Thursday, July 25, 2024
Salma Hayek celebrated being one of the 11,000 people selected to be torchbearers for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic torch relays ahead of this weekend’s Summer Games. The “Black Mirror” actress joined 174 other select individuals as they brought the flame from Rambouillet, France, to Le château de Versailles on Tuesday. This year’s torch was first lit in Olympia, Greece, on April 16 and will ultimately land at Paris’ Jardins du Trocadéro stadium on Friday. “Yesterday, I had the honor of carrying the Olympic flame, a symbol of light, hope, peace and unity. If you believe in these values, know…
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
This week’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” guest host Lamorne Morris is very impressed by the huge haul Kamala Harris has made in the two days since Joe Biden dropped out and endorsed her as his replacement on the Democratic presidential ticket. And with good reason — Harris set a new 24 hour fundraising record, receiving $100 million, mostly from small grassroots donors in the day after Biden dropped out. And before 48 hours elapsed she received enough pledged donations to secure her nomination, which avoids a contested convention. “Now Kamala Harris was in Milwaukee today for her first official rally,” Morris…
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Pete Buttigieg was campaigning for President Joe Biden right alongside Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend just one day before she became the presumptive Democratic nominee. The U.S. secretary of transportation stopped by MSNBC on Monday to tell Rachel Maddow all about his reaction to Biden dropping out of the race and endorsing Harris — though he made sure to avoid answering any questions about possibly becoming her running mate. “Chasten and I were making our way back home to Michigan after appearing with Vice President Harris on Saturday for a fundraiser to support the Biden-Harris ticket in Massachusetts…
Monday, July 22, 2024
Note: This story contains spoilers from “House of the Dragon” Season 2, Episode 6. “House of the Dragon” Season 2 Episode 6 ended with an intimate moment between Queen Rhaenyra and Lady Mysaria that star Sonoya Mizuno says wasn’t initially in the script. As the immediacy of dragon warfare set in after the brutal events of Rook’s Rest, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) leaned on Mysaria (Mizuno) as a trusted confidant, who assured her she is meant to be queen. After Mysaria opened up to Rhaenyra about her traumatic past, the pair embraced and, in a heated and emotional moment, the hug…
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Shirley Halperin has resigned as editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Magazine just a year after joining the publication amid rising complaints that it has failed to pay overdue bills to freelancers and vendors, TheWrap has learned. In a statement to TheWrap on Saturday, the magazine’s president and publisher Christopher Gialanella wrote, “We are proud that Los Angeles Magazine will have a profitable year in a challenging media environment and circulation is way up. We will be announcing our new Editor-In-Chief in the next two weeks.” It wasn’t immediately clear who would oversee the publication in the interim as Halperin is set to depart on Friday….
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Hollywood Teamsters and the Basic Crafts have extended talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to reach agreement on a new tentative bargaining agreement before the July 31 deadline. In an update to members Friday night, union leaders said “we remain far apart on core bargaining priorities.” Pressure is on to resolve these differences, as the current Teamsters contract expires July 31, and the union has informed the AMPTP that it will not agree to an extension beyond that date. “The Hollywood Basic Crafts have concluded discussions with the AMPTP for the 5th week of negotiations. Today…
Friday, July 19, 2024
Right wing Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz spoke Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, but his speech ended up being overshadowed by something else: His bizarre new appearance. Gaetz’s face was stiff, his eyebrows stuck in arches and his skin appeared to be unnaturally smooth while he spoke. One expert told Esquire it was probably too much Botox, but no one knows for sure, and viewers were pretty weirded out. Including this week’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” guest host Anthony Anderson. “You know, the Republicans wrapped up the RNC in Milwaukee tonight, where Donald Trump gave a speech formally accepting…
Thursday, July 18, 2024
JD Vance gave the keynote speech on the third night of the Republican National Convention, and during MSNBC’s coverage of the event, Rachel Maddow worried that Vance is on the GOP ticket not because he can convince undecided voters, but because Donald Trump is “quite sure” he’s going to win, “no matter what kind of craziness you put on the ticket.” You can watch the video at the bottom of the page. Maddow began with a deep dive into JD Vance’s personal history, noting that he’s best known for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy. She noted that his military service in…
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” guest host Anthony Anderson had some choice words to describe this week’s Republican National Convention,” starting with the joke that it’s “also known as the White People’s Choice Awards.” Anderson ran down some of the weirdest moments from Monday night’s RNC, beginning when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s teleprompter malfunctions. “Oh, poor Mike walked off stage with his Johnson tucked between his legs. You know, is it bad when the Speaker of the House can’t speak?” Anderson quipped. “They all had some fun though. More than anything, the RNC is a chance for the MAGA movement…
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Stephen Colbert opened Monday’s live episode of “The Late Show” with a pre-recorded message commenting on what he called “the darkness” in America following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend. Describing the shocking event, in which a lone shooter killed an attendee at a Trump rally and shot Trump himself in the ear, Colbert said that watching it all unfold he was relieved that Trump survived, but felt “frankly, grief for my beautiful country.” “How many times do we need to learn the lesson that violence has no role in our politics, that the entire objective of…