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Legendary ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale is lastly again within the sales space.

On Saturday, Vitale made his long-awaited return to the ESPN airwaves as the colour commentator for the Duke-Clemenson sport held at Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum. The group was fast to rally behind the 85-year-old broadcasting veteran at what marked his first time as commentator since April 2023. The in-arena announcer made positive to show the highlight to Vitale, who acquired a riotous standing ovation.

"Tonight, we have fun the return of a real legend," the announcer started. "For over 4 a long time, his ardour, vitality and unmistakable voice have outlined the sport we love. After a two-year battle with most cancers, he's again the place he belongs. Courtside, calling the motion and provoking us all."

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The 45-year ESPN veteran, who has battled 4 several types of most cancers previously three and a half years, was understandably emotional when it got here time to handle the gang.

"I need to say due to all of the folks. The reception right here has been actually off the charts," Vitale stated whereas combating again tears. "I'm sorry for being so emotional— I can't let you know how excited I’m to be right here."

He continued, "That is like my Tremendous Bowl. To have the ability to sit courtside and do a sport, it beats the hell out of chemotherapy and radiation. And I need to say to all most cancers sufferers on the market: Please, take heed to me, assume optimistic and have religion. And preserve combating and combating. I do know what you're going by way of and it's not enjoyable."

Vitale acquired therapy for melanoma and lymphoma in 2021, and couldn’t communicate for 4 months after present process surgical procedure for precancerous dysplasia and ulcerous lesions the identical 12 months. Although he was declared most cancers free by 2022, Vitale was subsequent recognized with vocal twine most cancers in 2023. In June 2024, he introduced yet one more prognosis, and underwent surgical procedure to take away cancerous lymph nodes from his neck. In ate December, Vitale introduced that he had as soon as once more been declared cancer-free.

All through the medical battle, Vitale has devoted time to elevating funds for most cancers analysis.

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Previous to his work in broadcasting, Vitale coached the Detroit Titans for 4 seasons and coached the Detroit Pistons for the 1978-79 season, earlier than being fired 12 video games into the next season. That very same 12 months, he introduced the first-ever school basketball sport proven on ESPN.

Vitale is a member of each the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame and the Collegiate Basketball Corridor of Fame. Throughout his profession, he has performed each fictional sportscasters and exaggerated variations of himself in motion pictures like The Bare Gun, He Got Game, and Love & Basketball.

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Drew Basile is prepared for spherical two of Survivor.

Whereas the Survivor 45 alum previously told Entertainment Weekly he wasn't "holding [his] breath" for an invite for the upcoming milestone season, he's now pitching himself for a return.

"Yeah, my opinion has positively modified on Survivor 50," Basile tells EW. "I haven't gotten the decision, I don't have any concrete info, however I feel I’d be an awesome choose. I feel CBS would actually profit from choosing me."

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Recent off his return to Jeopardy for the ongoing Tournament of Champions, Basile now feels extra assured about taking one other stab at Survivor. "I've acquired slightly little bit of a special perspective than among the different contestants — I'm not afraid to get imply," he says. "You've acquired loads of good talkers on the present today, however for me, phrases are a weapon. I say the proper phrase on Jeopardy each time, and I win $100,000. I can positively say the proper phrases to win one million on Survivor."

The 24-year-old grasp’s pupil, who previously declared himself to be "one of many smartest individuals to ever play this sport," made it to the ultimate six earlier than being blindsided by his personal alliance members again in 2023. The next yr, he turned the primary Survivor alum to play on Jeopardy, the place he finally certified for the Match of Championsduring his seven-game profitable streak. He misplaced in Thursday's semifinals, bringing his complete earnings to $138,403.

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Basile teases that he's truly "gotten another provides" to seem on further reveals, however he needs to be good about what he does subsequent.

"The Traitors is nice enjoyable, I really like to look at it — it's like a homicide thriller film, it's very campy," he says. "However from my perspective, I solely need to be doing the perfect reveals, and for me, Survivor and Jeopardy are just about on the high of that pyramid. I'll by no means say no to something, however we're searching for actually distinctive experiences that I do know I can win, that shall be enjoyable, and that I'll be good at."

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And that features one other potential return to Jeopardy — after he practices some extra, in fact.

"Some individuals deal with Jeopardy like a job. They examine, they follow, they get their very own buzzer system at residence, they prep," Basile says. "If I have been going to take issues to the following degree, like say Jeopardy Invitational, that may be the sort of system I’d need to implement. I've already been taking a look at some issues like that, some flashcards, getting individuals to assist me. And I'm assured that if we come again, we'll come again invincible. I didn't beat anyone this time, however subsequent time I'll be swinging."

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Jonny Fairplay has some unhappy information: His grandmother has died, for actual this time.

The Survivor alum lied about his grandmother dying in a infamous, pivotal second on the Pearl Islands season of the present in 2003, making an attempt to drum up sympathy from his fellow gamers. Now he says the information of his grandma's dying is true.

"I'll miss her day by day," Fairplay tells Leisure Weekly. "It's simple to suppose she was simply a part of one of many greatest lies in TV historical past, which made me well-known, however I take a look at her place in my life as a loving grandparent who solely needed the very best for me in my life and would do something to assist me get it. Which she did."

Fairplay's grandma was named Ellen Jean Hauser and glided by her center identify. Born in 1934, Hauser dated Grand Ole Opry host Faron Younger and had a fling with Robert Goulet, her grandson says. She died on Friday, Feb. 7, at Embrace Hospice Home in Myrtle Seashore, S.C.

Hauser seemingly embraced her Survivor notoriety, as she had a customized license plate that learn "DEAD GMA."

"She liked the publicity and a spotlight from Survivor," Fairplay says. "It didn't harm that she thought Jeff Probst was one of the crucial good-looking males on the planet. Jerry Springer invited her on his present as a visitor, which she turned down as a result of she was petrified of his viewers." When Fairplay revealed that his grandmother was really nonetheless alive on Survivor, he stated she was "sitting house watching Jerry Springer proper now."

Fairplay additionally made gentle of his grandmother's remaining moments. "Her dying phrases had been one thing like, 'Jonny, I wish to see you on Survivor 50, The Traitors, and Deal or No Deal Island,'" he says. "I had no thought she had so many streaming providers."

Fairplay informed EW that he didn't remorse his dishonest technique. "The 'Useless Grandma' lie remains to be thought of one of many biggest strikes within the historical past of not simply Survivor, however actuality tv as a complete," he stated in 2020. "I needed to deliver an outdoor factor to the sport and create the primary actuality villain. There had been 'unhealthy guys' previous to me on actuality TV, however they by no means sought out that personification. They claimed unhealthy modifying or inventive storytelling. I embraced the position and reveled in it."

The previous participant thought the best way he was portrayed in Survivor ended up being "good" for his objectives.

"It was me," he stated. "After I defined to manufacturing that I needed to be the heel, they had been elated and gave me each alternative to run with my infamous methods. It was like getting a permission slip to do evil. My heroes rising up had been Roddy Piper and Ric Aptitude. I bought to deliver all of their villainy to the world of actuality TV."

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Chelsea Handler is having enjoyable with the extraordinarily unfunny It Ends With Us saga.

On the 2025 Critics Selection Awards, the Chelsea Currently star poked enjoyable on the authorized battle between Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni over the latter's alleged sexual harassment on the set of their home abuse drama.

"I need to acknowledge that we've been by means of so much recently, not simply right here in Los Angeles, however our whole nation — waking up day by day not figuring out what information we're going to listen to that can disappoint or horrify us," Handler mentioned. "So it can be crucial in occasions like these to have a distraction, and that's why I need to personally lengthen my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Energetic."

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She continued, "Thanks for offering us with that distraction. I'm grateful. I feel we're all grateful. And I feel we're good. I feel all people on this room, irrespective of whose aspect you're on, we will all agree to simply accept that there's most likely not going to be a sequel. It ends with us, guys."

Energetic and Baldoni weren't the one targets in her monologue. The comic additionally took goal at a sure pop star's relationship with Ethan Slater.

"It’s so good to see a few of our most beloved little one stars all grown up and thriving: Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Ariana Grande are all nominated tonight," Handler mentioned. "And now Ariana has even discovered love with a Munchkin!"

The CCA viewers both didn't perceive the reference — Slater's Boq from Wicked is a Munchkin — or disapproved of it, as a result of the room's crowd appeared aghast with their awkward murmuring. "That's excellent news, all people!" Handler insisted.

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A later Depraved joke about Grande and Cynthia Erivo carried out significantly better. "I cherished the Depraved press tour," she mentioned. "The 2 of all of them over one another. I keep in mind the primary time I did molly."

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Handler additionally sang the praises of the papal thriller Conclave. "Ralph Fiennes, don't assume I'm not gonna speak about you," she mentioned. "You've performed a ruthless Nazi, evil Lord Voldemort, and now a celibate cardinal, and one way or the other made me wanna have intercourse with you in all three roles. I’m not alone. You've made some actually unsexy individuals very attractive. So I'm begging you: Please, by no means play Vladimir Putin. I can't try this once more."

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Depraved and The Substance each received three awards Friday night time, whereas Conclave and A Actual Ache every received two. Shōgun led the TV pack with 4 wins.

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Sally Struthers is feeling grateful for her pal, Bea Arthur.

The All within the Household alum, 77, shared her deep appreciation for the late Golden Girls star, who died at 86 in 2009, and her propensity for trash-talking completely each single one of their mutual acquaintances throughout an episode of the Let's Discuss About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti podcast.

“I’d run into her on the grocery store and she or he would trash everybody we ever knew,” Struthers recalled. “We’d stand within the aisle and she or he’d say, ‘What do you consider so-and-so?’”

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The Gilmore Girls star defined that when she tried to say a number of type phrases concerning the particular person, Arthur would usually interrupt her by exclaiming, “‘Oh, she will’t be, as a result of she’s a f—ing a–hole!’”

Struthers jokingly added, “Individuals within the retailer have been like, ‘What’s occurring in aisle 5?’”

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These grocery store smack-talking classes have gone on to develop into a few of Struthers’ favourite reminiscences of Arthur. “I beloved how filthy she was,” she mentioned. “She was an enormous deal. I beloved her.”

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Whereas the actress had nothing however constructive issues to say about Arthur, the identical couldn’t be mentioned for her Golden Ladies costar, Betty White. On the podcast, she described White as a “very passive-aggressive girl” and recalled an incident during which she claimed that the late comic “fat-shamed” her for trying to seize a cookie.

On the time, Struthers defined that she was visiting White’s Hollywood dwelling to debate a brand new recreation present pilot.

"A plate was set within the center and it was cookies, I believe," Struthers recalled. "So I attain for a cookie and [White] mentioned in entrance of everybody, 'Oh, I wouldn't try this if I have been you, expensive. You don't want a cookie.' Completely fat-shamed me in entrance of the remainder of the individuals within the room, and I assumed, 'Gosh, that's not good.'"

Hearken to Struthers mirror on her relationships with White and Arthur within the podcast above.

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Denzel Washington has seen an excessive amount of Oscar drama for the 2025 nominations to faze him.

The star has reacted to the Academy snubbing him within the Greatest Supporting Actor class for Gladiator II in a brand new interview with The New York Times. "I used to be sitting there smiling [on nomination morning], going: 'Take a look at you. On the day you didn't get a nomination for an Oscar, you're engaged on Othello on Broadway,'" Washington recalled.

"Are you kidding me? Awww. Oh, I'm so upset," he added sarcastically.

The actor elaborated. "I'm completely happy for all that did, and I'm pleased with what I'm doing," he stated. "Hear, I've been round too lengthy. I've obtained — I don't wanna say different fish to fry, however there's a actuality at this age. Going again to what I used to be saying: The start of knowledge is knowing. I'm getting wiser, engaged on speaking much less and studying to grasp extra — and that's thrilling."

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Washington's efficiency in Ridley Scott's sequel earned rave opinions and nominations for Greatest Supporting Actor on the Golden Globes and the Critics Alternative Awards, however it didn't rating any love from the Academy, which as an alternative nominated Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Actual Ache), Edward Norton (A Full Unknown), Man Pearce (The Brutalist), and Jeremy Robust (The Apprentice). Gladiator II earned a sole nomination for Greatest Costume Design.

Washington has gotten his justifiable share of Oscars love previously: He received Greatest Supporting Actor in 1988 for Glory and Greatest Actor in 2002 for Training Day. He obtained six further Greatest Actor nominations for Malcolm X, The Hurricane, Flight, Fences, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Roman J. Israel, Esq., in addition to one other Supporting Actor nod for Cry Freedom and a Greatest Image nom for Fences.

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Elsewhere within the interview, the Equalizer star mirrored on his dynamic with Jake Gyllenhaal, who's taking part in the Iago to Washington's Othello on stage. "He's an advanced man," he stated, earlier than clarifying, "In a great way."

Washington continued, "He's loopy. He's nuts. I really like him. He's difficult. However he's already obtained a deal with on it."

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The actor additionally famous that Gyllenhaal's preparation fashion differs from his personal. "I might see how far forward persons are [in preparing]," he defined. "Me, I'm not anxious about that, as a result of I don't prefer to be taught the traces too quickly. I used to be telling a younger actor who requested, 'Why don't you prefer to be taught them too quickly?' I stated: 'As a result of then I'm the voice I'm listening to delivering the cues to myself. I need to hear it from you, and that's going to have an effect on how I say what I say.' For me, that works."

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Washington additionally admitted that he has the benefit of getting carried out the piece early in his profession. "To be fairly sincere, as a result of I've performed it earlier than, I nonetheless kinda keep in mind it," he stated. "However it's not word-for-word."

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Tony Roberts, the character actor who appeared in Annie Hall and quite a few different seminal '70s movies, has died. He was 85.

Roberts died at residence in Manhattan on Friday following issues from lung most cancers, his daughter, Nicole Burley, confirmed to The New York Times.

Roberts' regular, assured demeanor made him the right onscreen foil for Woody Allen's overly neurotic characters in movies like Annie Corridor, and his aura of unflappable competence made him a pure match to play cinematic authority figures, together with a police officer in Serpico and a deputy mayor in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

Born in Manhattan in 1939, Roberts studied appearing on the borough's Excessive College of Music & Artwork and at Northwestern College on the recommendation of household pal Lee Strasberg. He graduated in 1961 and made his Broadway debut a 12 months later in One thing A couple of Soldier. He went on to star in productions of Barefoot within the Park and How Now, Dow Jones, the latter of which earned him a Tony nomination for Finest Featured Actor in a Play.

Roberts first collaborated with Allen when he auditioned for — and was ultimately forged in — the Manhattan filmmaker's 1966 play, Don't Drink the Water. He then appeared within the 1969 manufacturing of Play It Once more, Sam, which Allen wrote and starred in. Roberts and his costar Diane Keaton each earned Tony noms for his or her performances within the present, and all three actors reprised their roles in Herbert Ross' 1972 movie adaptation.

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The actor's movie debut got here a 12 months earlier than within the 1971 Disney comedy The Million Greenback Duck, which forged Roberts as the perfect pal of Dean Jones' protagonist. The identical 12 months, he appeared within the movie adaptation of Star Spangled Lady, adopted by Sidney Lumet's 1973 crime drama Serpico and the Walter Matthau–starring 1974 subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

Roberts' most memorable position was in 1977's Annie Corridor, his first time working with Allen along with his costar behind the digicam. Roberts' Rob is sort of comically laid-back, so it's pretty unsurprising that he thrives in Los Angeles (and even much less shocking that Allen's Alvy doesn't take to the Metropolis of Angels). The movie received Finest Image on the 1978 Oscars, and is extensively thought-about one of the crucial influential romance movies of the twentieth century, in addition to Allen's magnum opus.

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Roberts went on to collaborate with Allen on 4 extra movies: 1980's Stardust Reminiscences, 1982's A Midsummer Night time's Intercourse Comedy, 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters, and 1987's Radio Days.

The actor performed one in all his solely big-screen main roles within the 1983 horror sequel Amityville 3-D, and later appeared in movies like Swap with Ellen Barkin and The Longest Week with Jason Bateman.

On the small display, Roberts acted on exhibits like The Fringe of Night time, The Love Boat, Matlock, The Carol Burnett Show, and Law & Order. His remaining display credit score was the 2017 made-for-TV remake of Soiled Dancing.
Roberts is survived by his daughter.

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Generally it's enjoyable to observe tales about locations we'd by no means need to go (like, say, Stranger Issues' Upside Down). Different occasions, it's good to spend a while within the sorts of idyllic small cities that appear to solely exist in fiction, like Gilmore Ladies' Stars Hole or the non-evil components of Twin Peaks. The latest addition to the cozy-town canon is Serenity, S.C., the candy Southern hamlet featured on Netflix's Candy Magnolias.

The sequence, which is greatest loved beneath a heavy blanket with a steaming cup of tea, follows a trio of besties — Maddie Townsend (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Helen Decatur (Heather Headley), and Dana Sue Sullivan (Brooke Elliott) — as they navigate life's peaks and valleys, be they romantic, financial, or familial.

Serenity, as you’ll have guessed, isn’t an actual city in South Carolina. Sherryl Woods, who penned the books upon which the sequence relies, wrote within the intro to 2007's Stealing Residence that it's based mostly on the state's very actual metropolis of Sumter (extra on that under). It could come as a shock, then, that Candy Magnolias is filmed in Georgia, not South Carolina.

After all, that doesn't make its locales any much less beautiful. Combine your self a margarita and skim on for extra about the place Candy Magnolias is filmed.

Covington, Ga.

The overwhelming majority of Candy Magnolias is filmed in Covington, Ga., a small city that's roughly a 40-minute drive from Atlanta. Location supervisor Brad Smith confirmed to PEOPLE that its tidy, quaint downtown is as fairly in actual life as it’s on the sequence, with solely beauty modifications being made to the realm throughout filming.

For instance, the hovering clock tower featured within the present's opening credit (and within the background of quite a few scenes) is a part of the Newton County Courthouse. Guests received't be capable of miss it, because it's nestled proper within the city sq..

The identical goes for the beautiful Greek revival manor that’s dwelling to the present's Nook Spa. Do observe, although, that it's truly a regulation workplace (the Legislation Places of work of Wm. Thomas Craig, to be particular), so don't pop in anticipating a facial — we don't suppose they educate that in regulation faculty.

One other Candy Magnolias spot you possibly can go to is Sullivan's, the native restaurant owned by Dana Sue, however know that it's truly known as Mystic Grill. (Amusingly, Mystic Grill acquired its identify from one other present that shot in Covington, The Vampire Diaries.) Alas, solely the outside of the restaurant — together with the terrace up high — is featured on the present. Inside scenes have been shot on a soundstage in Atlanta, so seize a desk exterior if you wish to nosh like a real Magnolia.

In response to IMDb, greater than 250 movies and sequence have been shot in Covington — Keep in mind the Titans (2000), Candy Residence Alabama (2002), and Physician Sleep (2019), amongst them — and an area firm, Hollywood of the South Excursions, can information you thru the places featured in Candy Magnolias and past.

Decatur, Ga.

Roughly an hour drive from Covington is Decatur, a 25,000-strong metropolis that’s a part of the Atlanta metropolitan space. It's right here that the residents of Serenity come to search out a little bit serenity, as the realm's Oakhurst Presbyterian Church doubles as Candy Magnolias' Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. You might bear in mind the constructing's spectacular stained glass home windows throughout scenes set throughout companies or Bible faculty.

Decatur is a busy taking pictures space, having been featured in sequence like HBO's Watchmen, Marvel's The Falcon and Winter Soldier, and Hulu's Sweet. The native Agnes Scott Faculty, specifically, has been seen in movies like Scream 2 (1997), Lifetime of the Celebration (2018), and the Oscar-winning The Blind Aspect (2009).

McDonough, Ga.

Situated 40 minutes southeast of Covington is McDonough, a picturesque city of about 30,000. The entire scenes shot at Serenity Excessive College have been filmed at Henry County Center College. In response to a publish from I ♥ McDonough, Georgia, the sequence additionally options pictures of the varsity's baseball area and the city's downtown thoroughfare.

Sumter, S.C.

As we famous above, Woods based mostly Serenity on Sumter, a 43,000-person metropolis tucked proper within the coronary heart of South Carolina. Whereas no scenes from the sequence have been filmed there, it's nonetheless value visiting.

On the very least, you possibly can learn Woods' personal phrases about it — and the way it impressed Serenity — within the intro to Stealing Residence, the primary ebook in her Candy Magnolias sequence. We've included the complete textual content under.

"Welcome to the fictional city of Serenity, South Carolina. Creating a brand new forged of characters and a brand new locale is all the time an thrilling time, however growing Serenity for this new sequence had a particular which means for me. Every year as I journey from my dwelling in Key Biscayne, Florida to my household's summer time cottage in Colonial Seashore, Virginia, I make a cease in Sumter, South Carolina, to go to certainly one of my household's oldest and dearest pals, Dottie Clemons. As she likes to say, she's recognized me since I used to be nothing however a glimmer in my daddy's eye. Now in her mid-nineties, Dottie has extra power, extra zest for all times and extra curiosity on the earth round her than anybody I do know. She additionally values a superb chuckle and may spin a narrative with the perfect of them. She's the individual I need to be after I develop up!"

Ever since Dottie moved away from the Washington, D.C., space and settled in South Carolina, she has shared her newly-adopted group of Sumter and her personal prolonged household with me. So Stealing Residence is for all of them — Dottie, Anna-Mae, Ginger and Johnny, Gloria and Luther, and Dottie's gentleman pal, Larens. Thanks for the nice and cozy welcome, the laughter, the nice meals and the inspiration for this new group.

I hope they — and all of you — will take pleasure in not solely Serenity, however the good, humorous Candy Magnolias, their households, the boys of their lives, and the Nook Spa, the place the ladies of Serenity will come to share a cup of tea, be pampered, and get match. I want all of you friendships like these and a spot that may make it easier to turn out to be the perfect you may be."

The right way to watch Candy Magnolias

You possibly can watch all 4 seasons of Candy Magnolias on Netflix.

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Nothing gold can keep certainly.

Multitalented musician and producer Pharrell Williams and French filmmaker Michel Gondry have scrapped their coming-of-age film musical Golden within the midst of postproduction, explaining that they couldn't execute their imaginative and prescient for the undertaking.

"When all of us obtained into the modifying room we collectively determined there wasn't a path ahead to inform the model of this story that we initially envisioned," Williams and Gondry stated Friday in a press release supplied to Leisure Weekly. "We admire all of the exhausting work of the gifted solid and crew. Whereas we're upset, we are able to't ship this movie, we have now unimaginable companions at Common and can collaborate in a unique capability once more quickly."

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Beforehand slated to hit theaters Could 5 and previously titled Atlantis, the movie was arrange at Common Photos, the place Williams has a longstanding inventive partnership. In keeping with Selection, which first reported the information, Common will eat roughly $20 million in prices on the undertaking, and it’ll not be shopped elsewhere. The studio had no remark.

Golden was a star-studded affair, with a solid that included Halle Bailey, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Da'Vine Pleasure Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, Janelle Monáe, Missy Elliott, Quinta Brunson, and Anderson .Paak.

Williams has been acknowledged with 13 Grammys on 39 nominations, for work on his personal and in collaboration with artists corresponding to Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Janet Jackson. He was additionally named males's inventive director at Louis Vuitton in 2023.

Gondry received an Oscar for writing 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which he additionally directed, together with films corresponding to Be Type Rewind and The Science of Sleep. He's helmed music movies from artists such because the White Stripes, Björk, Radiohead, and Paul McCartney.

Final yr, Common's Focus Options division launched the animated film Piece by Piece, a collab between Williams and director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Gained't You be My Neighbor?) telling Williams' life story totally in Legos. The movie options the voices of Williams, Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Timbaland, and lots of different music standouts.

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Speaking to Empire magazine in November, Williams defined then that Piece By Piece was about his life generally, "whereas Golden is a few neighborhood that I grew up in."

He added, "It's a musical expedition set in the summertime of 1977 in Virginia Seaside. It's a coming-of-age story about self-discovery and pursuing your goals, nevertheless it's a lot extra magical than that. It's a celebration of Black life, Black tradition, and most significantly, Black pleasure."

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Seasoned NBC journalist Andrea Mitchell has signed off her daytime MSNBC present, Andrea Mitchell Experiences, for the ultimate time.

After saying in October that she could be leaving and revealing her actual date of departure simply this week, Mitchell spoke on air following a clip montage Friday. "Just some remaining ideas concerning the tales that we've shared over these 17 years, you and I, and the miles I've traveled to carry them to you," she mentioned. "I've anchored this program all around the world, as you simply noticed, from Moscow to Beijing, Nairobi to Ramallah, Havana, Islamabad, Kabul, Baghdad, sure, telling America's story, as nicely, all around the United States, beginning with Iowa and New Hampshire."

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Mitchell reiterated that she wouldn't be disappearing from screens fully — removed from it. She’s going to stay at NBC Information within the function of chief Washington correspondent and chief overseas affairs correspondent.

"This hour has all the time been pushed by what I like most, deep reporting on politics and overseas coverage," Mitchell continued. "As I introduced final October, in these difficult occasions, I wish to get again to my roots and study extra about your lives, inform your tales as we face tectonic adjustments in our nation and our world, after additionally doing that for 17 years, internet hosting this each day present on MSNBC, I'll be doing that to any extent further full-time, the place this superb experience first began 47 years in the past, proper right here at NBC Information as chief Washington and chief overseas coverage correspondent, persevering with to cowl politics and overseas coverage."

With time dwindling, the journalist was stunned by dozens of colleagues she'd labored with on the information present, streaming into the studio to individually give her hugs and nicely needs. Mitchell was moved as all of them clapped for her, and her remaining phrases as anchor have been to tease that she could be on Friday's Nightly Information and Meet the Press on Sunday.

The announcement that Mitchell would leaving her program, the community's longest-running one in daytime, got here every week after NBC's longtime political director, Chuck Todd, left, citing the need to tackle new initiatives.

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Mitchell defined on her present within the days earlier than the presidential election that she was leaving as a result of she wished "to do extra of what I like probably the most: extra connecting, listening and reporting within the discipline," she mentioned. "Particularly as whoever is elected subsequent week goes to undertake the monumental activity of dealing with two overseas wars and the political divisions right here at house."

She wished to cowl information tales from a "completely different vantage level," she mentioned, and "not on a schedule of a each day present."

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