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Weeks after This Is Us star Chrissy Metz told TVLine that she has a mandatory weight-loss clause in her contract to mirror her character’s weight journey — saying it was “a win-win” situation — Metz is now clarifying that her contract on the show does not, in fact, stipulate that she has to lose any weight for the role. “It wasn’t mandated in the contract, and I probably — if I ever said the word contract, I didn’t mean it in that way,” she told People. [Read More]

Get ready Bachelor Nation! @Clare_Crawley's season of #TheBachelorette premieres Tuesday, October 13th at 8|7c on ABC. It's about time. 🌹 pic.twitter.com/CmCxM3Yhb3 — The Bachelorette (@BacheloretteABC) August 27, 2020 Just in case you forgot that Anne Bancroft Clare Crawley is the oldest leading ladyin Bachelorette history, why don’t you stare at this photo, really hard, while Simon & Garfunkel plays gently in the background? As a tease for Crawley’s impending season with co-Bachelorette Tayshia Adams (now with the confirmed premiere date of Tuesday, October 13 — we’ll miss our post-show Dr. [Read More]

There’s a moment in Clint Eastwood’s breezy film of the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons “jukebox musical” Jersey Boys that throws a spotlight — or, more precisely, a streetlight — on what’s missing. It’s in the final scene, in 1990, at the group’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Frankie (John Lloyd Young, repeating his Tony-winning Broadway turn) tells us (he talks to the camera) that nothing in his life compares to the moment that he and his pals found their sound “under a Jersey streetlight. [Read More]

Since the earliest days of his career, Common has been branded a socially conscious rapper. Not because his music was particularly grounded in political posturing, but because he rhymed like a poet and exemplified the antithesis of gangster rap, despite hailing from Chicago’s South Side. More than 20 years later, though, Common says he’s only now beginning to genuinely grasp the concept of social responsibility. On the song “Home,” off his first true protest album, Black America Again — perfectly timed for release on November 4 — he declares himself “rapper-actor-activist,” with special emphasis on that last descriptor. [Read More]

Just as Connie Britton was starting to stare down the big 4-0 nearly a decade ago, along came her career-changing role as Tami Taylor on TV’s Friday Night Lights. On a show about football that isn’t really about football, “Mrs. Coach” was no simple foil — she was a guiding light for nearly every major character at some point, and a complicated character herself. Since then, Britton has become one of TV’s most-beloved leading ladies, from American Horror Story’s first season to Nashville, which she stars in and co-executive-produces. [Read More]

So we just got back a little while ago from the Criminal Courthouse downtown, where Lil Wayne was scheduled to report to Rikers this afternoon, and guess what? His hearing was postponed! After massive amounts of dental surgery kept him out of prison last month, another bizarre incident has stalled his sentence: A friggin’ fire broke out at the courthouse this morning, causing minor injuries to five firefighters, two civilians, and a prisoner. [Read More]

It’s the newest trend in moviemaking: Reinvigorate one moribund genre by mashing it up with another. Still, before Pride and Prejudice and Zombies director Mike White has his shot at mixing Jane Austen costume drama with the flesh-eating undead, Jon Favreau has beaten him to the punch with Cowboys & Aliens, a Western where the taciturn heroes team up to take out extraterrestrials, not Native Americans. If the poster sold a lot of Daniel Craig’s backside (which some of you didn’t mind at all, clearly), the new trailer gives the rest of him plenty more to do; most of the action depends on his face, craggy and hard, and his wrist, encircled by a high-tech bracelet that proves useful for shooting down aggressive UFOs. [Read More]

Cruel Summer The Plunge Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Cruel Summer The Plunge Season 2 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Okay, now I’m really confused. Does Megan know how Luke died or does she not? Because one minute she’s stashing and disposing of floral sheets stained with his blood (we assume) and the next she’s going all Harriet the Spy and compiling evidence that Isabella is a teen serial killer. [Read More]

He’s Treback, baby! And he’s doing standing push-ups! Alex Trebek, the beloved host of Jeopardy! and eighth most trusted man in America, is in good health and currently filming the game show’s 36th season, according to a video released Thursday on the official Jeopardy! YouTube channel. In the video, between shots of Trebek warming up backstage and posing with a birthday cake that says “WHO IS 79?” (he’s a Cancer-Leo cusp! [Read More]

At a British Airways and VisitBritain party to “promote British tourism” yesterday, Dan Stevens (a.k.a. Matthew Crawley) was asked a question about his recent Downton departure — which makes sense, since the show is a major cultural export and also because Dan Stevens is only famous because of Downton Abbey. His response? “It’s nice that people care, I suppose, about the show, but yeah, you know … I had to do what I had to do. [Read More]