Sunday, January 12, 2025
Producer Brad Fuller, DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter Among Industry Leaders Who Lost Homes in LA Fires
DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter, Fifth Season head Graham Taylor and producer Brad Fuller were among the many industry leaders who lost their homes in the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires this past week. They join a growing list of celebrities and Hollywood heavyweights who are picking up the pieces after the fires devastated swaths of the city — Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins and Miles Teller among them. Below is a list of prominent producers, writers, music insiders and others who confirmed to TheWrap that they, too, experienced a total loss in the unfolding disaster: Graham Taylor, co-President of Fifth Season,…
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Sam Moore, Half of Legendary ‘Soul Man’ Group Sam & Dave, Dies at 89
Sam Moore, the legendary soul singer best known for his iconic song “Soul Man” as one half of the duo Sam & Dave, died Friday while recovering from recent surgery. He was 89. As part of Sam and Dave, Moore helped create a string of classics, including “Hold On I’m Coming” and “I Thank You,” songs that have influenced generations of performers since. Born in Miami on Oct. 12, 1935, Moore learned to sing in Church and became an accomplished gospel singer. He got his start as a professional singer on the gospel circuit where he first met Dave Prater…
Friday, January 10, 2025
‘Super Scooper’ Aircraft Fighting LA Wildfires Grounded After Drone Collision
One of the “Super Scooper” planes aiding in the battle against the Los Angeles wildfires was damaged on Thursday after colliding with a drone, and is now grounded, officials said on Thursday. The collision occurred Thursday afternoon over the Palisades Fire as the Canadair CL-415 aircraft was dumping water onto the blaze. The circumstances of the collision have not been made public, but LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said Thursday that the plane’s wing was punctured. CBS reported that the drone was operated by a civilian. The aircraft landed safely and according to Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL is…
Thursday, January 9, 2025
LAFD Chief Warned Budget Cuts ‘Severely Limited’ Disaster Response a Month Before LA Wildfires Outbreak
A month before the outbreak of multiple, devastating fires throughout greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley warned that recent budget cuts approved by Mayor Karen Bass “severely limited” LAFD’s ability to respond to “large scale emergencies. “The reduction… has severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires,” Crowley said in a memo dated Dec. 4, 2024 and published Wednesday by KNBC in Los Angeles. The 2024 Los Angeles city budget included approximately $17 million cut from LAFD. According to the city, these cuts were in part to…
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Jon Stewart Says It’s ‘Amazing’ How Easy Elections Are ‘When You Don’t Act Like a Little Bitch When You Lose’ | Video
Jon Stewart opened the first new “The Daily Show” of 2025 with a look at the certification of Donald Trump’s reelection. After detailing how no one even had to care about this process before Trump attempted a coup in 2020, Stewart ultimately joked, “it’s amazing how smoothly our democracy can work when you don’t act like a little bitch when you lose.” Earlier in the monologue, while discussing some of the weirder procedural parts of certification, Stewart quipped that it’s “nice to know that democracy now has pallbearers.” You can watch the full opening segment on The Daily Show below:…
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Fox News Fact-Checks Trump on New Orleans Terror Suspect’s Citizenship, Says He Was Born in the US | Video
Fox News contradicted President-elect Donald Trump’s statement that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the terror suspect in the New Year’s vehicular attack in New Orleans, was a “criminal coming in” to the country. While reporting on the attack Wednesday, a Fox News White House correspondent says over video edits of Trump: “To be clear, Molly and Brian, the suspect was born in the United States. He served in the United States Army. He was a veteran.” Earlier, Trump called the attack “pure evil” in a post on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. “When I said that the criminals coming in…
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Kate Beckinsale Shares Her Experiences With On-Set Abuse, Says Blake Lively Revealed a ‘Machine That Goes Into Effect When a Woman Complains’
Kate Beckinsale detailed several instances of abuse on film sets in the wake of Blake Lively’s sexual harassment complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios producers. The “Underworld” star thanked Lively for surfacing the long-standing issue of women’s complaints not being heard on film sets and acknowledging that it is not “an archaic problem.” “What [Lively’s complaint] has highlighted is this machine that goes into effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful in this industry,” the actress said in an Instagram reel posted Sunday. Beckinsale then recounted several instances of…
Monday, December 30, 2024
James Denton Says His Favorite ‘Desperate Housewives’ Episode is ‘The One Where I Got Shot’
James Denton’s “Desperate Housewives” character Mike Delfino was shot 12 years ago, much to the dismay of many of the show’s fans. But when asked by People which episode of the series was his favorite, Denton immediately pointed to Delfino’s demise. “The one where I got shot,” he said. “It’s always fun to get chills on camera.” Denton also told the outlet about the rigging and special effects that made the shooting death believable on camera. “You have one tube up one leg of your pants that has the blood to your chest, and you have a wire running down…
Friday, December 27, 2024
Geoffrey Deuel, ‘Chisum’ and ‘The Young and the Restless’ Actor, Dies at 81
Geoffrey Deuel, an actor whose roles included Billy the Kid in the 1970 John Wayne movie “Chisum” and Dave Campbell on “The Young and the Restless,” died on Sunday, according to a family obituary. He was 81. He was the younger brother of Pete Duel, a fellow actor who was best known for his role on the 1970s TV western “Alias Smith and Jones.” Duel died in 1971. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Mr. Geoffrey Deuel, a beloved actor, husband and brother, who departed this life on Dec. 22, 2024. Born on Jan. 17, 1943,…
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
‘Laid’ Showrunners on Capturing the ‘Bleak and Funny’ Truth of Dating in Their Sex-Positive Rom-Com
“Laid” follows Stephanie Hsu’s Ruby as she comes to the grim realization that a growing number of her ex-partners have become victim to various maladies — all of which have resulted in death. But instead of sex-shaming, co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan (“Fresh Off the Boat,” “Always Be My Maybe”) and Sally Bradford McKenna (“Son of Zorn”) used the outlandish premise — which originated from an Australian format — as an opportunity for Ruby to reflect on her behavior during each relationship, serving as a jumping off point for some internal growth. “From the beginning, we, the writers, Peacock and Stephanie, wanted this to…
