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Twitter has hidden a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump because the platform says “it violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence”.
Trump this morning tweeted that the military would “assume control” in the city of Minneapolis if recent civil disturbances continue, adding “when the looting starts, the…
Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing is poised to make her screen comeback after a two-year exile following the tax evasion scandal that saw her retreat from the limelight.
The South China Morning Post is reporting that her period drama Win The World, a $70M budgeted streaming series, will debut on the Alibaba-owned service…
Marge Redmond, who played Sister Jacqueline on TV’s The Flying Nun and later became known as the spokeswoman in Cool Whip commercials, has died. She was 95 and her death was announced by SAG-AFTRA in its magazine. No cause was given.
Redmond appeared in 80 episodes of The Flying Nun, which…
Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Buffett, Joe Walsh and David Crosby performed for Joe Biden at a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, but the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his focus to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
“We can't ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now,” Biden said…
UPDATE:Â Minneapolis protesters broke into a police precinct in the city and set it on fire Thursday night.
The angry mob torched the 3rd Precinct of the Minneapolis police to protest the death of George Floyd in police custody.
It is not clear if the police or anyone else was affected by the blaze or the storming of…
John Krasinski has spoken out against the social media complaints regarding his decision to sell the popular YouTube show Some Good News to ViacomCBS.
Speaking on former The Office co-star Rainn Wilson's Instagram Live show, Hey There, Human, Krasinski said he never intended to continue the show beyond eight…
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said today that the state has been asked for a variance to its shutdown orders that would allow a speed-up in reopening local businesses. If approved, that could see restaurants and retailers free to open their establishments with safety protocols in place, possibly as soon as…
Harvey Weinstein may be behind bars for rape, but charges against the disgraced producer continue to emerge with four women today filing a sexual abuse lawsuit in New York that includes an underage assault.
Also naming the once Miramax-owning Walt Disney Company and Bob Weinstein as defendants, the jury trial seeking…
A second night of protests has erupted in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis African American man who died in a confrontation with police.
The group, smaller than Wednesday’s gathering that blocked traffic on the 101 Freeway, gathered outside Los Angeles Police headquarters around 5 PM. The…
While the Hollywood unions and studios are still deliberating over protocols for safe return to production amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Australian film and TV industry has released its COVID-Safe Guidelines to help get their industry back to work.
Spanning 41 pages, this is the most comprehensive set of official…
There was very little pomp, but that owed more to the circumstance, as Conan O’Brien gave the first remote commencement address in Harvard’s long history to the Class of 2020.
Delivered from a podium set up in his backyard, O’Brien used the unusual setting to his advantage, opening his speech with a montage of…
Anthony James, an instantly recognizable character actor who often played the creepy guy including in Best Picture Oscar winners In the Heat of the Night and Unforgiven, died May 26 of cancer. He was 77.
James had made a single brief appearance on a TV series when Norman Jewison cast him as the killer Ralph in 1967’s I…
