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Hollywood writer’s strike war rages on, Bill Maher just wants to get his check. The “Real Time with Bill Maher” host, 67, will return to HBO with his eponymous talk show without writers on Sept. 22.

sparked controversy for abruptly walking off the stage at Studio 8H over the weekend.As host Mikey Madison closed out the show, Wallen, 31, hugged the “Anora” actress and then exited the stage as the closing credits rolled.Afterward, Wallen, 31, posted a photo of a private plane on his Instagram Story with the caption, “Get me to God’s country.”Patten mocked Wallen’s post on his own IG Stories with a photo of a Krispy Kreme truck with the back end open, and the same caption: “get me to God’s country.”On another slide, Patten screenshot an online comment that read “Guessing Patten’s not a Morgan Wallen fan?” and added an eye-rolling emoji.Patten then posted his Apple Music replay list from 2023 featuring five of Wallen’s songs. “How quickly the media forgets 2023,” Patten wrote.On his next slide, Patten posted a photo of a Krispy Kreme store in New York City and wrote, “Bravely standing up to Whiskey Riff dot com so that my children and grandchildren won’t have to.” Patten’s post was played to Wallen and Post Malone’s song “I Had Some Help.”The Post has reached out to Wallen’s rep for comment.Wallen served as the musical guest on “SNL” this weekend and performed “I’m the Problem” and “Just in Case,” both from his upcoming fourth studio album that comes out in May.But Wallen made headlines for his unexplained exit from the stage before the NBC episode even ended.The Grammy nominee seemingly skipped the after-party that night based on his post about leaving New York on the private plane.Viewers of the sketch comedy series bashed Wallen on social media for his behavior, calling him a “petty loser” and “tone-deaf.”“Morgan Wallen said I didn’t want to be here either.

tragic death at age 47 on Friday. However, the intensely private Plaza did speak publicly about her filmmaker husband several times prior to his passing. The couple, who began dating in 2011, married in a spontaneous 2021 ceremony amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“The marriage was just like a joke that honestly went to far,” Plaza quipped during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show that same year.

“A Christmas Story” premiered in 1983, screenwriter Jean Shepherd pulled antidotes from his own life to create the Christmas comedy — including the infamous leg lamp.And Quentin Schultze, the author of “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out! Life Lessons from the Movie “A Christmas Story,” taught storytelling with Shepherd, leading the pair to become fast friends. From their time together, Schultze gained a deeper insight into the holiday classic — and it turns out it was a rocky start for the late screenwriter, who died at 78 in 1999.“Jean Shepherd wrote scripts that he wanted done exactly the way he wrote them,” Schultze exclusively told The Post.

“The Simpsons” producer David Mirkin is revealing the one that the writers couldn’t fathom actually coming true.“Yes, predicting Donald Trump would be president is still one of the funniest predictions we ever made,” the 69-year-old exclusively told The Post at Vulture Festival.But Mirkin also has an all-time favorite prediction that he wouldn’t mind taking over the Oval Office.“I think Lisa as president is a great one,” he quipped, “and I still believe that will happen, so that’s something everybody can look forward to!”As for why they come true so frequently? Well, Mirkin wants viewers to know there’s a top-secret reason. “You know, this is kind of a secret I don’t tell everybody,” the producer joked with a straight face.

Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, is slamming the use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late dad.“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” Zelda, 34, wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday. “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad.”She added: “This isn’t theoretical, it is very very real.”“I’ve already heard AI used to get his ‘voice’ to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings,” she went on.

Dancing with the Stars,” which was set to premiere its 32nd season on Tuesday, will be delayed due to the Writers Guild of America strike, ABC told USA TODAY.This news comes on the heels of one of the show’s contestants — former “Veep” star Matt Walsh — quick-stepping away from it in protest.“I am taking a pause from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ until an agreement is made with the WGA,” he said in a statement to Deadline. “I was excited to join the show and did so under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement.”Other actors part of the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union, which joined the WGA strike in July, who are competing this season include “American Pie’s” Alyson Hannigan; Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn; Barry Williams, aka Greg from “The Brady Bunch;” Mira Sorvino; “Vanderpump Rules'” star Ariana Madix and Xochitl Gomez, who starred in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”SAG-AFTRA has made it clear that it supports the actors in their TV dance floor endeavors.

In an interview with TODAY at the 2023 Book Bonanza — the charitable festival she founded with her two sisters in 2018 — Hoover said she was shocked when she was told that Blake Lively had been cast as the female lead, Lily Bloom.“I didn’t believe it,” she told the outlet. But it was a good surprise. “I have been obsessed with Blake Lively since ‘Gossip Girl’ days — I’m just a huge fan of hers, and of course of her husband,” Hoover said.

Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Murphy is known for his creation of hits from “Glee” to “9-1-1” and “American Horror Story” and serial-killer series “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which became one of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time.He left Fox in 2018 to join Netflix in a five-year deal valued as high as $300 million to produce a new series and film exclusively for the online giant.Competition has been intensifying between streaming companies as they invest in original content and try to stand out in a crowded market and attract subscribers to their platforms.The TV show creator has been negotiating a new deal with Disney over the past year. Most of the details were ironed out before the writers’ strike began in May, the report added.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that votes on the Golden Globes, celebrated Murphy’s contributions to television with its fourth Carol Burnett Award earlier this year.

Deadline reported Wednesday that Steinberg’s family said he died March 15, but did not provide further details.The Post has contacted a rep for Steinberg for comment. “It’s a sad day when Norman Steinberg leaves us.

running from early March into April.The main attraction at the event, dubbed Kerouac @ 100, is certainly the original 120 foot “On The Road” scroll, the original manuscript Kerouac typed out while living on West 20th Street in Chelsea.“Jack changed his writing style for this new novel, which becomes ‘On the Road,’” explained Kerouac’s nephew, Jim Sampas, a music producer and the literary executor of Jack Kerouac’s estate. “He doesn’t want to stop to change sheets of paper in the typewriter and uses this teletype paper so he can write in a continuous flow.”On loan from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s personal collection, the scroll is part of “Visions Of Kerouac,” an exhibit of artifacts co-curated with the UMass Lowell Kerouac Center (on display Mar.

Bob Baker was a British writer for the Wallace and Gromit series as well as co-creator of the robotic dog K9 as a writer for “Doctor Who.”Baker began writing for “Doctor Who” in 1971 alongside his longtime writing partner, Dave Martin. The pair wrote for the era when Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker were the third and fourth Doctors.

Gregory E. Miller passed away June 7 in his home state of Virginia.

Jas Waters was a writer who worked on TV shows including “This Is Us” and “Kidding,” as well as writing a column for Vibe magazine.Waters grew up in Evanston, Illinois, where she was raised by her grandparents in a retirement home. She talked in interviews about her love for going to movies as a child and the way seeing a wide variety of movies informed her ability to write for the screen.