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Stevie Lee, a pro wrestler who went by the name “Puppet The Psycho Dwarf” and appeared in the film Jackass 3D and TV shows American Horror Story: Freak Show and Spike TV’s 2010 reality series Half-Pint Brawlers, died unexpectedly at his home Wednesday. He was 54. Details of the death were not disclosed on the Go Fund…

Rose Siggins, who lost both legs at age 2 and went on to star as “Legless Suzi” on FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show, died today in Denver. She was 43. The cause was an infection that spread through her body following kidney stone surgery earlier this month. Born with what was then known as sacral agenesis (she…

The 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards topped out at three-hours-plus Saturday at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. That’s how long it took to give HBO a slew of awards: a leading 29 in fact, paced by multiple winners Game Of Thrones (eight) and Bessie, which took the Outstanding TV Movie honor among its haul…

The name Sarah Paulson has of late become synonymous with American Horror Story, since the actress has been a lynchpin of every different incarnation of the Ryan Murphy franchise. She's currently filming not only its newest season, American Horror Story: Hotel, but also, simultaneously, a new mini series spinoff set…

For the next several days I will be handicapping Emmy categories just as final voting is going on. Today we start with Outstanding Limited Series. With the former "Miniseries" category now reclassified as "Limited Series," it automatically seems to widen the potential field of competitors, since minis, in their most…

“He trusts his gut more than most actors do.” Finn Wittrock is talking about American Horror Story: Freak Show co-creator Ryan Murphy, who selected him actor to play the sociopath rich brat Dandy Mott after playing a dying AIDS patient in the HBO movie The Normal Heart. The roles couldn’t be different. Ask Wittrock…

HBO’s Game Of Thrones led all series this morning as the TV Academy announced its 67th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. FX’s American Horror Story was next with 19. HBO had three of the top four most-nommed shows along with Olive Kitteridge and Bessie, while the top-nommed broadcast network show was ABC’s American Cr…

In her four seasons of American Horror Story, Jessica Lange has carved a niche as the show's grande dame. From her turn as a crazed nun in Asylum to the deranged witch of Coven to most recently her all-singing ringmaster Elsa Mars in Freak Show, Lange steals the show every time. Raking in two Emmys, a Globe and a SAG…

Ben Woolf, the American Horror Story: Freak Show actor who was severely injured in a Hollywood traffic accident, died today. He was 34. Woolf’s agency confirmed his death to Deadline. "We are saddened to learn the tragic news about Ben Woolf,” AHS‘ producers, FX and 20th Century Fox Television said in a joint…

Ben Woolf, who played Meep in three episodes of FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show, is in critical condition after a traffic accident in Hollywood last night. The actor, who stands 4-foot-4, was struck in the head by the side mirror of a passing car, an LAPD spokeswoman tells Deadline. Woolf was transported to a…

Disney’s Guardians Of The Galaxy and Fox Searchlight’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman took home top film honors tonight at the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards. On the TV side, FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show scared up three awards in the miniseries category: for special makeup effects, best…

Who says baseball is dead? After weeks of audience indifference, Major League Baseball finally broke through in a big way on Nielsen’s Twitter TV ratings with a highly competitive World Series. The World Series even beat out, and by a long way, those more consistent powerhouses, the NFL, The Walking Dead and American H…