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Even though Prince Harry and Meghan Markle didn’t attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony Sunday, they were on attendees’ minds, with the event seeming to provide further evidence that Hollywood has cooled on the renegade royal couple who were once set to take the entertainment industry by storm with their media mogul aspirations. First, host Jo Koy got some laughs at their expense in his otherwise maligned monologue. He addressed the couple’s perceived struggles, sense of entitlement and lack of productivity, by saying…

“May December,” the darkly comic drama loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, has been racking up acclaim, awards and nominations, especially for its break-out star, Charles Melton, who plays a 36-year-old man married to the older woman who seduced him as a 13-year-old boy. Melton’s role has been described as the “heart” of Todd Haynes’ movie, but Letourneau’s former husband, Vili Fualaau, who serves as the model for Melton’s Joe Yoo, is not happy about “May December’s” depiction of “my original story,”…

Cher’s troubled son, Elijah Blue Allman, has apparently found a way to fend off his mother’s efforts to gain conservatorship over his estate. The 47-year-old musician son of Cher and her ex-husband, the late rocker Gregg Allman, has apparently joined forces with his estranged wife, Marieangela King, to call off their divorce. Us Weekly reported that Allman and King filed documents Tuesday to dismiss their pending divorce proceedings. This legal move comes six days after Cher filed documents of her own seeking…

Burt Reynolds may have claimed that Sally Field was the “the love of his life,” but she has described how he didn’t treat her in the most loving way when they were a Hollywood golden couple and she was nominated for her first Academy Award for her career-changing performance in the 1979 film “Norma Rae.” In a new book about Academy Awards history, Field said that Reynolds, her boyfriend at the time, “was not happy” with the buzz she was receiving for playing a union organizer in “Norma Rae” — a role that completed her…

It’s easy to imagine that Aaron Rodgers has been looking for a way to stick it to Jimmy Kimmel after the many jokes the late-night host has made at the quarterback’s expense over the years. But to Rodgers’ critics, the outspoken NFL star has only lived up to his reputation for making wild claims by suggesting that Kimmel’s name could in documents that are expected to identify associates and clients of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The documents were expected to be released this week, following a court order from…

Did Pierce Brosnan think that once playing super-spy James Bond made him immune to dangers of the highly acidic hydrothermal waters boiling in one of Yellowstone National Park’s hot springs? Or, did he somehow think that being an internationally renowned movie star made him special enough that he could allegedly ignore stay-on-the-trail signs and trespass in an area of the park that’s been designated as off limits? Who knows what was on Brosnan’s mind, but he reportedly entered “delicate,” restricted areas in the Wyoming…

As South Korean police on Thursday defended their aggressive investigation of “Parasite” star Lee Sun-kyun for alleged drug use, the country’s entertainment industry was reeling from his death, in part because he is the latest popular performer to die under tragic circumstances in recent years. Prior to Lee’s death Wednesday, 11 other prominent South Korean actors, musicians and other performers — most in their 20s and 30s – have died in suspected suicides, accidents and other incidents, one which was a homicide and…

Cher’s decision this week to file for a conservatorship of her son, Elijah Blue Allman, comes after the entertainment legend says she watched him struggle for years with drug addiction, culminating in a tumultuous six-month period earlier this year, when the 47-year-old reportedly lived at the landmark Chateau Marmont and regularly worried hotel staff with his “drugged-out,” “strung-out” appearance. Staff at the gothic-looking Chateau Marmont, which looms over Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard, regularly reached out to Cher…

Even though Tatum O’Neal said that she and her father, Ryan O’Neal, had overcome some of the conflicts in their stormy relationship and were on “good terms” when he died on Dec. 8, she reportedly did not receive an invitation to his funeral over the weekend. Neither did her younger brother, Griffin O’Neal, or her younger half-brother, Redmond O’Neal, Griffin O’Neal said in an interview with the New York Post. Both Griffin and Redmond O’Neal also had volatile relationships with the “Love Story” actor, who was as well known…

Two months before his death Wednesday by an apparent suicide, acclaimed South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun was dropped from a major film project after news broke that he was being investigated on charges of illegally using marijuana, ketamine and other drugs in the company of a Seoul bar hostess, amid a nationwide crackdown on illegal drug use. Lee, who shot to international fame in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” was set to star in the drama “No Way Out,” a dark comedy about the contract killing of a man who was just…