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I took a long walk around the neighborhood this week. Those unnerving 'Dark Brandon' campaign signs—the ones with fiery, X-ray vision eyes on a big Biden head—were gone. But the Harris for President signs hadn't shown up yet. Any day now, of course, they will. A quick online check showed a full array…

Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. Here, General Hospital actress Tabyana Ali, who has played Trina Robinson on the ABC sudser since 2022, speaks out for the first time about…

Kevin Hart, who hosted Netflix’s Greatest Roast of All Time: The Roast of Tom Brady in May, has reacted to Brady’s public regrets about the program’s jabs. “When he says he regretted doing it,” Hart told Bleacher Report this month, “I think what he’s referring to is, ‘I could have tapered it a little…

Editor’s note: In April 2023, Dawn Solér, the SVP Music for ABC Signature and a 16 1/2-year veteran of the studio, was one of several executives who left Disney TV amid the ongoing contraction occurring in Hollywood. Here, Solér reflects on the past year and the lessons she learned since leaving the…

This was the last Real Time before its summer hiatus, Bill Maher noted at the top of his show on Friday night. “It’s a slow news time,” he quipped. “We’ll be back on Aug. 23 to cover the campaign between Trump and….somebody.” This was the first show since last week’s Trump assassination…

Not long ago I vowed never to write about dogs or cats. It seems everyone feels compelled to talk about their pets or show us photos. Even movies. It's on overload: a cat named Frodo is a scene-stealer in A Quiet Place: Day One. She faithfully observes…

UPDATE: Britney Spears has struck back. "I'm gonna do a photoshoot with Kate [Beckinsale] and tell the Osbourne family who is the most boring family known to mankind to kindly f–k off !!!" the singer hitmaker wrote in a lengthy Instagram note that also defended the British actress and model from…

Bill Maher is no fan of Donald Trump, frequently stating on his HBO Real Time show that he’d vote for Joe Biden over the Republican challenger even if Biden’s head was in a jar of blue liquid. Yet Maher was as appalled as anyone at Saturday’s Trump assassination attempt. The talk show host posted a…

Robert De Niro ranted. Bette Midler blared about “autocracy.” Lea DeLaria declared war. But Donald Trump, though convicted in New York and shot in Pennsylvania, is still marching toward Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention begins tomorrow. Meanwhile, George Clooney called for a new…

In an opinion piece for USA Today published on Friday, Ashley Judd called on Joe Biden to "voluntarily, gracefully step aside" so that a "talented, robust Democrat" can run for the presidency. She wrote that Biden demonstrated during the debate he was "incapable of countering Trump, while he…

There’s only one topic in politics right now, and it’s all about Joe, as Bill Maher noted at the top of his show, then concluded in his “New Rules” closing editorial with a crystal clear statement: “He is not going to be the Democrat candidate in 2024.” “What a time to be in America,” said Maher in…

Scarlett Johansson is married to Saturday Night Live Weekend Update cohost Colin Jost. Which means she sometimes has to endure jokes that are either cringe or aimed at her. During her Thursday visit to The Kelly Clarkson Show, Johansson admitted that she "blacked out" during one rendition of…