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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck didn't shy away from a public display of affection while out in Los Angeles on Tuesday.The engaged pair, 52 and 49, shared a peck on the lips while they were out with the singer's son Max Muniz, 14.The bombshell multihyphenate pulled her honey blonde locks into a sleek ponytail and wore flared charcoal-colored jeans. Cute couple: Fiancés Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck didn't shy away from a public display of affection while out in Los Angeles on TuesdayJenny from the Block shielded her eyes in a glamorous pair of oversized black shades.She donned a sleeveless, white, turtleneck top with her statement trousers and covered it with a long black cardigan.

Luis 'Louie' Ruelas was grilled about past domestic violence allegations while joining fiancee Teresa Giudice on Tuesday's reunion of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey.Reunion host Andy Cohen, 53, fired off tough questions about rumors involving Louie, 47, that caused a rift between Teresa, 49, and cast member Margaret Josephs, 55, during season 12 of the Bravo show.'A lot of women that you've dated seem to have unkind things to say about you. There's road rage incidents. You demand sex all the time.

Grammy winner Bobby Brown just revealed a Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10, and he believes the secret trauma was the reason behind his decades of drug/alcohol abuse and brushes with the law.The 53-year-old R&B singer - who claims he hasn't touched a narcotic in 20 years - was sent to a religious facility by social services after witnessing his mother Carole being beaten and arrested by police.'It wasn't a very nice place to be for a child,' Bobby recalled in his upcoming A&E Biography docuseries. Grammy winner Bobby Brown just revealed a Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10, and he believes the secret trauma was the reason behind his decades of drug/alcohol abuse and brushes with the law'One of the priests tried to molest me.

Joe Alwyn was looking smart and sharp at a Conversations With Friends screening in Los Angeles on Tuesday.The actor, 31, hit a fashion high note in his understated yet stylish all-black outfit.The dashing boyfriend of Taylor Swift smoldered as he posed confidently in the spotlight. Man of style!Joe Alwyn was looking smart and sharp at a Conversations With Friends screening in Los Angeles on TuesdayJoe rocked a head full of smartly slicked across hair and a bit of facial hair which complimented his handsome complexion.He finished off the look with trousers and glossy leather footwear.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had complained to confidantes about being weary and not being able to tour a full schedule anymore, prior to his death at 50 in March.Multiple sources spoke to Rolling Stone more than a month after the veteran musician was found dead in a hotel in Colombia March 25, saying that Hawkins was unsure about touring again following the coronavirus pandemic and apprehensive about his ability to remain a full-time member of the band through a gauntlet of three-hour concerts.The Foo Fighters and their reps declined to be interviewed for the story, but told the publication that 'characterizations of how [Hawkins] was feeling' were inaccurate. The latest:Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had complained to confidantes about being weary and not being able to tour a full schedule anymore, prior to his death at 50 in March.

Travis Barker returned to the studio for the first time since tying the knot with Kourtney Kardashian at a courthouse in Santa Barbara on Sunday.Just two days after making things legally official with his wife, 42, theBlink-182 drummer, 46, was seen chatting on the phone as he prepared to work on music inCalabasas, California.For his recording session, the father-of-two wore aThe Rocky Horror Show t-shirt, black pants and a pair of matching leather loafers. Back to work: Travis Barker returned to the studio for the first time since tying the knot with Kourtney Kardashian at a courthouse in Santa Barbara on SundayWhile he displayed his tattooed arms and neck, featuring a pattern of a race flag pattern on it,Barker kept his blue eyes hidden under a pair of black shades.

Emilio Mayorga From Berlin Golden Bear winner ‘Alcarrás’ to Cannes Competition title ‘Pacifiction,’ these projects will represent Catalonia at Cannes.Alcarràs Director: Carla Simón The 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner, a family farm drama marking the flagship title for Catalonia’s newest generation of cineastes. Sales: MK2 FilmsAmazing Elisa Director: Sadrac González-Perellón The next from 2017 BiFan Grand Jury Prize winner González- Perellón (“Black Hollow Cage”), once more mixing fantasy and family dynamics as Elisa, 12, seeks revenge after her mother’s tragic death. La Charito Films produces.

Sarah Jessica Parker is revealing where she stands with her former co-star Chris Noth.

Keith Urban is making his 20th and final appearance on Ellen!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLast month’s Udine festival of all things East Asian was the launch pad for “Making Waves — Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema,” a collection of 13 films that will travel to a dozen cities in Europe and Asia. Billed as an “extravaganza,” mixing old and new talent, the event is pegged to the 25th anniversary celebrations of the return of Hong Kong to China after 150 years of British colonial rule.But it is no longer clear to everyone that Hong Kong cinema has the energy, willpower or finance to face down its larger demons.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefEpic Pictures Releasing has licensed North American rights to Korean action film “Hot Blooded,” from leading Seoul-based film sales agency Finecut. The deal is one of several struck by the agency ahead of Cannes, where it is also launching sales on Critics’ Week title “Next Sohee.”Starring Bae Doona and Kim Si-eun, “Next Sohee” is directed by Jung July, whose acclaimed “A Girl at My Door” played in Un Certain regard in 2014.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentCairo-based film marketing and distribution outfit MAD Solutions has taken an equity ownership stake in New York’s revived arthouse distributor D Street Releasing.The partnership will extend the reach of MAD Solutions’ theatrical distribution operations, giving it an inroad into the U.S. arthouse sector where so far Arab cinema has been largely reliant on festival exposure.MAD Solutions, which is a top distributor of specialty Arab cinema across the West Asia region, now plans to release between five and seven standout titles from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Arabic-speaking countries to North American audiences.D Street Releasing, which has been largely dormant in recent years, is a division of D Street Media Group, the New York-based production, distribution and music publishing company with affiliate operations in the U.S., Germany, Ecuador, Argentina and South Africa.

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Matt Cameron is calling out Rolling Stone after the magazine published a cover story on the final days of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died at age 50 back in March.

Despite a stamp of support from former president and fellow TV personality Donald Trump, celebrity-doctor-turned U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Mehmet Oz failed tonight to clinch the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.

Motsi Mabuse, 41, took to social media on Tuesday morning to express her frustration that her sister Oti Mabuse, 31, had failed to return her calls.She wasn’t pleased with her other sister Phemelo either.The Strictly star posted a tweet in view of her 73,000 followers, asking her followers if they could relate.The dancer wrote, on the micro-blogging site: “Do you guys know that feeling when your sisters say I will call you back and it ends up being never lol , just saying @OtiMabuse @phemelomosadi.”Motsi tagged her sisters Oti and Phemelo in her tongue-in-cheek post.She also added a hilarious gif of Sandra Oh, saying: “Today? Tomorrow? In 50 years?” in a joking reference to Motsi wondering how long it might take her sisters to call her back.The 41-year-old asked her many followers if they could relate.In February, younger sister Oti opened up about the “backlash” she had faced as a figure in the public eye.The former Strictly favourite spoke out about being targeted by online trolls.In a recent interview, she said she was learning not to let the comments get to her.She said: "I've faced some backlash while performing on the show."I've never really spoken about it because I’ve tried for so long to think about it this way: I work on a show that ten million people love; if ten or 100 people aren’t nice to me, that is not representative of everyone else’s view."The two-time Strictly champion told Radio Times: “It’s taken years for me to get that into my head.“To get tweeted or receive a message in my inbox being racially abusive, or fat-shaming me, is horrible.“But it’s written by a person who can’t even face themselves in the mirror.”Motsi has also spoken about how she has received racist abuse during her time as a

A number of stars showed up to celebrate Barbra Streisand's 80th birthday at her Malibu home on Sunday, including her stepson Josh Brolin, Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson.Streisand's husband James Brolin, 81, was seen walking with son Josh, 54, walking up to the home, donning a black T-shirt with dark blue slacks and black pants, with his hair slicked back.Josh donned a grey button-up top with black pants and black shoes, toting a box while smiling alongside his father. The latest:A number of stars showed up to celebrate Barbra Streisand's 80th birthday at her Malibu home on Sunday, including her stepson Josh Brolin, 54, Chris Martin, 45, and Dakota Johnson, 32.

Wilson Chapman editorThe bar at the August Wilson Theater, a lounge the theater’s owner Jordan Roth opened last year, was quiet after the curtain fell over Broadway’s first revival of “Funny Girl.”Save the chatter of interviews to the press and some small talk over sandwiches laid out for those who stayed behind, the atmosphere inside the theater in New York City on Sunday was hushed, subdued even, after the opening night of a historic musical: For the first time in 58 years, not since it first opened with an unknown Barbra Streisand in its leading role, “Funny Girl” is again on Broadway.Directed by Michael Mayer with a revised book by Harvey Fierstein, the revival stars Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice. In the lobby of the theater, leaning against the wall after a barrage of press and her opening night bows, Feldstein could use a second to breathe.“I’m a woman who needs to be distracted,” she said, thoughtful and sincere with her words.

She is filling the massive shoes of Hollywood icon Barbra Streisand.And Beanie Feldstein's first outing portraying Fanny Brice seemed to be a successful one.The 28-year-old actress earned a standing ovation during the curtain call of the opening night of the Funny Girl revival on Broadway on Sunday night. What a moment: Beanie Feldsteinearned a standing ovation during the curtain call of the opening night of the Funny Girl revival on Broadway on Sunday night Support system:No doubt she felt the love from the crowd as her famous brother Jonah Hill was in attendance to support his younger sisterNo doubt she felt the love from the crowd as her famous brother Jonah Hill was in attendance to support his younger sister.Beanie had a massive smile on her face while taking in the cheers and applause from the audience.

Frank Rizzo “You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?” asks Beanie Feldstein’s Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star’s past waft in and out in a kind of “Fanny’s ‘Follies’.”The problem with this uninspired revival of “Funny Girl” — which opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, marking the show’s Broadway return after nearly 60 years — is not simply the singular ghost of she who shall not be named. (Alright: It’s Barbra Steisand.) Rather, the issue here is the production’s inability to live up to its star-making potential that would have made us once again forgive the simplistic, sentimental and sanitized original book credited to Isobel Lennart.

Smartly sidestepping the obvious comparison from the start – the line-reading of “Hello gorgeous” sounds more conversational, less sing-songy than the one etched in our brains for all these decades – Broadway’s new Funny Girl revival doesn’t so much make a grand play for replacement as a peaceful offering for coexistence: The show that made Barbra Streisand a musical theater icon likely won’t do the same for its latest star, but neither is it cause for grumbling how-dare-shes.