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Nearly a month after his “situationship” with Emily Ratajkowski ended, Eric André‘s ready to joke about his dating life. Just ask Katie Couric.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor AUSTIN, Texas — Patton Oswalt, Phoebe Robinson, Eric Andre, Chelsea Handler and others were in fine form on Friday night as Variety helped kick off the 2023 SXSW festival and conference with its Power of Comedy event. The kudos pay tribute to innovators in the business of being funny. Presenters and honorees who gathered at the Creek and the Cave nightclub in downtown Austin made mention of comedians facing a fraught moment as social norms and cultural attitudes are changing. Mike Lawrence, who hosted the second half of the night, noted that he had to show more identification when registering to get his SXSW conference badge than he would have to buy a gun.

Carla Renata Ingmar Bergman had Liv Ullmann. Woody Allen had Diane Keaton and Christopher Guest had Catherine O’Hara — that’s how actor John Michael Higgins summed up the stature of O’Hara’s work on screen with Guest and other top directors during a wide-ranging Q&A held Saturday as part of the sixth annual USC Comedy Festival. The Emmy-winning O’Hara was honored with the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters of Comedy Award at the festival, in recognition of her long, and often underrated, career in film, TV, stage and sketch comedy. The Okie Foundation honors the lives and work of two comedy legends, Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie. Jack Okie won a supporting actor Oscar for Charlie Chaplins’ 1940 satire “The Great Dictator.” Victoria Okie was a comedy trouper who had supporting roles (as Victoria Horne) in numerous films, most memorably opposite Jimmy Stewart in 1950’s “Harvey.”

Shelley Duvall never meant to disappear from Hollywood for so long.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Vanessa Redgrave and Freida Pinto have boarded the family feature “The Boy at the Back of the Class,” based on the acclaimed children’s book. Directed by Stephen Herek (“101 Dalmations”), the film centers on a mysterious new boy called Ahmet who joins nine-year-old Alexa’s school. As Alexa learns that he is a refugee, separated from his family, she will do anything she can to help. With the adults out of the way, Alexa and her school friends come up with a daring plan to reunite Ahmet with his family – the start of an adventure that will take them all the way to Buckingham Palace. The film is penned by “A Street Cat Named Bob” screenwriter Tim John. Adam Rolston and David Braithwaite at Studio Pictures are producing. Nicola Pearcey of Picnik Entertainment and Paul Grindey are executive producing. Casting director is BAFTA nominee Carolyn McLeod.

Chelsea Handler was once invited to a dinner party at Jeffrey Epstein‘s house and she attended the party because she didn’t know about his crimes back then.

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Allen’s latest film is heading to the EFM market in Berlin with WestEnd Films, we can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: John Cusack has signed with APA for representation after less than half a year with Gersh. 

Diane Keaton may be rom com royalty, but she’s much less focused on romance IRL!

The Beverly Hills Cop franchise actor and SNL alum will be bestowed with the Cecile B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes in January.

Hollywood career, having even been named in the Forbes 100 most influential people list last year.The A-lister has admitted in a recent interview that she was "groomed" into becoming a "bombshell-type" actress, leaving her feeling like she had no escape from such a fate.Scarlett spoke on the Table for Two podcasts on Tuesday, where she touched on her early acting career.The actress used the opportunity to claim that she felt that she was "groomed" as a teenager to become a Hollywood "bombshell".The Black Widow star was only 19 when she was cast as the sophisticated Nola Rice in Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.Having starred in this and movies like Girl With the Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation, Scarlett said she continuously saw herself playing the object of male desire during a time she was trying to cultivate star power in the industry.She explained: "I did ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘Girl With the Pearl Earring,’ and by that point, I was 18, 19 and I was coming into my own womanhood and learning my own desirability and sexuality."I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type actor."I was playing the other woman and the object of desire and I suddenly found myself cornered in this place.

played so many “provocative” roles when she was young is because she was “groomed” to do so. “I kind of became, like, an ingénue,” Johansson told host Bruce Bozzi in an episode released on Tuesday, December 13.  “Young girls like that are really objectified and that’s just a fact, so I think whatever box they’re put into, it sort of sets you on this trajectory for how your life will go. Now, obviously, women really are able to choose their own path,” she said.  said that as she got older, she realized she was being typecast, but there wasn't much she felt she could do.

Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell.''I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards - I really got stuck,' the 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two on Tuesday.'I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor.' Choices: Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell' (pictured November 2)Scarlett was only 19 in 2004 when she began her role as the older, more sophisticated, and sexy Nola Rice in blacklisted director Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.In his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing, the 87-year-old filmmaker wrote that Johansson was 'not only was she gifted and beautiful, but sexually she was radioactive.'The native New Yorker's character is murdered with a shotgun by her lover (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) after confessing she became pregnant during their torrid affair in the morally-bankrupt movie.Scarlett said 'playing the other woman and the object of desire' left her feeling 'cornered in this place like I couldn't get out of it.'  The 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi (L) on Tuesday: 'I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards - I really got stuck.

It seems somehow surprising that Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu and lauded veteran cinematographer Darius Khondji had never worked together before collaborating on Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. But when they finally did come together on what would become Mexico’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, there was an instant melding of the minds and a true feeling of kinship, with each telling me they felt as if they’d discovered a brother they’d never met.

John Dartigue, a 22-year Warner Bros executive who rose to VP Publicity and supervised campaigns for such hits as The Fugitive and The Dark Knight and after starting his career at United Artists and working on the first 10 James Bonds pics, has died. He was 82.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest film White Noise is his most ambitious project yet, with a production budget reportedly north of $100 million and a wacky plot featuring elaborate car chases and a fully staged train crash.

Douglas McGrath, the director and writer whose work spanned film, stage and television and earned him a Tony nomination for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar nomination for the Bullets Over Broadway screenplay he co-authored with Woody Allen, died suddenly yesterday in New York City. He was 64.

EXCLUSIVE: Shelley Duvall (The Shining) is gearing up to return to screens via The Forest Hills — an indie horror-thriller from writer-director Scott Goldberg, which marks her first project in 20 years. (The first behind-the-scenes still featuring the actor can be found above.)

Mindy Kaling Michael R. Jackson is, in a word, dazzling. His Broadway musical, “A Strange Loop,” is a breakthrough masterpiece whose plot I won’t describe here because it’s so inventive that my summary wouldn’t do it justice. But what I can say is that it’s a musical about a writer … well, trying to write. The star of “A Strange Loop” is Usher, a “young overweight-to-obese homosexual and/ or gay and/or queer, cisgender male writer,” as he says in his opening song, working to find his way in the world, deciphering the many destructive (and often extremely funny) voices in his head. Watching Michael’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning musical, I felt like someone had shone a light on the creative process of writing in a way it had never been examined before. For years, many neurotic writers have been able to see themselves in the protagonists of Woody Allen movies or Charlie Kaufman’s “Adaptation” or, hell, even “The Shining.” I never completely got it. But I actually identify with Usher, a funny, tortured, pop-culture-fluent brown man trying to impress his parents, discover his voice, vanquish his shame and have sex occasionally. Michael managed to capture all the moments of artistic self-doubt and relentless self-examination and somehow make it joyful, funny and relatable.

TV shows. One of his earliest acting roles included starring in the popular 1997 ITV drama, Cold Feet. The success of the show, which sadly came to an end in 2003, acted as a springboard for James.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen will return to the French capital for his 50th movie which he’s described as a “poisonous romantic thriller” with a pair of French stars, Valerie Lemercier (“Aline”) and Niels Schneider (“Love Affair(s))”. The untitled film, the plot of which is being kept under wraps, will start filming next month and will be entirely in French with a budget in the $10-million range. Allen has described the film to be similar to “Match Point,” in that it would be “exciting, dramatic and also very sinister.”  Allen sparked headlines earlier this week after Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia ran a story reporting that the New York-based filmmaker had told them he was planning on retiring. Allen’s representative then issued a statement saying that the director had “no intention of retiring.”