HBO/Colleen Hayes(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Calling her a “comedy icon,” the Kennedy Center just announced that Seinfeld, New Adventures of Old Christine and Veep Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be honored with this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The star-studded event will be held on October 21 in Washington, D.C. and recorded for broadcast on a later date. Days before announcing last fall …
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” star Donald Glover got a helping “Han” from Billy Dee Williams
Lucasfilm(NEW YORK) — The wait is almost over Star Wars fans — Solo: A Star Wars Story opens with preview screenings on Thursday night before officially hitting theaters nationwide on Friday. Donald Glover stars as the young Lando Calrissian, the role made famous in the original films by Billy Dee Williams. Glover tells ABC News he met …
Patricia Heaton cried at the very end of “The Middle”
ABC(NEW YORK) — ABC’s successful family sitcom The Middle wrapped up Tuesday night after 9 seasons, and with it, Patricia Heaton, who also starred in Everybody Loves Raymond, had to say goodbye to another TV family. “I feel a bit un-moored,” the Emmy winner admitted to ABC Radio. “I love having some free time. But my free time is …
Spoiler Alert! How Maddie Poppe found out she’d won “American Idol” before America did
ABC/Mitch Haaseth(NEW YORK) — On Monday night, Maddie Poppe won the American Idol crown, but even before Ryan Seacrest announced it, she knew she’d won…because she literally saw her name written on the card in Ryan’s hand. “Every week…I [could] see the card, but I [didn’t] ever look,” she tells ABC Radio. “But this week…I …
Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, dies at 85
D. Herrick/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Philip Roth, the prolific author known for dark humored novels like Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint, died Tuesday in a New York City hospital of congestive heart failure, a close friend tells CNN. He was 85. The Newark, New Jersey-born writer — whose more than 25 books mainly centered on the Jewish …
Brynn Cartelli becomes the youngest winner of “The Voice”; coach Kelly Clarkson wins in her first season
Tyler Golden/NBC(LOS ANGELES) — Kelly Clarkson notched a victory in her very first season as a coach on The Voice, as her artist Brynn Cartelli was crowned the season 14 winner — the youngest in Voice history. She receives a recording contract as her grand prize. Cartelli, a 15-year-old pop singer from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, finished ahead of runner-up, …
Jamie Foxx to host the 2018 BET Awards
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — BET has tapped Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx to host the 2018 BET Awards. The network announced on Tuesday that Foxx has signed on to host the annual event, which will take place in Los Angeles June 24. This will be Foxx’s second time hosting the music event — his first time …
Taylor Swift is “so proud” of her “fuzzy daughters” and their “Deadpool 2” cameo
20th Century Fox(LOS ANGELES) — If your kids appeared in the movie that was currently #1 at the box office, you’d be proud, right? That’s why Taylor Swift is pretty excited right now. In the movie Deadpool 2, star Ryan Reynolds, a good friend of Taylor’s, sports a shirt featuring a picture of Taylor’s two …
Bachelorette Becca Kufrin is engaged
Craig Sjodin(HOLLYWOOD) — It seems like new Bachelorette Becca Kufrin is going to get her happy ending after all. ABC’s Good Morning America has confirmed that the reality TV star, who has wrapped production on her season of The Bachelorette, is engaged. Of course, the details of the proposal — and the identity of her …
Gangster’s paradise: Paul Bettany begged Ron Howard via text to join “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Lucasfilm(NEW YORK) — Actor Paul Bettany is still in theaters as Vision in Avengers: Infinity War, but on Friday you can see him without the purple android makeup as the villain in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Was the actor hesitant to jump into another massive movie franchise. “No!” he told ABC Radio emphatically. “In fact, I chased it!” Solo reunited …