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As a small boy I remember the media cloud that suddenly descended on our household. My father was outraged: Everyone we knew was installing their new TVs and abandoning their radios. Jackie Gleason on the Dumont Network was instantly compulsory viewing. Gleason? Dumont? His outrage today is likely being replayed amid…

A lawsuit claiming Santa Monica, Calif. game manufacturer Activision Blizzard, the makers of Call of Duty, created a workplace environment where sexual harassment and discrimination flourished has been filed after a two-year investigation. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing said in its lawsuit…

For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville's flip response to The New Yorker's query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain's lines in the film Roadrunner. "If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably…

Only Ten Months Until the Next Cannes. The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival is now behind us, and covering it all for Deadline were esteemed veterans in the critics community Todd McCarthy, Anna Smith and Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond. Looking in the rearview mirror, here are some…

If Jamie Lynn Spears was shaken by her sister Britney’s online attacks against her, she isn’t showing it to the world. In an Instagram story post on Saturday, Jamie Lynn came off as the essence of calm. “Feeling solid, stable, and still on this beautiful Saturday,” Jamie Lynn shared on her Instagram Story Saturday as…

South Korea's Olympic committee said it has removed flags at its Olympic village in Tokyo after they raised bad memories about a past military conflict between Japan and Korea. The South Korean delegation said Saturday it was complying and removing the flags, which referenced a 16th-century battle between the two…

Just call him The King of the box office. LeBron James, citing Anthony D’Alessandro’s Deadline story touting the box office success of his new film, Space Jam: A New Legacy, had a simple message for those who didn’t believe the film would do well: “Hi Haters!” It was accented with a grinning emoji. The film is poised…

He’s got 99 problems, but a mask ain’t one. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Friday that his department will not enforce the new mandatory indoor mask requirement that will begin tonight at 11:59 PM. The county Department of Public Health revived its indoor mask requirement on Thursday after a spike in…

The best reviewed (thus far) documentary of 2021, Summer of Soul tells the story of a 1969 Harlem music festival – one that got zero attention in the media. Its Black promoters, having drawn 300,000 exhilarated spectators to the event, were angry about the blatant snub before realizing they may have been lucky…

Naya Rivera’s Glee castmates aren’t done celebrating her life. Chord Overstreet posted two selfies to his Instagram on Saturday with Glee alum Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Jenna Ushkowitz, Brittany Parks, Michael Hitchcock, and Matt Hodgson among others. <a…

UPDATE: The short, unhappy career of Addison Rae as a UFC correspondent is apparently over. The social media influencer, who caused a momentary uproar when she tweeted out her apparently minor qualifications, won’t continue. "nvm y'all got me fired," she tweeted a few hours after users complained about her on social…

Third time’s not necessarily the charm, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday to host Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union talk show. The infectious diseases expert said that Americans "right now" do not need a Pfizer booster shot to supplement previous doses to protect against the Delta variant of Covid-19. Pfizer has…