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After a scorching performance during Netflix’s roast of Tom Brady, and a hit HBO stand-up comedy special in Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die, Nikki has been tapped to host the next Golden Globes. 

The ceremony will air live on Jan. 5 on CBS. 

In a statement, Nikki declared she’s “absolutely thrilled” to be hosting the awards show, which she called “one of my favorite nights of television.”

She added, “The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy. It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows, but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at least I hope so). (God I hope so).”

Glaser called it “an exciting, yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars (who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes).”

The show hasn’t had a host willing to really go after the stars since Ricky Gervais famously did; he last hosted in 2020.

On that note, Nikki’s statement includes, “Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina [Fey], Amy [Poehler], or Ricky have said exactly what we all didn’t know we desperately needed to hear.”

She said, “I just hope to continue in that time honored tradition (that might also get me canceled).”

George Cheeks, the CEO of Paramount Global, said, “The Golden Globes has a rich history as a night for entertaining, provocative humor.” 

He called Glaser “a comedic force whose funny, bold and irreverent comedy will continue that legacy and further establish this special as a can’t miss event.” 

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Deadline is reporting that the estate of author Michael Crichton, the late bestselling author and one of the co-creators of ER, is suing one of the show’s stars, Noah Wyle, along with producers of an upcoming Max medical series called The Pitt.

According to the suit obtained by the trade, Crichton’s widow, Sherri, claims after a yearlong negotiation to reboot ER, Warner Bros. Television, ER‘s producer John Wells and other producers, including Wyle, walked away and “transplanted” the idea to a Pittsburgh-set medical series called The Pitt.

Warner Bros. Discovery-owned Max has already given the forthcoming series a 15-episode order.

The lawsuit states, “After negotiating unsuccessfully with Crichton’s estate for nearly a year for the right to reboot ER, Warner Bros. simply moved the show from Chicago to Pittsburgh, rebranded it The Pitt, and has plowed ahead without any attribution or compensation for Crichton and his heirs.”

It added, “The Pitt is ER. It’s not like ER, it’s not kind of ER, it’s not sort of ER. It is ER complete with the same executive producer, writer, star, production companies, studio and network as the planned ER reboot.”

The lawsuit charges the producers with “breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and intentional interference with contractual relations.”

Critchton’s camp seeks to “redress that grievous wrong and to ensure that studios are held accountable to the creators upon whose imaginations and ingenuity their successes depend.”

It also says Wells’ actions were “a personal betrayal of a 30-year friendship” with the late author, who died at 66 in 2008.

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When Demi Moore appeared in 2003’s hit Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, a lot was made of a scene that saw the actress, then 40, wearing a red two-piece — but not much else, she felt.

In a chat with Michelle Yeoh in Interview magazine, Moore expressed, “There was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked. And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me [in Hollywood].”

“I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother,” said Moore, now 61.

She added of her career, “It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat.”

For her part, Yeoh, who is 62, replied, “Hollywood is cruel to women of that age, where you don’t find the … the characters that resonate with you anymore. It’s either, you are the mother or you’re old enough not to be sexy in their eyes.”

She added, “It’s like, why can’t a 45-year-old, a 50-year-old, or 60-year-old, be sexy? But that whole perception is undergoing a lot of change because people like you and me won’t sit back and just take it.”

This is central to Moore’s new horror movie, The Substance: She plays an aging star who goes to extremes to recapture her youth.

“That at its core is the addiction,” she says. “For Elisabeth, the drug of experiencing being loved, adored, accepted, wanted — stopping that would have equated to a death, because her value to herself as she was had bottomed out.”

The Substance hits theaters Sept. 20.

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Lupita Nyong’o is remembering her friend and former Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman Wednesday, on the fourth anniversary of his death.

Boseman was just 43 when he lost his private battle with colon cancer on Aug. 28, 2020.

“Remembering Chadwick Boseman. Forever,” Lupita captioned a black-and-white photo of the actor she posted to Instagram.

She added a quote from an unknown writer, reading, “Grief never ends. But it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It’s the price of love.”

Boseman was secretly fighting the disease while logging memorable performances spanning from Black Panther and other installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to heralded turns in films like Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Just a handful of people knew of his condition before his death.

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HBO’s Emmy-winning series White Lotus is must-watch material for fans — but season 2 co-star Aubrey Plaza‘s never seen it. 

While some stars don’t like watching themselves onscreen, that’s not the issue, she tells The WSJ. Magazine. “To be honest, I had trouble opening my HBO Max account when I was trying to watch it originally.”

She continues, “I couldn’t figure out the password and I usually just give up when I can’t figure out the passwords. I just can’t handle things like that.”

She says she’s “going to” watch it at some point — presumably when her password pickle gets straightened out. “I’d love a DVD, but they don’t send DVD sets anymore. I ask them every time.”

Parks & Rec veteran Plaza will next be seen in Marvel Studios’ WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along, which debuts on Sept. 18. Let’s just hope she knows her Disney+ password.

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(SPOILERS) On social media, Ryan Reynolds has uncovered for fans an Easter egg that revealed the fate of Channing Tatum‘s slurring Southern X-Man Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine. 

At the end of the blockbuster, a collection of heroes that includes Gambit hold off a horde of bad guys while Ryan’s Deadpool and Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine escape to another dimension. 

It’s assumed the heroes may have sacrificed themselves — but Reynolds just showed that Gambit got out of the wasteland known as The Void.

The scene is technically in the film, but hard to spot as it’s hidden in the “deep background” on a monitor at the TVA, Reynolds explained when posting the moment. 

Tatum’s character is shown walking through the aftermath of the fight, when he turns and smiles as the same kind of “Marvel Sparkle Circle” that allowed Deadpool and Wolverine to escape opens behind him. 

As reported, Tatum tried for years to bring a Gambit movie to theaters, only to have the plans scuttled when ABC News’ parent company Disney acquired 20th Century Fox. 

While he was grateful he got the chance to finally suit up, he tells Collider he doesn’t want to get his hopes up for future appearances. “I could never be in another Marvel movie again, and it wouldn’t surprise me because I’ve had it in my hand before, and it’s gone away,” the Blink Twice star says.

“I’m always grain-of-salting it, but I’m hoping that [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] will allow me in.”

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Following last week’s teaser, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second installment in Ryan Murphy‘s Monsters series. The clip opens with Kitty and José Menendez, played respectively by Chloë Sevigny and Javier Bardem, sitting for a family portrait with sons Lyle and Erik, portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch, respectively. “I need to know what’s going on with you and the boys,” Kitty is heard saying in a voice-over. “It is over. Stop. I’m going to fix this family,” José replies. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story debuts Sept. 19 on Netflix …

Kelly Monaco is saying goodbye to Port Charles after more than two decades. WABC-TV reports the actress will make her final appearance on the ABC soap opera General Hospital sometime this fall. Monaco, who has played Sam McCall on the daytime drama since 2003, is exiting the series due to storyline changes, which have yet to be revealed. Monaco is also known for being the season 1 winner of the Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing with the Stars …

Community alum Joel McHale has landed a guest starring role on the third season of Yellowjackets, according to Variety. No further details on his character have been released. The series follows a high school soccer team after a plane crash, then decades later when the survivors are adults. A premiere date for the Paramount+ with Showtime show’s third season has yet to be announced …

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Jimmy Fallon‘s daughters, Winnie, 11, and Frances, 10, recently marked a new milestone, attending their first sleep away summer camp, and the Tonight Show host says it was “traumatic” for him and his wife.

“I don’t know why they asked us to go,” Jimmy tells E! News. “I go, ‘Why would you want to go somewhere else? You have such a great life here with dad and mom.’ They’re like, ‘We’re ready to go.’ And they had the best time.”

However, Fallon, 49, says he and his wife, Nancy Juvonen, didn’t handle the situation quite so well.

“It was so sad for me and my wife,” he shared. “You couldn’t talk to them. There was a call time between 10:30 and 10:45. It was like they were in prison.”

“It’s like, ‘I’m coming to get you out honey. You didn’t do anything wrong. I’m coming to get you,’” joked Fallon. “It was a very traumatic summer for us. They’re growing up and it’s all kind of happening.”

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Nicole Kidman is an actress who has done it all — well, almost.

The Big Little Lies star, 57, opened up about her desire to do a “classic horror” film in an interview with L’Officiel as the magazine’s September 2024 global cover star.

“I’ve not done classic horror yet,” she said, clarifying, “Hardcore horror.”

“I’m putting it out there, because I watch hardcore horror,” the Australian actress added.

Kidman lauded last year’s horror breakout Talk to Me from twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, two Aussies known as RackaRacka on YouTube, and director Ti West, who won fans over with the trilogy of X, Pearl and Maxxxine in recent years.

It’s not as though Kidman hasn’t dabbled in the genre throughout her career. Look no further than the likes of 2001’s The Others, 2013’s Stoker and 2017’s Killing of a Sacred Deer, all of which took a psychological approach to horror.

Kidman said she thought James Wan — co-creator of the Saw franchise and creator of The Conjuring franchise — wanted her to star in a horror project when he sought her out for Aquaman.

“I’d really wanted to work with him in horror,” she recalled.

Kidman can next be seen alongside Harris Dickinson in A24’s Babygirl, in theaters Dec. 25.

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On the Aug. 27 installment of Christina Applegate‘s podcast, MeSsy with Christina Applegate and Jamie–Lynn Sigler, the pair welcomed Christina’s TV dad and former Married with Children co-star Ed O’Neill.

His TV daughter’s introduction revealed the relationship rubbed off on the pair, even off camera. “I don’t even know how to explain this person. He raised me, so if you don’t like anything about me, it’s his fault.”

She continued, “If you do like anything about me, also his fault. Years, years of my life spent with this man and he’s an incredible actor, he’s an incredible human being.”

Applegate, who is now 52, met O’Neill when she was 15. He played family patriarch Al Bundy on the sitcom that ran on Fox from 1987 to 1997.

Christina went on to star in movies like the Anchorman franchise and shows like Dead to Me before becoming an advocate for multiple sclerosis.

O’Neill, of course, went on to star on Modern Family for 11 seasons.

The actor revealed how when he was cut as a rookie player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, broke and was “thinking about” making money through a friend’s connection by working with the mafia.

Instead, he followed his dream to move to New York and become an actor, logging much dramatic stage work, until a turn in Of Mice and Men onstage — “NOT A COMEDY!” he laughed — led to Married with Children.

Applegate later said, “Nobody could have played Al like you,” due to his real-life blue-collar background.

She also shared how nurturing her onscreen mom Katey Sagal is: “You can lay in her lap and feel safe.”

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