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Well, you can’t have a billion dollar fashion and cosmetics empire without the people’s support, so it’s fitting that Kim Kardashian West will be honored with The Fashion Icon award at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards. 

The announcement singles out Kim’s “keen fashion sense, unprecedented entrepreneurial success,” and for, “single-handedly transforming the fashion industry through her innovative designs and trend-setting style over the past decade.”

KKW has managed to turn reality show stardom into a brand that brings in big bucks through her successful Skims shapewear and lounge lines, as well as her KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance offerings. She even launched a mobile game in 2016 that generated over $50 million. 

In April of this year, Kim made Forbes‘ billionaire list thanks to her endeavors.

“For nearly two decades, Kim Kardashian West’s style evolution has disrupted and influenced trends on a global level and cemented herself as a force to be reckoned with within the fashion industry,” according to NBCUniversal Entertainment Television and Streaming’s Executive Vice President Jen Neal.

“For being a cultural inspiration, trailblazer and so much more, we can’t wait to honor Kim with this year’s ‘People’s Fashion Icon’ award.”

The 2021 People’s Choice Awards will take place live on Tuesday, December 7 at 9pm ET/PT at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. The event will be simultaneously broadcast on both NBC and E!.

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Amazon Prime Video has released the first teaser to the fourth season of its Emmy-winning comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which debuts on February 18.

The snippet shows a determined Rachel Brosnahan as Midge Maisel after a season-three capper that saw the stand-up comic getting the boot as the opening act of singer Shy Baldwin’s tour, after joking about his sexuality. 

Unfazed, Maisel’s looking for a comeback as she plots with her manager, Susie, played by fellow Emmy-winner Alex Borstein. 

“No more opening act gigs. I will only do gigs where I can say what I want. That’s what Lenny would do,” says Midge.

“That’s different, he’s Lenny Bruce!” Susie replies, referring to the legendary comic played by Luke Kirby in the show. 

“Then make me Lenny Bruce, make me a headliner,” Midge says. “You’re my manager — manage me!”

Susie replies, “That’s not how the business works,” to which Midge counters, “Then let’s change the business.”

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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By now, Marvel fans might rightly feel their Spidey senses tingle whenever Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal makes predictions about future projects. The producer made headlines by telling Fandango, “We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We’re thinking of this as three films, and now we’re going to go onto the next three…”

While it was welcome news to fans, studio industry insiders have pumped the brakes,

“Sony insiders note though the studio has a strong relationship with Holland and [Marvel Studios head Kevin] Feige and hopes to continue their collaboration, there are no official plans for a trilogy at this phase,” The Hollywood Reporter insists.

This wouldn’t be the first time Pascal has jumped the gun in an interview with regards to Sony’s collaboration with Disney-owned Marvel Studios. During a 2017 interview alongside Feige, Pascal incorrectly stated Venom, and another, since scrapped film project, were part of the MCU. Feige’s nonplussed reaction spawned a meme.

Incidentally, the new book The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe reveals Pascal initially didn’t take too kindly to Feige’s advice for collaborating, and rebooting Spider-Man with Holland as the lead, after the poor performance of the solely-Sony-produced The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield.

Pascal recalled, “I think I started crying and threw him out of my office, or threw a sandwich at him — I’m not sure which.”

What is assured, at least, is that the studios’ latest collaboration, Spider-Man: No Way Home debuts Dec. 17.

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By now, Marvel fans might rightly feel their Spidey senses tingle whenever Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal makes predictions about future projects. The producer made headlines by telling Fandango, “We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We’re thinking of this as three films, and now we’re going to go onto the next three…”

While it was welcome news to fans, Sony insiders have pumped the brakes; formerly with Sony, Pascal is still affiliated with the hero via her Pascal Productions shingle.

“Sony insiders note though the studio has a strong relationship with Holland and [Marvel Studios head Kevin] Feige and hopes to continue their collaboration, there are no official plans for a trilogy at this phase,” The Hollywood Reporter insists.

This wouldn’t be the first time Pascal has jumped the gun in an interview with regards to Sony’s collaboration with Disney-owned Marvel Studios. During a 2017 interview alongside Feige, Pascal incorrectly stated Venom, and another, since scrapped film project, were part of the MCU. Feige’s nonplussed reaction spawned a meme.

Incidentally, the new book The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe reveals Pascal initially didn’t take too kindly to Feige’s advice for collaborating, and rebooting Spider-Man with Holland as the lead, after the poor performance of the solely-Sony-produced The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield.

Pascal recalled, “I think I started crying and threw him out of my office, or threw a sandwich at him — I’m not sure which.”

What is assured, at least, is that the studios’ latest collaboration, Spider-Man: No Way Home debuts Dec. 17.

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Billy Porter, Ciara and Liza Koshy have been announced as co-hosts for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022.

Porter will co-host from New Orleans, ushering in the Central Time Zone countdown. He previously co-hosted from Times Square last year and from New Orleans in 2019. Ciara will return to co-host from Los Angeles for the fifth year. She’ll be joined at the LA party by DJ D-Nice, and Koshy will co-host the festivities in Times Square with Seacrest. She previously served as a correspondent in 2019.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. It airs live Friday, December 31, beginning at 8/7c on ABC.

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A new trailer for Disney+’s upcoming The Book of Boba Fett series hints at an important chapter: How he cheated death after the events of 1983’s Return of the Jedi.

As most Star Wars fans can tell you, Fett ended up in the belly of a sandpit-dwelling creature known as a sarlacc, as the heroes escaped the clutches of Jabba the Hutt in that film. But The Mandalorian brought Boba back from the dead, and Star Wars prequel star Temuera Morrison to fill his spike-tipped boots.

Some glimpses in the new trailer shows we might get to see how he escaped. Morrison is shown submerged in a healing fluid filled bath known as a bacta tank — the same therapy Luke Skywalker used after his run-in with a wampa in The Empire Strikes Back — and the new clip hints the desert planet’s natives, the Sand People, might have scooped him up when he was “left for dead in the sands of Tatooine.”

As previously reported, The Book of Boba Fett will track Boba’s rebirth from bounty hunter to crime lord, taking over Jabba’s empire.

Incidentally, Star Wars creator George Lucas has admitted regret in unceremoniously “killing off” Boba, not knowing at the time the character would become a fan favorite — despite having just four lines of dialog between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

The Book of Boba Fett debuts on Disney+ December 29. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Describing what seems like a scene from a movie, Bradley Cooper reveals he was held at gunpoint on a New York City subway. 

During Monday’s episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, the 46-year-old actor and filmmaker recounted the terrifying incident. 

“I used to walk around New York City all the time with these [headphones] on — this was pre-pandemic — I was on the subway [at] 11:45 to pick up [his daughter] Lea downtown at Russian school and I got held up at knifepoint. It was pretty insane,” Cooper began.

Cooper said that he was “all the way at the end of the subway” when he felt someone’s presence.

“I thought, Oh, they want to take a photo or something,” he continued. “As I turned, I’m up against the post like it’s the French Connection or some s***, and I turned. I looked down and I see a knife.”

The five-time Academy Award nominee shared that he couldn’t “hear anything” because he had headphones but recalled being taken by how “young” the person looked.

Explaining how he got out of the situation, Cooper recalled, “I just started booking, just started running. I jumped over the turnstile, hid around the white, tiled entrance to the subway [and] took my phone out. He jumped over, running away. I took a photo of him. Then I chased him up the stairs. He started running up 7th Avenue. I took two more photographs of him.”

Eventually, Cooper was able to flag down two officers, who told him to check to make sure he hadn’t been  stabbed.

“What happens is people get stabbed and they’re in shock. I looked to see if he was right,” he said. “And then I got back on the subway and picked up my daughter.”

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Another Hollywood couple has reportedly decided to part ways: Tiffany Haddish and Common.

Although neither actor has publicly addressed their relationship, an insider told People, “They are never in the same city together and both of them are just too busy for a serious relationship.” 

Haddish, 41, first confirmed her relationship with Common, 49, in August 2020 during an episode of Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast.

“I am in a relationship,” she told Steve-O, showing off her freshly shaved head to match Common’s bald dome. “We’re twins now.” 

According to Haddish, the couple met when Common played her love interest in her 2019 film The Kitchen and they bonded over a few occasional spades games.

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The heirs of Aldo Gucci, chairman of the Gucci fashion house from 1953-1986, have issued a statement decrying their “ignorant and insensitive” portrayal in the Ridley Scott film, House of Gucci.

“The production of the film did not bother to consult the heirs before describing Aldo Gucci — [played in the film by Al Pacino]…and the members of the Gucci family as thugs, ignorant and insensitive to the world around them,” they say in a statement first published by Italian news agency ANSA and obtained by Variety.

The statement goes on to claim the film attributes “a tone and and an attitude to the protagonists of the well-known events that never belonged to them.”

The statement further claims the depiction of Patrizia Reggiani — played by Lady Gaga — who was convicted in 1998 of facilitating the murder of Maurizio Gucci — played by Adam Driver — “as a victim trying to survive in a male and male chauvinist corporate culture…couldn’t be further from the truth,” noting that that during the 70-year time span in which the Gucci company was a family business, it was “an inclusive company” and “there were several women who held top positions.”

“Gucci is a family that lives honoring the work of its ancestors, whose memory does not deserve to be disturbed to stage a spectacle that is untrue and which does not do justice to its protagonists,” the statement concluded, adding that “the members of the Gucci family reserve the right to take action to protect the name, image and dignity of themselves and their loved ones.”

Despite the accusations, no legal action is being taken at this time by the Gucci family against Scott’s Scott Free shingle and Universal, a source tells Variety.

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After a fundraiser to name a theater after Dave Chappelle at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Washington, D.C. was rescheduled, the controversial comedian is now asking his critics to donate money to the school.

“If you object to my receiving this honor, I urge you to donate to the school, noting your objection. If you are in favor of the theater being named ‘Chappelle,’ I urge you to donate to the school, noting your approval,” he wrote on Instagram.

The high school theater was originally set to be named after alumnus Chappelle on November 23. Following objections about the comedian’s LGBTQ+ comments in his Netflix special, The Closer, the ceremony was moved to April 22, 2022.

Chappelle says he will act according to whichever opinion raises the most donations by the time of the renaming ceremony.

“If by April, those against the ‘Chappelle’ theater exceed the donations of those who are neutral or in favor of the theater named ‘Chappelle,’ I will gladly step aside. If not, I will happily attend the naming ceremony,” he wrote.

In other news, Steve Harvey has added another show to his long resume. The Family Feud host will now head Judge Steve Harvey, an unscripted courtroom comedy series premiering Tuesday, January 4 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

“Viewers tuning into Judge Steve Harvey will watch as I tackle tough and, at times, entertaining issues while also providing much-needed advice and good old-fashioned common sense to the litigants in my court.” Harvey said in a statement.

Finally, The Black Pack: We Three Kings starring Taye Diggs, Ne-Yo and Eric Bellinger airs Monday night at 8 p.m. ET on CW. They will be joined by Tank and Sevyn Streeter for an evening of music, comedy and dance.

 

 

 

 

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