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There was no debating it – Bill Maher’s Real Time was going to talk about Thursday night’s presidential candidates battle and the consequences of Joe Biden’s performance. Maher started the show with a couple jabs, noting that Trump would not have gotten away with his tall tales if only Joe Biden had…

Caitlin Clark is one of the top rookies in the WNBA when it comes to scoring and assists. She’s also one of the league’s top trash talkers, if one coach is to be believed. Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon said that while Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese gets a lot of attention for…

EXCLUSIVE: Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn't require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the earthshaking new Netflix drama Supacell that began streaming Thursday.  "My superpower is discipline," he…

Erin Buker earned the second-lowest score in Jeopardy! history on Monday. A mother from San Pedro, California, Buker ended her episode with a score of -$7,200, a low that was just in front of contestant Patrick Pearce’s $7,400 in 2021. But Buker isn’t worried about appearances. On the show’s…

This week used to be nail-biting time in Hollywood as the studios nervously unfurled their summer blockbusters and prayed for lines at the box office. That time is bye-bye. To be sure, a few movies are still opening. I decided to drop by one pre-opening…

Emma Roberts comes from a famous show business family. But on Tuesday’s Table for Two podcast, she said she thinks men from similar backgrounds have it easier. Case in point: George Clooney. “I always joke, ‘Why is no one calling out George Clooney for being a nepo baby? [His aunt] Rosemary Clooney…

Laurence Fishburne is a talented actor who has played a range of characters from Morpheus to Mr. Clean. The new FX series Clipped offers him yet another unexpected role as an NBA coach who employs force and gravitas in guiding players in combat with the…

As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London's Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe's "spicy" love story Shifters, wasn't Dre — short for Dream — but "Dreamboat." It's a double whammy of love, well, sort of, for Cole (Till, Bob M…

Editor’s Note: Journalist David Blum might have forever coined The Brat Pack era, but it was Carl Kurlander who provided the reason the infamous New York magazine article got written. St. Elmo’s Fire was a script Kurlander wrote with director Joel Schumacher, inspired by events in his life. Now an academic…

The White House in the past week has railed against so-called “cheap fakes,” videos edited to look as if President Joe Biden has “frozen” or was wandering away at major public events, while media outlets amplifying the moments have done little to add context. The videos include one at a D-Day…

Pondering Will Smith's recent triumph at a local Cinemark and Donald Trump's post-conviction surge, I got to thinking about “movie-think.” You know, the way we've become accustomed, after watching hundreds and hundreds of mainstream films, to thinking…

For celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, it’ll be a really grateful Father’s Day. The father of six kids posted to Instagram today and said he’s “lucky to be here” after crashing his bicycle earlier this week in Connecticut. “I had a really bad accident, and it really shook me. Honestly, I’m lucky to…