Month: November 2020

UPDATED with WGA response, Bryan Lourd declaration details: CAA asked a federal judge Tuesday to issue a preliminary injunction that would force the WGA East and WGA West to drop their group boycott against the agency. The move comes just two months after CAA said that it thought it had a deal with the guilds to end their long-running legal battle over packaging fees and its affiliation with wipp, its corporately related production entity. The WGA guilds, however, said no such deal had been reached, citing outstanding issues over the agency’s reduction of its ownership of wiip. Now CAA wants U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. to end the standoff by ordering the guild to allow CAA’s writer clients to return to the agency, and to order the WGA to refrain “from utilizing or...

Exclusive 4:39 PM PT -- Harvey's camp tells TMZ ... "It should come as no surprise that Mr. Weinstein has numerous maladies and conditions including a heart condition, high blood pressure and spinal stenosis. We are working with the NYSDOCCS and the excellent team at Wende CF to ensure Mr. Weinstein receives the proper medical attention he needs." Harvey Weinstein is in isolation with 101-degree temperature, and doctors believe he has COVID ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Weinstein is "doing poorly" with various health issues ... some of which point to a coronavirus infection. Our sources say Weinstein was tested Tu...

Ben Watkins, a former competitor on "MasterChef Junior," has died. He was 14 years old. The young chef died in a Chicago Children's hospital on Monday, his family's attorney, Trent A. McCain, told Fox News on Tuesday.  Watkins was battling a rare illness known as Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma. Only six people in the world have been diagnosed with it, McCain said. Watkins competed during season six of the Gordon Ramsay-hosted cooking competition show. 'MASTERCHEF JUNIOR' STAR BEN WATKINS, 13, DIAGNOSED WITH TUMOR 3 YEARS AFTER HIS PARENTS' DEATHS, FAMILY SAYS Ben Watkins on Season 6 of 'MasterChef Junior.' He has died at the age of 14 after a battle with a rare illness known as Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma.  His death was also announced in a statement from his...

Michael J. FoxPhoto: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Michael J. Fox has a new memoir out today, No Time Like The Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, and according to a Los Angeles Times account of the book, it offers a “more sober and realistic vision” of his life than previous Fox memoirs. Included in that more sober and realistic vision is Fox coming to terms with the realization that his acting career is probably over. “There is a time for everything,” he says in the book, “and my time of putting in a 12-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me.” Fox says he’s thinking of this as a “second retirement,” and though there’s still a chance things could change, he says, “if this is the end of my acting career, so be it.” The rea...

Make no mistake: George Clooney, movie star, has completed his transition to George Clooney, family man. “I cut my own hair and I cut my kids’ hair and I’m mopping it and vacuuming and doing the laundry and doing the dishes every day,” Clooney told GQ in a virtual interview for its Icon of the Year issue. “I feel like my mother in 1964. You know, I understand why she burned her bra.” George Clooney's 2020 has been full of family and working at home. (Photo: Walter McBride/FilmMagic)More The truth evident in the rest of the interview, though, is that he’s perfectly content hunkering down at the home with Amal, his wife since 2014, and their 3-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella. While Clooney’s working at a home he bought in 1995, editing his upcoming movie, The Midnight Sky, and e...

Breaking News Ben Watkins, famous for competing in "MasterChef Junior," is dead after a battle with cancer. Ben, who was undergoing treatment for an extremely rare form of cancer at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, died Monday ... according to his family. He was diagnosed with a soft tissue tumor when he was only 13 years old, and the family says doctors told them Ben was 1 of only 6 people in the entire world diagnosed with the rare illness called Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma. An aspiring chef, Ben used to cook and man the front counter at Big Ben's Bodacious BBQ and Delicatessen in Gary, Indiana. with his late parents, wh...