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Queen & Slim: Director Melina Matsoukas hopes for change at the Oscars

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Friends and colleagues: Melina Matsoukas and Issa Rae “Congratulations to those men.” After announcing this year’s Oscar nominations, Issa Rae’s off-the-cuff reaction to another all-male Best Director shortlist was – for many – perfect shade. “I reposted it. She’s an honest person,” says Melina Matsoukas, director of new movie […]

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Beyoncé Pays Tribute To ‘Beloved’ Kobe Bryant With Poignant Throwback Picture

Beyoncé remembered the late Kobe Bryant with a series of poignant Instagram posts on Wednesday. “I will continue to diligently pray for your Queens. You are deeply missed Kobe,” the singer wrote in honor of the Los Angeles Lakers great who was killed with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash on

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Blake Lively Sees Right Through Jimmy Fallon’s B.S. In ‘Box Of Lies’

“Box of Lies” featured the host and the “Rhythm Section” star describing unusual items to each other and guessing whether they were telling the truth about them. Lively used her “Deadpool” knowledge ― she is, after all, married to “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds ― to ferret out Fallon’s lies about an object made of “rock”

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Meghan McCain Says Media ‘Weaponized’ Her Fight With ‘View’ Co-host Abby Huntsman

Meghan McCain admitted Wednesday that she had a fight with “The View” cohost Abby Huntsman before the latter left the show in mid-January, but called it a spat that the media “weaponized.” “We did get in a fight, which is a very small fight,” McCain told Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live.” “All friendships have

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Surprise! Unsuspecting Kendall Jenner Performs Cheerleading Stunt On ‘Ellen’

The “Cheer” cast was rooting for Kendall Jenner on “Ellen” this week. During an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show, the supermodel was stunned to learn that she’d be doing a lot more than chatting. The popular Netflix docuseries “Cheer” follows the impressive Navarro College student athletes as they compete for the national cheerleading title.

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The real lives behind ‘shocking’ migrant children’s stories

Image copyright Studio Soho Image caption The film Undocument tells the story of four migrant families, focusing on how the children are affected “When you see people dying in trucks and children dead on shores in the news – you can’t ever imagine yourself in that situation,” says filmmaker Kyla Simone Bruce. Her film, Undocument,

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Leslie Jones Recalls The Fight She And Chris Rock Had Over Her ‘SNL’ Audition

Leslie Jones didn’t care about working for “Saturday Night Live,” which may be precisely why she got hired. The former “SNL” cast member and “Time Machine” comedian told Howard Stern on Thursday that she “didn’t come to get a job” when she stepped on stage to try out for a writing gig at the sketch comedy

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Jessica Simpson Reveals What Went Wrong In That Cringey ‘Ellen’ Interview

Jessica Simpson’s last on-air interview went about as smoothly as her sister Ashlee’s infamous “Saturday Night Live” lip-synch debacle.   The singer generated all the wrong kind of buzz with her appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” back in 2017, when she elicited a strong side-eye from the host after fumbling over painfully off-topic stories about

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The Right Way For People Who Aren’t Mexican To Write About Mexico

Ever since Jeanine Cummins’ novel “American Dirt” was released on Jan. 21, much of the media has described the ensuing controversy in terms of nationality and ethnicity.  This question continues to come up: Is a non-Mexican allowed to write about Mexico? Accusations have flown back and forth on social media: cultural appropriation versus “cancel culture,”

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