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Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey have one of the strongest friendships in entertainment. The bond between the talk show host, who will turn 72 on January 29, 2026, and the news anchor dates back 50 years. The two met while working at the same news station, and their friendship continues even today, even though they both rose to stardom at the same time. Their friendship also inspired fans to coin their name as a term of endearment. “People always say, ‘This is my Oprah,’ and that’s one of the greatest compliments,” King told PEOPLE in 2021. Winfrey added: “And I…
On today’s episode of the Daily Variety podcast, Natalie Portman, Rob Lowe, Daniel Kwan, Kiernan Shipka, Judd Apatow, Salman Rushdie, Gregg Araki and more talk about industry issues in an interview conducted at Variety’s Sundance Film Festival studio presented by Audible. Music legends Kim Gordon and Kathleen Hanna also talk about the music business then and now in conjunction with Tamra Davis’ Sundance doc “The Best Summer.” Sundance takes place in the rarefied atmosphere of Park City, Utah, a town of beautiful surroundings and luxurious ski resorts, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to real-world issues. The divisiveness and division…
Whatever a movie star’s background, Margot Robbie gets it. The Australian beauty stepped out on the red carpet at the Wuthering Heights premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, portraying her character in a dramatic way. Robbie, who plays Katherine Earnshaw in Emerald Fennell’s film, wore a striking crimson and black Schiaparelli dress. The dress consisted of a close-fitting strapless black lace sheer bodice and a dramatic flared skirt in shades of black and red. Margot Robbie stunned on the red carpet at the Wuthering Heights premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Variety (via Getty Images) She wore a black…
Brooke Nevils, the former NBC employee who accused Matt Lauer of sexual assault, will publish a new book next month titled “The Unspeakables,” detailing her relationship with the former “Today” anchor. Nevils first told her story publicly in Ronan Farrow’s 2019 book Catch and Kill. In it, Nevils accused Lauer of rape during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, when he was working with Meredith Vieira. Mr. Lauer denies all charges against him. “Despite the rounds of vodka shots, the overwhelming power difference, and the bloody underwear and sheets, I would never have used the word ‘rape’ to describe what happened,” Nevils…
What you need to know Australian influencer plans to undergo open heart surgery due to infection and ‘leaky’ mitral valve Leah Jay Ramsey’s health scare comes days after she and husband Michael announced they were expecting their second child Michael shared in an Instagram post that the surgery posed a ‘significant’ risk to the baby. The influencer will undergo open heart surgery just days after announcing that she and her husband are pregnant with their second child. On Wednesday, January 28, Strong Pilates co-founder Michael Ramsey confirmed in an Instagram post that his wife, Leah Jay, an Australian content creator…
The ski resorts are also getting hotter. Nina Dobrev, who split from her fiancé, Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, in September, was spotted at a Sundance party showing off her friend Zoey Deutch’s aptly named film, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. New single Nina Dobrev was spotted getting flirty at the Sundance Film Festival. Instagram/Nina Dobrev A source said the Vampire Diaries star was “intensely flirting” with a petite man with a mustache and beanie. “She went up to him and asked him what he was doing there,” the spy says. “Then they exchanged numbers.” Dobrev and White were…
Giancarlo Esposito says it’s “time for revolution” in the United States, as political tensions rise over the actions of ICE agents in Minneapolis. “This is a time of revolution, and they don’t even realize it’s their beginning,” the actor told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night. “We have to stand up to it. They can’t defeat us all. If the whole world shows up on Putin’s doorstep, or the Iranians’ doorstep, or in Washington, they will kill 500 million or 50 million or more (many). But the rest of us will survive with the new (world).” Esposito’s…
Allegra Edwards has been cast as the lead in the CBS comedy pilot “Eternally Yours.” Edwards will appear in the pilot alongside previously announced cast members Ed Weeks and Jalen Lewison. The single-camera show was to be piloted on the network in July, but CBS had originally opened a development room for the show in mid-2024. The show hails from Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who developed the hit CBS comedy series “Ghost.” The official Eternally Yours logline describes the pilot as “an eternal love story about two vampires (Edwards, Weeks) who have been married for 500 years and their…
Actor Paul Dano has finally spoken out after director Quentin Tarantino criticized his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s seminal 2007 film There Will Be Blood. Tarantino also called Dano (who himself has been nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Indie Spirit Award) “the weakest fucking actor in SAG.” Ahead of the 20th anniversary screening of Little Miss Sunshine at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Dano was asked about Tarantino’s comments, but was shot down by co-star Toni Collette, saying, “Are you sure you’re going? That guy was fucked! He must have been high…he was a mess. Who…
James Schamus, the legendary Oscar-nominated producer who directed films such as Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, and The Pianist during his tenure as CEO of Focus Features, spoke at length about issues such as AI, Netflix’s deal with Warner Bros., and the pitfalls of algorithm-based distribution in his keynote address at Sweden’s Gothenburg Film Festival. Seamus is currently president of Symbolic Exchange, a New York-based company that has recently worked on acclaimed indie titles such as Kitty Green’s The Assistant. He was in Gothenburg as head of the festival’s Ingmar Bergman Competition, inaugurating the event’s prestigious Nordic film market by…