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Dick Van Dyke Talks Oscar Plans, Having Much Younger Wife

Mary Poppins actor, 99, says he'd still like to achieve EGOT status

(Newser) - Most people retire in their 60s, but 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke has other plans. The last few years have seen Van Dyke involved in a Malibu car crash and make Emmy history , and the Mary Poppins actor is now talking about his next possible move: vying for an Oscar. "...

Cate Blanchett Is 'Giving Up' (on Acting)
Cate Blanchett
Is 'Giving Up'
(on Acting)
CELEBRITY INTERVIEW
Apr 15, 2025 10:15 AM CDT

Cate Blanchett Is 'Giving Up' (on Acting)

So she says, though 55-year-old thespian says her family members 'roll their eyes' when she says that

(Newser) - Cate Blanchett has been making the rounds promoting her first major radio play, an adaptation of Wallace Shawn's The Fever airing on BBC Radio 4, though she surprised the UK's Radio Times during a recent interview in which she announced her future plans, reports the Guardian . "Cate...

Tom Hanks' Daughter Writes of Early Life Filled With 'Violence'
Tom Hanks' Daughter Writes of
Early Life Filled With 'Violence'
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Apr 6, 2025 4:17 PM CDT

Tom Hanks' Daughter Writes of Early Life Filled With 'Violence'

EA Hanks' memoir dives into childhood with troubled mom Susan Dillingham, her dad's first wife

(Newser) - We've seen Tom Hanks' oldest son, Colin Hanks, take a star turn in Fargo , and his middle son, Chet Hanks, pump out rap songs and music videos and make headlines in ... other ways . Now we get to hear from EA Hanks, the 68-year-old Forrest Gump actor's daughter with...

Musk Daughter: He Didn't Move 'Further' Right Because of Me
Musk's Daughter Doesn't
Mince Words About Her Dad
INTERVIEW
Mar 21, 2025 1:00 PM CDT

Musk's Daughter Doesn't Mince Words About Her Dad

Vivian Wilson, 20, chats with Teen Vogue about politics, her 'pathetic man-child' father

(Newser) - Relations have been strained between Elon Musk and daughter Vivian Wilson for quite some time, and it's unlikely they'll improve anytime soon—at least not based on a new interview that the 20-year-old granted to Ella Yurman of Teen Vogue. In it, Wilson rails against her father and...

R. Kelly: 'I've Written Like 25 Albums' in Prison

Rapper serving 30-year sentence sings on podcast, says bursting out in song is his 'uncurable' disease

(Newser) - From the J6 Prison Choir's songwriting to Sam Bankman-Fried's chess play , it sounds like our most headline-making prisoners are finding ways to stay entertained while behind bars. R. Kelly has emerged as the latest incarcerated Renaissance man, revealing that he's been spending his free time in North...

SBF Tells Tucker Carlson of 'Dystopian' Prison Life

FTX founder, who shares a cellblock with Diddy, says rapper has 'been kind' to him

(Newser) - "Strange bedfellows" just took on a whole new meaning, thanks to a prison interview with none other than Sam Bankman-Fried. The disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX crypto exchange popped up Thursday for a video chat with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who questioned the 33-year-old inmate on...

2 Years In, Elizabeth Holmes Gives Her First Prison Interview
Elizabeth Holmes Speaks
From Prison: 'It's Been Hell'
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Feb 15, 2025 11:30 AM CST

Elizabeth Holmes Speaks From Prison: 'It's Been Hell'

The former Theranos founder speaks to People

(Newser) - Elizabeth Holmes is on the cover of People , which promises the story of "her life behind bars." The former Theranos founder sat for what People reports is her first prison interview, "conducted in a cold visitation room" at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where she's...

Vance: Expect 'All Gas, No Brakes' for 4 Years

Vice president sits for interview with Sean Hannity on Fox

(Newser) - Vice President JD Vance lauded President Trump for his decision-making skills and energy, and he doubled down on the administration's immigration tactics in an interview with Sean Hannity that aired on Fox News Wednesday night. Highlights:
  • Decisions: Vance described as "genius" the way Trump gathers information before making
...

Denzel on Booze: 'I've Done a Lot of Damage to the Body'

Oscar-winning actor reveals to Esquire how wine became his 'thing,' until he quit a decade ago

(Newser) - Toward the start of his new stream-of-consciousness essay in Esquire that details "the moments that mattered and the experiences that made him," Oscar-winner Denzel Washington notes he "wasn't big" on alcohol as a youth. That changed down the road. The 69-year-old Training Day and Gladiator II...

John Mulaney on His Life: It's 'Like a Tornado Picked Me Up'

Comedian talks with GQ about stormy past few years, from drugs to life with Olivia Munn, kids

(Newser) - "Once such a consummate urbanite that you half expected to see a pigeon on his head and his pockets stuffed with takeout menus, today he looks every inch a suburban dad, in his white lace-up Vans, olive jeans, long-sleeve shirt." That's how Brett Martin describes John Mulaney...

Want to Go to Outer Space? Olivia Rodrigo Won't Date You
Olivia Rodrigo Has
One Big Dating
Deal-Breaker
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Nov 9, 2024 4:20 PM CST

Olivia Rodrigo Has One Big Dating Deal-Breaker

Sorry, Elon, but the singer says she doesn't want to go out with men who want to go outer space

(Newser) - Everyone's got their own red flags when it comes to romance, and Olivia Rodrigo has a very particular one that has led her to start posing an "oddly specific" question of guys on their first date, per People . "I always ask them if they think that they...

Vance: I'm Against Prosecuting Out-of-State Abortions

And more highlights from his interview with Joe Rogan

(Newser) - JD Vance followed former President Trump's lead in sitting for a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, which aired Thursday. Several clips quickly went viral, "but they were being shared by the Harris-Walz campaign and its allies, not Vance or his running mate," per the Independent . The wide-ranging...

Highlights of Trump's Joe Rogan Interview

Former president talked with podcast host for about 3 hours

(Newser) - Two hours and 58 minutes. That's how long Joe Rogan's latest podcast ran, with a very special (and talkative) guest: Donald Trump, who chatted at length on The Joe Rogan Experience on Friday—so long that his own rally in Traverse City, Michigan, later that evening was "...

Harris' Latest Interview: Charlamagne Tha God

She addresses the Black community, and calls Trump's policies fascist

(Newser) - Vice President Kamala Harris' media blitz continued Tuesday with an interview with Charlamagne Tha God that the New York Times calls "free-flowing," and which "often spoke to the concerns of Black Americans." Some takeaways:
  • On the F-word: Not that F-word. Charlamagne framed former President Trump's
...

A Sandy Hook Dad Finally Makes Peace With His Decision

Robbie Parker, father of Emilie Parker, 6, speaks about press conference just 24 hours after shooting

(Newser) - While bidders prepare to bid on Alex Jones' Infowars, one of the people targeted by the right-wing conspiracy theorist—Robbie Parker, dad of Emilie Parker, who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at the age of 6—is preparing to release a book on the matter in December,...

NFL Union: We Want Cameras Out of Locker Rooms

NFLPA wants practice banned but finds 'little willingness to collaborate' from NFL, PFWA

(Newser) - The practice of locker room interviews needs to come to an end—at least according to the NFL Players Association, which is now pushing more aggressively for exactly that. The organization put out a statement on Friday describing how it's tried for "the past three years" to team...

Takeaways From Harris' MSNBC Interview

She chose a 'friendly forum' for first one-on-one network interview as nominee

(Newser) - Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday for her first one-on-one interview with a major network since she became the Democratic nominee. The interview was a "friendly forum" for Harris, who spoke to Ruhle in Pittsburgh after delivering a speech that focused on...

Takeaways From Harris' CNN Interview

Harris, Walz 'ticked the box,' analysts says

(Newser) - With Republicans criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris first for not granting interviews, then for appearing with running mate Tim Walz at her first major interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, the bar for success wasn't especially high in her CNN interview. Analysts say Harris—who did most of the...

7 Reactions to the Trump-Musk Sit-Down

It's being called an 'embarrassment' by more than one outlet

(Newser) - So how did Donald Trump's Monday night sit-down with Elon Musk go, after its start was delayed due to technical glitches ? Not all that well, at least according to the reactions published thus far in the mainstream media. A sampling:
  • USA Today calls it an "unmitigated disaster,
...

Biden Gives First Interview Since Nixing Reelection Bid

'We must defeat Trump,' he tells CBS News, calling himself a 'transition president'

(Newser) - President Biden will be shedding some more light on why he left the 2024 race in an interview set to air in full on CBS News' Sunday Morning show, but some clips from the chat with Robert Costa, the network's chief campaign and election correspondent, are already circulating. Notably,...

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