Anne Hathaway is trading high fashion and royal duties for horsepower as she prepares to enter the world of NASCAR alongside Tom Cruise. Hathaway will co-star with Cruise in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming follow-up to the 1990 racing drama “Days of Thunder,” bringing together two of Hollywood’s biggest stars for their first feature film collaboration. Cruise […]
Ellen Pompeo is trading one set of hospital scrubs for another, but her next television role promises to take her well beyond the familiar territory of Grey’s Anatomy. Pompeo is attached to star in Not a Sound, a drama in development at Hulu that combines a medical background with a murder mystery. She will play […]
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who transformed dots, mirrors and pumpkins into an unmistakable visual universe, has died at 97. Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, according to her studio, bringing to a close a career that stretched across more than seven decades and ultimately made her one of the world’s most […]
Jennifer Garner’s path to television stardom nearly took a very different turn. Long before she became synonymous with Sydney Bristow and the globe-trotting intrigue of Alias, Garner had her sights set on another prestigious television drama: The West Wing. Garner recently recalled making it deep into the audition process for a new role on the […]
Wendy Williams’ unmistakable voice is headed back into the television spotlight, this time as the subject of a new documentary examining the daytime empire she built and the complicated circumstances surrounding its end. Peacock has greenlit a three-part documentary with the working title Clap If You Care: The Wendy Williams Show. Scheduled to arrive in […]
Anna Faris is taking an open-door approach to one of the more complicated parts of raising a teenager: what happens when your child develops beliefs that are different from your own. The actress recently discussed the religious conversations she has with her teenage son, Jack, whom she shares with former husband Chris Pratt. Jack has […]
Rosie O’Donnell’s return to a television talk-show desk was never likely to be quiet. Put her behind Jimmy Kimmel’s desk with Donald Trump back in the White House, and the chances of a peaceful week were somewhere south of zero. O’Donnell took over guest-hosting duties on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for four nights while Kimmel was […]
Alexa PenaVega is mourning three fellow former child stars while raising a larger question about what happens to young performers after the cameras stop rolling. The Spy Kids actress reflected on the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase, three women whose careers, like PenaVega’s, began when they were young. Their deaths have […]
Amy Schumer is turning her attention to the complicated, awkward and potentially hilarious world of divorce with a new comedy that puts an unexpectedly friendly breakup at the center of the story. The comedian and actor will star in and produce Best Divorce Ever, playing Clarissa, a woman who agrees with her husband Franklin that […]
Elizabeth Olsen has stepped into a brand-new role: motherhood. The 37-year-old actress has welcomed her first child with husband Robbie Arnett, 34, marking a major new chapter for a couple that has largely chosen to keep its personal life away from the Hollywood spotlight. Olsen was seen in Los Angeles on August 15 carrying the […]