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It was another week of fiery comedy barbecue on Weekend Update as Michael Che and Colin Jost mercilessly roasted the week’s newsmakers. Who got the heat? Here are seven of the spiciest burns from last night’s show…

1 Morgan Wallen

Last week’s musical guest got two SNL slaps last night. “Just in the past two days, investors have lost over $6 trillion,” observed Jost. “Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at goodnights.”

But that wasn’t SNL’s only clap back at Wallen, who posted a “Get me the hell out of here” Instagram post after his quick exit last week. In the show’s opening sketch, James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump explained his new tariffs, including charges for “an island that is uninhabited by humans. It’s called Heard and McDonald Island. Ooh, McDonald Island — I’d love to visit there, right? McDonald Island.

Health and Human Services (Hhs) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ridiculed Gov. Patrick Morrisey‘s (R-West Virginia) weight and recommended that he do public weigh-ins.

At a press conference, Kennedy recalled getting to know Morrisey during the transition period into the second Trump administration.

“The first time I saw him, I said, ‘You look like you ate Gov. Morrisey,'” he stated. “And – and there was a lot of talk about getting healthy again.

“And I’m very happy that he’s invited me to be his personal trainer. And I am gonna put him – I’m gonna put him on a really rigorous regimen, and we’re going to put him on a carnivore diet.

“We’re going to make him do – raise your hand if you want Gov. Morrisey to do a public weigh-in once a month. And then when he’s lost 30 pounds I’m going to...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Monday that his office will withdraw its request to reduce the sentences of Lyle and Erik Menendez, saying the brothers have not shown full insight into their crimes.

The brothers are serving life without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

At a press conference Monday morning, Hochman said that the brothers have failed to acknowledge that their claim of self defense was “fabricated,” and thus have not taken responsibility for the crimes. The D.A.’s office filed an 88-page motion seeking court approval to withdraw the resentencing request.

Last October, District Attorney George Gascón came out in favor of reducing their sentences to 50 years to life, which would make them eligible for parole immediately.

Gascón, a criminal justice reformer, found that the brothers had been rehabilitated after 35 years behind bars. The Menendez family has argued that new...

Exclusive: Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have teamed with Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli to acquire screen rights for An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. That is the book historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, about the epic story of the love of her life, Richard Goodwin, peppered with his experiences as a seminal figure in the most turbulent events of the ’60s.

Kearns Goodwin and her Pastimes Productions partner Beth Laski will produce with Broccoli, Hanks and Goetzman.

“Through the eyes of friends Dick and Doris Goodwin, it is our plan to bring an intimate story of the people and events of the sweeping decade of the 1960s to the screen — a time that despite its sorrows was filled with the widespread conviction that individuals could make a difference,” Broccoli told Deadline in a statement.

Last time we checked, the only person telling Jeff Ross he couldn’t tell a joke was when Tom Brady whispered in his ear about New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s visits to the local massage parlor. But that didn’t stop the Roastmaster General from blasting hypothetical critics this week outside a Washington, D.C. event.

To be fair, journalist Nicholas Ballasy lured Ross into his gripes with leading questions like, “What do you make, generally speaking, of the entertainment landscape, comedy in the age of cancel culture? Are certain topics off limits for you?”

Nonetheless, the roast comic took the bait. “The kind of comedy I do has always been okay for my fans,” Ross boasted. “Roast fans are the most dedicated. They don’t care about what any fake rules are. What’s funny is funny. There are always going to be people who pretend to be offended,...

Oliver Stone says President Donald Trump “deserves praise” for his decision to release the last of the remaining top secret government files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but also had some caveats.

The Oscar-winning director — whose 1991 film JFK is easily the best-known and most popular film ever made on the subject of Kennedy’s 1963 murder — released a statement late Friday concerning Trump’s move to order the release of the final 3 percent of the roughly 5 million investigative files related to the topic that have been held by the National Archives and Records Administration. Trump has also ordered the release of the remaining files on the subject of the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“President Trump deserves praise for yesterday’s executive order declassifying the still closed records in government files on the assassination of John Kennedy, an event which occurred 61 years ago,...

Donald Trump signed an executive order today to release more records related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as well as those related to the killings of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

The JFK assassination has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, with long calls for the government to release remaining records that are still classified.

The executive order gives the director of national intelligence and the attorney general, in coordination with the assistant to the president for national security affairs and the counsel to the president, 15 days to present a plan for the full release of the records. They will have 45 days to present a plan for the release of the Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. records.

“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not...

Donald Trump told a pre-inaugural, Maga-heavy rally that “TikTok is back,” as he has pledged to sign an executive order that will give the social media platform more time amid a new U.S. law requiring a divestiture from its Chinese parent ByteDance.

Trump said that he wants the United States to have a 50% ownership of the platform in a joint venture, but it is unclear exactly what that would entail and whether ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, would agree to such conditions.

“We’re not putting up any money,” Trump said. “All we’re doing is given them the approval without which they don’t have anything. It sounds like that works, what do you think, good?”

TikTok went offline starting late Saturday as a new law took effect that restricted app stores in the U.S. from downloading the popular platform. But TikTok went back up this afternoon,...

David Lynch once flirted with a Marilyn Monroe biopic so bold, it never stood a chance. This veered into conspiracy territory, hinting the Kennedys might’ve played a hand in Monroe’s untimely death. The idea sparked instant buzz but also sent studios running for cover.

David Lynch | Image by: Repose, licensed under Cc By-sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too controversial? Absolutely. The project’s provocative edge and Lynch’s unflinching style were a recipe for cinematic chaos.

David Lynch’s Venus Descending: The Marilyn Monroe biopic Hollywood was too afraid to make Marilyn Monroe in the Bus Stop | Credit: 20th Century Studios

David Lynch nearly took on Marilyn Monroe’s mysterious death, but Hollywood wasn’t ready. In the late ’80s, Warner Bros. approached Lynch to direct a biopic based on Goddess, Anthony Summers’ 1985 Monroe biography.

The script, co-written by Lynch and Mark Frost, boldly suggested Monroe’s death wasn...

90 Day Fiance star Veah Netherton has been making headlines after announcing that she’s suffering from a deadly illness. The 27-year-old has been through many traumatic things in life, including getting raised in a religious cult where her emotions were dismissed. However, some Redditors are not having Veah’s revelation about her illness. Keep reading to see why.

90 Day Fiance: Veah Netherton Reveals Brain Tumor

Veah recently took to social media to share a lengthy message talking about her brain tumor. According to the 90 Day Fiance star, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor before meeting Sunny, adding that it has been severely affecting her life. Veah also said that she’s been trying “natural ways” to treat her illness and started working with a licensed health coach. She was then advised to do lymphatic draining. But things got more complicated during her therapy.

Veah Netherton From 90 Day Fiance,...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon, died today, The New York Times reports. He was 86.

Yarrow died from bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan. His death was confirmed by his publicist, Ken Sunshine.

Yarrow had reportedly been battling bladder cancer for several years. Recently, his children, Bethany and Christopher Yarrow, set up a “living tribute” for their father on his website, asking fans, friends, and others to submit short messages,...

The recent assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan follows two assassination attempts on president elect Donald Trump over the summer.

In the July attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Penn., the would-be assassin, armed with an Ak-47, was killed by a member of Trump’s security detail. The second attempt on Trump’s life, in Florida, produced another high-powered rifle and a living suspect with a record of strange political and commercial activities, including a stint as a volunteer fighter in the current Ukraine-Russian conflict.

The primary suspect in the Thompson assassination is a young man of great privilege, a tech whiz with a promising future now ended by allegedly brandishing a ghost gun outside a New York hotel and taking Thompson’s life.

Exactly 50 years ago, Hollywood produced “The Parallax View,” a film that spoke to the anxieties of Americans who had just lived through...

Actor and producer Barry Pepper has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency for full representation.

Pepper is best known for his role as Private Jackson in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. He most recently starred opposite Sam Neill in the crime thriller feature, Bring Him to Me, directed by Luke Spark, and in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ limited series Lawmen: Bass Reeves opposite David Oyelowo.

His previous filmography includes the Coen Brothers’ True Grit remake starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks, The Death Cure: Maze Runner 3, and Paramount Pictures’ We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson.

Other recent projects include Netflix’s feature film Awake, alongside Gina Rodriguez, Bron Studios’ Solitary and the action thriller feature Trigger Point. Pepper starred as Robert Kennedy in the Reelz Channel 8 hour miniseries The Kennedy’s with Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister, Kerry Kennedy, shared that she was “disgusted” by her brother’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

Last month, Kennedy announced that he would suspend his campaign and endorse Trump.

Kerry responded to the endorsement during an appearance on Inside with Jen Psaki.

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“The stakes this November couldn’t be higher, which is exactly why my whole family will be fighting so hard to reelect [Vice President] Kamala Harris and Coach [Tim] Walz, who’ve been champions for the values that my family has fought for, for years,” she declared.

“Donald Trump is the polar opposite,” she said. “He’s a threat to most basic freedoms that are core to who we are as Americans, the right for women to control our bodies, the right to live in communities safe from gun violence,...

Fresh off of drawing to a close his independent presidential run and joining forces with former President Donald Trump, Robert. F Kennedy Jr. spoke with TMZ on Tuesday regarding several recent events involving his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, and defended her against attacks from fellow actor Bradley Whitford, who chastised her online for standing by her husband as he endorsed the GOP candidate.

Kennedy’s presidential bid was beset with challenges from its inception, as he struggled to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states. Teams had been collecting the required signatures from the electorate nationwide but a lack of enthusiasm about his candidacy and the general thought that he’d play spoiler in November led to him suspending his campaign Friday, just after the Democratic National Convention closed. Kennedy was quick to endorse Trump and Whitford was quick to berate Hines for standing in silence as this all unfolded.

It’s summer for celebrities, too, and Peter Sarsgaard just had his hands dirty with a hobby typical of the current season: gardening. On a recent August morning, the veteran star (who is also a beekeeper) broke away from “harvesting a bunch of perennials and annuals” at his New York home to hop on Zoom with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss the latest thing he harvested at his day job.

Sarsgaard is among the stars in Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5, a thrilling recreation of the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics. Fehlbaum’s film, a selection of both the Venice Film Festival and Telluride, focuses on how the events played out inside a production hub in Munich and is told through the lens of the ABC Sports TV journalists who were covering it in real-time.

Sarsgaard talked to THR about his interest in history, playing a famous U.

During his iconic career at CBS News, Dan Rather was on the ground in Dallas moments after President Kennedy is assassinated; covered the Civil Rights moment and the Vietnam War; and was the only anchor in China’s Tiananmen Square before the crackdown on protesters. He also famously was roughed up during the 1968 Democratic National Convention — which inspired Variety to ask Rather, still going strong at 92 (you can read his current “Steady” columns at steady.substack.com), to reflect on that tumultuous moment in U.S. politics and how it compares to what has happened in 2024.

One of the hallmarks of a good broadcast journalist is the ability to roll with the proverbial punches during live events. You have to be a good ad-libber and be able to pivot, ready for the unexpected. Suffice it to say that on March 31, 1968, I was not ready when President Lyndon Johnson delivered a shocker.

Updated: Robert Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, said in a video posted to X on Sunday that he was the person who placed a dead bear cub in Central Park, making it look like it was involved in an accident with a bicycle.

He relayed the unusual story apparently in an effort to get ahead of a New Yorker piece on the incident. The publication published the profile this morning, including a photo of Kennedy putting his fingers inside the bear’s mouth.

In the video, Kennedy is speaking to Roseanne Barr, in a kitchen area.

Kennedy said that he had been in the Hudson Valley area, early one morning, when a woman in a van in front of him hit a bear and killed it.

Roseanne Barr and Robert Kennedy

“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van,...

Joe Biden was joined by members of the Kennedy family in Philadelphia today to promote their endorsement of the president, a conspicuous rebuke of the independent bid of Robert Kennedy Jr.

Kerry Kennedy, Rfk Jr.’s sister, introduced Biden at the event, noting that “nearly every grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That’s right, the Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”

She was joined by 14 other relatives. They include siblings Rory, Joe, Chris, Max and Kathleen, as well as Joe Kennedy III, who serves as a special envoy to Northern Ireland.

Kerry Kennedy said that “in 2024 there are only two candidates with any chance of winning the presidency. We know that well.”

Rfk Jr.’s campaign could prove consequential to Biden’s prospects, especially if he is able to secure ballot access in key swing states and siphon votes way from the president’s reelection effort.

Robert Kennedy Jr. confirmed to The New York Times that NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura were on the top of his shortlist to serve as his running mate in his independent presidential bid.

Rodgers, who shares Kennedy’s opposition to the covid vaccine, would be an unconventional choice, to say the least, as he is still an active NFL player, expected to start for the New York Jets this fall.

Ventura, who served one term as Minnesota governor, has in the past considered his own independent presidential bid. Since leaving office, he has hosted a reality television series focused on conspiracy theories, but he urged people to get the vaccine during the covid crisis, and even bemoaned those who did not wear masks. He introduced Kennedy at a voter rally in Arizona last month.

“We must end the duopoly of Republican and Democrat control in Washington,...

About an hour into the brief and dazzling Bushman, the central character announces, “I need a hamburger,” and then the screen goes black for a few seconds. When the movie resumes, it’s no longer a drama enlivened by a streetwise documentary sensibility, but a work of straight-up nonfiction. Relying on stills in this last stretch but maintaining the visual fluency of the preceding story, the final 10 minutes recount why director David Schickele stopped filming for a year: He was working instead on securing a release from prison for his wrongfully imprisoned leading man.

There are strong parallels between Gabriel, the onscreen outsider, and Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, the man who plays him. Both grew up in a Nigerian village. Like Gabriel, Okpokam was a graduate student at San Francisco State College. Schickele’s screenplay was to have ended with Gabriel being deported after falling into trouble with the law.

On Jan. 29, 1964, a triple premiere — in New York, London and Toronto — launched one of Stanley Kubrick’s signature masterpieces into the chilly Cold War atmosphere: Dr. Strangelove, with the marquee-challenging subtitle Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick described it as a “nightmare comedy.” Sixty years later, the comedy still works, but the immediacy of the nightmare may be missed.

Shot in Shepperton Studios outside of London from February through November 1963, Dr. Strangelove was conceived and realized in the shadow of a real-life nightmare scenario that no one laughed at: the Cuban Missile Crisis, which unfolded over 13 terrifying days in October 1962.

On Oct. 14, 1962, a U-2 spy plane detected facilities for the launching of nuclear ballistic missiles from Cuba, a Soviet client state since 1959. President John F. Kennedy convened an executive committee of the National Security Council to consider options. The consensus from the Joint Chiefs...

Last October, White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third-party Independent. The move was quickly denounced by members of his own family, including Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy, who joined her siblings in posting a family statement.

“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” read the Instagram post signed by Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a group that totals four of the 11 children shared by Ethel and Robert Kennedy.

Rory...

A multi-part docuseres about Jimmy Hoffa is in development at Village Roadshow Unscripted Television, Variety has learned.

News of the show comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, which occurred on July 30, 1975. The series is being made with the full cooperation of the Hoffa family, including the assistance of his son and daughter. It will also feature access to Hoffa’s personal archives and previously unseen files, as well as audio tapes, personal films, and declassified FBI files. Erik Nelson will produce and direct.

“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable,...

Uipdated with statement from Rfk Jr gala organizers: The arguably greatest fictional TV Potus ever is not endorsing the White House bid of Robert Kennedy Jr., and Martin Sheen sure as hell isn’t showing up as a warm prop at any Rfk Jr fundraiser anytime soon.

About a week ago, invites went out for a self-described “gala” on January 22 to celebrate the independent candidate’s 70th birthday. Sheen, Mike Tyson and Dionne Warwick were reported to be attending the event as “well-wishers.” On Thursday, some of President Jed Bartlet’s old West Wing staff have gone public to declare their old boss has no intention of attending.

In fact, via Bradley Whitford and Mary McCormack, Sheen says he remains an avowed supporter of incumbent Joe Biden, not Rfk Jr.

There’s a story going around saying that Martin Sheen is supporting @RobertKennedyJr for president. The story is incorrect. Martin...

In 2020, young voters broke turnout records — more than half of 18 to 29 year olds cast ballots, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — and those young voters broke, overwhelmingly, for Joe Biden. The question haunting Biden’s reelection campaign is whether that critical cohort of voters will show up again in 2024. According to a new survey from the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the campaign is right to be concerned.

The Harvard poll shows President Biden has a 15 point lead over Trump among likely voters under...

The coveted Lumière Classics label is today as sought-after in the heritage film industry as any prestigious film festival label for contemporary film fare.

Launched back at the 2019 edition of the Lumière Film Festival, Europe’s leading classic film event, the label was created to showcase a carefully curated selection of restorations of 20th century films with the aim of highlighting the work carried out by archives, cinematheques, rights holders and foundations around the world.

“’Lune Froide’ [‘Cold Moon’] was selected among many other films, so it’s extremely gratifying for us. Lumière is the heritage film festival that fights to restore these films to their former glory and develop the public’s appetite for classic cinema,” explains Anne-Laure Brénéol, co-founder and co-director of Malavida.

The Paris-based niche vintage arthouse movies outfit is bringing two titles to Lumiere this year: 1991 cult movie “Cold Moon” by French actor-director Patrick Bouchitey, and rediscovered gem “Bushman,...

Between the bongo drums and saxophone, the guy hawking buttons featuring a shirtless Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“Fit to Be President!”), the men darting around in dark suits and sunglasses (stand-ins for the Secret Service detail Kennedy has still not received), the throngs of jubilant supporters, and the giant tour buses bearing the candidate’s grinning countenance, the entire spectacle would have made a convenient diversion for anyone planning an elaborate heist of the Declaration of Independence.

Unfortunately, Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center was selected for a different reason: to serve as a corny metaphor.

White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third party Independent. The move — revealed during a rally held outside the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia that featured remarks by his actress wife Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame — was quickly denounced by members of his own family.

“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” reads a post shared on Instagram by his sister, Oscar nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy.

The sister of Rfk Jr. is...

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is talking up the prospect of Democrat and Joe Biden rival Robert Kennedy, Jr., serving in his administration.

In a new interview with right-wing commentator Clay Travis, DeSantis was asked whether he’d consider the anti-vax conspiracy theorist Kennedy as a running mate. DeSantis, who has campaigned vigorously (and fecklessly) to appeal to vaccine skeptics, downplayed that idea, arguing that the Democrat was “averse to our base” on 70 percent of the issues.

But the Florida governor was warm to Kennedy serving in the Cabinet, because...

In modern world history, few single years have been as tumultuous as 1968. The Vietnam War continued to drag on and had reached an unprecedented level of unpopularity. The assasinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy shocked the world. Protests against the war, for civil rights, and at the Democratic National Convention raged in the streets. On movie screens, another revolution was taking place that reflected the values of the passionate youth movement and rejected the “old ways” of filmmaking. In the years 1967-68, the studio system was taking its last gasping breaths and films like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, The Producers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullit, and If…. were changing the game in Hollywood and Britain by taking after New Wave movements in France and Italy. The horror landscape was changing as well. Gothic horrors were giving way to modern films both in setting and subject.

Jerry Springer’s eponymous talk show may have been tasteless, but you can’t say that Springer himself didn’t have taste.

“I would never watch my show,” he commented to Reuters in 2000. “I’m not interested in it. It’s not aimed towards me.”

He may not have been interested, but plenty of people were. The hugely successful tabloid show, one of the pioneers of trash television, notched nearly 5,000 episodes during its 27-season run from 1991 to 2018. During the peak of its popularity in the mid ‘90s, it even beat The Oprah Winfrey Show in the ratings in many cities.

You could say that Jerry Springer was the anti-Oprah Winfrey Show; if aliens monitored our broadcasts in those days, they would have been hopelessly confused about whether mankind was worth preserving or not.

Springer, who died on Thursday at 79, was such an iconic figure that he even became the subject...

Ah, 1978. It was the year that Slashfilm writer Lee Adams entered the world, and two movies changed the course of comedy forever (those landmarks are unrelated; I'm not trying to claim any credit). Those movies were "National Lampoon's Animal House" and Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke" — two lowbrow hits whose influences are still felt to this day.

There was lowbrow stuff before 1978, of course. Slapstick — the age-old art of falling over, breaking things, and hitting people — was still doing the rounds in the increasingly weary adventures of Inspector Clouseau. But the class of '78 was different: wild, irreverent, raucous, bawdy, subversive, counterculture comedy that delighted the kids and antagonized the squares.

The two films had their roots in the '60s. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong developed their stand-up act in the latter part of the decade before making their break on the big screen with the granddaddy of stoner movies,...

Packers (?) Quarterback Aaron Rodgers paid a visit to vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a recent trip to Santa Monica.

“With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica,” wrote Kennedy on Twitter Friday. Kennedy has established himself as one of the most prominent vaccine conspiracy theorists in the world and was instrumental in popularizing false claims that vaccines cause autism.

With @AaronRodgers12 in Santa Monica. My dad said it best: "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality...

Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas is teaming with producer Van Echeverri for a documentary feature about the FBI’s takedown of USC football player-turned-drug kingpin Owen Hanson.

“Unrealistic Ideas has a strong track record in the true-crime space, and the story of Owen Hanson jumped out at us,” said Unrealistic Ideas President/Partner Gips. “This is a working-class guy who worked hard to get into USC and then used the business skills he gained through his education there to create a global drug empire. We’re looking to explore how that happened and how it all fell apart.”

Hanson began dealing recreational drugs and steroids to teammates in college during the early 2000s, ultimately building a violent empire that operated in U.S., Central and South America and Australia. Arrested in September 2015 and sentenced in late 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison,...

Mark Shields, a commentator who provided insightful political analysis on PBS NewsHour for over 30 years, has died. He was 85.

Shields died Saturday of kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., NewsHour spokesman Nick Massella told NPR.

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Judy Woodruff, NewsHour anchor and managing editor, also confirmed the news on Twitter writing, “I am heartbroken to share this. The NewsHour‘s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields,...

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Everyone who’s seen Goodfellas at least a dozen times and can practically quote it from memory — virtually everyone who’s seen Goodfellas, in other words — knows what comes right before Ray Liotta says the line: a stabbed body, a bloody sheet, a bright-red glow coming from a car trunk. Everyone remembers what comes after it too, once the credits have rolled: A kid’s romanticized view of these neighborhood big shots, all flashy suits and fancy cars and colorful nicknames.

Anna Paquin is the latest actor to join the cast of Martin Scorsese's highly anticipated Netflix film The Irishman. Paquin, who is best known for her roles in X-men and True Blood, will play the daughter of Robert De Niro’s character, Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, who is a reputed hitman suspected of being involved with the disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa in 1975.

Deadline offers some details on the character, saying:

Paquin will play Peggy, the strong-willed daughter of Frank and Mary. She despises the lifestyle Frank has chosen for himself and over the years begins to distance herself from her father, hating everything about him. At times, Peggy lives in fear of Frank, worried to tell him about the problems in her life for fear of what he might do to the people that have wronged her. Seeing Hoffa (Pacino) as someone outside of the mob and...

It’s the summer of ’69, but Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) didn’t buy his first real six-string or start a band with the guys from school, as the Bryan Adams song goes. Instead, he’s still mourning the tragic killing of his brother Bobby Kennedy a year earlier, while mulling his own possible presidential run. To the latter end, he’s gathered together six of the “boiler-room girls” who worked on behalf of Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign for a party.

Continue reading ‘Chappaquiddick’: Jason Clarke’s Ted Kennedy Drives Into A Scandal [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.

Jason Clarke impresses as the last Kennedy brother, whose reputation never recovered following the death of a young supporter in murky circumstances

By the end of his life, Senator Edward M Kennedy was “the lion of the Senate”, a sturdy marble column of American liberalism for close to 50 years. His final substantive act was giving the Obama daughters their pet dog. But in 1969, though he was a powerful man on paper and next in line for the presidency, family insiders knew he was a joke.

Joe Kennedy Jr, who died a war hero, was the favorite. John F Kennedy, the martyred president, had the charm. Robert Kennedy, who was supposed to be president, was the brilliant one. All this landed on the shoulders of Ted, the last living Kennedy son. He never had the respect of his father, but still lived in the glow reflected by admirers of his brothers,...

John F. Kennedy is about to make America wet all over again, 'cause his original swim trunks, jackets and other family items are up for auction ... starting at just a buck! Guernsey's auction house is selling off some of JFK's personal items in October to commemorate what would have been the late Prez's 100th birthday -- even though he was born in May. Some of the items being auctioned off include 3 of Jack's Og swim trunks,...

Allan B. Schwartz, a veteran producer and executive at companies including 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures and Fries Entertainment, has died. He was 77.

Schwartz died April 20 in Greenville, N.C., from complications related to an extended illness, a family spokeswoman said.

A native of New Haven, Conn., Schwartz started out in 1959 as a copy boy at ABC News while attending New York University. He joined NBC as a unit manager, then worked at Jules Power Productions, where he produced and directed an episode of ABC's Discovery that featured Robert Kennedy and his family on a Colorado River rafting trip.

Schwartz also...

Author Jean Stein died Sunday in New York City. She was 83.

Police say the best-selling author apparently jumped from the penthouse floor of a building in the Upper East Side area of Manhattan on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Anderson Cooper’s brother Carter died by jumping off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment in the same building in 1988.

Stein was a former editor at the Paris Review. In 2016, Stein released “West of Eden: An American Place,” about Los Angeles and the Hollywood elite.

In 1970, she and editor George Plimpton...

Robert Keeling Apr 19, 2017

Kevin Costner headlined an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's JFK. It was a film that led to an act of Congress being passed...

Oliver Stone’s epic conspiracy-thriller JFK, surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the case brought about by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in relation to his murder, was released in 1991 to an astonishing level of critical backlash. Even before JFK arrived in theatres it was being pilloried and attacked by many in the media. The attacks were kick-started by Washington Post correspondent George Lardner, an investigative reporter who wrote a piece called On the Set: Dallas In Wonderland; How Oliver Stone’s Version Of The Kennedy Assassination Exploits The Edge Of Paranoia, which was actually based solely on a leaked copy of Stone’s first draft of the script.

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The story of Mildred and Richard Loving could easily have become a sledgehammer epic about social injustice. Writer-director Jeff Nichols instead sticks to the facts and recounts their ordeal with a quiet subjectivity that neither exaggerates nor sanctifies. The result is a marvelously affecting demonstration of how a civilized, progressive America rights a wrong. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are terrific as just plain folks oppressed by an obsolete law.

Loving

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD

Universal Studios Home Entertainment

2016 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date February 7, 2017 / 34.99

Starring : Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Terri Abney, Marton Csokas, David Jensen, Nick Kroll, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon.

Cinematography: Adam Stone

Film Editor: Julie Monroe

Original Music: David Wingo

Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Marc Turtletaub

Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols

Growing up in the 1950s, interracial marriage was a strange subject, and major entertainments handled it with kid gloves.

Long before he became a household name as Steven Avery’s lawyer in the Netflix true crime series Making a Murderer, Jerry Buting was treasurer for “Ass Kickers, Inc.” — a consortium of hard-partying college pals, responsible for some of the wildest parties Indiana University has ever seen.

You’ll find this and other personal revelations early on in Buting’s forthcoming book, Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murder and America’s Broken System, which hits bookstores Feb. 28. What you won’t find, however, are any of Buting’s theories on who may have killed Teresa Halbach, the young photographer Avery was convicted of killing.

I Am Not Your Negro Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: A- Director: Raoul Peck Written by: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin Cast: James Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson (narrator), Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 2/3/17 Opens: February 4, 2017 Buy I Am Not Your Negro on […]

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Let me be the last to wish you a happy new year. Actually you – and my Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind audience – are the first people upon whom I’m bestowing these tidings. I’m writing this on Boxing Day because I’m leaving town for a week. I think I’m going to Chicago, where I shall reflexively ask Barry Crain for Sonic Disruptors pages.

While in the Windy City, I will be meeting up with my ol’ pal and fellow ComicMix columnist John Ostrander, another expatriated Chicagoan. He will be in town along with Mary Mitchell to visit (or annoy, as the case may be) a gaggle of his relatives. We will be doing at least two things together, the first of which is having a profoundly fabulous dinner with also-fellow ComicMix columnist Marc Alan Fishman and the Unshaven Comics crew, and as many wives and children...

Conor Kennedy, the former boyfriend of Taylor Swift and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct early Thursday morning after he was in a fight with another man outside a Colorado nightclub.

But according to his cousin Matthew “Max” Kennedy, Jr. — who police say was on the scene at the time — the incident was actually a two-on-one battle with Conor defending himself from two aggressors who had earlier used homophobic slurs to offend their gay mutual friend.

In an interview with People, Max, 23, describes the events outside the Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen, Colorado, as “a lot of chaos.

Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend, John Conor Kennedy, was arrested early Thursday morning after a fight broke out at Bootsy Bellows nightclub in Aspen, Colorado.

According to police, they witnessed an altercation outside the establishment around 1:40 a.m. when they responded to a call that someone was refusing to leave the bar. The officers claim to have tried to separate the two men, who were "rolling around on the ground," and witnessed Kennedy throwing four or five punches at the head of the man.

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Officer Andrew Atkinson and Kennedy -- who is the son of Robert Kennedy Jr. and the grandson of Robert Kennedy -- allegedly fell into a snowbank when the policeman tried to break up the fight. Police say a bystander assisted Atkinson in restraining Kennedy, 22, though his attorneys told CBS Denver that he was “cooperative, compliant and respectful.” No injuries were reported by either party.

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Kennedy was charged...