We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. I reviewed the film, giving it a B+ , and wrote that one of its best attributes is that it's the studio's first film in years to feel like it's coming from a very specific and unique point of view. Director Daniel Chong has been in the Pixar orbit for a while, getting his start as a storyboard artist on films like “Cars 2” and “Inside Out.” But before “Hoppers,” he was best known for his 2015 Cartoon Network series “We Bare Bears,” a series with a lot of creative DNA that can clearly be seen in how “Hoppers” was conceptualized. Related Stories Legendary Stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker on Defying Death for 70 Years, from Setting the Cannon Roll Record to Burt Reynolds' Movie About His Life How Maggie Gyllenhaal's ‘The Bride!' These are all traits found in “We Bare Bears,” and anyone charmed by “Hoppers” will probably find the show a sweet, enjoyable comfort watch that can appeal to adults as much as to its target audience of kids. Currently streaming in its entirety on Hulu and Disney+, consisting of four seasons and a wrap-up TV movie, “We Bare Bears” is set around a mostly realistic facsimile of the San Francisco Bay Area. The main exception is that a few (but not all) animals can speak as they attempt to integrate into human society. Every episode is an 11-minute vignette of one of their slice-of-life adventures, as they try to go viral online, open a food truck, and other harebrained schemes. But the focus remains squarely on the show's trio, who are a sharply written and distinctive little family, one that sometimes gets on each other's nerves but is also deeply and heartwarmingly bonded. Take Season 1 highlight “Primal,” in which Grizz grows concerned that living among humans for so long has made the bears lose their survival instincts. Other episodes, like “Hibernation,” where Grizz tries and fails at hiibernation after realizing he's the only brother who can do it, get similar mileage out of the tension between the characters' animal reality and their aspirations for a human existence. Like “Hoppers,” which proves sweetly emotional without ever being too saccharine, the series also has an authentic heart that peeks out from time to time, especially in episodes that focus on how the bears met and became a family. One of the show's best episodes, “Burrito,” is particularly skilled at this: for most of the runtime, it's a silly story about Grizz growing unhealthily attached to a gigantic burrito he wins from an all-you-can-eat contest at a local Mexican place. It's a great installment of TV that shows exactly what “We Bare Bears” does best, and what makes the show such a joyful little treat. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.

A fan faceplanted after falling through a hole in the stage during Machine Gun Kelly's concert at The O2 Arena in London on Thursday night. As seen in a video shared on TikTok, a concertgoer, who was on stage while the “Starman” singer was performing, was dancing and clapping her hands before she accidentally missed the large gap in the floor and stepped right into it. MGK turned around as she plunged through the stage. MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, screamed, “Oh my god, hold on,” as he reached down to help her out. Keeping in tune with the song he was performing, the artist added, “I really hope you're fine.” Other audience members on stage also rushed to help pull the woman up. Start your day with Page Six Daily. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Want celebrity news as it breaks? “Are you okay?” MGK asked, to which she seemingly said yes. “You are?” continued the Grammy nominee. That was the coolest thing you could have ever f–king done.” Let's f–king go,” he continued before the pair hugged.

We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. When Maggie Gyllenhaal started prep on “The Lost Daughter,” one of the first things she and cinematographer Hélène Louvart talked about in their early Zoom conversation was light. For her second film, “The Bride!”, Gyllenhaal employed many different kinds of light, real and fantastical, to play with. But she needed to find a cinematographer who understood the relationship between Christian Bale's still-kicking, still-lonely Frank(enstein's Monster) and Jessie Buckley's The Bride, in her first life, a ‘30s mob mole named Ida, but now reinvigorated into something else entirely and haunted by Mary Shelley (also Jessie Buckley) herself. Related Stories Legendary Stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker on Defying Death for 70 Years, from Setting the Cannon Roll Record to Burt Reynolds' Movie About His Life Quentin Tarantino Is Developing an ‘Old Fashioned British Farce' Play as His Next Project And she found her answer in cinematographer Lawrence Sher. “He and I were totally on the same page,” Gyllenhaal said. That sometimes meant a back-and-forth between DP and director about how to visually capture the spaces in the film. “[Sher] became a major teacher and one of the most exciting things about working with him was disagreeing with him and knowing that I had a point of view,” Gyllenhaal said. They're not for always, but in this move that's full of magic and full of a kind of mind connection between people, I often found I was pushing him towards longer lenses.” Another way Sher and Gyllenhaal worked to imbue a bit of magic into “The Bride!” was through their use of IMAX. The most fantastical parts of the movie retain some of their power because Sher and Gyllenhaal subtly manipulate aspect ratio changes and a vertical growth across the film. “I had barely consumed anything in IMAX. I know I was in ‘The Dark Knight,' one of the first of its kind to dramatically use IMAX. But I think that's it,” Gyllenhaal said. “Learning these tools, not only on the job, but learning and digesting them in my own way — what I've been told by the people who I got to know really well at IMAX is that the way that we use it is different than it's ever been used before.” And actually, in an IMAX theater with those vertical grows, it creates a feeling of magic.” The full Filmmaker Toolkit interview with Maggie Gyllenhaal launches on podcast platforms Wednesday, March 11. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

It's been four years since we heard from Harry Styles. After so many highs, Styles is finally back with Kiss All the Time. Perhaps you've heard — Styles has been spending a lot of his downtime hanging out in clubs, mostly the techno and electronic scene in Berlin. Hence the album's recurrent vibe of dirty electro-sleaze, with “Aperture,” “Ready Steady Go,” and “Dance No More,” featuring the party chant, “Get your feet wet! Respect your mother!” Club sounds are all over the music; he's cited Floating Points and Jamie XX. “When you're out at night, it's such a community, but you're also watching people have such individual experiences,” Styles told the legendary Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. While promoting Kiss All the Time, Styles said he's been listening to a lot of LCD Soundsystem, catching recent shows in Madrid and London that influenced his new album. “It was so joyous watching them be immersed in it,” he said of James Murphy & Co. “The inspiration from watching and realizing, ‘That's how I want to feel when I'm on stage,' and it matched the music I was making.” He's not wrong. Styles dances himself clean a lot here (or, as he puts it, “squeaky clean fantasy”), particularly on the glitter ball smash “Are You Listening Yet?” and the shimmery synths of “Season 2 Weight Loss.” He dips his toes into the 2010s without overdoing it — see his expert track sequencing, and how he puts the gentle stunner “Coming Up Roses” in between “Season 2 Weight Loss” and “Pop.” It's in his Sound of Silver era, and we're here for it. “Just for tonight, let's go hangover chasing,” Styles purrs, in the album's one big romantic ballad, the only song he wrote totally solo. It sounds like a seductive invitation, but there's strings attached: fear, doubt, pain, awkward confessions of past damage. “I'll talk your ear off about why it's safe,” our boy sings, “as I fumble my words and fall flat on my face through the truth.” It's a heart-rippingly intimate tune, just piano and orchestra, with pizzicato strings that sound like his heart is pounding. No disco in this song, maybe not many kisses, but it's the album's most brutal soul-punch. On Kiss All the Time, Styles turns his lonely eyes to Simon & Garfunkel quite a lot (“One time is all right, two times is one too many,” he sings, but we beg to differ). He references “Keep the Customer Satisfied” on “Dance No More,” and honors Paul Simon's “You Can Call Me Al” by commanding Kid Harpoon to solo — just like Simon did for bassist Bakithi Kumalo. “Carla's Song” is named after “Kathy's Song,” Simon's heartbreaking ballad to his English girlfriend, and it opens with a tribute to “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” In an interview with Zane Lowe, Styles said he introduced his friend Carla to the 1970 classic, and watched her experience it for the first time. “Watching her listen to it, having never heard that song, felt like I was watching someone see in technicolor or discover magic,” he said. Harry Styles Is a Casual Action Hero in the New ‘American Girls' Music Video Harry Styles, Ty Dolla $ign, Yebba, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week If you're a One Direction fan, “Paint My Numbers” just might break your heart. “Oh what a gift it is to be noticed / But it's nothing to do with me,” he admits, trading his typical tenor for a whisper. When Styles evokes the image of “kids with water guns, watch them run,” it's enough to make anyone who remembers videos of 1D onstage let out a tear or two. Meanwhile, on the propulsive “Pop,” Styles shatters the “squeaky clean fantasy” of his teen pop past and leans into his fantasies, be it misbehaving or not. Who is this Stevie Nicks person you speak of?” He goes hardcore into the Eighties, with loads of old-school synth gadgets. There's so much Depeche Mode on this album (both Eighties AND Nineties DM — check that Speak and Spell synth on “Season 2 Weight Loss” along with New Order, Prince, the Jonzun Crew, Yaz, and Mantronix. Talking Heads are such a huge inspiration, it sounds like he made a point of watching Stop Making Sense on VHS tape. But he weaves all the Eighties sonics into something fresh and original. Styles follows the lead of other stars, like Rosalía, by incorporating live instrumentation into a dance-inflected LP. In the Lowe interview, Styles mentioned that he saw Radiohead in Berlin late last year, during their momentous comeback tour — and it had a profound effect on him (same, dude). He takes his fandom a step further on Kiss All the Time, recruiting jazz drummer Tom Skinner, who plays in Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's side project the Smile. Skinner plays on six songs here, plus backing vocals for “Dance No More.” (In another great move, Styles also tapped Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell to sing on several tracks). After the massive success of Fine Line, Styles had his pick of musical collaborators — no doors were closed to pop's It Boy. But he chose to keep working with the same trusted core of longtime collaborators who've been with him every step of the way, like Tyler Johnson and his loyal wingman Kid Harpoon, who executive-produced for the first time. (But who probably still calls him “Gary.”) No features, no guests; he keeps tight with the friends who speak his musical language. By now it's like the Janet Jackson/Jam & Lewis partnership, a long-running creative bond that can't be replicated. The album has a dedication: “For those who helped me make this. But Styles offers his own therapeutic advice: “If you join a movement, make sure there's dancing.” —R.S. The Bomb-Shelter Rave: Why Tel Aviv Refuses to Stop Dancing Accused Sexual Harasser GOP Candidate Steps Down, An Apparent Neo-Nazi Takes His Place BTS Release Comeback Live Trailer: ‘Seven Together, We Can Do Anything' Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation.

Turns out, the first time figure skater Alysa Liu got a proper sleep after winning Olympic gold was on her flight home from Milan a few days later. “We got upgraded, because they were like, ‘We can't put you in the back of the plane! “So, shout-out to those Delta flight attendants.” Since then, Liu has been getting used to a hero's welcome, from the Oakland creamery that offered her ice cream for life to the paparazzi who followed her car after a Today show appearance. Gearing up for her Rolling Stone photo shoot at members-only club Moss NYC, she's presented with boxes of goodies: a lemon ricotta pound cake, white chocolate matcha crinkle cookies, brown butter chocolate chip cookies, and a Lucky Charms concoction devised especially for Liu (“I did a little bit of research, and I knew that she loves Lucky Charms,” the pastry chef explained. When we found out that she would be coming in, everyone here was very, very excited”). At 16, she placed sixth at the Beijing Olympics, earned bronze at the World Championships, and then abruptly quit the sport in a post on Instagram. Her return to figure skating two years later was more than just an incredible comeback (nine months after resuming training, she was named world champion); it was a testament to individuality, to the power of finding success on one's own terms. With her halo hair, her “smiley” piercing, and her vibey performances to Lady Gaga and Laufey, Liu is no ice princess; she eats what she wants, wears what she wants, skates how she wants — and looks like she is having a ball doing it. (“That's what I'm fucking talking about!” she shouted after her medal-clinching free skate in Milan.) “My goal was to just do amazing programs,” she says. “And the moment I finished my free skate and also the gala program, that's when I was like, ‘Yeah, my goal is complete. The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time How did you start skating?I was five years old, and my dad took me and my sister, Selina, to the rink, and I really liked it. I picked it up really fast, so [my dad] put me in group lessons, and that turned into private lessons, and then I became competitive. When did your life start to look different from the average kid's?From sixth grade on I was homeschooled, and I hated it. I couldn't do independent study very well, and I would procrastinate a lot on my homework. Why do you think that is?Probably because [that time in my life] was so bad, I just didn't want to remember it. I would cry after falling on every jump. The team I had around me was so strict. I was in fight-or-flight mode all the time. And [since] every day was the same, I can't recall certain years or stuff like that. I missed birthdays and holidays, so that also makes the timeline a little bit sketchy for me. Here's How You Can Stream the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games for Free Without Cable ‘SNL': Women's Hockey Gold Medalists Stick It to Trump Jon Stewart Dubs Kash Patel ‘Make-A-Wish Man' for Partying With U.S. Hockey Team Team USA Gold Medal Hero Jack Hughes Selling $99 Autographed Olympic Hockey Pucks Online And I was living alone, too, for a long time, from 14 to 16. I lived in the Olympic Training Center [in Colorado Springs], and I trained at the [nearby] Broadmoor facility. I was just Ubering from the OTC to the rink, back and forth, back and forth, every day. You didn't even see your coaches?No, they were at their houses, and I was just skating by myself. When you trained away from home and your family, how did you choose where you were going?I didn't pick where I was going. They just sent me off to certain facilities where they thought, “Oh, these coaches are great. This environment will be good for you. When you say “they,” who was making these decisions?I have no idea. And I don't know who else. I've heard you say competition is meaningless. What do you mean?Well, my last skating career, all the programs [I did], I didn't like. I was put in dresses and hair and makeup that I wasn't comfortable in. But I didn't like to perform because I was embarrassed to show my programs. You graduated high school at 15 because your coaches wanted you to have almost a full year for Olympics prep.Yeah. And I didn't want to let anybody down. But when Covid hit, I did not care anymore. So, you walked away from the sport at 16. I could go wherever I wanted, hang out with my friends, take my siblings out. That helped me feel like my own person. And then I went on vacation for the first time, family vacation with my best friend's family. I went skiing for the first time. That ski trip led you back to skating, right? I wanted to do it more often. But the mountains are far [from where I live], and the ice rink is right there. So that week, I went to the rink with my best friend and stepped on for an hour. And it was a lot of fun. Then a couple of weeks later, I went again, and I was like, “Oh, this is even more fun.” My goal was to go once a week. Then when summer hit, I was like, “I'm going to skate a couple of times a week.” I had to go with my best friend, otherwise I would have never tried it again. It was really scary to go back. How long did it take until you started to feel like you were skating at a preretirement level?Definitely months. But I was already better in some ways. Well, after less than a year, you won the World Championship.Yeah. I read that he would show up at the rink with a radar gun to test the speed of your jumps.He did. What was his response when you decided to come back?I have no idea. He was happy, but that didn't matter to me. What do you mean?Well, I was just like, “You don't deserve to be happy over this decision, because you were mad when I quit.” I thought he shouldn't have an opinion on it, if that makes sense. I didn't want him to care at all, because it shouldn't affect him as much as it did the last time. In some ways, he must have known that you were going to carve your own path because—He raised me that way. Can you talk about your dad's background? And then he literally had to flee, right?Yeah, he got smuggled out of China and brought to America. He was a student protester in China, and he immigrated here and built his life. And he raised us to be independent. We would take [public transit trains] as kids all the time. Our family has five kids — that's a lot of kids to take care of — so he had to work in the office all day long to provide for us financially. You're the oldest of those five kids, all born through anonymous egg donors and surrogates. What was it like growing up in a family with that structure?We didn't know about it for a long time. I figured it out because [my dad's ex-wife] is Chinese too. It hasn't affected us at all. Growing up, did you talk a lot about thinking for yourself?Yeah, because my dad is so into politics. My whole family is — just the ideology to speak up and fight for basic human rights. Our family is pretty liberal thanks to my father. I mean, I was no student-protest organizer, but we go to protests, call our policymakers, write letters. What are issues you care about?Climate, election things, Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, ICE protests. With these Olympics, there was some tension around the political moment we're in. Is that something you thought about?The fact that all of us American athletes have such unique stories and backgrounds, that is kind of what it's all about. I think it's all about sharing stories and having people feel for you. More empathy needs to happen, for sure. You skated to the Donna Summer song, “MacArthur Park,” which is a park in Los Angeles where there have been ICE protests happening. Someone just recommended that song to me, and I was like, “Yeah, I vibe with this.” A lot of people give me music suggestions. How did you pick the other songs that you use in your program?I was listening to “Promise” by Laufey since she released it, and I was like, “Wow, this is perfect for my figure-skating story. I have to skate to it.” And then the “Stateside” remix by Pink Pantheress and Zara Larsson is one of my favorite songs. I related to a lot of Zara's lyrics. What's a lyric you related to?When she says, “All these years I've put in for the American dream, is it worth all the work if you can't be here with me?” I really related to that line. I was like, “Oh, this describes the whole Olympic experience, because it's so many people's dream, and you put in years of work.” Dems React to Classified Briefing on Iran: ‘It Is So Much Worse Than You Thought' Ann and Nancy Wilson Recall Heart's 1970s Implosion: ‘Emotional Toll Just Kind of Ate Us' ‘SNL': Women's Hockey Gold Medalists Stick It to Trump Are you still majoring in psychology at UCLA?Right now, I'm taking a break from school, but I was always into psychology. How can I change my mindset and be more positive about things?” — not even “positive,” because, honestly, in life I also love sadness. I love to feel all of that. I don't think the pinnacle of life's goal is happiness, actually. How do you get to that place of peace?Through trial and error. Genuinely, if I didn't hit rock bottom so many times, I could not have gone up. I want her to go through all that, because that's the only reason why I'm here. I wouldn't change a thing about my past. 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“Outlander” has officially entered its final chapter as the time-travel drama begins airing its eighth and final season. “I actually don't know the ending,” Heughan said. Heughan previously discussed the unusual filming process while visiting journalists on set in Scotland during production. According to Heughan, the creative team intentionally filmed several different endings to protect the finale from leaks. I don't know which one they'll use,” Heughan said. Caitriona Balfe, who plays Claire Fraser, said the secrecy surrounding season 8 was different from the show's usual production process. “Our showrunner Matt Roberts is keeping everything so close to his chest,” Balfe said. “I'm worried about what we're going to be doing.” I like to know, and we don't know, and it's driving me crazy,” Balfe said. We've always had an overview of the season, and at least episode breakdowns, and we've had nothing this time. Season 8 draws inspiration from Diana Gabaldon's ninth novel in the series, “Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.” However, Gabaldon's planned tenth and final book, titled “A Blessing for a Warrior Going Out,” has not yet been published. “What we want is a really authentic season of ‘Outlander,'” Roberts told Entertainment Weekly. “We weren't going to try to make every episode a very special episode of ‘Outlander.' I wanted this to fit fully into the series, and I think we successfully have done that.” “I think no matter what ending we have, it's going to be bittersweet.” After that, new episodes will be released every Friday until the season — and series — finale on May 8. Go here and check the boxnext to EntertainmentNow Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Nearly three weeks after Donald Trump spent part of his Valentine's Day lashing out at Bill Maher, claiming that he wasted his time having dinner with the Real Time host last year, Maher offered a detailed rebuttal, complete with clips, of just where he stands with the president, revealing that he has both criticized and praised him. At the end of his “New Rules” segment, Maher said that despite what the president wrote on Truth Social, he doesn't “suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Instead, the comedian says, the president, who has continued to post to social media about Maher as recently as Friday amid an ongoing conflict with Iran, has “Bill Maher Derangement Syndrome.” Ben Stiller Asks White House to Remove 'Tropic Thunder' From Iran War Propaganda Video 'Melania': First Lady's Doc Sets March Debut on Prime Video After Quietly Wrapping Theatrical Run First Maher corrected some facts from Trump's Truth Social post about the dinner, noting he didn't ask for it, he was invited by their mutual friend, Kid Rock, on his podcast, and that he “had a drink before dinner and then a couple more during.” He went on to explain that shortly after the dinner Trump texted him “complaining I was still part of the lunatic left” and insisting that he should have “won a Nobel Prize for ending wars.” Maher said he replied with, “Yeah, and I should have won 20 Emmys.” “We argued for a while, and [Trump] ended by saying, ‘Bill, you know what? I wouldn't know what to do with you if you did OK.' That's the normal human being I saw the night we broke bread,” Maher said. “And as long as I think there's even a spark of a possibility to bring that guy out more, I will not consider the dinner a waste of time, even, as I now see we're back to name calling and that I have some new ones, like ‘highly overrated lightweight' to add to the list you signed. “You say no mention of the perfect border,” Maher added. And he listed a number of other Trump initiatives that he supported including ones related to animal rights, marijuana, the White House ballroom, the “golden dome missile shield” and that Trump “wasn't wrong” about making NATO members pay “their fair share.” He added, “About the Nick Fuentes Jew-hating wing of the Republican Party, [cutting to a clip of an earlier episode] Trump is the one who said, and I give him credit for this, he said, ‘We don't want you. “In fact, I may be the last person from the lunatic left that is still an honest broker when it comes to you.” He added, “It's a shame you can't take criticism, because in an alternative universe where we could have further honest conversations, I could say things to you that might be quite helpful, like, Don, I'm going to level with you. … I always want the American president to succeed, and I do give credit when you have, but there's lots of stuff you do that is not my idea of success, and I have every right to say so in a democracy.” He went on to list what he thought were Trump's failures including the current manifestation of ICE: “Yeah, I'm glad you got rid of stone cold criminals, but no one wanted the sadism and stupidity that went along with it.” “It's not derangement for me to be always calling out the election-denying obsession you have or the pardons-for-my-friends-and-punishment-for-my-enemies mode of governing or the side deals for your family that always seem to be part of everything,” he said. Free advice, if the Democrats ever learn to weaponize that message, your MAGA movement is in big trouble.” In his initial Truth Social post on Feb. 14, Trump said, taking issue with some of Maher's criticism the night before, “Sometimes in life you waste time! He was extremely nervous, had ZERO confidence in himself and, to soothe his nerves, immediately, within seconds, asked for a ‘Vodka Tonic.' Anyway, we had a great dinner, it was quick, easy, and he seemed to be a nice guy and, for his first show after our dinner, he was very respectful about our meeting — But with everything I have done in bringing our Country back from ‘OBLIVION,' why wouldn't he be?” Maher briefly addressed Trump's comments on his Feb. 20 show before promising a more detailed response when he returned from a one-week break on March 6. Maher's willingness to have dinner with Trump sparked backlash from some circles, with Larry David even penning a satirical essay for The New York Times, mocking Maher's visit to the White House, titled “My Dinner With Adolf.” Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day

SZA couldn't believe it either when her album SOS exploded in popularity in 2022, beating out none other than Taylor Swift on the Billboard 200 — an achievement the R&B/pop star says her label initially told her would probably never happen, given the Eras Tour headliner's consistent chart dominance. In an interview with i-D published Friday (March 6), SZA reflected on one of the wildest career moments she experienced as her sophomore album catapulted her to new heights of stardom. I never even imagined I could be on the radio,'” continued the Grammy winner, who is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment. As it turned out, SOS debuted at No. 1 on the album's chart in December 2022, with Midnights — which had been released two months prior — sitting at No. SZA's project would remain in the top spot for 10 weeks before falling lower on the tally, eventually returning to No. 1 in 2025 for another three weeks with the Lana deluxe edition. When SOS was first ruling the roost, SZA clarified on X that she had nothing but respect for Swift. In 2025, SZA told Jennifer Hudson that she would love to work with the pop singer someday. “Every time she walks up to me or approaches me, I'm just like, ‘All right, this is happening, because that's fully Taylor Swift,'” she said that March. “I would love to write with her and build some things together. Though some people may have doubted it four years ago, SZA is now a formidable artist on the charts herself. In December 2024, she and Kendrick Lamar scored a massive hit with their “Luther” collaboration, which spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. See SZA on the cover of i-D below. A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry

Jeremy Larner, whose experience as a speechwriter for 1968 presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy informed his Oscar-winning screenplay for the Robert Redford-starring The Candidate, has died. Larner had been ill for some time and died Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California, his son Jesse Larner told The Hollywood Reporter. Alan Trustman, Screenwriter on 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and 'Bullitt,' Dies at 95 James G. Robinson, Producer and Morgan Creek Co-Founder, Dies at 90 After writing Nobody Knows: Reflections on the McCarthy Campaign of 1968, a book that gained traction when it was serialized in Harper's magazine in 1969, Larner was approached by Redford and director Michael Ritchie to write the script for The Candidate (1972). In the Warner Bros. film, Redford stars as idealistic young liberal Bill McKay, a poverty lawyer and son of a wheeling-dealing governor (Melvyn Douglas) who is groomed by a political consultant (Peter Boyle) to run against Republican incumbent Crocker Jarman (Don Porter) for senator in California. McKay speaks his mind, figuring he has no chance of winning — until he does, prompting him at the end to ask Boyle's Marvin Lucas, “What do we do now?” Redford and Ritchie “had a few ideas of what they wanted it to be about, and of the ending as well,” Larner recalled in an extensive 2016 Brooklyn Magazine interview with Steve Macfarlane about his work on the film. He could lose himself in a character — it's true of many stars, and was even truer then — who resembles himself, only larger than life, as a symbol of what's beautiful and what's true. “This is where my experience with McCarthy came into it: I would write a speech, hear McCarthy deliver my words as part of his stump speech, and see the response he got from it. He'd say things that enabled people to cheer themselves by cheering him. “I thought a campaign was like drifting downriver on a raft, where everything is beautiful: then you begin to hear the roar of the falls up ahead, but it's too late. Jeremy David Larner was born on March 20, 1937, and raised in Indianapolis, where he won the city's high school tennis championship while attending Shortridge High. His father, Martin, was president of the Jewish Community Center Association. Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958, where his classmates included soon-to-be activist Abbie Hoffman, then attended the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. He moved to New York when he was 22 and stayed throughout the 1960s, working as a freelance journalist for such publications as Life — for whom he covered the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — The New Republic and Harper's. During the McCarthy campaign, Larner penned a radio commercial for Paul Newman that played in Indiana, and he ghost-wrote a magazine article for the actor talking about why he was impressed with the senator. Larner's Drive, He Said novel revolved around two Ohio University roommates, one an alienated basketball star (played by William Tepper in the film) and the other a revolutionary (Michael Margotta). In 1968, Nicholson phoned Larner and said, “Jer, I'm gonna be a star, and they're gonna let me direct a picture. I want you to come out and write it,” he told Los Angeles Magazine in 1996. (Also contributing to the script: Terrence Malick and Robert Towne, both uncredited.) By the time production had wrapped on the R-rated film — it was dismissed at Cannes and played mere weeks in theaters before being pulled — Nicholson was indeed a star with Easy Rider in his pocket, and Larner had returned to Harvard before The Candidate opportunity arose. “I came down to New York,” he told Macfarlane. “Then they came up to Cambridge … and we worked mostly in my kitchen — I think we went out to dinner a couple times. For example, the moment when somebody hands McKay a Coke and a hot dog, so his hands are occupied, and then slugs him in the face — that really happened to McCarthy!” Then, he was on set of the $1.1 million picture every day, rewriting constantly. On Oscar night in 1973, Larner in his acceptance speech thanked “the political figures of our time who've given me terrific inspiration. I think as long as they continue to do the things they do and to use the words that they use, words like ‘honor,' there'll be better pictures and sharper pictures even than The Candidate.” Larner went on to write about a dozen screenplays but never had another onscreen writing credit. “I thought I was the exception to the rule in terms of writers having clout, but writers don't have any clout unless they get to be Paddy Chayefsky,” he said. He was married to Brandeis classmate Susan Berlin from 1960 until their 1968 divorce. “It made sense to Redford and Ritchie, I always thought, but then again I was always reminding them of where the scenes fit together, and it was a constant concern of theirs to make sure the scenes did,” he recalled. When Redford and Ritchie approached me, McKay would be the son of a former governor, trapped into an uncomfortable position, and surprised when he wins. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day

Cary Elwes took to Instagram on March 6, sharing an emotional message on Instagram in honor of Rob Reiner's birthday, with this being the first one since his passing. Missing you so much #robreiner ⚔️💔,” Elwes captioned the post. Elwes worked closely with Reiner on the hit movie “The Princess Bride,” in which Elwes portrayed Westley. When news of his passing first broke, Elwes took some time before sharing his first tribute post on Instagram, posting behind-the-scenes footage while filming the hit movie. In the caption, he detailed his relationship with Reiner, having met the director when he was 24 years old. “And from that very first meeting I fell in love with him,” Elwes wrote. “I was already a fan of his work, so meeting him in person was a dream come true. Rob and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home on Dec. 14, having passed away from “multiple sharp force injuries.” Shortly after their death, the couple's son, Nick, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. On February 23, Nick appeared in court, where his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty. Under Elwes' post, many comments were left in honor of the beloved filmmaker. But he brought us so much joy,” one person wrote. Thanks for changing my childhood,” another person shared. I knew how much you loved him. At the 2026 Oscars, the In Memoriam segment will feature a special tribute to Reiner and it will be led by two people who worked very closely with him. Variety reports that “When Harry Met Sally” co-stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are set to reunite for this special moment. Go here and check the boxnext to EntertainmentNow Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Nancy Guthrie's Tucson, Ariz., neighbors reported an internet outage just before she vanished, and federal investigators are now said to be looking into whether there's a link between the events. A neighbor reportedly told NewsNation that his Ring camera surveillance footage from the night the 84-year-old Guthrie matriarch disappeared — between Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, when she was officially reported missing — is “not available.” Additional neighbors from the quiet community told NewsNation that the FBI investigators have questioned them about an “internet service disruption” on Feb. 1. “This is the distance from where the ring cameras that went offline are located in relation to Nancy Guthrie's house. You can see the roof of Nancy's house when I zoom in,” he wrote. The Pima County Sheriff's Office and the FBI did not immediately return Page Six's request for comment on Friday evening. Terrifying footage of the suspect who allegedly took Nancy from her home in the middle of the night showed a masked man, whom FBI authorities described as being of average build and 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10 in height. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. He carried a backpack believed to be a Walmart brand called Ozark Trail and wore what appeared to be black gloves during the apparent home invasion. The elderly mother of Savannah Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1 after failing to attend her usual church services, following a night out with family members. Savannah briefly returned to the “Today” show earlier this week for an emotional reunion with staff and co-stars.

Ben Stiller just formally got his invitation to hang out with Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and Radiohead at the Cool Kids Whose Work Has Been Misunderstood And Misappropriated By The Uncool Kids Table, as the Hollywood star has become the latest artist to ask that the Trump White House please not jam his hard work into their lazy work in an effort to promote their latest military misadventures. Per THR, Stiller hopped on Twitter this weekend to request that the official social media account for The White House remove footage from his 2008 comedy film Tropic Thunder from a video it posted this week, in which it used various yelling men/yelling male-coded robots from TV, films, and video games in order to drum up excitement for its current bombing campaign in the Middle East. “Hey White House,” Stiller wrote, with a level of decorum that would price him right out of our current national government's online classiness range in a scant three words, “Please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.” And, you might reasonably find yourself asking, isn't there something a little too on the nose about Tropic Thunder—a movie in which buffoons who believe they are in a movie stumble into an actual military conflict that ends up killing people—winding up in a compilation of militaristic film clips all forced to share space with Pete Hesgeth's receding hairline and actual footage of actual people being blown up? To which the answer is, of course, that that only matters in a universe where media literacy has not become, not only unwanted, but a quality actively to be mocked; having increasingly devolved into government-by-memes, it's pretty clear at this point that the White House social accounts are now deliberately doing stupid things (like scoring their war videos to Mortal Kombat audio) in order to mock the desires of those who would like them to conduct themselves with even a sliver of dignity. Unlike, apparently, some of the United States' key missile defense systems throughout the region, it's a pretty easy position to defend: Once you've described thoughtfulness and effort as negative qualities to be mocked, all you have to do is continue picking the laziest, dumbest choices in order to act from a position of, hey, let's call it “strength.” It's an unbeatable strategy—at least, once you've radically redefined what it means to not be beat. Recommended for You1The Pitt highlights the bittersweet bonds of family2Staying classy, Anchorman's Will Ferrell and Adam McKay paid Christina Applegate from own salaries3Quantum Leap starts setting its boundaries—and viewer expectations4Daryl Hannah slams Love Story portrayal as false and misogynistic5The Legend Of Zelda didn't create a genre, but it did help define it © 2026 Paste Media Group. All Rights Reserved

Bill Lawrence can breathe a sigh of relief — likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the Scrubs reboot launched to impressive ratings last week, amassing 11.36M total cross-platform viewers on ABC, Hulu, Disney+ and digital platforms in its first five days, per Disney. “I'm so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show,” Lawrence said about the revival's performance during an interview about his latest series, Rooster for HBO, which stars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and Scrubs alum John C. McGinley. In its return after 17 years, Scrubs, headlined by original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, delivered the highest-rated comedy episode on ABC and top ABC series debut on streaming in over a year, since the premiere of Shifting Gears. 'High Potential' Renewed For Season 3 As ABC Hunts New Showrunner Following Todd Harthan Exit “I love the people that are in it so much, not only the old ones because I've talked way too much about Zach,” Lawrence said, referencing the fact that Braff has been working on all of his shows, including directing an episode of Rooster. He also mentioned Scrubs OGs McGinley and Judy Reyes, who are recurring on the revival, with Christa Miller set to return for a guest turn at the end of the season, and Neil Flynn coming back too. “It's been really cool, metaphorically, to watch not only the actors, Donald, Zach and Sarah, who were the kids, be the older people, both professionally and in real life, to a new group of young actors and actresses, but even behind the scenes.” Lawrence is referring to the revival's showrunner, Aseem Batra, who got her first job as a writer on the original Scrubs. “She grew up and stayed on the show; she and I really connected there, so I like both those stories,” Lawrence said about the revival's multi-generational dynamic on- and off-screen. “I think the goal of that show was to not be a reboot but a revival and to keep it going with the next wave of characters.” “We're all crossing our fingers that they let us do a whole bunch more, but we're really hopeful,” Lawrence said. That would be great news for fans of the original and, in particular, one of its stars who is not in the revival's nine Season 1 episodes. As Lawrence told Deadline ahead of the revival's debut, “Dr. Kelso (Ken Jenkins) will be back next year. Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy. The premier was good, but ive lost interest with each following episode. This week's episode heavily focused on the new characters. I've worked in the hospital for a very long time and it is very close to real life. Which we all need especially after a long shift. A solid pilot and several laugh out loud jokes in the second episode. They did a brilliant job of bringing this show back. It captures the vibe of the original show and looks like it is building good new characters as well. Why would you be ‘prepared not to like it'? We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks Send us a tip using our annonymous form. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.

As Hollywood's concern around artificial intelligence grows, Seth MacFarlane is justifying the technology after bringing one of his long-running impressions to life. “I've been doing my Bill Clinton impression since the early days of Family Guy,” he told the Associated Press. “It's an interesting example of how AI can be used as a tool and not necessarily trample on the art that the rest of the industry is doing.” So we just said, ‘To hell with it, let's try AI.' It was the only way to look like Bill Clinton.” In the scene, hot-headed Republican dad Matty Bennett (Scott Grimes) gets a part-time job at Dunkin Donuts, where President Clinton (MacFarlane) comes in for a photo opp, only for Matty to criticize him. The POTUS proceeds to cuss him out while putting on a smiling face for the cameras outside. MacFarlane returns in Season 2 of Ted to reprise the voice of the eponymous foul-mouthed stuffed bear, who was wished to life by young John (Max Burkholder). The series is a prequel to MacFarlane's feature comedies Ted (2012) and Ted 2 (2015), which starred Mark Wahlberg as John. Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy. AI will be a great tool for people who already work in entertainment, and it will be a great asset to people who aren't in the industry, but are trying to create their own high quality content. “I wasn't smart enough to figure out a way to do it involving actual people with talent, so I cut them out of the picture and leveraged a plagiarism machine instead.” Do you imagine a robot walked into a room and pulled this out of its butt as part of its plan to destroy humanity? Get over yourselves long enough to understand how things are made and what tools are. The entire point of this is there are different ways to use tools. Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks Send us a tip using our annonymous form. Sign up for our breaking news alerts By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

The two concerts that P!nk had scheduled for this spring at the GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City have been canceled, promoter Ocesa announced Friday (March 6). A show by singer Carolina Ross and another by rapper Lucho SSJ were also canceled, but Ocesa tells Billboard Español the cancellations are unrelated. “We understand how much fans were looking forward to these concerts, and we deeply appreciate their understanding,” Ocesa added. The company informed that those who purchased tickets online through Ticketmaster Mexico would receive a full refund automatically, including service fees, directly to the card used for purchase, in accordance with the timelines established by each banking institution. Those who bought tickets at box offices can request their refund at the original point of sale in the coming days. A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry Send us a tip using our anonymous form. A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Billboard is a part of Penske Media Corporation.

Perhaps realizing that Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood was the perfect endpoint for his career, Quentin Tarantino has yet to make good on the oft-repeated promise that his 10th film will be his last. Cliff Booth ended up going to David Fincher, who has yet to give his career an endpoint and seems mostly content to let his movies disappear into the Netflix algorithm. It just kind of unenthused me,” Tarantino told THR last year. But now that Israel has launched a new war, which, ironically, led to the Tarantino family becoming fodder for misinformation, the director is prepping a new project for the London stage. Per The Daily Mail (via Variety), Tarantino's next project is an “old-fashioned British farce in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney,” with its sights set on London's West End. “The play is all written, it is absolutely the next thing that I'm going to [do], and we will start the ball rolling on it in January,” he said. “I'm preparing for it to be a success. If it is a flop, then I will be done very quickly.” He also said that if it were “a popular play, then I'll probably make a movie.” Tarantino's last stage show was a live script read of The Hateful Eight, which seemed destined for the stage after the screenplay leaked. Eventually, of course, he did end up filming Hateful Eight. “That way he will know what's going on.” His son turned six this past February, so maybe some of that door-slamming, trouser-dropping fun can make its way to movie theaters. Recommended for You1The Pitt highlights the bittersweet bonds of family2Staying classy, Anchorman's Will Ferrell and Adam McKay paid Christina Applegate from own salaries3Quantum Leap starts setting its boundaries—and viewer expectations4Daryl Hannah slams Love Story portrayal as false and misogynistic5The Legend Of Zelda didn't create a genre, but it did help define it