Image Credit: Getty Images Shakira finally said the quiet part out loud. “Life is a bitch.” That was her summary of what it felt like to live through Gerard Piqué‘s alleged affair with Clara Chía, the public unraveling, the move from Barcelona to Miami, the whole thing. And then she said something that stopped me. “I always thought that I was more fragile or weaker than what life proved me to be.” That line is doing more work than people realize. It’s not a girlboss caption. It’s a woman describing what happens to a nervous system after someone you built…
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Emotions spilled over at a gathering of Hollywood workers, union officials and a current and former FCC commissioner opposed to the planned Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger on Saturday, with some arguing that the mega-merger on top of other recent challenges in the business would mean the “death of Hollywood.” Writers, actors, crew members and small business owners made dire predictions for the proposed $111 billion transaction at the “Main St. vs. The Merger” town hall at Beverly Hills’ Lumiere Cinema. Some expressed feelings of powerlessness at the prospect of one historic studio swallowing another, a transaction Warner Bros. shareholders approved…
Scott Pelley took to Instagram on Saturday to express gratitude for those who have supported him amid his controversial firing from 60 Minutes. “To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails,” the former correspondent wrote in the caption of the post, which featured a photo of himself behind the wheel of a sailboat. “So deeply grateful.” Pelley was fired on Tuesday after an intense meeting with 60 Minutes‘ new executive producer, Nick Bilton, on Monday. In that meeting, Pelley argued that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is “murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place; she was…
Arguably no major gay-themed film has ever been as polarizing within the queer community as 1980’s Cruising, the gritty William Friedkin crime thriller set against the backdrop of New York’s leather-bar scene. Documentarian Jeffrey Schwarz takes a three-pronged approach to the subject in Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, examining the real-life homicide that inspired the story, the development and filming on New York locations, and the controversies that dogged the shoot, with massive protest crowds of LGBTQ rights activists disrupting production and rattling the star, Al Pacino. Schwarz has an excellent track record as a chronicler of queer pop culture — the Hollywood…
Image Credit: Getty Images California is facing a major shift. As Governor Gavin Newsom‘s term comes to an end this year, residents have cast their ballots in the 2026 primary election in the race for governor. Candidates have promised voters new policies to help the state’s affordability and housing crises, and it all seems to come down to Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra. Throughout Becerra’s campaign, the Democrat vows to battle Donald Trump and his policies if elected governor. “Californians know all about disasters, but Donald Trump is a man-made natural disaster attacking Californians every day,” Becerra alleges…
As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and battery packs onto carts and brought them to the middle of a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the 101. In the anonymity of darkness, the members of the guerilla art collective VJayBombs set up their gear with the confidence of practice. Within minutes, the projector was…
The Last Day reimagines Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece Mrs Dalloway in a few ways. The directorial debut of decorated visual artist Rachel Rose, the stark drama (which premieres Saturday night at Tribeca Festival) is set in modern-day New York and reimagines the protagonist, Clarissa, as Julia (Alicia Vikander), a writer feeling drained of creativity and purpose while navigating motherhood. Rose was inspired by her own experiences with postpartum depression: After she came out of that period, she revisited Mrs Dalloway on the advice of a friend and drafted the script months later. The film’s more ambitious gambit, though, is what it…
Michael J. Fox made Emmy history 40 years ago and set a benchmark that has yet to be broken. In 1986, Fox was a second-time nominee for playing Alex P. Keaton, the conservative-leaning eldest child of former hippie parents on NBC’s sitcom Family Ties — and a burgeoning movie star on the heels of 1985’s Back to the Future and Teen Wolf. At 25, he won the award for best lead actor in a comedy series, beating out such veterans as Harry Anderson, Ted Danson and Bob Newhart, and became the youngest actor ever to win the prize. (The second…
After spending most of her career behind the scenes, Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul took center stage at the Race to Erase MS Gala on Friday night. Bulochnikov-Paul, who serves as executive vp of communications at Disney Entertainment Television, was honored with the Medal of Hope at the event, in recognition of her battle with multiple sclerosis. Upon receiving her award from MS advocate and Center Without Walls founder Nancy Davis, the exec admitted, “When Nancy first asked me to do this, I hesitated — not because I didn’t want to, but because I was afraid. Will people look at me differently? Is this…
On Friday, a number of Hollywood’s established and emerging creatives — including Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Katie Holmes, Catherine Hardwicke, Myha’la, AnnaSophia Robb and Tommy Dorfman — joined Tribeca Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal at the Greenwich Hotel to celebrate the Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program as part of an annual luncheon. The starry event saw guests dressed in their best summer Chanel looks as they mingled across the hotel’s first floor with key festival, Through Her Lens and Tribeca Enterprises leadership. That included CEO Rebecca Glashow, who celebrated the festival, the company and the program’s history…