© 2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. (LOS ANGELES) — Warner Brothers’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald delivered an estimated $62 million in its opening weekend — a little shy of the $65 million the studio had anticipated, but more than enough to top the weekend box office. Overseas, the latest chapter in the Fantastic Beasts franchise — starring Jude…
NBC/Will Heath(NEW YORK) — The last Saturday Night Live episode before Thanksgiving saw the return of Kate McKinnon’s Laura Ingraham — and a number of other targets to be mocked: Jeanine Pirro, Nancy Pelosi and Mark Zuckerberg.In the show’s cold open, a spoof of Fox’s The Ingraham Angle, McKinnon’s Ingraham opened with her “facts,” including “Hispanics all voted twice” and “Latinos can have babies every three months.”…
Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Ready for another royal wedding? The follow-up to your favorite holiday guilty pleasure movie, A Christmas Prince, has released its first trailer. The Netflix sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, takes place a year after the first film, as journalist Amber plans her nuptials to the now-king of the…
Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Marie Claire(NEW YORK) — Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis has revealed that acting quite literally saved her life. In an episode of the podcast Origins with James Andrew Miller about the hit HBO series, she credits her early acting jobs with helping her overcome an alcohol addiction. “I don’t…
GAB Archive/RedfernsWith the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival scheduled for August of 2019, one of the historic concert event’s organizers, Michael Lang, says a new fest commemorating the milestone is in the planning stages. “We have definite plans,” Lang tells the Poughkeepsie Journal. “I’m excited. I am indeed.” Asked if he could give any…
Courtesy of Gordon LightfootCanadian folk-rock legend Gordon Lightfoot celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday. The lauded singer/songwriter’s long career dates back to the early 1960s, but he experienced his biggest success during the 1970s. Lightfoot scored four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Carefree Highway,” “The Wreck…
Steve Morley/RedfernsPresident Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s’ highest civilian honor — to seven Americans, including the late “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” Elvis Presley, on Friday during a ceremony at the White House. “This year it is my true privilege to award this honor to seven extraordinary Americans,” Trump…
Credit: Ross HalfinJoe Perry is making progress after landing in the hospital due to a health issue he experienced last Saturday backstage at New York City’s Madison Square Garden following a guest performance at Billy Joel’s concert. A rep for the Aerosmith guitarist tells ABC Radio that Perry “was released from the hospital and is…
(SAN FRANCISCO) — The search for a San Francisco 49ers’ fan who mysteriously went missing during a football game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, took a grim turn when fishermen discovered a body in the water near where the man vanished, police said. Santa Clara and San Jose police have been searching for…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for in California as deadly wildfires continue to burn at both ends of the state. The two monstrous blazes that both ignited last week have claimed a total of 74 lives while burning a total area of nearly 400 square miles, according to the…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — Search crews have found eight more sets of remains in the burned-out rubble of Northern California, as officials there fear more deaths in the destructive wildfires raging at both ends of the state that has already claimed a total of 74 lives, including three lost in Southern California blazes. The…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The state of Florida has sued the two largest pharmacy chains in the country over the sale of opioids — an epidemic that has killed thousands in the state in just the past few years. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the state had amended an original lawsuit, filed in May,…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — With suicide rates rising across the country, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that certain occupations are associated with a higher risk of suicide. Suicide rates were highest among men who worked in construction or extraction (oil rigging, mining) jobs and women who worked in…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Once kids reach a certain age, they’re expected to address adults as something other than “so-and-so’s mommy” and “so-and-so’s daddy.”In school, the rules are clear. The teacher indicates on day one what the students should call him or her — and that’s that.But outside of school, when addressing their friends’ parents and…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The murder of 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, earlier this month is the latest example of a veteran perpetrating a mass shooting, adding another complicated addition to a growing list of incidents of gun violence in the U.S. Some see the discussion of veteran-involved shootings as promulgating of…
