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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.
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How To Watch The January 6 Hearings: Livestream Link, Tuesday’s Surprise Session & More
UPDATED: There are no details yet about Tuesday’s surprise hearing for the January 6th Commission, which comes at a time when Congress is out of session and the panel had said it was going on a break until after the recess.
Broadcasters ABC and CBS and NBC as well as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have said they will break…
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Lil Nas X Still Pissed Off About BET Awards, As Demonstrated In Social Media Posts – Update
UPDATE: Lil Nas X continued his BET jihad today, releasing the artwork for his new single, "Late to Da Party." The art depicts him urinating on a BET Award that's already soaking in bodily fluid in a toilet.
He added insult to the injury with a minute-long "Star Wars"-esque text crawl that addressed how BET "betrayed"…
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By Tom Tapp, Bruce Haring
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Mike Pasciullo Dies: Tributes Pour In For Beloved, Longtime Marketing & Publicity Executive From Marvel Entertainment, Clark Gregg & More
Longtime Marvel Entertainment marketing and publicity executive Mike Pasciullo has died, according to a remembrance posted Wednesday on Marvel.com.
Born in 1972, Pasciullo worked at Marvel for 25 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of Marvel Television & Entertainment, Marketing & Publicity. He was…
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Brad Pitt Says He’s On The “Last Leg” Of His Career & Asking Himself, “How Do I Wanna Design That?”
Brad Pitt holds forth on what he calls “this last semester or trimester” of his career in a thoughtful and somewhat elegiac interview for the cover of GQ’s August issue.
“I consider myself on my last leg,” the Academy Award winner says in the piece, "this last semester or trimester. What is this section gonna be? And…
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Elliot Page Tells Seth Meyers ‘Umbrella Academy’ Showrunner Was Excited About Incorporating Actor’s Transition Into The Show
Elliot Page spoke to Seth Meyers on Late Night last night how The Umbrella Academy incorporated the actor’s own personal transition into Season 3 of the show, which premieres today on Netflix.
“With Steve Blackman, the showrunner of Umbrella,” Page said, “When we first talked about it he seemed really excited about…
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Two Florida Sheriff’s Deputies Suspended For Leaking News Of Bob Saget’s Death
Two Florida Sheriff’s deputies have been suspended for 81 hours without pay, according to the Associated Press, for leaking details about Bob Saget’s death before the comedian’s family was informed of his passing.
One of the deputies, who was involved in the response on January 9, told his brother about the event and…
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Mayim Bialik Has Covid And Says, “It’s No Joke”; Talks “Mental Health Impact”
“I’m feeling better…but I still don’t have a ton of energy,” a sometimes-emotional Mayim Bialik said today in an update on her condition after she announced yesterday that she has Covid.
"It's no joke," the actress, who is vaccinated and boosted, said of the virus in a Monday Instagram post. “It’s very exhausting, the…
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By Tom Tapp
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Veteran NFL QB Ryan Fitzpatrick Joins Prime Video’s All-Pro ‘Thursday Night Football’ Team
Prime Video announced today that former NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who retired in the offseason, will be joining its NFL pregame, halftime and postgame coverage this fall when the service presents its exclusive Thursday Night Football package. Fitzpatrick will join Tony Gonzalez and Richard Sherman for each TNF…
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Rob Gronkowski Retires: Four-Time Super Bowl Champion Says, “I Gave It Everything I Had”
Gronk is hanging up his helmet…again.
After fellow “Bad Boy For Life” Tom Brady announced he would come back for his 23rd NFL season earlier this year, Rob Gronkowski has decided he will not follow suit.
Here is the full statement Gronkowski posted today:
In college, I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity…
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Dave Chappelle Won’t Have His Name On Theater At High School Alma Mater Amid Controversy; Compares ‘The Closer’ To The Mona Lisa
The theater building at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington D.C. was to be officially named in a ceremony tonight after one of the school’s most famous graduates: Dave Chappelle.
The naming was in consideration of Chappelle’s support of the school, especially after he and his friends were the group that…
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By Tom Tapp
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Uvalde Victim’s Family, Chaplain & Reporters Asked To Leave City Hall Before Police Testify About School Massacre
Parents and reporters were asked to leave Uvalde City Hall this afternoon before a Texas House of Representatives committee held a hearing to gather testimony from officers involved in the response to a school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others there last month.
Video posted by CNN…
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Marvel’s Kevin Feige Drops Hints About Phase 4 & Studio’s “Next Big Saga”
“As we're nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film.
“I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is going. But we'll be a little more direct about that…
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