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Trevor Noah took on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tonight, the man he called “An action figure who got way too close to a light bulb.” McConnell is upset that corporations are speaking out against Georgia’s controversial new voting laws. The moves have included Major League Baseball pulling its annual…

On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been at the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City, where a man…

Hollywood's great re-awakening seems at hand. Sort of. The cameras are rolling, the theaters are opening, the wannabe blockbusters have nailed new playdates. Even Bob Iger last week revealed his exit date, marking his kingdom's new era. But when the curtains rise, will the audience applaud? Paradoxically, I was…

Talk about drama: The suspense around this year's precarious Academy Awards show won't peak until roughly 12 hours after PricewaterhouseCoopers hands over the Best Picture envelope. That's when Nielsen will render its verdict on the ratings. If those are judged adequate, the film awards business can write off its…

UPDATED: Seth Rogen took to Twitter on Monday to clarify comments he’d made in a recent interview for British GQ’s May issue, regarding Emma Watson’s experience on the set of his debut feature, This Is The End. “A recent interview I gave…misrepresents what actually happened,” he wrote. “Emma Watson did not 'storm…

Piers Morgan has fired back on Sharon Osbourne’s Friday departure from The Talk related to her defense of his opinions . Today, he issued a long, scathing newspaper column that focused on his departure from Good Morning Britain and the ensuing controversy when Osbourne defended him. Her defense led to her own…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. I always say the precursor awards that really count if you want to figure out who is going to turn out to be an Oscar winner are the various guild awards, which got underway in earnest this week. Their membership inevitably overlaps with that of the…

Let's be real: Navigating the list of Oscar nominees represents a challenge this year, so I was intrigued by one filmmaker's winning formula. "The key is to mix and match," he advised. "I watch the characters trudge across Nomadland, then turn to Fred Astaire dancing in Top Hat. I move from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to…

The last time I saw Bertrand Tavernier, who died yesterday in Paris at 79, was at the Cannes Film Festival nearly two years ago after the world premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was after 1 a.m. and my son Nick and I, who had been elated by the film, were walking down a largely empty Rue d'Antibes when I…

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti today gave an upbeat assessment of the city’s efforts to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic on CBS Sunday talk show Face the Nation. Asked if he feared a “fourth wave” of infections, Garcetti said, “hope really hangs on the horizon. I haven’t felt this optimism in 12 months.” He estimated…

Actress Sandra Oh has stepped up as part of the nationwide protests this weekend decrying hate and violence against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Oh appeared at a rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday, speaking to a crowd of masked people and saying she’s “proud to be Asian.” The Killing…

At 8:45 p.m. on Thursday night came one of my favorite regular reports on the state of the entertainment industry and its denizens. That is, an emailed "blog" from lawyer and friend Robert Mirisch about life in the Wasserman Campus retirement residences and skilled nursing facilities operated by the Motion Picture…