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John Oliver returned to his desk after a month-long break – and an Emmy win – to focus on the furor in Washington over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor. He offered few jokes in between his long-winded objection over Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Oliver started his segment with the GOP’s efforts to rush the…

5TH UPDATE, 7:30 PM: The celebrity table read raised $51,884 from 1,322 people during its online session, per totals posted to Facebook, one of the online partners. 4TH UPDATE, 7:55 AM: The A-list table read for Dane Cook Presents Feelin' A-Live, a virtual table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, will now stream…

The nonprofit relief organization co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee is offering private COVID-19 testing to Los Angeles-based film and TV productions, the net profits from which will help fund the organization's free testing for at-risk and low-income communities. Their Community Organized Relief Effort – which has…

Sean Penn, whose emergency relief organization CORE has provided additional COVID-19 testing through out Los Angeles, said he doesn’t see the value in giving Admiral Brett Giroir advice on how to improve testing capacity. “I don’t have faith in giving advice to the White House testing czar or to the President of the…

Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, Olivia Munn, Blake Shelton, Gary Sinise and Reba McEntire are among the big names set for CMT Celebrates Our Heroes, a tribute special set to air June 3 on Paramount Network, TV Land and Pop TV. The two-hour virtual tribute will recognize heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic including those…

At Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s daily coronavirus briefing Tuesday, L.A. City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas provided an update on his department’s COVID-related efforts. He also offered praise for Sean Penn’s efforts to provide testing throughout the city. “We’ve focused in four primary areas,” said the chief, the…

Twitter founder-CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to CORE, the disaster relief group co-founded by Sean Penn a decade ago. Funds from Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative will expand free COVID-19 testing in cities across the country. Dorsey launched #startsmall last month for COVID-19 relief, girls health and…

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in partnership with Sean Penn’s CORE organization says all L.A. County residents will be offered free coronavirus testing, whether or not they are symptomatic. Garcetti said at his briefing Wednesday that Los Angeles will become the first city in the U.S. to offer free coronavirus…

Ed Note: When natural disasters strike, most of us quickly write checks and say, ‘I wish I could do more.’ At that moment, there is a good chance Sean Penn is on a plane headed toward the wreckage. We saw post-Hurricane Katrina pictures of Penn in a small motorboat, braving the flood waters to pull people off roofs or…

Sean Penn, founder of the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) disaster relief charity, is focusing his efforts on coronavirus testing in Southern California. CORE has teamed with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's office and the city's fire department to create free drive-in test sites for those who have qualified…

“I'm not going to lie I cried, I sobbed. And I sort of hate to admit it, because it's not about me. But we worked so hard for, you know, a couple of years on this movie. And it felt like there were times when we weren't sure if it was even ever going to get made or anything. And then to have it lined up, this is how…

Some of us are addicted to history. We can't help it. I was well on my way to a probably less than useful PhD in Modern European History when I decided to chuck it in favor of a perhaps slightly more useful life as a journalist. But events keep luring me back to the historical pantry for one more bite of the…