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article BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 19: Naya Rivera attends the LA Premiere of Roadside Attraction's "Judy" at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department said Thursday the search for mother, actress, singer, and author Naya Rivera is now a recovery mission and that she is presumed dead. Authorities initially resumed rescue efforts after the former “Glee” star and Southern California native was reported missing Wednesday afternoon. She was presumed drowned after her four-year-old son was found alone on a boat in Lake Piru. Rescue efforts have now shifted to a recovery mission.  Get breaking news alerts in the...

Seven months after Gary Larson teased the return of The Far Side, the cartoonist has delivered his first new comics in 25 years. Earlier this week, a section called “New Stuff” appeared on Larson’s recently relaunched website, the New York Times reported. Contained within were three new single-panel comics from Larson, his first Far Side comics since retiring from the long-running syndicated series on December 31st, 1994. Larson also wrote a letter to fans detailing how a “clogged pen” resulted in his first comics in 25 years; when his website relaunched in December, Larson similarly credited drawing apps on a digital tablet with inspiring him to draw again. “So a few years ago — finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen — I decided to try a digital table...

Meghan Markle asked a British court to order a newspaper to refrain from publishing the names of five friends who previously defended her in a U.S. magazine on the condition of anonymity. The Duchess of Sussex made the request in a witness statement for her lawsuit against the Daily Mail and its parent company over excerpts from a “private and confidential'' letter she wrote to her father that the newspaper published last year. In her statement, which was filed in Britain's High Court Thursday, she claims that the newspaper has threatened to publish the names of five women who spoke to People anonymously. However, because they're named in confidential court documents at the heart of the lawsuit, their condition of anonymity has been called into question. MEGHAN MARKLE WAS FRUSTRATED B...

When Hamilton landed on Disney Plus last week, it seemed like everyone was clamoring to watch it. In a new company all-hands, CEO Bob Chapek stressed that Hamilton brought in a lot of new subscribers and played an important part in Disney Plus’ growth, according to an audio recording obtained by The Verge. Chapek didn’t give out numbers on how many new Disney Plus subscribers the movie brought in, but told employees that “there were a lot of them.” More importantly, Chapek — who was joined by Disney’s new head of streaming, Rebecca Campbell — noted that Hamilton was able to accomplish a much bigger task: bring in people who might not have been interested in Disney Plus before. “a different target audience, a different demographic than what we normally get.” “That particular au...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Three men and two teen boys have been arrested in the February slaying of 20-year-old rapper Pop Smoke in the Hollywood Hills. FILE — Rapper Pop Smoke performs during the Astroworld Festival at NRG Stadium on Nov. 9, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Getty Images) Los Angeles police reported Thursday that the five suspects had been taken into custody in the murder of Pop Smoke, whose real name is Bashar Jackson. No further details were immediately confirmed and no names were released. It’s unclear where the arrests took place. In the early morning hours of Feb. 19, Jackson was shot and killed inside a rental home at 2033 Hercules Dr. in the Hollywood Hills. Los Angeles police officers found Jackson with gunshot wounds after responding to a 911 call which came from ...

At the end of the film, I got another practical tidbit. He invited me to a “color temperature” screening, a mysterious affair where the movie is shown to the director and cinematographer to determine if the color is accurate. We watched without sound and at double-speed to make the process easier. At the end of the screening, Carl said to the cinematographer, Victor Kemper: “Great. Now lighten it up two points.” I surreptitiously whispered, “Why?” He said, “Lighter is funnier.” During my five or six creative years with Carl, we had lunch together almost every day. We ate at Ma Maison, a restaurant where a young Wolfgang Puck created innovative dishes that Carl and I marveled over. Those lunches at Ma Maison were fascinating. The names Sid (Caesar) and Dick (Van Dyke) came out of his mouth...

Johnny Depp scrawled “I love you” on a mirror with blood from a finger he severed during a “three-day ordeal of assaults” on new wife Amber Heard, his libel trial was told Thursday. Heard was left “scared for her life” and barricading herself in a room after Depp tore off her nightgown, shoved her onto a ping-pong table and choked her against a fridge, she claimed in a statement read in court. Calling it a “three-day ordeal of physical assault,” Heard’s statement claims she was left with injuries “including a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body” just a month after their wedding, the Daily Mail said. The alleged attack in Australia in 2015 came when Depp was depressed about filming his latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — and while he was “completely off...

Rudy Giuliani called the NYPD when “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen — wearing a spangly pink bikini — tried to prank him into a spoof interview. The former mayor and personal attorney to President Trump went to the Mark Hotel on Tuesday for what he thought was a serious interview about the administration’s response to COVID-19. He said he was offered payment for the interview, and asked that the money be donated to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. A female interviewer began the conversation in a room fitted out with a professional set-up of lights and camera with a few softball questions before, as Giuliani tells us, “This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translu...

More than five months after revealing “The Crown” will end after season five, Netflix has said its hit show about Britain’s Royal Family will, in fact, extend to a sixth season that will take the series into the early 2000s. The streaming giant announced the change of plans on Twitter on Thursday, highlighting that creator Peter Morgan wants to do justice to the “richness and complexity” of the story. Netflix has underlined, however, that season six will be the show’s final run. Writer-creator Morgan said, “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons. To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us any closer to present-day ...

article BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 19: Naya Rivera attends the LA Premiere of Roadside Attraction's "Judy" at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on September 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department said Thursday the search for mother, actress, singer, and author Naya Rivera is now a recovery mission and that she is presumed dead. Authorities initially resumed rescue efforts after the former “Glee” star and Southern California native was reported missing Wednesday afternoon. She was presumed drowned after her four-year-old son was found alone on a boat in Lake Piru. Rescue efforts have now shifted to a recovery mission.  Get breaking news alerts in the...