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Alison Herman TV Critic Peak TV may technically be in the past, but its specter still lingers. How else do you get two flashy, star-studded TV shows about the Los Angeles Lakers in the span of three years? The first, HBO’s “Winning Time,” dramatized the basketball team’s years of triumph in the 1980s; the latest, Netflix’s “Running Point,” is both more contemporary and more fictional, though it has closer ties to the actual Lakers organization through owner Jeanie Buss and front office fixture Linda Rambis, both executive producers.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 72nd Golden Reel Awards were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Nominated by members of the organization, the Golden Reel Award celebrates the creative endeavors in sound editing across feature films, student films, broadcast, gaming and interactive media. 

Kate Hudson is hitting the red carpet at a screening of her new Netflix series!

The case that Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs repeatedly raped a 13-year-old after the 2000 MTV VMAs was dismissed on Valentines’ Day by its Jane Doe plaintiff. However, in legal moves on both coasts, the two rappers are apparently far from done with her lawyer, Tony Buzbee.

Elle Fanning appears to have given birth on the set of her new Apple TV+ series Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

With hours until game day, Netflix has the all-clear to proceed with its new comedy Running Point after Pepperdine University sued the streamer for trademark infringement.

the “Gossip Girl” actress’s sudden death.Jay Cohen, a Hollywood talent agent, was at the Los Angeles home he shared with Trachtenberg on Wednesday when he answered the door and responded to a reporter’s question for comment.“The family will not be commenting on the tragedy,” an allegedly teary-eyed Cohen told the Daily Mail. The Post broke the news of Trachtenberg’s death on Wednesday. The “Buffy the Vampire Star” alum was 39.Her mother found her around 8 a.m.

Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night and is joking about the real reason he took on the gig.

In Hulu‘s Paradise, Julianne Nicholson plays the mastermind behind the mysterious underground city that saw its president [James Marsden] assassinated in the first episode. By episode 7 that aired on Feb. 25, viewers learned just how far Nicholson’s Sinatra was willing to go to protect her little paradise by holding a figurative gun to the head of Xavier Collins [Sterling K. Brown].

Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey are reuniting in front of the camera!

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The 97th Academy Awards will feature a Quincy Jones tribute with Queen Latifah performing. The news was announced by executive producer Raj Kapoor during a press conference with the creative team. “One of the most exciting things that we’ve worked on this year is a musical performance that will tribute Quincy Jones,” he said, adding that Queen Latifah will be “a part of the performance.” Jones received a Governor’s award earlier this year.

The Guardian instructs visa officers to enforce a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows the United States to refuse entry to any visa applicant who commits identity fraud or misrepresents who they are.Unlike regular visa denials, anyone violating that section can be permanently refused entry to the United States, effectively constituting a lifelong ban.“In cases where applicants are suspected of misrepresenting their purpose of travel or sex, you should consider whether this misrepresentation is material such that it supports an ineligibility finding,” the directive from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reads.The directive comes in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.While signing the order, Trump directed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to deny visas to “men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes” during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.Trump also pledged that Rubio would tell the International Olympic Committee that America “will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”Transgender athletes are already a rare occurrence due to the small percentage of the population that they comprise globally.

Michelle Trachtenberg has sadly died.

Katcy Stephan The SoCal Fire Fund, a collaborative relief and recovery effort launched to assist students, individuals, and families impacted by the Jan. 2025 wildfires in Southern California, has raised over $5.9 million to date.

Friends star Matthew Perry was given 27 shots of ketamine in the days leading up to his death.The actor was found unresponsive in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023, with his death at the age of 54 being attributed to the acute effects of ketamine, with drowning and coronary artery disease listed as other factors.Now, the documentary Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy, which explores the circumstances of his death and premiered in the US on Peacock on Tuesday (February 25), has included alarming comments from the attorney Martin Estrada, who oversaw the case up until January 2024.He stated that in his three final days, Perry was administered with 27 doses of ketamine outside of that which he had been prescribed as therapy for anxiety and depression. Estrada added that the people responsible for the large number of doses “should have known much better”.Five people were charged in connection with Perry’s death in August 2024, including doctors Mark Chavez and Salvador Plasencia, the actor’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, former rehab program director Erik Fleming, and the so-called “ketamine queen” Jasveen Sangha.Estrada claims that Plasencia was “very clear” in text messages about Perry, saying “he saw this as an opportunity to make a lot of money in a short amount of time, and he allegedly did just that”.“In the past, we used to call these things overdose deaths and do more blaming of the victim,” Estrada added.

Gossip Girl and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has died at the age of 39.The news was reported by the New York Post on Wednesday (February 26), with police confirming she had been found in her New York City apartment. No cause of death has been disclosed.Trachtenberg gained her major breakthrough as a teenager as Dawn Summers, the younger sister of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy in the cult WB series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

J. Kim Murphy The independent-focused Los Angeles Festival of Movies is preparing for its second edition, unveiling the first wave of its coming line-up for April 3 to 6. The fest, co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, will kick-off with an opening night screening of Amalia Ulman‘s south-of-the-border satire “Magic Farm,” starring Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex and Alex Wolff as an inept documentary crew that ends up in the wrong country after embarking to profile an Argentinian musician.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading back to the wilderness.

Just a short few months after last year’s Oscars had ended, Academy CEO Bill Kramer confidently told me the 97th annual Academy Awards broadcast was in many ways planned and well on its way to being locked in terms of what the show would be and how it would be executed. That sounded impressive.

Shirley Manson‘s iconic polka dot dress from Garbage‘s ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’ video has been sold for $31,000.The dress was featured as part of a fundraising auction hosted by the nonprofit organization Give A Fuck Los Angeles and Julien’s Auctions with all proceeds made going towards helping those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, which began on January 7.Other items available included Paramore‘s Hayley Williams ‘This Is Why’ video and stage ensembles from the band’s opening slot on Taylor Swift‘s ‘Eras’ tour, Chappell Roan‘s iconic ‘Hot To Go’ music video and stage outfit and a signed Dave Grohl Epiphone DG-335 signature electric guitar.Now, Manson took to the band’s official Facebook page to share that the ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’ dress had sold and raised a massive amount of money. “Oh. My.

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