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The president of GLAAD has condemned Candace Cameron Burre’s recent comments in the Wall Street Journal in which she said that the Great American Family channel where the actress serves as chief creative officer will focus on “traditional marriage” instead of gay couples in its Christmas programming.

Paramount Global is reportedly beginning a round of layoffs as well as an executive purge at the highest levels as the advertising market continues to crater, leaving many Hollywood media giants in difficult financial straits.

Jon Stewart has addressed fellow comedian Dave Chappelle’s recent gig hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” during which he told a series of Jewish jokes during the opening monologue. Stewart said censorship and punishment are the wrong way to respond.

In the new movie “Tár,” Cate Blanchett plays a renowned orchestra conductor and composer whose unchecked ego leads to her ultimate downfall. But the movie isn’t entirely unsympathetic to its monstrous heroine. In one scene, she holds a master class where her ideas about music collide with her students’ woke identity politics, and the results are ugly.

As it faces an uncertain financial outlook and the prospect of a prolonged recession, the Walt Disney Co. has hiked the price of its admission to its Disney World parks in Orlando, Florida. The price hikes — the second increases in less than. a year — will see the price of admission to the Magic Kingdom soar as high as $189 for peak dates.

Former Hallmark Channel star Candace Cameron Bure has revealed that her new TV network will focus on “traditional marriage,” as opposed to gay couples, in its Christmas movies. For that unforgivable offense, the conservative actress has been attacked as a homophobe and a bigot, and has even been compared to Eva Braun.

A sign-language interpreter for Disney’s “The Lion King” on Broadway has alleged he was recently fired for being white, saying he and another white interpreter were told to leave so they could be replaced with black signers.

Recording Academy voters ignored the transgender cancel mob to recognize comedian Dave Chappelle with a Grammy nomination on Tuesday for his album version of “The Closer.”

Kevin Costner is once again singing the praises of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) after previously endorsing the anti-Trumper’s failed bid for re-election.

Shares of the Walt Disney Co. are down more than 60 percent so far this year and aren’t expected to recover anytime soon as the company is likely to announce a “painful cycle” of earnings cuts in the months ahead that will make the stock look even more unattractive to investors, according to a new report.

Dave Chappelle wasted no time as host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live this week, delving headfirst into the Kanye West controversy during his opening monologue. In his signature fashion, the comedian embraced controversy by addressing Ye’s anti-semitic comments and walking right up to the line with a few of his own Jewish jokes.

Climate activist Harrison Ford has been photographed yet again piloting one of his gas-guzzling private jets, this time on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to celebrate his wife Calista Flockhart’s birthday.

First, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election in a landslide victory on Tuesday. Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows. Now the entertainment giant is reportedly planning layoffs, a targeted hiring freeze, and travel limitation on its employees.

Richard Casper co-founded CreatiVets in 2013 to fight the rising number of veteran suicides by using the arts and music as a form of creative therapy to help wounded veterans heal. On Wednesday, Casper was honored at the 56th annual Country Music Awards with a surprise $50,000 donation to CreatiVets from the whiskey brand Crown Royal in recognition of Casper’s dedication to veterans.

Comedian Chelsea Handler has insulted Georgia voters who cast their ballots for Herschel Walker (R) in Tuesday’s midterm election, saying voting for Walker is like “voting for hamburger.”

ABC’s late-night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel continued his obsession with Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) on Wednesday’s show, mocking Walker as both dumb and unintelligible — a repeated theme in Kimmel’s frequent harangues against the former NFL star.

NBC’s “The Office” star Rainn Wilson announced he has changed his name in order to draw attention to global warming and other environmental emergencies. Henceforth, he will be known as “Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson.”

Some staff writers of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” are so furious about Dave Chappelle hosting this week’s show that they are boycotting the episode to protest the comedian, according to a new report.

Shares of the Walt Disney Co. plummeted late Tuesday and into early Wednesday to their lowest level in nearly a decade as concerns mount over the company’s profitability and wild spending habits on Disney+ and other streaming services.

Hollywood celebrity sisters Rosanna Arquette and Patricia Arquette are the latest left-wing stars to leave Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover of the company. Both accounts — @RoArquette and @PattyArquette — were no longer accessible as of at least Wednesday morning.

Fearing low turnout among demoralized Democrats in New York, Hollywood stars are making a last-ditch effort by appealing to potheads to support unelected incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), pushing her pro-marijuana platform as a major selling point. Like getting stoned on a regular basis? Vote for Hochul.

Hollywood star Fran Drescher — who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union — has blasted COVID vaccine mandates as an infringement on basic liberties, saying no one should be forced to take the vaccine as a condition for work, travel, dining, or attending public events.

“Boogie Nights” star Heather Graham has made an unconventional appeal to Wisconsin voters to elect Democrats in Tuesday’s midterms, citing the state’s “anti-abortion” law as a reason to support candidates including Senate hopeful Mandela Barnes (D) and incumbent Gov. Tony Evers (D).

NBC’s ratings-challenged “Saturday Night Live” has become the target of woke transgender activists after announcing Dave Chappelle will serve as host on November 12, with activists accusing the show and Chappelle of helping to fuel a “war” against transgender people.

Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence has spoken about her struggle to forgive her parents for supporting President Donald Trump, accusing them of disagreeing with her even on whether Nazis are “bad guys” in the past few years.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has broken with fellow left-wing Hollywood elites to endorse Rick Caruso (D) for Los Angeles mayor, calling Karen Bass (D) the “wrong” choice for a city mired in problems. In a recent online ad appearing in

Pop star and Joe Biden surrogate John Legend took time out of his midterm door-to-door campaigning to insult Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), calling him a “cruel and small individual.” In an appearance Thursday on MSNBC’s All in with Chris

They saved mankind in the movies. Now they want to save Wisconsin from Republican “nutjobs.” Disney-Marvel actors Mark Ruffalo and Don Cheadle are teaming up for a last-ditch fundraiser to help Democrat candidates in Wisconsin prevail over the GOP in the midterms.

NBC’s medical drama series “New Amsterdam” mourned the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in this week’s episode, using a maudlin montage set to an overwrought score to portray its characters’ devastation.

Hollywood went whole-hog for Joe Biden in 2020, with celebrities, entertainment executives, and network news divisions working overtime to stump for the candidate. Now the industry is feeling the consequences of its actions as advertising revenue is cratering across the board as a result of consumer fears tied to Bidenflation and the prospect of a prolonged recession.

ABC’s late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel has made Trump bashing a central part of his TV persona. Now he has publicly admitted that his decision has cost him “half of my fans — maybe more than that.”

Kanye West reportedly paid a settlement to a former employee who accused the billionaire rapper and fashion titan of expressing anti-semitic views — an allegation that West has denied.

Netflix’s “Ozark” star Jason Bateman urged President Joe Biden to use the nation’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) to remind people to vote in the midterm elections, saying democracy is under threat from Republicans.

One of Hollywood’s most active Democrat cheerleaders and super-spreaders of fake news against conservatives, Debra Messing, has bid “goodbye” to Twitter and appears to have deleted her account less than a week from the midterm elections and on the heels of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform.

With Val Demings and Charlie Crist trailing in the polls, Democrats enlisted ABC’s “Black-ish” actress Jenifer Lewis to help stoke enthusiasm at a Tuesday rally attended by President Joe Biden at the historically black Florida Memorial University.

Actor John Leguizamo has slammed Hollywood for frequently casting white actors in the role of Latinos, even criticizing one of his best-known movies, Brian De Palma’s “Carlito’s Way” (1993), for putting Al Pacino in the title role of a Puerto Rican gangster.