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Sarah Michelle Gellar and her 12-year-old daughter Charlotte Prinze made a rare public appearance together this week!

Joe Biden said that he was “both not surprised and outraged” by the reported death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in prison, blaming it on Vladimir Putin.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of Alice Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s the unconventional and strong-willed daughter, is being turned into a scripted podcast.

In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.

Veteran character actress Elizabeth Hoffman, perhaps best known for her role as Beatrice Reed Ventnor, mother of the titular sisters played by Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember and Julianne Phillips, on NBC’s ’90s drama series Sisters, has died. Hoffman passed away of natural causes on Aug. 21 at her home in Malibu, CA, her son Chris confirmed to Deadline’s sister pub THR. She was 97.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian actor-turned-director Andrea Di Stefano, whose sleek cop thriller “Last Night of Amore” just had its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, is in advanced stages of development on “Karski” a feature about Jan Karski, the World War II Polish resistance fighter who risked his life to blow the whistle on the Holocaust. Di Stefano’s high-profile project, which is titled “Karski,” is being developed by New York City-based production company Phiphen Pictures, the indie founded by Molly Conners most recently behind Netflix’s “Like Father” and “It’s Bruno!,” the director said. Italy’s expanding Indiana Production, which shepherded “Amore,” is also on board.

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The first day of Vulture Festival 2022 kicked off at The Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles on Saturday.A homage to Jamie Lee Curtis dubbed 'Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates Halloween One Last Time' was among the various events being held, in the wake of her announcement that Halloween Ends (2022) was her last performance as Final Girl Laurie Strode.The original Scream Queen sat down with film critic Matt Zoller Seitz to discuss her long and storied run in the Halloween film franchise, that saw her star in seven of the 13 Halloween films dating back to the original in 1978. Scream Queen: Jamie Lee Curtis, 63, discussed all things Halloween when she attended the Vulture Festival 2022 Los Angeles at The Hollywood Roosevelt on Saturday Curtis, who turns 64 on November 22, was 19-year-old when she started shooting the John Carpenter-directed slasher classic Halloween.Fast forward nearly 45 years and the leading lady stepped out in front of photographers for a round of photos on the red carpet.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor ABC is celebrating Norman Lear’s 100th birthday with a television special on Sept. 22. Variety was on hand for exclusive interviews with Lear and his starry guests as they made their way into the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel earlier this month for the filming of the show, “Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.” Lear, who turned 100 on July 27, has famously credited laughing as the key to living a long life. He also told me that staying in the present is equally as important. “We don’t pay enough attention to the words ‘over’ and ‘next,'” he said. “When something is over, it’s over and we’re all onto the next. If there was a hammock in the middle, that would be the best description I could offer for living in the moment.”

A family affair! Sarah Michelle Gellar attended the premiere of her new movie Do Revenge on Wednesday, September 14 — and brought daughter Charlotte along for the ride.

Sarah Michelle Gellar hit the red carpet at a special screening of Netflix's upcoming film Do Revenge.The 45-year-old actress made the rare move of posing with her 12-year-old daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze - whom she shares with husband Freddie Prinze Jr - at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel where the reception was held.The child was seen air kissing her famous mom on the cheek inside the event.  Cuties: Sarah Michelle Gellar hit the red carpet at a special screening of Netflix 's upcoming film Do Revenge. The 45-year-old actress made the rare move of posing with her 12-year-old daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze - whom she shares with husband Freddie Prinze Jr It is love: Sarah and Freddie celebrated their 20 year wedding anniversary recentlyCharlotte wore a hot cotton candy pink suit with a white tank top and white sneakers.

Mother-daughter date night! Sarah Michelle Gellar made a rare appearance with her and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Prinze, at a special screening of her new Netflix teen drama, “Do Revenge”, on Wednesday night.

Sarah Michelle Gellar made a rare appearance with her and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte Prinze, at a special screening of her new Netflix teen drama,, on Wednesday night. Gellar, 45, who is known for hit teen dramas like  and, is now starring in a new Netflix film alongside Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes. In the movie, high schoolers Drea (Mendes) and Eleanor (Hawke) agree to go after one another's bullies.«I think I felt the nostalgia, but I think I also felt the excitement of sort of the reincarnation of these kinds of movies because you never grow out of these,» she told ET's Cassie DiLaura of the genre, calling the movie «the ultimate fun ride.» Gellar plays the headmaster of a school, saying director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson «really let me run with it, and we created it from scratch.»She added, «It was just delicious, I think was the only word.» Gellar brought Charlotte as her date to the screening, posing with her during the reception at the Hollywood Roosevelt.

The cast of The Resort stepped out in style for the premiere this week!

US President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman killed at least 18 children and three adults at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Walt Disney Co. platforms and studios — Disney Television Studios, FX, Hulu, Disney+ and ABC — are joining forces in June to reach Emmy voters. From June 3-15, Disney FYC Fest will invite Emmy voters to the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard to screen shows and listen to panels.

© (photo credit: Daniel J. White/PBS) Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns filming interviews for "The Roosevelts" in 2014. For his next historical deep dive, famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is exploring America’s relationship to the Holocaust.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, cementing her place in history as the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court.Jackson's confirmation as the 116th justice in U.S. history received bipartisan backing, with a final vote of 53 to 47 in the upper chamber. Three Republicans, Sens.

If Showtime’s new series “The First Lady” is to be believed, being the president’s wife is one of the most thankless and frustrating jobs on the planet. First ladies have given up their own ambitions, livelihoods, friends, and personalities, all in service of their presidential husbands.

repeating his desire for COVID-19 austerity, but there was once a time that his jokes were so off-color and insensitive that Magic Johnson wanted to “hit” him.Johnson goes over this in his upcoming Apple TV+ docuseries, “They Call Me Magic”, which debuts on April 22 and was covered by Variety.The former Lakers great’s issues with Stern are discussed within the context of “The Magic Hour”, an ill-fated syndicated talk show that Johnson hosted in 1998 that was universally panned.Stern was apparently particularly merciless in mocking the show on his radio program, and Johnson’s producers responded by booking him as a guest.Stern opened his appearance by telling Johnson that he was a great basketball player but his talk show needed work. “The thing you need to work on, in my estimation, seriously, is you’ve got to stop trying to talk like the white man,” Stern told Johnson. “It’s the truth.”Stern said Johnson was being coached to be “anti-ebonics”.“I say, let it fly,” Stern declared.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorGillian Anderson, speaking at a masterclass at the Canneseries TV festival on France’s Côte d’Azur Saturday, teased that she is developing “something else” based on the life of a historical figure, following her roles as Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” and Eleanor Roosevelt in upcoming series “The First Lady.” No further details were forthcoming from the actor, who recently signed a producing deal with Netflix.Speaking about receiving recognition for her career achievements, such as the Variety Icon Award she accepted Friday in Cannes, she said it felt “kind of surreal actually,” adding, “it kind of feels like it is happening to somebody else.”Asked by French journalist Nora Bouazzouni, who was the onstage interviewer, whether she had realized that her role as Dana Scully in “The X-Files” would change the face of female leads on television when she first read the script, Anderson responded: “Oh God, no.” She saw it just as a job, and “figured it might be a year’s worth of work.” Anderson concurred with Bouazzouni’s assertion that Scully was a “badass” – “confident” and “no push over” – and that had set the tone for her whole career. “I think that the badass-ness pre-existed in me […] and she brought that out in me.