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Two-time Paralympic gold medalist Ezra Frech shared a heartbreaking story of his teenage crush making an insensitive comment about his hand. “One time I put my arm around some girl that I liked, and she went and told everybody, ‘Ezra put his creepy hand around me,’” Frech, 21, remembered on “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” on Monday, October 19. “[It’s] little things like that when you’re young in middle school that change your perception of yourself in some ways.” The track-and-field athlete laughed as he compared his vulnerable conversation with the podcast’s host, Jay Shetty, to “therapy,” adding, “I’ve never…
Set in a sleepy fishing village on the Welsh coast, Rhys Marc Jones’ haunting feature debut is a psychological thriller about queer desire, moral ambiguity and the lengths people go to hide their true selves.
The cast of Young Sheldon was brutally honest about a story line that didn’t sit right with them involving an adult and a child getting married on screen. Jessica Radloff‘s tell-all book Young Sheldon: The (Juicier-Than-Meemaw’s-Brisket) Inside Story of the Hit Comedy, which is out now, revisited a wedding sequence in the later seasons where Missy (Raegan Revord) had a dream she was marrying Pastor Rob (Dan Byrd). “It was tremendously awkward, but as the adult in the dynamic, I have to be the one to not make it awkward,” Byrd recalled. “Raegan’s obviously wise and mature beyond her years,…
The story continues for Justin Baldoni. The Jane the Virgin alum shared a sweet look at his telenovela-worthy reunion with costars Gina Rodriguez and Jaime Camil on the set of Rodriguez’s upcoming…
A new documentary about the phenomenon of Jon & Kate Plus 8 is in development. “Production is underway on a documentary film untangling the story of what came next for the Gosselin family,” a Wednesday, October 21, announcement from Netflix’s Tudum reads, revealing that Jon Gosselin and his kids Collin Gosselinand Hannah Gosselin, both 22, will be interviewed. “The new documentary pieces together the story from the perspectives of the children who grew up on camera, the adults who built a brand around them and the audience that couldn’t look away.” The documentary, which is currently untitled and does not…
“The Penguin” creator Lauren LeFranc is in talks to produce an upcoming Poison Ivy series for DC Comics and HBO, TheWrap has learned. The series has not been greenlit by the network, but it would be an expansion of the DC Comics supervillain’s story. There are currently no writers attached for the DC Comics spinoff, but LeFranc would be signed on as a producer not a writer. The HBO series would reportedly not be part of part of Matt Reeves’ Batman Universe, though. LeFranc earned critical acclaim for her eight-episode crime drama television miniseries, which followed the events of the…
Chris Hayes condemned a controversial attack ad targeting Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton on Tuesday, calling it “one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in politics” and accusing Republicans of resorting to personal attacks as the midterm elections get closer. The ad features Acton’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter a liar and urging voters not to elect her governor. Arthur disputes Acton’s accounts of her childhood, including her experience of homelessness. “What neither she nor the makers of that ad mentioned is that that woman, Amy Acton’s birth mother, as Amy Acton calls her, has not…
It’s time to return to the “Little Shop of Horrors.” In honor of its 40th anniversary and timed to Halloween, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released a deluxe 4K UHD Blu-ray edition of the film, which looks and sounds better than ever. Based on the off-Broadway musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, itself inspired by Roger Corman’s marginal 1960 black-and-white horror movie, “Little Shop of Horrors” remains one of the best movies of the 1980s and one of the best movie musicals, period. Snappily directed by Frank Oz, the film features a razor-sharp script by Ashman that is by…
The actor was notably absent from Julia Stiles’ tribute to their late co-star Heath Ledger.