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Sylvester Stallone may be known for playing tough-as-nails characters in classics like Rocky, First Blood, and Rambo, but apparently, the actor isn’t shy about getting sentimental about his real life. via: Page Six Sylvester Stallone was out on the links when he found out his mother, the eccentric Jackie Stallone, had died. “I was playing golf and someone called, ‘Your mother’s dead,’” Stallone told me. He didn’t go to the funeral. “No. .. Now you’re getting the scoop,” he sa

The cast of Saved by the Bell is remembering their dear principal. via: Rolling Stone The surviving cast members of Saved by the Bell are paying tribute to actor Dennis Haskins, who played the high school sitcom’s beleaguered principal, Mr. Belding. News of Haskins’ death at age 75 broke Tuesday, though a cause of death is not yet public. “[I’m] heartbroken to hear about my old friend Dennis Haskins,” actor Mario Lopez, who played the jock, A.C. Slater, wrote on social media.

A woman accused of spraying bullets at Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s home, hitting a trailer the celebrity couple was inside and a nursery their kids were in, was found mentally competent by a judge on Tuesday to stand trial. via: Rolling Stone The woman accused of firing 20 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle at Rihanna’s Los Angeles home, allegedly striking an exterior wall of a nursery and the windshield of an Airstream trailer occupied by the singer and her partner, A$AP Rocky, h

Slipknot fans have hit out at the band’s decision to recruit Marilyn Manson as support for dates on their newly announced 2027 ‘(sic)est Stadium Tour’. via: The Independent Manson is currently scheduled to join the band’s 2027 tour, which was announced Monday, for their run of dates in South America, as well as their concert at London’s Wembley Stadium. However, fans of the masked metal band are now boycotting the shows over past abuse allegations against Manson. His ex, Evan

The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states can proceed with their consumer protection lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary over large-scale ticket resale operations, a federal court ruled. via: Billboard A judge says Ticketmaster can be sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly enabling mass-scale ticket reselling on its secondary market. A Monday (Sept. 28) court order, obtained and first reported by Billboard, d

A California judge signaled on September 24th that he was on the verge of sharply reducing the $12.9 million in damages that a jury awarded to a housekeeper who was mauled by a massive dog outside Chris Brown’s mansion in 2020. via: Billboard A judge has ruled that $13 million is an “excessive” number for Chris Brown to pay a former housekeeper who was mauled by a 200-pound dog at the R&B star’s home. In a Tuesday (Sept. 29) order, first obtained and reported by Billboard, Lo

Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky's baby is a girl named Rose. via: Billboard Lady Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polansky have reportedly welcomed a baby girl named Rose Bean Polansky, according to a birth certificate obtained by TMZ. The couple’s daughter was born on June 9 in Los Angeles. Billboard has reached out to Gaga’s reps for confirmation. While Gaga and Polansky have yet to publicly comment on their daughter’s name, Rose seems to have a very sweet connection to Gaga’s pe

Miley Cyrus has scored her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in over a decade with her latest, “Bass Persuades.” via: Rolling Stone Miley’s 10th studio album, Bass Persuades, finds the singer topping the Billboard 200 for the first time in more than a decade. It debuts with 61,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, the week ending Sept. 24, according to Luminate as Billboard reports. Bass Persuades is her sixth album to top the albums chart, and the firs

Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi still refuses to watch the upcoming film adaptation of her debut book. via: Variety Tomi Adeyemi said in a new interview with The Guardian that she will “never” turn another one of her books into a movie again after her disastrous experience on the set of “Children of Blood and Bone,” the upcoming film adaptation of her 2018 fantasy novel. The best-selling author went viral in late July when she posted a TikTok video of herself s

Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña will make his Broadway debut when he joins Buena Vista Social Club for seven weeks beginning Tuesday, November 17. via: Playbill Screen star Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai, Practical Magic 2) will make his Broadway debut in Buena Vista Social Club at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, playing a seven-week engagement as Juan De Marcos November 17, 2026-January 3, 2027. “I’m honored to be making my Broadway debut with the incredibly talented

Graham Norton has said he does not know if he will ever have a successor as a host of a prime-time chat show. via: Deadline British chat show host Graham Norton has said booking top guests is getting harder as studios and record labels “focus all their energy into other places and platforms,” as he ponders how difficult it has become to launch talk shows. Taylor Swift’s bestie Norton said it is “very hard to stay relevant and say we are still an important part of a promotiona

“Reacher” continues its win streak at Amazon, with Prime Video renewing the action series for a sixth season while Season 5 is still in production. via: THR Prime Video announced Monday that it has renewed Reacher for a sixth season. The pickup continues a string of early renewals for the series, which has consistently been one of the Amazon-owned streamer’s biggest shows. The run of early renewals stretches back to season three, which Prime Video ordered two weeks before the

The MTV Video Music Awards may not have the same meaning as it did in the 1990s but it’s clear that this year’s event had more juice than in a number of years. via: Variety CBS’ and MTV‘s coverage of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards averaged a combined 8.43 million viewers on Sunday night, according to Nielsen Live+same day fast nationals. Those numbers are subject to change once finals are in, but for now that makes it the most-watched VMAs in 11 years (since 2015, when it on

Dennis Haskins, best known for playing Mr. Belding in Saved by the Bell, has died. He was 75. via: Variety Haskins’ longtime agent, Jay Schachter, confirmed the news to Variety. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight years ago. “It’s a tragic loss,” said Haskins in a statement. “Everyone loved Mr. Belding and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans. He always had time for them,

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the highest-grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office and the third-highest grossing ever worldwide, is getting a re-release. via: CBM Avengers: Endgame was re-released in theaters this weekend, having originally opened way back in 2019. With additional scenes meant to set up this December's Avengers: Doomsday, the Encore—a marketing gimmick, for all intents and purposes—has been a rousing success for Marvel Studios. Now, Sony Pictures w

A California judge signaled Thursday that he was inclined to reduce the award to about $8 million unless the housekeeper who was attacked opts for a new trial instead via: Rolling Stone A California judge signaled Thursday he was on the verge of sharply reducing the $12.9 million in damages that a jury awarded to a housekeeper who was mauled by a massive dog outside Chris Brown’s mansion in 2020. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey P. Cotton heard arguments from the

Milania Giudice lashed out at her mom, Teresa Giudice, and her oldest sister, Gia Giudice, while surrounded by cops. via: Page Six Milania Giudice ran from her family ahead of their headline-making clash in a Florida airport Wednesday. The Tampa International Airport Police Department received a call for assistance on Sept. 23 at 2:20 p.m., Page Six has confirmed. There was no arrest, no medical transport and no police report created. Law enforcement sources told the US Sun o

Mere hours before a court hearing on the much criticized settlement between Paramount and a coalition of blue state attorneys general on the $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, ParaBros foes have gained a victory that could see an expensive delay on the deal closing. via: Indie Wire Little more than an hour before a judge was set to hold a Thursday morning hearing approving the settlement agreement between Paramount and the attorneys general in the antitrust suit,

Following his removal as an opener from Ed Sheeran’s tour, Macklemore has announced a series of headline performances under the banner “Free Palestine.” via: Deadline Macklemore is taking his show on the road without any help from Ed Sheeran: The rapper, who was dumped from the opening act slot on Sheeran’s tour after making a pro-Palestine speech from a New Jersey stage earlier this month, has announced the Free Palestine Tour with proceeds going toward charities “supporting

Brad Caleb Kane recently spoke on everything pertaining to Crystal Lake. The show is set mainly in 1972, about a year after young Jason’s drowning and well before the 1980 original film. Brad, a longtime slasher fan who saw the movies in theaters as a kid, describes the series as a “mixtape” of 1970s culture, post-Vietnam paranoia, crumbling institutions, and personal transformation while still delivering the franchise’s signature gore. He says the kills are “sick” and plenti