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Dana Carvey is no stranger to meeting the men he has lampooned on “SNL” and in his stand-up act, but so far, he’s just missed running into Joe Biden. It turns out the 46th president is a frequent visitor to Carvey’s hometown in the Santa Ynez Valley. “Hunter Biden lives around the corner, so he’s […]

Spy thriller “Ponies,” starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, and “The Other Bennet Sister,” starring Ella Bruccoleri and Richard E. Grant, are among the drama series and TV movies competing for the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which starts Friday. The jury is chaired by British actress Lesley Manville, who serves […]

Margaret Kerry, the early sitcom actor and dancer who modeled the movements and expressions for Disney animators as they drew Peter Pan‘s pixie Tinker Bell into being, died of lung cancer on Thursday, June 11, in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was 97. Her death was announced by her family in a Facebook message. “It is […]

During one of David Beckham’s first trips to America in the 1990s, he took a stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and marveled at all the stars lining the sidewalks. For a working-class bloke from the East End of London, being immortalized in such a fashion seemed like a pipe dream. But Beckham has never been one […]

Sports anchor Elle Duncan was working for ESPN a few years ago when she heard then-college basketball star Aliyah Boston say that ESPN’s investment in women’s sports over 30-plus years has been transformative for female athletes, but not transformative enough. Boston wasn’t faulting ESPN; her point was that women’s teams and leagues need to be […]

Oscar winner Michael Giacchino has been officially unveiled as the composer for Brad Bird’s upcoming Netflix animation “Ray Gunn.” “Ray Gunn,” an original futuristic detective caper, is set to be the duo’s sixth collaboration since they first teamed up on 2004 Pixar animation “The Incredibles.” (They have since worked together on “Ratatouille,” “Mission: Impossible – […]

Amazon Prime Video has formally greenlit a series adaptation of “Things We Never Got Over.” The show is based on the book of the same name by Lucy Score and is the first of three books in Score’s so-called Knockemout series. The TV adaptation was first reported to be in the works at Amazon in […]