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Bill Murray slammed Bob Woodward’s 1986 book “Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi” as “completely inaccurate” to the point that he began to wonder if “they framed Nixon” during an interview with Joe Rogan published on Saturday.

In comments that begin around the 1:15 mark, Murray said that the alleged inaccuracies in the book had him half-convinced “they framed Nixon.” He said he read “five pages of ‘Wired'” and “all of a sudden, I went, ‘Oh my God, if this is what he writes about my friend that I’ve known, you know, for half my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to the people of the outer, outer circle, getting the story — what the hell could they have done to Nixon?'”

Murry continued in this vein and added, “I just felt like if he did this to my friend like this, and...

More than 40 years later, Bill Murray has a bone to pick with Bob Woodward over his literary treatment of friend and collaborator John Belushi.

Following Belushi’s death at age 33 in 1982, Murray called out Woodward’s 1984 biography Wired as “completely inaccurate”

“If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too. I can’t take it,” he said on The Joe Rogan Experience. “You could have two sources and everything like that, but the two sources that he had, if he had them for the Wired book, were so far outside the inner circle that it was criminal, cruel.”

Murray added, “Belushi made people’s careers possible. Mine would be one of them. There’s a lot of people that slept on John Belushi’s couch. There’s a lot of people that stayed for free at his house until they made it in New York.

Bill Murray is coming to the defense of his long-time friend and fellow SNL alum John Belushi.

During a recent appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Murray slammed journalist Bob Woodward for his portrayal of Belushi in his 1984 biography “Wired,” which chronicled the life and career of “The Blues Brothers” star. Murray called Woodward’s take on Belushi “completely inaccurate,” and suspects his sources were pulled from “the outer, outer circle” of people that knew him.

“If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too. I can’t take it,” Murray said. “You could have two sources and everything like that, but the two sources that he had, if he had them for the ‘Wired’ book, were so far outside the inner circle that it was criminal, cruel.”

Murray suspects that Woodward’s takedown may have been motivated by jealousy. He pointed...

In one of his last acts as president, Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to several people Donald Trump and his allies perceive to be their enemies and have threatened to criminally investigate. The pardons were issued just hours before Biden is set to welcome Trump to the White House for tea prior to the latter’s presidential inauguration.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former National Institute of Health director who helped oversee the nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic; retired Gen. Mark Milley, who has criticized Trump and whom...

When most actors win an Academy Award, it's because they've crafted a fully-realized, nuanced portrayal of a character. They've created a person out of whole cloth, bringing them to life on screen in a way that no one else could've done in quite the same way. Understandably, a lot of Oscar-winning performances take the whole movie to do that. However, things get trickier when we move into the Best Supporting categories. Actors at this level are often working with a limited amount of scenes, trying to get a portrayal across in very small chunks that may not add up to anything close to the amount of time that audiences see their co-stars.

In "Conclave," for example, Isabella Rossellini plays Sister Agnes. She's one of the most senior nuns in Vatican City, and as such, she's given a position of power that winds up influencing the course of the Church's history.

In legal circles, it wasn’t the monetary figure in Disney’s $15 million deal to resolve defamation claims from President-elect Donald Trump that was surprising, or even the fact that the network settled at all. It was the timing.

Disney opted to dispose of the case before trying its luck on summary judgment, a routine step in civil litigation in which the court evaluates evidence and the merit of claims to decide whether a trial is necessary. ABC News had a strong case. Though he said E. Jean Carroll wasn’t raped within the “narrow technical meaning” of the term, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan made clear that the verdict didn’t mean that the writer “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word.” He underscored, “The jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

The court could’ve decided that Trump,...

Updated, with Des Moines Register comment: Donald Trump vowed to file additional lawsuits against media outlets and media figures, just days after he settled his lawsuit against ABC in which the network agreed to contribute $15 million to his presidential foundation and library.

“We have to straighten out our press. Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections,” Trump told reporters today in a press conference.

Trump suggested that he would file a lawsuit against Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, which published her poll, just days before the election, that showed Kamala Harris with a three-percentage point lead in the state. As it turned out, Trump won the state by more than 13 percentage points.

Trump claimed that the poll was “fraud” and “election interference.” “We’ll probably be filing a major lawsuit against them today or tomorrow,” he said.

Selzer, in an interview with a local PBS station last week,...

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Jack Nicholson is singular for many reasons, but one of his most fascinating attributes is that he was commercially bulletproof. Don't get me wrong, Nicholson made a flop here and there, but there was never a sense with the star that he needed a hit. Even when he was slumping, everyone figured Nicholson would get it straightened out one way or another. He was just too damn appealing to not score a hit once every few years.

If Nicholson was ever kinda-sorta in trouble, it was probably in 1977. Yes, he was only two years removed from winning Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (which was an incredibly competitive year), but he was more immediately on the hook for two box office bombs in Arthur Penn's "The Missouri Breaks" (a pricey Western that paired him with...

The cohosts of The View had a lot to say about Morning Joe stars Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski after they vehemently defended their decision to travel to Mar-a-Lago and meet with Donald Trump — whom they’d previously framed as a “fascist” — after he won the election. On Thursday’s (December 5) show, cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin was the first to offer a very spirited defense of the duo for their decision: “I have really strong feelings about it, and I actually agree with Mika and Joe,” she explained, arguing that their job as journalists is “to talk to both the subject and people who support the subject.” She then noted that their former guest, legendary journalist Bob Woodward, spoke to Trump for hours himself. “I see it as a basic journalism sort of thing,” she continued, adding that in her capacity as a Pentagon spokesperson, she had to work with less-than-ideal subjects,...

Jane Pauley will anchor the CBS News Sunday Morning broadcast on October 13, 2024, airing from 9:00 to 10:30 Am Et. Journalist Bob Woodward will sit down with David Martin to discuss his new book, War, which covers Ukraine, the Middle East, and presidential politics. Actor Al Pacino will talk to Ben Mankiewicz about his […]

CBS News Sunday Morning October 13: Al Pacino, Shirley MacLaine, Bob Woodward...

A new book delivered a bombshell claim that Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 tests during the pandemic. Late Night with Seth Meyers took a closer look at the story, slamming Trump for contradicting his "America first" policy.

According to author Bob Woodward, then-President Trump sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a time when Americans struggled to access test kits. Trump's team has denied many of Woodward's claims, but the ex-president's open fondness for Putin lends credibility to Woodward's reporting.

Seth Meyers opened up Wednesday night's episode of Late Night by using "A Closer Look" to discuss the story. The comedian framed the Covid-Putin story in terms of Trump's "America first" policies and comments.

Meyers reminded his audience how difficult it was for many Americans to get tested for Covid-19. Long lines at pharmacies and kit shortages only added to the collective anxiety. As Meyers put it,...

President Joe Biden again called out as “un-American” the misinformation being spread by Donald Trump and others about Hurricane Milton baring down on the Florida coast in the next few hours.

“I’ve used the phrase more often recently than in my whole career,” Biden said, taking questions from the press after giving an update this afternoon from the White House as the so-called storm of the century nears landfall. “Un-American. It’s un-American. It’s not who the hell we are.”

Biden repeated the term when asked about reports in Bob Woodward’s new book War of Trump sending Covid tests to Vladimir Putin during the early and chaotic weeks of the pandemic. “Speaking of un-American,” he said.

Covered live on all the cable newsers, the Weather Channel and ABC, NBC and CBS stations across the nation, Biden’s remarks come as a political storm is raging alongside the winds,...

The cohosts of The View were extremely fired up when it came to their discussion of the latest reporting about Donald Trump. In Bob Woodward’s newest book, War, the famed journalist reported that Trump covertly sent then-scarce Covid tests to Vladimir Putin and has had calls with the Russian dictator at least seven times since Trump’s presidency ended. Whoopi Goldberg was decidedly not surprised by the news; “It’s not like he’s ever hidden how much he loves a dictator,” she argued. However, Joy Behar was truly steamed and insisted Trump was a “traitor” against the American people for what he allegedly did. “If we have another pandemic, he’ll probably send the stuff to North Korea. The thing about this is that during the Covid pandemic, the blue states didn’t support him, so he didn’t want to send the tests to the blue states,...

The Kremlin confirmed Bob Woodward’s reporting on Wednesday that Donald Trump did send Covid tests to Vladimir Putin during the pandemic and, even after everything, the hosts of “The View” were still stunned by this development. Joy Behar even dubbed him an official traitor.

In discussing the news, Behar first reminded viewers that Trump tried to curb Covid-19 relief for blue states, saying that it was unfair to Republicans. “I don’t think the Republicans want to be in a position where they bail out states that are, that have been mismanaged over a long period of time,” he said at the time.

Behar warned that Trump would do that again in another pandemic, if he didn’t send relief to North Korea first. But, knowing that Trump sent aid to Russia while Americans needed help, Behar had a new descriptor for him.

“I believe that is the definition of a traitor,...

Vice president Kamala Harris appeared on The Late Show last night to discuss her presidential campaign with Stephen Colbert over a can of beer. The Democratic nominee and the late-night host cracked open some Miller High Life as Harris reflected on Donald Trump and recent allegations that he sent Covid tests to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Colbert asked Harris about the allegations, made in Bob Woodward’s upcoming memoir, War. In the book, Woodward writes that Trump sent much-needed Covid tests to Russia early on in the pandemic.

“I heard about it today,...

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed new reports of Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin during her appearance on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

In journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, released Tuesday, an unnamed aide reported that Trump has spoken with Putin as many as seven times since leaving the White House. Other claims included information about Trump sending Putin Covid-19 tests while he was in office, at the height of the pandemic.

Harris acknowledged on Tuesday that she hasn’t read the book yet, but said, “Donald Trump — he openly admires dictators and authoritarians. He has said he wants to be a dictator on day one, if he were elected again as president. He gets played by these guys. He admires so-called strongmen, and he gets played because they flatter him or offer him favor.”

She also addressed the Covid tests reports directly.

Vice President Kamala Harris returned to CBS’ “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night, marking her first late-night appearance since accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in August.

After a daylong media blitz, Harris cracked open a can of Miller High Life with host Stephen Colbert in front of his studio audience in New York City. “The last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug [Emhoff],” Harris said, before repeating the lager brand’s slogan, “The champagne of beers.”

During the taped interview, Colbert asked Harris about revelations from journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “War,” including former President Donald Trump reportedly having as many as seven phone calls with Russian president Vladimir Putin since leaving office.

“Yeah, so I heard about it today. I haven’t read it. But look, I said even at the debate, Donald Trump – he openly admires dictators and authoritarians. He...

Updated: Kamala Harris wrapped up a daylong media blitz with an appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in which she repeated some of her scathing criticisms of Donald Trump and talked of the “whirlwind” of a presidential campaign.

According to excerpts of the interview from a pool report, Harris’ sit down with Colbert was friendly territory, to the point that they shared a Miller High Life.

Colbert also praised her debate performance with Trump, and asked what she was thinking in a picture from that evening where she has rested her chin on her hand.

“It’s family TV, right? It starts with a W, there’s a letter between it, then the last letter’s F,” Harris said.

Colbert also asked of some of the revelations from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War. The Washington Post and other outlets reported today that in the book, Woodward writes that...

Howard Stern said during an interview with Kamala Harris today that she’ll have his vote this November.

Harris visited Stern as part of her media blitz, with less than a month until the presidential election.

The interview had a number of moments where Stern riffed on Trump, including the former president’s absence from Monday’s 60 Minutes election special.

“It just says so much,” Stern said. “He didn’t want to be fact checked. This is madness. This is insanity. What do you mean, you don’t want to be fact-checked?”

On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley said that the Trump campaign gave shifting reasons for backing out of the interview, including that the former president did not want to be fact checked. Trump’s campaign has said that the interview was never set.

Stern also asked Harris about the new revelations from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War. According to The Washington Post,...

Howard Stern revealed that he plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election during her appearance on his SiriusXM show Tuesday, one of several stops in a media blitz the presidential hopeful is making this week as she enters the final month of her campaign.

In the sit-down interview for SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Harris discussed her campaign and some policy but, as is typical with Stern’s interviews, the topics were more personal. Harris discussed her late mother, family and how her conversations with her friends and husband are a stand-in for therapy. Halfway through the interview, Stern revealed that Harris has his vote.

“I don’t even understand how this election is close,” Stern said to Harris, referencing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “And yes, I’m voting for you, but I would also vote for that wall over there, rather than...

Donald Trump’s political persona is based around putting the United States first. The pitch, as with just about everything the former president claims he stands for, comes with a few caveats. Journalist Bob Woodward writes in his new book War, for instance, that Trump secretly sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid-19 tests while the U.S. was facing a shortage in 2020.

Woodward, the legendary Washington Post reporter who helped break open the Watergate scandal, writes that Putin even warned Trump not to tell anyone about the delivery, which was...

One of the original concepts for Saturday Night Live was to have a series of rotating hosts that included iconic stand-up comedians George Carlin, Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor. What happened to that plan? “Perhaps I poisoned the well a little,” Carlin wrote in his book Last Words. “I certainly was full of cocaine. (Though I was far from the only one.)”

What else did Carlin do to sour NBC on having the comic as a semi-regular?

Honestly, Carlin doesn’t recall all of the details. Journalist Bob Woodward said someone had to break down Carlin’s hotel room door because he was so coked up. Did it actually happen? “I don’t remember,” he confessed. “It may be true. Maybe I went missing the day before or after the show, crashed after being up all week.”

One thing Carlin does remember is refusing to participate in any comedy sketches...

Exclusive: Political drama-thriller Words of War, about the life and murder of Russian-American investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been sold domestically to Decal Releasing out of the TIFF market.

BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake, Oscar-nominee Ciarán Hinds and BAFTA-nominee Jason Isaacs star in the film, which is being lined up for a theatrical release in Q1, 2025.

Concourse Media struck the deal with Decal and will manage the P&a campaign after raising funds with the producers.

Pic is based on the real-life story of Politkovskaya’s pioneering crusade for an independent voice in Russia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For years, she exposed the atrocities of Second Chechen War despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. She gained widespread international renown for her criticisms of Russian leaders and stands as a pillar of press freedom. In 2006 on Vladimir Putin’s birthday, Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment elevator, an act that...

The running mates have been chosen, the conventions are over, and the candidates are out on the trail. Now the real race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the election to become President of the United States is on.

As Harris and her VP pick Gov. Tim Walz prepare for their first joint interview together August 29 on CNN, Trump has more rallies of his own and a new book coming out. That’s just over the next few days as the countdown to Election Day on November 5 continues.

Amid tight tracking polls, the candidates are also scheduled to face off in a debate September 10 on ABC. That comes comes eight days before Trump is set to be sentenced over the 34 felony counts he was found guilty of earlier this year in his historic hush-money trial.

Hard to keep it all in order? Welcome to the club. That’s why...

Fact checking columns have been around for some time but gained new popularity with the rise of Donald Trump as a way for news outlets to appear adversarial toward a politician whose rhetoric is consistently, thoroughly detached from reality, without doing the legwork.

Nine years after he first started running for office, though, fact checker pundits still have seemingly no idea how to handle Trump’s bluster and propensity to change positions on a dime. Throughout coverage of the Democratic National Conventions, the fact check columns have been in desperate want of critical thinking.

“It’s gonna be different now. They’ll never lie to us again.”

It seems odd to start at the ending of “Dick,” the 1999 Watergate satire starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams and now celebrating its 25th anniversary. But those final lines, spoken by Dunst’s Betsy to Williams’ Arlene, the teen girl duo whom the movie posits as the real political masterminds behind the Deep Throat informant that helped bring down Richard “Dick” Nixon, hit different when rewatching “Dick” in the current political climate.

“It always got a knowing laugh,” said director Andrew Fleming, speaking to IndieWire during the same week of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life and President Joe Biden announcing he was not seeking reelection, instead endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

“We knew at the time that that was meant to be a joke,” said screenwriter Sheryl Longin, who co-wrote the script with Fleming.

A few months ago, I wrote an article listing ten movies that – despite being well known – were difficult to find (legally) on any streaming service or even on disc. Those titles ranged from Ron Howard’s Cocoon to movies like Dawn of the Dead (the original). In the comments, many of our readers chimed in with their two cents on films they’ve found difficult to find over the years, so here are a few more challenging-to-find flicks, some of which may surprise you.

Panic Room:

The fact that David Fincher’s Panic Room has never been issued on Blu-ray blows me away. It’s been announced a few times, but a physical release never seems to happen (although you can stream it in HD pretty easily). What gives? You’d think the fact that it has Fincher’s name on it, and stars Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker,...

As Twisters blows into cinemas worldwide, this week’s film quiz includes some questions about weather on film…

In summer 2024, UK weather has been as unpredictable as ever, which is a fine hook for a Twisters-adjacent quiz about movie weather. As well as seeing if you know your Little Miss Sunshine from your Rain Man, this week’s batch of 30 questions covers subjects such as movie-star parents, awards-worthy performances, and film-to-tv spin-offs. Thinking cap and quizzing trousers are a must, but dress for all weather as usual!

Once you’ve completed all three rounds, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is all just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 30 this week!) and give us any other lovely feedback. Come rain or shine, we...

Conspiracy thriller films have a way of sticking with our minds maybe it’s because they show that the authorities are hiding something and we know that actually might be true or maybe it’s just thrilling to uncover a large conspiracy even in a fictional world. We thought of compiling a list of the best and most thrilling conspiracy movies and we have only included the films that are entertaining and have a large conspiracy in their story. So, here are the 10 best conspiracy thriller movies you shouldn’t miss out on.

All the President’s Men (Rent on Prime Video)

All the President’s Men is a biographical political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula from a screenplay by William Goldman. Based on a 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by authors Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the 1976 film is set during the 1972 elections and it follows the story...

When the National Press Club hosted a post-screening panel on the upcoming movie Anna, about Russian journalist and Vladimir Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, the conversation — to not much of a surprise — led to Donald Trump and what his potential return to the White House would mean for democracy.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-ca) and former CIA director John Brennan joined journalist Bob Woodward for the post-screening event Wednesday evening, and each chimed in on the potential impact of another Trump presidency.

Woodward, who released 20 audio interviews with Trump as part of The Trump Tapes in 2022, said, “I think an important question about Trump is, ‘Who is he?'”

“In the course of these interviews I asked him, ‘What’s the job of the president?’ And he said, ‘To protect the people.’ Now that’s a good answer. He did not protect the people [in the Covid crisis]. And if you get into this — I think...

On June 17, 1972, thieves acting on behalf of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC, the location of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. The group was looking for papers and secrets that would have given Nixon an unfair advantage in the election. Nixon was bafflingly still elected during this kerfuffle and served as president for two more years before enough details about the break-in emerged to warrant his infamous resignation from office. The many, many details of the Watergate scandal have been recorded in innumerable books, documentaries, and Hollywood dramas in the ensuing decades, and Watergate shows are being made to this day; the miniseries "Gaslit" aired in 2022 and "White House Plumbers" in 2023.

The Watergate scandal represented a loss of American innocence for many. It was positive proof that the Republican party was openly corrupt. The scandal was bad enough, but then Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon of all his recorded,...

As comedian Will Ferrell walked across the magnificent stage of The Kennedy Center to accept the greatest honor an America funny person can receive, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, something happened that made us all remember why he is getting this prestigious honor. The award instantly slipped from Will’s hilarious fingers, shattering this legendary humorist’s bust all over the floor. An obvious gag, that was so damn fitting to what Will represents in the history of the art of doing silly stuff. Without breaking character for a second, Will hilariously tries to pick up the pieces as the world just sat back and laughed… but not laughing at him, we were laughing with him. The appeal of Will Ferrell comes from his innocent “I don’t give a f*ck” attitude that elevates simple stupid jokes to performance art. As Mr. Ferrell once said, “What I...

In a summer of many misses, “Sound of Freedom” has become a major and unlikely box office hit, making a sequel seem a foregone conclusion. But who exactly holds the rights to tackle a new outing? Well, it’s complicated.

A representative for producer Mike Ilitch Jr. told Variety that her client signed a deal with Tim Ballard, the anti-human trafficking activist who is the subject of the breakout film, “for exclusive life rights” and that the pair recently began developing a follow-up. Ilitch Jr., the son of Mike Ilitch, billionaire owner of Little Caesars Pizza, wasn’t going to stop there. He also planned a scripted series and a docuseries about Ballard’s various missions rescuing children from sexual exploitation.

The “Sound of Freedom” franchise plan also included leveraging an unnamed Ballard nonprofit and other nongovernmental organizations “to provide targeted resources, specific calls to action and further real-life and...

Nicolas Coster, the British-American actor who played an evasive lawyer in All the President’s Men, a fiendish kidnapper in All My Children, zany businessman Lionel Lockridge on Santa Barbara, and the father of Lisa Whelchel’s Blair Warner in The Facts of Life, died Monday at a hospital in Florida. He was 89.

His death was announced by his daughter Dinneen Coster on social media. “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital,” Dinneen Coster wrote on Facebook. “Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor!”

A cause of death was not given.

A prolific actor whose career spanned decades on television and encompassed both leading and character roles,...

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with HBO, for this edition, we look at how the team behind “White House Plumbers” found a way to marry comedy, history, and the paranoid atmosphere of 1970s political thrillers.

There’s a scene in Episode 4 of “White House Plumbers” where Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson), one of the masterminds behind the Watergate break-in, receives a call from reporter Bob Woodward. It’s the other side of the exact phone call dramatized from Woodward’s perspective in “All the President’s Men” — the 1976 movie about how Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting helped bring down Hunt, his partner-in-crime G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), and the Nixon White House.

“I like to think of [‘White House Plumbers’] as existing almost in parallel to ‘All the President’s Men,’” said director...

Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos will no longer attend a gala meant to honor him next week in New York. The decision comes as labor issues grab headlines across Hollywood.

Sarandos was set to accept the Business Visionary Award at the annual Pen American Spring Literary Gala, alongside fellow honoree Lorne Michaels and a host of literati including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Choi, Jennifer Egan, Min Jin Lee, Jay McInerney and Gay Talese. He’s skipping the event, to be held under the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History, as many industry celebrations weigh how to address the writers strike.

“Given the threat to disrupt this wonderful evening, I thought it was best to pull out so as not to distract from the important work that Pen America does for writers and journalists, as well as the celebration of my friend and personal hero Lorne Michaels. I hope...

Donald Trump may have stumbled onto a novel copyright issue.

On Jan. 30, the ever-litigious Trump sued Bob Woodward and his publisher Simon & Schuster over the public release of audio recordings from their interviews for Woodward’s book, aptly titled The Trump Tapes. More than eight hours of excerpts from the interviews were published in October as an audiobook, and Trump says he’s entitled to all or most of those profits because he only granted Woodward permission to use his responses in a book. The former president asked for a court order declaring that he owns the copyright to the recordings or, at least, to his responses to the questions in the back-and-forth.

Woodward, in his motion for dismissal, argues that Trump’s claim fails because he hasn’t obtained the requisite copyright registration. While few courts have addressed interview ownership, he also argues it’s “obvious that ownership vests in the journalist,...

John Dean doesn’t recall the exact date more than 50 years ago when he first met Martha Mitchell, but he remembers his impressions.

“The Attorney General [John Mitchell] used to have lunches every Wednesday for the senior staff, which I was a part of. He’d have them in his large conference room at the Department of Justice. And often Martha would attend those,” recalls Dean, the former White House Counsel under President Nixon, and a key figure in the Watergate coverup. “She was always a bright light in any room she walked into. She was vivacious, she was smart.”

There was a time, even before she became a kind of Watergate whistleblower, when seemingly all of America knew Martha Mitchell. The Arkansas charmer with the bulletproof beehive hairdo captivated the public with her remarkably outspoken manner. But that very quality, refusing to hold her tongue, would bring severe consequences,...

Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings” and editor-at-large of Oprah Daily, received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University on Tuesday at a ceremony in Phoenix.

Since 1984, the honor has been reserved for accomplished journalists who have demonstrated exemplary leadership skills. The award is named after the late Walter Cronkite, who anchored CBS Evening News for nearly two decades. Previous recipients include Al Roker, Anderson Cooper, Bob Woodward and more.

“Gayle King’s career and accomplishments are remarkable, and her professionalism embodies everything that Walter Cronkite valued in journalism,” said Battinto L. Batts Jr, dean of Asu’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. “Her approach to covering important events and interviewing politicians, leaders and celebrities is unparalleled. It’s an honor to present Gayle with this prestigious award.”

The three-time Emmy winner’s work has led her to cover pivotal moments in national history,...

A look back at the life of the Comedian reveals that one popular Watchmen fan theory is actually completely wrong. Before Watchmen: Comedian #1 shows that Edward Blake is actually innocent of high-profile murder that's been pinned on him for years.

The world of Watchmen is one much like the real-world, only with the added presence of superheroes. The addition of costumed adventurers might not seem like a big deal, but it actually led to a massive diversion in the timeline, with hero teams like the Minutemen or the Crimebusters getting involved in real-world events. One Watchmen character, the Comedian, is one of the few heroes to work for the government, leading him to have one of the greatest influences on Watchmen's diverging history. In fact, at one point in the original series, he jokes about being behind the death of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, leading fans to theorize it's actually true.

Former “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah crashed “The Late Late Show” on Thursday to help James Corden with a segment entitled “Side Effects Only.”

“If only there was someone who could help me with this bit. I sort of need somebody who has experience reading a teleprompter, someone who has experience sitting behind a desk,” Corden said before being interrupted by Noah

Following the applause, Corden asked Noah how it feels to be sitting behind a desk again, to which he replied, deadpan: “Stifling.”

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Colbert Fakes Out Audience by Teasing Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’ Tour Stop: ‘The Whole World – That Includes This Theater’ (Video)

The first topic the pair covered was leaving your late night show, with Corden listing side effects including not having to wear a suit or pants “because you’re not on TV every night” and not having to talk about the 2024 presidential election.

Noah chimed in with other side effects,...

Donald Trump has found a new avenue to sue the media: Copyright.

Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday, alleging that Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, needed his permission before releasing the audio book The Trump Tapes last year. The audiobook is a collection of 20 interviews that Woodward conducted with Trump.

“Said audio was protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution—as a matter of copyright, license, contract, basic principles of the publishing industry, and core values of fairness and consent,” according to the lawsuit (read it here). Among other things, Woodward interviewed Trump for his book Rage, released in 2020. The book was a bombshell, as Trump admitted that he wanted to play down the Covid threat in the early weeks of the pandemic.

The lawsuit names Woodward, Simon & Schuster and the publisher’s parent Paramount Global as defendants.

Trump claims that the...

“Young and the Restless” star Tracey Bregman has her Daytime Emmy back. The star’s original Emmy was destroyed in 2018 when she lost her house during Malibu’s Woolsey Fire. As she appeared Tuesday on CBS’ “The Talk,” Bregman was surprised with a replacement statue from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Bregman won her Emmy back in 1985 for the category that was then known as Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in a Drama Series. She appeared on “The Talk” to help celebrate her 40th anniversary on the show (which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary this year). Her on-screen husband, Christian Le Blanc, made a special appearance to surprise her with the new Emmy.

“It has been one of the most extraordinary and heartfelt experiences of my career,” Bregman said. “I tried not to go into the “ugly cry” in the air. Thanks to my ‘Young and Restless’ family, NATAS,...

Over his decades-spanning career, Mike Myers has crafted some of comedy's most memorable characters. You might know him most fondly as the headbanging hero Wayne of "Wayne's World," whether on "Saturday Night Live" during his '89-'95 tenure or in the celebrated movie adaptations. Perhaps you recall how he dominated the late '90s as both villain and swinging protagonist in the spy-parodic "Austin Powers" movies, and the subsequent inability to walk down the street without hearing a poorly-feigned Dr. Evil impression. Maybe ogres are your bag, making Myers' turn as an unrefined Scottish mean green machine Shrek the zenith of his talents. Or perhaps the name is fairly new for emergent comedy fans, the product of stumbling upon the cult-centric laugh-fest "The Pentaverate" on Netflix. Myers' influence on comedy is well-established, but what influences the influencer?

Speaking with fellow "SNL" alum and "Documentary Now!" co-creator Fred Armisen for The Hollywood Reporter,...

This article contains references to sexual assault and harassment.

The revelation of Harvey Weinstein's extensive sexual abuse of numerous actresses was one of the most consequential events in recent Hollywood history, so it's no surprise that Hollywood would make a movie about it. She Said stars Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who investigated the allegations for The New York Times.

Many movies have featured journalists as the main characters and told stories of them exposing corruption and bringing just to those wronged by powerful people. For fans looking forward to She Said, the following movies will give them compelling tales of heroic reporters telling truth to power.

All The President's Men (1976)

Based on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's investigation of the Watergate scandal, All the President's Men was a huge hit with both critics and audiences. Even today, it remains one...

Donald Trump did draw the media spotlight for his presidential announcement speech on Tuesday, but the networks varied in how they approached the event, carrying parts of it and cutting away at others.

The coverage perhaps offers a glimpse of how Trump will be covered as he embarks on his third presidential bid — certainly a top story, but not the only one.

Trump promoted the speech as “one of the most important ones in the history of our country,” but the networks alternated their focus on other stories throughout the day. That included the missile hit on Poland that, just minutes before Trump took the stage, put the focus on his nemesis, President Joe Biden.

CNN carried the speech from Mar-a-Lago for more than 20 minutes before cutting away when Trump made the official announcement. Anderson Cooper then went to a fact check with Daniel Dale, a fixture during the 2020 election cycle.

Bob Woodward released even more recordings of his interviews with Donald Trump this week. And setting aside the whole “yet again a prominent reporter held back stuff people probably could have benefitted from knowing sooner” of it all, it’s pretty crazy stuff. So much so that on Monday’s “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert seemed almost happy learning about the creepy, sexual way Trump described the way he vibes with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

In one of the recordings, Woodward asked Trump if he agreed with a CIA assessment that Kim is “stupid.” Trump disagreed and when Woodward asked why, Trump said:

“Because they don’t know. They have no idea. I’m the only one that knows. I’m the only one he deals with. He won’t deal with anybody else…The word chemistry. You meet somebody and you have a good chemistry. You meet a woman.

Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter and CNN analyst, is being hotly discussed as she released her anticipated new book Confidence Man, which details her time coving the Donald Trump White House.

Some of the reveals included several instances of racist behavior by the ex-President, that he nearly fired Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner via Tweet, and that he flushed documents down the toilet in violation of the Presidential Records Act.

She also painted a picture of the Trump White House as extremely dysfunctional, with several top aides concerned about the President’s mental health behind closed doors.

While many of the reveals of the book have been shocking, it is also discouraging to see a journalist sitting on information for years to release it in a book. It reads as little more than a cold and calculated move to spike book sales, when the important part should be...

The CNN image for the past few years has been embodied by passionate on-air personalities like Don Lemon or Brianna Keilar. These days, it might best be symbolized by beat reporters like Jamie Gangel or Kaitlan Collins.

Gone in recent weeks (for the most part) are what had become the network’s signature red-versus-blue showdowns between hot-talking contributors or segments that hinge on an anchor scolding an interviewee. This is the kind of stuff that typically gives cable-news a viral boost. In its place, CNN is trying something else: the news.

And it could guide what three people familiar with the network say will be some sort of recalibration of on-air talent that could become more apparent this fall.

“CNN seems to be moving back more toward straight news and away from some of the blatant opinion-mongering by its anchors that characterized its past few years,” says Mark Feldstein, chairman...

The children’s television program “Reading Rainbow” aired on PBS from 1983 to 2006, and “Butterfly in the Sky” is the story of how that show came to be, what it was like to work on it and its afterlife. The people interviewed here are all so nice, warm and likable that watching this movie is like sinking into a warm bath.

The key creators of the show were Twila Liggett, who started out as a teacher of eight- and nine-year-old kids, and Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, a married couple who had a production company in New York. Liggett left teaching because she didn’t like the excessive and superficial testing of young kids, and she wanted to take what she had learned and bring it to television, which was seen as an enemy of reading for children in the early 1980s.

LeVar Burton had become a star on TV...