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After eight weeks of freedom from the spotlight, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer made his post-West Wing television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live, which he agreed to appear on after Kimmel asked him on Twitter. During the 20-minute conversation, which you can watch in full below, Kimmel asked Spicer about his disastrous first press briefing, where he insisted that President Trump's inauguration crowds were larger than President Obama's. "When you brought that...

Justin Bieber at the 2016 102.7 KIIS FM Jingle Ball (Getty Images) Days after announcing he was canceling the remainder of his world tour, possibly to focus on his "faith," pop star Justin Bieber struck a photographer with his truck in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night. TMZ has footage of the incident. "Justin was leaving the Saban Theater, where he'd been worshipping at a City Church event. He climbed into his monster pickup truck...

Kermit and Steve Whitmire in 2003 (Getty Images) The puppeteer who was fired after voicing Kermit the Frog for 27 years is speaking out about his dismissal. Responding to criticism that he had made the character a "bitter, angry, depressed victim," Steve Whitmire said that wasn't true. "In terms of the character stuff of Kermit having become stale or bitter, it isn't true in my mind," Whitmire said on the Today show. Whitmire effectively...

It's important to have a bar mitzvah that is, as the kids today say, on point. Will Rubin, a 13-year-old from Media, Pennsylvania, decided to make his event a Jimmy Kimmel-affair, with a talk show set, a Kimmel-style opening credits sequence and an ice sculpture of Guillermo. However, since Kimmel is not Jewish, Jon Stewart emerged to challenge this concept. Kimmel was video-chatting with Rubin following his big day (while he didn't attend the...

Bill Paxton at the 48th NAACP Image Awards on February 11, 2017 (Getty Images) Actor Bill Paxton, whose everyman appeal saw him in a diverse range of roles from a treasure hunter in Titanic to a bigamist in Big Love, a fatalistic tech in Aliens to a veteran LAPD detective in the TV adaptation of Training Day, passed away yesterday at age 61. According to TMZ, he "underwent heart surgery and had complications post-op...

Oscars statuettes as they are being plated in 2005 (Getty Images) After winning big at the Golden Globes, La La Land, Damien Chazelle's love letter to Los Angeles and Hollywood, scored 14 Academy Award nominations, tying a record set by Titanic and All About Eve. But there's no possibility of a sweep: The film has two songs nominated for Best Song. Other critical darlings—and indie box office successes—Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight were...

Meryl Streep accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes (Getty Images) Like clockwork, the future leader of the United States took time to get back at acclaimed actress Meryl Streep, who lamented about his behavior during the Golden Globes last night. He tweeted this morning, calling her "overrated" and a "Hillary flunky who lost big." Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last...

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher at the SAG Awards in 2015 (Getty Images) A private memorial for both Star Wars star and writer Carrie Fisher and her mother, movie legend Debbie Reynolds, will be held on Thursday, followed by a funeral on Friday. A source told the Hollywood Reporter that the event is only for family and close friends, "I’m not sure what they’re calling it — a funeral or a wake — but...

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Alex Hibbert as Chiron in 'Moonlight' (Photo by David Bornfriend, courtesy of A24) It's Hollywood awards season, which means there are too many prestige films for you to watch and not enough time to see them all. This morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced—via actors Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick—this year's nominations in both film and TV categories for the 74th Golden Globes. Critical darlings Moonlight, La La Land and Manchester...

Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool of Green Day during the American Music Awards (Getty Images) The American Music Awards got political last night when Green Day, staying true to their punk personas, brought some politics to the stage. While performing their song "Bang Bang," they burst into MDC's "Born to Die" and improvised with: "No Trump / No KKK/ No fascist USA." Green Day is doing it! #AMAs pic.twitter.com/IKcP7dbEfW— Nicole Dellert (@nic_heartsburgs) November...