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Former President Trump apparently has a lot in common with late presidents John Quincy Adams, John Tyler and Harry Truman. Congressional committees issued subpoenas to all of them to testify. Such subpoenas for a former chief executive are about as rare as it gets on Capitol Hill.

In the Heights, they can always return again.First, because barely a season goes by that a production doesn’t spring to life somewhere near you, wherever you may be. For the DMV this season, that means Signature Theatre’s terrific new production, directed by James Vásquez.

Kim Woodburn has claimed TV chef Gino D'Acampo 'stroked himself over his shorts' and 'talked to his penis' in front of his campmates on I'm a Celeb.

took office on January 20, several extreme anti-abortion bills were filed in the House of Representatives, including a fetal personhood bill.Filed by some of the most hardline anti- representatives in Congress, one bill ——stood out as particularly drastic. HR 722 seeks to codify into law what is colloquially known as .

Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight — as “Special Ambassadors to Hollywood” Thursday, ostensibly to help boost business in “troubled” Tinseltown.“[They’ll be] Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” the 78-year-old Trump wrote on Truth Social.“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”The stars’ actual duties weren’t immediately clear, but Trump said the trio would be his “eyes and ears” in the movie industry, “and I will get done what they suggest. “It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”Thursday’s announcement — which comes days before Trump takes office as the 47th president Monday — is an apparent response to the post-COVID-19 slump in US box office receipts, along with a financial hit from the 2023 writers and actors strike.Overall US TV and movie production is down 26% from 2021, according to data from the platform ProdPro.Stallone, Gibson and Voight are all outspoken Trump fans, unlike the majority of Hollywood celebrities, who overwhelmingly supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
In November, Stallone, 78, called Trump the “second George Washington” while introducing him at the America First Policy Institute Gala.“We are in the presence of a really mythical character.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed three actors to “bring back Hollywood.”

Sylvester Stallone called Donald Trump the “second George Washington” and compared him to his classic character Rocky Balboa following his election win last week.Stallone was giving a speech introducing Trump at the America First Policy Institute Gala held at the Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach Florida last night (November 14) when he made the comments.He said: “We’re in the presence of a really mythical character. I love mythology.

J. Kim Murphy Sylvester Stallone welcomed Donald Trump to the stage at the President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago event Thursday evening, praising him as the “second George Washington.” The two shook hands before Trump’s headlining speech for the America First Policy Institute gala, which took place at the President-elect’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Several of the figures Trump has tapped to be cabinet members in his administration, such as Matt Gaetz, were also in attendance.

Sylvester Stallone is making it known that he’s a Donald Trump supporter and he’s even calling the president-elect the “second George Washington.”

During a speech introducing Donald Trump at the America First Policy Institute Gala held in Palm Beach, Fla. at the Mar-A-Lago Club tonight, Sylvester Stallone called the president-elect “the 2nd George Washington.”

Megalopolis helmer Francis Ford Coppola is set to receive the American Film Institute‘s 50th Life Achievement Award, AFI’s highest honor for a career in film, during a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

Annandale Speakers held their third meeting of the season at Lockerbie Bowling Club on October 24.

Rachel Zoe has announced that her marriage to Rodger Berman has come to an end.

George Clooney has commented for the first time on his New York Times op-ed asking Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. “I’ve actually never had to answer that question so I suppose I will do it here,” Clooney said when asked about it at the Venice press conference for his new film “Wolfs.” “The person who should be applauded is the president, who has done the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington,” he said, adding: “What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who, it’s very hard to let go of power — we know that, we’ve seen it all over the world — and for someone to say I think there’s a better path forward, all the credit goes to him. And that’s really the truth … I’m just very proud of where we are in the state of the world right now.” Elsewhere, when asked about Apple moving the film from a wide theatrical release to a limited one, Clooney also brought up a New York Times report from last week by Nicole Sterling that he and Pitt were paid more than $35 million each.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt are making a big entrance.

It’s Sunday on the Lido with George Clooney and Brad Pitt cruising into town for the world premiere of Apple Original Film’s Wolfs. The movie premieres out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this evening after screening for the press this morning. 

Class is over at Clone High. Max has canceled the animated revival series, from Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, after two seasons.

and many corners of the internet have been nothing less than celebratory at the prospect of a reinvigorated Democratic candidate. Yet amid and , something surfaced yesterday on X that punctuated my own cautious optimism: a three-year-old clip of JD Vance talking about Harris on .Vance—who has since been chosen by Donald Trump to be his running mate—tried to make the case that some of the most visible democrats at that time were “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives, and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of this country miserable too.” And it didn’t stop there.

The Simpsons has been removed from Channel 4’s schedule following a shooting at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend.The former US President was hit on the ear and rushed off stage during a rally on Saturday (July 13) in Pennsylvania after a gunman opened fire, with the gunman – identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks – and an audience member killed.The following day (July 14), Channel 4 was scheduled to show The Simpsons episode ‘Lisa The Iconoclast’ as part of a run-through of season seven, though this was later replaced by season 30’s ‘Baby You Can’t Drive’.Some fans online speculated that this change was linked to the Trump news, with the pulled episode containing a similar scene in which Lisa stands on stage while a law enforcement officer aims a rifle at her from a nearby rooftop.Wondered at first why Channel 4 just pulled the scheduled broadcast of 'Lisa The Iconoclast', but I think I get pic.twitter.com/vMjvTawacn— RopesToInfinity (@RopesToInfinity) July 14, 2024“Wondered at first why Channel 4 just pulled the scheduled broadcast of ‘Lisa The Iconoclast’, but I think I get,” one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).The episode itself follows Lisa as she discovers that Springfield founder Jebediah Springfield was actually a murderous pirate who tried to kill US President George Washington.Another fan speculated: “Just to add to this that Jebediah Springfield trying to kill George Washington is also a major plot point in the episode, so it might have been pulled because of that without anyone remembering this specific sniper scene.”Just to add to this that Jebediah Springfield trying to kill George Washington is also a major plot point in the episode, so it might have been pulled because of that without anyone

CNN has named Jeremy Diamond as international correspondent based in Jerusalem.

What’s next for director Zack Snyder after his upcoming “Rebel Moon” part two sci-fi sequel? While the genre filmmaker has teased a possible third installment in the series, Snyder still has various projects in the oven and is still mulling over what gets made from that pack of contenders, including a sequel to his “Army Of The Dead” zombie movie. During a recent chat with Games Radar to promote the second half of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder was asked about some of the previous projects he had in development, such as a film inspired by the King Arthur mythology (Snyder is a big fan of John Boorman’s R-rated “Excalibur”), Horse Latitudes (a long-gestating Afghan War pic formerly known as “The Last Photograph”), and his sexualized take on Alexander The Great in “Blood & Ashes” too (Snyder once mused about making a George Washington action film).

James Brown will be presented with Lifetime Achievement honors at the 45th Annual Sports Emmy Awards ceremony on May 21 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in New York.