This morning, stars are slowly but surely realizing that they have been nominated for a Golden Globe. Check out statements and social media reactions from nominees such as Reese Witherspoon, Emma Stone, and Eddie Redmayne; we’ll be updating this post throughout the day as they roll in. Reese Witherspoon (Best Actress, Drama, Wild): “I’m extremely thankful that the film is being recognized in this way. Wild is truly my baby and was a labor of love from the beginning.
Chaka Khan announced she is entering rehab to treat her addiction to prescription drugs. She’ll be attending with sister Yvonne Stevens. In a statement provided to the Associated Press, the singer, 63, revealed she’s been struggling with the same medication as Prince, who died in April after accidentally overdosing on an opioid painkiller called fentanyl. It was his death, she said, that prompted her to take action sooner rather than later.
With her sleepy, seductive eyes and patrician, pack-a-day voice, the actress enters the room of Humphrey Bogart’s world-weary fishing-boat captain, Harry Morgan. She calls him “Steve” even though that is not his name, and offers him money to help him get out of a fix—we get the impression that it’s merely the latest in a long line of fixes resulting from hard luck and muddled politics that Bogie’s character will have to get out of.
Obviously, there wasn’t much time left for Pedro Zamora, the AIDS activist and costar of MTV’s The Real World, when President Clinton phoned his Miami hospital room not long ago. ”I’m just calling to tell you I’m thinking about you and praying for you,” said the President. But Zamora, suffering from an AIDS-related neurological disease, could barely muster a hello as his sister held the phone to his ear. For all practical purposes, Zamora was already gone, for it’s hard to imagine him without a voice.
Image Credit: Keith Hamshere/Getty ImagesYou don’t make nearly 150 films over seven decades without ruffling a few feathers. And Dino De Laurentiis, who died last night at age 91 in his home in Beverly Hills, ruffled enough to stuff a king-sized mattress. Years ago, during auditions for Jessica Lange’s part in his 1976 remake of King Kong, he called Meryl Streep “a pig.” At least the producer had the courtesy to do it in Italian, even though it turned out Steep spoke the language fluently (“I’m very sorry that I disappoint you,” she shot back).
Long before Rick James, Tiny Tim was pop’s No. 1 super-freak. With his kinky mane, flour-power makeup, and beak nose, Tim — who died Nov. 30 at the age of 64 (although some reliable sources put his age as high as 74) — didn’t resemble a man-child so much as a man-penguin. Singing in an eerie falsetto, he strummed a ukulele and warbled long-forgotten Tin Pan Alley novelties. One of them, ”Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me,” became his first and only hit (No.
Now here's a plot twist. After leaving General Hospital 26 years ago, Rena Sofer is checking back into the storied soap opera next month as Lois Cerullo, PEOPLE reports. A General Hospital fan favorite in the '90s thanks to her fast-talking Italian persona and thick Brooklyn accent, Sofer's Lois was a band musician who fell in love with a hip, leather-loving rocker named Eddie Maine (Wally Kurth). Only after they got married did she learn that "
Actress Renée Dorléac, a go-to French voice in the advent of sound film and the mother of Catherine Deneuve, has died in Paris at the age of 109. Her children confirmed her death to Le Figaro. Born in the Normandy region of France on Sept. 10, 1911, Dorléac started her professional career at the age of 7 and took the stage name Renée-Jeanne Simonot. As the silent film era came to a close circa 1929, Dorléac was able to carve out a lane for herself doing the French dubbing for American movie stars like Judy Garland , Olivia de Havilland (in most of her films), Sylvia Sidney, Donna Reed, and Esther Williams, among others.
Would you sell your soul in exchange for sex, money, and power? No? What if the highest bidder was Renée Zellweger in a fabulous white dress? That appears to be the plot of Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode drama What/If, the first teaser trailer for which sees the Oscar-winning actress playing the puppet master behind an elaborate game of morality with a cash-strapped pair of newlyweds on the streets of San Francisco.
Michael Medved probably won’t agree, but some of the most enthralling movies of our time have come down to the spectacle of raging macho blowhards hurling profanities and hell-raising wisecracks at each other. That’s true of Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets and Raging Bull, films that forge a gutter poetry out of the word ”f—.” It’s true of Glengarry Glen Ross, in which David Mamet’s real estate salesmen set up a dense crossfire of bullying and triumphant obscenity (Alec Baldwin to disgruntled employee: ”F— you — that’s my name!