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Diane Guerrero, who played Maritza Ramos on the Netflix hit “Orange is the New Black,” worked at a bar where patrons would recognize her. "How could you tell this complete stranger how much you're getting paid for being on a television show?" she asked. "Because everyone's reaction would be, like, 'Oh, my…

What was it W. B. Yeats wrote, that line Joan Didion lifted and twisted in her essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," about West Coast chaos in 1967? Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. That's how it felt on Thursday, a few minutes before lunch with some seasoned film executive-friends at the…

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the former director of Los Alamos Laboratory where the first atomic bomb was designed, squelched a petition from fellow scientists asking that the bomb not be dropped on Japan. The biopic Oppenheimer bows in theaters next weekend. Business Insider is reporting that…

Ty Pennington, the host of HGTV’s Rock the Block and Battle on the Beach, shared on Instagram that he is recovering from a throat abscess that landed him in the intenive care unit of a Colorado hospital. Pennington’s airway was blocked, necessitating the intubation. His condition came just two days…

Radio and music industry trade All Access has announced it is shuttering as of Tuesday, Aug. 15. Citing "severe financial headwinds," All Access announced its demise in a posting late Friday afternoon. The publication said it faced "a marked decrease in revenues that makes moving forward…

The SAG-AFTRA strike will affect tens of thousands in the industry, but one part of the union’s membership will not be part of the walkout: news and broadcast members. There has been a bit of confusion over just who will be impacted, but news industry agents have been sending out SAG-AFTRA fact…

UPDATE: The White House has weighed in on the SAG-AFTRA strike, a prospect that will lead to the shutdown of much of the entertainment business. "The President believes all workers – including actors – deserve fair pay and benefits. The President supports workers' right to strike and hopes the…

UPDATED with video: As Ron DeSantis has made attacks on The Walt Disney Co. a feature of his presidential campaign, CEO Bob Iger responded to one of the Florida governor’s accusations made on the campaign trail: That the company was in favor of the “sexualization of our children.” “We are a…

LeBron James isn’t retiring. The NBA’s all-time leading scorer announced on Wednesday night at the ESPYs that he will be back for his 21st season. James accepted the award for the Best Record-Breaking Performance of the last year, commemorating him passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the NBA’s…

UPDATE: The Federal Trade Commission is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that clears the way for Microsoft to complete its $69 billion merger with Activision. The FTC filed a notice of appeal in the federal court on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley largely rejected the…

With artificial intelligence at the heart of negotiations between the Writers Guild and Hollywood studios — and also SAG-AFTRA’s contract talks — the WGA East today is demanding “an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites.” The union reps about 100 staffers at the media company…

Fox News is facing a new defamation lawsuit from a man who claims that former host Tucker Carlson falsely identified him as an undercover FBI agent who triggered the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Superior Court, the same venue where the network recently faced…