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Mrs. Doubtfire stars Mara Wilson and Lisa Jakub reunited at Connecticut’s Hartford Convention Center last weekend for the first annual 90s Con.  

Speaking about the movie — and their friendship — nearing its 30th anniversary, the two reflected on working with late comedy legend Robin Williams, who died by suicide in 2014. 

“I have so many moments of him being kind and looking me in the eye and and talking to me very gently,” Wilson told ABC Audio. “He was a very gentle and quiet, introverted person underneath”

Wilson said Williams also often acted “silly, like making his carpet bag bark like a dog and making little hand puppets that would talk to you and make little jokes. …I consider myself incredibly lucky to have known him”

Said Jakub, “What was most meaningful to me was to see that human beneath the comedic act.”  She said Williams “was very open about his issues with mental wellness” and taught her “it was okay to be vulnerable.”

“That really had a massive impact on me,” she revealed.  Jakub has since launched the mental health resource platform Blue Mala.

Wilson and Jakub, who were six and 14 when filming Mrs. Doubtfire, shared how Sally Field and Williams teamed up to take care of them on set. Jakub said the two treated “us like we were their kids” by ensuring “we had time to just be kids and not always be working all the time.”

Wilson agreed the two were “parental,” and said, “Sally would get down to my level and help me with my lines… They treated us like we were kids, but they also helped us with our responsibilities.”   

Mrs. Doubtfire opened in theaters on November 22, 1993 and won the Oscar for Best Makeup.

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Clayton Echard‘s roller coaster journey to find love came to a heartbreaking end when, for the first time in The Bachelor‘s 26 seasons, he was rejected on the final day and ended up alone — or did he?

Tuesday’s season 26 finale began with Clayton simultaneously breaking up with Rachel and Gabby, following his admission to his parents on Monday that his heart belonged to Susie — despite telling the two that he was in love with them.

When they were alone, Gabby expressed her frustration over how he’d handled everything. “I can’t believe anything you say — not one thing,” she said. Refusing to let Clayton walk her out, she got in the car and left, without shedding a tear for the cameras.

Rachel took the news a lot harder, tearfully explaining that the love she felt for him differed from the love he felt for her. After letting Clayton walk her out and before she drove away she said, “You gave up on us. I never gave up.”

Host Jesse Palmer then visited Susie, delivering a letter from Clayton in which he poured out his feelings for her and invited her to join him in the Icelandic countryside.

There, Clayton told her he saw himself growing old and having a family with her, but Susie responded by saying his letter and his romantic declaration meant a lot to her, but that she wasn’t on the same page with him.

“To me it’s not over until you tell me it’s over,” Clayton said, asking if she could ever see her feelings matching his.

Susie replied, “I feel like it’s over.”

However, Tuesday’s finale had one more shocking twist, when it was revealed that Susie’s feelings changed over the weeks following their split.

“That’s my boyfriend,” she confirmed, pointing to Clayton.

After teasing a potential proposal, Clayton handed her his final rose, which she accepted.

However, there was even more history to be made on Tuesday, when, during After the Rose, Jesse Palmer revealed a Bachelorette first — Rachel and Gabby would be sharing the upcoming 19th season as co-Bachelorettes.

Palmer will return as the host of The Bachelorette when it returns July 11 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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At one point, 50 Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan, Fantastic Beasts lead and future The Theory of Everything Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, Spider-Man No Way Home‘s Andrew Garfield and Charlie Cox, and The Batman‘s Robert Pattinson were roommates in London. 

That’s right: Like a starving artist version of The Avengers, Spider-Man, Daredevil and Batman once lived under the same roof.

For Pattinson, fame came first with the Twilight franchise, and that caused a bit of discomfort with the notoriously private actor and his then-undiscovered pals. In fact, Pattinson recently told Entertainment Tonight that he felt like, at that time, he was the “last invited” when the other guys would hit the town. 

“I was invited as an afterthought,” he admitted. “There’d be like one slice of pizza left and I’d be like, ‘Is there any for me?'”

However, Dornan remembers those days differently. 

At the 2022 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, Jamie noted, “‘The ‘pity invite’? No. I think with Rob it’s always been, like, he sort of had success earlier, so we were a bit like, ‘Does he really fit in with us?’ Because we were not working, and he’s working all the time. He did Twilight and was suddenly in a different stratosphere than us.”

That said, Dornan explained to Access Hollywood at the same event that there was another reason not to disinvite Pattinson when they were all single: “Why would you leave him at home? He was the good-looking one!”

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Netflix has announced a collabo that could make any Grinch’s heart grow three sizes. The streaming service is teaming up with Dr. Suess Enterprises for five new animated series and specials based on the children’s author’s beloved classics. 

Included will be adaptations of Horton Hears a Who!, The Sneetches, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose, and Wacky Wednesday. 

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood veteran Dustin Ferrer will executive produce the lineup. 

The streaming service first teamed up with Dr. Suess Enterprises in 2019 for the series adaptation of Green Eggs and Ham, which will launch its second season on Netflix April 8.

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The repeatedly delayed Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun: Maverick will finally buzz the Cannes Film Festival, Variety reports. 

The movie was originally set to open July 12, 2019, but the pandemic and other scheduling changes scratched multiple planned theatrical landings. Now it will screen as part of the famed fest’s 75th anniversary installment, which runs from May 17 to May 28 in France. 

The movie, from Cruise’s Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski, will finally come to theaters in the States on May 27. 

A follow-up to 1986’s blockbuster Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick will center on Cruise’s Naval aviator, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, still feeling the need for speed well after most pilots have retired their wings.

Joining him are Top Gun veteran Val Kilmer, Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, and a cadre of younger fliers including Monica Barbero, and Miles Teller, the latter playing Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Anthony Edward‘s Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Maverick’s bestie who was killed in the first film. 

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A Florida judge has ruled in favor of Bob Saget‘s family: No photos or body camera footage involving the late comedian’s sudden death can be released to media outlets.

The Saget family had sued to block the release of records and photos of Saget’s death earlier this year, arguing that the pain they already felt would be exacerbated if any of it was published.

The family won a permanent injunction on Monday as they continue to mourn the man beloved by many.

Legal expert and trial attorney Tom Porto spoke with ABC’s Good Morning America about the possible reasoning behind the judge’s decision.  “This is such a sensitive topic area, that being a death and having photos…you know, the public adoration for Mr. Saget didn’t trump those privacy interests of his family in this scenario,” Porto said.

The Saget family said they’re grateful the judge granted their request to preserve the late actor and comedian’s dignity, as well as their privacy rights.

Just over two months ago, Saget, 65, was found unresponsive in his hotel room hours after performing a stand-up comedy set in Orlando, Florida. The Orange County medical examiner determined that Saget died of a head injury likely sustained in a fall.

Meanwhile, ABC News has obtained the police report of the investigation, featuring interviews with those who had interacted with him prior to his death, and redacted descriptions of the state of his hotel room. 

The report also detailed that Saget’s injury to the back of his head was severe enough it “broke the orbital bones at the front of the skull.” That led to a reexamining of his hotel room so investigators could determine what could have caused it. 

Police closed the case after not finding anything that contradicted he was injured in an accidental fall. 

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Marvel Studios has dropped the first trailer for its latest small-screen MCU adventure: the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel.

Newcomer Iman Vellani stars as Kamala Khan. Like her Marvel Comics character, she’s shown trying to balance her dreams of being a superhero with her reality as an awkward high schooler in a traditional Pakistani Muslim family in New Jersey. 

“It’s not really the brown girls from Jersey City who save the world,” Kamala laments to a friend at one point. 

The trailer hints that Kamala’s powers were acquired differently than they were in the books: It seems for the series, a special bracelet grants her the ability to alter her appearance, leap through the air on plasma pools, and “embiggen” herself — that is, shape-shift her fists and other body parts to deliver cosmically-powerful blows. 

And while she has fun with the powers she’s always dreamed about, it appears others are after Kamala: At one point, armed agents are shown stalking her high school, evidently on the hunt for her. 

“I always thought I wanted this kind of life, but I didn’t imagine any of this,” she admits.

That said, she’s pretty enthused about her new identity. “I’m a superhero!” she excitedly tells a friend, before running away smiling.

The series debuts June 8. 

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While women have made great strides in the movie industry in the past few years, the results of a new study shows there’s more work that needs to be done when it comes to equality. 

The annual report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University shows just 7% of the movies released in 2021 featured more women than men. The report has kept tabs of female representation in the top 100 domestic grossing films since 2002.

The study, titled “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World” and written by the center’s executive director Dr. Martha Lauzen, shows that of the films released in 2021, 85% featured more men than women, and male characters outnumbered female by almost two to one. 

Just 31% of 2021’s box office offerings featured sole female protagonists, the study notes — and major female characters dropped from 38% in 2020 to 35% in 2021. Just 8% of the films released in 2021 featured an equal number of male and female characters, according to the report. 

Some bright spots: movies centering on sole female characters bumped up to 31% in 2021, up from 29% in 2020, and the percentage of the top-grossing films in the U.S. that featured female protagonists increased from 29% in 2020 to 31% in 2022. 

However, that news is tempered by the fact that only 34% of all speaking characters in film were female in 2021, down from 36% in 2019. What’s more, gender stereotypes still persisted onscreen in 2021: “Female characters were younger and more likely to have a known marital status than males. Male characters were more likely than females to have an identifiable occupation,” Lauzen also noted. 

“In good times and pandemic times, male characters rule in film,” she concludes.

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Will Smith is setting the record straight when it comes to the “entanglement” his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, had with singer August Alsina. 

The 53-year-old actor told CBS Sunday Morning, “There’s never been infidelity in our marriage. Never.”

“Jada and I talk about everything and we have never surprised one another with anything, ever,” he added.

The statement comes nearly two years after Jada, 50, revealed on Red Table Talk that she and the King Richard star had briefly split in 2016 and she then became involved in an “entanglement” with Alsina, 29. 

The admission caused a lot of chatter about the couple’s marriage. So, how does Will deal with it all?

“I have decided that chatter about my life can be of benefit to people,” he shared. “I think that chatter is the first stage to having a real conversation and being able to truly explore if some of the things in your heart are loving or poisonous.”

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The NBC medical drama New Amsterdam will end with its previously announced fifth season, according to Deadline. The series stars Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin, who juggles a cancer diagnosis with his new role as the medical director of the oldest public hospital in America. Since being renewed for its third, fourth, and fifth seasons in 2020, the show has seen its ratings steadily decline. New Amsterdam airs Tuesdays on NBC. The season four finale is slated to air May 24…

CODA star Marlee Matlin will make her directorial debut with Fox’s upcoming anthology crime drama Accused. The Oscar-winning actress will helm an episode about “a deaf woman who becomes a surrogate and commits a crime of advocacy and protection,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I could not be more excited for the opportunity to direct, and to work on a project with such esteemed, talented, and skilled producers, writers, cast and crew,” says Matlin. “I’ve never shied away from challenges and having the opportunity to be one of the first female, Deaf directors in television is one I am looking forward to”…

Salma Hayek is set to reprise the role of Kitty Softpaws in the upcoming Puss in Boots sequel The Last Wish, according to Deadline. Antonio Banderas will also return as the titular cat, joined this time by newcomers Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Wagner Moura, Ray Winstone, John Mulaney, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Anthony Mendez and Samson Kayo. The Last Wish follows the daring outlaw Puss in Boots as he discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll, per Deadline. The original 2011 film — a spinoff of Shrek — followed Puss’ adventures prior to his debut appearance in Shrek 2. The film earned more than $149 million stateside and close to $555 million worldwide…

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