Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Broadway rang in 2019 with a record-breaking week, led by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. The two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child set a new Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a play, …
Online bookies have Lady Gaga as the odds-on favorite to win at Sunday’s Golden Globes
Peter Lindbergh(LOS ANGELES) — The first big event of the award season is Sunday night, and at least one online betting site is putting their money on Lady Gaga to take home the gold. According to ET Canada, the betting side Bovada says Gaga is the odds-on favorite — at 2/5 — to take home …
Bob Einstein, Super Dave Osborne and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ actor, dies at 76
Christopher Polk/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Bob Einstein, the gravelly-voiced comic, actor and writer who had a recurring role on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and as the bumbling daredevil Super Dave Osborne, died Wednesday in Indian Wells, California at age 76. Writer, director and actor Albert Brooks, Einstein’s younger brother — Brooks’ birth name is Albert …
Netflix warns people not to do the “‘Bird Box’ Challenge”
Saeed Adyani/Netflix(NEW YORK) — It seems that Sandra Bullock’s hit Netflix thriller Bird Box has become the latest piece of popular entertainment to inspire a potentially dangerous Internet “challenge.” While Drake’s In My Feelings challenge saw a number of people doing some particularly dangerous things set to his hit song — like accidentally getting hit …
Colton Underwood tells ‘GMA’ he felt “the pressure” on the first night of ‘The Bachelor’
ABC/Craig Sjodin(NEW YORK) — Colton Underwood admitted that the women vying for his affection on this season of The Bachelor are not holding back from asking him tough questions. Underwood, who was previously on The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, has been an open book, and told Michael Strahan on Good Morning America Wednesday that …
Report: Kim and Kanye’s surrogate is pregnant with their baby boy
ABC/Byron Cohen(LOS ANGELES) — US Weekly reports that the surrogate who gave birth to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s third child Chicago is pregnant again with what will be the celebrity couple’s fourth child — and it’s a boy. Citing an “insider,” the magazine reports the baby is due “in very early May.” The Wests’ growing …
‘The View’ co-host Abby Huntsman announces she’s pregnant with twins
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(NEW YORK) — The View co-host Abby Huntsman announced Wednesday that she is pregnant — with twins. She made the announcement in an exclusive interview with People magazine — but the 32-year-old confirmed the happy news in the opening minutes of Wednesday’s installment of The View. “It’s a girl…and a boy,” she said to …
‘SNL’ star Pete Davidson jokes about Ariana Grande split during New Year’s Eve shows
NBC/Will Heath(BOSTON) — Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson returned to the stage on New Year’s Eve, performing standup at two sold-out shows in and around Boston, according to multiple published accounts. The appearances came nearly two weeks after Davidson got everyone worried with a since-deleted Instagram post that implied he was thinking about harming himself. That …
‘Stranger Things’ season three returns July 4, 2019
Netflix(NEW YORK) — July 4, 2019 is going to get pretty strange. That’s the date Netflix has set for the Stranger Things season three premiere. Just as people on the East Coast were ringing in the new year, Netflix released a teaser-trailer for the show’s third season, set in the summer of 1985. The clip …
“I wish it was better,” Tiffany Haddish says of New Year’s Eve comedy show that led to fans walking out
ABC/Paula Lobo(MIAMI) — New Year’s Eve was anything but a party for Tiffany Haddish. The usually funny lady reportedly bombed so hard, fans walked out of her show on in Miami, Florida Monday. In a video of the performance, obtained by TMZ, Haddish, fully aware she’d lost the audience, is seen admitting, “This is weird …