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Sofia Coppola’s intimate portrait of fashion designer and her long-time friend Marc Jacobs premieres in Venice on Tuesday, and the pair are nothing but full of praise for one another.

Coppola and Jacobs were present at the press conference for Marc by Sofia on the Lido, fielding questions about the film from the press.

“When they asked me to do a film on Marc, I thought, ‘No, I can’t do that. It’s too much pressure,'” Coppola admitted. “‘[It] would have to be good, because he’s my friend and I love him.’ And then I kept thinking about, oh, it’d be so fun to look through all the archives… we’ve been friends for 30 years, and [it would be fun] to get to revisit his incredible body of work that I grew up with.”

The process reminded her of working on films with her brother in her 20s, she added.

The View is a television staple!

The show, which debuted in August 1997, was created by the late Barbara Walters and became known for its mix of news updates, pop culture, and lively debates about politics.

Over the years, the rotating panel of co-hosts, made up of women from different backgrounds, has delivered plenty of memorable moments and fiery interactions while interviewing celebrities, politicians, and cultural figures.

The show has won more than 30 Emmy Awards throughout its run and continues to spark headlines daily. With nearly two dozen women serving as permanent co-hosts since the beginning, many have gone on to build impressive careers beyond the show. From TV hosting and journalism to acting,...

It's official! The View is returning for Season 29 on Monday, September 8. The hit ABC daytime talk show made the official announcement with a video on its official social media page. The View will feature the same co-hosting lineup: Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

After their annual summer hiatus, the ladies will return to the Hot Topics table to discuss an array of stories they missed while they were away. And, of course, they will welcome some of the biggest names in entertainment and politics. In the teaser clip, Whoopi says, "This is why you should always keep coming back to The View,...

“The View” has set an early September return date for Season 29.

In an Instagram post on Monday, the series announced the table would return for new conversations on Sept. 8. The top-rated daytime talk show returns with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Joy Behar.

“This is why you should always keep coming back to ‘The View,’ because you never know what’s going to happen,” Goldberg said in a clip announcing the September return.

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The show has been off the air since the end of July as is usually the case for the Emmy-nominated talk show.

“The View” will return on ABC for Season 29 on Sept. 8, the network announced.

The top-rated daytime talk show features hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

“This is why you should always keep coming back to ‘The View,’ because you never know what’s going to happen,” Goldberg says in a teaser clip of the new season released on YouTube.

According to 1iota, the free ticketing service used by the series, upcoming guests for “The View” include Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Hemming Willis, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sept. 9. On Sept. 11, “Barbie” Oscar nominee America Ferrera will join the program, which will tape a show with “Shrinking” actor Michael Urie, presumably to air the following day.

Matthew McConaughey will appear on the Sept. 15 show alongside former Senator Joe Manchin. John Edward, Marlon Wayans and Robin Wright will be on “The View” on Sept.

As The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues its death row march, Rosie O’Donnell predicts her ABC alma mater The View will be given a similar sentence.

Following the Donald Trump administration’s recent warning that the roundtable talk show could be “the next to be pulled off air,” the 12x Emmy winner expressed her fears for the Barbara Walters creation in a post entitled ‘Silencing The View‘.

“You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on The View. The View. The show with five women speaking [their] own opinions – That’s the threat now,” she started in the lengthy statement on TikTok. “They say they’re not canceling it— they’re just ‘reviewing the bias.’ Which is code for – we’re gonna cancel it we’re just trying to soften you up first.

“Because it’s not enough to run the country into the ground...

Jane Morgan, the elegant American singer who dazzled audiences in Paris nightclubs, on just about every TV variety show of her era and at the Oscars and had a hit record with the lovely standard “Fascination,” has died. She was 101.

Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.

A classy performer known for her silky smooth phrasing, Morgan moved from New York to France in the late 1940s to build her career before returning the U.S. and becoming a very popular singer through the mid-1960s.

She recorded about 40 albums around the world and sang in five languages, making her a true international star.

Morgan appeared dozens of times on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a welcomed recurring guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall and The Hollywood Palace and...

Angelina Jolie discovered a fatal attraction to women back when she was first cast in the 1996 flick, Foxfire, alongside Jenny Shimizu. In fact, her attraction to Shimizu was so strong that she even went as far as to say that she “probably would have married” had she not been involved with and tied the knot with her first ex-husband, Jonny Lee Miller.

In an interview with Girlfriends magazine back in 1997, she shared how her husband took it when she was still figuring her sexuality out, saying:

[Miller] was around when I was figuring things out about myself, when I was realizing that I was attracted to women also. When I realized that somebody like Jenny could be a deep love for me, he realized it, and he took it very seriously. If anything, he didn’t treat it just like some sexy thing.

While her developing an evident crush on Shimizu was one thing,...

Back in the ‘90s, Cheri Oteri was one of Saturday Night Live’s biggest stars, famous for playing characters like the overly-medicated Colette Reardon, Arianna the Spartan cheerleader, 20/20 host Barbara Walters and, of course, the “simmer down now” lady.

But Oteri didn’t appear on stage during this year’s SNL50. Why? Because apparently nobody asked her to…

Oteri recently guested on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, and just before the episode ended, Carvey brought up the anniversary special. “What did you do on the 50th? I missed it. Were you there? Did you do anything?” the Master of Disguise star inquired.

“No, I was not asked to do anything. I sat in the audience,” Oteri replied.

“Bastards,” Carvey responded. “Waste of talent.”

While you’d think that bringing back Oteri and Will Ferrell’s Spartan Cheerleaders during SNL50 would have been a no-brainer,...

Exclusive: Sherri Shepherd has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.

Shepherd is a Daytime Emmy award-winning talk show host, comedian, actress, and best-selling author widely known for her presence across television, film, and live entertainment.

With a career spanning three decades, Shepherd is currently the host of her own nationally syndicated talk show, Sherri, which launched in 2022 and was renewed for a fourth season earlier this year. According to a report from Deadline, Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury daytime talk show will return to the Fox Television Stations, as well as those owned by Nexstar, Hearst, Sinclair, Gray, Tegna and Sunbeam, for the 2025-26 season. The show has earned multiple accolades, including a 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host, and four 2023 Daytime Emmy Awards nominations.

Shepherd received a group Daytime Emmy Award alongside her The View co-stars Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters in 2009.

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The View remains one of the longest-running and most talked-about shows on daytime television.

The series, which first premiered in August 1997, was created by legendary journalist Barbara Walters and quickly became known for its mix of news, pop culture, and lively debates.

Over the years, the rotating panel of co-hosts—made up of women from different backgrounds—has delivered plenty of memorable moments while interviewing celebrities, politicians, and cultural figures.

The show has picked up more than 30 Emmy Awards throughout its run and continues to spark headlines daily. With nearly two dozen women serving as permanent co-hosts since the beginning, many have gone on to build impressive careers beyond the show. From TV hosting and journalism to acting, comedy, and bestselling books, the stars of The View have earned some serious money.

We’ve rounded up all of the co-hosts, past and present, and ranked them by their estimated net worth.

Of all of the threats facing the United States, global, economic and existential, why does President Donald Trump expend so much emotional energy on comedian Rosie O’Donnell?

Even though the comic currently resides overseas, Trump is rattling sabers in her direction on his personal social media platform. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” he Posted, employing his Trademark brand of erratic word Capitalization.

While O’Donnell is defiantly critical of Trump on her own social media channels, the roots of their feud weren’t planted in this presidential term — or his last. The bad feelings date back to 2006, according to Variety, when O’Donnell roasted Trump on an episode of The View.

Well before Trump ran for public office, he indulged in a variety of business ventures, including ownership of the Miss USA pageant.

If President Donald Trump, like Richard Nixon, kept an enemies list, one seemingly unlikely name would be right at the top — not a lawmaker or one of his predecessors, but the funny lady who tossed Koosh balls into the audience, and who speaks in frank and unadorned language about her disdain for him.

Trump’s latest salvo against Rosie O’Donnell, who hosted an eponymous daytime talk show from 1996 to 2002 and did two yearlong stints on “The View,” was his strangest yet. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump posted on his social network, Truth Social, on Saturday. O’Donnell moved to Ireland following Trump’s election and told Variety, in a recent interview about her role on “And Just Like That,” that she does not plan to return to the U.

Billy Bush is recalling “the most uncomfortable celebrity situation” he ever had, and it involves Ricky Martin.

The 53-year-old entertainment host made an appearance on Literally! with Rob Lowe, and spoke about an interview with the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer around the time of his self-titled debut in 1999.

“I was young and working out of New York the first couple years on Access Hollywood, East Coast correspondent. I got the call to go down and interview Ricky Martin in Miami for his new album and Mariah Carey the night before,” he recalled.

“I know Barbara Walters had asked him about his sexuality. I’m like, ‘Wouldn’t that be a big news maker?’”

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In the hotel lobby the night before the interview, he took an informal poll to find out what people wanted to know about the singer, and they wanted to know if he was gay.

Liam Neeson is a one-of-a-kind action star who has amassed a fan following thanks to films like Taken, The A-Team, The Grey, and Wrath of the Titans.The 73-year-old actor is still going strong with an array of movies coming up next. However, one of his flops from last year has finally found success on streaming. Absolution, the action thriller directed by Hans Petter Moland, is currently topping Hulu charts.

Per FlixPatrol,Absolution is reigning at #3 on the charts after its debut on the Disney-owned streamer. It is only standing behind recent releases like F Marry Killand Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything. It seems fans are finding the movie as they binge Neeson’s work before his next release: The Naked Gun, the fourth film in the spoof franchise.

Absolution follows Neeson as an aging gangster who attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes of his past.

Before he was the king of the Western genre, Clint Eastwood was an unknown commodity when he was almost cast in a Marilyn Monroe movie. During an interview, Eastwood was asked whether one of Hollywood’s most influential actresses ever inspired his acting sensibilities.

While Eastwood denied taking inspiration from Monroe, the veteran actor-director admitted he really wanted to star opposite her and almost appeared with the icon in a romantic comedy-drama. However, if Eastwood had landed the role, he would’ve been Monroe’s worst nightmare, and here is why.

Clint Eastwood Reveals the Marilyn Monroe Movie He Was Almost Cast In Clint Eastwood in Cry Macho (Credit: Warner Bros).

Clint Eastwood almost appeared in a romantic-comedy movie featuring Marilyn Monroe. During an interview with Parade, Eastwood talked about being considered for a role in Joshua Logan’s 1956 movie Bus Stop, starring Monroe in the lead role.

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Following her fourth season of Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman recently revealed a strange connection to one of the show’s most beloved alums.

The comedian recalled finding out that her SAG residual checks were going to the estate of Gilda Radner, who was a castmember on the NBC sketch comedy show from its inception in 1975 until departing after Season 5 in 1980.

“I got a giant envelope in the mail with a handwritten letter that was like, ‘Hey, I’m Gilda Radner’s brother,” she said on Vulture’s Good One podcast. “Weird thing happened where I’ve been receiving all of your residuals checks for the past few months. … By the way, you’re really great on the show.'”

Sherman added, “And I started hysterically sobbing, obviously. Because I’m like, ‘Okay, God’s speaking to me right now.’ The fact that my SAG residuals checks—shoutout, union—had...

“Tell me everything,” Barbara Walters used to urge her TV guests. She believed she could coax the truth out of anyone, whether revered or disgraced, and so did her viewers.

Her confidence would be challenged today when every fragment of news, even neighborhood trivia, disappears in a blur of distrust. Since viewers no longer believe what they hear, she’d wonder, might her interviewees become too constrained about what they say?

President Trump distrusts the news media so intensely he limits his announcements to his website, even when they’re nakedly bogus (“lasting disarmament”?) .

If that revered truth-teller Walter Cronkite were alive today it’s doubtful whether even he could cast a clear focus on Gaza or Tehran, on Zelenskyy or Netanyahu. Frustrated, he might even unleash AI on Ice just to see what emerges.

Media reporting on immigration purges is so distrusted that entire new layers of fact-finders have...

Making its debut atop the Hulu Top 15 Today chart on Tuesday, June 24, the Hulu original documentary “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” continued to rank No. 1 on the service in both the overall chart and the movies chart on Wednesday, June 25.

Produced by ABC News Studios and with a run time of 1 hour, 35 minutes, the movie uses rare archival footage and revealing interviews from the iconic journalist’s groundbreaking career to tell the story of one of the most recognizable faces in news.

On the series chart, “General Hospital” ranked No. 1 for the second consecutive day followed by “ABC 20/20” in second and “Love Island (UK)” in third. Rounding out the top five were the Hulu original “Nine Perfect Strangers” and Fox’s “Lego Masters.”

With the hype surrounding “28 Years Later,” which is now playing in theaters, its predecessor film, “28 Weeks Later,” continues to perform well on the streaming service’s movies chart,...

Barbara Walters spent 50 years on television, interviewing some of the most famous men and women in America. She had had conversations with everyone from the Kardashian sisters to the incarcerated Menendez Brothers. However, there was one Hollywood celebrity who was able to throw her off her game a bit during one of these interviews.

The recent trailer of the documentary, Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything, featured a clip of her interview with Clint Eastwood. The interview, which had a setting resembling a date, turned quite flirtatious, and Walters was seen blushing before she asked for a break. Walters died in 2022 at the age of 93.

Barbara Walters was thrown off her game by Clint Eastwood’s charm Clint Eastwood with Barbara Walters during their 1982 interview | Credits: ABC News/Hulu

As her journalist friend Cynthia McFadden mentioned in the trailer of her documentary, no one really ever got out unscathed from a Barbara Walters interview.

During her storied multi-decade tenure at ABC News, Barbara Walters could always be trusted to book the high-profile interviews — and secure the exclusive scoops — that few other journalists could get. Now, a buzzy new documentary is telling us everything about the late broadcaster's own life and career, from the friends she made, the criticisms she endured and the romances that formed and fizzled in the public eye.

Following its premiere at the Tribeca Festival last month, Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything launched on Hulu on Monday. Directed by Jackie Jesko, the film shows how Walters' intense drive propelled her rise to the top of the TV news game. But that ambition also led to a strained relationship with the people in her life, including her daughter, Jacqueline Dena Guber, who declined to appear on-camera.

In a recent interview, Jesko says that she took direction for how to approach her subject's...

Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything is far from a tell-all on the esteemed journalist, but the film produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries does go beyond the headlines Walters made during her career as a broadcaster to explore her childhood, her drive and the relationships, personal and professional, that shaped her life.

“We really wanted to make sure that we understood all angles of her,” director Jackie Jesko tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s not only her record-breaking insane television career in which she interviewed dictators, celebrities and all these different kinds of people with equal skill and publicity, it’s also who she was, what made her tick, and really her greater contribution to the industry.”

Through footage from ABC News archives where Walters both became the highest-paid news anchor at the time in 1976 and ended her career in 2016 following her final act as...

Hulu’s new documentary Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything, streaming now, pays tribute to the trailblazing television journalist, showcasing the highlights of her outstanding career and the sacrifices she made to get to the top and stay there. Like the recent biography, The Rulebreaker, there are decades worth of Barbara Walters stories that are told in the film, including her early career-making feats, her professional rivalries, her strained personal relationships, and the many, many barriers she broke to get her career start on the Today show and finish out with a bang with her original concept series The View. The documentary features first-hand accounts from some of her colleagues, friends, and interview subjects and reveals some gripping new details about Walters that reveal her sheer tenacity. Here’s a look at some of the biggest revelations to be found in Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything. She found a workaround to best a nay-saying colleague.

Barbara Walters will forever be known as the television industry’s first million-dollar woman. Whether it was starting The View or being a renowned broadcast journalist in the country, the woman knew what moves to make in order to build an empire for herself. Born in 1929, Barbara Walters passed away a few years back, on December 30, 2022.

Since then, people have had a lot to say about the journalist, both good and bad. While some consider Barbara Walters to be a pioneer of her field, others don’t have that great of a perception of her. Her “transactional” relationship with one of the most despised men in the country was one reason why.

Barbara Walters’ relationship with Roy Cohn Barbara Walters in Tell Me Everything (2025) | Credits: Hulu

American lawyer and prosecutor Roy Cohn isn’t remembered for the goodness he put in the world, if any. He had pulled many moves...

In a field that was once dominated by men in every way, Barbara Walters managed to single-handedly pave the way for women, becoming one of the most renowned journalists and television news broadcasters of all time. She is also responsible for creating the women-led talk show that everyone still loves to this day, The View. In her career, Barbara Walters had interviewed every sitting President and First Lady, as well as a variety of people like Katharine Hepburn and Saddam Hussein.

It’s safe to say that Barbara Walters was a force to be reckoned with. On December 30, 2022, the journalist left the world at the age of 93. Here’s what caused her death and what happened to her $175 million fortune.

Barbara Walters’ declining health Barbara Walters in a still from Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything trailer | Credits: Hulu

From ABC News to Today, Barbara Walters left her mark on every corner of broadcast journalism,...

Kathy Griffin is looking back at almost becoming a permanent co-host of The View.

In a video shared on her YouTube channel on Tuesday (June 17), the 64-year-old comedian said that she declined a $1.4 million offer to co-host the ABC daytime talk show, and claimed that the late Barbara Walters was not happy with her decision.

Keep reading to find out more…“I really respect those women for going on that show day in and day out because they know there’s blowback,” Kathy began, praising the show. “And by the way, to this day, The View is one of the most buzzworthy shows on television or anywhere.”

“People still get up in arms online talking about who said what on The View, so it’s always been a high-stakes show,” she added.

Kathy then spoke about guest co-hosting roughly 27 times before being an offered a permanent position in the mid-2000s.

Some affairs leave lipstick traces; others leave scars on your soul. We’ve always believed ambition is a brutal mistress; it seduces you with dreams and punishes you with silence. And Barbara Walters? She has probably danced willingly with that mistress.

Everyone knows Walters as the woman who grilled presidents, made celebrities cry, and created The View. But behind the spotlight, there was a woman who once gambled with love and lost. She reportedly had an affair with Senator Edward Brooke in the 1970s. He was married. She was very aware that the wrong move could kill both their careers. They kept it quiet. Until she couldn’t. Years later, Walters admitted she was “infatuated”.

Did Barbara Walters ever truly love Edward Brooke? Barbara Walters in a still from Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything trailer | Credits: Hulu

According to multiple reports, Barbara Walters’ affair with Edward Brooke wasn’t some wild fling.

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Hulu’s summer lineup includes the season four premiere of The Bear starring Jeremy Allen White and the series premiere of Alien: Earth with Sydney Chandler and Timothy Olyphant. Hulu’s also offering lighter summer fare with comedy specials featuring Atsuko Okatsuka, Zarna Garg, and Ralph Barbosa.

King of the Hill returns this summer for a 14th season 15 years after the series wrapped up its initial 13-season run. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox with Grace Van Patten premieres on August 20th, and a documentary on iconic journalist Barbara Walters streams on Hulu beginning June 23rd. The series adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s bestselling Washington Black arrives on Hulu on July 23rd.

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The documentary Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything is a film much like its subject: sharp, uncomfortably direct, and possessed of a ferocious intelligence that refuses to settle for simple answers. It presents a life that was a constant negotiation between a public persona of empathetic inquiry and a private reality of steel-willed ambition.

Here was a woman who did not just report on the seismic cultural shifts of the 20th century; she was one of them, a genuine trailblazer who shattered the stained-glass ceiling of broadcast news with methodical determination.

Yet the film does not sanitize its subject. It understands that the same person who could disarm a dictator with a disarmingly human question could also maintain a perplexing, decades-long friendship with the political fixer Roy Cohn.

The film sets its hook not by promising a tribute, but by promising a full accounting of a deeply complicated and significant American figure.

A documentary is shedding light on Barbara Walters’ early career, and it’s not the inspiring story you might expect. While she went on to become one of the most respected journalists in television history, her big break at NBC came for a surprising reason. Apparently, NBC hired her not because of her talent or potential, but solely because she came at a low cost.

Well, this was definitely a startling contrast to the legacy she eventually built, further reminding us how often success stories begin in unexpected ways. Let’s dive deeper!

The truth behind Barbara Walters’ first big break at NBC

Barbara Walters is remembered as a television legend, known for being a fearless interviewer who sat across from presidents, movie stars, and royalty. But a new documentary, Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything via USA Today, reveals that her journey to the top wasn’t as glamorous as many believed.

“Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” is a documentary a lot like its subject. It’s sharp and inquiring in a playful way. It asks friendly questions but knows just when to toss in a tough one. It sizes up important people with clear-eyed worldly perception, but it’s also enthralled by the seductions of fame and money and power.

“Tell Me Everything” delivers the Barbara Walters story, in all its tasty fascination and significance, and it captures a great deal about Walters as a person because it refuses to be intimidated by how elusive she could be. On TV, she presented herself as a fighting mensch, someone who could disarm you with that sympathetic twinkle in her eye. Yet off camera she could be ruthless. She burned through romantic relationships as if they were seasonal shopping sprees, and one of her closest friends was the dreaded Roy Cohn. She was complicated.

The temptation to deliver scrubbed-clean hagiography with “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” had to have been there: The journalist, who died at 93 in 2022, was the very definition of trailblazer, a woman who worked harder than all the men around her in the extraordinarily testosterone-filled boys club that was midcentury broadcast news, and all but single-handedly paved the way for women to have prominent on-air roles ever since. And Walters achieved that, despite starting out having to do “Today” show segments in the early 1960s that saw her doing stunts like dressing up as a Playboy bunny.

But Jackie Jesko’s documentary goes beyond the obvious, just as Walters’ own interviews so often did. It’s clear-eyed about Walters’ transactional approach to arranging interviews, and about the discomforting allure “money, fame, and power,” in the words of her biographer Peter Gethers, held for her.

There’s even a clip of her...

Imagine, just for a second, that you have put in the work to become a master improviser and a professional comedian. You are presented with the opportunity to come to a slightly ‘80s Barbara Walters by way of public access television looking-set, and either be completely transformed with makeup/prosthetics and then come up with a character to be a guest on an interview show, or play the stressed, buttoned-up interviewer who has no idea who their guest is. Vic Michaelis would choose to be the voice of reason, every time.

So, it’s good that Michaelis is the host of “Very Important People,” the improvised interview series on Dropout. It’s a show that can go a lot of different ways — and does, from the fictionalized Host Vic (Michaelis) being visited by a cursed childhood doll (Corin Wells) or a man who has been frozen in ice until just...

Barbara Walters didn’t set out to become a pioneer for females in media. The legendary broadcast journalist and “The View” creator was simply trying to survive as a woman in a male-dominated industry.

“She’s mentioned in the same sentence as feminist icons, but she wasn’t a crusader. She wasn’t Gloria Steinem,” says Jackie Jesko, the director of “Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything,” which premieres on Thursday at Tribeca Festival. “She wasn’t doing it for other women. She was doing it for herself.”

That doesn’t make Walters — whose career took off at NBC as the first female co-host of “Today” and shaped history again at “ABC Evening News” as the first female (and highest-paid) network news anchor — any less of a trailblazer.

“We shouldn’t require that of our feminist icons,” the director says. “She made it possible for other women, and she loved that once she realized it,...

When Barbara Walters joined ABC news in 1976, she became the highest-paid journalist in the U.S. – pulling in $1 million a year. That, not surprisingly, triggered a lot of resentment among her peers, none more so than her evening news co-anchor Harry Reasoner.

Overcoming envy and sexism and balancing a career and motherhood, Walters reached the pinnacle of her profession and stayed there, a story explored in the new documentary Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything. The film directed by Jackie Jesko premieres Thursday evening at Tribeca Festival in New York.

The feature, which debuts on Hulu later this month, is the latest from Imagine Documentaries, the enormously successful nonfiction division of the production company founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. On the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we explore the company’s upcoming docs and impressive slate of Emmy contenders with Imagine Entertainment president Justin Wilkes and Imagine Documentaries president Sara Bernstein.

Billy Joel had planned to be in the audience for the opening night of the Tribeca Festival to watch the world premiere of a new documentary about his tumultuous rise to the top of the charts

But the singer, who was recently diagnosed with a brain disorder known as Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, was forced to skip Wednesday’s glitzy screening of “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.” Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, the film’s directors, assured the audience that Joel is confident that he will return to the stage.

“He will be back,” Lacy said. She also shared a short message from the music legend. “Getting old sucks, but it’s still preferable to getting cremated,” Joel’s note read.

After going public with his health issues, Joel recently announced he was cancelling 17 shows he booked at stadiums across North America and England while he underwent “specific physical therapy.

The 24th annual Tribeca Film Festival 2025 kicked off Wednesday, June 4, with the world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Screening at the Beacon Theatre, the HBO original two-part documentary offers an expansive look into the legendary artist’s life, tracing the love, loss, and personal struggles that profoundly influenced his songwriting.

The opening night of the fest was attended by the film’s producer Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Mariska Hargitay, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, Gary Goetzman, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez, and many more. Joel, who is recovering from an illness, did not attend tonight.

The festival’s feature film slate includes Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer starring in Tow; The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick marking their first co-starring roles in 20 years; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going to be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

Johnny Carson’s oldest son, Chris, passed away earlier this year at the age of 74, as reported by multiple sources. Chris had two younger brothers — Cory, still alive, and Rick, who died in a car accident in 1991. The death was a reminder that the late Tonight Show host had several regrets as a father.

Carson divorced Chris’ mother while Chris and his brothers were still young, rationalizing that it was the best thing for his sons. “They're far better off if there’s an honest, clean divorce,” Carson told Playboy in 1967. “I’m happy to notice that my boys don’t seem to be negatively affected by mine. I think they’re getting along fine.”

But how would Carson know? “He was married to The Tonight Show. That was his life,” Carson the Magnificent co-author Mike Thomas told Fox News. “Johnny lamented the fact that he was not much closer to his sons.

In a 1999 interview with LA Weekly, Armond White said, “Spike [Lee] has become a first-rate marketer—he knows what a young audience wants, and he supplies it. Spike picks hot topics—basketball, interracial dating—but that doesn’t mean you break ground. Barbara Walters picks hot topics every day. The pretense of seriousness doesn’t mean you’re serious.” In defense of Charles Burnett’s 1977 masterpiece Killer of Sheep, White, who wrote a piece on the film for The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films, also suggests that Burnett, not Lee, shows black American life as it really is.

The way White sees it, Lee’s joints are brash and fashionable but their truths are rarely vibrant, made and marketed to appeal to the same youth that typically favors American Pie over All the Real Girls, Trainspotting over All or Nothing, and Dead Presidents over George Washington.

It’s Jane Rosenthal versus the jackhammer.

As the legendary producer strolls onto the patio of The Greenwich Hotel, clad in her signature blue shades, she’s visibly aghast. A small army of workers is plastering a banner and some streamers onto trees in preparation for a bridal shower scheduled for later today. The conversation we’re meant to have over lunch about her glass-ceiling-shattering career as the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises is destined to be drowned out by the din.

This won’t do! Rosenthal, one of Hollywood’s most meticulous producers — with a list of credits that includes “The Irishman,” “Meet the Parents,” “Rent” and “About a Boy”— is used to navigating tricky situations. But as she sizes up the construction project, it dawns on her that this isn’t her set, and she can’t tell the workers to get lost. She drifts into the restaurant. A table among the masses?...

This month, you can find lots of new movies and shows added to Hulu. From classic hits like Alien and Big Fish to new series like Call Her Alex and The Snake, there’s something for everyone.

Don’t miss popular Hulu Originals like Predator: Killer of Killers and Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything. Plus, some favorites like Christmas with the Campbells will be leaving soon, so be sure to watch before they go!

Let’s check out the full list.

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The Hulu June 2025 premiere schedule has been announced and can be viewed below. The streaming service has also revealed the titles that will leave next month.

The Hulu Originals for the month include Atsuko Okatsuka: Father, Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything, The Bear Season 4, The Bravest Knight Season 2B, Call Her Alex, and Predator: Killer of Killers.

The Bear Season 4 Highlights

A look at the originals, exclusives, and premieres that are part of the Hulu June 2025 lineup.

Not Her First Rodeo: Complete Season 1 (Freeform – Streaming June 6)

A six-part docuseries following five remarkable women inside the adrenaline-fueled world of professional bull riding as they battle in and out of the ring – risking life and limb for a shot at a championship buckle, eight seconds at a time.

Predator: Killer of Killers: Film Premiere (Hulu Original – Streaming June 6)

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Double-meaning jokes and pick-up lines have been a classic since time immemorial. However, The Rock may have taken things to a whole new level while “flirting” with Lilian Garcia two decades ago. From asking if she would like to try his…strudel to claiming that the woman dreamt of marrying him, 2001 Dwayne Johnson was a completely different person.

Now, Lilian Garcia is recalling what went down during the segment that has become a timeless piece of history in the WWE universe. And of course, there was much need to address that one iconic line from the night that had the audience erupting into chaos.

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“Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything,” a documentary about the iconic late journalist executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, has set its Hulu debut. The film will begin streaming on June 23 after having its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Walters, who died in December 2022, was famous for her work across programs like “Today,” the ABC Evening News, “20/20” and “The View.” Directed by journalist Jackie Jesko, “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” charts Walters’ career and personal life as well as “the challenges she faced trying to balance it all as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Walters, in her own words, also reflects on the high price of fame and the legacy she hoped to inspire,” the official description reads. It utilizes unaired archival footage including interviews with Cindy Adams, Joy Behar, Connie Chung, Martin Clancy, Andy Cohen, Katie Couric, Peter Gethers, Lori Klein, Cynthia McFadden, Bette Midler,...

Exclusive: DC/Dox, the prestigious documentary film festival in the nation’s capital, today announced the full slate for its third edition.

The cinematic event will include a dozen world premieres including The Last Class, a documentary about former Secretary of Labor – and ardent Trump opponent – Robert Reich; the sex trafficking documentary The Right Track, directed by Shareen Anderson; A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons Of Pat Oliphant, a film about the famed political cartoonist directed by Bill Banowsky, and Immutable, a feature on the Washington Urban Debate League directed by Charlie Sadoff and Gabriel London.

As previously announced (and reported by Deadline), DC/Dox will kick off with the world premiere of Steal This Story, Please!, a documentary about Democracy Now! host and author Amy Goodman, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.

DC/Dox, running June 12-15, boasts a slate of 59 features and 35 shorts from more than two dozen countries.

Exclusive: Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) and Won Ji-an (Squid Game) have been tapped for key roles in Pyongyang Home Video, a new drama inspired by true events, which centers on two North Korean sisters reenacting Hollywood movies to escape the perils of their young lives.

Hailing from Imagine Entertainment and South Korea’s Desert Bloom Pictures, the film will be directed by award-winning Korean filmmaker Yoon Sung-hyun (Bleak Night).

The story follows sisters Nari (Ji-an) and Hana, who have grown up watching illegal Hollywood films. Following their forced escape from North Korea, when their neighbor tips off the police about their father’s black market VHS business, the sisters use their imagination to escape into fantastical reenactments of their favorite films, in order to survive the journey. Five years later, older sister Nari finds an unlikely ally in American talk show host, Serena (Jamil), who promises to reunite the siblings on live television.

Did Tom Cruise make a bold baby move? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Back in 2005, Tom Cruise dropped a surprising detail. He said he got his own ultrasound machine while Katie Holmes was expecting. He shared this during a sit-down on Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005 (per ABC).

“I bought a sonogram machine,” the Hollywood hunk said. Cruise, then 43, and Holmes, 26, had gone public with their relationship in April 2005. Just two months later, they were engaged. By early October, news broke that Holmes was expecting.

During the interview, Cruise mentioned they hadn’t found out the baby’s gender yet and were doing the scans themselves. He also said the device would be donated to a medical center once they no longer needed.

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Nicolas Cage is a Hollywood star with a wildly diverse and intense career, and his filmography is anything but ordinary. But somehow, his off-screen life happens to be even more cinematic, with equally unpredictable turns.

For example, his whirlwind romance with Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley, who carried the weight of his legacy on her shoulders. While it was brief, Cage made a shocking admission about it years later. So, here’s everything you need to know about the ex-couple.

Inside Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley’s brief but blazing romance Nicolas Cage in Kick-Ass | Lionsgate

Before their names were tied together, Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley were two artists who were walking on parallel paths. Their worlds collided in October 2000, at punk legend Johnny Ramone’s birthday party, and sparks flew between the two (via InStyle).

At the time, Cage was still married to actress Patricia Arquette,...

Some celebrities love being impersonated on Saturday Night Live. Hillary Clinton said the “amazing” Kate McKinnon does Hillary Clinton better than Hillary Clinton does Hillary Clinton. Similarly, Bernie Sanders wanted to use Larry David at his political rallies, saying David “does better” than Sander does. The celebs below, however, didn’t find their SNL impressions funny. From Barbara Walters taking offense to Gilda Radner’s impersonation to Aimee Lou Woods’ frustration with a recent White Lotus spoof, here are stars who spoke out against the show. Barbara Walters Gilda Radner amped up Barbara Walters’ Boston accent during her many appearances as the television journalist on SNL. And the real-life “Baba Wawa” wasn’t a fan — at first, anyway. Cindy Ord/Getty Images “I hated the Gilda Radner ‘Baba Wawa’ until I walked into my daughter’s room one night, and she was up watching it,” Walters said in a 2000 Television Academy Foundation interview.

Joy Behar and the rest of the ladies at The View are on vacation during spring break, but news about one of her projects came out with some important dates.

As Monsters and Critics has reported, new episodes of The View will air after the Easter holiday.

Joy’s latest project, her play, My First Ex-Husband, is nearing the end of its Off-Broadway run, but not before one exciting performance with Whoopi Goldberg.

Whoopi is vacationing in Italy during The View’s long hiatus, and while she is picking up an interview here and there, she could be studying lines for a special reason.

Joy’s play showcased several stars during its run, including Susan Lucci, Veanne Cox, Jackie Hoffman, Carolyn McCormick, Marilu Henner, and Marsha Mason; now, Whoopi will join the venerated cast.

Joy announced that Whoopi will join her in a spectacular performance on April 30, 2025, before news broke...