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UPDATE, with more detail: As expected, the Venice Film Festival’s 2020 competition lineup is light on studio titles with only Searchligh’s Nomadland and Sony’s The World To Come figuring. Both of those are directed by women (Chloé Zhao and Mona Fastvold, respectively) in what is a much stronger year for female filmmakers than in the past. Last year, Venice faced criticism for having just two women in competition while this year, there are women behind eight of the 18 features. Venice chief Alberto Barbera noted they were “selected exclusively on the basis of their quality and not as a result of gender protocols.” NOMADLAND Searchlight Pictures Acknowledging the effects of COVID on Hollywood, Barbera also said in an introductory note, “A few spectacular mo...

50 Cent is apologizing for sharing insensitive memes about Megan Thee Stallion, days after it was reported that the rapper was shot in both feet and underwent surgery.  The Grammy winner, 45, publicly asked for the 25-year-old rapper's forgiveness, after posting jokes at her expense on Instagram, including a meme of her running away from a car, which her alleged assailant, Tory Lanez, was driving.   Additionally, the Intro rapper had also another with Lanez holding a gun.  Sorry: 50 Cent is apologizing for sharing insensitive memes about Megan Thee Stallion, days after it was reported that the rapper was shot in both feet and underwent surgery (seen in January)  'Damn I didn't think this s**t was real. It sounded so crazy @theestallion I'm glad your feeling better an...

UPDATE, with more detail: As expected, the Venice Film Festival’s 2020 competition lineup is light on studio titles with only Searchligh’s Nomadland and Sony’s The World To Come figuring. Both of those are directed by women (Chloé Zhao and Mona Fastvold, respectively) in what is a much stronger year for female filmmakers than in the past. Last year, Venice faced criticism for having just two women in competition while this year, there are women behind eight of the 18 features. Venice chief Alberto Barbera noted they were “selected exclusively on the basis of their quality and not as a result of gender protocols.” NOMADLAND Searchlight Pictures Acknowledging the effects of COVID on Hollywood, Barbera also said in an introductory note, “A few spectacular mo...

When you're a member of the royal family, you have to go to surprising lengths to do something as customary as dating. The Times recently obtained an excerpt from the upcoming book "Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family," which details Prince Harry's romance with Meghan Markle, from their first date to their move to America. Among the reveals in the excerpt is the 35-year-old prince's former fake Instagram account he allegedly used: @SpikeyMau5. MEGHAN MARKLE, PRINCE HARRY WERE 'A LITTLE BIT NAIVE' TO HOPE FOR PRIVACY IN LOS ANGELES, ROYAL EXPERT SAYS According to the clip, the Instagram handle combines his nickname "Spike" and the name of one of his favorite DJs, Deadmau5. Markle, now 38, is said to have started following the account, which used ...

O, The Oprah Magazine is ending its regular monthly print editions with the December 2020 issue after 20 years of publication. The brand, which is among the most recognizable magazines in the U.S., is not going away but will become more “more digitally-centric,” a Hearst spokeswoman Monday said. There will be “some form of print” after the December issue “but what it is exactly is still being worked out,” she said. Oprah Winfrey launched O with Hearst in 2000 and today is the editorial director. “I’m proud of this team and what we have delivered to our readers over the past 20 years,” Winfrey said in a statement provided by Hearst. “I look forward to the next step in our evolution.” Hearst declined to answer why it was dropping the regular print edition, saying only it was a “natural ne...