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Alice Estes Davis, who went from designing women’s lingerie and undergarments to coming up with costumes for Disney theme park attractions, films and TV shows, has died. She was 93.

Davis died Thursday at her Los Feliz home in Los Angeles, a spokesperson for Walt Disney Animation told The Hollywood Reporter.

Named a Disney Legend in 2004, she was married to animator Marc Davis — one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” — from June 1956 until his death in January 2000. (He became a Disney Legend in 1989, and the couple have their names on side-by-side windows on Main Street at Disneyland.)

Born Alice Estes on March 26, 1929, in Escalon, California, Davis in 1947 earned a scholarship to L.A.’s Chouinard Art Institute, and she attended night school to study animation. Marc, who had worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Bambi (1942), was an instructor at Chouinard,

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Aaron Carter, singer, television personality and younger brother of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, died Saturday. He was 34.

A source confirms his death to The Hollywood Reporter, and it was also reported by TMZ. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told THR that a suspicious death took place at Carter’s address but could not confirm the identity.

Carter got his start opening for the Backstreet Boys on a 1997 tour, and his debut album, Aaron Carter, was released later than year, reaching gold status.

His follow-up album, Aaron’s Party (Come and Get It), was released in September 2000 and went triple platinum. It featured the singles “I Want Candy,” “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq,” and he supported the album as an opening act for Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears on the Oops!… I Did It Again Tour.

Newly installed DC Studios co-ceo James Gunn has heard your calls to save TV’s Legends of Tomorrow, #TheAyerCut of 2016’s Suicide Squad film and other projects. But right now, his and Peter Safran’s focus is on “the story going forward, hammering out the new Dcu.”

On Nov. 1, filmmaker Gunn and longtime producing partner Safran officially stepped into their new roles as co-chairmen and CEOs of DC Studios (fka DC Films), where they oversee “the overall creative direction of the storied superhero franchise across film, TV, and animation under a new, unified banner.”

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Flame-haired Beth Dutton and man-in-black Rip Wheeler are a match made in cowboy heaven in Yellowstone. They’re both rough, tough, and the person you’d want on your side in a bar brawl. That shared scrappiness is probably why it took them so long to tie the knot. (They fight as passionately as they kiss!) Now that Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser‘s fiery lovebirds have wed, you can bet that knot is cinched tight. But marriage doesn’t mean they own each other. Never. One reason they got together in the first place as teens was a free-spirited disregard for the rules. The rich cattle rancher’s beautiful daughter and a scruffy, strapping farmhand? No way that’s going to work! This pair proves conventional wisdom wrong time and again. And proves us right in saying they’re the greatest love story to hit TV in recent years.

One man’s victory could very well be another’s defeat in Season 5 of Yellowstone. When the Paramount Network drama returns with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, Nov. 13 (at 8/7c), John Dutton will be sworn in as the governor of Montana… which may well leave frenemy Thomas Rainwater wanting to do an altogether different kind of swearing. The impact of the rancher’s new role is “very ambiguous, because it’s kind of the deconstruction of some alliances and plans that had already been set in place in Season 4,” says Gil Birmingham, who plays the chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Broken Rock.

Quinta Brunson did the seemingly impossible with “Abbott Elementary,” creating a network sitcom that broke through with critics and television junkies in the era of Peak TV. Her boldness was vindicated this fall when she won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. The show also picked up two more wins in the Casting and Supporting Actress categories, proving that network shows still have a place in the awards race. But that doesn’t mean Brunson is ready to rest on her laurels.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Brunson opened up about reaching the television stratosphere. She explained that, while she’s grateful for the show’s success, she isn’t going to let the adulation cloud her creative vision.

“On one hand, I’m super happy to represent very positive things to people,” Brunson said. “It makes me feel humbled and grateful. I try

Nick Carter has spoken out about the death of younger brother Aaron Carter, who died on Saturday, November 5, at 34 years old. “My heart is broken,” Nick wrote on Instagram on Sunday, November 6, as he shared photos of himself and Aaron. “Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded.” In his Instagram post, Nick also said that “addiction and mental illness is the real villain” in his brother’s death. “I have always held on to the hope that he would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed,” the Backstreet Boys member, 42, added. Nick concluded his Instagram post with a message to his late brother: “I love you, Chizz. Now you can finally have the peace you could never find here on earth… I love you, baby brother.” View

The “only two Twitter employees who haven’t been laid off yet” had an unenviable task in a sketch in the Saturday, November 5, episode of Saturday Night Live. The characters, played by SNL stars Chloe Fineman and Kenan Thompson, had to listen to banned users campaigning to be allowed back on Twitter now that tech mogul (and former SNL host) Elon Musk owns the social media company. First up in the sketch is a conspiracy theorist played Cecily Strong: “The Covid plan-demic was created by Big Pharma to silence me,” Strong says, in character. “I’m sorry, am I too loud for your precious intensive care units? You’re not even sick!” Then comes a militaristic video gamer played by Bowen Yang, banned from Twitter for doxxing another player. “I posted his real name, home address, and middle school schedule and said, ‘Twitter, do your thing.’” the gamer says.

Attention: Private Practice fans! Shondaland boss and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes said on Good Morning America recently that she would love to bring Private Practice back. The popular Grey’s spinoff focused on Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) and her colleagues at a medical practice in Los Angeles, California. “I actually feel like we didn’t finish telling our stories on Private Practice,” Rhimes noted. “We had so many more stories we could tell. … I just felt like we had so much more to say with those characters and so much further to go, and that also felt like a show that had endless possibility, where you’re learning and seeing things happen at the same time, medically.” Indeed, fan votes suggest that ABC canceled Private Practice right as the going got especially good. Of IMDb voters’ picks for the 10 best Private Practice episodes, all are ...

The 2022 Lacma Art+Film Gala on Saturday night proved once again to be one of the starriest nights of the years in Hollywood.

Presented by Gucci, guests at the 11th annual event included Billie Eilish, Simu Liu, Salma Hayek, Jodie Turner-Smith, Andrew Garfield, Sean Penn, Henry Golding, Sydney Sweeney, Olivia Wilde, Paris Hilton, Idris Elba, Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Elliot Page and more.

The dinner, held under a giant tent on the grounds of Lacma, included an awards ceremony that honored artist Helen Pashgian and filmmaker Park Chan-wook.

The evening was capped off by a 30-minute set by Elton John.

“Rhinegold,” a biopic about young Iranian-Kurdish immigrant Giwar Hajabi, also known as Xatar, who rose from being a violent drug dealer and ex-convict to one of Germany’s most successful rap stars and music producers, has become the biggest box office hit ever for director Fatih Akin.

The film, which screens at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, chronicles Hajabi’s eventful life, beginning with the panicked escape of his musician parents from Tehran during the 1979 revolution. Fleeing to the country’s Kurdistan Province, they join the Kurdish rebellion. It is there, during a violent assault by the Iranian military, that Hajabi’s mother,

Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter is paying tribute to his late brother Aaron, who tragically died Saturday at his home in California.

In a touching post on Instagram, Carter wrote, “My heart has been broken today. Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded. I have always held onto the hope that he would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed.

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“Saturday Night Live” spoofed the Netflix series, “The Watcher” with a digital parody sketch called “The Looker,” with Amy Schumer, in her third turn as host of the show. Schumer earned big laughs as a mom revealed to have a habit of eating a second meals at night and other behaviors while watching episodes of “Property Brothers.”

The sketch lampooned the Netflix drama series from producer Ryan Murphy about a family that moves into their dream home in Westfield, New Jersey only to be hounded by creepy letters and weird neighbors. Throughout the sketch, “The Looker” creepily reveals the daily

“What should I watch tonight?” The question, written out simply, seems so innocuous. For those overworked and under-entertained, it could even be inviting. After all, if you’re asking the question, it means you have the time to kick back, relax, and enjoy a little TV time.

But for the nightly viewers, the bingers, the streaming junkies, the question is almost too intimidating to utter aloud. Once again, if you’re asking the question, it means you have the time to watch something… but it also means you don’t know what to watch. And if you don’t know what to watch, that means you have to check with your friends, scroll through reviews, or — in the worst-case scenario — use your chosen platform’s search function.

If that’s where you find yourself right now, then Netflix has likely crossed your mind. The breakthrough streaming service remains an incredibly popular entertainment option,

Sad tidings begin A Christmas Story Christmas, a follow-up film to the 1983 holiday classic. Ralphie Parker, now grown and an aspiring novelist, gets a dreaded phone call from his loving mother (Julie Hagerty) during Christmas 1973. Peter Billingsley in 1983’s A Christmas Story (Credit: Everett Colleciton) “It’s the passing of Ralphie’s father [Darren McGavin, who died in 2006] that calls him home,” says Billingsley, now 51. To honor his old man, Ralphie brings his own wife (Erinn Hayes) and their two kids to Hohman, Indiana, to have a magical holiday just like the ones he recalls. Look for more familiar faces from the 1940-set original, like tongue-stuck-to-flagpole Flick (Scott Schwartz) and bully Scut Farkus (Zack Ward). And not much has changed for Ralphie himself, reports Billingsley: “He’s an eternal dreamer. He’s always fantasizing things.” A Christmas Story Christmas, Movie Premiere, Thursday, November 17, HBO Max

Tributes to Aaron Carter are flooding in following the news of the singer’s death. Carter died in his Lancaster, California home on Saturday, November 5 at the age of 34 years old. He was found dead in his bathtub after a 911 call was placed. While an official cause of death has not been shared, Taylor Helgeson, Carter’s representative at Big Umbrella Management, confirmed his death on November 5. Hilary Duff, his twin sister Angel Carter, boy band New Kids On the Block, and more stars have since paid tribute. Carter was a child star in the 1990s with hit songs like “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” “That’s How I Beat Shaq,” and “I Want Candy.” He continued to make music throughout his adult life, focusing on rap. He was the younger brother of Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter and is survived by Nick, Angel, and Bobbie Jean Carter, his mother,

Hilary Duff has joined the sea of voices that are currently mourning the tragic loss of singer and TV personality Aaron Carter.

“I’m deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in front of the whole world,” the actress and singer wrote in an Instagram post. “You had a charm that was absolutely effervescent… boy, did my teenage self love you deeply. Sending love to your family at this time. Rest easy.”

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“All of history [is] written by the winners, and also usually written by the men,” said “Dangerous Liaisons” actress Alice Englert during a recent interview with IndieWire via Zoom. She’s certainly not wrong, and it’s a key reason why she thinks audiences consume historical dramas in general and Starz’s new adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ novel in particular. The series, a prequel to the book that follows the future Victome de Valmont (Nicholas Denton) and the Marquise de Merteuil (Englert) when they are Pascal and Camille, before they become the duplicitous scheming characters we know from the various adaptations — is an attempt to look at historical dramas free of artifice.

“You have these images and these artifacts that are, in their own way, distorted and have kind of historical Photoshop,” said Englert. In a way, this filtering of history as glamorous enhances the manipulation that is at the heart of the series.

Like your laughs with a side of guilty cringe? Then it sounds like you need a dose of… Covid?

Saturday Night Live‘s latest prescription drug parody digs into the never-ending emotional confusion about the virus. Drug commercials are such an easy target for comedy. They portray a strange world where everyone is both deathly ill, but also cheerful and thankful for whatever wonder drug is curing their ailment. Look too sick and nobody will think your drug works; look too cheerful and people won’t think their sickness is bad enough to need your drug. So there’s plenty of room for jokes.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Seal Team Season 6 Episode 8, “Aces and Eights.”] The members of Bravo team just lost one of their brothers on Seal Team — but it’s not something they could have seen coming. Clay (Max Thieriot) has been trying to figure out his next steps since losing his leg at the beginning of Season 6, and it seemed like he found his purpose helping at Ray’s (Neil Brown Jr.) vet center. But just after he’d talked a vet, Ben, down from breaking into the Air Force recruit center, then taking his own life, Clay was the one holding the gun when a security guard showed up — and the one who took a bullet to the chest as a result. Executive producer Spencer Hudnut explains why Clay was killed off and how everyone will be grieving. So ...