Month: March 2021

George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor whose credits range from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Where’s Poppa? to Just Shoot Me! and The Goldbergs, died today in Santa Rosa, CA, of complications from bypass surgery. He was 87. Segal and Sean Giambrone in The Goldbergs Everett Collection His wife, Sonia Segal confirmed the news. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement. For the past eight years, Segal had been a series regular on ABC’s 1980s-set family comedy The Goldbergs. The last episode he filmed before his death, Episode 16 of the show’s current eighth season, is set to air April 7. The series is expected to pay tribute to Segal on-air. ...

Audiences have finally seen Zack Snyder’s version of Justice League — but as he tells it, that wasn’t the end of his vision for the superhero saga. Snyder had a story in his head for a trilogy of Justice League movies that would have covered the team’s entire war with Darkseid. The filmmaker spent most of the years since the 2017 Justice League release commenting on what was snipped from his four-hour version, and what the future story would have involved. The Snyder Cut concludes with a cliffhanger teasing the next movie, simply because that’s how it would have ended in 2017. “The end of the movie, where we left it, was what we had originally intended,” Deborah Snyder tells Polygon. The director’s best and most recent thoughts on the subject came from the press tour for the Sn...

Taylor Swift and her mother Andrea are lending a helping hand.  The 31-year-old pop star and her mom quietly made a $50,000 donation Tuesday to a GoFundMe campaign for Vickie Quarles, a Tennessee mother of five who lost her husband to COVID-19 days before Christmas last year.  According to the GoFundMe campaign and Yahoo News, Theodis Ray Quarles suddenly died at age 48 on Dec. 18 after being rushed to the hospital a day earlier for "breathing difficulties." The couple share five daughters:  Alyssa, Anaya, Asia, Allie and Aryah. "When the paramedics arrived to the Quarles' home to transport Theodis… Vicki wasn't allowed to accompany her husband due to quarantine restrictions," wrote family friend  DeQuanda Smith, who organized the fundraiser on Quarles' behalf on Dec 22. Smith continued: ...

Maybe the conscious uncoupling wasn't so conscious after all. Gwyneth Paltrow and her ex Chris Martin may have helped coin the term "conscious uncoupling," but that's apparently not what she wanted to do at all. Gwyneth and Chris, who share children Apple and Moses, tied the knot in 2003 but mutually decided to separate in 2014. At the time, the couple admitted that "while we love each other very much we will remain separate" and expressed their efforts to put their children first. But looking back on her divorce on a recent episode of Anna Faris Is Unqualified, Gwy...

It goes without saying: Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal should not include cinnamon-crusted shrimp tails. But according to writer-producer-podcaster Jensen Karp, a family pack from a local Costco had just that — along with a piece of string, a “weird cinnamon covered pea thing” and “black things” baked into some squares and lurking at the bottom of the bag. This was not what Times food columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson had in mind when he ranked Cinnamon Toast Crunch at the top of his official breakfast cereal power rankings a couple of years back. “Ummmm @CTCSquares — why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? (This is not a bit),” Karp tweeted Monday morning after eating a bowl of the cereal and then seeing a couple of sugar-coated things in the package that didn’t look like the cereal’s trad...

Exclusive Justin Bieber is back in L.A. after a break in the islands, and one of his first orders of business is telling prisoners about the big man upstairs ... TMZ has learned. The singer's RV was spotted Tuesday pulling into the California State Prison of L.A. County -- which prompted the question ... what the heck is he doing there, especially on the heels of his Turks and Caicos weekend getaway with the missus??? The answer, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is quite simple -- the Biebs was there to spread the good word. A rep for the CDCR tells TMZ ... the warden of the state prison sign...