New Line snaps up Josh Gad-directed Chris Farley biopic starring Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser

Paul Walter Hauser — Steven Simione/FilmMagic Variety reports that New Line Cinema is backing a Chris Farley biopic that will star Black Bird actor Paul Walter Hauser as the Saturday Night Live superstar. Farley died on December 18, 1997, at just 33 years old. As reported, Frozen‘s Josh Gad will be making his directorial debut on the film that will …

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“Hey, buddy!” Reclusive ‘Seinfeld’ star Michael Richards supports Jerry at ‘Unfrosted’ premiere

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Michael Richards, the Emmy winner who played Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld, has mostly stayed out of the spotlight after an infamous 2006 onstage racist meltdown, but he was back in Los Angeles alongside Jerry Seinfeld Tuesday evening, April 30. Richards walked the red carpet in support of Jerry’s directorial debut, the Netflix film Unfrosted: …

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s moving ahead with effort to oust Speaker Johnson

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Wednesday that she will move ahead with her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from the House’s top job — though her plan seems doomed to fail. The Georgia Republican, who first introduced a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair in March, said in a news …

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Ryan Gosling and ‘SNL”s Mikey Day return as Beavis and Butt-Head at ‘Fall Guy’ premiere

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic The Los Angeles premiere of Ryan Gosling’s latest movie, The Fall Guy on Tuesday, April 30, featured a couple of surprise guests: Beavis and Butt-Head — aka Gosling and Mikey Day, reprising their live-action depictions of the classic cartoon characters they debuted in April on Saturday Night Live. The original sketch featured Heidi Gardner playing a journalist interviewing an …

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In Brief: Prime Video gives ‘Cross’ an early second season renewal, and more

Ahead of its series debut, Prime Video has already ordered a second season of its detective series Cross, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, based on James Patterson’s bestselling books, follows the titular detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross — played by Aldis Hodge — who uses his unique skills to catch killers. A premiere date for Cross has …

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Trump says ‘it depends’ if there will be violence if he loses 2024 election to Biden

Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court, Apr. 26, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is playing down but not ruling out the possibility of political violence if he loses the November election. “I don’t think we’re going to have that. …

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Justice Stephen Breyer’s blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: ‘Slow down’

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the high court in 2022 but isn’t finished prodding his former conservative colleagues to abandon what he sees as an aggressive tack to the right in how they interpret the law. “Slow down. Period,” Breyer, 85, said bluntly of his message to the court’s majority in a wide-ranging …

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‘Large-scale massacre’ looms in Sudan city surrounded by paramilitary forces, US warns

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — The U.S. is warning of a looming potential “large scale massacre” in El Fasher, a city in Sudan, as troops from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group and allied militias encircle the city in what the U.S. says are “indications of an imminent offensive.” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that El Fasher is …

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Fed expected to hold interests rates steady at highest level since 2001

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve is set to announce a decision on Wednesday about whether to adjust its benchmark interest rate, just days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off. The slowdown has coincided with a months-long stretch of stubborn inflation, putting pressure on the Fed to keep interest rates high despite a …

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DEA plans to back reclassifying marijuana as less serious drug, sources say

Oksana Smith / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration supports recommending the reclassification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 classification, alongside drugs like heroin and ecstasy, to a Schedule 3 drug, like ketamine, steroids and testosterone, sources told ABC News. A source confirmed that the Department of …

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