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“Footloose” followed Ren McCormack (Bacon), a Chicago teen who moved to a small town where the local minister (John Lithgow) put a ban on dancing. Singer co-starred as Ariel Moore, the minister’s rebellious daughter who was Ren’s love interest. Ariel also had a boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), who physically assaults her because he’s jealous about her feelings for Ren, before they break up.

the NBC show follows the lives of the firefighters and paramedics working at the Chicago Fire Department at the firehouse of Engine Company 51, Truck Company 81, Rescue Squad Company 3, Ambulance 61 and Battalion 25. Killmer, who joined in Season 3, announced in November that she would be leaving the series after a decade in the role of paramedic Sylvie Brett. Before leaving, though, Sylvie will tie the knot with Captain Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer).

Elsbeth” star Carrie Preston welcomes comparisons to “Columbo” — which helped inspire series creators Robert and Michelle King to transplant Elsbeth Tascioni from Chicago to New York City.“Robert and Michelle King told me that during the pandemic that they started watching ‘Columbo’ reruns and just loved them and found it comforting,” Preston, 56, told The Post about the ’70s-era series starring Peter Falk as rumpled, trenchcoat-wearing Lt. Columbo, whose scattered appearance belied a brilliant deductive mind.“They thought, ‘Hey, that could be how we could create a new show for Elsbeth Tascioni,'” Preston said.

Bryan Greenberg, 45, claims Meryl Streep, 74, told him she was “scared s—tless” while filming their 2005 rom-com “Prime.”Oscar-winning Streep plays therapist Lisa Metzger who helps Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) and David (Greenberg) navigate the age gap in their budding romance — only to find out that the David whom Rafi is seeing is Lisa’s son. When asked by The Post if the “One Tree Hill” alum felt like he “made it” as an actor working alongside Streep, he admitted to being naively confident at the beginning of the project — until the “Devil Wears Prada” actress taught him an important lesson.“When I did ‘The Perfect Score,’ I didn’t think I’d ever have to audition again,” Greenberg said of his 2004 star-studded movie. “I had no idea how the world really worked and the business worked … I got a lead in a studio movie, I’m good, I’m set.

“Footloose” star Lori Singer still remembers her first meeting and famous kiss scene with Kevin Bacon — 40 years after making the 1984 hit film. “What happened is they had a long lens. It was probably 12 feet, if there is such a thing as a lens like that.

Virginia Madsen claims that being an outspoken woman harmed her career.“I was pretty outspoken as a young person, as I am now,” she told the New York Post in an exclusive interview. “But, you know, I was made to pay for that.”Madsen said that because she refused to toe the party line — like not complaining when a man stood too close to her or, better yet, just shutting up and looking pretty — she paid dearly.“I lost jobs because of it,” Madsen explained.

opposite Tom Cruise in the 1988 movie “Cocktail” as a charismatic barkeep, says its success meant drinks were on the house.“I got a lot of free drinks all over the world from that movie,” he told the Post in a recent interview, adding that the scenes of him and Cruise, 61, juggling glasses and cocktail mixers “completely changed the nature of bartending for probably the next 12 years.”The Australian actor, 76, can currently be seen in the Netflix mini-series, “Boy Swallows Universe” based on the Trent Dalton book of the same name.In it, he plays Arthur ‘Slim’ Halliday, which is based on a real-life charismatic criminal with a long rap sheet, who for a time was a babysitter and friend for a young boy.Brown says he was immediately drawn in when he read the script and loved that his character was presented with “no judgment.”“We live in a world where we judge everything,” he explained. “And instead of just taking it on and going, ‘Well, that’s life,’ (instead) we tend to judge, other lives all the time.

and Ashley Judd bonded over talking about the suicides of their beloved family members.Judd was on Wednesday’s episode of Cooper’s CNN podcast, “All There Is with Anderson Cooper,” to discuss the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, who died by suicide in 2022.Cooper’s brother, Carter, died by suicide in 1988 by jumping off the terrace of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s 14th-floor Manhattan apartment. He was 23.Judd said that her mother’s death was “traumatic and unexpected because it was death by suicide and I found her.”Still, she told Cooper she was “so glad” that she was there.“Even when I walked in that room and I saw that she had harmed herself, the first thing out of my mouth was, ‘Momma, I see how much you’ve been suffering and it is OK … I am here, and it is OK to let go.’ ““And she heard you?” Cooper asked.“Oh, she heard me,” Ashley replied.

arrested on March 25 after he and Jabbari got into a domestic dispute while taking a taxi home from a bar in Brooklyn.The altercation began when Jabbari saw Majors getting a text from another woman, saying, “I wish I was kissing you,” she testified in court.Jabbari, a 31-year-old dancer from England, accused Majors of slapping her, fracturing her finger, twisting her arm, and striking her right ear, causing her to bleed, while she held onto the cellphone.The disgraced actor conceded mistakes in his relationship with Jabbari, including not ending it sooner when it was clear it was not working.However, he maintained that he did not beat her, saying he “wished to God” he knew how she got her injuries.“I was reckless with her heart. Not with her body,” he told “GMA.”“I was not the best boyfriend all the time — but never hit a woman.

Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr and Roy Wood Jr. all had the same answer.Mark Normand.Normand, 40, isn’t new to the scene, though. The veteran comic cut his teeth performing multiple sets a night for years at bars, clubs and theaters all over New York City.And now, the hardest working comic’s hard work is paying off.In July 2023, Netflix released Normand’s latest one-hour special ‘Soup To Nuts’ and next he’s embarking on his nationwide ‘Ya Don’t Say Tour’ this winter which includes back-to-back shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Friday, Jan.

Tim Allen’s house. The “Home Improvement” alum admitted – after his daughter seamlessly roasted him — that he’ll only watch a Santa Claus movie if it’s, well, his own.“Every Christmas we watch all three of them,” Elizabeth Allen-Dick told The Post in a joint interview for Season 2 of “The Santa Clauses.”“We do watch other movies! Not many,” the vet actor chimed in.

named the sole trustee of mother Lisa Marie Presley’s estate and the new owner of Graceland on Friday following a contentious battle with her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, 78.Nearly seven months after Lisa Marie’s tragic death at the age of 54, it sounds like the relationship between Keough and Priscilla is still all shook up.“I’m trying to think of a way to answer it that’s not a 20-minute conversation,” Keough tells Vanity Fair in its September issue, due out Aug. 15, when asked if things between her and Priscilla are “happy.”“There was a bit of upheaval, but now everything’s going to be how it was […] Anything that would suggest otherwise in the press makes me sad because, at the end of the day, all she wants is to love and protect Graceland and the Presley family and the legacy.”Shortly after Lisa Marie died on Jan.

amid reports the longtime “Wheel of Fortune” letter-turner is holding out for half of retiring host Pat Sajak’s reported $15 million salary. According to Puck News, White, 66, hasn’t received a raise in the last 18 years — just bonuses.

Footwear News this week that she’s not a big fan of the hybrid work schedule, a model where employers split up the days when employees are required to come into the office versus working from home.“You can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely,” Stewart told the outlet.“Look at the success of France with their stupid … you know, off for August, blah blah blah,” she continued. “That’s not a very thriving country.

speaking to InStyle this week about how she maintains her fountain of youth.“It’s a good example for others, actually,” Stewart told the outlet. “I’m a teacher.

Provo Canyon School in Utah, a residential treatment center where she claimed she was abused — revealing traumatic details in her 2020 YouTube documentary “This Is Paris.”“When I was 16, I was sent away, and I was emotionally, verbally, physically and sexually abused,” Hilton said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.” She continued: “This is still happening today at these places, and 200,000 children are being sent away to these places every single year.” The Post reached out to reps at the Provo Canyon School for comment.In her documentary, the “Simple Life” star alleged that she was forced to take drugs and was put in solitary confinement while at the school. While on “Fox & Friends,” she claimed some of these schools, which specialize in treating kids who suffer from addiction or emotional or behavioral problems, can sometimes “disguise” themselves.“There are thousands of these schools and they disguise themselves as emotional growth schools, wilderness camps, these are just names that they put and they have false advertising and people have no idea what’s happening behind closed doors,” she said.The “Stars are Blind” singer said she wasn’t allowed to tell her parents about what was going on at the school since everything was “monitored” — claiming that she was “cut off from the outside world.” “I’m doing everything I can in my power to fight for these children because these are children who come from families that can’t help and support them and children from the juvenile justice system, foster care system,” she told “Fox & Friends.” “And they have no voice.”She explained that she is turning her own painful experiences into advocacy for other kids in a similar situation.

health issues, including a 2010 brain hemorrhage and stroke — and why he’s grateful to be alive.“It’s been a crazy roller-coaster ride,” Michaels told People.“After all the adversity I’ve been through, I just feel grateful to be here. If I were to go today — and I hope I don’t — I would die with a full heart.”In addition to his recent health struggles, Michaels has also battled Type 1 diabetes since he was 6. “I was almost at ketoacidosis, which is when the organs shut down,” he told the outlet of his diagnosis many years ago.

Apple TV+ musical comedy series “Schmigadoon!” because a producer told her she was “too old.”“I wanted to be in ‘Schmigadoon!’ – and I was too old,” LuPone, 73, explained to Mashable in a new interview.When the interviewer probed for more details, she replied, “Exactly what I said. We reached out to them and said I want to be in ‘Schmigadoon!’ They said, ‘Sorry. You’re too old.’ “The Post reached out to reps for the show’s co-creators, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, as well as LuPone for further comment.LuPone’s still holding her head high despite the alleged rejection.

Glamour Magazine for this month’s cover story. “I am not sexy.”“I used to have a friend of mine come to all my photo shoots to make sure that they didn’t try to make me that way,” recalled Holmes, whose breakout role as the cynical and sharp class valedictorian, Joey Potter, in the teen drama spawned her girl-next-door persona.The show, which ran for six seasons starting in 1998, followed a group of adolescent friends coming to age in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts.It was considered risqué for its time as the series often discussed sex and sexuality, openly.

first interview since the near-fatal incident, Renner recalled the horrifying ordeal and how he was hospitalized with 30 broken bones and a collapsed lung.The simulation, which was seen for the first time during his ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer, shows Renner operating the 1988 Pistenbully snowcat, as his nephew, Alex Fries, hooks a chain from the snowplow to a Ford Raptor they were attempting to move to the snow-cleared street.“I led in the snowcat with the truck behind it to finish off the last 20-30 yards of the driveway to get it onto the paved area,” Renner told Sawyer about his mission to clear all the snow from the driveway leading up to the house. Once parked on the street, Fries unhooked the truck from the snowcat, as Renner began to turn around on the icy sloped road.

Good Morning America.”In a preview for his first on-screen interview since the January incident, Renner, 52, gets emotional speaking to ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer about the near-fatal accident.The “Hawkeye” actor told Sawyer, 77, that he refuses to be “haunted” by the memory of the incident, which occurred outside his residence in Nevada and left him critically injured.“I shifted the narrative of it being victimized or making a mistake or anything else,” Renner says in the hourlong special. “I refuse to be f – – king haunted by that memory that way.”A nearby neighbor said he saw a lot of blood and that when he looked at Renner’s head, it appeared to be “cracked wide open.” The man, Rich Kovach, said he could see white and wasn’t sure if what he was seeing was Renner’s skull or just his imagination.Members of Renner’s family, including his nephew Alexander Fries, whom he saved from the plow, will also be featured in the special.Though his act of bravery left him hospitalized, Renner wouldn’t change what he did.“I’d do it again,” Renner said confidently.