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Alec Baldwin Fires Off Another Homophobic Tweet

Alec Baldwin Fires Off Another Homophobic Tweet

BuzzFeed reports that on Wednesday morning television actor Alec Baldwin lashed out at Garrett Jackson, a former aide to Governor Mitt Romney, with a homophobic tweet that read, “You’re on your knees in that photo. What’s up with that Garrett?”

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

John Wayne: The Epic Collection Set for May 20 Release John Wayne fans rejoice. On May 20, Warner Brothers releases a massive collection of 40 John Wayne films on DVD. The collection also includes a book listing his films and

Comcast Bought Democrats with Billion$, NBC News Coverage

Comcast Bought Democrats with Billion$, NBC News Coverage

At National Review, Matthew Continetti lays out the numbers that look at how communications giant Comcast has spent the last few years purchasing the Democrat Party, especially Barack Obama. Now that Comcast is looking to merge with Time Warner and

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

TCM Memorial Tribute to The Mighty Mickey Rooney Airs Sunday — — Sunday, April 13, Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Mickey Rooney with an all-day marathon of 13 films. Set your DVRs. The only one I have never

RIP Comedian John Pinette

Comedian John Pinette was found dead in his hotel room. He was 50. It might have been Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine in ’93, but I saw Pinette open for someone and remember laughing until my sides ached. — —

Bait and Switch Fail: 'Noah' Might Not Break Even

The deadly Cinemascore of “C” and the word getting out that some of the Christian community were wrong to recommend the film, seem to have finally caught up to “Noah,” which dropped 61% in its second weekend. Box Office Mojo

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Yahoo/Microsoft  Enter Streaming TV Biz Everybody knows television as we know it is as dead, and this includes evil bundled cable television. Time for smart players to get in on the ground floor of Streaming while there still is one.

Tribute: The Mighty Mickey Rooney Dead at 93

Tribute: The Mighty Mickey Rooney Dead at 93

Saturday night Mickey Rooney was very much on my mind. Sunday he died of natural causes at his home in Hollywood. Saturday night I was watching “The Set-Up” (1949), one of the great all-time boxing films. What knocked me out

Bill Maher: 'There Is a Gay Mafia … You Do Get Whacked'

Bill Maher: 'There Is a Gay Mafia … You Do Get Whacked'

During the online-only “Overtime” portion of Friday night’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the HBO host brought up the controversy surrounding Brendan Eich [pictured], the Mozilla CEO forced to resign over a 2008 contribution to California’s Proposition 8, the successful

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood’s Running Out of High Concepts? — — This is the kind of “high-concept” that every wannabe screenwriter has come up with and then was never able to execute or was wise enough to cast aside as too stupid. With

Oprah Announces 'Race Riot' Miniseries

Oprah Announces 'Race Riot' Miniseries

Entertainment Weekly announced Thursday that for her cable channel OWN, Oprah Winfrey is developing a two-part miniseries about the 1921 Oklahoma Riots that claimed the lives of up to 300 people. A New York Times story on the little-known historical

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Scott Eyman Releases ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend’ Director and film writer Peter Bogdonovich reviews Scott Eyman’s latest biography, ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend’ in The New York Times. I never tire of reading Bogdonovich’s insights into Wayne,

5 Reason America Should Be Grateful Piers Morgan Was Cancelled

5 Reason America Should Be Grateful Piers Morgan Was Cancelled

For the last couple of years, in the immediate wake of numerous mass-shootings, Americans have had to suffer through Piers Morgan’s thoughtless exploitation of the shooting victims in furtherance of his own personal anti-gun crusade. Although his ratings were embarrassing,