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Selena Gomez, Martin Short, Steve Martin and the ‘Only Murders in the Building' cast share their personal highlights from Season 4
Even in the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building, as Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez's characters visit Hollywood, there was at least one revelation to be found for cocreator Martin. 'It was not until our actual fourth season that I realized Marty did comedy,' Martin deadpanned during an FYC panel for the Hulu series. 'I mean, I did all these seasons with him and I'm thinking 'What a brilliant dramatic actor!' And that was only based on because there were no laughs.' More from GoldDerby 'Squid Game' cast and creative team reveal why Mingle was the standout Season 2 set piece and hopes for Season 3 'Bridget Jones' star Renée Zellweger's emotional admission: 'I didn't want Mark Darcy to go away' 'It's in my contract that I have great clothes, funny lines, and a lover': Christine Baranski on her surging career in her 70s 'Just like now, you mean,' Short quipped without missing a beat. The roasting repartee between the old friends was just one aspect of a rollicking conversation at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood in which Martin, Gomez, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Michael Cyril Creighton joined via Zoom — they're currently at work filming the fifth season in New York City — while guest stars Jane Lynch, Molly Shannon, and Kumail Nanjiani joined cocreator and showrunner John Hoffman live. The panelists quickly zeroed in on some of their personal highlights of the season, which landed on building the show's big emotional moments as the Charles, Oliver, Mabel and their cohorts grow closer and more entwined, building out scene-stealing turns into bona fide costars, the effects of bringing Only Murders to Hollywood. Disney/Eric McCandless Gomez: 'I've spent five years with these iconic people and it's been wonderful being able to become really comfortable and in a groove with what we've created in our bond. So when we do get these emotional scenes I tend to prefer those, because I do have a soft spot for Steve and Marty. … I think there's just magic with them and I feel really grateful that I'm a part of that in any way, and genuinely it was really fun to explore that.' Martin: 'Characters like Howard and Det. Williams, they come in as it may be for two shows or something, and then later you realize 'You know who we need here? We need Howard back. We need Det. Williams back.' And they sort of create an intrinsic involvement in the show, just through their portrayals of their characters.' Creighton: 'I never know what's going to happen in a season. I always like to find out as I get the episodes. So I'm constantly surprised by how John and the writers flesh out how he could so easily just be a joke. But I feel very deeply for him. I think he's at his core really lonely and this trio has brought him out of his shell in such an amazing way. Howard started out as a really isolated character who never left his apartment and was constantly crying. Now he's doing anything he can to support the trio. He is desperate for their approval. He is deeply trying to be the fourth wheel on a tricycle, and it's been really exciting to see him figure out what he's good at, figure out what he's bad at and sort of use all his skills to try to help this amazing trio that he loves so much — even if their relationship is a little adversarial." Randolph: '[Det. Williams] could have easily become very stereotypical, and I love all of the nuances that we're able to create with her. … It's almost like siblings, right? Where it is at the core of it, she's absolutely madly in love with every single one of them, and she also can see their strengths and weaknesses. And so I think this far along and the world of the show, she would do anything for them. She would kill for them. Well, let me not start propaganda!' Hoffman: 'Coming to L.A. felt exactly right — and anachronistic, and that was exactly what felt right about the comedy potential for that, and also for these young amateur podcasters to be enticed and invited to Hollywood, which is very much of the moment, I think, so it felt natural. And I was really curious about these three dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers in Los Angeles … watching them sort of make their way through the embrace of someone like Molly Shannon as a studio head felt just too dreamy to avoid. ... It was just story-wise, ready to give it a little bit of a jolt and then bring them back to New York.' Martin: 'Our first scene that we shot in L.A. was on the Paramount lot, right there. It was the inner gate and it was a spot I'd walked over 50 years going back and forth on the Paramount lot, getting rejected.' Nanjiani: 'I genuinely begged to be on the show. I had a Zoom with John and I was like, 'Please, I need to be on this show! I love this show, I'm a fan of everyone on this show!' And then when I got there, you kind of have to pretend to be just normal and act like you've been there. Like, 'Steve — am I saying that right? Steve?' 'Marty — Nice to meet you.' I was like, just be cool. And then on day two I was like, 'So when you guys were making Three Amigos…' And they totally indulged me and told me everything and at was really, really sweet.' Lynch: '[It was] a delight to watch Steve, and every time we did a scene together I would watch him in rehearsal and I would mimic what he did when he would. He had the idea of the first thing we did together, which was with our glasses, and then we took off from there. It was fun to wear the same clothes he wears. It was fun to steal his girlfriend. It was fun to be so much more charming and more sociable than he is. It's fun to be a much more happy person than he is. And yet the love was real — there's such love for him.' Nanjiani: 'At one point Steve came up to me because one of a line, I had referenced a movie of his and he's like, 'Hey, Kumail, I want to tell you: I was in this movie called Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid…' And I was like, 'Steve, I know who you are!' I genuinely think Steve does not know that he's an icon. I don't think he knows. Marty knows. Marty will refer to himself as such. And I do not disagree because he is right.' Patrick Harbron/Hulu Randolph: 'It's really, really cool to see major names in their own right, you almost see the little actor in them when they come on this show, because that true love of why they do what they do comes out. I've seen it in every single major new star that we get every season. I thought I knew them. … If people could see the behind the scenes of this show and see people's heart and who they are as actors, you see that little thing in them that grew big to make them who they are. And that's to me just the coolest thing to watch.' Nanjiani: 'What I loved about working with them was that the joy of the job is so evident. They obviously make so much great stuff, but in every single scene when they're there, they want to be the best that they can be in that scene. And I think as someone who's grown up — I'm getting emotional — watching them since I can remember. genuinely they've never been better than they are right now.' Gomez: 'It's actually so incredible. And you see why these people are so incredible through their work ethics, through the fun they have, the passion. They're on time, they pour their all into it. I never in a million years thought I'd seen Meryl Streep punch [Melissa McCarthy].' Shannon: 'When I was a struggling actress in Hollywood I worked for agencies, and so I felt like I was like a spy because I was studying for producers and how they work behind the scenes. … So mostly the greatest was trying to make Selena laugh because she's the best. There's nothing better than me making Selena laugh and she is the greatest comedy partner — so my character was, she's just like, 'F--k it! Actors! And your little slippers, and your special food…'' She gets to go off on them.' Short: 'Molly comes in and she's changing the words in every take. And you just see Selena turn upstage, and she's shaking.' Gomez: 'We actually had to use edits of me laughing anyway because there was no other option! You did it different every time — and I hate to say it, but it was really spot on!' Shannon: 'That particular scene — Meryl was in it too, and I was just so nervous, actually, in all honesty! I was like, 'I have to bring my A-game because I'm with these superstars.' So I was nervous. And so that scene did go very well … and I have to say, when I got home to my hotel that night, a fancy hotel that the show put me up in, and I had a margarita and I did little dance because I was so excited! That's the truth!' 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‘Squid Game' cast and creative team reveal why Mingle was the standout Season 2 set piece and hopes for Season 3
There were no games afoot on May 30 when Netflix took over the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles to celebrate Season 2 of Squid Game with the show's creative team and cast. Though Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and his crew saved Season 3 teasers for the Netflix's big Tudum presentation on Saturday, Hwang hinted to Gold Derby that fans need to buckle up for the upcoming spectacle: 'There are great games," he teased. "They are going to be beyond your expectations.' Meanwhile the FYC event was about celebrating the second chapter of the worldwide phenomenon with Kim Ji-yong, editor Man Na-young, and production designer Chae Kyoung-sun, along with cast members Lee Jung-jae (Gi-hun), Lee Byung-hun (In-ho/Front Man), Choi Seung hyun, aka TOP (Thanos), Park Syung-hoon (Hyun-ju), and Kang Ae-sim (Geum-ja). While some fan-favorite games from the first season like Red Light, Green Light made it into the sophomore season, the Squid Game team also had to up the ante. The FYC event included a screening of the penultimate episode, which showcased the brutal game Mingle, which Hwang admitted during the post-screening panel was the game he was most excited to bring to audiences in the new season. More from GoldDerby Selena Gomez, Martin Short, Steve Martin and the 'Only Murders in the Building' cast share their personal highlights from Season 4 'Bridget Jones' star Renée Zellweger's emotional admission: 'I didn't want Mark Darcy to go away' 'It's in my contract that I have great clothes, funny lines, and a lover': Christine Baranski on her surging career in her 70sfor Netflix "Mingle is a game that I grew up playing. It's something that I used to play even before I went to elementary school. That is a game that teaches very young children about what the world is really like," the director told the audience. "You are shown a number, and you have to form a group by urging or holding on to that number of people. Then a minute later, when a different number shows up, you have to exclude someone. It teaches the cruel principles of society. … It's a little bit cruel and strange that such a game is played by young children, so it was the perfect game to show." Mingle was also the crown jewel for production designer Chae Kyoung-sun, who had to work with multiple teams to build the giant carousel set that could support the entire cast during the epic game. "Director Hwang wanted all of the players on the carousel. This was going to be a difficult task, so I worked together with the VFX team to make sure that we could withstand the weight of all the players," she explained. "We did a lot of tests to make sure that it was safe for all of the players to get on it. It was the most challenging set for me to create, but a lot of the cast members loved it a lot so I was so happy." The Mingle set also provided some of the most provocative shots featured in Season 2. Cinematographer Kim Ji-yong set up a downward-facing camera high above the group during the scrimmage sequences, giving audiences a birds-eye view of the chaos as players scrambled over each other to find their teams and make it to the safety zones. "On the day of the shoot, we had the camera up there, and it looked much cooler than we thought it would. Director Hwang really liked that, so he used it more than we planned to use it," he said on the panel. "The camera is so far away, up ahead, it's almost as if you're looking into a cell through a microscope. I thought that was so cool and special." Mingle wasn't just important to Season 2 because of the visual spectacle, but it also cemented the bonds between Geum-ja and her son Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun), but also between Geum-ja and Hyun-ju. The evolution of the relationship between the matriarch of the season and transgender character Hyun-ju was meant to be symbolic of society moving towards full acceptance of the LGBTQ community. Photo byfor Netflix "While the world view of the LGBTQ community is improving, I still think there's some bias. There are some prejudices in the world," Park Sung-hoon told Gold Derby on the Squid Game rainbow carpet. "Hyun-ju is such a cool character. She's so lovable. We saw that Geum-ja warmed up to her. I hoped that viewers would do the same." The actor and former figure skater elaborated on that hope during the panel, teasing that there's more to come between Geum-ja and Hyun-ju in Season 3. "We go through a lot together in Season 3. We develop an even stronger bond. Despite being close on set, what was more important was that we had a lot of booze and alcohol happening, so that's how we built all that chemistry," he added with a laugh. Unfortunately, the fan-favorite character Thanos will not be there to witness that bond after he was murdered with his own weapon of choice — a fork — in Season 2. While Thanos will not continue, he will not be forgotten. Actor Choi Seung-hyun first rose to fame as the rapper TOP in the second-generation K-pop group BigBang, but faced a public downfall when he was found guilty of smoking marijuana — a major crime in Korea. Squid Game Season 2 marked his big return to the spotlight and the actor shared in the panel how grateful he was to be embraced by the global Netflix audience. "When I first read the script, I had to come face to face with my past mistake. When I was looking at Thanos, it took a lot of courage for me to take on this role. Director Hwang had so much trust in me that I could muster up the courage and take on the role," he said, earning a huge round of applause. "I don't think Thanos is a flat villain with just malice. He's kind of like a man-child. He doesn't know what to do. He's a little bit comedic, but while I am playing the character, I think it was an opportunity for me to self-reflect on my past and really think about what I've done wrong. Through Squid Game and this character Thanos, I feel like I have done my self-reflection, and I am ready to move on to a new chapter of my life." Someone also looking for redemption is Gi-hun, the central protagonist of the show. He managed to escape the games in Season 1, only to return for revenge and to be the hero in Season 2. Lee Jung-jae shared how he tackled the challenge of playing a much more harried Gi-hun in Season 2. "I think because he has different motives and objectives, between the Gi-hun that you see in Season 1 and the person that you see in Season 2. It's only natural that the emotions they feel are very different and naturally, the facial expressions and the overall mood you get from the character is very different," he explained. "If you think about the storyline after having gone through everything that Gi-hun has gone through in Season 1, all of the trauma and all of the cruelty that he has seen and experienced, he cannot just go back to the way he was before. I was thinking about that from the moment when he decided he's going to go back and stop these games." Netflix Gi-hun's mission is far from over. Season 2 ended with the Front Man once again gaining control of the game and forcing Gi-hun to watch another close ally die right in front of him. The hero will be attempting to get justice and shut the Squid Games down once and for all from him lowest point yet, but creator Hwang Dong-hyuk hasn't given up on the audience finding a message of hope in the series. "As the creator, I have so many messages. I wish I could talk about all of them, but to just pick one, if we continue to live the way we are living currently and in the future society, it is going to be too dark. I hope people think about what kind of future do we want to leave our next generation. Let's be more understanding and considerate of others," he told Gold Derby. Hwang elaborated on the panel that he wants the show to encourage people to think about their choice and how they use their voice. He wants more collaboration between people so that societies can choose the truly best leaders to progress us as a civilization. "Almost all of us are being dominated by algorithms and AI,' he said. 'That's where we get most of our information from, and AI is capable now of generating so much fake news without a lot of us detecting that it is fake news," he said in his closing statements. "I just hope that we can take a beat and ask ourselves can the majority rule? Can democracy guide us on the right path? Is it capable of making the right choice? I hope that we can come together and think about those things, and be concerned together. I hope [the series] provides an opportunity and room for us to do that." 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‘Bridget Jones' star Renée Zellweger's emotional admission: ‘I didn't want Mark Darcy to go away'
For more than two decades, Renée Zellweger was Bridget Jones. And now, as she hangs up the diary in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, she's doing it with both laughter and tears. "I love this character,' Zellweger proclaimed during a recent FYC screening event for the film. 'I love her vulnerability, and I love to find spaces where she's just not quite feeling that she measures up, and the opportunity to meet her again in different stages of her life and to learn how she's different.' More from GoldDerby 'It's in my contract that I have great clothes, funny lines, and a lover': Christine Baranski on her surging career in her 70s 'One of the things that made it so special was that it wasn't for everyone': 'The Leftovers' EPs and cast on the show's legacy 'The Gilded Age' cast on what to expect in Season 3: feuding sisters, robber barons and a wedding? The fourth and final installment of the beloved franchise — which was streamed in the U.S. on Peacock and is in Emmy contention in categories including Outstanding Television Movie, lead actress for Zellweger, and directing for Michael Morris — offers something fans have never seen before: Bridget not only older and wiser, but grieving, growing, and still full of hope. Morris had one hope when introducing the film to the audience inside Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. 'I hope it immerses you in her world,' the filmmaker said before the screening. 'I hope it brings you whatever feelings it brings you.' For Morris — a London native who remembers exactly where he was when that first movie came out — this fourth and final chapter in Bridget's story was more than a conclusion. It was a celebration, a meditation on love and loss, and, in his words, 'a joy to work on.' Peacock Taking the stage to join Morris for a panel after the screening, Zellweger — who has played the charmingly chaotic Bridget for just about 25 years — is finally ready, although a bit reluctantly, to let her go. The two-time Oscar winner shared a moment that made her particularly emotional on set. It was the final time she saw Colin Firth dressed as Mark Darcy. "It just got me. I didn't expect to be so emotional about the end of this shared journey with my friend ... the finality of it just really was a gut punch. ... It sounds so silly, but it felt very profound in the moment," she chuckled. "Maybe I'm crazy because maybe I love a fictional character," she said, "I didn't want Mark Darcy to go away." Zellweger also gushed over her other longtime costar, Hugh Grant. As lovable lothario Daniel Cleaver, Grant had the role before the actress even signed on as Bridget Jones. Zellweger remembers meeting him for the first time as a "fangirl," saying the chemistry was instant. She was living in a dormitory on top of a theater in Austin when she first saw Grant — on screen. "I would sneak down there and watch all of the animation festivals that would come through," she recalled. 'And here's this guy playing Chopin ... in Impromptu." She thought he was handsome. "When I heard he was in this Bridget Jones film that I was going to go and do in England. ... I think I had a heart attack.' After losing Mark Darcy, some might have entertained the thought, but Grant's rakish Daniel Cleaver was never supposed to be Bridget's endgame. However, in a roundabout way, Mad About the Boy throws fans a curveball. 'Of course, she couldn't have ended up with Daniel," Morris pointed out when posed with the question. "But she sort of did. Because he became part of her family." Photo By: Jay Maidment/Universal Pictures With Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver out of the romantic picture, this opened the door for new potential love interests, which author Helen Fielding explored by introducing the younger Roxster (Leo Woodall) and the more age-appropriate Mr. Walliker (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Morris knew exactly what he wanted in these characters and who he wanted to cast. 'I was absolutely laser-focused on trying to get Leo and Chiwetel into the film,' he says. The thoughtful casting process carried into Bridget and Mark's children, Billy (Casper Knopf) and Mabel (Mila Jankovic), whom Morris championed out of thousands. In fact, one of his favorite scenes is when Bridget and her children are about to release the balloons in Mark's honor. "The scene could be a terribly sad moment," the director noted. But in an unrehearsed glance between Renée and Mabel, a smile turned an act of grief into a display of love. Zellweger recalled her favorite scene as the one with the lip plumper. "I had the best time trying not to laugh … and watching (an unsuspecting) Emma Thompson's face," she said. The fourth installment is a more somber and reflective entry in Bridget's saga. Zellweger describes it as 'the most intimate' of the series, noting that Fielding drew on personal experiences to guide the story. Since 2001, Bridget Jones has matured as a mother, as a woman re-entering the workforce, as a widow, but she hasn't lost her essence, an aspect that continued to intrigue Zellweger as she factored in how life has impacted Bridget. Photo by Daniel Kroll/'How has she changed and grown? How are her values different? How are her choices different?" she mused. "I'm sure everybody feels that they see a lot of themselves in this character. I think the profound gift is that she taps into those things that we all recognize in ourselves, our humanity and feeling not enough, or our fears and all of that." Morris says he struggles to find other examples of where we've taken one character through something like this over two decades. "Occasionally, there were sequels," Morris said, "but this is a franchise set around a real woman. … She's actually just a person living her life, and we've known her for 25 years. That's a real privilege to work on something like that." For the director, it's that duality — joy and heartbreak, comedy and humanity — that defines the Bridget Jones films. His take is both visually and emotionally different from its predecessors. It evolves cinematically. It looks and feels different because Bridget is different. 'I think there's a life that [Renée] brings, and there's a joy that is there, even when her world is falling apart, and she's a fabulous catastrophe," Morris said, "but even when it's falling apart, we just lean right in, because there's so much optimism in the way that [she] brought Bridget to us." Filled with drama, humor, and Easter eggs, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy serves as a fitting sendoff for the franchise. Even the last bit of filming, Zellweger said felt like a farewell party. "I loved the dancing in the garden,' she said. 'It was one of our last days filming. And setting up as you guys saw, standing off the side for a little while and watching everybody dancing on that floor under the disco ball in that glorious garden. ... I can't think of a better way to wrap up the experience than to watch the joy because that was real with all our friends out there, with the music blasting under the stars. That was very special." Best of GoldDerby Liam Neeson movies: 12 greatest films ranked worst to best Paul Giamatti movies: 16 greatest films ranked worst to best Tony Curtis movies: 15 greatest films ranked worst to best Click here to read the full article.
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Taylor Swift's rights drama explained: What happened and why it matters
"You belong with me." The caption on Taylor Swift's Instagram post the morning of May 30 may have seemed like a simple reference to the hit song off of her second album, the Grammy-dominating Fearless, but to anyone familiar with the artist's love of double meaning and the complicated legal saga that has played out over the last six years, it was anything but. More from GoldDerby Directors open up about identity, risk and emotional storytelling at Disney's FYC fest 'M*A*S*H' star Loretta Swit dies at 87, and more of today's top stories 'Maybe Happy Ending' star Darren Criss on his Tony nomination for playing a robot: 'Getting to do this is the true win' The post directed fans to a letter on Swift's official site, which revealed that the rights to her back catalog, spanning from her 2006 self-titled debut to 2017's Reputation, were finally in her possession. The announcement was major news within the music world, which speaks to Swift's status within the industry — that the resolution of a rights dispute could own a news cycle. But for fans of the singer and for Swift herself, the end of the battle for her musical past represents the grand righting of a wrong that involved some of the most important songs of the last two decades. The drama began in June 2013, when Scooter Braun — the former manager behind acts like Justin Bieber and (importantly) Kanye West — acquired Big Machine Label Group, the company that had produced Swift's first six albums, and the rights to the recordings. Ownership of her masters had become of particular interest to Swift, who had secured the rights to her future recordings when she signed with Universal Music Group after her contract with Big Machine came to a close with Reputation. Swift argued that before Braun's company snapped up the rights, she had not been given an opportunity to buy the recordings herself, which is what allowed them to land in the hands of someone she viewed as having personally harmed her with his involvement in her very public issues with both Kayne West and Kim Kardashian. 'Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it,' Swift wrote at the time. 'Now Scooter has stripped me of my life's work, that I wasn't given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.' Swift's plan to take back control of her music emerged over the next few months. She announced plans to painstakingly rerecord her entire back catalog, which would essentially drain the Braun-owned masters of much of their value. Essentially, fans looking to buy copies of her music would have a choice between a version that was artist approved and one that wasn't. Anyone looking to license the music would similarly be forced to use what would come to be known as "Taylor's Version," as Swift still held onto required approval for usage due to publishing rights. The first of Swift's Taylor's Versions, Fearless, hit shelves in April 2021 and became an instant sensation thanks to the narrative behind the release and the bevy of bonus material included, namely unreleased songs from the era. New recordings of Red, Speak Now, and, 1989 followed and received similar receptions. But by the time that Fearless (Taylor's Version) was ready, the rights to Swift's back catalog had already changed hands. About a year and a half after Braun's Ithaca Holdings bought the masters, the company sold them to Shamrock Capital, again without properly giving Swift an opportunity to buy them herself, according to the singer. And with Shamrock Capital the catalog remained until rumors began to crop up last week that a deal could be approaching that would see Swift take control. That reporting was then confirmed by Swift herself with the social post and lengthy letter expressing gratitude to Shamrock and the relief of having her career history finally under her control. "All I've ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy," she wrote. "I will be forever grateful to Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. The way they've handled every interaction we've had has been honest, fair, and respectful. This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it as to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead." "Happy for her,' Braun said in an oh-so-brief statement to The Hollywood Reporter as word of Swift's coup surfaced. The letter from Swift also clarified what is to become of the rest of the Taylor's Version project now that there isn't an explicit need for two as-yet-unreleased re-records. She revealed that she has completed remaking her debut album and is happy with how the new version sounds, but Reputation (Taylor's Version) is far from finished and may not ever be completed. "The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it," Swift wrote. "All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it." She did, however, express interest in releasing vault material from Reputation if there's enthusiasm from her fans, which has honestly never been in short supply. Best of GoldDerby Billboard 200: Chart-topping albums of 2025 Billboard Hot 100: Every No. 1 song of 2025 The B-52s' Kate Pierson talks Rock Hall snub, influencing John Lennon, and fears a solo album would be a 'betrayal' to her band Click here to read the full article.
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‘M*A*S*H' star Loretta Swit dies at 87, and more of today's top stories
Gold Derby's for May 30, 2025. The actress, who play Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on the seminal television series M*A*S*H died on Friday at age of 87 at her home in New York City. Swit won two Emmy Awards for the role and was nominated 10 times in all for the series. She appeared in every season of M*A*S*H and 239 episodes in total, the second most of any actor, behind Alan Alda. More from GoldDerby Directors open up about identity, risk and emotional storytelling at Disney's FYC fest 'Maybe Happy Ending' star Darren Criss on his Tony nomination for playing a robot: 'Getting to do this is the true win' Taylor Swift's rights drama explained: What happened and why it matters Two-time Emmy Award winner and 30-time nominee Alf Clausen, who made an indelible musical mark on the longest-running primetime scripted series in history, died May 29, after a decade-long battle with Progressive Supernuclear Palsy (PSP). The composer joined The Simpsons during its second season in 1990, writing some of its best known songs and parodies until 2017, when he was fired due to cost-saving measures, resulting in an uproar from fans. Almost five years after the pop mega-star announced plans to re-record her first six studio albums due to a dispute with the right's holders, Taylor Swift has acquired the masters to her back catalog. The singer-songwriter announced on her socials that the saga that led to her (Taylor's Version) releases had come to a close. "All of the music I've ever made… now belongs… to me," she wrote in a letter posted to her official site. The rights were most recently in the hands of Shamrock Capital, who have reportedly sold them to Swift for an undisclosed nine-figure sum, according to Variety. Months after her first Academy Award nomination, the Wicked star has found her next film project. The singer-turned-blockbuster actress has signed onto the fourth film in the Meet the Parents series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Grande joins Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, who are reprising their roles as Greg Focker and Jack "Talk Thai" Byrnes respectively. Also set for a return are Teri Polo and Blythe Danner. John Hamburg, who cowrote the first three films, will write and direct the fourth. Hulu has announced when Hank Hill and the gang will be returning for Season 14. King of the Hill is coming back on August 4, after 15 years off the air. The streamer also dropped a first look, a sneak peek at the opening credits, and an official description of the new batch of episodes. "After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill. Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and enjoying his 20s with his former classmates Connie, Joseph and Chane." For those who didn't partake in one last reckoning over the weekend, Paramount has released a clip from the final (?) Mission: Impossible movie. And if you did check out Tom Cruise hanging out of a biplane, maybe you'd just like to enjoy a sterling line reading from Tramell Tillman as Captain Bledsoe one more time. Best of GoldDerby 'I cried a lot': Rob Delaney on the heart and humor in FX's 'Dying for Sex' — and Neighbor Guy's kick in the 'zone' TV directors roundtable: 'American Primeval,' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,' 'Paradise' 'Paradise' directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra on the 'chaos' of crafting 'the world coming to an end' Click here to read the full article.
