Month: April 2021

Megan Ellison spared Scott Rudin no quarter today. “This piece barely scratches the surface of Scott Rudin’s abusive, racist, and sexist behavior”, the Annapurna CEO said online after a scathing Hollywood Reporter cover story published today on alleged misconduct by the volatile EGOT producer. “Similarly to Harvey, too many are afraid to speak out,” the Bombshell EP added in the mid-morning tweet. “ I support and applaud those who did. There’s good reason to be afraid because he’s vindictive and has no qualms about lying.” In regards to both Rudin and Weinstein, this is no second hand insight by Ellison. She worked with Rudin as an executive producer on the 10x Oscar nominated Coen Brothers 2010 western remake True Grit, which was distributed by Paramount. Ellison help...

Megan Ellison spared Scott Rudin no quarter today. “This piece barely scratches the surface of Scott Rudin’s abusive, racist, and sexist behavior”, the Annapurna CEO said online after a scathing Hollywood Reporter cover story published today on alleged misconduct by the volatile EGOT producer. “Similarly to Harvey, too many are afraid to speak out,” the Bombshell EP added in the mid-morning tweet. “ I support and applaud those who did. There’s good reason to be afraid because he’s vindictive and has no qualms about lying.” In regards to both Rudin and Weinstein, this is no second hand insight by Ellison. She worked with Rudin as an executive producer on the 10x Oscar nominated Coen Brothers 2010 western remake True Grit, which was distributed by Paramount. Ellison help...

Megan Ellison spared Scott Rudin no quarter today. “This piece barely scratches the surface of Scott Rudin’s abusive, racist, and sexist behavior”, the Annapurna CEO said online after a scathing Hollywood Reporter cover story published today on alleged misconduct by the volatile EGOT producer. “Similarly to Harvey, too many are afraid to speak out,” the Bombshell EP added in the mid-morning tweet. “ I support and applaud those who did. There’s good reason to be afraid because he’s vindictive and has no qualms about lying.” In regards to both Rudin and Weinstein, this is no second hand insight by Ellison. She worked with Rudin as an executive producer on the 10x Oscar nominated Coen Brothers 2010 western remake True Grit, which was distributed by Paramount. Ellison help...

Are things perfectly fine? Sophie Turner shared her thoughts on Taylor Swift’s newly released song “Mr. Perfectly Fine,” which the singer wrote in 2008, the same year she dated Joe Jonas. “It’s not NOT a bop,” the 25-year-old actress, who married Jonas in May 2019, wrote on her Instagram Story Wednesday alongside a clip of the track’s lyric video. Swift, 31, quickly took notice of Turner’s compliment, which she re-posted to her own account moments later. “Forever bending the knee for the [Queen] of the North,” she added, referencing a nickname for the Emmy nominee’s “Game of Thrones” character, Sansa Stark. Turner’s reaction was surprisingly tame considering so many fans speculated that Swift’s harsh lyrics were about Jonas, 31, that his name t...

Dr. Dre is denying his estranged wife's abuse claims -- claiming she's making it all up as part of her strategy to try to get out of the prenup he insists is still in place. The mogul just filed new legal docs in his nasty divorce case with Nicole Young, claiming her abuse allegations are false and they're making the split super stressful for him. In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Dr. Dre also accuses Nicole of bringing up abuse claims to squeeze money out of him. He says she didn't even raise the allegations until after she filed for divorce and realized the prenup prevented her from staking claim to half his wealth. According to the docs, Dre claims Nicole's allegations are "appalling" and false. Likewise, he shoots down her claims he abused her b...

(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) Over the last few years, an incredibly, disturbingly common refrain has arisen from the cast and crew working on a slew of big new TV series, from Big Little Lies to Stranger Things – “It’s really a 6-hour movie”. (Feel free to fill in a larger number to account for shows that have eight or nine episodes per season instead of six.) The war of film and television feels especially foolish to fight as we wind down from a pandemic that kept so many of us away from movie theaters, essentially turning everything into television whether it was intended that way or not. Marvel’s latest show for Disney+, The F...

Jack served as both director and director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for 42 years. He retired at the end of December. POWELL, Ohio — Jack Hanna has been diagnosed with dementia and will retire from public life, according to a letter shared by his family on Wednesday. He was director of the Columbus Zoo from 1978 to 1992 and still serves as its director emeritus. In the letter, Jack's daughters Kathaleen, Suzanne and Julie Hanna stated their dad was diagnosed with dementia, now believed to be Alzheimer’s disease, and his condition progressed much faster than expected in the last few months. ...

Is Joe Jonas really Mr. Perfectly Fine? That's what many Taylor Swift fans think after hearing the just-released song. On April 7, the superstar singer surprised fans by dropping "Mr. Perfectly Fine," one of six vault tracks off of her upcoming album Fearless (Taylor's Version). In the lyrics of the song, Swift reflects on a lost love who "looked me in the eye and told me you would never go away." As Swifties online pointed out, the artist previously admitted to writing the Fearless song "Forever and Always" about her teenage romance with the Jonas Brothers star. And, since "Mr. Perfectly Fine" is a vault song that didn't make it onto the 2008 album, it was likely written around the same time as "Forever and Always." While Swift has not confirmed these theories, Jonas' wife, actress...