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Disney Concerts announced Tuesday that Disney Princess – The Concert, “a celebration of the music of Disney’s iconic princesses performed by Broadway stars,” is coming back in 2024.

The show returns to the U.S. for a 39-city run, kicking off March 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and wrapping up on April 20 in Buffalo, New York.

The 2024 cast will feature Lissa de Guzman, who appeared in Broadway’s Aladdin and Wicked, along with Syndee Winters, who played Nala in Broadway’s The Lion King.

Also taking the stage will be Moulin Rouge and Waitress‘ Adam J. Levy, as well as That’s So Raven and Raven’s Home co-star Anneliese van der Pol, who was Broadway’s final Belle in Beauty and the Beast.

Fiddler on the Roof and The Secret Life of Bees’ Benjamin Rauhala will serve as musical director.

The announcement noted, “As always, fans attending are encouraged to dress up in their best royal attire for an unforgettable evening, as these Broadway stars perform 30 iconic Disney songs, including favorites like ‘Part of Your World,’ ‘Let It Go,’ ‘A Whole New World,’ ‘Just Around the Riverbend,’ and ‘How Far I’ll Go.'”

The press release continues, “The 2024 tour includes new arrangements and song additions, adding the music of some of Disney’s greatest heroes and villains. Larger than life animation and theatrical effects accompanying the music will immerse the audience in pure Disney magic.”

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time at disneyprincessconcert.com.

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The Golden Globe Awards will have two new categories when they return for the 81stannual event on Sunday, January 7, 2024.

The organization announced Tuesday, September 26, that it will now be honoring films that have become blockbusters: The Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement “will include nominees from among the year’s highest-earning and/or most-viewed films that have gained extensive global audience support and produced exceptional creative content,” organizers say.

Another addition, The Award for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, “recognizes outstanding work by a comedic performer,” according to the announcement.

Tim Gray, Golden Globes executive vice president, noted, “The new Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award is more than just rewarding the year’s top-earning and most viewed motion pictures. These films have typically not been recognized among industry awards, but they should be.”

Indeed, a common gripe during awards season is that your average audience goer is far more familiar with The Fast and the Furious movies than lauded independent films like The Whale. In fact, when he hosted the Academy Awards in 2005, Chris Rock did a whole sketch about it.

About the new comedy category, Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne added, “The Golden Globes has a rich history of supporting and celebrating the work of comedians, and we’re thrilled to honor their brilliance alongside outstanding motion picture and television performances of the year.”

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Besties Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are staying on the road.

The pair — who announced their Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour on Galentine’s Day, February 13 — are adding more dates to their sold-out tour.

The new dates include a fifth and final show at Austin, Texas’ Bass Concert Hall, new stops in Atlanta, San Francisco and elsewhere, and four shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.

Check out tinaamytour.com for all the details.

Presales begin Wednesday, September 27, at 10 a.m. local time, including an artist presale with code RESTLESS. The general onsale begins Friday, September 29, at 10 a.m. local time.

The Restless Leg Tour has been called a celebration of Fey and Poehler’s “thirty years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories and conversational entertainment,” according to Live Nation.

The pair just played the Cleveland, Ohio’s State Theatre at Playhouse Square on September 21 and will next stop at Denver, Colorado’s Bellco Theatre on October 1.

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Emmy-winning The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge has collaborated again with e.l.f Cosmetics for a line accentuating one of her most famous features: her lips.

The Legally Blonde scene stealer just announced the creation of Dirty Pillows, a limited-edition lip collection available for purchase September 27 on the company’s website.

The title was inspired by an outtake from e.l.f.’s and Coolidge’s Big Game commercial shoot, during which she said she’d call a specific lipstick color by that name.

Incidentally, “dirty pillows” was also how Piper Laurie, as Carrie’s creepy mom, referred to breasts in the 1976 thriller Carrie.

“A key part of my favorite look is exaggerating my lips by combining lipstick with liner and gloss in just the right colors to make them look bigger,” Coolidge says in the announcement of her new lip line.

She continues, “every day I’m asked what products I use to get that look! Now…you can have the exact shades I use every day to give you swollen lips too…You’ll know you still have your lips on if you wake up to a dirty pillow!”

The $25 kit includes O FACE Satin Lipstick in shade Dirty Pillows; Lip Plumping Gloss in shade Swollen; Cream Glide Lip Liner in shade Fill Frontal, and a Mirror to Your Soul mirror.

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The Bachelor Nation has grown by one: Becca Kufrin and her fiancé, fellow Bachelor in Paradise veteran Thomas Jacobs, have become parents.

On Monday, former Bachelorette star Kufrin shared a joint Instagram post with Jacobs announcing the birth of their son, Benson Lee Jacobs Kufrin.

“Benson Lee Jacobs Kufrin cracked our hearts wide open on September 21, 2023,” they wrote in the caption of the post alongside a series of photos. “No amount of words can begin to capture the amount of love and awe we have over this tiny man.”

“We are forever changed with this one’s abundance and can’t believe we are parents to this gift,” they continued, before sharing the meaning behind their baby’s name.

In the post, Kufrin said Benson is for the town that her father was born and raised in, and Lee is for Jacobs’ father, “who sacrifices so much for this country and others.”

They decided on Jacobs Kufrin as their son’s last names because they said “we wanted both parts of us to make this little one whole.”

In one photo, Kufrin is cradling her son in her arms while Jacobs smiles at her. In a second, Benson’s hand is against a sign with information about his birth, which noted he was born at 7:45 a.m. on September 21 and weighed 8 lbs.

The couple met on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise. In May 2022, Kufrin announced that she popped the question to Jacobs, saying in the caption of an Instagram post, “HE SAID YES!”

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If you love the Shrek movies, Airbnb has got a number — or more accurately, an address — for this Halloween.

The homeshare company is opening up a painstakingly recreated version of Shrek’s swampy abode for its guests, just in time for Halloween.

“Shrek’s mud-laden, moss-covered, murky-watered swamp is situated among the rolling hills of Scotland where guests can stay up late, swap stories, and eat like an ogre – because in the morning, Donkey’s making waffles!” the company’s ad copy teases.

“Located among the hills of the Scottish Highlands, Shrek’s Swamp is a stumpy, secluded haven fit for a solitude-seeking ogre – and for the first time ever, a handful of his biggest fans,” Airbnb continues.

If you’re looking for a review before you book your stay, look no further than your host, Donkey. Note: the review is best read in Eddie Murphy‘s voice. “Shrek’s Swamp is lovely. Just beautiful. The perfect place to entertain guests. You know what I like about it? Everything,” his review reads. “The overgrown landscaping, the modest interiors, the nice boulders, all of it. I can’t wait for guests to experience this muddy slice of paradise for themselves.”

The company says, “With Donkey in charge, guests will have the chance to live their own versions of the layered ogre life for two special, starry nights (minus the torches, pitchforks, and intrusive Duloc Knights).”

Bookings for the fairytale stay begin Friday, October 13, at 1 a.m. ET.

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Emmy-winning comedian John Mulaney is following up his latest Netflix special, Baby J, with a new stand-up tour.

John Mulaney in Concert kicks off on November 2 at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, and will have dates in Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, his native Illinois and elsewhere before wrapping up at Phoenix’s Arizona Financial Theatre on New Year’s Eve.

Tickets will go on sale starting with an artist presale beginning on Wednesday, September 27; general sales begin on Friday, September 29, at 10 a.m. local time at ticketmaster.com.

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In an extensive interview with GQ ahead of the October 20 release of his Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese explains why he turned his back on the studio system.

As an anecdote, he says the film for which he won his only Oscar, 2006’s The Departed, would have been quite different if studio execs had their way: Notably, the shocking deaths of both an undercover cop played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon‘s rat of a detective never would have happened.

Instead, after a successful test screening, Warner Bros. execs apparently asked Scorsese if they could both survive to live on in a sequel.

“What they wanted was a franchise,” Scorsese says. “It wasn’t about a moral issue of a person living or dying. They wanted the franchise. Which means: I can’t work here anymore.”

It wasn’t long after that, that Scorsese decided to only direct films he can finance outside the studio system. “I thought I was in a Hollywood group. It didn’t work,” he says.

The New York City-born and bred filmmaker behind classics like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas adds of the Motion Picture Academy, “I don’t really belong there. I don’t know if I think like them. I just mind my own business here.”

As for the future, the 81-year-old notes he doesn’t have a lot of time left. “[I]f I could just muster up the energy, God willing, to make a couple more [films], one more maybe, and that’s it, OK? That’s as far as I got. You keep going until you can’t.”

He adds, “I’m gonna try until they pick me up off the floor. What can I tell you?”

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Kevin Hart‘s latest project, a modern take on the classic TV game show Hollywood Squares, has been picked up by VH1. Celebrity Squares, hosted by actor and comedian DC Young Fly, “will bring two contestants together to play Tic-Tac-Toe, banking cash, and prizes along the way. The player with the most money in their bank at the end of the game will move on to the bonus round for a chance to win a $10,000 cash prize,” per the cable channel. Celebrity guests include Babyface, Bobby Brown, Tiffany Haddish, Kirk Franklin, Bresha Webb, Luenell and Taye Diggs, among others. Celebrity Squares premieres Tuesday, October 17, on VH1…

The wrestling drama Heels, comedy Run the World, and dramedy Blindspotting, have been canceled at Starz, according to Variety. All three shows recently completed their second seasons. Additionally, The Venery of Samantha Bird — set to star Katherine Langford as a woman who visits her family in New England and rekindles a relationship with her childhood sweetheart, only to find it’s not the storybook romance it seemed to be on the surface — was scrapped before its first season even aired…

Veteran actor David McCallum, best known for his roles as Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallardin in CBS’ NCIS and Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s NBC TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., died peacefully Monday morning of natural causes at New York Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by family, according to Deadline. He had just turned 90 a week earlier. McCallum’s other TV credits include The Outer Limits, Law & Order and Sex and the City. He also voiced characters in the animated series The Replacements and Ben 10…

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Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde have reportedly settled their custody case.

Sudeikis, 48, agreed to pay $27,500 in monthly child support for their two children — son Otis, 9, and daughter Daisy, who’ll turn 7 in October — according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail. The Ted Lasso star will also have to cover 25% of Wilde’s childcare costs, on top of the $27,500 monthly payment.

The former couple have also agreed to share joint custody of the two children, on a “week-on, week-off basis.”

Sudeikis’ estimated income was $10.5 million, while Wilde, 39, made about $500,000, according to the court documents.

The ex-couple first began dating in 2011 after meeting at a Saturday Night Live finale party and got engaged the following year. They welcomed Otis in August 2014 and Daisy in October 2016, before announcing their split in November 2020.

The agreement comes a year after Wilde was infamously served with custody papers at CinemaCon while promoting her film, Don’t Worry Darling, touching off a bitter legal battle. A source close to Sudeikis later told People that the Emmy winner “had no prior knowledge” she’d be served “in such an inappropriate manner.”

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