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Kenan Thompson, who is in his 17th season as a performer on Saturday Night Live, covered a wide range of show lore in a 90-minute appearance Sunday at the New Yorker Festival. The firing of debut cast member Shane Gillis in September before his first episode and after racist jokes and comments surfaced online…

Janice Dickinson has received a "very large settlement" to her four-year defamation case against Bill Cosby, the ex-America's Next Top Model judge's lawyer said today. But the imprisoned man once known as America's Dad is not happy about it at all. Calling AIG the "worst and egregious insurance company in America's…

The latest appeal from Bill Cosby contends that if five other women at his retrial hadn't been allowed to give testimony about being assaulted and drugged by him, the man once known as "America's Dad" wouldn't have been sentenced to up to 10 years behind bars last fall for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand. "This…

Bill Cosby may be in prison, but he is still trying to make sure that people know he is still around — or at least someone from his social media team is. On Sunday, the 81-year-old actor’s Twitter and Instagram accounts posted a video in honor of Father’s Day — and people weren’t really here for it. The post included…

As of 3:36 p.m. Cannes Film Festival Time on Saturday–6:36 a.m. as time is reckoned here in Los Angeles– the online case records of the Los Angeles County Superior Court still showed no sign of a response by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Roman Polanski's demand for reinstatement as an Academy…

UPDATE 3:23 PM: If Roman Polanski and his legal representatives thought the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was going to hand back his membership quickly after he took the Oscar organization to court today, they were incorrect. “The procedures taken to expel Mr. Polanski were fair and reasonable,” an…

For a second time this month, Bill Cosby is raging against insurance company AIG for settling one of the lawsuits against the now imprisoned comedian once known as “America’s Dad.” "AIG's conduct is despicable and I can only imagine how terribly they're treating their policyholders, who don't have my means and my…

2ND UPDATE, 9:07 PM: Bill Cosby is blasting the insurance company that made a settlement in the long-running defamation case against him. He issued this statement tonight through his publicist: "AIG showed that they're a part of the corruption against me, by paying off these distractors, without my knowledge, without…

Louisa Moritz, an actress who appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and brought a good-natured joy to a stereotypical blonde bombshell persona in early ’70s fare like Love, American Style and Match Game but in more recent years joined other women in accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault, has died from a…

UPDATED with official statement of split: After days of speculation, Harvey Weinstein and his primary defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman have officially parted ways. The anticipated move comes less than five months before a criminal trial involving multiple rape claims against the disgraced producer is expected to begin…

Just a couple of weeks after the Superior Court of Pennsylvania rejected Bill Cosby's appeal petition in the 2004 rape case that put the once beloved comedian behind bars earlier this fall, a Los Angeles judge today inked in a new trial date for an assault of a minor that allegedly occurred 45 years ago. In a hearing…

Less than a week after losing yet another set of lawyers, Bill Cosby was told Friday by the District Attorney that put him behind bars for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand that his latest sprawling attempt to get a new trial, a new judge or out of prison altogether should be DOA. "Defendant William H. Cosby, Jr's…