simultaneously, a rare feat.

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Can you guess the celebrity relative? ABC’s Claim to Fame challenges participants – and viewers – to discover the identity of cast members’ famous kin.

Each contestant must use clues scattered around their shared house to ferret out other players’ star relatives. At the same time, they must keep their own identities a secret while also completing challenges that could win them immunity from elimination.

Past Claim to Fame participants have included KeKe Palmer’s sister Loreal Chanel Palmer, who won season 1, and Nick Cannon’s brother Gabriel Ezra Cannon, who bested the competition in season 2. Other contestants have included the sister of Olympian Simone Biles, Donny Osmond’s lookalike son, and – infamously – Tom Hanks’ niece.

So, what does it take to get cast on Claim to Fame? It turns out, just having a celebrity connection isn’t enough.

‘Claim to Fame’ cast members must be closely related to their celebrity...

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At TV Guide, I got to watch first-hand as Keck dug into the on-set turmoil during the final seasons of “Desperate Housewives” and create some ire with his own eyewitness accounts. And then there was the time that Victoria Principal promised Will an exclusive about why she wouldn’t appear on the “Dallas” revival. There’s no bigger “Dallas” fan than Keck, and it was a hot scoop — which she then gave to a competitor instead. Will didn’t take it well, taking to social...