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Burning at Both Ends: Surviving a Week in Wildfire-Torn Los Angeles

“We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake,” writes Joy Press—“never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city.”
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Lucy Liu Has No Regrets After Speaking Out About Bill Murray

In a profile in The Guardian, Liu recalls fighting back after Murray allegedly said “inexcusable and unacceptable” things to her on the set of Charlie’s Angels. “I would have done that in any situation,” she says.
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No, The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Legal Battle Has Not Killed A Simple Favor 2

Director Paul Feig took to social media Friday to debunk growing buzz that Lively's feud with her This Ends With Us co-star had shut his sequel down.
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California Wildfires: How to Help Los Angeles From Anywhere in the World

Here’s where to donate, volunteer, or seek aid as flames continue for a fourth day.
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The Hollywood Sign Is Still Standing, Despite What You May Have Heard

Although fake, AI-generated images depicting the historic landmark ablaze have circulated online, the historic Hollywood sign has not been damaged in the California wildfires.
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2025 Directors Guild Nominees: Jacques Audiard, Brady Corbet, and Sean Baker Make the Cut

As awards season continues, the DGA nominees shed some light on a crowded field.
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Jeremy Strong’s Golden Globes 2025 Bucket Hat Wasn’t Just About Fashion, It Was About Acting

The Succession actor’s rep told VF all about how fashion ties into Strong’s work in an upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic.
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BAFTA 2025 Rising Star Nominees Include Mikey Madison, Marisa Abela, and David Jonsson

This year’s crop of rising stars includes an Oscar hopeful, an Emmy winner, and three vets of HBO’s Industry.
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Nikki Glaser, and Actually Surprising Winners, Saved the Golden Globes 2025

A comedian on the rise roasted a troubled awards show to a perfect medium rare.
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Wicked Is Not That Girl at the 2025 Golden Globes

All eyes were on Wicked and its stars, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, as it headed into the night with four nominations and a boatload of buzz.
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All the Highlights From the 2025 Golden Globes

The best looks from the red carpet, the night’s most shocking wins and losses, and everything else you missed.
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Blake Lively Disputes “False Premise” of Justin Baldoni’s $250 Million New York Times Libel Suit

The publication stands by its reporting, though Baldoni’s camp alleges that the Times’ claims about misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us “relied almost entirely on Lively’s unverified and self-serving narrative.”
Streaming Guide

The 31 Best Movies on Amazon Prime to Watch Now (January 2025)

Whether you’re in the mood for a classic drama or a sexy tennis flick, see our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime Video.
Obituary

Olivia Hussey: A Life in Photos

The award-winning star of Franco Zeffirelli's controversial adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was 73.
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This Year’s Biggest Documentaries Are a Liberal’s Nightmare

Dominated by religious content and conservative discourse, the documentaries at your local theater are about as far from Oscar bait as you can get. How did we get here?
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High Camp: Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Fabulous Fabulist

“From the start,” writes the oft-married 20th-century icon in her autobiography, One Lifetime Is Not Enough, “I luxuriated in having an audience, making people laugh, in binding them to me by all manner of spells.”
In Conversation

Harris Dickinson Isn’t Sure He’s Babygirl

His character in Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller, a sexy subordinate who seduces Nicole Kidman, “is someone who’s a little broken, and trying to find ways to seem not broken, like everyone in this world,” says Dickinson.
Holiday Chill

Chris Columbus, the King of Christmas Movies, Has Now Gift-Wrapped a Nightmare With Nosferatu

He directed Home Alone and wrote Gremlins, among other holiday classics. Now he’s producing the wintery vampire drama alongside his daughter—and sharing real-life horror stories about how Chevy Chase chased him off Christmas Vacation and the clash he endured with Donald Trump over Home Alone 2.
Allegations

Blake Lively Accuses Justin Baldoni of Sexual Harassment, Retaliation in Bombshell Legal Filing

The star of domestic violence drama ‘It Ends With Us’ claims her co-star and the film's producers engaged in a covert PR war designed to ruin her reputation.
Review

Nosferatu Hasn’t Got Much Bite

A remake of a classic film is beautiful to look at but boring to watch.
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The Wicked Movie That Almost Was: Imagine No Songs, and Demi Moore or Whoopi Goldberg in Green as Elphaba

Producer Marc Platt reveals how a very different adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel almost happened, and why it took so long to get the stage and film version of the Oz story just right.