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Coffee for closers! Alec Baldwin — the actor who uttered perhaps the most iconic movie line of all time about Java and who once publicly lambasted Starbucks employees as “stiff queen baristas” (sic) with “attitude problems” — is now contributing as a producer on a film in support of the coffee chain’s employees. Baldwin appeared at a fundraiser and screening of “Baristas vs. Billionaires” last week at Lincoln Center’s Eleanor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Director Marc Mori’s film about Starbucks Workers United says it depicts “a generational uprising of working-class Millennials and Gen Zers fighting against Starbucks Coffee for the…

Katherine Heigl is raising her three children away from the spotlight. The Firefly Lane star shares daughters Nallie, 16, Adalide, 13, and son Joshua, eight, with husband Josh Kelly. The couple met on the set of Kelly’s music video “Only You” in 2005 and married in Park City, Utah in December 2007. Heigl and Kelly were eager to start a family from the beginning. “I always thought it would be scary, but I’m ready,” Kelly told PEOPLE ahead of her wedding. “I’m 27 years old and feel like I’ve done more than most people do in a lifetime. I’m ready…

Scott Wolf celebrated his son Miller’s birthday via Instagram on Saturday, but he made sure to include his estranged wife, Kelly Wolf, in his eulogy. The “Party of Five” actor, 57, paid tribute to his now 13-year-old son on social media, sharing several photos over the years. In several photos, Miller was seen drinking hot cocoa in bed, holding a cat, playing soccer on the beach and smiling for the camera. But one photo that stood out showed Scott’s estranged wife, Kelly, cradling their son from behind as they walked through a field. Scott Wolf celebrated his son Miller’s birthday…

TALLINN, Estonia — The Baltic states have been conspicuously absent from France’s Cinéma du Monde (ACM), one of Europe’s most influential co-production funds since its creation more than a decade ago. This was publicly acknowledged by Michel Prasanet, Deputy Director of International Affairs at the French National Film Commission (CNC), during an industry session at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia’s capital. “So far, the Baltic states have not been very successful, but I am convinced that they have a lot of potential,” Prazanet said. “We are doing our best to promote co-productions with France, and of course…

From ambitious dramas to TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, Baltic projects look for inspiration in the most unusual of places. According to director Ove Masting, the goal of Business as Usual was not to judge the characters, but to “understand how the system seduces them.” “This is a world where bankers act like aristocrats, Danish executives function like kings, and oligarchies seem almost mythical. It’s a world that’s glamorous, terrifying, and willing to offer unimaginable riches for a few drops of blood.” He said corruption doesn’t begin with grand criminal masterminds, but “with small compromises made by…

Jessica Simpson will “never forget” Ashton Kutcher’s one-word response to her virginity reveal. The singer told Entertainment Tonight over the weekend that when she found out she was a virgin at 22, she immediately asked, “Why?” At the time, Ms. Simpson replied, “I haven’t met my husband yet.” Jessica Simpson details Ashton Kutcher’s reaction to his virginity reveal. Everett Collection / Everett Collection When the actress told her “That ’70s Show” co-star in 2002, he asked, “Why?” Getty Images The 45-year-old fashion designer met Kutcher, 47, to play Annette, the love interest of his character Michael Kelso, on “That ’70s…

Dharmendra, one of Indian cinema’s most beloved and enduring stars with a career spanning more than 60 years, passed away on Monday. He was 89 years old. In recent weeks, he was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai due to a respiratory illness, but has since been discharged. Known for generations as the He-Man of Hindi cinema, Dharmendra became a household name from the 1960s onwards for his matinee idol looks and naturalistic charm. He acted in over 250 films including some of India’s biggest hits like ‘Sholay’, ‘Phool Aur Patthar’, ‘Satyakam’, ‘Chupke Chupke’, ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’,…

Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Matthew Lewis and camera operator Lee David Brown hinted during a WAVES Film Bazaar panel that they plan to produce a one-off series following Netflix’s Adolescence, but emphasized that the new project will tell a different story. “No two stories are the same, because that story is definitely over,” Lewis explained in a session moderated by actor Rajdeep Chaudhry. “But we’ll probably make another production in the same format in the future, but not yet. We’re going to let it breathe…We don’t want to saturate the market with one-shot productions, because eventually everyone gets really tired of…

14 min readBronwyn Golden Vance, daughter of Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, is watching the French haute couture designer Stéphane Rolland sketch her gown at his minimalist atelier, as the blindingly bright summer sun streams through the floor-to-ceiling windows, hitting the wall’s sculptural crown molding at all the right angles on a July day in Paris. Seeing Rolland at work—with his deep brunette lion’s mane of hair and dramatic movements—is akin to experiencing a piece of live performance art. Vance, wearing a blue-and-ivory-striped sweater with stacks of delicate gold necklaces and white baggy jeans, is joined by her mother,…

What you need to know The tumultuous relationship Billy Bob Thornton explores onscreen with Ali Larter in ‘The Landman’ reminds him of his own life. “Sometimes I have flashbacks of my past,” the actor, 70, tells PEOPLE while talking about filming and on-screen dynamic with Larter, 49. Larter, 49, told PEOPLE that Thornton is “one of the best actors ever.” “It brings out the best in me.” Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter’s chaotic on-screen marriage in The Landman rang some bells. In the hit Taylor Sheridan series, the 70-year-old actor plays Tommy Norris, an oilman who reconciles with his…