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10 min readHow can I possibly interview Lena Dunham after reading her new memoir Famesick? This searing indictment of “success,” and the damage it has done to her, shows what happens when you mix vulnerability, celebrity, and ambition into a toxic cocktail and serve it ice cold with a twist to an impressive woman in her early twenties. She downs it and orders another, and then another, at an after-party that only ends when she reaches rock bottom, the overhead lights are turned on and she realizes, finally, it’s time to go home.Me asking Dunham to rip the Band-Aid off…

Guy Fieri has hit back after he was spotted warmly greeting controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate at a UFC fight, claiming he had no idea who the brothers were. The celebrity chef was seen momentarily embracing the brothers, who were accused of rape and human trafficking last year, during the UFC 327 fight at Miami’s Caseya Center on April 11, an event that also drew high-profile attendees including President Trump. Photos and video clips circulating on social media showed Fieri shaking hands and bumping shoulders with Andrew Tate. Guy Fieri is seen greeting Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate during…

DC Studios showed off the more villainous side of the superhero world with “Clayface,” a body horror film featuring one of Batman’s longtime villains. The new film, which is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 23rd, debuted its first trailer at CinemaCon, an annual convention for movie theater owners in Las Vegas. Tom Rhys Harries plays the shape-shifting villain Clayface (real name Matt Hagen). He starts out as a failed actor with a deformed face, and then undergoes scientific modifications that turn his entire body into clay. The trailer shows Matt sitting in a hospital bed with his…

British micro-drama platform TattleTV, touted as the country’s first dedicated app of its kind, has adapted Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 feature film The Kid for vertical mobile viewing, making the silent-era film available exclusively to US viewers. The technology works by generating new image data that fills the vertical frame, rather than sacrificing the original composition through cropping, and the result maintains the look and feel Chaplin intended, the company says. The company claims that “The Kid,” a tale of a vagrant who forms an unexpected bond with an abandoned child, is a mix of comedy and heartbreak that still resonates…

DC’s “Supergirl” made a heroic appearance at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where the annual convention for movie theater owners is currently being held. House of the Dragon actor Millie Alcock will be appearing in Supergirl as Kara Zor-El, aka the Girl of Steel. And in new footage released by DC on Tuesday, Kara Zor-El lives up to her nickname as she battles a group of terrifying pirates who send her into deep space, only to find out they’re messing with the wrong super-powered do-gooder. The entire movie is set on another planet. That means the space shuttle Supergirl was on…

Directors of the UK’s top shows are calling on streaming platforms to agree a royalty agreement. Among the signatories of this letter are Apple Also included are Saul Metzstein, James Hawes and Jeremy Lovering of TV’s “Slow Horses,” Sam Miller, John Crowley and Colm McCarthy of “Black Mirror,” Sam Donovan, Eric Richter Strand and Jessica Hobbs of “The Crown,” and Dee Coppan O’Leary of “Rivals” and Ben Palmer, who directed “The Rivals.” “The Inbetweeners” and “The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.” The letter, compiled by our rights organization Directors UK, says: “Behind every program you commission is a director…

Jennie Garth hit rock bottom after splitting from husband Dave Abrams in August 2017. The Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 54, reveals in her new memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention that the breakup of her marriage caused her to fall into “old patterns” of drinking and depression. One night, her eldest daughter Luka, now 28, found her cutting herself with a piece of broken glass from a framed photo of her and Abrams. “I was in so much pain that I was destroying a framed photo of me and Dave in my room,” Garth wrote.…

“Why did we come here, Nicole?” Sandra Bullock asked a screaming crowd as she stared at Nicole Kidman at CinemaCon on Tuesday. “We come to this place for magic,” Kidman said with a smile, as Kidman’s signature line in an AMC Theaters commercial sent the movie theater owner audience into a frenzy. But this wasn’t a pre-screening clip, it was the moment Warner Bros. Pictures highlighted this year’s highly anticipated “Practical Magic 2” at its annual Las Vegas convention. On stage, Bullock called the first film “a story that people have very politely refused to let go of.” The story…

Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes had a heartwarming reunion in New York City on Tuesday. The former “Dawson’s Creek” co-stars, who briefly dated in real life, attended the gala screening of “Brunello: Gracious Visionary” at the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Jackson and Holmes, both 47, clearly enjoyed each other’s company as they posed for photos together on the red carpet, laughing and smiling widely. Jackson looked sharp in a burgundy blazer, gray slacks, and black bow tie, while Holmes looked effortlessly stylish with her white blouse unbuttoned to reveal her left shoulder and tucked into a sparkly, floor-length…

‘MasterChef’ Australia is set to be sprinkled with royal stardust. Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, will appear as a guest judge on the long-running cooking show. “MasterChef Australia is famous for producing culinary legends, and today, passionate foodies with global influence have graced the kitchen,” the press release chimes. She will appear on the show’s 18th season alongside the regular roster of judges, consisting of Po Ling Yeo, Sofia Levine and Jean-Christophe Novelli. The series returns on April 19 on Network 10 and 10 Streaming in Australia. Other guest judges on MasterChef Australia this season include Maggie Beale, Curtis Stone…