Month: March 2021

Kelly Clarkson had to be pinched after winning "American Idol" simply because she wasn’t sure that she would see success in her career, let alone become a superstar nearly 20 years later. The 38-year-old singer-turned-daytime talk show host, who won the first season of "Idol," looked back on her journey during a chat with Andy Cohen on Friday’s episode of "The Kelly Clarkson Show." When asked by Cohen, 52, if she ever thought her career would turn into what it has become following her "Idol" win, Clarkson quipped that she thought she'd be "the most famous cocktail waitress in Texas." The mother of two went on to describe her time on the competition reality show, calling the life-changing experience, "so pure and raw." KELLY CLARKSON SAYS SHE'S WRITTEN '60 SONGS' AMID SPLIT FROM BRAND...

EXCLUSIVE: As his new film Godzilla vs. Kong opens Wednesday in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max after turning up a Hollywood film pandemic record $123 million gross in 38 overseas markets over the weekend, director Adam Wingard is set to direct ThunderCats. That is a big-scale feature based on an animated TV series that ran from 1985-89 by Rankin Bass, and several other iterations, comic books and merchandise. The project had been developed by Rideback’s Dan Lin and Vertigo’s Roy Lee (they were producers on the Wingard-directed Death Note), with an early script by David Coggeshall. Wingard will rewrite a script with Simon Barrett, and will turn all this into a hybrid of CGI and animation. The series focuses on a group of cat-like humanoid aliens who live on the dying planet Thundera...

Lady Gaga's dog walker has finally been released from the hospital ... a little more than 1 month after he was shot in a terrifying dognapping incident. Ryan Fischer was just discharged after a much longer stay than he anticipated ... due to complications with his lungs. Ryan says he was actually feeling pretty great just days after being shot and moving out of the ICU, and thought his recovery would be a simple process. Unfortunately, Ryan says one of his lungs didn't cooperate and kept collapsing and it reached a point where he was readmitted for surgery to remove portions of it, and as he puts it ... "my recovery had become anything but a straight line." Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. The good news -- Ryan finally seems t...

Lying in the ER after a catastrophic stroke and brain hemorrhage in 2001, Sharon Stone had a near-death, out-of-body experience in which a group of friends appeared in a vision at her bedside. The trio – who’d already passed away — told the actress not to be afraid. “The light was so luminous,” the “Basic Instinct” and “Ratched” star recalls of the encounter in her new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice” (Knopf; out Tuesday). “It was so . . . mystical. I wanted to know it. I wanted to immerse myself.” The next moment, however, she felt “like I had been kicked in the middle of my chest by a mule,” and she “made a choice to survive.” She awoke with “the kind of gasp you take when you are underwater far too long.” Two decades on and fully recovered, t...

The San Diego Convention Center, home to Comic-Con.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Over the weekend, Comic-Con International—the folks behind San Diego Comic-Con—made a more-than-surprising announcement that they’d be holding an in-person convention from November 26-28 of this year. Now, if you don’t have a calendar in front of you, that’s Thanksgiving weekend, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. The news—originally released at 9:00 p.m. EST on Saturday night, a totally normal time to release such news—was met with largely negative responses. Attending Comic-Con is already a huge hassle. But attending it on a busy holiday weekend, after almost two years of a pandemic, when many people should hypothetically actually be able to spend time with their families and friend...

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