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Melissa Joan Hart believes “enough is enough.”

“Saturday Night Live” normally sets up big laughs in its traditional cold opens, but occasionally it faces tragedy head-on.Amid 50 years of gut-busting comedy, Lorne Michaels’ iconic sketch show has replaced humor with heartache during tear-inducing tributes to 9/11, mass shootings, wars and more, offering somber reflections to stir its Studio 8H audience and home viewers.Here are some of the most memorable cold open moments when jokes were jettisoned and heartstrings were pulled. A post shared by Saturday Night Network (@thesnlnetwork)When original cast member Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer on Saturday, May 20, 1989, it shocked many — as well as oft-scene mate Steve Martin, who was set to host that night’s episode when he learned of her passing at age 42.“You know, I’ve been coming here to do ‘Saturday Night Live’ since 1976, and the thing … that brings me back to the show is the people you get to work with,” said an emotional Martin, fighting back tears, as he kicked off the episode.

Addie Morfoot Contributor British director Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) spent four years filming Sandy Hook Elementary parents as they attempt to hold Alex Jones — the infamous talk-news conspiracist guru of InfoWars — accountable for the lies he spread about their children’s murders in 2012. The result is the HBO documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones.” Bringing Jones to trial involved years of effort by the grieving parents and their legal teams and culminated in two jury trials for damages in Texas and Connecticut.

EXCLUSIVE: In an arguable first for a Disney+ movie, Disney is contemplating a theatrical release for the Daisy Ridley starring, Joachim Rønning directed feature take of Glenn Stout’s Young Woman and the Sea after the picture scored quite well.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk, continuing his campaign to make X a “free speech” refuge even to the detriment of the company’s business interests, said he is reinstating the account of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter banned Jones in 2018, along with his Infowars program. Last year Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to families of Sandy Hook victims over his lies about the 2012 school shooting, which left 20 kids and six adults dead.

Melissa Joan Hart acted as a hero to survivors escaping The Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. Hart, who lives in Nashville with husband Mark Wilkerson and their three children, explained her experience in an emotional video that she posted on Instagram Tuesday.

A heartbreaking story. Melissa Joan Hart revealed that she and husband Mark Wilkerson were in the area after the recent Nashville school shooting and helped a group of kindergarteners evacuate to safety.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Melissa Joan Hart, the actor who became a ’90s teen icon thanks to her roles on Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains It All” and ABC’s “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” revealed in an emotional Instagram video that she helped young children and teachers escape the Nashville school shooting on March 27. Three adults and three 9-year-old children were killed by a 28-year-old woman at Nashville’s Covenant School. The shooter was shot and killed by police on site. “My kids go to school right next to a school where there was a shooting today,” Hart said in the Instagram video. “My husband and I were on our way to [their] school for conferences. Luckily our kids weren’t in today.”

Melissa Joan Hart posted a raw video of her experience being nearby the Nashville school shooting.

Melissa Joan Hart is reflecting on how she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, assisted in the aftermath of the Covenant Presbyterian School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday that left six dead. On Tuesday, the actress shared a video she said she delayed posting, explaining that she and Wilkerson helped young students who fled the shooting. «Prayers today, Action tomorrow. This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story,» she captioned the video. Hart — who is the mother of children ages 10, 15, and 17 -- began by explaining that she is a resident of Nashville and that this is the second time her family has lived in proximity to a school involved in a mass shooting. «Hey, guys, for those of you that know, I live in Nashville and what's been going on here today,» she began the video, referencing the shooting. A post shared by Melissa Joan Hart (@melissajoanhart)«My kids go to school right next to the school where there was a shooting today.

M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week.Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines.Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A.

Helena Christensen was among the top models, dubbed The Magnificent Seven, that helped put the 'super' in 'supermodel' back in the 1990s.And despite continuing to model after more than three decades in the fashion industry, the mother-of-one still manages to find time for leisure.On Monday, Christensen was spotted enjoying a morning stroll through her trendy New York Cityneighborhood. Hit the pavement: Helena Christensen, 53, headed out for a casual stroll around her New York City neighborhood on FridayTheCopenhagen, Denmark native kept it sporty in the fashion department, dressed ina green t-shirt, lavender sweatpants, and black jogging sneakers.Christensen, 53, also pulled her long dark tresses back off her face and into a loose bun.

Ellise Shafer In a speech on Thursday, President Joe Biden called for the ban of assault weapons in the United States following several recent mass shootings, including those in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, N.Y.On May 24, the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two children. Just 10 days before, a shooting at a Buffalo grocery store killed 10 people. And on Wednesday, five people were killed at a hospital in Tulsa, Okla.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefI originally had intended to write this week’s Editor’s Letter about the controversial trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and how it infuriates me that the case has become a sickening spectacle of memes, audio recordings and video clips that trend on TikTok, and is the butt of mean-spirited jokes largely aimed at Heard. It sickens me that people have lost sight of what is at the heart of this case: potential domestic violence — a dangerous issue that should not be made light of under any circumstances.Violence, of course, is evil in any form, and when the horrific news of the massacre in a Texas elementary school erupted this week, I felt compelled to devote this space to the memory of the 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down in their classroom in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old with an assault rifle.

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Eccleston (The Leftovers) has signed on to star alongside Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Graham in Disney+’s upcoming film Young Woman and the Sea, from Kon-Tiki director Joachim Rønning, which is currently in production.

Piers Morgan, 57, has opened up about his emotional state following the death of legendary cricketer Shane Warne.The former Good Morning Britain star admitted he “thought he might” cry after his friend unexpectedly died of a heart attack at the age of 52.In an interview published yesterday, the presenter was asked about the last time he cried.Giving his grandmother’s funeral as one example, he went on to share that he’s “not really a crier”. “I think when you run a daily newspaper for ten years, you’re exposed constantly to horrendous things,” he explained.“I can remember crying over Dunblane and Sandy Hook. I definitely shed a tear over Sandy Hook…” “Shane Warne,” he continued.

EXCLUSIVE: I Am Woman star Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Graham are set to co-star opposite Daisy Ridley in Disney’s Young Woman and the Sea. Joachim Rønning is on board to direct with Jeff Nathanson writing the script and Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman producing. The film will premiere on Disney+.

New York Post. "That took some doin' … I didn't wake up one morning, get on my motorcycle and say, 'I'll go to jail!"The "Born in the U.S.A" singer was arrested for DWI and reckless driving in New Jersey on Nov.

Bruce Springsteen‘s DWI arrest on Nov. 14, 2020 managed to stay under the radar until Feb. 10, 2021 when it was revealed that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was busted for driving while intoxicated while leaving a New Jersey National Park on his motorcycle. Now the police report from the incident has been released, and the arresting officer claims the rock legend was pretty out of it when he encountered the 71-year-old trying to ride out of the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, NJ.