Author: Michael

Following more than a month of indirect verbal sparring via media appearances and press releases, Paramount’s legal team and California Attorney General Rob Bonta were finally poised to discuss terms face to face on Monday. That is, until Bonta canceled the talks late Sunday, accusing Paramount of leaking details of the agenda and noting he’s happy to meet once the company “stops playing games and engages sincerely.” So no Monday meeting, but settlement talks seem inevitable at this point, sooner or later. Who’s entering the room with the most leverage? After all, this is turning into the mother of all…

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Wendy Williams is pleading for freedom in her first public sighting since February as she remains stuck in an ongoing court-ordered guardianship case. On Aug. 19, the former daytime diva, 62, told a paparazzo, “I want out!” as she entered a building with a few shopping bags in tow. Williams, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023,…

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Hayden Panettiere’s ‘Nashville’ co-star, Charles Esten, delivers an emotional tribute to the late actress during a performance at the Grand Ole Opry. The actor, dedicating his song, ‘Somewhere in the Sunshine,’ to Hayden, who died Aug. 16 after an apparent drug overdose. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from #EntertainmentTonight : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv

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Karen Attiah must be reinstated by The Washington Post and receive back pay after an arbitrator ruled the newspaper lacked sufficient cause to fire the opinion columnist over her social media posts following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa found the Post “did not have good and sufficient cause” to terminate Attiah and failed to establish that she engaged in “gross misconduct,” according to a decision obtained by The New York Times. Attiah was fired by the Post in September after posting about Kirk’s killing on Bluesky. “This decision confirms what we’ve said from the…

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has canceled his office’s Monday settlement meeting with Paramount, accusing the studio of leaking details of their impending discussions and acting in bad faith. “Not only did Paramount leak the alleged substance of settlement discussions, but they misrepresented these discussions, demonstrating a lack of good faith,” Bonta said in a statement. “As soon as Paramount stops playing games and engages sincerely, my office is happy to meet again.” Representatives from Paramount were scheduled to meet with the California AG’s office on Monday to discuss a potential settlement of the latter’s antitrust suit seeking to block…

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