James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on television on The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker, has died, his son Jim Moret announced. He was 88. Early in his career, the dark-haired Darren received excellent notices for starring in Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) …
A couple of years ago, Taika Waititi slid into Lisa Kudrow’s Instagram DMs with a once-in-a-lifetime proposition: How would she feel about visiting New Zealand for the first time and filming a fantasy show — a genre she had yet to explore — for six months? It was an offer that Kudrow, who was born …
Ecstatic. Incredible. Gleeful. Overjoyed. Take your pick. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has iced out fellow Disney release Frozen II to become the top-grossing Hollywood animated film of all time at the worldwide box office after finishing Tuesday with $1.462 billion, not adjusted for inflation. The film’s domestic total stands at $601 million, while it has …
The 2024 Emmys nominations were announced Wednesday morning, with Paul Rudd and Ryan Gosling among the list of first-time nominees. Rudd earned his first Emmy nod, for best supporting actor in a comedy, for his season three run on Only Murders in the Building. And Ryan Gosling, recognized with a best guest actor in a …
Jon Stewart is coming back to The Daily Show earlier than planned. Stewart will return to the news desk tonight — Tuesday — rather than returning Thursday as previously announced. After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Saturday, Comedy Central canceled its previously scheduled Monday show from Milwaukee where the Republican National Convention is …
The roles were reversed on the latest episode of Real Time, with Martin Short‘s legendary character Jiminy Glick coming out of retirement to ask Bill Maher the tough questions. Typically, the host will interview his guests one-on-one at the beginning of the show, but on Friday, Maher decided to become the interviewee to talk about …