James Safechuck, one of two men whose allegations of childhood sexual abuse by Michael Jackson anchored HBO’s 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, has released a video message to other survivors of childhood sexual abuse, timed to […]
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Fresh off a triumphant guest turn at Coachella, the Queen of Pop is doing what she does best — getting attention — in a different kind of crowded venue: the gay hookup app Grindr. As […]
On March 31, an 18-year-old content creator who goes by the TikTok handle Swhileyy — pronounced “Swiley” — jogged through the lobby of a Church of Scientology building in Hollywood, laughing as a staffer told […]
A lot of people are talking about The Drama. Much of that conversation has focused on how it was marketed, how it landed with audiences, and whether it went too far — or not far […]
Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson […]
It was 1983, and a 26-year-old producer named Brian Grazer was sitting across from the most feared man in Hollywood. Ray Stark had a rival mermaid movie loaded with Warren Beatty, Jessica Lange, Herbert Ross […]
Eric Roberts still isn’t sure how he got through Star 80. Appearing on the latest episode of It Happened in Hollywood, the actor looked back on his experience making the 1983 film with director Bob […]
On the night her elimination aired, Jane Don’t was in Las Vegas. She was performing at a local gay nightclub, Piranha, co-hosted by a queen who didn’t know what was coming. The audience didn’t know […]
Amy Heckerling grew up in the Bronx watching the same James Cagney movie every night. That was the deal with Million Dollar Movie, the local New York broadcast that aired a single film on repeat […]
Garrard Conley woke up today to learn the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 ruling limiting states’ ability to ban conversion therapy for minors, framing the practice as protected speech. He was not OK. When Boy […]
Here is something Andrew McCarthy did not do before he agreed to star in Pretty in Pink: read the script. “I needed a job and I needed the $50,000 they were going to pay me,” […]
A resurfaced Norwegian magazine essay by Kristoffer Borgli — now drawing attention on Reddit — is raising fresh questions about the filmmaker just as his profile in Hollywood continues to rise. Borgli, the director behind […]
For decades, The Price Is Right was America’s favorite sick-day companion: smiling contestants, bright lights and, at its center, Bob Barker, the avuncular host who closed every episode urging viewers to “help control the pet […]
Before E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial became the most beloved alien movie ever made — before it dethroned Star Wars at the box office, before kids everywhere pointed glowing fingers at each other in suburban backyards […]
At a Los Angeles event celebrating the release of her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli was introduced, repeatedly and reverently, as a living legend. Which she is. But what unfolded onstage […]
Hollywood tends to turn the end of the world into spectacle. But not in Testament — a 1983 apocalypse drama that imagines nuclear catastrophe not through explosions, but through absence. There are no mushroom clouds […]
In her long-awaited memoir, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This!, showbiz icon and EGOT winner Liza Minnelli — who turns 80 on March 12 — pulls back the curtain on a life lived at maximum volume. Across its 400-odd pages, the Cabaret star dishes on a life filled with famous friends, explosive romances, […]