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Tom Tapp
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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.
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Rain On The Red Carpet: High Wind, “Very Heavy” Downpour Expected Sunday For Grammys; Flood Watch Issued
UPDATED on Friday: The national weather service has updated its forecast for this weekend’s storm and, if accurate, it could make for a very messy Grammys night.
The 66th Grammy Awards will take place this Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. PT at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. That timing coincides…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood & Sports Luminaries Pay Tribute To Carl Weathers: “A Phenomenal Talent”
Carl Weathers died Tuesday at 76, it was announced today. And as the news spread, reactions began to pour forth from across Hollywood and the sports world.
Pedro Pascal, Weathers’ fellow traveler in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, wrote simply, "words fail 💔," with a photo of a younger…
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‘Harry Potter’ TV Series On Max: Everything We Know About The Cast, Release Date, What J.K. Rowling Says & More
At its Max streaming event in April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a new era is coming for Harry Potter fans. The company announced a TV series based on all seven books about the boy wizard written by J.K. Rowling. See below for the most current answers to the most important questions about the…
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Billy Joel’s New Song: Hear “Turn The Lights Back On,” His First Single In 17 Years
Billy Joel released his first single in 17 years today, "Turn the Lights Back On," a spare, piano-based ballad that harkens back to some of his best-loved work.
The single is being released by Columbia Records, and marks Joel's first new material since 2007, when the Piano Man released "All My…
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‘Dune 3,’ Says Denis Villeneuve, “Should Be The Last ‘Dune’ Movie For Me”
Denis Villeneuve has been clear that his vision for adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune series for the big screen involves three movies: Dune and Dune: Part Two, both adapted from Herbert’s original classic novel and a third film, Dune Messiah, based on Herbert’s 1969 sequel of the same name.
Herbert wrote…
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Alex Cooper’s ‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast Expands Beyond Spotify To Apple, Other Audio Platforms
Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper’s podcast about relationships, sex and more, has long been one of Spotify’s most popular offerings. It ranked No. 2 on the service’s end-of-year Top Podcasts list in 2023, behind only Joe Rogan. And now the show is set to reach an even wider audience.
Starting with…
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Who Are The ‘SNL’ Season 49 Hosts, Cast & Guests? What’s The Show’s Schedule?
While Season 48 was cut short by the writers strike in May, Saturday Night Live is off and running on a full Season 49 this winter. The show, which traditionally restarts at the very end of September or the beginning of October, returned on October 14.
RELATED: Who Is New 'SNL' Castmember Chloe Troast…
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E. Jean Carroll, In First TV Interviews, Speaks About Facing Donald Trump At Trial: “He Was Like Nothing, Like An Emperor Without Clothes”
UPDATE: E. Jean Carroll appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday night, where she said that encountering former President Donald Trump in court was like being in the presence of “nothing.”
“He is like a walrus snorting, and like a rhino flopping his hands. He is not there. That is what is…
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2024 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More
UPDATED with latest: The Emmys and Golden Globes are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation takes center stage ahead of the Oscar nominations on January 23..
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Rachel Maddow Lands First Post-Trial Interview With E. Jean Carroll on MSNBC
On Monday, the woman who just won $83 a million judgement against Donald Trump will appear on The Rachel Maddow Show.
MSNBC announced late today that Maddow will sit down with E. Jean Carroll for her first interview since a jury ordered former President Donald Trump to hand over $83 million in…
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Senator Urges Oscar Bosses To Recognize Victims Of America’s Nuclear Testing During Telecast’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Celebrations
Conservatives often criticize awards shows peppered with overtly political statements, but one GOP senator has written a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors asking them to do include just those sort of messages in this year’s telecast.
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Hayden Panettiere Defends ‘Scream VII’ Co-Star Melissa Barrera, Calls Her Firing “Very Upsetting”
In a recent interview, Scream series actress Hayden Panettiere called the firing of the films’ franchise star Melissa Barrera last month “very unfair and upsetting.”
Barrera was dropped from Scream VII following social media posts commenting on the Israel-Hamas conflict. At the time, Spyglass Media…
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