2020: Last News

“The Vow” became an out-of-the-box hit for HBO when the docuseries debuted in 2020, detailing the rise and fall of NXIVM, a bizarre sex cult masquerading as a self-help movement led by Keith Raniere.

Adam Sandler has given new details about his upcoming project with Josh and Benny Safdie, who he worked with on the critically-acclaimed 2019 film Uncut Gems.'I'm going to do a movie with the Safdie brothers and we're supposed to start in the late winter, right,' the 56-year-old actor told Vanity Fair Tuesday.The Brooklyn, New York native opened up about the dedication he and the filmmakers have toward the project. The latest: Adam Sandler, 56, has given new details about his upcoming project with Josh and Benny Safdie, who he worked with on the critically-acclaimed 2019 Uncut Gems.

 star was sentenced for a June 2020 incident.Davis pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended or revoked license, and pleaded no contest to driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 percent or more.He was sentenced to 60 months of probation, 120 days in LA County Jail and four days of community labor. He was also ordered to participate in an alcohol treatment program.Davis has been ordered to surrender himself at Van Nuys Courthouse West on Nov.

A silver lining of beloved stars passing on is we often hear stories about them we’d never heard before. Usually these stories are about meeting fans and being great people — this one is quite a bit different…

This is their love story! Sterling K. Brown has been married to Ryan Michelle Bathé since 2006 and he continues to prioritize his other half on a daily basis.

A driver climbed over his partner as she lay in the passenger seat with life-threatening injuries to escape from the scene of a crash. Craig Hirtle then returned later to try drag her injured body through a window before fleeing again, a court heard.

Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers, particularly Black passengers, through racial profiling and coercive searches just as they are about to board their flights.

Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters said on "The Faulkner Focus" that Big Tech censorship played a crucial role in the 2020 presidential election.  Masters said "if everyone followed the law" then Donald Trump would "be in the Oval Office," pointing to how the FBI pressured social media and tech companies, including Facebook, to censor "true information" related to Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings. "In the weeks before the election, millions of people didn't get to read about it, and then the media said, 'oh, well, that's okay, that's just Russian disinformation.' No, it was true,"said Masters.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic In late summer 2020, “The Vow” emerged as a creepily potent hit docuseries, which grew virally as it rolled out. Plunging deep within little-understood “self-help group”-turned-cult NXIVM to examine the hold leader Keith Raniere had over his acolytes, the documentary series excelled when depicted sympathetic people in situations the average viewer likely could not imagine. How had these women allowed things to get so out of control that they’d agreed to be branded, or to starve themselves, or to voluntarily hand over compromising materials for potential blackmail? “The Vow” had no hard answers, but it was exacting and thorough in posing the questions. Almost too thorough, perhaps: Its new follow-up, “The Vow, Part Two,” is three episodes shorter, and has a tighter focus that benefits its storytelling. Having established NXIVM’s methods of exerting control over women in the first go-round, director Jehane Noujaim (without Karin Amer this time) examines the legal repercussions for Raniere, who was charged with crimes including sex trafficking and conspiracy in a 2019 trial. The process of trying Raniere brings new revelations about NXIVM methods to light, and spurs testimony to Noujaim’s camera from sources including co-founder Nancy Salzman and various ardent Raniere defenders. As storytelling, this is crisper and cleaner than “The Vow’s” first iteration; as psychological portrait, little in the nonfiction space of late matches its acuity.

An appeals court has overturned a Mount Vernon woman’s conviction for soliciting to kill her former husband. The Washington Court of Appeals on Monday overturned Vanessa Valdiglesias LaValle’s conviction, The Seattle Times reported.

Over 150,000 Michigan voters have cast absentee ballots a month before the Nov. 8 election that will decide the state's governor, secretary of state, attorney general and whether access to abortion will be a constitutional right.

Manori Ravindran International Editor “She Said” screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz has said the New York Times journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein story in 2017 fed her chapters of their book as they were writing it in order to bring the novel to screen sooner. Speaking as part of a Variety-sponsored London Film Festival panel on screenwriting, the British scribe of such films as the Keira Knightley-fronted “Colette” and Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” described working closely with reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey to write Universal’s film adaptation of their 2019 book. The process took around four years, said Lenkiewicz. “I started working on it before I read the book,” said the Devon-born writer, who had six “freeing” weeks of writing on her own before even getting sight of a chapter.

With less than four weeks to go until November’s elections, Gov. Greg Abbott is maintaining his upper-single digit lead over Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke as the Republican governor runs for a third four-year term steering Texas.

ABC has a new casting exec.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex called a woman shopping at a grocery store when her mental health was in a "dire state. " The 41-year-old royal - who tied the knot with Prince Harry in 2018 - moved to LA in 2020 with her husband after stepping down from royal duties and revealed that the Duke of Sussex had given her the phone number of a woman who he thought could help her when her mental health was at its "worst. " She said: "I mean I think, at my worst point, being finally connected to someone that, you know, my husband had found a referral for me to call and I called this woman.

Paris Hilton says she was "sexually abused during medical examinations" at boarding school. The 41-year-old heiress - who first opened up about being "abused mentally, emotionally and physically" at the Provo Canyon School in Utah during her teenage years in 2020 - has now alleged the school would "perform cervical exams" routinely on the students and didn't understand what was happening during the "very scary" ordeal. She said: "Very late at night, this would be around like three or four in the morning, they would take myself and other girls into this room and they would perform medical exams.

Cynthia Nixon Guest Columnist Sara Ramírez isn’t a double threat or a triple threat — they’re an infinity threat. Mike Nichols alerted me to the existence of this superhuman when he was directing Sara in “Spamalot.” Nichols had a nose for talent and was famously the discoverer of Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg. In all the time I’d known him, I’d never seen Mike as awed by someone. He basically told me that no matter what impossible new musical number or comedy bit he gave them, Sara executed it perfectly, with a triple lutz and confetti to boot. So in 2020, when we were looking for someone to cast as Che, Carrie’s alpha podcast boss in “And Just Like That …,” I thought immediately of Sara.

A reunion that won’t happen. Chris Colfer recently passed on the chance to see fellow Glee alum Lea Michele in Funny Girl — and he has no plans to check out her performance in the future.

Paris Hilton is tearfully continuing her crusade for reform, revealing in new detail the sexual abuse she says she suffered as a teen at a therapeutic boarding school in the 1990s.In a expose on the «troubled teen industry,» published Tuesday, Hilton says she was subjected to middle-of-the-night «medical exams» with various staff members at the Provo Canyon School in Utah. «They would take myself and other girls into this room and they would perform medical exams,» she says in an on-camera interview. «It wasn't even with a doctor, it was with a couple different staff members, where they would have us lay on the table and put their fingers inside of us.

estimated £120m cost of the festival, planning took a step forward in 2020 when organisers called for “daring, new and popular” ideas that will unite the nation.

K.J. Yossman “Love Island” has found its new host in broadcaster Maya Jama. Jama, who has presented “Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star” and used to anchor a show for BBC Radio 1, will take over “Love Island” hosting duties early next year when the series returns for its winter edition, set in South Africa. It will be the ninth series of the show. Previous host Laura Whitmore stepped down earlier this year to pursue other projects. Fans had criticized Whitmore for her rare appearances on the reality dating show, although she also hosted spin-off “Love Island: Aftersun.”