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Musician John Legend attempted to put Donald Trump’s popularity in historical perspective in an interview Tuesday, appearing to compare those who support the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to people in the 19th century who allowed slavery to continue without realizing it was an evil practice.

Disney/Pixar’s upcoming film Finding Dory features a transgender stingray who transitions to become “Sting-Rhonda,” the film’s star Ellen DeGeneres revealed in an interview.

Enigmatic pop icon Cher took to Twitter Monday to rip presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — as she has repeatedly in the past — by suggesting that terrorists around the world would be emboldened under a Trump administration.

Frontman Richard Patrick said that two violent incidents at performance venues in the United States over the weekend factored in to the decision to scrap the show.

Moviegoers wary of endless sequels have sent early-summer Hollywood box office revenue tumbling down 22 percent over the same time period last year.

In the wake of tragic mass shootings or terrorist attacks like the one perpetrated Sunday morning in Orlando, Hollywood celebrities are often the first to call for gun control measures. Yet Hollywood conveniently forgets that the movie business is itself at least partly — and probably largely — responsible for the glorification of gun use in American culture.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns lit into Donald Trump while delivering a commencement address at Stanford University on Sunday, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee an “infantile, bullying” “charlatan” and an “insult to our history.”

Members of gun control organization Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America demonstrated outside the Tony Awards at New York City’s Beacon Theatre Sunday night to demand stronger gun laws in the wake of the Orlando terror attack earlier in the day that claimed the lives of at least 50 people and injured 53 more.

The 70th annual Tony Awards struck a more subdued tone than usual as Broadway’s biggest stars paid tribute to the victims of Sunday morning’s deadly terror attack in Orlando that claimed the lives of at least 50 people.

British pop superstar Adele had a harsh message for a record producer critic who recently said the singer’s voice could have been “manipulated” to sound better on her hit album 25.

The cast of the hit Broadway show Hamilton will not use prop muskets during their performance at the Tony Awards on Sunday night in the wake of Sunday morning’s terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left 50 people dead and another 53 injured.

Celebrities took to social media on Sunday to call for gun control in the wake of the deadly terror attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, during which 50 people were killed and another 53 injured by gunman Omar Mateen.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on CNN that according to local law enforcement sources, Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen made a “pledge of allegiance” to ISIS prior to killing 50 people and wounding 53 others during Sunday morning’s attack at the Pulse night club.

Fifty people were killed and another 53 were injured after a gunman with suspected ties to radical Islam opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning.

Bruce Willis is back in action with bank heist thriller Marauders.

Sony Pictures Entertainment released the latest trailer for shark attack thriller The Shallows this week, just in time to play on moviegoers’ deepest fears about sharks as they head to beaches this summer.

Bestselling author Stephen King is “disappointed” in the country that propelled Donald Trump’s rise to claim the Republican presidential nomination.

Oscar-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson sounded off on sexism in Hollywood, the gender wage gap and the backlash against the upcoming all-female Ghostbusters reboot in an interview, explaining that women are “still underpaid” and are still “a vast minority” in the entertainment industry.

Filmmaker and playwright Phelim McAleer is readying his latest project — a series of short films that will reenact the sworn depositions of key Hillary Clinton staffers about the Democrat presidential nominee’s improper and possibly illegal use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Mel Gibson is reportedly preparing a sequel to his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.

Girls creator and star Lena Dunham ripped Donald Trump during TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast in New York on Thursday, calling the presumptive GOP presidential nominee a “megalomaniacal, misogynist, racist, Islamophobic, ableist, transphobic hellhound.”

Justin Bieber got into a good old-fashioned fistfight after the Cavaliers-Warriors NBA Finals game on Wednesday — and, to his credit, the “Love Yourself” singer actually appeared to land a punch prior to getting socked in the face by his much larger opponent.

First Lady Michelle Obama and media mogul Oprah Winfrey will co-host a White House summit in June to celebrate the achievements of women and tackle outstanding gender equality issues — just days after Hillary Clinton clinched the Democrat presidential nomination.

Pop stars can get starstruck, too.

Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr praised Republican Donald Trump, blasted Democrat Hillary Clinton and expressed doubts about the American political system in a wide-ranging interview with the Hollywood Reporter this week.

Reclusive lifestyle guru Richard Simmons has secretly transitioned into a woman, a new report from tabloid The National Enquirer claims.

Celebrity supporters of Democrat presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders took to social media on Tuesday to proudly declare that they had voted in the day’s primary — and urged others to do the same.

Actress Helen Mirren testified Tuesday in front of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in support of a bill that would make it easier to facilitate the return of artwork stolen by the Nazis in World War II to the works’ original owners.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton called on some of music’s biggest names for a star-studded concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles Monday night, just hours before the polls opened for Tuesday’s critical California primary.

“Netflix and chill” has become a popular euphemism for sex among Kids These Days — but now one professor warns that the increase in usage of the former has led to a steep decline in the latter.

The Obama administration has sent an email containing ready-made pro-immigration talking points to top-level Hollywood influencers in an effort to encourage them to promote the White House’s immigration policies on social media during June’s Immigrant Heritage Month.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has fired back at “racist” and “idiot” critics who took issue with the casting of a black actress to play Hermione Granger in her new stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Actor-musician Jack Black is “alive and well,” his band Tenacious D wrote in a message on Sunday after a hacker reportedly gained access to the band’s Twitter account and posted a message claiming its frontman had died.

Mike Judge and Etan Cohen, the creative tandem behind the 2006 cult comedy Idiocracy, are reportedly writing anti-Donald Trump campaign ads set to star actor Terry Crews, who played the fictional wrestler-turned-President Camacho in the movie.

Ghostbusters director Paul Feig has fired back at “misogynistic” critics of his upcoming all-female-led remake, telling a film industry panel over the weekend that he has faced an “onslaught” of hate mail and negative messages since the project was announced two years ago.

Approximately 5,000 residents in the tony communities of Calabasas and Topanga Canyon were forced to evacuate their homes Saturday as firefighters battled a blaze that had damaged three buildings and consumed more than 500 acres by Sunday morning.