Breaking Down Barriers: Sidney Poitier’s Hero’s Journey
“Whenever there is a will there will always be a hill,” Sidney Poitier writes in his 1980 autobiography, This Life, “and wherever there is hope there will always be a...
Connie Britton and Taylor Kitsch on the “Grief” of Leaving ‘Friday Night Lights’
In Reunited, Awards Insider hosts a conversation between two Emmy contenders who have collaborated on a previous project. Taylor Kitsch starts off his Zoom call with Connie Britton by giving...
James Frey Swears His New Book About Very Rich, Poorly Behaved People Isn’t Based on Anyone Real
If James Frey’s road has been a rocky one, at least the bumps were diamonds. In the two decades since he got an Oprah dressing down when it turned out...
Judge Dismisses Justin Baldoni’s $400 Million Lawsuit Against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
Apparently, it ends with Judge Lewis J. Liman. On Monday, the U.S. District Court judge tossed out Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Lively’s publicist,...
Orgasmic Meditation Leaders Found Guilty of Forced Labor Conspiracy
For the past month, Harvey Weinstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs have each been on trial in Manhattan for an array of charges related to sexual violence. They are two of...
From Darren Criss’s ’90s Rock Medley to Cole Escola’s Tearful Reunion, Tony Awards 2025 Winners Partied Till Dawn
On Sunday evening, after host Cynthia Erivo closed the Tony Awards 2025 with a powerful rendition of Dreamgirls’ “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” summing up the top...
Elon Musk’s Dad Blames Social Media Meltdown on Adult Son Being Tired, Cranky
Elon Musk’s father has blamed last week’s nuclear meltdown—between the world’s richest man and the president of the United States, ages 53 and 78, respectively—on his son’s need for a...
Report: No One Wants to Work With Pete “Lemme Just Text These War Plans” Hegseth
When Donald Trump first nominated a Fox News host named Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense, the general consensus was that it was not a great idea, given...
Cole Escola on Tony Drama and Their Cinderella-Meets-Bernadette Peters Look at the Tony Awards 2025
No matter the outcome of the Tony Awards 2025 on Sunday, Cole Escola was destined for a Cinderella moment. It wasn’t enough that the playwright and star of Oh, Mary!...
Materialists Is Not a Romcom, and That’s Okay
Dating standards are a sort of half-taboo. We put our preferences on the apps—age, education level, etc.—but don’t talk about them so much when we’re out in the real world....
