‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Features The Warm Weather Return Of The “Freaks, Crazies And Weirdos” To Central Park

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In college one night, I got very stoned and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” I was gripped by it, and felt I understood it — a feat I’ve never come close to accomplishing since. Yet I don’t think I was under some delusion about having glimpsed the poem’s essence. Eliot was a mystic doomsayer whose verse was torn, as if by shrapnel, with fragments of misanthropy and heartbreak. He channeled the despair of the 20th century but did it with a glint of rapture (to contemplate it was to be alive). To connect with his poetry, you almost need to leave rationality behind, to give yourself over to the experiential quality of Eliot’s words. I think the reason I could grasp Eliot while stoned is that I forgot I was reading “poetry,” forgot that I was facing stanzas arranged in elegant pieces on a page. Instead I was living each word, each phrase, as its own moment.

Liev Schreiber holds hands with longtime partner Taylor Neisen while arriving for the premiere of his new limited series, A Small Light, in New York City on Tuesday night (April 25).

Jessica Simpson is embracing her "neon energy." On Tuesday, the fashion designer took to Instagram and shared a mirror selfie in a neon green Skims bikini paired with bright pink shoes from her brand, Jessica Simpson Style. Fans flooded the star's comment section. Jessie James Decker posted three fire emoji.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points for “Beau Is Afraid,” currently playing in theaters. In the final act of Ari Aster’s three-hour anxiety trip “Beau Is Afraid,” Beau, played by Joaquin Phoenix, arrives very late for his mother’s funeral and finds himself reunited with his childhood love Elaine, played by Parker Posey. It’s an awkward reunion for the two, but the two wind up in bed together. Just as they are about to have sex, Elaine pulls out her phone and the intro to Mariah Carey’s 1995 hit “Always Be My Baby” begins to play. Speaking over Zoom, the film’s music supervisor Jemma Burns said Aster told her during their first meeting, “’If there’s one thing you do for me on this film, I have to have this Mariah Carey song.’”

Laura Dern said she felt the "walls crumbling down" around her in 2018 when a doctor told her that her mother Diane Ladd might only have six months to live after her lungs had been scarred most likely by her exposure to pesticide spraying near her home.  But she felt encouraged when he said taking her on walks each day might expand her lungs.  So she moved to Santa Monica to stay with her mom, writing in their new book: "These walks might be our final moments together.They only way I can cope with my fear of her dying is by making sure that we talk about everything and that we leave nothing unsaid."   The "Jurassic Park" actress and Ladd began to walk each day, which the "Chesapeake Shores" star noted in the book felt "impossible" to her at first because of her reduced lung capacity, but as the walks got longer their conversations did as well and their understanding of each other deepened.  The pair recorded their conversations and have turned them into a book out this week called "Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)." Dern continued, "In the months that followed, we talked through happy memories and old wounds – some of which healed as a result of these conversations. I became closer to my mother than I ever had been before.

No awkward moments here! Jana Kramer’s ex-husband Mike Caussin has met her new boyfriend, Allan Russell — and the two are getting along “great.”

Her guy! Miranda Lambert found her forever in husband Brendan McLoughlin.

John Stamos was seemingly not a huge fan of the Olsen twins on Full House. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were cast in the role of Michelle Tanner when they were infants, which made it difficult for Stamos as the girls kept crying.

Less than a week before the Writers Guild of America’s latest contract expires, the guild today sent out strike rule to its members in highly anticipated labor action hitting Hollywood on the morning of May 2.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) announced the winners of the 27th Annual Webby Awards.

After four weeks at the top, The Night Agent was knocked down a peg on Netflix’s Top 10 English-language TV list. The series came in second for the week of April 17 to April 23, overtaken by The Diplomat.

We now know why Miles Richie didn’t attend his younger sister Sofia‘s wedding.

Jill Wagner has responded to the news that Mystery 101 has been cancelled at Hallmark.

Rebecca Ferguson suits up for the premiere of her new show, Silo.

settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which sued the network for allegedly airing false claims about the 2020 election.Fox News ultimately agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to resolve the lawsuit, without having to issue an apology for the statements in question.As part of discovery, Dominion sought out internal communications at Fox News, some of which were made public. According to The Washington Post, those communications included text messages from Carlson.

Kim Kardashian embraces the spring weather in a sheer ivory ensemble while arriving for the 2023 TIME100 Summit held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday (April 25) in New York City.

We didn’t see this one coming! Halsey and baby daddy Alev Aydin have split after over two years together! But… what about the baby??

If you love movie and/or celeb news, it’s been pretty much impossible the past couple days to avoid the rumors about Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. Fans have been fanning themselves over pics of the onscreen couple looking flirty offscreen. Basically every photo in between takes on the newly branded rom com Anyone But You has more chemistry than a season of Breaking Bad.

Halsey and boyfriend Alev Aydin have officially called it quits.On Tuesday, ET learned that the pair, who share 1-year-old son Ender, have decided to go their separate ways, with the «Bad at Love» singer requesting full physical custody of the little one.Per court docs obtained by ET, Halsey, whose real name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, filed a petition to determine parental relationship with the film producer — a filing used by parents who share a child together and are not married, to establish child custody, visitation, and/or child support.While Halsey is requesting full physical custody, the docs show that the 28-year-old musician is seeking joint legal custody of Ender and «reasonable» visitation to be granted to Aydin.According to the docs, Ender has lived with both parents for the past year and eight months of his life, including in Los Angeles, from February until the «present» day. Halsey is asking the court to order both parties to split the costs of establishing paternity and their attorney's fees. Following the filing, a source told ET that the split was amicable, and that the pair plan to co-parent.ET has reached out to both Halsey and Aydin's reps for comment.Halsey and Aydin welcomed Ender back in July 2021, with the singer announcing his arrival by sharing a black-and-white shot from their hospital room.

Arnold, 64, guest-stars in Wednesday night’s episode of “True Lies” (10 p.m. on CBS) as Arnie, an ex-Omega operative living off-the-grid who, along with his onetime Omega flame, Sharon (Kate Vernon), is being targeted for murder years later by a former colleague.Arnie and Sharon, who’s living a quiet suburban life, are still bitter over their long-ago breakup; they (comically) bicker back and forth in front of Harry and Helen (series stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga), the husband-and-wife Omega agents trying to save their lives.The series, which premiered March 1, is based on the hit 1994 tongue-in-cheek spy movie “True Lies” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen and Arnold as Albert “Gib” Gibson, Harry’s teammate and Omega partner.

Pod family forever! Members of the Love Is Blind family defended cohosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey after a petition was created to remove the couple from the reality series.