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In 1991, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait under orders of President Saddam Hussein and the ensuing Persian Gulf War became a TV-news game changer. Satellite-delivered news, a new technology, allowed viewers to experience the shock and awe of a major international conflict live in their homes for the first time. That war is credited with transforming CNN, which started broadcasting in 1980, into a 24-hour, global news powerhouse. And it launched a number of media stars, not the least of whom was Arthur Kent, a handsome Canadian war journalist whose live reports for NBC amid raining Scud missiles earned him the nickname the “Scud Stud.”

Kent, now 71, lives in his home province of Alberta, Canada, not far from where he got his start in journalism, as a reporter for The Calgary Herald. “I’m still active,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m still a card-carrying member of the International Federation of Journalists,...

One of the greatest episodes from The Simpsons’ Golden Age almost had a very different ending, but it’s probably for the best that Richard Milhous Nixon died when he did — he didn't seem like much of a beer-and-nachos President.

In January 1996, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara decided to get away from the world of politics that had taken up so much of their lives and move to a town where people followed current events about as closely as they paid attention to nutritional science. In the Season Seven Simpsons episode “Two Bad Neighbors,” the Bushs found that life in a small town can be every bit as tense and destructive as the White House Situation Room during Desert Storm, as the neighbor and his miscreant son drive the former President to insanity before running him out of town.

Then, in the closing scene of the Simpsons classic,...

We are coming to the end of one of the most tumultuous and eventful weeks of Donald Trump’s second term so far, but it’s not over yet.

On Saturday, the U.S. Army will hold a military parade to celebrate its 250th anniversary, with more than 6,000 soldiers in current and historic uniforms, aircraft flyovers, a display of Army vehicles including tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles and a marching band. The reportedly event will conclude with a parachute jump by the Army’s Golden Knights who, according to the Washington Post, will present an American flag to the president.

While the celebration has been in the works for at least a year, the plans were more modest until Trump was elected, per the Post. He has long desired a parade that demonstrated America’s military might and reportedly requested one in his first term after witnessing the Bastille Day parade in France.

Donald Trump warned that those who come out to protest Saturday’s military parade, held on the same day as his 79th birthday, “will be met with very big force.”

“If there’s any protests that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “…And I haven’t even heard about a protest, but, you know, this is people that hate our country. But they will be met with very heavy force.”

Nationwide protests are being planned for Saturday in what is being organized as No Kings Day, with more than 1,500 events planned across the country.

Trump’s comments come after his decision to send 2,000 National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles over Ice’s immigration raids. On Monday, military officials announced that hundreds of Marines also will be deployed, while Governor Gavin Newsom...

Seeds is planting itself firmly in the hearts of critics around the country.

Brittany Shyne’s documentary about Black farmers in the South won the Grand Jury Prize in Competition at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, the latest honor for a film that has won awards at Sundance, RiverRun in North Carolina, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

The jury, comprised of David Ansen, Megan Griffiths and Garineh Nazarian, saluted the film for “its lyric and compassionate evocation of an underrepresented community, filmed with great intimacy over 8 years.”

Eight fiction and nonfiction films contended for the Grand Jury Prize. The jury awarded a Special Mention to The New Year That Never Came, directed by Bogdan Mureșanu, calling the period drama set in Romania as dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was about to fall “a kaleidoscopic vision of life under authoritarianism that resonates with special urgency in these troubling times.”

Siff, running...

Are you happy with your current means of transportation? Is your car compact to the point of claustrophobia? Does your pickup truck lack for bed space? Wish you could fit several thousand more people in your SUV?

It sounds like you need an Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer.

I know what you're thinking: You could make do with a Mon Calamari Star Cruiser (not to be confused with the tourist trap that was the mercifully scuttled Galactic Starcruiser). I get it. That's a sleek, fleet machine that comfortably houses 1,200 people, which means you could probably stuff it full of 2,400 Ewoks if you're smuggling those Endorian menaces to At Attin. But if oomph, space, and vulgar power is what you're looking for, let me take you to the big boy side of the lot and get you on the bridge of an Imperial Star Destroyer.

This is the Cadillac of space ships.

If you do not know the name Robert Reich, you should. An American political economist, professor, author and sometimes social media sensation for the ways he calls out the hypocrisies, lies and deceits of the Republican Party and Donald Trump, Reich has been one of the harshest and most incisive critics of hypocritical, unfair conservative politics for decades now.

Reich worked under presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. He served as Secretary of Labor in President Bill Clinton’s cabinet and as a member of President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory board.

Continue reading ‘The Last Class’ Trailer: American Economist Robert Reich Gets The Spotlight In New Education Documentary [Exclusive] at The Playlist.

Okay, so it wasn’t John Belushi slicing open Buck Henry’s scalp during a Samurai sketch. But James Austin Johnson did suffer a mishap during Saturday Night Live last weekend that left him hobbling around the stage on crutches during the goodnight segment.

The injury occurred during a sketch called The Second Amendment — ironically, a scene that made no physical demands on Johnson whatsoever. Jaj played a Founding Father who spent the bit pontificating about proposed Constitutional amendments. He’s standing behind a table and doesn’t move off that spot for the entire sketch.

With no pratfalls on his comedy agenda, how did he get hurt? Johnson told fans outside of 30 Rock what happened during the show, according to LateNighter. Apparently, the comic slipped in the heels he had been wearing, injuring his foot. One unanswered question: Why was Founding Father James Madison wearing heels?

According to the Saturday Night Network podcast,...

Within the universe of "Star Trek," we actually know exactly how much it cost to build the U.S.S. Enterprise: exactly zero dollars and zero cents. "Star Trek" takes place in a post-capitalist utopia wherein money has been dispensed with. Everyone still works, but it is to better themselves, to better society at large, or to serve others they care about. Thanks to miracle technologies like faster-than-light engines and replicators that can summon food out of thin air, no one wants for anything, and citizens are free to pursue their passions. If you want to farm kumquats, you may farm kumquats. You may have to move to a planet that has the room to do so, but it can be arranged for you. Capitalists and collectors are villains.

So it goes with starship construction. Starfleet vessels are built at a facility called Utopia Planitia, which orbits Mars, and ships...

Paula Kerger, the CEO of PBS, called President Trump’s latest executive order against the network “blatantly unlawful,” TheWrap has learned.

“The president’s blatantly unlawful executive order, issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years,” Kerger said, according to a statement to press first obtained by The New York Times. “We are currently exploring all options to allow PBS to continue to serve our member stations and all Americans.”

Late on Thursday night, Trump signed a sweeping executive order that will cut off federal funding for NPR and PBS, citing unspecified political “bias” as the reason for the move. The executive order accuses the companies of spreading “radical woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.'” However, the order doesn’t just stop at halting direct federal funding. It also instructs the Corporation...

“Drop Dead City” falls into a category of documentary I think of as wonkish but gripping. Produced and directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, the film is about the financial cataclysm that hit New York City in 1975, when the powers that be figured out that the city was $6 billion in debt. There was no money to pay anyone: firefighters, cops, teachers, sanitation workers. The city walked right up to the edge of bankruptcy. (That’s not an overstatement.) Had New York City been anything but New York City — had it been a business, a family, or even another city — it likely would have declared bankruptcy. But after a prolonged logistical-ideological war about what to do, the city was deemed too big to fail.

The film’s title refers to the infamous New York Daily News headline that ran on Oct. 30, 1975 (“Ford to City: Drop Dead”). President Gerald R. Ford never actually said those words,...

“I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.”

Those words were spoken in 1969 by Fred Rogers during a testimony before the U.S. Senate to defend funding for Public Broadcasting. Nearly 56 years later, PBS CEO Paula Kerger echoed Rogers’ defense during a congressional subcommittee hearing on March 26, citing that the American public has consistently ranked public television as “one of the best investments the government makes.”

In many ways, the Trump administration’s current call to defund PBS and NPR is nothing new. Every Republican administration, save for Gerald Ford’s, has attempted to cut funding to public media, often due to accusations of liberal bias. What is new is that there is now a chance it just may happen.

“It’s a bigger threat than other similar threats in the past,...

It wasn’t hard to guess how the recent Saturday Night Live starring Mikey Madison would kick off last weekend. Surprise, surprise — the cold-open sketch skewered the week’s hottest political story, with Andrew Dismukes as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unintentionally entering the group chat of a group of teenage girls.

Just another meh sketch in a long run of meh cold opens over the past, well, decade or so. Somewhere during the show’s run — was it Will Ferrell’s George Bush impression? Tina Fey as Sarah Palin? — Lorne Michaels decided that America demanded SNL’s political take to open every show. “A high-energy cold open is important to (Michaels), and he often has the writers start from scratch on Friday or even Saturday,” according to Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. “The idea is, if you begin the show with a home run, then momentum...

A walk-in cooler caught fire at Disney World Epcot’s France Pavilion, and just like that, Disney’s dreamy world got a taste of smoky reality. The usually sweet-smelling corner of the park, home to the adorable Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure ride, suddenly turned into a scene from a disaster movie.

Thick black smoke climbed into the clear Florida sky, startling visitors who had expected to be whisked away into a Parisian kitchen, definitely not evacuated from one. Videos of the blaze quickly took over social media, as stunned guests captured the chaos from every angle.

Disney World Epcot (Credits- Walt Disney World)

Luckily, no one was hurt, and the fire was contained swiftly. But this little blaze stirred up something Disney probably hoped would stay buried, memories of past disasters that weren’t quite as harmless. Behind the pixie dust and perfect smiles lies a history of incidents that...

The White House was terrified of Chevy Chase.

Gerald Ford had just walked an unlikely path to the presidency, first taking over for the disgraced Spiro Agnew and then for Richard “You can’t fire me, I quit!” Nixon. The new leader of the free world had the advantage of simply not being Nixon, but that didn’t last long, thanks to a new comedy show called Saturday Night (so new that it wasn't yet Saturday Night Live).

One of the surprise hit’s first recurring characters was Chase’s unkind imitation of Ford. Though Ford was a real-life college athlete, this cartoon version was a clumsy oaf, falling off ladders and tumbling down stairs. The caricature stuck to Ford like tar, and his team believed the best way to fight back was to prove that they were in on the joke.

Ron Nessen, who passed away this week at...

Performing on a late-night TV show isn't exactly a high-risk job. But that doesn't mean there haven't been a few mishaps along the way, most recently the Daily Show's Jon Stewart slicing his hand on air.

Stewart's injury came during his monologue on February 25. While bashing Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, Stewart shatted a mug and suffered a laceration on his hand.

He continued with the monologue, hiding his hand under the desk. But when he finally lifted it to show the audience his blood-covered hand, it got an audible groan from the crowd.

Stewart isn't the first late-night TV personality to suffer an injury on set (off set is a different story). Thankfully, they are few and far between.

Conan O'Brien's concussion

Conan O'Brien has never shied away from physical comedy during his late-night TV career. However, it backfired during a Tonight Show episode...

(Updated with video) Saturday Night Live has had a lot of Potus mocking over the decades, but you wouldn’t have known it from Sunday’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

Tonight’s live show had Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jay Pharoah, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler in attendance but there was nothing of the presidents and presidential candidates they’ve played and poked fun at over nearly 10 presidencies.

In an era where Donald Trump and the FCC are targeting the media and media owners, Baldwin’s acclaimed impression of the former Celebrity Apprentice and SNL host was noticeably absent. Whether or not it was the chill of further legal and regulatory action against NBC owners Comcast, with almost everything else and the kitchen sink from SNL‘s history on screen tonight, seeing no politics out of the Potus-mocking show’s long legacy was almost as rank...

Saturday Night Live is no stranger to mythologizing, and no episode has been as elevated to the stuff of legend as the late-night sketch comedy series’ inaugural showing.

A tricenarian Lorne Michaels, half a century yet removed from becoming the preeminent juggernaut of television — before SNL produced such comedic powerhouses as Tina Fey and Steve Martin and late-night mainstays as Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, before Fey’s 30 Rock spoofed it and numerous other sketches were transformed into feature-length projects — and a group of rag-tag yet promising comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner, comprised the as-yet untested unit piloting NBC’s experiment of sorts to replace reruns of Johnny Carson’s late-night TV program.

Coinciding with the debut of SNL Season 50, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, about the famed 90 minutes leading up to that first Oct. 11, 1975 show in...

We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live“! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy institution with new stories, including lists, essays, interviews, and more.

There’s an old adage that “context is everything” and while it may not apply to all situations, it certainly rings true when it comes to politics and comedy. Both arenas are designed around performers, sometimes made to look the fool and other times a noble voice of the people, but where one lands always depends on the moment in which a joke or plea is delivered.

This is a fact “Saturday Night Live” has understood well since its inception, with Chevy Chase debuting his impression of then-President Gerald Ford during the show’s first few weeks on air. Chase would appear a few times as Ford in the month after the show’s premiere, but it was during the Christmas episode the character really took form.

The three-hour Saturday Night Live anniversary party on Sunday night not enough television for you?

Don’t worry, NBC has you covered. In the show’s regular time slot on Saturday night, the network will rebroadcast the very first episode from 50 years ago, hosted by comedian George Carlin. Because SNL was a topical show — and because this episode ran in the fall of 1975 — some of the jokes will not only be dated but incomprehensible thanks to long-forgotten cultural references.

Use this handy guide to get up to speed — only 55 miles per hour on the highway back then.

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That thing Michael O’Donoghue is reading in the cold open? That’s a print edition of a newspaper.

Carlin’s opening monologue describes football’s desire to eventually overtake baseball as our national pastime. Consider that goal mission accomplished.

Andy Kaufman’s musical ode to a childhood favorite is funny even if...

Following Chevy Chase on Instagram isn’t for the faint of heart. A simple scroll through the comic’s timeline might find you staring at a guy with a shiner that would make Rocky Balboa proud.

Here, he looks like an Escape From New York extra who suffered a compound forearm fracture:

The latest chapter in the Chase cavalcade of calamity dropped today, with his bloody mug grinning out at the world. What in the name of Jay Leno did Chase stumble over this time?

Turns out the latest gorefest was done by makeup artists, as Chase captioned that he “just shot a film called @catnipthemovie and here are some of the wonderful people that worked on it!”

Seems like Chase only acts in holiday-themed flicks these days — the film’s Kickstarter describes Catnip the Movie as “a horror/comedy Christmas movie about killer cats.” Nice work if you can get it.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal officially announce what appears to be a long-awaited When Harry Met Sally… (1989) reunion between the iconic romantic comedy’s stars. Ryan and Crystal posted a brand-new image of the rom-com’s two lead characters replicating the final scene of the film, in which Harry Burns (Crystal) and Sally Albright (Ryan) recount how they fell in love from the couch just like so many other married couples did throughout the course of the must-see motion picture. Ryan and Crystal broke the news on Instagram, and the announcement reads as follows:

It’s finally happening, we’re reuniting for something iconic. Can’t wait to show you all soon.

Neither Ryan nor Crystal specified how they were going to reunite, but there are a number of ways it could happen if a film sequel doesn’t turn out to be the answer. Perhaps, When Harry Met Sally…...

Captain America first debuted in Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's "Captain America Comics" #1. Hitting newsstands at the tail end of 1940, the comic's cover page showed its flag-draped hero punching out Adolf Hitler.

Since then, most of Captain America's enduring enemies have been fictional Nazis, from the Red Skull to Baron Zemo. But not all fascists come from Germany. The U.S. has spent the last decade getting that rude awakening over and over, and stubbornly refusing to listen, but it's one that Captain America heard much earlier, and heeded, back in 1974. Yes, Captain America was coated in the grey morals of the real world long before the movies.

The "Secret Empire" storyline ("Captain America" #169-175), written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Sal Buscema, features the titular conspiracy out to discredit Captain America and seize control of the American government. The Secret Empire wear purple and black hooded cloaks,...

Jon Stewart is in perfectly good health as far as we know, but that didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from reading a eulogy for the “Daily Show” host on Thursday night. “Because that’s what good friends do,” according to Colbert.

The “Late Show” bit was inspired by former president Jimmy Carter’s state funeral. During the ceremony, Gerald Ford’s son read a eulogy his father wrote for Carter before his own passing, because Ford and Carter made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals.

Indeed, Carter spoke at Ford’s funeral in 2007, and Ford left behind a eulogy for Carter for when the time came. So, Colbert was inspired to do the same for his friend Jon Stewart, pulling a piece of paper out of his suit jacket.

“We were all stunned when Jon passed away in a tragic vegan Nutribullet smoothie accident,” Colbert read out.

When Joe Biden eulogized Jimmy Carter in the majestic surroundings of Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, he said of his predecessor, “Many think he was from a bygone era, but he saw into the future.”

As other speakers noted, Carter was prescient on a host of issues including climate change and women’s rights, but inside the cathedral were reminders that when it comes to politics, the future looks much different than the late president probably could have ever envisioned it.

Carter’s adviser Stuart Eizenstat noted that much of Carter’s agenda passed with bipartisan support in the 1970s; at the cathedral today, in the area reserved for members of Congress, there were only a handful of Republicans. Many seats were empty.

Steve Ford read the eulogy that his father, President Gerald Ford, had written for his one-time rival, whom he called “old friend.” At the service, Donald Trump...

Dakota Fanning has a small, but memorable, role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the actress has spoken about her time on set and her relationship with Quentin Tarantino. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature film and fits in the same category as Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained as a historical film, but with a twist. In this case, Tarantino gives a retelling of the Manson Family murders but indulges in some warranted historical rewriting that ends with Sharon Tate's murderers on the wrong end of a can of dog food.

Stylistically, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is more similarly aligned with Pulp Fiction, however. It's told linearly, but it's separated into unrelated scenes and moments that serve to round out the colorful world and characters Tarantino has created rather than drive the story forward. This style means that Once Upon...

I’ve always avoided New Year’s resolutions, but this week I happened to recall one that was brief but resolute: I resolved to quit Hollywood.

And I did. Almost.

That decision seems relevant today for reasons that require a bit of history. Consider January 1975, 50 years ago: It was a Hollywood moment that was the opposite of the present, both in numbers and nuance. It was a great time to be around – and not to be.

The audience was expanding and was determined to get scared: Jaws was a smash. But millions also were welcoming the weirdities of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. TV fans were puzzled over something new called SNL, and music fans continued to discover Elton John (still are).

As box office kept growing, opportunity was abundant. Words like “downsizing” or “contracting” were still unknown.

There were hints of quantum change, but just hints: The Hollywood...

President James Earl Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1, 2024. He was the first US President to be born in a hospital.

Carter was the oldest living President. He passed away today at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family. This peace-loving humanitarian lived one century, a first for our Presidents.

President James Earl Carter, Jr. Was A Charitable Individual

He was a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his human rights work, a philanthropic gentleman, and an advocate for democracy.

In 1976, he defeated the Republican candidate, Gerald Ford. He served as our President for one term from 1977 to 1981 and lost the election to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Jimmy Carter did a lot of good things in his long life.

He co-founded the Carter Center with his beautiful wife, Rosalynn, in 1982. The Carter Center is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that advances human rights.

It helps mediate conflicts between states, supervises elections in 39 countries,...

The 39th President of the United States, James Earl Carter, Jr., affectionately referred to as Jimmy Carter, has died. He passed away peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, with his family surrounding him. Carter was 100 years old.

The Last of the Presidents of the Greatest Generation

Born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, a facility where his mother worked as a registered nurse. He was the first president to be born in a hospital at that time. The name of the Sanitarium was changed in 1976 to the Lillian G. Carter Health and Rehabilitation Center in honor of his mother.

Numerous members of the Carter family lived as cotton farmers. His father, who had served in the U. S. Army, ran the local general store and invested in farmland in the area. The family moved around a lot while Carter was an infant. They finally settled in...

Jimmy Carter, former United States President, has died at the age of 100. His family confirmed he passed away in his home in Georgia.

Carter was a peanut farmer who became the 39th U.S. President after the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal. A one-term American President, he moved on to become a global humanitarian, positively impacting the lives of many.

President Jimmy Carter’s White House Legacy

Carter passed away on Sunday, December 29, over a year after being admitted to a hospice in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The small town was where he and his wife, Rosalynn (who passed away at the age of 96 in November 2023), spent most of their lives.

Carter was a Navy officer, businessman, author, woodworker, evangelist, philanthropist, as well as a politician. Deep in his faith, Carter once said, “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can,...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100.

The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023, spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said.

“Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center simply said in posting about Carter’s death on the social media platform X.

Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office.

Jimmy Carter has sadly died.

The 39th United States President and former Georgia peanut farmer died at the age 100, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Sunday (December 29).

The late politician became a Georgia state legislator and Georgia’s governor from 1971 to 1975, then served as President from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. election. He was then replaced by Ronald Reagan after one term.

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He had experienced several health issues recently, including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. He decided to receive hospice care in February 2023. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on November 19, 2023, at the age of 96.

His one-term presidency included the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt amid efforts to broker peace within the Middle East.

However, by the 1980 election, the country faced significant inflation, high interest rates and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis.

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr., the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday, according to The Washington Post. He was 100.

“Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” President Biden said in a statement. “Over six decades, we had the honor of calling Jimmy Carter a dear friend. But, what’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, is that millions of people throughout America and the world who never met him thought of him as a dear friend as well.”

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Jimmy Carter, who followed a principled yet tumultuous single term in the White House with a post-presidency dedicated to human rights and peace advocacy, died this afternoon in his hometown Plains, Ga., The Carter Center said.

The nonprofit organization said there would be public observances in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., as well as a private interment in Plains, Ga. The final arrangements of a state funeral are still pending.

Chip Carter, his son, said in a statement: “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love. My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

At 100, Carter — who was born on Oct.

Dwayne Johnson went for Chris Evans as his perfect co-star in Red One after his pretty straightforward condition for his co-actors. Johnson and his production company didn’t want to work with difficult actors and Evans was far from being one. Even though Johnson personally didn’t know about the actor, he shared that Evans’ reputation preceded him in Hollywood.

Dwayne Johnson, J.K. Simmons, Chris Evans, and Lucy Liu in the still poster of Red One | Credits: Amazon MGM Studios

After starring in a bunch of Marvel films and appearing in several promotional events, Evans has earned the reputation of Mr. Nice Guy. Even the recent Marvel film Deadpool & Wolverine included a joke about Evans’ character cursing that mocked this very aspect of the actor.

Dwayne Johnson’s one condition for his potential co-actors led to Chris Evans’ casting in Red One Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson in Red One...

Dick Capri, the comedian and actor, has died. He was 93.

After spending his final Christmas with his family, Capri succumbed to a bleeding enlarged aorta, dying in his sleep in the early hours of Thursday, Dec. 26 in Florida.

“The world is not as funny today as it was yesterday,” the comedian’s son Jeff told TMZ, explaining that his father knew his time was limited as the aorta was deemed inoperable due to his age.

Spending the holiday with his son, daughter-in-law and life partner, Dick FaceTimed with loved ones out of town and enjoyed a meal from his favorite restaurant before his death.

Born Richard Crupi in Reading, Pennsylvania, Dick began performing stand-up comedy in the ’60s, with appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, before embarking on tour with Englebert Humperdinck in 1973, which took him to Radio City Music Hall and venues across the world.

Sara Jane Moore is a normal name for a person with a very interesting story. Her life was a tapestry of suburban normalcy, tumultuous relationships, and surprising radicalism because she was born in West Virginia in 1930. She had been through five marriages and a time as an FBI informant before she tried to kill President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975.

On that terrible afternoon in San Francisco, Moore hid herself in a crowd with a. 38-caliber pistol because she thought her action would show how bad American democracy was. The shots she fired, which barely missed Ford, were a desperate cry for attention in a society that didn’t always listen to women.

This attempt, which happened just 17 days after Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s, made the nation confront a scary truth: disillusionment can lead to violence. Moore’s actions symbolized a generation’s anger, revealing the lengths one might go for...

Donald Trump, who will become President on January 20, 2025, has been named Time‘s Person of the Year for 2024.

Time explained why he was chosen, despite being such a divisive figure. They wrote, “the individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not.”

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“Since he began running for President in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump,” they continued. “On the cusp of his second presidency, all of us—from his most fanatical supporters to his most fervent critics—are living in the Age of Trump.”

“He won by enlarging his base, seizing the frustration over rising prices and benefiting from a global turn against incumbents. With those tailwinds,...

Nostalgia tends to tint our view of the past a rose-colored hue, casting a glow over intense conflict and deep angst, as if those sentiments weren’t fundamental to the experience of people alive in earlier times.

In the case of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the rose-colored (granny) glasses might be appropriate, at least when looking back at the early 1970s when the famous couple moved to New York City and took up residence in a very modest apartment in Greenwich Village. That’s the era examined in One to One: John & Yoko, the acclaimed new documentary directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald.

The filmmaker joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss his film and the burst of idealistic energy John and Yoko felt in their adopted home. But around John and Yoko swirled protests over the Vietnam War, political conflict over the...

Hollywood has been borderline obsessed with Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal for over half a century. Plenty of presidents or watershed legislative decisions have gotten adaptations, but given the recency of his crimes, Nixon is on another level. There have been 24 feature films centered on Nixon and/or Watergate, and that's not including the recent influx of prestige miniseries like 2023's "The White House Plumbers" about Nixon's political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy or 2022's "Gaslit," the Julia Roberts-starring series about Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's at-the-time United States Attorney General.

I was born in 1990, which means my understanding of Nixon until, say, my junior year of high school, was what I had absorbed from pop culture. My introduction to Nixon's resignation speech was when it played over the radio in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and I learned about all of his specific...

From Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump to Barack Obama, an appearance on Saturday Night Live has become an obligatory whistle-stop for presidential candidates over the past 20 years. Kamala Harris was the latest to join the parade last night, communing with her comedy doppelgänger Maya Rudolph to make one final push for votes in advance of Tuesday’s election.

Looking at one another in the mirror, Harris and “Harris” gave each other words of encouragement during the campaign’s final days. There was a shot at Trump, albeit one that required viewers to have seen the viral video in which the former president had trouble locating a garbage truck door handle. The real Harris winced at Rudolph’s impression: “I don’t really laugh like that, do I?”

“A little bit,” Kamala/Maya conceded.

Then the two shared some cutesy Kamala puns. “Now, Kamala, take my palmala. The American people want to stop the chaos,...

Saturday Night Live viewers are going to be seeing double tonight when it comes to the Vice President of the United States.

Kamala Harris will be appearing on the NBC late night show on Saturday, Deadline can confirm from campaign sources. Making an unscheduled stop in the Big Apple, the VP will be live from New York with her comedic doppelgänger Maya Rudolph in SNL‘s cold open, I hear.

Coming from stops in Georgian and a rally in Charlotte, Nc, Harris and Air Force 2 landed at Laguardia Airport around 4:30 pm Pt/7:30 pm Et with no indication why the VP was there. Racing from battleground state to battleground state in the last days before this very tight election, Harris will not be in NYC long. A revised schedule from the White House has her leaving the city for Detroit at 9:40 pm Pt/12:40 pm Et. The Veep...

Since its beginning in 1975, Saturday Night Live has excelled at political impressions. They've been around for every Presidential election for decades, not to mention scores of political figures who have come and gone. Sometimes, you get an actor doing an okay impression, but other times, SNL crafts an impression so huge that it becomes a national sensation.

The best impressions are so famous that they can overwhelm the actual political figure being lampooned. Often, these politicians will pop up on SNL to confront their imposter and give them a stamp of approval. Not all of them are top-notch (their various takes on Donald Trump have been tricky), but these rank as the best SNL political impersonations over the last 50 years, and how you can always count on the show to nail some hilarious takes on famous political figures past and present.

Honorable mentions: Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter, Jon Lovitz as Mike Dukakis,...

Tom Jarriel, a former anchor and correspondent for ABC News who became a mainstay on the newsmagazine 20/20, has died. He was 89.

Jarriel’s family announced his death on Thursday, ABC News reported.

Jarriel joined the network in 1965, covering the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and later the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations as chief White House correspondent.

He later anchored the network’s weekend newscast and was a correspondent on 20/20, the network’s newsmagazine that was introduced in 1978.

Per ABC, Jarriel won six Emmy awards for his reporting for the show. He called a report on children in Romanian orphanages “the great, defining moment of my career,” the network said.

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Geraldo Rivera, who also was a correspondent for the show, posted on X, “He was an excellent, award winning reporter and gracious colleague on 20/20, a true gentleman.”

Jarriel is survived by his wife, Joan; and three sons.

Exclusive: Law & Order: Criminal Justice System, the long-running NBC crime franchise’s first original podcast, tackled the American Mafia in its first season.

It is now turning its attention to the rise of terrorism in America, starting with the 1975 Laguardia airport bombing, in its second season.

The show launched its first season in August and will return next summer. It is hosted by former Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi,

In December 1975, a bomb detonated near the Twa baggage reclaim terminal at Laguardia airport in New York, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others. While the perpatrators were never officially identified or charged, it was thought that it was the work of a member of the Yugoslavian state security service. It was followed by bombings in New York and Washington, DC as well as two assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford.

The airport bombing prompted the nation to take the threat of terrorism seriously,...

Running until the final general election results come in, are counted, verified, & certified the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the often blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features commentary and interviews with top lawmakers and entertainment figures. With less than a month to go in a race to close for anyone to call, follow all the campaign news on the ElectionLine hub on Deadline.

There’s just over two weeks until what may truly be one of the most important elections in American history, and the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in the final sprint in a race that is ever too close to call. In the second longest (The Charlamagne Tha God episode is still #1) and one of the most engaging Deadline ElectionLine podcasts ever, we get the historical,...

On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old single mom, drove into downtown San Francisco, pushed her way to the front of a crowded barricade, reached into her purse, pulled out a pistol, and fired two shots at President Gerald R. Ford as he walked out of the St. Francis Hotel. The first bullet missed him by inches; the second was deflected by a Marine standing beside her. Had Moore used a gun that didn’t have a faulty target, Ford’s appointed Vice President Nelson Rockefeller would have likely assumed the highest office without ever being elected, a sequence of events she felt would expose the country’s flawed and rotting democratic process.

That’s the primary reason Moore says she decided to open fire that afternoon, but it’s easy to be skeptical. In the chaotic aftermath of her assassination attempt, most authorities and Ford himself assumed Moore had lost her mind.

Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard to be certain what they teach, if anything at all. One of the stories that fall under this category is the one of Sara Jane Moore, a suburban single mother turned FBI informant after the Patty Hearst kidnapping, who attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford in 1975. Her efforts weren’t successful and Moore went to prison for thirty years. Her figure has become almost forgotten, especially next to Charles Manson’s protégé Lynette Fromme, who also attempted to kill Ford, mere weeks prior to Moore....

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I went into “Suburban Fury,” a documentary about Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, not knowing much about her and never having given a lot of thought, frankly, to that particular freak spasm of 1970s violence. Moore, at the time, seemed the unlikeliest of assassins — a 45-year-old single mother who looked like she could have been played by Maureen Stapleton. The question that hangs over any shooting like this one is “Why?” (Assuming you think the answer stands apart from the person in question being seriously mentally ill.) And that question really lingered over the Moore case. Yet “Suburban Fury” does that rare thing and offers a highly specific motivation for Moore’s infamous crime.

Only one person is interviewed in the entire film, and that person is Sara Jane Moore. Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed,...

by Cláudio Alves

On September 22nd, 1975, just seventeen days after Squeaky Fromme had attempted the same, Sara Jane Moore fired at President Gerald Ford. Neither of the 45-year-old woman's shots hit their target, though she came dangerously close. Had Moore noticed the sight on her revolver was 6 inches misplaced, she might have done it. Such violent actions came less than two years after this housewife from the San Francisco suburbs had been recruited by the FBI as an informant, going into militant groups and becoming radicalized in the process. Her thwarted presidential assassination led to much media hullabaloo, pithy dismissals of Moore as being "off her mind," and a life sentence, of which she served 32 years.

Nearly half a century after the shooting, director Robinson Devor puts her at the center of Suburban Fury, a new documentary where the would-be assassin is given ample opportunity to tell her own story…...