Jack Dunn

Marla Adams, who played Dina Abbott Mergeron on CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” for 37 years, died Thursday in Los Angeles, Matt Kane, director of media and talent for “The Young and the Restless” announced. She was 85. Adams began her career in the daytime drama genre in 1968 on “The Secret Storm.” She […]

“Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie, La La Anthony and Ashley Graham will host Vogue’s Met Gala red carpet live stream. Emma Chamberlain will return as Vogue’s special correspondent to conduct red carpet interviews. The festivities kick off Monday, May 6, at 6 p.m. ET. This year’s dress code is “The Garden of Time,” inspired […]

Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit in Los Angeles, presented by Deloitte, brought together more than 600 marketing professionals, executives, creators and influencers for a daylong event that examined all aspects of marketing as a discipline at a time of massive transition in the entertainment business. Here are the highlights from the event, held April 24 at […]

The National Association of Broadcasters and Curtis LeGeyt have agreed to a contract extension that will keep him as CEO of the organization through 2029, NAB joint board chair Perry Sook announced Tuesday. LeGeyt has been with NAB for more than a decade. “NAB and its members are thrilled to have Curtis LeGeyt leading our […]

Olivia Rodrigo joined No Doubt on the Coachella Main Stage for a surprise performance of the band’s “Bathwater” on the second night of the annual Los Angeles music festival. This marks both Rodrigo’s and No Doubt’s first time performing at the festival. For the eighth song of their set, the SoCal ska-pop band welcomed Rodrigo […]

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt reignited the Barbenheimer battle during Gosling’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue with an epic rendition of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well,” complete with real-life Barbies and dancing Oppenheimers. Gosling kicked off his third “SNL” monologue with a callback to Ken, the role that nabbed him an Academy Award nomination and wild […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has been informed of a possible measles exposure at Universal Studios, county officials reported Saturday. The possible exposure stems from one case of measles from an out of state tourist who traveled through the Los Angeles area from March 30 to April 1. The infected person visited […]

Robert MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93 MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times. Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in […]

“Hire different.” That was the challenge posed to the entertainment industry by Judi Uttal, president of the Orange County Aspergers Support Group, at the inaugural Autism in Entertainment Conference on Friday morning. As head chair, she welcomed in a colorful audience of over 100 skilled neurodivergent filmmakers, ready and willing to take their shot at […]

Derek Cianfrance, director and co-writer of “The Place Beyond the Pines,” told IndieWire at the New Directors/New Films festival that Bradley Cooper almost bowed out of the production after receiving a rewritten script. Just before principle photography began, Cianfrance brought in screenwriter Darius Marder to rewrite “every word” of “The Place Beyond the Pines.” Cooper […]