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Steven Spielberg kissed his wife and embraced his mother before his left hand floated to his temple in disbelief. Then he grew visibly emotional as he made his way to the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The 46-year-old Spielberg had just won his first Oscar — as best director for “Schindler’s List,” an unflinching look at the Holocaust and its horrors. “This is a big surprise,” presenter Clint Eastwood said somewhat sarcastically.

As Eastwood’s joke suggests, Spielberg’s victory at the 1994 Academy Awards was preordained — an unavoidable coronation after he had dominated popular culture so completely over the past year. Not only had he subverted his image as a boy genius, spinning escapist fantasies out of celluloid, by tackling a project as grown up as “Schindler’s List,” but he had also reestablished himself as the most successful director in Hollywood with another 1993 release, “Jurassic Park.” The adventure film, essentially “Jaws” with dinosaurs,...

Hey, "20/20" fans. We're back on here to let you know that ABC will be serving up another episode of 20/20 tonight,August 4, 2023. However, it will not be a new episode. Yep, ABC is going to serve up another repeat episode of 20/20 this week. Some of you guys might not have seen this repeat episode when it originally aired. So, we're going to serve up a preview session for it. We were able to get this preview information for tonight's August 4, 2023 episode from ABC's press release archives. So, we're going to pull it up right now. Let's go. The first thing right off the bat is the official title for this repeat episode of 20/20. It's called, "Growing Up Buttafuoco." It originally aired way, way back on November 8, 2019. In tonight's August 4, 2023 repeat episode, the 20/20 team revisted the Buttafuoco story in which Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the...

In a captivating episode, “20/20” delves into the infamous Long Island Lolita case, revisiting the shocking attempted murder of Mary Jo Buttafuoco nearly three decades ago. The incident involved then-17-year-old Amy Fisher, who gained notoriety as the “Long Island Lolita” after shooting Mary Jo on her front porch due to an affair with her husband, Joey Buttafuoco.

Through the eyes of the Buttafuoco family, including Mary Jo, Joey, and their daughter Jessie, who was only 9 years old at the time of the shooting in May 1992, the program offers a gripping perspective on their journey. Jessie reflects on growing up under the tabloid glare that dominated her childhood and how she managed to survive the intense scrutiny. She opens up about the family’s life after the incident, including her mother’s excruciating recovery, their decision to move to California to escape the relentless media frenzy, and her own battle with drugs,...

June is ’90s month on Vice TV. But based on its recent programming decisions, it could be argued that the cable network is currently in a perpetual state of ’90s month.

With the debut of “Dark Side of the 90’s” Season 2 on Tuesday and the July 12 premiere of Nacelle Company’s docuseries “Icons Unearthed: Star Wars,” Morgan Hertzan, Vice TV executive vice president and general manager, tells Variety that his team’s goal with this content is to reach the Gen X audience through its seemingly endless love for the era.

“Obviously, a lot of media has focused on millennials, a lot of media is focused on the ‘Greatest Generation,'” Hertzan said. “We’re young for a cable network, we’re pretty young median age, as cable goes. And we really have that Gen X audience and they love when we do stuff like this. So we decided, let’s lean into that.

Vice TV’s “Dark Side of the 90’s” returns with its second season next month, featuring new twisted tales from the era. In the Season 2 trailer, which is exclusive to Variety, Mary Jo Buttafuoco breaks down the infamous 1992 incident in which she was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, a teenager that her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, had committed statutory rape against.

Labeled by the tabloids as “The Long Island Lolita,” 17-year-old Fisher served seven years on first-degree aggravated assault charges for the attack. “I turned my head to open my door, and that’s when my head exploded,” Mary Jo Buttafuoco says in the trailer.

The promo also includes 90’s icon Maury Povich, and teases of deep dives into “Cops,” “The Real World” and Mma and UFC.

Per Vice, “‘Dark Side of the 90’s’ reveals the soul of the decade through the pop culture moments, trends and people that captivated us.

It's been more than 25 years since Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the back of her head by her husband Joey Buttafuoco's lover, 16-year-old high school student Amy Fisher. But now, Mary Jo is opening up about the "Long Island Lolita" scandal that rocked the nation back in the 1990s, and just one day before she tells all in Oxygen's Snapped, she revealed that now that it's been more than two decades since the incident, Mary Jo has finally been able to forgive Amy for what she did all those years ago. "After seven years, I went to the Betty Ford center because I was addicted to these drugs and I wanted to get off of them," Mary Jo said in an interview with Fox News about her addiction to pain killers after the incident. "I had survived this gunshot wound, but I was now a drug addict if you will.

It's back! Oxygen Media, the network for high-quality crime programming, launches the 24th season of the critically-acclaimed franchise Snapped with the infamous case of Amy Fisher and Mary Jo Buttafuoco. It was the scandal that rocked a quiet town in Long Island, NY, and now Mary Jo is telling all about that fateful day that her husband Joey Buttafuoco's teenage mistress, Amy, shot her in the head in cold blood right at the front door of their family's home. Watch the video above to see In Touch's exclusive sneak peek! "That was the biggest news in town that day," Mary Jo said in an exclusive sneak peek. "This was my journey, and during the course of it, I did a lot of things wrong, I made a lot of mistakes, I tried to do the best I can. Nobody told me, 'Okay Mare, this is what happens when somebody...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Did not choose their wedding date for any historical significance ... that is unless they're both huge fans of the Kennedys or the Buttafuocos. Ya never know. We did some research, and the May 19 date of the Royal nuptials has a past that could be labeled rather macabre. It's the date Amy Fisher shot and severely wounded Joey Buttafuoco's wife in 1992. It's also the day the first person died from the bird flu,...

Mary Jo Buttafuoco is speaking out in a new interview — and she has some choice words to say about Amy Fisher, the “Long Island Lolita” who shot her in the face on May 19, 1992.

“You know, it’s been 25 years,” Buttafuoco told Dr. Oz on a Tuesday episode of his eponymous TV show.

“She’s in her 40s now,” Buttafuoco continued of Fisher. “She hasn’t made good choices, that’s her decision. I wish she hadn’t. I forgave her. I forgave her more for me, because again, like I said, when you got this anger and this bitterness you have to say,...

On May 19, 1992, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was inside her home in Massapequa, New York, when the doorbell rang. Seconds later, she was standing face to face with Amy Fisher, a 17-year-old high school student who had been having an affair with her husband, Joey.

As the bizarre confrontation was seemingly ending, Mary Jo Buttafuoco turned away — just seconds before Fisher shot her in the head. Miraculously, Buttafuoco survived the attack, and months later, Fisher pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and served seven years in prison.

Overnight, the story became international news. The media frenzy was so feverish that the story spawned three TV movies,...

January 6 marked the twenty-year anniversary of Nancy Kerrigan's knee-whack heard 'round the world. It combined everything that Americans could possibly want in a scandal: Sports, a blonde vs. a brunette, class conflict, humorous names, and non-lethal violence. It was the best story since Joey Buttafuoco, and this one had the added international stage of the Olympics. Tomorrow night, Espn's "30 for 30" documentary series finally takes on the scandal with The Price of Gold. What The Price of Gold has that few other "30 for 30" docs have is an utterly, pervasively familiar subject matter. It's hard to think of a more famous moment in sports, one that's so clearly part of the lexicon. From very early on, it's been a pop-culture goldmine.For a while there, you couldn't turn on a TV without seeing some mention of the event. As details of the attack came to light — particularly that Harding's...

Joey Buttafuoco says he has been inspired to write a memoir of his affair with the Long Island Lolita, Amy Fisher, after surviving an almost fatal illness. But he warns, not everyone is going to be happy with what he has to say, especially police on Long Island.

“My motivation to write the book is the life-threatening illness I had, diverticulitis. I was bleeding black blood like a dumper on a hot day on a New York City Street. The doctor told me I had 48 hours to live. I was writing things down like a knucklehead on a napkin. I cried for three months trying to recover. I was always the strongest guy I ever knew, emotionally and physically but this took me to my knees.”

Buttafuoco became infamous in 1992 after an affair with Amy Fisher. Now, 20 years later, he’s ready to break his silence. Fisher has released two books,...

Joey Buttafuoco is breaking his 20-year Silence about his affair with Amy Fisher by writing a tell-all book, TMZ has learned. Buttafuoco tells TMZ the reason he's coming forward after so many years is due to a recent brush with death. He believes it's time to "clean the slate" and finally move on with his life -- aptly titling the memoir, "Closure."Joey tells us, "Everyone thinks they know [the story] but they really don't."Joey says...

Bravo exec Andy Cohen has really been making the rounds lately, in part due to his new book, Most Talkative, and in part due to the success of his cocktails and gossip-with-extremely-famous-people talk show Watch What Happens Now. On today's Morning Joe, Cohen chatted about his time as a shirtless CBS news employee and interviews with Joey Buttafuoco with Mika Brzezinski and company.

Joey Buttafuoco says he's happy his infamous ex-wife got re-married this weekend, but in news that should shock absolutely no one ... he describes his relationship with Mary Jo as "strained."Our photog bumped into Joey and his current wife in Beverly Hills yesterday, where he said he's actually met Mary Jo's new hubby and described him as "a really nice guy."But when it comes to him and Mary Jo these days, Joey told us,...

Mary Jo Buttafuoco -- who was infamously shot in the face by her husband's teenage lover nearly 20 years ago -- re-married in Las Vegas yesterday.Buttafuoco exchanged vows with a guy named Stu Tendler, who reportedly manages a print shop in Vegas. She used her maiden name in the ceremony ... Mary Jo Connery.Mary Jo underwent numerous surgeries and lost her hearing in one ear as a result of the shooting. She wrote a book about the ordeal entitled,...

I nearly forgot that every season during the audition rounds, American Idol seems hopeless. We spend hours paying attention to methfaced losers who "sing" in Chester Cheetah growls, or elitist bastards in their deplorable vests, or gospel screamers who faint six times a day because of a disorder called nothing. It's not until late February when the focus shifts to the Adam Lamberts, Melinda Doolittles, and the Siobhan Magnuses, those standouts who don't need condescending narration from Seacrest to seem important. At this time, we're still slugging it out with the ugly screaming skulls.

Let's take a curated journey through some of last night's most important moments. If at any time I seem tolerant of "What a Wonderful World" or "Georgia On My Mind," remember to shoot me in the gay face, because I want to soak those maudlin-ass Idol ditties with kerosene and ignite them in front of a weeping Nigel Lythgoe.

Lou Bellera and Joey Buttafuoco went on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday to promote the upcoming “Celebrity Fight Night.” Stern and Robin Quivers poked at the two, especially Buttafuoco’s weight and needing pain medication for an injury. Even though Buttafuoco was clearly under the weather and was in stark contrast to Bellera, who is in shape, Buttafuoco said, “I’m confident [for the fight]…I feel good and I’m strong.” However, Bellera offered this as a retort to who is in better physical shape for the match. “Did you see our sex videos? Who’s in better shape?” He said. While Stern asked them if there would be bad blood exorcized in the...

Watch Jose Canseco duke it out with Lenny Dykstra, reality stars Tila Tequilla battle with the infamous Michaell “Bombshell” Mcgee and Coolio beat the tar out of Bay Watch’s Jeremy Jackson. Tickets are now on sale for Alki David’s Celebrity Fight Night, November 5 on pay-per-view 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt and now available steaming online for only $19.95 on FilmOn.com. Here’s the updated roster and event details. Jose Canseco Vs. Lenny Dykstra Joey Buttafuoco Vs. Mr. Amy Fisher Octomom Vs. Amy Fisher Tila Tequilla Vs. Cami Parker Violet Kowal Vs. Michelle Bombshell Coolio Vs. Jeremy Jackson Commentators include Frank Stallone, Kevin Klein, Aj Benza, Dylan Howard from Radaronline, Plus...

Ladies and gentlemen, you have just died and gone to D-List heaven. Which is more commonly known as plain old “hell”. But today we’ll call it Celebrity Fight Night, a truly surreal spectacle that even Satan himself couldn’t have conceived. Yet where else can you watch celebs you wanna pummel into submission pummel each other in to submission? Your dreams come true, and you don’t even have to get your hands dirty! It’s a beautiful thing.

All of your favorites are here, including tabloid classics like Kato Kaelin, Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fischer. The current attention-whore of the moment is soon-to-be single (hear that ladies?) Tareq Salahi, whose dog burial photo-op puts him in the running for Worst Human Ever. He’s set to duke it out with former ball player and steroid enthusiast, Jose Canseco. There’s even Michael Lohan and Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, whose...

A review of tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as you shred my Joey Buttafuoco pants... Because the second Robin Sparkles episode was inevitably disappointing compared to "Slap Bet," and because this season had been so frustrating up until last week's more vintage "Himym" outing, I'd been bracing myself for a while for "Glitter" to make me sad about what the show had become. Instead, the return of Robin's teen pop alter ego turned out to be one of the season's funnier (albeit silliest) episodes. The actual emotional storylines didn't work all that well. As a...

Yes: it's true: Geraldo At Large has somehow, inexplicably managed to land the interview of the century, if by "century" you mean "1992": "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher, the New York native that captured America's heart and Joey Buttafuoco's wallet before shooting down and attempting to kill his wife, Mary Joe. Here's everything you need to know about her new porn movie, Deep Inside with Amy Fisher.

Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher is taking it all off for Haiti. The porn star is stripping off at the Scene Restaurant & Lounge in Commack, Long Island, and she promises to donate a portion of her earnings toward the relief effort in Haiti.

According to Page Six, the 35-year-old mother of three, who launched her own porn site last year, got naked starting Thursday and will continue stripping off until Saturday at the venue.

Fisher hit headlines at the age of 17 when she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover. She was dubbed as the Long Island Lolita by the media. She pled guilty to first degree aggravated assault and served seven years in prison, while her lover, Joey Buttafuoco, was charged with statutory rape.

Upon her release, she became a columnist for the Long Island Press. She signed a deal to become a stripper...

Chicago – Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers” is easily one of the best films of the ’90s, an experimental, daring, visually mesmerizing study of not just violence but America’s obsession with it. At the peak of his directorial abilities, one of the best filmmakers of the ’80s and ’90s turned his lens on the way we turn evil people into tabloid heroes and he did it with such vibrant style that “Nbk” has just as much resonance as it did fifteen years ago.

Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis star as Mickey and Mallory Knox, a pair of love-crossed serial killers who have upgraded the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde for a new generation. Their dark pasts of fire and gasoline have exploded into the kind of story that journalists and TV shows dream about. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as a journalist whose attention feed the murders of...

Every week, we find a new Worst Film Ever and deliver it to you as a public service. These films should be avoided at all costs, but if you absolutely have to see them, strap on your rosary beads and prepare to lose your faith in film! This week’s Worst Movie Ever is: Underground Comedy Movie (1999) Synopsis: Ill-conceived sketches meant to insult and offend - including, but not limited to, fetus sales, Boobwatch, Bag Lady Beauty Contest, Musical Parody "I Hate L.A.," spoofs on Dirty Harry, and Michael Clark Duncan losing his gay virginity. Offensiveness at its worst! What you may not realize, dear reader, is that a long discussion (almost thirteen minutes) went into shaping this feature - questioning over what films would be off-limits and which ones would be rife for hatred. There's something seemingly unfair about including a movie like this amongst the ranks of the Worst Ever simply because it's such...

Adult film actress Jenna Haze attends eXXXotica 2009 Miami Beach. Picture by: Splash News. Adult film actress Jenna Haze attends eXXXotica 2009 Miami Beach. Picture by: Splash News. Adult film actress Jenna Haze attends eXXXotica 2009 Miami Beach. Picture by: Splash News. Adult film actress Amy Fisher at the eXXXotica 2009 Miami Beach convention. Amy Fisher is better known as the "Long Island Lolita" for serving 7 years in prison after shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco. Picture by: Splash News. Adult film actress Amy Fisher at the eXXXotica 2009 Miami Beach convention. Amy Fisher is better known as the "Long Island Lolita" for serving 7 years in prison after shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the...

The news that ShamWow Guy was arrested for beating a prostitute is not all that surprising. Now that the story broke and the gruesome mugshot is making the rounds, some surprising details on ShamPow have come to light: did you know he produced a movie starring Joey Buttafuoco? Somebody get me a ShamWow to throw-up in. Jason Cochran of WalletPop actually interviewed Vince Shlomi, a.k.a., ShamWow Guy, when he was promoting his film, if you can call it that: He was [then] going by the name Vince Offer, and he told me he paid for production of his spectacularly tasteless film (The Underground Comedy Movie, which had cameos by the likes of Joey Buttafuoco and sketches like "The Miss America Bag Lady Pageant") through -- wait for it -- the sales of vegetable choppers at malls and flea markets across the...

By Stephen Saito

When Stanislavsky decreed, "there are no small parts, only small actors," Matt Damon was listening. In a career that started with one line in "Mystic Pizza," Damon has risen to the ranks of the A-list. Yet as Damon's star has gotten bigger, the roles have gotten smaller -- most recently, the "Bourne" star reaffirmed his status as king of cameos with his brief appearance in "Che: Part II," in which he plays Father Schwartz, a German priest fluent in Spanish who attempts to negotiate with rebel forces in Bolivia, with screen time of less than a minute. Though his finest pint-sized performance likely went down on the small screen last year in Sarah Silverman's serenade "I'm Fucking Matt Damon," no one has done more random onscreen favors for friends than Damon, who has been around the world more than Jason Bourne and worn crazier get-ups than...

John Wayne Bobbitt has been kicked off a celebrity fight bill after being arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, for allegedly beating up his new wife. Bobbitt was billed to step into the ring with scandalous Joey Buttafuoco for "Celebrity Boxing 2" on May 22, but he has since been dropped. The 35-year-old ex-Marine spent Monday night behind bars for reportedly punching and kicking his new wife of seven weeks, Joanne, ironically during an argument about his appearance on the Celebrity Boxing show. He was released on Tuesday on $5,000 bail. Joanne, who says she intends to file for a divorce, claims Bobbitt slammed her to ground, fracturing her tailbone and finger. Las Vegas police confirm Bobbit was arrested on charges of misdemeanor battery, domestic violence, and for violating his 1999 probation on attempted grand larceny when he tried to steal $150,000 worth of clothes. If convicted, Bobbitt faces up to a year in prison. Meanwhile, studio executives at 20th Century Fox, who are airing the televised boxing line up, have replaced Bobbitt with former wrestler Joanie Laurer, aka Chyna.

Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith is being sued by a film producer for $4 million. Producer Vince Offer says the multi-millionairess agreed to film Underground Comedy Movie, The (1999) but backed out in 1996, saying it would be detrimental to her career. Smith has been involved in a tug-of-war over the estate of her late billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall A judge last month awarded her $449.7 million, ruling she had been wrongly deprived of her share. She is still involved in a probate court battle over the estate's value. Smith was unavailable for comment about the film which was released in 1999 and featured Joey Buttafuoco and Gena Lee Nolin.