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The Kennedy Center announced its next choices for the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with plans to return the ceremony to its traditional time and format in December. The recipients for the December 5 event will be singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, actress and singer Bette Midler, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michae…

In what should come as no surprise, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are coming back for the Disney+ sequel Hocus Pocus 2 as the wicked Sanderson Sisters. It’s interesting that the studio continues to keep this title for its streaming service as opposed to theaterical; the sequel set for a 2022…

A Wolverine jacket donated by Hugh Jackman, a pair of Elton John’s eyeglasses, boots and jeans from Bruce Springsteen and Bette Midler’s glittery black Halloween 2014 gown are just a few of the items that will be auctioned off in April in an unprecedented collaboration between The Actor’s Fund, Doyle Auctioneers…

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…