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Robert DeMora, a costume designer with film credits that include Risky Business, The Wanderers and The Birdcage but who made his biggest splash creating dazzling, near-surreal costumes for Bette Midler like her famous sequined mermaid gowns, died Sept. 21 at his home in Upstate New York’s Jeffersonville. He was…

Julie Taymor is a director who always swings for the fences, whether a splendid biopic of Frida Khalo or a vivid reimagining of The Lion King for Broadway. Changing Prospero from male to female in her adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is another example, if not quite as successful, but now her unconventional and…

“The truth will set you free…but first it will piss you off,” says Julianne Moore as iconic feminist Gloria Steinem in the new trailer for Julie Taymor’s biopic The Glorias, about the legendary disruptor that helped lead the charge in activism and launched a revolutionary women's movement that has impacted…

After a debut session called dark and dystopian, night two of the Republican National Convention was a more optimistic and hopeful affair, attempting to reframe Donald Trump’s record on race relations, the coronavirus pandemic and women’s issues. Reactions were divided mostly along partisan lines, but those of Bette…

“Welcome,” says Sarah Paulson’s Clarissa Montgomery, a YouTube personality filming Episode 28 of her Mindful Meditations show. “Take a deep, healing breath and imagine that you’re not even on Twitter or Facebook or Xanax,” she encourages her viewers in the official trailer for Coastal Elites, HBO’s quarantine comedy…

HBO's quarantine-produced comedy feature Coastal Elites, starring Bette Midler, is to launch on September 12 – six months after COVID-19 started to ravage the U.S. The show centers around five characters from New York and Los Angeles coping with politics and the pandemic. Midler plays Miriam Nessler, a long-time…

Bette Midler will personally match donations to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund up to $100,000, the charitable organization announced today. "Between her awe-inspiring talent and boundless generosity, we are so grateful to have Bette as a loyal and true friend of Broadway…

New Republic Pictures has won an auction for Peter Hoare’s pitch Family Jewels, a multigenerational family comedy that returns Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton back on the big screen together for the first time since the 1996 blockbuster The First Wives Club.  In Family Jewels, Hawn, Midler and Keaton’s…

If it seems The Addams Family always has been a part of our family, it is because they have for more than 80 years, since Charles Addams introduced the gothicly amusing clan in a series of New Yorker cartoons beginning in 1938. They’ve never gone far from the pop culture, whether as a hit 1960s ABC sitcom, a couple of…

"Thank you, thank you Nancy Pelosi," Rosie O'Donnell proclaimed on social media Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top elected Democrat in the land, announced the start of an official impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. O’Donnell, the longtime nemesis of the former Celebrity Apprentice host…

When Bette Midler says, “This is gonna be fun,” who are we to disagree? In this just-released teaser for Netflix’s upcoming Ryan Murphy series The Politician – the first look at Midler and Judith Light – politics does indeed look, well, fun. If a little deadly. Premiering on September 27, the series – check out the…

Refresh for updates from awards … The 2019 Disney Legends Awards opened this year’s edition of the D23 Expo in Anaheim with a vivid and evocative stage tribute to this year’s class, which is led by Robert Downey Jr., James Earl Jones, Jon Favreau, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Ortega, and Bette Midler. In all, a dozen new…