Victor Paleologus often portrayed himself as a well-connected figure in Southern California’s entertainment industry — a record company executive, a movie producer, someone with links to the James Bond franchise. In reality, he was a failed restaurant owner and “master manipulator” who faked those credentials and, from 1989 to 2003, lured nine women into vulnerable […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, senior political editor Mark Murray compares the GOP’s response to Donald Trump’s guilty verdict to its responses […]
OpenAI’s apparent homage to the movie Her featuring the voice likeness of Scarlett Johansson is fuelling a backlash against artificial intelligence across Hollywood, executives told Reuters. Johansson’s accusation that the ChatGPT-maker copied her performance in the Spike Jonze-directed feature film, after failing to strike an agreement, rekindled the creative class’s anxiety about the existential threat […]
GRESHAM, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — An English actress who has been a princess, spy, superhero and alien stopped by East Multnomah County for a whirlwind day of filming on a new project that will feature some familiar locations. Students chain themselves to PSU admin building in protest for a Free Palestine Actress Vanessa Kirby, starring […]
Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson and Stephen Fry are among the stars campaigning for Kevin Spacey to resume his acting career “after seven years of exile”. The Oscar-winning actor was one of the most recognised faces in Hollywood when allegations of sexual misconduct were made in 2017, leading streaming giant Netflix to cut all ties with […]
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have sought to highlight the impact of the “Access Hollywood” recording on the 2016 campaign, in which the former president could be heard boasting of sexual assault, arguing that it was in the wake of that revelation that crimes were committed to prevent others from speaking out. But […]
Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning so-called “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died aged 98. Corman died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, his daughter Catherine Corman said on Saturday […]
Former White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout testified Thursday in Trump’s hush-money trial. The “Access Hollywood” tape sent the RNC reeling, she testified of working there at the time. Westerhout said RNC officials were so concerned, they began planning how to replace Trump. The “Access Hollywood” tape was so damaging to Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign that […]
Former President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide and White House communications director about her efforts to knock down negative stories about her boss during the 2016 campaign. This is Yahoo News’ succinct update on the criminal and civil cases against Trump. Here are the latest developments. 🚨 What happened today Hicks, an insider of Trump’s […]
By Jack Queen, Brendan Pierson and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) –Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump, testified on Friday that staffers on his 2016 presidential campaign were alarmed when they learned that a tape in which he made lewd comments about women was about to be made public. Hicks testified there […]
Elon Musk and David Sacks hosted an elite dinner for billionaires that got political, Puck reported. Musk has been flexing his political influence but has yet to endorse a presidential candidate. In recent years, Musk has lambasted policies by Democratic politicians and endorsed Republicans. Elon Musk, at an exclusive April dinner, commiserated with a group […]
Staff Sgt. Phillip Cho is a sniper for the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska. Cho said that while movies mainly focus on precision marksmanship, there’s much more to sniping. Movies often don’t show the true value of fieldcraft and concealment. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Staff Sgt. Phillip Cho, a […]