Author: Michael

Miranda Lambert is clearing the air — and setting the record straight — after her alleged bar fight with Chad Kroeger more than a decade ago. Lambert, 42, broke down exactly what happened between her and the Nickelback frontman, 51, in 2010 during the Thursday, October 1, episode of The New York Times’ “Popcast” podcast. “True or false: you hit Chad Kroeger in the face,” podcast cohost Joe Coscarelli asked the “Bluebird” singer on the show. Lambert — who was sipping on her “charm juice” a.k.a Tito’s vodka and soda — admitted she was “nervous” to answer, but ultimately spoke…

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“I never would have wanted to make a film of this.” In the foreword for author John Steinbeck‘s seminal, towering 1952 novel “East of Eden,” the author dedicates the book to his longtime editor and publisher, Pascal Covici. In it, he describes “East of Eden” as a box. “Nearly everything is in it, and it is not full,” he writes. That proves to be an understatement over the 600+ pages that follow, in which Steinbeck crafts a multigenerational story about sin, free will, Manifest Destiny and America itself. It is a book big enough to contain plainly stated Biblical parallels…

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While Hollywood is bracing for a bloodbath when Paramount closes its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company’s biggest backer said those fears are overblown. “The notion that $6 billion of cost-related synergies means the firing of all these people is just completely antiquated,” Gerry Cardinale, founder of RedBird Capital Partners and a major shareholder in the combined company, said during the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Thursday. Cardinale, who first backed David Ellison at Skydance and helped push through the acquisition of Paramount, said a majority of the projected merger cost savings would come through non-labor means. He cited the…

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Get a rundown of Us‘ top stories making headlines in celebrity news, sports and entertainment on October 1, 2026. Here are the key takeaways: • Law enforcement responded to Hayden Panettiere‘s West Hollywood apartment for a welfare check on August 9, one week before the Nashville star was found dead in a South Carolina Airbnb. A source told Us the actress “had become unresponsive to many people in her circle” in the days before her August 16 death. • Brittany Cartwright showed off a 20-pound weight loss in a lace lingerie-inspired bikini on Instagram on September 30. The Valley star…

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