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“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” boosts box office sales in comeback for Will Smith after infamous slap – CBS News Watch CBS News Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s new sequel, “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” raked in $56 million at the North American box office. It’s the first summer movie to blow past expectations. It’s
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Howard University rescinded the honorary degree it awarded hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and cut ties with him weeks after a recently released 2016 video appeared to show him attacking R&B singer and ex-girlfriend, Cassie. The university’s Board of Trustees said it also directed administrators to cut financial ties to Combs, including returning a $1
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For Julia Louis-Dreyfus, real life can be just as humorous as the comedian herself. “I had this great opportunity to receive the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” she said. “Would you believe that they misspelled my name? They wrote Luis. L-U-I-S. And I have the misspelled part. It’s framed in my office, just
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus on “Tuesday,” podcast “Wiser Than Me” – CBS News Watch CBS News Julia Louis-Dreyfus, acclaimed for her comedic characters on “Seinfeld” and “Veep,” stars in a dramatic role in “Tuesday,” as a mother struggling with the imminent death of her terminally-ill daughter. Correspondent Natalie Morales talks with Louis-Dreyfus about the film’s fantastical elements
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In the universe of pop music from the 1980s, there’s one song that’s especially hard to shake. In 1985, “We Are the World” was made to raise money for food aid to Africa. The song, and the saga of recording it, are now the subject of a Netflix documentary, “The Greatest Night in Pop.” Lionel
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Lionel Richie on the making of “We Are the World” – CBS News Watch CBS News Four decades ago, Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson teamed up to write a charity song to raise funds to fight famine in Africa – and they got the biggest stars of the music world in the same room with
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“I would find myself telling stories,” said actor-producer-director Griffin Dunne. “And these stories were kind of incredible. And I had people riveted.” And lot of the stories involved people that other people had heard of. “Yes,” he admitted. “But I didn’t want it to be, like, a name-dropping sort of thing!” And there were a
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Griffin Dunne on a literary family’s legacy – CBS News Watch CBS News He grew up in Hollywood in a well-known literary family, and built a career as an actor, producer, director and documentary filmmaker. Now, Griffin Dunne has written a family memoir of life in (and on the outskirts of) the limelight, “The Friday
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Ed Spinelli for CBS News After tour dates were postponed in late 2023 under doctor’s advice as the Boss recovered from peptic ulcer disease, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were back on the road – all the more reason to celebrate the return of summer music. Scroll through our concert gallery, featuring images
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Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In Griffin Dunne’s new memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club” (to be published June 11 by Penguin Press), the actor-producer-director who grew up in Hollywood in a literary family writes of a life of bold-faced celebrity, tragedy, and well-told stories. Read
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