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Maury Povich receives lifetime achievement award from wife Connie Chung at Daytime Emmys
17Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maury Povich receives lifetime achievement award from wife Connie Chung at Daytime Emmys

LOS ANGELES -- Maury Povich received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor on Saturday from his wife, journalist Connie Chung.The 84-year-old talk show host, who retired last year, was honored during the creative arts ceremony at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. “I know that you think he’s been determining the paternity of every child in America all his life," Chung said in her introduction. "But no, in his 67 freaking years in television, he’s been a news reporter and a news anchor and old fashion talk show host interviewing world leaders, politicians, members of Congress, authors, movie stars and even Julia Child.”Among those paying tribute in videos were Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Clarkson, Lewis Black, Karamo Brown and sports broadcasters Michael Wilbon and Ton...
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Anthony Anderson to host strike-delayed Emmys ceremony
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Anthony Anderson to host strike-delayed Emmys ceremony

LOS ANGELES -- Anthony Anderson has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, and now he'll be presiding over January's strike-delayed ceremony.The Fox network announced Anderson will host the Jan. 15 ceremony, which honors the best shows, performances and other work on television.The Emmys are traditionally held in September but have moved into Hollywood's traditional awards season due to this year's actors and writers strikes.“Succession” is the leading nominee for its final season, with other HBO series like “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us” also receiving multiple nominations.Anderson is a seven-time leading comedy actor nominee for his starring role in the ABC series “black-ish.” The show ended its groundbreaking eight-season run in 2022.Anderson is no stranger to headlining an a...
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Do you believe? Cher set to star in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Do you believe? Cher set to star in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year

NEW YORK -- Cher is obviously a superstar but even a superstar can be the opening act when it comes to Santa.Organizers of this year's Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade have nabbed the Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy Award-winner for their 97th annual event. Cher will make her appearance just before the parade's end, signaled by the arrival of Santa’s sleigh, parade organizers said.This year’s parade will feature 16 giant character balloons, 26 floats, 32 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns and eight performance groups.It's a busy time for Cher, who is preparing to release a 25th-anniversary edition of her Grammy-winning album “Believe” and just dropped her first new album in five years, “Christmas.”For the first time in its long history, the holiday tradition will begin...
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Upcoming ‘Sesame Street’ season stars Ariana DeBose, Brandi Carlile, ASL and an octopus chef
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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Upcoming ‘Sesame Street’ season stars Ariana DeBose, Brandi Carlile, ASL and an octopus chef

NEW YORK -- The upcoming season of “Sesame Street” features an octopus as a chef, an exploration of American Sign Language and Quinta Brunson giving Cookie Monster a little bit of attitude.The 54th season of the iconic children's show debuts Nov. 9 on MAX with a gentle satire of Brunson's hit mockumentary “Abbott Elementary,” mimicking that show's single-camera style and confessional cut-aways. “It was really fun to kind of zoom in on Cookie Monster making a joke about eating a cookie and Quinta Brunson giving him a little bit of side-eye,” says Executive Producer Sal Perez in an exclusive interview previewing the season.Brunson came in with an advantage most celebrity guests don't have: In her early days in Los Angeles, she attended a puppet workshop created by Jim Henson, creator of The...
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Miniature ‘Star Wars’ X-wing gets over $3 million at auction of Hollywood model-maker’s collection
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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Miniature ‘Star Wars’ X-wing gets over $3 million at auction of Hollywood model-maker’s collection

DALLAS -- A miniature X-wing Starfighter used in a “Star Wars” film sold for over $3 million during an auction over the weekend of items both collected and created by longtime Hollywood model-maker Greg Jein.The collection amassed by Jein, who died last year at the age of 76, brought in about $13.6 million during an event at Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The auction house said that everyone from model-makers to collectors and science-fiction fans attended, making the event its best-attended in years.Joe Maddalena, Heritage’s executive vice president and a longtime friend of Jein’s, said in a news release Monday that the auction was “a profound testament to my friend as both a visual-effects master and one of the great collectors.”Jein not only had an Oscar and Emmy-nominated career making ...
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What’s happening with the strike-delayed Emmy Awards?
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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What’s happening with the strike-delayed Emmy Awards?

LOS ANGELES -- In a normal year — if there is any such thing in Hollywood anymore — the 75th Emmy Awards ceremony would be Monday night, and the many nominees from shows like “ Succession " and “ Ted Lasso " would be claiming their trophies or happily clapping for the winners.Instead, the actors and writers strikes brought a postponement until January.Here's a look at what's happening, and what may happen, with the awards that have been thrown off course.A shadow hung over this year's Emmys from the start. Writers, who are essential to the process both as nominees and the people who provide jokes and patter for the show, had been on strike for more than two months when the nominees were announced June 11. Then just three days after “Succession,” “ White Lotus,” “ The Last of Us ” and “Ted...
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Emmy Awards Delayed As Writers, Actors Continue Strikes
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Emmy Awards Delayed As Writers, Actors Continue Strikes

The news arrives after the publication reported that the ceremony’s presenter, the Television Academy, looked to move the show to November while its broadcaster, Fox, eyed an airdate in January.It’s unclear when the ceremony will take place due to the postponement. It was initially set to air on Sept. 18.HuffPost has reached out to both the Television Academy and Fox for comment.The Emmys delay comes amid the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes as the simultaneously-striking unions’ members seek an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios such as Amazon, Disney and Netflix.The WGA’s 11,500 writers began their strike on May 2 while SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 actors kicked off their own labor stoppage earlier this month. Strikes ha...
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“Am I crossing picket lines if I see a movie?” and other Hollywood strike questions
19Jul By adminNo Comments
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“Am I crossing picket lines if I see a movie?” and other Hollywood strike questions

You watch movies and television. And now you're wondering what role you play as a consumer of entertainment amid the dual Hollywood strikes — a pitched battle with actors and writers on one side, and studios and streaming services on the other.We have answers to how they affect you. Movies slated for release this summer will still hit theaters as planned. Many premieres promoting the films, however, have been cancelled, for one because striking writing actors are banned from advertising their work, which includes attending events like screenings. No boycotts yetBut fans can still support the industry by purchasing tickets to highly anticipated summer releases, as the unions have not called for any boycotts of theaters or streaming services. Instead, the...
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