On the same TikTok account she used to inform fans she underwent surgery for lung cancer — despite the fact she “never smoked a cigarette in [her] life” — Kate Micuccideclared she’s cancer free.
Showing video from a GMA segment about her, the Garfield and Oates songstress and former Big Bang Theory co-star noted in a caption Sunday, “Very surreal to wake up and find Good Morning America had done a story on my lung cancer diagnosis. I had surgery last week.”
Micucci added, “Thanks to early detection and incredible doctors, I am now cancer free! Thank you [correspondent] Will Reeves and GMA for raising lung cancer awareness.”
The 43-year-old added “so lucky” as a hashtag, along with #earlydetection and #lungcancerawareness.
While the streaming service is officially mum, Bloomberg reports Netflix is exploring a spinoff from its blockbuster hit Wednesday, centering on the title character’s goofy Uncle Fester.
Saturday Night Live vet Fred Armisen played the character in the show, which became one of Netflix’s biggest hits and has been renewed for a second season.
The business site explains a potential project is in its earliest stages, and would depend on cast schedules and deals for the players. However, Bloomberg says Netflix is “eager” to create a “pipeline” of Addams Family-based shows, in hopes of potentially having another Wednesday on its hands.
So too is Wednesday co-producer, Amazon-owned MGM, which holds the rights to cartoonist Charles Addams‘ creepy, kooky and altogether ooky family.
His on-screen alter ego may have had to postdate a check for 69 cents at the grocery store, but the sloppy outfit Jeff Bridges wore in that scene in The Big Lebowski just fetched a fortune at auction.
Julien’s four-day “Glamour, Grace & Greatness: Classic Hollywood Auction” wrapped up on Sunday, with a special 25th anniversary lot centering on the 1998 Coen Brothers classic. It raised nearly $800,000 — with a portion of the proceeds going toward Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
When the hammer fell, Bridges’ stained T-shirt and ratty bathrobe ensemble fetched $169,000, five times the original estimate; his sunglasses sold for nearly $89,000.
Other items up for grabs included 400 original storyboards from the movie, which sold for four times the original estimate: $463,518.
Ten bowling pins that were signed and doodled-on by the actor raised $54,960, while a pin featuring an original illustration from the Oscar winner, titled “Abide,” went for more than 9 grand — 30 times the original estimate.
Amanda Bynes made headlines five weeks ago with news she was emerging to launch a new podcast.
However, after one episode, she just told her Instagram followers that she hit the pause button on Amanda Bynes & Paul Sieminski: The Podcast.
“So even though the podcast is doing really well and the response has been great, I’m going to take a pause on it for now,” the former Amanda Show star said into the camera.
The pair logged one interview, with Los Angeles tattoo artist Dahlia Moth, on an installment that debuted December 9.
Bynes went on to explain, “We are not able to get the type of guests that I’d like on the show, like say Jack Harlow or Drake or Post Malone. So maybe one day, if we’re able to get those types of guests on the show, we will resume the podcast. But for now, I’m taking a pause on it.”
She closed by thanking “everyone who watched, I really hope you enjoyed it. And that is all for now!”
Bynes was optimistic upon announcing the show, which was supposed to center on “fashion, artists, actors, actresses, music and everything else!”
She said of her biochemist co-host, “Having his beautiful mind being a part of this podcast is just going to bring it to another level, I think, because he’s gonna ask great questions, and I think he’ll carry most of the weight in terms of topics of conversation.”
In an extensive interview with Deadline, Charlie Sheen talks about his fall from grace from his Two and a Half Men apex, his shot at “redemption” with the new Max dramedy Bookie and how he felt about the death of Matthew Perry.
His Men co-creator Chuck Lorre co-created Bookie and tapped Sheen to play a version of himself in the new show, which “has really helped me not focus so much on what went wrong, or why it went wrong, or how much damage I did, or the pain I caused,” Charlie said, calling it cathartic.
Sheen said of his “Tiger Blood” days, “I wish I could answer really what people ask. What happened? I don’t know. I don’t truly know. Something in my mind shifted.”
Now clean and sober, Sheen reflected on the recent loss of Matthew Perry, who detailed his lifetime struggle with addiction in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
Sheen said when he read about Perry’s death in October, he thought, “[Y]ou could easily be reading about me instead.”
Charlie said of Perry, “I just read his book. About six weeks ago, and I read it in a day,” explaining he couldn’t put it down, “[b]ecause I can relate to it so much of it … A lot of the struggle, a lot of the obsession. When you’re at that fork in the road when there are 76 really good choices, and you go with number 77.”
Sheen said he knew Perry “a little bit … from AA occasionally, and he was lovely.” He added, “I wish I knew him better. I’m not saying I could have influenced some change or helped him in any way, but yeah, I just wish I knew him better.”
Comedian, actress and producer Whitney Cummings has a new job: mom.
The Two Broke Girls co-creator posted a photo on her Instagram in which she’s breastfeeding a new baby boy. “3-D printed a human. Enjoy me never having brushed hair again,” she joked in the caption.
Her post drew a million mazel tovs from her famous friends, including fellow comics Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Haddish and Jo Koy, as well as Adam Devine, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Oscar winner (and new mom of twins) Hilary Swank, who noted, “Have lots of tips, if ya need any!!!!”
Cummings didn’t reveal the baby’s birth date or name as of yet.
The 41-year-old used social media to reveal she was “with child” back in June, via some pool pics with her dog and an accompanying sonogram, writing, “In these pix I am with child. And there’s a baby in me too. Human pup coming December. All [tour] dates in 2023 still happening I just may fall over a couple times.”
She also used Insta to reveal later that month that she was having a boy and tracked her pregnancy journey with photos nearly up until she gave birth, even asking her fans how to induce labor.
Fans of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants got to walk down memory lane after the stars of the iconic 2005 film reunited in New York City over the weekend.
America Ferrera and former co-stars Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively can be seen posing alongside each other at a Barbie screening hosted by SAG-AFTRA on Friday to celebrate Ferrera’s performance in the blockbuster film.
Reflecting on the sweet reunion, Ferrera posted different clips from the memorable night on her Instagram account on Saturday, gushing over her former co-stars in the caption.
“The Sisterhood came through all in pink to celebrate my performance in Barbie last night,” she wrote. “I love these women with all my heart.#SisterhoodForever,” followed by a trio of emojis that were reminiscent of the movie’s title.
Tamblyn also shared the precious moments on her Instagram, telling her followers in a lengthy post that she and her former co-stars spent time together prior arriving to the event.
“We got ready together, picked out outfits and jewelry and handbags together (aka raided Blake’s closet), ate dinners together, and drove together to celebrate our favorite sister, @americaferrera and her brilliant performance in Barbie,” she wrote in the caption alongside a carousel of photos.
She added she’s “so proud” of America, expressing, “When I tell you some things are forever, this right here is it.”
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants follows four best friends who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them despite their differing sizes. The film was based on the popular book of the same name by Ann Brashares and was released in 2005. A sequel dropped in 2008.
Saturday Night Live revealed during its December 15 episode that Jacob Elordi will hosting the first show 2024, along with musical guest Reneé Rapp. Former castmember Kate McKinnon returned to the sketch comedy show for the first time as host on December 16 — the final show before the Christmas break — with musical guest Billie Eilish…
Guardians of the GalaxyVol. 3‘s Miriam Shor has been added to the cast of Superman Legacy, the upcoming film from Guardians writer-director and now DC Films co-CEO James Gunn, according to Deadline. Details of their roles have not been revealed. Shor joins David Corenswet, who plays Clark Kent/Superman; Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane; Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. As reported, Anthony Carrigan, Isabel Merced and Nathan Fillion have been cast as Metamorpho, Hawkgirl and Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, respectively, while another Guardians vet, James’ brother Sean Gunn, will play Maxwell Lord, played by Pedro Pascal in Wonder Woman 1984…
MGM+, formerly Epix, has picked up Beacon 23, the drama starring Stephan James and Lena Headey for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Season 1 followed Headey and James’ characters “whose fates became entangled after they found themselves trapped together inside one of many Beacons that served as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers.” In season 2, “Beacon 23 is now little more than a prison with Aleph onboard, and The Artifact provides more questions than answers. Without a clear path forward, the inhabitants of Beacon 23 must rely on each other, but their conflicting agendas may get in the way,” per THR…
Wonka, the latest film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, topped the North American box office with an estimated $39 million in its opening weekend.
After opening in 37 overseas markets last week, the film, starring Timothée Chalamet as the titular chocolatier, expanded to 77 markets this week. Its total global haul stands at $151.4 million.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes took second place, delivering an estimated $6.1 million in its fifth week of release, for a total of $145 million domestically and $300 million worldwide.
Last week’s top film, The Boy and the Heron, dropped to third place with an estimated $5 million, bringing its two-week domestic gross to $32.1 million and $100 million globally.
Pulling up in fourth place was the sci-fi thriller Godzilla Minus One, which earned an estimated $4.8 million. Its two-week total stands at $30 million in North America and $65.4 million globally.
Rounding out the top five was Trolls Band Together, grabbing an estimated $4 million, bringing its five-week North American tally to $88 million and $183 million worldwide.
Elsewhere, Poor Things — starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo — finished in tenth place, grabbing an estimated $1.3 million and $183 million worldwide in its second week of limited release.
Outside the top 10, the satirical comedy American Fiction — featuring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae and Tracy Ellis Ross — opened with an estimated $227,000 from seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Austin.
General Hospital is celebrating 60 years with its own primetime special.
The daytime soap opera will look back on its six decades in the special General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars and Storytelling, which will air January 4 on ABC and stream on Hulu the next day.
Fan-favorite cast members from across all years of the show will return to share behind-the-scenes secrets and honor the show’s legacy, including Maurice Benard, Jane Elliot, Genie Francis, Finola Hughes, Kelly Monaco and Laura Wright.
Viewers will also be treated to a blooper reel, as well as a special fan tribute during the television event.
Additional celebrity appearances will be made by the current Dancing with the Stars winner and pro-dancer Val Chmerkovskiy, Emma Samms, Stephen A. Smith, Rick Springfield and Amber Tamblyn.
