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Francis Ford Coppola accepts AFI Life Achievement Award with tributes from Spielberg, Lucas and more

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The annual AFI Life Achievement Award presentation is always a starry night in Hollywood, but Saturday’s ceremony at the Dolby Theatre brought together legendary stars from a seemingly bygone era of cinema to honor Francis Ford Coppola.

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Gene Hackman's dog was misidentified as other mysteries swirl around actor's death

Read full article: Gene Hackman's dog was misidentified as other mysteries swirl around actor's death

One discrepancy in the death of actor Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and one of their three beloved dogs has been resolved after authorities mistakenly identified the deceased dog as a German shepherd.

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Key Oscar moments, from Zoe Saldaña's emotional win and 'Oz' opening to Kieran Culkin's baby wish

Read full article: Key Oscar moments, from Zoe Saldaña's emotional win and 'Oz' opening to Kieran Culkin's baby wish

After accepting the Oscar for best supporting actress for her work in “Emilia Pérez,” Zoe Saldaña spoke emotionally about her family and her grandmother, tearing up during her speech.

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Freeman praises Gene Hackman, Goldberg and Winfrey give love to Quincy Jones in Oscars tributes

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The Oscars included a somber elegy for Gene Hackman and a joyful tribute to Quincy Jones.

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As Biden joins the former presidents club, here are some ideas for his retirement to-do list

Read full article: As Biden joins the former presidents club, here are some ideas for his retirement to-do list

If President Joe Biden is looking for ideas for retirement, he need look no further than past presidents.

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Viola Davis and Ted Danson celebrated for career achievements in film and TV at Golden Globes event

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Viola Davis and Ted Danson have been celebrated for their career achievements in film and television during the Golden Gala: An Evening of Excellence.

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David Fincher gives ‘Seven’ a final, 4K UHD glow up for its 30th anniversary

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David Fincher's 1995 crime thriller “Seven” is coming back to theaters this weekend for its 30th anniversary.

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Golden Globes 2025: Who's nominated, hosting, presenting, the honorees, what they'll eat and more

Read full article: Golden Globes 2025: Who's nominated, hosting, presenting, the honorees, what they'll eat and more

A huge list of starry folk will help present the Golden Globes on Sunday.

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Edwin Moses documentary to debut Sept. 21 at his alma mater, Morehouse College

Read full article: Edwin Moses documentary to debut Sept. 21 at his alma mater, Morehouse College

A documentary exploring how Edwin Moses blended science with athleticism to become the world’s greatest hurdler in the 1980s, then parlayed his fame into a mission to fight for better pay and fair sports, will debut Sept. 21 at his alma mater at the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival.

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Nicole Kidman, who 'makes movies better,' gets AFI Life Achievement Award

Read full article: Nicole Kidman, who 'makes movies better,' gets AFI Life Achievement Award

Nicole Kidman won the AFI Life Achievement Award with a film career that Meryl Streep said is all about love.

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Auburn star apologizes to Morgan Freeman after thinking actor was Ole Miss fan trying to rattle him

Read full article: Auburn star apologizes to Morgan Freeman after thinking actor was Ole Miss fan trying to rattle him

Auburn’s Johni Broome met one of his favorite movie stars and had to apologize to Morgan Freeman for how it happened.

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Barack Obama, John Mulaney and Carol Burnett are among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Read full article: Barack Obama, John Mulaney and Carol Burnett are among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Barack Obama has won his second Emmy at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

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Andre Braugher died from lung cancer, rep for 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and 'Homicide' star says

Read full article: Andre Braugher died from lung cancer, rep for 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and 'Homicide' star says

Andre Braugher's cause of death has been revealed.

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Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

Read full article: Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor best known for his roles on the series “Homicide: Life on The Street” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine," has died.

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Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi's Republican governor

Read full article: Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi's Republican governor

Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi.

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Sally Field to receive SAG lifetime achievement award

Read full article: Sally Field to receive SAG lifetime achievement award

Sally Field will be honored at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards with the SAG lifetime achievement award.

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World Cup dismay for Qatar as Ecuador wins opening game

Read full article: World Cup dismay for Qatar as Ecuador wins opening game

Qatar’s first ever World Cup match ended in dismay for an overmatched team and with a place in unwanted soccer history.

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Qatar opens World Cup with lavish half-hour ceremony

Read full article: Qatar opens World Cup with lavish half-hour ceremony

The World Cup began in Qatar 12 years after the tiny gulf nation secured the rights.

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For Oprah Winfrey, 'Sidney' is an act of love for Poitier

Read full article: For Oprah Winfrey, 'Sidney' is an act of love for Poitier

The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary “Sidney” has arrived eight months after the death of Sidney Poitier.

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From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards

Read full article: From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards

From Bradley Cooper to Steven Spielberg, some of Hollywood’s brightest stars came together to relax and sip wine in a fancy ballroom where everyone ended up walking away a winner at the American Film Institute Awards on Friday.

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AARP to honor Lily Tomlin with Movies for Grownups Award

Read full article: AARP to honor Lily Tomlin with Movies for Grownups Award

Lily Tomlin is this year’s recipient of AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards career achievement honor.

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'Dolphin Tale' fans mourn death of film's star Winter at 16

Read full article: 'Dolphin Tale' fans mourn death of film's star Winter at 16

Amy Carmichael lives more than 4,000 miles from the Florida aquarium that housed Winter, the “Dolphin Tale” movie star with a prosthetic tail who died this week at age 16.

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10 celebrities who served in the military

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Here are 10 notable celebrities with military backgrounds.

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Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies

Read full article: Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies

Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.

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Giving the Western some swagger in 'The Harder They Fall'

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“The Harder They Fall" has all of the gunfights, train robberies, saloons, and showdowns you would expect in a Western.

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Danticat, Groff among contributors to book 'Small Odysseys'

Read full article: Danticat, Groff among contributors to book 'Small Odysseys'

Michael Cunningham, Edwidge Danticat and Carmen Maria Machado are among the prize-winning authors who are contributing stories to a new collection.

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Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies

Read full article: Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies

Howard Weitzman, an attorney whose clients included Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, and auto maker John DeLorean, has died.

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Fonda says Hollywood needs more diversity after Globes honor

Read full article: Fonda says Hollywood needs more diversity after Globes honor

In this video grab issued Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, by NBC, Jane Fonda accepts the Cecil B. deMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards. (NBC via AP)LOS ANGELES – Just like in her career, Jane Fonda used the Golden Globes’ platform to speak on deeper issues calling for greater diversity in Hollywood while praising the “community of storytellers” as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. While wearing an all-white suit, Fonda raised the Globes’ highest honor above her head Sunday before commending storytellers for their vital role in troubled times. She is the daughter of Oscar winner Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, and sister of Peter Fonda, who died in 2019. She launched IndieCollect’s Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.

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Jane Fonda to receive Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award

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FILE - Actress Jane Fonda appears at the 71st international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 12, 2018. The Golden Globes will bestow the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Fonda during the 78th annual awards show next month. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – Jane Fonda cemented herself into Hollywood allure as a chameleonlike actor and social activist, and now the Golden Globes will honor her illustrious career with its highest honor. Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 78th annual awards ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday. She launched IndieCollect’s Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.

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Principal Joe Clark, who inspired film 'Lean on Me,' dies

Read full article: Principal Joe Clark, who inspired film 'Lean on Me,' dies

At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. President Ronald Reagan offered Clark a White House policy adviser position after his success at the high school. Morgan Freeman starred as Clark in the 1989 film “Lean on Me” that was loosely based on Clark’s tenure at Eastside. He also wrote “Laying Down the Law: Joe Clark’s Strategy for Saving Our Schools,” detailing his methods for turning around Eastside High. ___This story has been corrected to show that the county of the school Clark taught at is in Passaic County, not Essex County.

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Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts

Read full article: Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts

NEW YORK – Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier. Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on Broadway’s Best Shows and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. David Mamet’s ”Race" is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed O’Neill. Mamet’s “Boston Marriage” is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon.

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A sweep for ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Succession’ tops Emmy Awards

Read full article: A sweep for ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Succession’ tops Emmy Awards

(The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)LOS ANGELES – “Schitt's Creek,” the little Canadian show about a fish-out-of-water family, made history at Sunday's Emmy Awards with a comedy awards sweep, something even TV greats including “Frasier” and “Modern Family” failed to achieve. The awards for Pop TV's “Schitt's Creek” included best comedy series and trophies for its stars, including Catherine O'Hara and father-son Eugene and Daniel Levy. Moments later, his son won the award for comedy writing for “Schitt's Creek” episode, then shared a directing award and captured the supporting actor comedy trophy. As “Schitt’s Creek” gobbled up comedy awards, that left acclaimed “Insecure” and its creator Issa Rae empty-handed. But Black stories, Black performances and Black Lives Matter,” he said, urging Kimmel to shout with him.

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Spicoli to the rescue with 'Fast Times' virtual benefit

Read full article: Spicoli to the rescue with 'Fast Times' virtual benefit

LOS ANGELES Spicoli is making a virtual return to Ridgemont High to raise money for a pair of non-profit groups. Sean Penn, a cast member in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgmont High," will be joined by Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and other stars in a socially distanced reading of the film's script. Penn is handing the role of stoner Jeff Spicoli over to another actor, with details about who's playing what part to be unveiled at next week's event. None of those actors, nor Roberts or Aniston, appeared in the original film. It will be available on Facebook Live and TikTok via COREs Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CoreResponse.

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Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning

Read full article: Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning

Workers inspect the top cornice stone as it is lifted from the Shaw 54th Regiment memorial opposite the Statehouse, Friday, July 17, 2020, in Boston. Amid the national reckoning on racism, the memorial to the first Black regiment of the Union Army, the Civil War unit popularized in the movie "Glory, is facing scrutiny. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning

Read full article: Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning

Amid the national reckoning on racism, the memorial to the first Black regiment of the Union Army, the Civil War unit popularized in the movie "Glory, is facing scrutiny. White commander out front; Black soldiers in the background. It’s the first thing you see.”Amid the national reckoning on racism, the Shaw memorial is the latest and, perhaps, one of the more curious to receive scrutiny. Unlike other felled monuments, the work by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens isn’t a paean to the Confederacy. Saint-Gaudens spent 14 years creating a richly detailed bas relief, using Black men of different ages as models for his realistic soldiers.

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