Chris Sarandon ‘almost quit’ acting after working with this ‘malevolent’ director

Chris Sarandon ‘almost quit’ acting after working with this ‘malevolent’ director

Chris Sarandon once nearly quit acting. The Oscar nominee, 83, revealed in a new interview with The Guardian that he almost walked away from the movie industry because of his experience working with late director Michael Winner on the 1977 horror film “The Sentinel.” “Michael Winner. Don’t get me started. I almost quit the business … Read more

Exclusive | James Dean in love: mushy missive to his Queens girlfriend sells for $32K

Exclusive | James Dean in love: mushy missive to his Queens girlfriend sells for K

This rebel had a cause in Queens. Tragic Hollywood legend James Dean had a girlfriend in Forest Hills — and a love letter he wrote to her just sold at auction for $32,500. His 1954 missive to actress Barbara Glenn, complete with its original envelope and photo of his pet horse, were part of RR Auction’s Remarkable … Read more

LA firefighters put out small blaze outside Jimmy Kimmel’s Hollywood Hills home

LA firefighters put out small blaze outside Jimmy Kimmel’s Hollywood Hills home

Los Angeles firefighters extinguished a “rubbish fire” abutting the property of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel less than 48 hours after he returned to ABC’s airwaves following a weeklong suspension for comments he made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Los Angeles Fire Department was called to one of Kimmel’s homes on Marmont Avenue in … Read more

Exclusive | James Dean fans are still absolutely obsessed with the Hollywood heartthrob 70 years after his tragic death: ‘Image of cool’

Exclusive | James Dean fans are still absolutely obsessed with the Hollywood heartthrob 70 years after his tragic death: ‘Image of cool’

Few towns go as all-out for their most famous son as Fairmount, Indiana. For nearly 50 years, James Dean fans have flocked about an hour north of Indianapolis every September for an annual festival celebrating the late hometown hero and Hollywood heartthrob. The sexy, mysterious star is best known for three films he made — … Read more

After Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Residents Turn to Art

After Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Residents Turn to Art

Deana Lytle felt nervous as she watched her 3-year-old son, Fitz, sit still in the back of the car, observing the pouring rain and falling trees as Helene bore down. They were fleeing toward her parents’ house in Swannanoa, N.C. “Dear God, please let us get there safely,” Ms. Lytle recalled praying aloud. They eventually … Read more

Bobbi Brown reveals the Hollywood stars who changed her beauty standards — and her bad run-ins with Botox

Bobbi Brown reveals the Hollywood stars who changed her beauty standards — and her bad run-ins with Botox

The back cover of “Still Bobbi,” the new memoir from makeup maven Bobbi Brown, notes the “crazy thought” she had in 1980: the revolutionary idea that “real faces are beautiful.” But 45 years ago, the phrase “real faces” had a radically different definition than it does in 2025. Once stigmatized, plastic surgery, fillers and other … Read more

Hollywood stuntman critically injured on ‘Fast and Furious’ set speaks of miraculous recovery

Hollywood stuntman critically injured on ‘Fast and Furious’ set speaks of miraculous recovery

A Hollywood stuntman left with a broken skull and brain damage after falling 25 feet on the “Fast and Furious” set has spoken for the first time about his miraculous recovery. Joe Watts, 37, has an envious roll of blockbuster credits and was at the top of his profession when five million viewers watched him … Read more

Reese Witherspoon admits to Hollywood ‘ego check’ she didn’t see coming: ‘That was a lesson to me’

Reese Witherspoon admits to Hollywood ‘ego check’ she didn’t see coming: ‘That was a lesson to me’

Reese Witherspoon learned a valuable lesson when a director refused to cast her in a movie. During a recent appearance on Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ “Las Culturistas” podcast, the 49-year-old “Legally Blonde” star shared that although she had optioned the rights to the bestselling novel, “Gone Girl,” with the intention of starring in it, director David Fincher … Read more

Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci split after nearly three years of dating

Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci split after nearly three years of dating

Hollywood director Tim Burton and actress Monica Bellucci are heading their separate ways after nearly three years of dating. The couple, who sparked up a romance in Oct. 2023, announced their separation in a statement to Elle France Friday. “It is with much respect and deep care for each other that Monica Bellucci and Tim … Read more

Video: ‘HIM’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Video: ‘HIM’ | Anatomy of a Scene

new video loaded: ‘HIM’ | Anatomy of a Scene transcript Back transcript ‘HIM’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Justin Tipping narrates a scene from “HIM,” featuring Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers. “Hi, My name is Justin Tipping and I’m the director of “HIM.” “I’m going to need a little volunteer.” Mr. White. I … Read more

‘Dynasty,’ ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’ actress Patricia Crowley dead at 91

‘Dynasty,’ ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’ actress Patricia Crowley dead at 91

Actress Patricia Crowley, best known for her roles in the 1960s sitcom “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” and “Dynasty,” has died at age 91. The Golden Globe winner’s death was announced by her son Jon Hookstratten, who serves as the Executive VP of Administration & Operations for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Crowley, whose glittering onscreen career spanned 60 years, … Read more

Paramount condemns pledge from 4K actors to boycott Israel’s film industry: ‘silencing individuals based on their nationality’

Paramount condemns pledge from 4K actors to boycott Israel’s film industry: ‘silencing individuals based on their nationality’

Mega film studio Paramount has denounced a pledge this week by more than 4,000 actors and filmmakers, including some Hollywood A-listers, to boycott the Israeli film industry — accusing it of being complicit in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians. Paramount is the first of the major movie studios to condemn the pledge, according to Deadline. … Read more

Ben Foster opens up about leaving Hollywood after Laura Prepon divorce

Ben Foster opens up about leaving Hollywood after Laura Prepon divorce

Ben Foster turned a sharp corner. The actor, 44, left Hollywood after a decade to build a new life in Nashville, Tennessee. “I lived in L.A. for, we’ll call it 12 years. I lived in New York for about the same,” Foster told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. “[My ex-wife, Laura Prepon, and I] had two children and … Read more

Matthew McConaughey details his former secret life in Australia: ‘I wouldn’t change anything’

Matthew McConaughey details his former secret life in Australia: ‘I wouldn’t change anything’

Matthew McConaughey has opened up about his little-known past in Australia, revealing that his brief stint as an exchange student taught him life lessons that have stayed with him ever since. The Oscar winner, 55, spent a year Down Under in 1988, staying with a family in Warnervale, on the Central Coast of New South Wales.  … Read more

Corey Feldman ready for return to spotlight on ‘DWTS’ after dark past in Hollywood: ‘I’m very grateful’

Corey Feldman ready for return to spotlight on ‘DWTS’ after dark past in Hollywood: ‘I’m very grateful’

Corey Feldman is stepping back into the spotlight after joining the cast of “Dancing With the Stars.” The 54-year-old actor, who rose to fame as a child star in classic 1980s movies including “The Goonies,” “Stand by Me” and “The Lost Boys,” will compete as a celebrity contestant with professional dancer Jenna Johnson in season 34 … Read more

Frankie Muniz reveals how leaving Hollywood as his fame soared ‘saved my life’

Frankie Muniz reveals how leaving Hollywood as his fame soared ‘saved my life’

Former child star Frankie Muniz, 40, confessed that leaving Hollywood in the rearview mirror during the “height” of his popularity was a life-saving decision. “Honestly, I did not like LA,”  Muniz, 40, told Us Weekly on Wednesday “So I moved to Arizona, and I love it. I feel like it saved my life in the … Read more

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z

Like the name Walt Disney, the word “anime” brings to mind not just an aesthetic but a distinctive storytelling ethos. My own first encounter with anime was at a middle-school sleepover in the mid-1990s, where I watched a bootleg VHS copy of the Japanese anime film “Akira.” It was mesmerizing. Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian masterpiece was … Read more

Cher joins Cyndi Lauper for ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ in epic Hollywood Bowl surprise

Cher joins Cyndi Lauper for ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ in epic Hollywood Bowl surprise

These girls know how to have fun. Cyndi Lauper celebrated the final show on her farewell tour Saturday with surprise appearances by other music icons, including her longtime pal Cher. The Goddess of Pop, 79, joined Lauper, 72, on stage at the Hollywood Bowl for an epic duet to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” … Read more

Wild conspiracies surround murder of 1950s ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ heartthrob, as his convicted killer seeks exoneration 

Wild conspiracies surround murder of 1950s ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ heartthrob, as his convicted killer seeks exoneration 

Depending on whom you ask, the murder of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” star Sal Mineo was due to revenge, salacious Hollywood blackmail, Deep State CIA-linked assassins or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, criminal justice advocates are arguing that it was also a case of an innocent man … Read more