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Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads guilty to harassment in sexual assault case
Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday to a count of second-degree harassment. After reaching a prearranged deal with prosecutors, Thursday's plea replaces Gooding's original plea in April, when the actor pleaded guilty to forcible touching. Gooding has been sentenced to time served. He declined to address the court. The charges stem from Gooding's sexual assault case…
Emma Thompson is nearly unrecognizable as meany school mistress in trailer to Netflix's 'Matilda the Musical'
Netflix dropped the trailer to its upcoming Matilda the Musical, and Emma Thompson is turning heads as the production's icy school headmistress, Miss Agatha Trunchbull. It is hard to even recognize the Oscar winner, thanks to fearsome prosthetic makeup and a boxy, nearly Nazi-like uniform. "I like troublemakers," she hisses at one point, as she's seen swinging a student by her braids. "They make…
The Rock asked whether he'd consider heading up Warner Bros.' superhero universe -- from the boardroom
Recently, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav made it known the studio was looking for an executive to head up a unit that could turn its DC Comics properties into a blockbuster-minting machine the way Kevin Feige has done for Marvel Studios. But could that person also be a DC superhero? The question was put to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at Wednesday night's New York City premiere of his…
"She likes causing trouble, doesn't she?" Millie Bobby Brown follows the clues in trailer to 'Enola Holmes 2'
Netflix has debuted the trailer for the upcoming release of the sequel Enola Holmes 2. Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill return as Enola and her brother Sherlock, and the preview, set to Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," teases their upcoming adventure. The streaming service states, "Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a…
Bruno Mars says Silk Sonic's album won't compete at Grammy Awards: "We'd be crazy to ask for anything more"
The Grammy Awards race has just opened up in a big way, now that a Grammy favorite has withdrawn his album from consideration. Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, won Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys earlier this year for their hit "Leave the Door Open." Their album An Evening with Silk Sonic, released in November 2021 -- after the Grammy cutoff for this year's…
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Drake & Bad Bunny lead American Music Award nominations
Bad Bunny continues his spectacular year by nabbing the most nominations for this year's American Music Awards -- a total of eight -- while Beyoncé, Drake and Taylor Swift are close behind with six nods apiece. Taylor holds the record for the most AMA wins of all time, with 34. Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Drake and Taylor are all up for Artist of the Year, a category that also includes Adele, Harry…
Bebe Rexha says she "didn't even remember recording" "I'm Good (Blue)"
Imagine realizing a song blowing up on TikTok is something you recorded years ago and then completely forgot about. It happened to Bebe Rexha with "I'm Good (Blue)," the reworking of the 1998 hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65 that she did with David Guetta. "We wrote the song four years ago, [and] David ends up playing it at a festival a week later, just to test it out for fun," Bebe tells ABC…
Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and more pay tribute to 'American Idol''s Willie Spence: "Your light will always shine in this world"
Judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan and host Ryan Seacrest are among the American Idol stars who are paying tribute to Willie Spence, the season 19 runner-up who died in a car crash at age 23 in Tennessee on Tuesday. On Ryan's Instagram Story, he posted footage of Willie's audition, and added, "Everybody on and off set loved him....you'll be deeply missed." Lionel Richie posted…
In Brief: Idina Menzel goes to the "Stage" for Disney+, and more
Idina Menzel, the voice of Disney’s beloved Princess Elsa, will be the subject of an upcoming Disney+ biopic, Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? The project will focus on the life and career of the Tony winner and culminate in her headlining a concert at Madison Square Garden in her hometown of New York City after a nationwide tour. “We made this documentary to show firsthand how important it…
John Stamos, Yvette Nicole Brown talk up season 2 of 'Big Shot', now on Disney+
The entire second season of Disney+'s high school hit Big Shot drops on the streaming service Wednesday. A "very grateful" John Stamos, who plays girls basketball coach Marvyn Korn, tells ABC Audio he literally couldn't wait. "I remember talking to them at the end of shooting the first season. I said, 'Let's just, let's take a month off, just roll into season 2.' They said, 'Well, let's see how…