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Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty To Renewed ‘Rust’ Involuntary Manslaughter Charges; Restrictions Placed On Actor’s Movements & Meetings

Facing a prison sentence of 18 months to three years if found guilty, Baldwin was re-charged by a New Mexico grand jury January 19, a year to the day he was originally charged over Hutchins’ death. Due in no small part to incompetence by the initial investigators, those charges were dropped in April 2023 but never entirely disregarded by prosecutors.

Now Baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter (negligent use of a firearm), a lesser charge, and involuntary manslaughter (without due caution or circumspection).

“The above-named defendant did cause the death of Halyna Hutchins by an act committed with the total disregard or indifference to the safety of others, and the act was such that an ordinary person would anticipate that death might occur under the circumstances,” the grand jury indictment reads of the latter charge, a felony.

“We look forward to our day in court,” Baldwin lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro from Quinn Emanuel said earlier this month after the indictment was made public by Special Prosecutors Kerri Morrisey and Jason Lewis.

Kinda.

Thursday’s planned hearing is now canceled due to Baldwin’s plea and waiver of arraignment.

However, while Baldwin is free without bail, there are conditions the Rust actor-producer must adhere to, according to New Mexico judge T. Glenn Ellington:

Defendant is permitted to have contact with potential witnesses only in the capacity laid out herein: In connection with the “Rust” movie and other related and unrelated business matters: provided, however, that Defendant is not permitted to discuss the accident at issue, or the substance of his or the witness’s potential testimony in this case. ‘Related business matters” is designed to capture promoting the movie and other similar activities. “Unrelated business matters” is designed to capture other business relationships between Baldwin and any of the witnesses. The Defendant is permitted to continue to utilize Matthew DelPiano as his agent. Discussion about the incident is permitted with the witnesses who are named as civil co­defendants only so long as such conversations are held exclusively in the presence of attorneys for civil litigation purposes. The Defendant will not directly or indirectly solicit witnesses or members of the cast and crew to participate in the documentary with Moxie films or to obtain statements regarding safety on the “Rust’ set outside of standard investigative procedures.

Baldwin is also not allowed to leave the U.S. without permission of the court, drink, or possess a firearm.

All this stems from the October 21, 2021, death of Hutchins on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe after a gun Baldwin was holding during a rehearsal discharged a live round. Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in the shooting but recovered.

Following the release of an FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office in November 2022, Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged by prosecutors in January 2023 with two counts of involuntary manslaughter over the killing of Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed never saw the charges against her dropped. Rust assistant director Dave Halls made a plea deal and received six months of unsupervised probation.

From the day of the shooting, up to the resurrection and completion of Rust and beyond, Baldwin has always insisted he never pulled the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins. It’s an assessment that the FBI and more recently independent weapons examiners brought aboard by the special prosecutors disagree with. After looking at the somewhat desecrated weapon, both parties have determined the gun could have only gone off if Baldwin had pulled the trigger.

Late last year, prosecutors put pressure on Gutierrez-Reed to explain how live rounds got on the Rust set. The state has implied they believe Gutierrez-Reed was responsible for the love rounds. When the former armorer offered nothing, evidence-tampering charges were tacked on to her case with allegations of drug and drink abuse. Her attorneys are seeking to have the new charges tossed off the case. Like Baldwin, Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not guilty, with her case supposedly going to trial late next month.

Besides the renewed criminal case, Baldwin is up against a number of Rust civil cases in California and New Mexico.y.

Alec Baldwin Defended by SAG-AFTRA Amid New 'Rust' Criminal Charges

The actor wasn't named by SAG specifically, but he was most certainly alluded to in this new statement they put out slamming the decision to prosecute him twice in this case. The union made clear ... knowing how to handle firearms is NOT an actor's job, from their POV.

They write, "To the extent that the charges filed on January 19 are based on an accusation of negligent use of a firearm predicated on this or any actor having a duty to inspect a firearm as part of its use, that is an incorrect assessment of the actual duties of an actor on set."

Then comes a haymaker, with SAG adding ... "An actor’s job is not to be a firearms or weapons expert. Firearms are provided for use on set under the guidance of multiple expert professionals directly responsible for the safe and accurate operation of that firearm."

SAG goes on to say that the procedure for safe use of firearms on set is clearly laid out in their rules and guidelines ... but they explicitly point out that a performer is not and should not be tasked with making sure the weapons used are dangerous or live.

Basically, there are experts for that type of thing on set ... and SAG is making that clear in no uncertain terms. It's a huge win for Alec as far as optics are concerned -- he's been making this point all along, and now ... SAG-AFTRA is confirming he is, indeed, correct.

You'll recall ... Alec was hit with a new involuntary manslaughter charge in the 'Rust' case -- and he's supposed to answer for it in court on Feb. 1 during an arraignment. Alec and his attorneys already responded to that, noting he has a right to speedy trial ... and wants to exercise that in this case, not wanting to drag it out further.

Meanwhile, the armorer from that movie -- Hannah Gutierrez-Reed -- is facing her own criminal charges in the matter ... although she too has pleaded innocence/ignorance over what led to Halyna Hutchins' death.

‘Star Trek’ Icon Jonathan Frakes To Direct Crypto Pioneer Jeff Garzik’s TV Adaptation Of ‘Deathlands’ Novel Series

The series comes from NextCypher, the indie that crypto pioneer Jeff Garzik launched last year, and is set to begin shooting in Sofia, Bulgaria, this spring. When we first told about the show in August 2022, Garzik described it as “Mad Max: Fury Road meets Yellowjackets in an epic post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure.”

Mark A. Altman (Pandora, Agent X) as the showrunner and executive producer. Thomas P. Vitale (Slasher, 57 Seconds) and Garzik are also executive producers. Christine Sheaks (Boogie Nights, Fargo) is handling global casting efforts.

Frakes — known for his role as Commander William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Picard and several Star Trek movies — is directing. “One of the things that I find so compelling about Deathlands is that it’s a series about hope and the chance to build a better world,” he said. “I’m excited about the opportunity to bring this show, combining feature level action and compelling character drama, to the world.”

Deathlands began life as a series of novels from James Axler, first published in 1986 as a joint project between Axler and Jack Adrian. They are set in a post-Apocalyptic world 100 years after a nuclear exchange between U.S. and Soviet Union, in which a mutated, crazed civilization is beginning to reemerge. The stories follow Ryan Cawthor and a band of survivors, who travel the ‘Deathlands’ using a teleportation technology they have uncovered.

Along with the Star Trek franchise, Frakes is known for roles in NCIS and unscripted series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. As a director, he has credits for shows such Roswell and Burn Notice. He recently voiced Riker once again in Star Trek: Very Short Treks, animated short-form promos from CBS Studios that celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Altman, who developed the series with Vitale, said: “With a series that is gritty, suspenseful, and action-packed, with a sense of hope, romance, and resilience in the face of adversity, I cannot imagine anyone better to bring Deathlands to the screen than visionary director, Jonathan Frakes. I couldn’t be more thrilled to have him onboard to ensure the series will be appointment television for viewers everywhere.”

Garzik, who was the co-founder and CEO of crypto firm Bloq, launched his company last year and unveiled plans for a slate of series. The company is also planning to shoot an “action-packed, futuristic, terrestrial-based sci-fi series” titled Looking Glass, which is based on an idea from Garzik. A graphic novel launched last year via NextCypher’s Words + Art comic book imprint.

Also in development are “several procedurals” that “meet the needs of the marketplace,” according to Garzik. NextCypher is also actively acquiring additional IP, and plans are afoot to expand into new areas of production, including the launch of an unscripted division. Bertrand Reignier and Tai Truesdell of Rogue Wave Entertainment are overseeing international sales for NextCypher’s portfolio.

“I launched NextCypher to capitalize on the appetite for innovative, high-quality genre entertainment. I’m glad to see the market aligning with our vision of producing smartly budgeted, and exceptional content for a global audience,” said Garzik. “Deathlands is an ideal launchpad for us, especially considering the success of similar post-apocalyptic series based on successful IPs like The Last of Us and the eagerly anticipated Fallout.”

Alec Baldwin Wants “Speedy Trial” Over ‘Rust’ Involuntary Manslaughter Charges; Court Appearance Set For Next Month

Looking at 18 months to possibly three years behind bars based on state law, Baldwin actor has been “ordered to appear before Judge T. Glenn Ellington, on-February 1, 2024, at 11 am” local time (read the court summons to Alec Baldwin here).

Baldwin and his lawyers seem to be in lock step with the summons, if a filing Wednesday is any indication.

“Mr. Baldwin asserts his right to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 14 of the New Mexico Constitution,” said Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro from the NYC office of Quinn Emanuel and Albuquerque lawyer Heather LeBlanc. “Mr. Baldwin is entitled to a fair and speedy disposition of the charges to minimize public vilification and suspicion and to avoid the hazards of proving his innocence that often arise after lengthy delays in prosecution.“

Read Alec Baldwin’s lawyers’ response to his court summons filing here.

“Mr. Baldwin reserves the right to call any and all witnesses disclosed by the prosecution on a witness list for trial or hearing in this matter,” the attorneys concluded, putting down a marker for special prosecutors Kerri Morrisey and Jason Lewis.

Baldwin isn’t required to be in the New Mexico courtroom in person February 1. As when the Rust star-producer was charged before, the actor can appear via phone or “video conference.” But he does have to show up in one form or another. Otherwise, “if you fail to appear at the time and place specified, a warrant will be issued for your arrest,” the court proclaimed January 22.

From the hours right after the October 21, 2021 death of Hutchins — caused by the firing of a 1880s prop gun Baldwin was pointing at the cinematographer during a rehearsal on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe — to now, the actor has declared on TV, in court filings and everywhere else that he did not pull the trigger. In a case that was a mess from the get-go, Baldwin saw initial criminal charges against him dropped in April 2022. However, newly named special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis never ruled out refiling manslaughter or other claims against him if more evidence came in.

Within six months, that evidence looked to have come in.

“After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Halyna Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza,” Morrissey and Lewis said in late October before heading to a grand jury. That grand jury eventually delivered last week’s charges a year to the day Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were originally charged.

After a botched investigation by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s department, the FBI became further involved in early 2022 to determine that the weapon could have only gone off if Baldwin had pulled the trigger. That assessment was reiterated by independent weapons examiners brought aboard by the special prosecutors.

“Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,” declared the special prosecutors’ report from Lucien Haag and Michael Haag commissioned August 2.

After that, it became a matter of time and timing until Baldwin was likely to be charged again.

Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in the shooting but recovered. Both producers on Rust, Souza and Baldwin, with a new cinematographer and Hutchins’ husband as a producer, restarted and finished Rust early last year in Montana. The film has gone out to possible buyers, Deadline hears.

Similar to Baldwin, Reed is facing a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury finds her guilty of involuntary manslaughter among her current charges. Leaned on by prosecutors to provide information on how live rounds got on the set of Rust, the armorer saw evidence-tampering charges added late last year. Reed has pleaded not guilty, with her case scheduled to go to trial in February.

With Baldwin charged again, that timetable may change. A pretrial motions hearing in Reed’s case set for Thursday may offer details of where things are going next.

Alec Baldwin Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter Again In ‘Rust’ Fatal Shooting; “Look Forward To Our Day In Court,” Actor’s Lawyers Say

Widely expected for several months, a New Mexico Grand Jury issued the indictment early Friday, according to Special Prosecutors in the case. Baldwin, who had always insisted he did not pull the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins, could face up to 18 months behind bars if found guilty.

“We look forward to our day In court,” Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro from Quinn Emanuel told Deadline today after the indictment was made public. Special Prosecutors Kerri Morrisey and Jason Lewis did not respond to request for comments on the latest twist in the Rust case. If and when they do, we will update this post.

The case stems from the October 21, 2021, death of Hutchins on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe. Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in the shooting but recovered.

Following the release of an FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office in November 2022, Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged by prosecutors in January 2023 with two counts of involuntary manslaughter over the killing of Hutchins. Baldwin saw criminal charges against him in the death of Hutchins dropped in April, but the haunting possibility of refiled charges against the actor never was far from a reality.

Before today, only Gutierrez-Reed had faced charges in the case. Likely similar to Baldwin now that he has been recharged, Reed is facing a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury finds her guilty on the current charges. Looking at the involuntary manslaughter claims plus evidence-tampering charges, Reed has pleaded not guilty, as did Baldwin when he first was charged. Her case is scheduled to go to trial in February — a timetable that could change with Baldwin’s indictment.

Rust assistant director Dave Halls made a plea deal and received six months of unsupervised probation.

Alec Baldwin Relists Hamptons Estate With $10M Price Cut, Weird Pitch Video

The actor just relisted his massive estate in Amagansett, NY, for $18,995,000 ... which is a heavy reduction from the original $29 million price tag.

Alec's longtime Hamptons home is 10,000 square feet with 7 bedrooms ... the modern farmhouse is on a 10-acre lot and he says, "You just can't get this out here anymore, you can't buy big pieces of land, especially in Amagansett."

The place is decked out with a movie theater, wine tasting room and wood-paneled library, plus an outdoor pool and spa. It's also got several balconies and screened-in porches to enjoy the surrounding nature preserve.

In his pitch video, Alec waxes poetically about his love for the Hamptons ... he says he fell in love the moment he first went there, and says he used to go out to the nearby beach a lot when he was younger, sometimes falling asleep under the stars.

Alec doesn't actually go inside the home in his video, he's just on the property talking about how much he enjoys the Hamptons ... and he even shows some of his old homes in the area.

The house first went on the market in September 2022 but it never sold and a year later it was taken off the market. Now, AB and co. are trying to get it going again -- and you can tell ... they really wanna unload this thing, evidenced in Alec's involvement and the price slash.

Alec's moved to greener pastures -- heading north to his 55-acre farm in Vermont ... but he makes it sound like he'll really miss this place. Scott Bradley of Saunders & Associates has the listing.

Alec Baldwin & PETA Ask Radio City Music Hall To Stop Using Live Animals In Christmas Show

In a letter written on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the actor and producer asked Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation CEO James Dolan to stop using donkeys, camels and sheep as part of the yearly musical show.

“The Christmas Spectacular already features extremely talented human performers, and reinventing the iconic show to be animal-free would bring it into the modern era and truly align it with the Christmas spirit,” Baldwin wrote in a letter obtained by The Daily Mail.

“Please ensure that this year’s show will be the last that uses animals and give this archaic practice a high kick out of your production and into the history books.”

Baldwin went on to note that “Holiday displays and productions are anything but merry for animals who are often deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them.”

He stressed that live shows are harmful for animals who are forced to be “hauled from city to city in cramped trucks, stored in back room like props and subjected to loud sounds and disorienting lights.”

Baldwin also said that the Dawn Animal Agency, which provides animals for film, television and other productions, has been cited by the US Department of Agriculture for allegedly denying the creatures necessities like clean enclosures, space and veterinary care.

In a statement to The New York Post, an MSG spokesperson denied that Radio City gets its animals from Dawn Animal Agency.

“The safety of the animals in the Christmas Spectacular’s beloved ‘Living Nativity’ scene is always our priority,” the spokesperson said. “Their well-being is critical, and they are provided with exceptional round-the-clock care throughout the show’s limited run.”

Kristen Wiig’s ‘Palm Royale’ Comedy Series Gets Apple TV+ Premiere Date

Wiig leads the stellar ensemble cast, including Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Amber Chardae Robinson, Mindy Cohn, Julia Duffy and Kaia Gerber. Bruce Dern and Carol Burnett will guest star.

The first three episodes will drop on March 20, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through May 8.

Loosely based on Juliet McDaniel’s novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie and produced by Apple Studios, Palm Royale is a true underdog story that follows Maxine Simmons (Wiig) as she endeavors to break into Palm Beach high society. As Maxine attempts to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, Palm Royale asks the same question that still baffles us today: “How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to get what someone else has?” Set during the powder keg year of 1969, Palm Royale is a testament to every outsider fighting for their chance to truly belong.

Palm Royale is written, executive produced and showrun by Abe Sylvia for Aunt Sylvia’s Moving Picture Company, executive produced by Laura Dern and Jayme Lemons for Jaywalker Pictures, Kristen Wiig, Katie O’Connell Marsh, Tate Taylor and John Norris for Wyolah Films, Sharr White, and Sheri Holman and Boat Rocker and Rock Shaink Jr. The series is directed by Taylor, Sylvia, Claire Scanlon, and Stephanie Laing.

Frances Sternhagen Dies: Tony-Winning Broadway Actress, Cliff’s Mom On ‘Cheers’ Was 93

Her death was announced by her son, the actor John Carlin, on Instagram.

“Frannie. Mom. Frances Sternhagen. On Monday night, Nov 27, she died peacefully at her home, a month and a half shy of her 94th birthday,” Carlin wrote today, ending the tribute with “Fly on, Frannie. The curtain goes down on a life so richly, passionately, humbly and generously lived.

Sternhagen, one of the New York stage’s most celebrated and beloved stars, gave indelible performances in productions including the 1972 production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Equus in 1975, Angel in 1978, On Golden Pond in 1979 and, in 2002, Morning’s at Seven. She earned Tony nominations for all five of those shows.

Her Tony wins — for Best Featured Actress/Play — came in 1974 and 1995 for, respectively, Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor and Augustus Goetz’s The Heiress.

While she did not reprise two of her most noted stage performances for subsequent film adaptations – Joan Plowright was cast as Equus‘ Dora Strang and Katharine Hepburn famously played Ethel Thayer in the starry movie On Golden Pond – Sternhagen made memorable, often scene-stealing, appearances in such films as Up the Down Staircase (1967), Paddy Chayefsky’s The Hospital (1971), Billy Wilder’s Fedora (1978) and, in 1988, Bright Lights, Big City, in which she played the stern boss of the magazine fact-checker portrayed by Michael J. Fox.

While TV viewers might best remember Sternhagen for her recurring, twice-Emmy nominated (1991 and 1992) role on Cheers (opposite John Ratzenberger’s Cliff), she played pivotal characters – often domineering, though loving, matriarch types – on ER (as Millicent Carter, grandmother of Noah Wyle’s Dr. John Carter); Sex and the City (scoring a third Emmy nomination in 2002 as Bunny MacDougal, stuffy mom of Kyle MacLachlan’s Trey and mother-in-law of Kristin Davis’ Charlotte); and The Closer, where she recurred as Willie Rae Johnson, mother of Kyra Sedgwick’s Brenda Leigh Johnson.

Other TV credits stretching from the 1950s through 2012 include Westinghouse Studio One, The Defenders, Spencer, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Law & Order, Tales From The Crypt, The Laramie Project, The Simpsons, Becker, and Parenthood. She was a familiar presence on daytime TV as well, appearing on soaps Another World, The Secret Storm, Love of Life, The Doctors and One Life to Live.

Born January 13, 1930, in Washington D.C., Sternhagen attended Vassar College and, for graduate studies, the Catholic University of America. She studied acting at the Perry Mansfield School of the Theatre and New York City’s Neighborhood Playhouse.

Sternhagen made her Broadway debut as Miss T. Muse in 1955’s The Skin of Our Teeth, and appeared regularly on stage throughout the decades until her final major performance in 2005 as Nancy in a revival of Edward Albee’s Seascape. She played Clairee in 2005’s Steel Magnolias revival, Mary Tyrone in 1998’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Nora in a 1967 production of A Doll’s House.

Sternhagen is survived by six children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren (her husband, the actor Thomas A. Carlin, died in 1991). A celebration of her career and life will be planned for mid-January.

Matlock Reboot, Wayans Sitcom Poppa’s House Pushed to 2024-25 Season at CBS

In revealing its midseason lineup on Monday, the Eye Network confirmed that its Matlock reboot, starring Kathy Bates, and Wayans comedy Poppa’s House have both been pushed to the 2024-25 season.

Both projects snagged series orders at CBS in May, alongside the Good Wife spinoff Elsbeth (which stars Carrie Preston and will debut Thursday, Feb. 29 at 10/9c). But as this year’s simultaneous WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes wore on, it was speculated that broadcast networks might push some of their new series to next fall — which ABC has already done with the Kaitlin Olson detective drama High Potential.

Inspired by the Andy Griffith classic of the same name, CBS’ Matlock “reimagining” stars Bates as Madeline Matlock, a “brilliant septuagenarian” who “rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within,” the logline reads. Skye P. Marshall (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Jason Ritter (Parenthood), David Del Rio (The Baker and the Beauty) and Leah Lewis (Nancy Drew) co-star.

Poppa’s House, meanwhile, stars Damon Wayans as a “legendary talk radio host who has his point of view challenged at work when a new female co-host (played by Half & Half‘s Essence Atkins) is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son (Happy Endings‘ Damon Wayans Jr.), a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband.” Tetona Jackson (Home Economics) also stars.

CBS’ midseason lineup will get underway after the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 11, with the Justin Hartley vehicle Tracker debuting that night after the game.

Soap Opera Digest Is Ending Its Weekly Print Edition

Staffers were informed of the decision Friday, according to sources. A spokesperson for a360Media, the company that owns the brand, confirmed that the weekly edition is being discontinued. The company plans to continue publishing special print issues of Soap Opera Digest four times per year.

“Soap Opera Digest, like many other brands, is adjusting its print frequency and shifting more resources to digital to better accommodate its audience,” the a360Media rep said in a statement to Variety.

Soap Opera Digest was first launched in 1975. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought the publication in 1989 for $70 million before selling it two years later, per the New York Times, and it has had a succession of different owners ever since.

In its heyday, the magazine had a circulation of 1.5 million in 1991, according to the Times. But the reach of its print edition, as with many magazines, has sharply fallen off in the decades since.

According to its website, Soap Opera Digest is “the leading magazine reporting on the soap opera industry for over 40 years,” serving up “behind-the-scenes scoops and breaking news to passionate soap fans every week.” The mag also has included special editorial features on beauty, fashion, parenting, and health and fitness.

Soap Opera Digest has been available in print and digital subscription plans, priced at $45.97 for six months (26 issues at $1.77 apiece) or $69.97 for one year (52 issues at $1.34 apiece).

A360media houses a media portfolio of celebrity, entertainment and women’s lifestyle brands including Us Weekly, Star, InTouch and Life & Style. The company claims that it is the largest print publisher in the U.S., both in retail sales and units sold, with its titles representing about one-third of all magazines sold at retail.

A360media was formerly known as American Media Inc., which had been the owner of the National Enquirer (involved in the “catch and kill” scandal involving Donald Trump and which Jeff Bezos accused of an extortion attempt). In 2020, AMI was acquired by Atlanta-based logistics firm accelerate360, which sold off the National Enquirer, Globe and National Examiner tabloids earlier this year.

Burt Young Dies: Academy Award Nominee For ‘Rocky’ Was 83

His death was confirmed by his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, to the New York Times.

Young’s resume included more than 160 film and television credits, including appearances in Chinatown and Once Upon a Time in America. An ex-Marine and former professional boxer, Young parlayed a bulldog countenance into a long Hollywood career.

His television gigs included roles on M*A*S*H* and he appeared in films like The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971) and Cinderella Liberty (1973), Back to School (1986) and Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989).

He also wrote and starred in Uncle Joe Shannon, (1978), the story of a jazz trumpeter whose life implodes before he finds redemption.

But it was with Rocky that his star truly shined. He played Paulie, a butcher and brother of Adrian (Talia Shire), the latter who blossomed from a lonely introvert into Rocky’s girlfriend by the end of the show. He also introduced Rocky to the slabs of hanging beef that he used to train in an unusual adaptation of a heavy bag.

Rocky received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Young’s for Best Supporting Actor, and won three Oscars, including Best Picture.

Burt Young (an adopted name as an actor) was born on April 30, 1940, in Queens, N.Y. He began boxing when he was in the Marine Corps, and trained under legendary manager Cus D’Amato. He had a record of 17-1.

Moving on from that, he set up a meeting for a woman at a bar who wanted to meet Lee Strasbeg, the famed acting teacher. Young found a spark, and wound up studying with Strasberg for two years.

In addition to his daughter, Young is survived by a brother, Robert, and a grandson. His wife, Gloria, died in 1974.

Alec Baldwin Set To Face New Involuntary Manslaughter Charges, ‘Rust’ Prosecutors Say

“After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Halyna Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza,” said Special Prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis today of the tragedy on the New Mexico set of the Indie Western on October 21 two years ago.

“We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr. Baldwin should be held over for criminal trial,” the duo added Tuesday. Earlier this month, the special prosecutors accused Baldwin and Rust producers of obstructing the investigation into what really happened that fatal day on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set in the Land of Enchantment.

While a blow to Baldwin, who has always insisted he never pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins and injured Rust director Joel Souza, the haunting possibility of refiled charges was never far from a reality. Though Baldwin saw criminal charges against him in the death of Hutchins dropped in April, the newly minted special prosecutors in the case never ruled out refiling manslaughter or other claims against him if more evidence came in — which sounds like what has happened now.

“It is unfortunate that a terrible tragedy has been turned into this misguided prosecution,” stated Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel today. “We will answer any charges in court.”

With both FBI and independent weapons examiners disputing the multi-Emmy winner’s contention he did not pull the trigger on the replica 1873 revolver, it may prove hard to achieve the result Baldwin and his NYC attorneys desire.

“Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,” declared the damning special prosecutors report commissioned August 2 from Lucien Haag and Michael Haag.

At present, only former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is facing charges. Likely similar to Baldwin if he is recharged, Reed is facing a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury finds her guilty verdict on the current charges. Looking at the involuntary manslaughter claims plus evidence tampering charges, Reed has pleaded not guilty.

Reed’s case is currently scheduled to go to trial in February — a timetable that could change if Baldwin is recharged.

Today’s shift in the Rust case comes a week after a pivotal ruling on Rust producers’ efforts to quash a subpoena went against Baldwin.

On October 10, New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ruled Rust Movie Productions and Baldwin’s El Dorado Pictures have to hand over to the special prosecutors internal documents fully detailing the actor’s producer role on the film. Centering on what Baldwin stood to gain financially in his producer role, Morrissey and Lewis want to know how much Baldwin knew of cost cutting, safety concerns and crew anxiety about conditions and pay.

Without Reed on the crew, a resurrected Rust finished filming in Montana this spring and is currently out on the international market looking for buyers. Which means Rust could be released as the criminal case starts up again for Baldwin and various civil trials continue through the courts in California and New Mexico.

Mark Goddard Dies: ‘Lost In Space’ Actor Was 87

His death was announced by his wife Evelyn Pezzulich in a Facebook post.

“I’m so sorry to tell you that my wonderful husband passed away on October 10th,” Pezzulich wrote. “Several days after celebrating his 87th birthday, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. We were hopeful when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center, but then doctors discovered he was in the final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.”

By the time he was cast in his breakthrough role as the headstrong Major West, Goddard had built a reputation as a rising young actor through supporting appearances in late-’50s fare such as Johnny Ringo and The Rebel. In 1960 he joined the second season of The Detectives, playing Det. Sgt. Chris Ballard for 64 episodes through 1962.

Born Charles Harvey Goddard in Lowell, Massachusetts on July 24, 1936, Goddard studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City before moving to Los Angeles in 1959. Changing his name to Mark Goddard, he soon landed the role of Cully, a deputy character in the Western Johnny Ringo. Over the next few years he made guest appearances in other TV Westerns, including The Rebel starring Nick Adams, Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre, and The Rifleman starring Chuck Connors, who would become a friend and mentor to Goddard.

Other early ’60s credits include Burke’s Law, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and The Fugitive. In 1964, he was cast in a series regular role on the single season of CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns, playing the son-in-law of a harried department store complaint department boss (John McGiver).

His signature role came in 1965 when he was cast by Lost In Space creator Irwin Allen as Major West. A space-age Swiss Family Robinson, Lost in Space was initially conceived as an action-adventure saga following the Robinson family as they traveled the galaxy. The handsome Goddard was intended as the love interest for the eldest Robinson daughter Judy (Marta Kristen) and right-hand-man to her father John (Guy Williams).

The more dramatic elements of the show soon faded as an undeniable comic dynamic developed between actor Jonathan Harris’ persnickety, trouble-making stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith, Bill Mumy’s precocious young Will Robinson and a soon-to-be iconic robot (Dick Tufeld voicing Bob May in the costume). Goddard’s West, to the actor’s dismay, evolved into an easily angered straight-man foil for and taskmaster to the self-centered Dr. Smith.

After Lost in Space was canceled in 1968, typecasting and the reputation of the show as a campy kids’ alternative to the more serious-minded Star Trek (in one infamous episode, Dr. Smith turned into a celery stalk as the Robinsons battled a man-sized talking carrot), Goddard was back to guest-starring appearances in such series as The Mod Squad and Adam-12.

Though he’d never have a lasting role as memorable as Major West, he maintained a steady presence on television through the 1970s and ’80s, with appearances in popular fare like The Streets of San Francisco, Quincy M.E., Benson and Barnaby Jones. He appeared in the 1979 feature film Roller Boogie starring a post-Exorcist Linda Blair.

Goddard also had occasional roles on the soaps One Life To Live, The Doctors and General Hospital during the 1980s. He and fellow Lost in Space cast members Kristen, Angela Cartwright and June Lockhart made cameo appearances in a 1998 feature film version, which featured Matt LeBlanc in the Major West role.

As his acting career wound down, Goddard returned to school to complete his college education and earn a master’s degree in education from Bridgewater State College in his home state of Massachusetts. In the 1990s and early 2000s he was a special education teacher in Middleboro, Massachusetts. His memoir To Space and Back was published in 2008.

Goddard had previously been married to actress Susan Anspach (Five Easy Pieces) and, through most of the 1960s, Marcia Rogers Goddard. In November 1963, Mark and Marcia Goddard, having grown increasingly concerned when their friend Karyn Kupcinet failed to follow up on a promised phone call, discovered the 22-year-old actress’ body at her West Hollywood apartment. The murder of Kupcinet, the daughter of Chicago newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet, made national headlines and remains one of Hollywood’s most famous unsolved crimes.a.

Holiday Movies with Soap Stars on Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix and Others

SWORN JUSTICE: TAKEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Nov. 16
Cast: Mishael Morgan, Leland B. Martin, Vivica A. Fox , Melyssa Ford and Preacher Lawson
Premise: On Christmas Eve, a hardened detective and her DA boyfriend are both informed that each other has been kidnapped. As the world closes for the holiday, they are locked out of their computers and phones and must follow the demands of the menacing voice giving them orders. This leads to a snowy night of cat-and-mouse thrills as the two fight for their survival.

SO FLY CHRISTMAS - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Nov. 23
Cast: Tichina Arnold, Tami Roman, Robert Christopher Riley, Laurissa Romain, Jackee Harry, Tommy Davidson and Michael Colyar
Premise: After being stood up at the altar on Christmas Eve, Wyvetta loses her love on her favorite holiday. To show solidarity, Wyvetta’s best friend, Dione, suggests that the two of them renounce love. Things become complicated when Dione falls for a mild-mannered record store owner and tries to keep it under wraps.

CHRISTMAS RESCUE - BET+
Release Date: Thursday, Dec. 14
Cast: Robin Givens, Raven Goodwin, Donny Carrington, Catfish Jean, Mario Van Peebles, Cameron Bailey and Samantha Neyland Trumbo
Premise: A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday-themed wedding in a desperate last attempt to win her back.

‘TWAS THE TEXT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8 pm
Cast: Merritt Patterson and Trevor Donovan
Premise: An unexpected text message sent to the wrong number sets into motion a Christmas tradition with a new family over three separate years.

A CHRISTMAS BLESSING - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 12 at 8 pm
Cast: Lori Loughlin, James Tupper and Jesse Hutch
Premise: A TV chef is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt’s charity with help from a new friend and handsome business associate next door.

A PARIS CHRISTMAS WALTZ - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 19 at 8 pm
Cast: Jen Lilley and Matthew Morrison
Premise: In this sequel, a novice dancer pairs with a professional to enter a renowned dance competition… in Paris!

A ROYAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - Great American Family
Premiere Date: Saturday, Dec. 23 at 8 pm
Cast: Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard
Premise: In search of her big break, a reporter arranges a Christmas interview with a European Prince visiting the States. Will the reporter’s big story become her love story?

CHECKIN’ IT TWICE - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 pm
Cast: Kim Matula and Kevin McGarry
Premise: A journeyman hockey player falls for a real estate agent in a career crisis when he’s traded to her hometown, then moves into the cottage in her hockey-loving family’s backyard.

WHERE ARE YOU, CHRISTMAS? - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 21 at 8 pm
Cast: Lyndsy Fonseca, Michael Rady, Jim O’Heir and Julie Warner
Premise: When Addy wishes for a year without Christmas, she wakes up in a world of black and white. She must work together with the town mechanic to restore Christmas.

UNDER THE CHRISTMAS SKY - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Oct. 22 at 8 pm
Cast: Jessica Parker Kennedy and Ryan Paevey
Premise: Kat is an esteemed astrophysicist, who is scheduled for her first trip into space next year until an accident grounds her. While on leave, coming to terms with the reality that her dream of being an astronaut is over, she volunteers at the local planetarium. There, she is paired up with by-the-book David to work on an exhibit opening right before Christmas. Will the stars align to bring these two together at the holidays?

MYSTIC CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Oct. 28 at 8 pm
Cast: Jessy Schram, Chandler Massey, Patti Murin and William R. Moses
Premise: Juniper travels to Mystic, Conn., during the holidays to work at the rehabilitation center and aquarium. She reconnects with Sawyer, the owner of the pizza shop.

JOYEUX NOEL - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Oct. 29 at 8 pm
Cast: Jaicy Elliot and Brant Daugherty
Premise: When a romantic painting of a Christmas market captures the imagination of copy editor Lea, she is sent to France with pragmatic reporter Mark to uncover the mystery behind the artist.

THE SANTA SUMMIT - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 5 at 8 pm
Cast: Hunter King and Benjamin Hollingsworth
Premise: It’s time for the annual Santa Summit, in which revelers put on Santa suits and hop around designated locations in town to eat, drink and be merry. Three best friends decide to go together: Jordin, a recently dumped art teacher looking to cut loose; Ava, a shy woman hoping to run into her crush; and Stella, a Christmas cynic with no interest in the Santa Summit whatsoever. At the start of the night, Jordin meets and bonds with Liam, but doesn’t get his name before getting separated and lost in a sea of Santas. As the night progresses and hijinks ensue, amidst the chaos, celebration, and a sea of Santas, they all find what they’re looking for: Christmas spirit, potential romance, and a strengthened bond of friendship.

A MERRY SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8 pm
Cast: Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf
Premise: When estranged siblings Lindsay and Brad Morgan travel to Scotland at Christmas to reunite with their mother Jo, a big family secret is revealed.

HAUL OUT THE HOLLY: LIT UP - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Nov. 25 at 8 pm
Cast: Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris and Jennifer Aspen
Premise: As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together again — this time as a couple. Emily, now embracing Evergreen Lane’s uniquely festive spirit, is ready to work with Jared, Ned, Mary Louise and Pamela to make this year’s Christmas celebrations the best yet… even if being the HOA president’s girlfriend doesn’t stop those dreaded decorating citations. When a house on the block goes up for sale, it causes quite a stir with residents. When the soon-to-be neighbors turn out to be holiday royalty, it looks like this year’s competition is about to heat up. As the welcoming committee prepares for the new arrivals, only one thing is certain – this Christmas, Evergreen Lane is going to sleigh!

A BLITMORE CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Nov. 26 at 8 pm
Cast: Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo
Premise: Lucy Hardgrove is a screenwriter who lands the job of a lifetime when she’s hired to pen the script for a remake of the beloved, holiday movie classic, His Merry Wife!, which was filmed in 1947 at beautiful, historic Biltmore House. When the head of the studio isn’t satisfied with the ending Lucy wrote because it deviates from the original’s feel-good conclusion, he sends Lucy to Biltmore Estate for research and inspiration. While there, she unwittingly discovers the ability to travel to the 1947 set of His Merry Wife! through the help of an hourglass. While on set, she and Jack Huston, one of the film’s stars, spend time together and become close. But her sudden appearance has set off a chain of events that put the production in jeopardy. Before she can return to the present, Lucy must make things right or threaten to alter the future forever.

CHRISTMAS WITH A KISS - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 3 at 8 pm
Cast: Mishael Morgan, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Jaime M. Callica
Premise: A woman returns home to help with her family’s Christmas Carnival and romance ignites. A photo journalist curates a surprise reunion.

CHRISTMAS ON CHERRY LANE - Hallmark Channel
Premiere Date: Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 pm
Cast: Catherine Bell, James Denton, Jonathan Bennett, John Brotherton, Erin Cahill and Vincent Rodriguez III
Premise: A young couple preparing to welcome their first child; an empty-nester and her fiancé ready to start a new chapter; and a couple who unexpectedly have the chance to expand their family on Christmas Eve celebrate the holiday as they navigate these turning points in their lives.

MYSTERY ON MISTLETOE LANE - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 9 at 8 pm
Cast: Erica Cerra and Victor Webster
Premise: New to town, Heidi Wicks and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection.

A WORLD RECORD CHRISTMAS - Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 16 at 8 pm
Cast: Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant and Aias Dalman
Premise: Charlie is an autistic boy determined to set a Guinness World Record by stacking 1400 Jenga blocks. His mother Marissa and stepfather Eric encourage him to reach for his dream and they all celebrate when he gets the good news that he’ll have get his chance on Christmas Eve. In the spirit of the holiday, they organize a fundraiser giving the townspeople an opportunity to donate and decorate a Jenga block, with the proceeds going to benefit kids with autism. Charlie’s journey to setting the Jenga world record gives them all the chance to learn more not just about themselves, but about what family really means.

HEAVEN DOWN HERE
Premiere Date: Thursday, Dec. 14 at 8 pm
Cast: Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad
Premise: Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, Heaven Down Here tells the story of four disparate people who find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town. Imami is a widowed mother of two who’s having trouble making ends meet and reluctantly agrees to work the Christmas Eve shift, where she clashes with her boss Dan, who doesn’t exactly embody the Christmas spirit. Felix is a local pastor desperately trying to secure food for parishioners while his faith is challenged by his alienation by his son. Clara is a hospice nurse with an obstinate patient and whose daughter is moving away, causing her to question her place in this world. Throughout the evening, these four bicker, bond and unwittingly provide each other with the answer to their respective prayers.

A CHRISTMAS FREQUENCY - Hulu
Premiere Date: Wednesday, Nov. 1
Cast: Denise Richards, James Hyde, Ansley Gordon and Jonathan Stoddard
Premise: Richards stars as morning radio show host Brooke Walkins, who is not only secretly separating from her husband Todd but hemorrhaging ratings on her show. When she finds out the show is being axed, Brooke’s producer Kenzie Parker has the bright idea of setting up the host with a series of blind dates live on air to help Brooke find someone to take to the company’s Christmas party. But things take an unexpected turn when Kenzie finds out Ben, a guy she’s interested in, has applied to date Brooke. As Ben proves a hit with listeners, Kenzie finds herself having to choose between her heart and her job.

LADIES OF THE ’80S: A DIVAS CHRISTMAS - Lifetime
Premiere Date: TBA
Cast: Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills and Nicollette Sheridan
Premise: The movie follows five soap opera divas readying for a reunion show who take on playing cupid during Christmas to bring together their director and producer as they all learn the meaning of true Christmas spirit.

BEST. CHRISTMAS. EVER! - Netfilx
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 16
Cast: Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood and Jason Biggs
Premise: Every Christmas, Jackie sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte and her family on Jackie’s snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, she seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s life can’t possibly be that perfect.

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE BY CHRISTMAS - Roku
Premiere Date: Friday, Nov. 3
Cast: Teri Hatcher
Premise: A beloved writer-turned-CEO must save her company by writing a column on her falling in love by the holidays – which is complicated by the handsome photographer who has been assigned to the piece.

YULETIDE THE KNOT - Uptv
Premiere Date: Sunday, Dec. 3 at 7 pm
Cast: Mary Antonini, Peter Porte, Kelley Jakle, Kelsey Scott and Melissa Peterman
Premise: When small town wedding planner Rachel is faced with planning her biggest Christmas wedding yet for an out-of-town influencer couple, she is thrown an unexpected surprise when the bride’s manager turns out to be Logan, her first love and high school sweetheart. He reminds her what it is to love, and through rediscovering the magic of Christmas, she rediscovers a part of her heart she closed off long ago.

Bradley Cole and Friends Concert

Rose Gregorio, Tony Nominee for ‘The Shadow Box’ and Actress on ‘ER,’ Dies at 97

Gregorio died Aug. 17 of natural causes in her Greenwich Village home, her nephew Robert Grosbard told The Hollywood Reporter.

Gregorio was married to Belgium-born stage and film director Ulu Grosbard from 1965 until his death in 2012, and she appeared for him as the ex-wife of Dustin Hoffman’s character in Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971); as a local madam in True Confessions (1981); and as the mother of Treat Williams’ character in The Deep End of the Ocean (1999).

On television, she had a recurring role on NBC’s ER as Nurse Carol Hathaway’s (Julianna Margulies) mom from 1996-99.

Gregorio also landed a Drama Desk nom and a Clarence Derwent prize in 1977 for her portrayal of Agnes in Michael Cristofer’s The Shadow Box, winner of the Tony for best play. In his review for The New York Times, Clive Barnes took note of her “eyes dully lit with the pain of the rejected and the martyrdom of the brave.”

The family drama also starred Mandy Patinkin and Laurence Luckinbill.

Born in Chicago to Italian immigrants on Oct. 17, 1925, Gregorio attended Steinmetz High School in her hometown, the School of Speech at Northwestern and the School of Drama at Yale University, where she earned a master’s degree and first met Grosbard.

She moved to New York and appeared in the early ‘60s on such TV shows as Naked City, East Side/West Side and Route 66 and played the title character opposite Robert Duvall in the off-Broadway drama The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker, directed by Grosbard.

On Broadway, Gregorio served as a standby for Diana Sands in the original 1964-65 production of The Owl and the Pussycat, as an understudy in 1966’s The Investigation (also directed by Grosbard) and as standby again in 1967’s Daphne in Cottage D.

She acted alongside Raul Julia, Rip Torn and Conrad Bain in The Cuban Thing, which closed on opening night in 1968, then worked with Hoffman and Cleavon Little in Jimmy Shine, which lasted four months through April 1969.

Also in 1968, she made her movie debut as an annoyed woman at a public pool in Frank Perry’s The Swimmer, starring Burt Lancaster.

Gregorio’s big-screen résumé included Desperate Characters (1971), Mr. Ricco (1975), Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Five Corners (1987), John Sayles’ City of Hope (1991), Tarantella (1995), Maze (2000) and Good Time (2017).

She had a regular gig on the NBC soap opera The Doctors in 1972 and showed up on episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, The Rookies, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Rockford Files, Falcon Crest, Doogie Howser, M.D., Murder, She Wrote and The Practice.

She returned to Broadway as Beatrice in a revival of A View From the Bridge in 1983 and as Helga in the original production of M. Butterfly in 1988.

She and Grosbard had no children. Her survivors include another nephew, John, and a niece, Lisa.r

‘Star Trek: Very Short Treks’ To Be Unveiled By CBS Studios On Star Trek Day

The very Short Treks will feature previously announced fan-favorite characters voiced by cast members from across the Star Trek universe, including Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker, Doug Jones as Saru and Armin Shimerman as Quark, and a new line-up of voices, including Ethan Peck as Spock, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura, Connor Trinneer as Trip Tucker, Bruce Horak as Hemmer, Noël Wells as Tendi and the legendary George Takei as Sulu.

Star Trek: very Short Treks comes from creative consultant Casper Kelly, known for the viral smash hit “Too Many Cooks” and his work on Star Trek: Short Treks and Adult Swim. The first animated spot will launch on Star Trek Day, Sept. 8, exclusively on StarTrek.com and the official Star Trek YouTube channel, with four additional animated spots rolling out weekly on Wednesdays through Oct. 4 at 10:00 A.M., PT/1:00 P.M., ET.

Kelly will also release a new comic book with IDW Publishing, Star Trek: The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier. The first chapter will debut digitally on Sept. 8 on StarTrek.com with physical copies available at New York Comic Con in October. Additional chapters of the comic will drop weekly on Wednesdays on StarTrek.com at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET.

Alec Baldwin Fails In Bid To End ‘Rust’ Crew Members’ Suit Over Fatal Shooting On Set

In a technically challenged virtual hearing this morning before New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court judge Bryan Biedscheid, Baldwin and co-defendants El Dorado Pictures and Rust Movie Productions’ motion to dismiss was denied. The judge also denied an additional motion to stay the matter until the criminal trial is over.

Earlier this year, Rust crew members Ross Addiego, Doran Curtin and Reese Price took Baldwin and the production companies to court for “negligent and reckless conduct.” Facing a plethora of cases arising out of the shooting on the indie Western, the defendants had a back-up plan to have the Addiego, Curtin and Price case stayed until the Rust criminal trial is over.

Proclaiming that he “doesn’t’ know” the state of “criminal prosecution with Mr. Baldwin” at present, Biedscheid said today it was “surprisingly common” that a defendant straddled both a criminal and civil case. Seemingly leaning towards not pausing this matter, the judge did open the door to defendants’ being able to “assert their constitutional rights as they see fit” going forward as he denied the stay.

This is the second significant courtroom shift in the Rust matter this week.

On Monday, the criminal trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed over Hutchins’ death was pushed to February 21, 2024.

Although no official word was given for the latest delay in the much-delayed criminal trial, “scheduling issues” around witnesses seems to be at the core of the move. The trial is expected to last about two weeks – though that could change if Baldwin is back in the case.

Gutierrez-Reed and Rust producer-star Baldwin — who was pointing a Colt .45 gun when it discharged, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza — were orignally charged in late January with two counts of second-degree involuntary manslaughter.

Up against a wall of constitutional criticism and more, the charges against Baldwin were dropped in April, but recently appointed special prosecutors noted at the time that the charges could be refiled at a later date if evidence emerged. Additionally, prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis added an evidence-tampering charge against Gutierrez-Reed two months later, saying the armorer “did transfer narcotics to another person with the intent to prevent the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of herself.”

At present, Gutierrez-Reed is at a maximum of 18 months behind bars and about $5,000 in fines if found guilty.

Amidst all that, a recently released forensics report on the controversial firearm itself commissioned by Morrissey and Lewis rejected Baldwin’s long insistence that he never pulled the trigger on the gun.

“Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,” the August 2 report from weapons examiners Lucien Haag and Michael Haag.

Despite damage the gun endured in previous examinations, the Haags’ findings replicate the conclusions of the FBI from later last year.

“Charges against Mr. Baldwin are being considered but a final decision has not yet been made,” said Morrissey last week. No timeline on said final decision has been unveiled, but it is expected in the next month at most.

In today’s hearing, plaintiffs’ attorney Alex Cervantes noted “there are a lot of moving parts” in the case. She also exclaimed that Rust decided to hire “inexperienced contractors” like armorer Gutierrez-Reed to “cut costs” – assertions that have come up over and over in the various cases involving Rust.

Arguing the negligence claims, Cervantes noted the “multiple crew members who resigned” the day of the October 21, 2021 shooting, citing “safety concerns” – as has been mentioned in a number of cases around Rust. “It’s all there, this is a robust complaint,” added Cervantes, asking Biedscheid to reject the dismissal motion.

Defendant attorney Robert Schwartz argued that Baldwin simply had a “producing agreement that gives him virtually no power” on Rust. The notion flies in the face of Baldwin’s previously stated status on the film, which he conceived with director Joel Souza. “The very contract that they’re asserting created this relationship did not create this relationship.”

Schwartz unsuccessfully advised the court today that the stay on the civil matter and any discovery be put in place for a “couple of weeks” until it is decided if Baldwin will be pulled back into the criminal prosecution. After the judge’s rulings, Schwartz called the matter a “real injustice” as Baldwin is “on the verge of being charged criminally.”

Whether or not Baldwin does return to the criminal case, Rust the movie wrapped its resurrected production this spring after filming in Montana. Which means that the movie could be released as the various civil trials continue through the courts in California and New Mexico.O00

Alec Baldwin & Stephen Dorff Lead Meth Action Thriller ‘Cold Deck’

The movie, directed by Brian Skiba and produced by Corey Large, completed production before the SAG-AFTRA strike commenced on July 14.

In the pic written by Joe Perruccio and Eric Bromberg, a team of loggers stumble upon a meth cook site deep in the forest and find themselves in a fight for survival as they’re hunted down by a drug cartel.

Pic is financed by 30 Enterprises and Chinese financier Pink308 which has a $50M film fund to do eight to ten features a year. EPs Kirk Shaw, Stephanie Rennie, Ram Getz, Greg Meyer and Michael Mortensen.

Cold Deck also stars Clive Standen (Vikings, the movie Everest), Tom Welling (Clark Ken on Smallville), Jesse Metcalfe (Fortress franchise with Bruce Willis, Christmas Under the Stars), Lochlyn Munro (Riverdale) and Lucy Martin (Vikings).

Baldwin was cleared of charges in the Rust shooting back in April. The actor completed lensing the western in Montana this past spring; the pic dedicated to slain DP Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin is repped by Matt DelPiano. Dorff, who starred in the Corey Large production of Paradise City with Bruce Willis and John Travolta, is repped by Atlas Artists and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Standen is repped by Independent Talent Group, MGMT Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham. Welling is repped by Gersh, Artist International Group and Nelson Davis. Metcalfe is represented by Gersh, Link Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver Thompson. Munro is repped by Talent Works and Alchemy Entertainment. Martin is represented by United Artists. Skiba is repped by Culture Creative Entertainment and Max J. Sprecher.

Large’s producing credits include several Willis movies such as Apex, Breach, Deadlock, American Siege, and Vendetta.

Elizabeth Hubbard - A Tribute

As the World Turns fans were mesmerized by Elizabeth’s creation of Lucinda Walsh from the moment she walked on screen in April of 1984. Elizabeth was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award nine times for her role as Lucinda. In addition to Lucinda, Elizabeth portrayed Dr. Althea Davis on The Doctors for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Kim Zimmer and Jada Rowland Interview - The Doctors 1980 Episodes

To help launch the last season available to longtime fans of the series, the Michael Fairman Channel welcomes two of its iconic stars, four-time Daytime Emmy winner, Kim Zimmer (ex-Nola Dancy Aldrich, The Doctors, ex-Reva, Guiding Light, ex-Echo, One Life to Live) and Jada Rowland (ex-Carolee Aldrich, The Doctors) to reminisce about their time on the former NBC soap opera, the storylines fans can see for the first time in years, and more insight into the making of the series and more on their enduring careers.

Join us on Monday night, July 17th at 8 PMET/5PM PT for this very special livestream conversation on The Michael Fairman Channel.

Famous Soap Opera Star's Family Shares Frustration Over Long-Term Care Policy

The popular soap opera star, who starred in “The Doctors” and “As the World Turns,” had a plan in place for life’s unexpected plot twists, but when she and her son counted on her insurance policy to cover costs of her care before her death, they say it didn’t help them.

NBC CT Responds was invited to her Roxbury home, just 10 days before she died, to see their frustration firsthand.

“This is my mother here. I mean, I, this is all I have. And this has been a situation in which I can't sleep at night,” said her son Jeremy Bennett.

Hubbard’s colon cancer diagnosis became dire at the start of the year.

Bennett says for two decades, his mom paid thousands and thousands of dollars into a long-term care policy since February of 2003.

“She was scared because being a single mother and also having only an only child and having no immediate family, she wanted a policy to take care of her in case something happened in the end,” her son explained.

But when Hubbard needed the help, the policy’s intricacies shocked her son and Hubbard.

“It’s a financial carrot that they're dangling,” said Bennett.

Hubbard’s long-term care claim went into effect January 13, 2023. But $363 of care each day wouldn’t be shelled out for 90 days, a policy deductible of sorts called an “elimination period.”

A term alone that sickened her son, “An elimination period. We’re talking about my mother here.”

Insurance experts say it’s to ensure long, not short-term care is needed.

Hubbard passed away April 8 - five days before the elimination period was set to end.

Every penny she paid into the policy was out of reach.

“The product is not so popular anymore for very obvious reasons. She wasn't tricked. She signed a policy, and the policy isn't paying what one would think it would pay,” said Melissa Hladek, a friend and certified senior care advisor.

She waited on hold with Bennett, after weeks and weeks of trying, to get information about when the elimination period was set to end and begin, among other questions he was having a hard time finding.

“I can’t even begin to explain to you how many times I call. I hold for I don’t know how long,” as they waited with hold music playing on repeat for almost an hour.

Hladek said a lot of the problem is the lack of compassion companies have as loved ones are navigating a loved one’s illness.

“He's seen his mother decline, this invincible person, start to decline, so it's very it's been, it's very heavy to take all of that in,” said Hladek.

“You should not have to learn vocabulary words when you're going through a crisis,” she added.

When someone did pick up, they were working in a noisy call center in the Philippines.

“There's so much background noise in the back of the call center that you feel like you're getting a warranty renewal for your computer. It's just, it's the impersonal part of that is what this is about,” said Hladek.

“You're trying to be strong, while someone is, you know, taking this final journey…and this policy that I thought was going to help us has basically been hindering us,” said Bennett.

“There’s no question it’s complicated and it’s confusing,” said Howard Bedline, the government relations and advocacy principal for The National Council on Aging. “There are lots of different variables and you’re shelling out a lot of money.”

The National Council on Aging says about half the people watching this story who reach their mid-60s or older will eventually need some kind of paid long-term care.

That means help with daily activities that keep you independent, like bathing or getting dressed.

Hladek and other experts NBC CT Responds spoke with commended Hubbard for planning ahead. Unfortunately, it didn’t help when she needed it.

Bennett says while people assume his famous mom was made of money, she was on a fixed income like many her age.

While he says Medicare helped cover some costs, he was left grieving with a pile of bills, too.

“On the one hand you can say, ‘Oh my goodness they paid all these years and got nothing out of it.’ On the other hand, you can make the argument that they paid all of these years that they had the benefit of knowing if they have significant long-term care needs, they had significant protection,” said Marc Cohen, a co-director of the UMass Boston Leading Age LTSS Center.

Not many long-term care policies exist these days as the insurance premiums have skyrocketed over the years. Hubbard received a notice hers would be increasing while she was sick.

So, what other options are there?

Experts say if constant help can’t come free from a loved one, it’s not cheap, and not covered by Medicare.

“Unfortunately, right now, most Americans are going to have to spend down their life savings to receive the care they need and depend upon Medicaid,” said Bedlin.

The National Council on Aging is pushing for policymakers to step up and help solve this aging crisis.

“We could use unbiased assistance with how we navigate this long-term care mess right now because right now, it’s just too expensive and virtually incomprehensible for the average American,” Bedlin said.

Connecticut’s Department of Insurance says it can help loved ones navigate policies.

“And we can oftentimes cut through the red tape and help you get the information that you deserve from the insurance company,” said Gerard O'Sullivan, the department’s director of consumer affairs.

O’Sullivan advises families to look over any insurance policy every year to make sure the coverage still meets your needs.

NBC CT Responds consumer reporter Caitlin Burchill said, “It's hard, you don’t want to talk about your end of life.”

O’Sullivan said, “But it is something that you should have - these conversations with your loved ones, make sure that you're understanding what options there are because a lot of times they may be incapacitated and can't tell you at that time.”

The department shared this shopper’s guide with us to help educate viewers.

Under Connecticut law, a child can receive notifications about a parent’s insurance policy from the company with the consent of the policy holder of course.

The CT Insurance Department says this is one way for a loved one to stay in the loop.

Bennett says the stress of trying to figure out coverage took away precious time that he could have spent with his mom, who spent her life not just acting, but advocating for causes she believed in.

“We want no special treatment at all. We're not expecting that. But if there's a way we can actually show the rest of Connecticut residents, people in America that this happens to everybody. And that the, this indecision and the not knowing what's going on is enough to literally, I don't want to say the words because that's what we're talking about, but to put you in the grave,” said Bennett.

He says his mom wanted to tell her “darlings,” what she called her fans, that she’ll see them on the other side.s

‘Matlock’, ‘Elsbeth’ & Wayans’ Family Comedy ‘Poppa’s House’ Ordered To Series At CBS

The trio will air during the 2023-24 season and will be joined by Tracker, starring Justin Hartley, which formerly was known as The Never Game and was ordered to series in December.

CBS isn’t specifying episode orders, particularly given the current writers strike, but given that all three come from its own studio, the network can be flexible.

It comes after CBS made some space for new titles after axing East New York and True Lies on Tuesday, though it reversed its decision to cancel S.W.A.T., instead bringing the drama back for a seventh and final season.

The news, however, isn’t good for JumpStart, its other comedy pilot, starring Terry Crews, which is not moving forward at the network.

All of this comes ahead of CBS’ reveal of its schedule, which is set for Wednesday, as the company has nixed its traditional New York upfront.

There’s been strong buzz surrounding both Matlock, a reboot of the classic series from Jane the Virgin’s Jennie Snyder Urman, and Elsbeth starring Carrie Preston from Michelle and Robert King.

In Matlock, Bates stars as brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock, who after achieving success in her younger years rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.

It also stars Skye P. Marshall as Olympia, Jason Ritter as Julian, David Del Rio as Billy and Leah Lewis as Sarah.

Jennie Snyder Urman writes and exec produces via her Sutton Street banner along with her production partner Joanna Klein. Bates, Eric Christian Olsen and John Will also exec produce the series from CBS Studios. Kat Coiro directed and exec produced the pilot.

In Elsbeth, Carrie Preston returns as Elsbeth Tascioni, who has featured in both The Good Wife and The Good Fight. After her successful career in Chicago, the astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

Wendell Pierce also stars as Captain CW Wagner with Carra Patterson as Officer Kaya.

Jonathan Tolins serves as showrunner and exec produces with writers and exec producers Robert King and Michelle King. The former also directs and Liz Glotzer from the duo’s King Size Productions also exec produces the CBS Studios series.

On the comedy side, Poppa’s House is a multi-camera comedy starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr.

Wayans plays legendary talk radio host and happily divorced Poppa, who has his point of view challenged at work when a new female co-host is hired, and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son, played by Wayans Jr., a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband.

Essence Atkins plays Ivy and Tetona Jackson stars as Nina.

CBS Studios produces. Kevin Hench is exec producer, who co-wrote the pilot with Wayans, who also exec produces alongside Wayans Jr. Andy Ackerman directed and exec produced the pilot, while Kameron Tarlow is the producer at Wayans Jr.’s Two Shakes Entertainment overseeing the project.

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Halyna Hutchins’ Family Still Suing Alec Baldwin Despite Criminal Charges Being Dropped

Lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents Hutchins’ mother Olga Solovey, her father Anatolii Androsovych, and sister Svetlana Zemko, said Friday her clients “remain hopeful,” asserting: “Mr Baldwin may pretend that he is not responsible for pulling the trigger and ejecting a live bullet which ended Halyna’s life. He can run to Montana and pretend that he is just an actor in a wild west movie but, in real life, he cannot escape from the fact that he had a major role in a tragedy which had real life consequences.”

Baldwin’s lawyers called their action “misguided” and unlikely to survive legal scrutiny. Baldwin, as both star and producer of the film, previously reached a deal with Hutchins’ widower, the details of which remain private, but which include the latter becoming a named exec producer on the film, which has now resumed production in Montana.

Director Joel Souza made a statement, calling the move “bittersweet” and vowed to finish the film “on Halyna’s behalf.” No “working firearms” or ammunition are allowed on set for the film, expected to wrap in May.

Baldwin had been due to appear in court May 3 for a preliminary hearing, but the charges were formally withdrawn on Friday, following prosecutors’ receipt of “other information.” The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, remains charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Restarts Production In Montana; New Safety Officers Added To Film After Fatal 2021 Shooting

Call it coincidence, but production resumes on the western just as the state of New Mexico officially drops involuntary manslaughter charges against producer and star Alec Baldwin.

The production has touted the addition of new crew members including Safety Officers Gary Jensen and Paul Jordan (Tenet Production Safety), EP/LP Stephen Marinaccio (Jack Ryan), and Production Designer Christine Brandt (Card Counter).

Returning Rust filmmaker Joel Souza, who was injured in the shoulder from the discharged prop gun that Baldwin was holding back in October 2021, said in statement “Though bittersweet, I am grateful that a brilliant and dedicated new production team is joining former cast and crew to complete what Halyna and I started. My every effort on this film will be devoted to honoring Halyna’s legacy and making her proud. The beauty of Montana surpasses words, and the warm hospitality and kindness extended by everyone I’ve met has been both humbling and inspiring. It is a privilege to work alongside such great partners as we see this through on Halyna’s behalf.”

Per Rust Movie Productions attorney, Melina Spadone, mentioned in today’s press release that she expects production to wrap at the end of May. “The production will continue to utilize union crew members and will bar any use of working weapons and any form of ammunition. Live ammunition is — and always was — prohibited on set. Each and every one of us is wholeheartedly dedicated to realizing Halyna’s vision and paying tribute to her artistry,” the attorney added.

The logline for the pic, written by Souza, based on a story developed by the director and Baldwin, reads, “A 13-year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, is taken on a violent, harrowing journey to old Mexico by his long estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.”

It was announced today that Patrick Scott McDermott (Chicago Med, South Side) is playing the role of Lucas Hollister in the film.

As Deadline first told you, Hutchins widower, Matthew Hutchins, is an EP on the revived feature as well as documentary about his late cinematographer wife. That was part of Hutchins’ legal settlement with the Rust producers. Director Rachel Mason and Producer Julee Metz are working on that doc. Both Mason and Metz were close friends with Halyna Hutchins. Terrence Malick’s producer, Grant Hill, is overseeing production on Rust 2.0.

Cinematographer Bianca Cline (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) is completing the production which Hutchins began. She will donate her salary to charity in honor of Halyna.

Original crew members returning to complete the film alongside Souza include Allan Graf (Stunt Coordinator), Terese Davis (Costume Designer), and Anna Williams (Hair Department Head), among others.

Alec Baldwin Returning To Big Screen In ‘Hollywood Heist’ With Mickey Rourke, Nick Cannon & More

The news comes the same day a resurrected Rust began shooting in Montana with Baldwin return to star and produce, and Joel Souza continuing at the helm.

The comedy crime caper, which also stars Nick Cannon, Mickey Rourke, Paul Sloan, Til Schweiger and Tara Reid, was shot in Las Vegas and Majorca, Spain, and finished principal photography in Los Angeles last week.

Hollywood Heist follows a Hollywood power agent (Cannon) trying to land an actor (Baldwin) by telling the story of his client, a movie producer (Hatton), along with a washed-up movie star pal (Sloan), as they race against time to save their latest production. This comes after the project’s bank account is wiped clean by a thief, leading to an onslaught of negotiations with famous actors, drug lords and death.

Set in a “meta” version of Hollywood, the story is inspired by true events. Baldwin, Rourke and Reid are playing fictionalized versions of themselves. The film also features a fictional version of producer Asko Akopyan, played by Arman Nshanian.

Hatton penned the script with Sloan and is producing under his Ton of Hats banner alongside Akopyan, who is producing for Oscar Gold Productions. Ton of Hats and Oscar Gold financed the feature. Cannon is executive producing in association with his Ncredible Entertainment. Kimberly Hines is also executive producing.

Baldwin is represented by Matt DelPiano. Cannon is managed by Michael Goldman and repped by CAA. Hatton, Rourke, Schweiger and Sloan are managed by Hines at Artist International Group. Akopyan is represented by Gersh. Reid is represented by Philippe Ashfield of Instant Entertainment.

Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Gun that Killed Cinematographer Had Modified Trigger More Embarrassment for Prosecutors

The prop gun Baldwin used back in 2021 had been modified, this according to the L.A. Times ... the trigger mechanism had been changed which increased the probability it could have misfired without Baldwin pulling the trigger.

Baldwin insisted he never pulled the trigger, something prosecutors and even the FBI disputed. The D.A. made a big deal of its theory that pulling the trigger was a major component of its case ... a case that has now gone up in flames.

What's unclear ... when did authorities learn of the modification on the gun? And how could it be ... Baldwin was charged before the authorities properly examined the weapon to understand exactly what happened.

The involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin is being dropped ... less than 2 weeks before the trial is set to begin. The case was widely criticized, in no small part because the D.A. somehow felt an actor was responsible for checking the work of an expert armorer.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set, remains the only person charged with involuntary manslaughter.

FYI -- Baldwin took to social media after news broke that his charges were being dropped ... saying he owes everything to his wife Hilaria, as well as his lawyer, Luke Nikas.s

Alec Baldwin Not Absolved In Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting Despite Planned Dropping Of Charges, Prosecutors Say

The special prosecutors, Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis, released a statement late Thursday regarding the decision to drop his charges, saying they may be refiled after “further investigation.”

“Over the last few days and in preparation for the May 3, 2023, preliminary hearing, new facts were revealed that demand further investigation and forensic analysis in the case against Alexander “Alec” Rae Baldwin, III. Consequently, we cannot proceed under the current time constraints and on the facts and evidence turned over by law enforcement in its existing form. We therefore will be dismissing the involuntary manslaughter charges against Mr. Baldwin to conduct further investigation. This decision does not absolve Mr. Baldwin of criminal culpability and charges may be refiled. Our follow-up investigation will remain active and on-going.”

Despite reports earlier in the day that former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed would also see her charges dropped, her status has not changed. “Charges against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed remain unchanged,” the prosecutors said tonight.

A virtual status hearing has been set for Friday in Santa Fe.

PREVIOUSLY, 12:03 p.m. PT, updated with lawyers’ statements: Less than two weeks before a mini-trial was scheduled to begin in New Mexico over the October 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, all charges are going to be dropped against Alec Baldwin.

Recently appointed special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis are expected to file paperwork soon, perhaps even today, to dismiss involuntary manslaughter claims against Baldwin, we hear. That designation means the case could be resurrected at a later date as the prosecutors are set to further investigate what actually went down that terrible day on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set near Santa Fe, NM.

Lawyers for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told Deadline that they expect her charges of involuntary manslaughter to also be dropped in the near future.

A virtual status conference has been just scheduled for Friday before Judge Mary Marlow Sommer.

“We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against Alec Baldwin, and we encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident,” Baldwin attorneys Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement. Representatives for the Santa Fe’s District Attorney’s office had no comment on the situation when contacted by Deadline.

“The new special prosecutor team has taken a very diligent and thorough approach to the entire investigation, which we welcome and have always welcomed,” said Reed’s lawyers, Jason Bowles and Todd Bulllion. “They are seeking the truth and we are also. The truth about what happened will come out and the questions that we have long sought answers for will be answered. We fully expect at the end of this process that Hannah will also be exonerated.”

Both Gutierrez-Reed and Baldwin had pleaded not guilty earlier this year to the charges.

Since an interview on ABC just weeks after the death of Hutchins, Baldwin repeatedly has insisted he did not pull the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed the cinematographer — an insistence the FBI disagreed with in its report on the matter released last year. However, now, with Baldwin lawyers last month contesting the state of the gun, further investigation into the firearm itself and whether it was somehow modified looks certain to be a part of any renewed probe, we hear.

The latest developments are occurring as production on a resurrected Rust was set to start in Montana with Baldwin and director Joel Souza, who was wounded in the October 2021 shooting. Originally scheduled to begin earlier this week, Rust 2.0 now is looking at starting Friday, we hear — though that could shift based on these new developments. The timing of the charges being dropped against Baldwin just before the new Rust production commences seems unusual, but we are told it is purely coincidence.

The move by the special prosecutors also comes days after the filing of the witness list for the preliminary examination became public. It looks unlikely that the preliminary examination, aka mini-trial, will go ahead as scheduled; it was due to begin May 3.

More than a year after Hutchins died on the Rust set, Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed were charged in late January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Along with a mandatory five-year firearm enhancement that later was cast aside as “unconstitutional,” the charges carried a maximum of 18 months behind bars and about $5,000 in fines if a jury delivered guilty verdicts. At the time, New Mexico officials made a plea deal with Rust assistant director Dave Halls, who was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation.

In the past weeks, Baldwin had received approval from Judge Mary Marlow Sommer to be absent from the preliminary examination/mini-trial, where Sommer would determine whether there is enough evidence to go to a full trial.

Still, in a sign of just how fast events were moving this week, the state released its 35-person witness list. Right near the top is Souza along with Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell — who is suing Baldwin and his fellow producers in one of the many legal actions against in Los Angeles Superior Court and in New Mexico — armorer mentor Seth Kenney, more members of the crew, and a ton of cops.

The sudden turn of events also follows Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies stepping down from the case last month and Morrissey and Lewis, both veteran New Mexico attorneys, being put in charge.

While rare, that decision by the besieged DA looked almost inevitable. Almost from the jump after Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged, the DA hit several self-created potholes, including a lost February 24 attempt to block Gutierrez-Reed’s request to possess a gun in her home for self-defense. More embarrassingly for the DA, there was a dismissal of the firearm enhancement charge and the loss of previous special prosecutor and GOP state lawmaker Andrea Reeb. Then, almost certain to lose an attempt to be co-counsel with a new special prosecutor, Carmack-Altwies finally removed herself from the case altogether on March 29, bringing Morrissey and Lewis on board.

As the State of New Mexico pondered bringing charges against Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed, the Hutchins estate settled its wrongful death suit against Rust Movie Productions LLC and Baldwin in October. As part of the deal, the DoP’s husband Matthew Hutchins is executive producing the revivied Rust movie, as well as a documentary on his wife’s life and career.

“I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame (to the producers or Mr. Baldwin),” Matthew Hutchins said at the time. “All of us believe Halyna’s death was a terrible accident. I am grateful that the producers and the entertainment community have come together to pay tribute to Halyna’s final work.”

Earlier this week, that settlement was ordered sealed to protect the privacy of the Hutchins’ young son.

Alec Baldwin Thanks His Wife & His Lawyer After ‘Rust’ Charges Are Dropped

The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning star’s first public comments on the surprise development came in an Instagram post. Under a doting photo of Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, the actor added the caption: “I owe everything I have to this woman (and to you Luke).”

The latter is a nod to Luke Nikas, Baldwin’s attorney in the Rust case.

Today’s news about the charges surrounding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust set in October 2021 came less than two weeks before a mini-trial was scheduled to begin in New Mexico. A virtual status conference in the case has been scheduled for April 21 before Judge Mary Marlow Sommer.

Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were charged in late January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Along with a mandatory five-year firearm enhancement that later was cast aside as “unconstitutional,” the charges carried a maximum of 18 months behind bars and about $5,000 in fines if a jury delivered guilty verdicts. At the time, New Mexico officials made a plea deal with Rust assistant director Dave Halls, who was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation.

Baldwin, who was rehearsing a scene for the movie when the gun went off, repeatedly has insisted he did not pull the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza.

Alec Baldwin Wants Out Of Halyna Hutchins’ Parents, Sister Suit Over ‘Rust’ Cinematographer’s Death

Acknowledging the horror of the October 2021 shooting and that “the loss of a daughter and sister is undoubtedly painful in any circumstance,” Baldwin’s bicoastal Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan defense team also assert that Ukrainian-based Olga Solovey, Anatoli Androsvych and Svetlana Zemko have “been distanced from Halyna physically, financially, and emotionally for years before her death” and “have no viable cause of action against Defendants” (read it here).

Filed on April 13, the demurrer by the indie Western star/EP and El Dorado Picture goes on to state of the February 9 negligence and battery civil complaint by Hutchins’ parents and sister:

This action is especially misguided. The residency of the parties and compensatory character of a loss of consortium claim support the application of California law. And in California, a marriage between the plaintiff and the decedent is a necessary element for loss of consortium. None of the Plaintiffs can plead or prove such a relationship to Halyna Hutchins. And even if New Mexico law were to apply, Plaintiffs’ cause of action would still fail, as Plaintiffs’ complaint provides nothing more than a single conclusory statement, that, no matter how often it is repeated cannot support a sufficiently close relationship under the law, as required by New Mexico law to state a claims for loss of consortium.

Already up against criminal charges in the Land of Enchantment that could see him behind bars for 18 months, Baldwin and his team are seeking a DTLA July 13 hearing on their request in front of LA Superior Court Judge Michael E. Walker.

Along with Baldwin, various Rust producers, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, and 1st assistant director David Halls are among the defendents in the California case by the Gloria Allred represented Solovey, Androsvych and Zemko. The high-profile Allred also is among the attorneys representing Rust script supervisor Maime Mitchell in her November 2021-filed negligence suit against Baldwin, Rust producers and others.

Today, Allred was surgically in her rejection of Baldwin’s latest request.

“We are not surprised Alec Baldwin is once again attempting to avoid responsibility for what he did,” the lawyer told Deadline this evening. It’s abundantly clear under New Mexico law, which will be applied in the California court, that he is responsible for all the harm he did to the entirety of Halyna Hutchins’ family. We are here to make sure that he is held accountable for his actions.”

With a two-week preliminary examination a.k.a. mini-trial starting in Santa Fe on May 3, Baldwin may already know by the time of that mid-July in LA if the troubled New Mexico case against him and Reed is even going to trial. Facing a witness list of Hutchins’ widower, Rust director Joel Souza, various cops and more, both Baldwin and Reed have plead not guilty. Having faced a number of legal faceplants, Santa Fe D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies dropped out of the case on March 29 and appointed New Mexico attorneys Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis to point as special prosecutors.

It was just the latest in a series of missteps that have characterized prosecution of the tragedy since the beginning of the year.

In a media maelstrom, more than a year after the October 21, 2021 killing of Hutchins on the Rust set, the D.A. finally filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin and Reed on January 31.

Even with all the civil suits against Baldwin in New Mexico and other jurisdictions, the D.A. strong stance didn’t last long.

On February 20, Carmack-Altwies dumped a firearm enhancement, that came with a five-year prison stint, after defense lawyers asserted it was “unconstitutional.” Then, with the slings and arrows of campaign hijinks ad more unconstitutionality, there was the March 14 resignation of the besieged previous special prosecutor and current GOP New Mexico state legislator Andrea Reeb. That, plus early hearing losses in front of Judge Mary Marlow Sommer, were turning the D.A.’s office into the Keystone Cops.

As the Santa Fe minitrial looms and the new special prosecutors duo settle into their roles, Baldwin on April 10 was granted a waiver by Judge Sommer to not have to appear at the preliminary hearing. After Morrissey and Lewis present the evidence in the matter, Judge Sommer will determine if there is enough there to go to trial later this year – a big if, at this juncture.

Not that Santa Fe docket isn’t busy already.

Next week, there will be a hearing to seal the settlement of Matthew Hutchins’ wrongful death suit with Baldwin and Rust producers. The mostly confidential agreement was first announced in October 2022, and the April 17 hearing seems mainly focused on protecting the privacy of Hutchins’ young son Andros.

To further muddy the murky Rust waters, a resurrected version of the low budget film is supposedly still going into production in Montana on April 20, as Deadline exclusively reported on March 16. Along with a separate documentary on the life and career of Halyna Hutcins, that Rust 2.0 will star Baldwin, be directed again by Souza, who was injured in the 2021 shooting and will have Matthew Hutchins as an executive producer.

Despite a FBI report made public last summer and the Santa Fe Sheriff’s final word in November 2022 on their investigation into what happened at the Bonanza Creek Ranch set in October 2021, Baldwin continues to insist he did not pull the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Souza during a Rust rehearsal.,

Elizabeth Hubbard, Soap Star Known for 'As The World Turns' and 'The Doctors', Dead at 89

The soap actress's son shared the news of her death in a Facebook post on Monday morning. "I'm sorry to say with a broken heart mi mum passed over the weekend," Jeremy Bennett wrote alongside a photo of Hubbard.

"Thank you for being an unmovable rock that guided me through life," he connected. "I will try to honour your memory for as long as I live. Love & Prayers. Jeremy"

No immediate cause of death was shared. PEOPLE reached out to Hubbard's team for comment.

In the wake of Hubbard's passing, her TV daughter Martha Byrne shared a heartfelt tribute on Instagram. "As many of you are finding out this morning, Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. First and foremost I want everyone to know I made sure she was aware of how much everyone loved her. I would share your comments from social media, videos and your fond memories of her as Lucinda, Althea, every time I saw her," wrote Byrne, who worked with Hubbard on As the World Turns.

"She loved the audience and fought like HELL to bring truth and honesty to her performances. On a personal level there aren't words to describe how much she meant to me. Only feelings, which override words in so many cases when it comes to love," she continued. "I will be sharing more so we can all grieve together but here are our last words together only just a few days ago. I said, 'Liz, do you know how much you have done for me?' She said, 'You can do more.' Because of what she has done for me over the last 38 years, the strength and fearless nature in how she lived her life, she is right, I can AND WILL do more."

Byrne added, "I look forward to sharing more about her life, which encompasses so much more than her INCREDIBLE career on daytime television. She also said to me when I told her how much the fans loved her… 'I tried.' She more than tried. She left it all on the screen. I'll miss her every day but grateful the universe gifted me with such a force of nature, of which the world will not see the likes of again. ??"

Hubbard was best known for her role as Dr. Althea Davis on the drama series The Doctors, which aired between 1964 and 1982. She appeared in a whopping 2741 episodes of the show.

She's also known for playing Lucinda Walsh in As the World Turns, which aired from 1975 to 2010. She appeared in 1975 episodes of the show.

Her last on-screen appearance was on the soap series Anacostia, playing Eva Montgomery in nine episodes airing between 2015 and 2018.

For her success in the daytime television world, Hubbard garnered 11 Daytime Emmy nominations. She won the Daytime Emmy for Best Actress in Daytime Drama in 1974 for her role as Dr. Althea Davis. She also won the Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Special Emmy in 1967 for her role in First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson.

In 2015, Hubbard was awarded a lifetime achievement award by Gold Derby. She also accumulated 11 Soap Opera Digest awards nominations, though she did not win in any categories.

Giving one of her last formal interviews to Soap Opera Digest in 2015, Hubbard spoke lovingly of her dedicated fanbase.

"I love them and I mean that. They're in my heart… let the fans know that I love them and honor them and I still look at the poems I sent them," she said. "I've dated many men in my life, but my secret love affair is with the fans."

Elizabeth Hubbard, Soap Star on ‘As the World Turns’ and ‘The Doctors,’ Dies at 89

Hubbard died Saturday of cancer at her home in Roxbury, Connecticut, her son, Jeremy Bennett, told The Hollywood Reporter.

On the big screen, Hubbard played the gynecologist girlfriend of Gene Hackman’s character in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and appeared in The Bell Jar (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Cold River (1982) and Center Stage (2000).

She portrayed Dr. Althea on NBC’s The Doctors from 1964-82 and the manipulating mogul Lucinda on CBS’ As the World Turns from 1984 until the show’s conclusion in September 2010. (Lucinda and Larry Bryggman’s John Dixon headed off to Amsterdam at the end.)

“I’ve been so lucky playing Lucinda — a character who could do anything,” she told TV Guide in 2010. “She could lie, break the law, she didn’t have to be good, and she always had that checkbook ready. Always!”

Nominated for 11 Daytime Emmys, Hubbard won in 1974 for her turn as Davis and for playing Edith Wilson, the wife of Woodrow Wilson, on NBC’s First Ladies Diaries in ’76. Her next eight noms came for her work on As the World Turns (all losses), followed by a final one in 2016 for a turn as an American sexologist on the digital soap Anacostia.

One of three kids, Hubbard was born in New York on Dec 22, 1933. Her mother, Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, was a pioneer in homeopathic therapies and one of the first women to receive a medical degree from Columbia University.

Hubbard graduated from Radcliffe College in 1955, studied acting in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her Broadway debut as a replacement actress in a revival of Threepenny Opera soon after its ’55 bow.

Her Broadway résumé also included Compulsion, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, I Remember Mama and her final credit, 1983’s Dance a Little Closer.

Hubbard started out on the CBS soap Guiding Light in 1962 when it was live and 15 minutes long. “I replaced some actress who had flipped her lid,” she recalled. “They just needed somebody to round out the week, but then they kept me, and the rest is history.”

She and Gerald Gordon as Dr. Nick Bellini made for a popular romantic couple in daytime television on The Doctors.

She appeared on another CBS daytime drama, The Edge of Night, soon after that and on ABC’s One Life to Live as the wealthy Estelle Chadwick in 1983-84 before joining As the World Turns.

Her TV credits also included guest stints on The Virginian, Marcus Welby, M.D., Law & Order, Hope and Faith and Life on Mars.

“I’ve been very lucky in this thing called daytime,” she said, “first with Dr. Althea on The Doctors and then with Lucinda — two smart career women, both of them ladies who made their own way in the world, and I’m very proud to have put that out there.”

Soap Alums Pay Tribute To Elizabeth Hubbard

Mary Beth Evans (ex-Sierra; Kayla, DAYS): “I was so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with Elizabeth Hubbard for six years on As the World Turns, where she played my mother. What an amazing powerhouse this woman was … always striving for spontaneity and keeping it real. My favorite times with her were riding in the car from Manhattan to Brooklyn — the stories she would tell were so much fun. Rest in peace, sweet lady. #RIPLIZ #ATWT”

Michael Park (ex-Jack): “If Liz was involved in a scene I was lucky enough to be in, I could always count on learning a little something and laughing a whole lot. She was a ferocious talent in love with her craft. One of the greats that will certainly be missed.”

Peter Boynton (ex-Tonio): “Rest in peace, Boss! Working with/for you at ‘Walsh Enterprises’ was a highlight of my NYC years! Your encouragement and respect meant the world to me. I’m raising a glass to you and feel so lucky to have worked with you in that great ‘ATWT’ community. On angels wings. – Peter ‘Tonio Reyes’ Boynton.”

Kin Shriner (ex-Keith; Scott, GH): “I had the great pleasure of spending a year on @CBSATWT and spent time with Elizabeth Hubbard and was time well spent a class act!”

Martha Byrne (ex-Lily): “As many of you are finding out this morning, Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. First and foremost I want everyone to know I made sure she was aware of how much everyone loved her. I would share your comments from social media, videos and your fond memories of her as Lucinda, Althea, every time I saw her. She loved the audience and fought like HELL to bring truth and honesty to her performances. On a personal level there aren’t words to describe how much she meant to me. Only feelings, which override words in so many cases when it comes to love. I will be sharing more so we can all grieve together but here are our last words together only just a few days ago. I said, “Liz, do you know how much you have done for me?” She said, “You can do more.” Because of what she has done for me over the last 38 years, the strength and fearless nature in how she lived her life, she is right, I can AND WILL do more. I look forward to sharing more about her life, which encompasses so much more than her INCREDIBLE career on daytime television. She also said to me when I told her how much the fans loved her…”I tried.” She more than tried. She left it all on the screen. I’ll miss her every day but grateful the universe gifted me with such a force of nature, of which the world will not see the likes of again. ”

Alec Baldwin (ex-Billy, THE DOCTORS): “I worked on THE DOCTORS with the great Liz Hubbard. An amazing woman and remarkable actress.”

Terri Conn (ex-Katie): “[She] always fought hard for the truth of her character and the integrity of the story and I was always inspired by that…. She was a force and will be greatly missed!”

Lauren B. Martin (ex-Camille): “An incredible woman. A mentor, an icon. A vocabulary ad a wit, unrivaled.”

Scott Bryce (ex-Craig): “She was astonishing. Liz RIP. Love you woman.”

Elizabeth Hubbard Dies: Emmy-Nominated ‘As The World Turns’ Star Was 89

Her death was announced by son Jeremy Bennett on Facebook. Additional details were not immediately available.

“I’m sorry to say with a broken heart mi mum passed over the weekend,” Bennett wrote. “Thank you for being an unmovable rock that guided me through life. I will try to honour your memory for as long as I live.”

Although best known for her portrayal of the tough-as-nails Lucinda, Hubbard won two Daytime Emmys for other performances: She won her first in 1974 for her role as Dr. Althea Davis on NBC’s The Doctors, and her second in 1976 for the daytime drama TV movie First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson.

Born in New York City, Hubbard began her TV career in 1962 as Anne Fletcher on the soap opera Guiding Light, and the following year played Carol Kramer on The Edge of Night. In 1964 she joined The Doctors, beginning a five-year run on the show. She also played the role from 1970 to 1977, and again from 1981-1982.

With the cancellation of The Doctors, Hubbard briefly pivoted to ABC’s One Life To Live in 1983, and the following year joined As The World Turns for what would be her signature daytime role of Lucinda Walsh. Except for a brief period in 1999, Hubbard remained with the show until its final episode in 2010. In 2005 her character was featured prominently in a storyline about Lucinda’s battle with cancer.

Most recently, Hubbard appeared in the digital drama series Anacostia, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2016.

Other credits include the films I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The Bell Jar (1979) and 1980’s Ordinary People.

Beverly D’Angelo, Dennis Haysbert, Nicole Richie & Josh Peck Set For ‘Summer Camp’ Comedy

Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard and Eugene Levy will lead the ensemble, as previously announced, with Betsy Sodaro (Ghosts) and Tom Wright (Daisy Jones & The Six) rounding it out.

The film heading into production next month in North Carolina tells the story of Nora, Ginny and Mary, who have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so when the chance to reunite for a summer camp reunion arises, they all take it, some begrudgingly and others, excitedly. Each of their lives might not be where they’d imagined, but one thing is for sure — Nora, Ginny and Mary need each other, and summer camp reminds them why.

Summer Camp is a Saks Picture Company production, in association with and financed by Taylor & Dodge and Grant S. Johnson’s Project Infinity. Producers on the project include Alex Saks (No Hard Feelings, Book Club), Dori A. Rath (Pig), Keaton, Stephanie Heaton-Harris (Mack & Rita) and Tyler W. Konney (May December). Grant S. Johnson (May December) will exec produce, with Mariela Villa, Nicholas Erickson and Elayne Schmidt serving as co-producers. Konney’s Taylor & Dodge and CAA Media Finance are co-repping world rights.

Breaking out with her role as Chevy Chase’s beleaguered wife in National Lampoon’s Vacation and its sequels, D’Angelo is otherwise best known for roles in films like The Miracle and American History X. She recently appeared alongside David Harbour and more in Uni’s holiday action comedy Violent Night, can currently be seen recurring on CBS’ True Lies, and will also soon be seen in films including Tony Kaye’s The Trainer and the indie ensemble comedy Drugstone June.

A Golden Globe nominee known for roles in such iconic films as Far from Heaven and Heat, along with such series as 24 and The Unit, Haysbert has recently appeared on Peacock’s Paul T. Goldman, as well as in the 20th/Hulu thriller No Exit and the fifth season of the hit fantasy series, Lucifer. He lent his voice to Disney+’s Emmy-winning TV movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers and will next be seen in Eva Longoria’s directorial debut Flamin’ Hot for Searchlight, which world premiered at SXSW and will on June 9th become the first film to bow on Hulu and Disney+ simultaneously.

Richie starred in the Tina Fey-produced NBC comedy Great News, which ran for two seasons, and also topped the Quibi comedy series, Nikki Fre$h, revolving around her rapper alter ego. She’s additionally been seen on narrative series like Bless This Mess, Grace and Frankie, Camping and Empire, as well as such reality series as Making the Cut, Candidly Nicole, Project Runway and The Simple Life.

Peck can currently be seen in How I Met Your Father Season 2 on Hulu and will next be seen in the third season of Paramount+’s iCarly revival, having previously starred with lead Miranda Cosgrove on the Nickelodeon kids series Drake & Josh. Also coming up for the actor, who hosts the podcast The Good Guys, is Christopher Nolan’s anticipated historical drama Oppenheimer, which is out July 21st via Universal.

D’Angelo is represented by A3 Artists Agency and Atlas Artists; Haysbert by A3 Artists Agency, GS Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Richie by WME, Impression Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Peck by UTA; Sodaro by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham; and Wright by Lighthouse Entertainment and Pakula/King.a

‘Rust’: Santa Fe DA Steps Down From Case & Assigns Two Special Prosecutors

“My responsibility to the people of the First Judicial District is greater than any one case, which is why I have chosen to appoint a special prosecutor in the Rust case,” Carmack-Altwies said in a statement today. “Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis will unflinchingly pursue justice in the death of Halyna Hutchins on behalf of the people of First Judicial District.”

Heather Brewer, a spokesperson for First New Mexico Judicial District Attorney, said in a statement:

“New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies on Wednesday appointed long-time New Mexico attorneys Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis to serve as special prosecutors in the ‘Rust’ case. Morrissey’s and Lewis’ extensive experience and trial expertise will allow the state to pursue justice for Halyna Hutchins and ensure that in New Mexico everyone is held accountable under the law.

“With the appointment of new special prosecutors, Carmack-Altwies will step aside from personally prosecuting the ‘Rust’ case, allowing her to focus on the broader public safety needs in New Mexico’s First Judicial District. Carmack-Altwies will continue her record of prosecuting drunken drivers, collaborating with local law enforcement, increasing diversion efforts and securing convictions against the most dangerous and prolific offenders.”

As Deadline told you recently, this was in the cards for the DA to step down. Under a Land of Enchantment statute, the DA’s office could bring aboard a private lawyer to help with cases on a contract basis — which is what went down here.

Two days ago, the DA in dire straits pleaded to Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, “We need extra manpower on this case…All the money in the world doesn’t help prosecute a case if we can’t find the bodies in our office.” That stemmed from Carmack-Altwies losing nearly a third of her prosecution team over the last few years.

“So, we have to be able to look outside of our offices in order to find people. That is our good cause that we do not have the sufficient manpower to fully prosecute this by ourselves. Bringing on a special prosecutor helps with that by taking on some of the burden of prosecution,” Carmack-Altwies said two days ago.

More losses on the DA’s hands in the crusade against Alec Baldwin and ex-Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the elected official lost a February 24 attempt to block Reed’s request to possess a gun in her home for self-defense. There was also a drop in firearm enhancement charge from the on-going case last month, and the loss of besieged Andrea Reeb as special prosecutor earlier this month.

More than a year after the killing of DP Halynia Hutchins on the Rust set, Baldwin and Reed were charged in late January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter out of the October 21, 2021 tragedy. Under the current charges, now that the five-year sentence connected to the firearm enhancement is gone, Baldwin and Reed are looking at a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury delivers guilty verdicts. Both have pleaded not guilty.c

Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Case D.A. Suffers Another Loss As Judge Axes Special Prosecutor Co-Counsel Request

In a virtual hearing today, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer shut down D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies’ attempt to bring on a new special prosecutor for the high-profile case and serve as co-counsel in the matter.

“We need extra manpower on this case,” the elected official told the judge and lawyers for Baldwin and co-defendant and ex-Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Monday. “All the money in the world doesn’t help prosecute a case if we can’t find the bodies in our office,” Carmack-Altwies went on to say, noting the loss of nearly a third of her prosecution team over the last few years.

“We are in dire straits,” she bluntly noted on the remote gathering, that included Reed herself. “So, we have to be able to look outside of our offices in order to find people. That is our good cause that we do not have the sufficient manpower to fully prosecute this by ourselves. Bringing on a special prosecutor helps with that by taking on some of the burden of prosecution.”

Already the D.A. lost a February 24 attempt to block Reed’s request to possess a gun in her home for self-defense. Then coming off having to drop a firearm enhancement charge from the on-going case in last month, and the sudden and stinging loss of the besieged Andrea Reeb as special prosecutor earlier this month, the D.A. really needed a win today.

She distinctly did not get it.

Basically, Judge Sommer told Carmack-Altwies’ she can’t have it both ways. “You may not co-counsel …you stay the course and not use a special prosecutor and prosecuted on your own,” she insisted. “It’s an either or,” the judge stated, pushing all sides to be conscious on the impending May 3 preliminary examination a.k.a. minitrial

“If you cannot prosecute, you cannot prosecute,” the Judge said Monday after offering an extensive interpretation of New Mexico statutes on such prosecutions. “Do you think that is a real argument after all is said and done?” Sommer added with no attempt to mask her distain after Carmack-Altwies’ postulated a new special prosecutor could appoint her as co-counsel once appointed.

Taking more than a year after Hutchins’ killing to finally charge Baldwin and Reed in late January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter out of the October 21, 2021 shooting on the Rust set. Under the current charges, now that the five-year sentence connected to the firearm enhancement is gone, Baldwin and Reed are looking at a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury delivers guilty verdicts. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Grappling with some self-described “technical difficulties,” today’s hearing was originally intended to deal with Baldwin’s motion to disqualification against now former special prosecutor Reeb. The March 14 resignation of the GOP state legislator made that initial intent moot. However, while Baldwin’s lawyers, who have recently claimed their client’s constitutional rights have been violated by the D.A., have raised no fuss, Carmack-Altwies’ subsequent desire to appoint a new special prosecutor to co-lead the Rust case has received backlash from Reed’s Jason Bowles-led defense team.

That backlash turned into a wall today.

Yet, the Judge has permitted what could end up being a loophole to emerge. Under another Land of Enchantment statute, a District Attorney’s office can bring on board a private lawyer to help with cases on a contract basis. Though Carmack-Altwies did not cite that particular stature, Judge Sommer has given her until Thursday to submit a brief and has penciled in a March 31 hearing on that.

A resurrected Rust is set on paper to go into production in Montana on April 20, as Deadline exclusively reported on March 16. That Rust 2.0 will star Baldwin, be directed again by Joel Souza, who was injuted in the 2021 shooting and have Hutchins’ widower Matthew Hutchins as an executive producer. Along with various Rust crew members and law enforcement officials, Matthew Hutchins is currently on the D.A.’s witness list for the two-week minitrial set to start in early May in Santa Fe.

Alec Baldwin Trashes ‘Rust’ D.A. For Threatening His “Right To A Fair Trial” Over Fatal Movie Shooting

“The government’s conduct represented a disregard of its ethical duties, and it has threatened Mr. Baldwin’s right to a fair trial,” reads a filing by Baldwin’s New York City- and Dallas-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan defense team.

Placed in the docket Tuesday in New Mexico, the latest swipe at prosecutors cites statements made by Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ office and now-departed special prosecutor Andrea Reeb about the indie Western’s star/producer’s “gross negligence and a reckless disregard for safety on the Rust film set” and more.

Crawling towards a May 3 preliminary examination, aka minitrial, the case against Baldwin and co-defendant and ex-Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed appears wounded and dwindling by 1,000 paper cuts. Despite several public salvos in the past and recent retreats, the D.A.’s office had no comment today on the latest filing by Baldwin’s team.

Taking more than a year after Hutchins’ killing to finally charge Baldwin and Reed in late January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, the D.A. on February 20 withdrew an ill-conceived firearm enhancement that came with a five-year prison stint after defense attorneys insisted it was “unconstitutional.

As it stands, Baldwin and Reed are looking at a maximum of 18 months behind bars and around $5,000 in fines if a jury delivers guilty verdicts. Both have pleaded not guilty.

After coming up short in a February 24 attempt to block Reed’s request to possess a gun in her home for self-defense, Carmack-Altwies found her office on what was eventually the losing side of a partisan brawl by any other name.

The D.A. initially defended the appointment last summer of Reeb, the ex-district attorney for New Mexico’s Ninth Judicial District, to Rust special prosecutor after February 7 calls for her disqualification came from the defense. Facing protestations of “unconstitutionally” and conflict of interest for being a GOP member of the state legislature, Reeb decided to jump before she was pushed. On March 14, two weeks before a hearing on well-known Democrat Baldwin’s disqualification motion, Reeb announced she had “made the difficult decision to step down as special prosecutor in the Rust case.”

If you thought that was the end of this for now, you may not have been paying close enough attention to the Team Baldwin’s strategy. In the Tuesday filing, the Luke Nikas-led defense jumped on revelations from the New York Times that Reeb asked Carmack-Altwies last June to “publicize the fact that she was working on the case in order to advance her political career,” as the filing paraphrases. Reeb at the time was running to become a New Mexico state representative in November’s midterms.

In the weeks before Reeb was formally named special prosecutor, the D.A. replied via email to Reeb’s political request with: “I am intending to either introduce you or send it in a press release when we get the investigation.”

“Representative Reeb’s prosecution of this case against Mr. Baldwin to advance her political career is a further abuse of the system and yet another violation of Mr. Baldwin’s constitutional rights,” said the defendant in the filing.

For the time being, Baldwin’s team agrees that the criminal case can go forward with Carmack-Altwies and an as-yet-unannounced “properly appointed” special prosecutor sharing duties. Still, laying the groundwork for another attack, the defense document from Quinn Emanuel and Albuquerque-based Bailey, LeBlanc & Lane PC went on say:

Given Representative Reeb’s resignation, which was constitutionally compelled, Mr. Baldwin withdraws the Disqualification Motion as moot. But Mr. Baldwin does not waive the rights to raise the disqualification issue in the future or to otherwise challenge the prosecution as a whole on the grounds that the State’s conduct to date-including evidence that Reeb charged the case to advance her political career, the inclusion of the unlawful firearm enhancement, the State’s improper and prejudicial public statements, and Representative Reeb’s principal role in the investigation and prosecution-has violated Mr. Baldwin’s constitutional rights.

After an extensive and FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office was released in November 2022, Baldwin and Rust armorer Reed were formally charged by the Santa Fe D.A. on January 31 over the October 21, 2021 death of Hutchins on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe. Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in the shooting but recovered.

A resurrected Rust is supposedly going into production in Montana on April 20, as Deadline exclusively reported on March 16. That Rust 2.0 will star Baldwin, be directed by Souza and have Hutchins’ widower Matthew Hutchins as an executive producer. Along with various Rust crew members and law enforcement officials, Matthew Hutchins is currently on the D.A.’s witness list for the two-week minitrial set to start May 3 in Santa Fe.

Coming out of what was already an apparently troubled set, Hutchins’ death has seen Baldwin sued and countersuing in civil cases from Rust crew members in both New Mexico and California. While a wrongful-death suit from Matthew Hutchins was settled and dropped in October 2022, Halyna Hutchins’ Ukrainian-based parents and sisters took Baldwin and fellow producers to court in L.A. on February 9 for negligence.

With at least one civil case now paused for the criminal case in New Mexico, the death of Halyna Hutchins will be before the courts for years to come, with Judge Mary Marlow Sommer to determine in May whether there is enough evidence to move the criminal case forward to trial.sl

Resurrected ‘Rust’ Movie Has April Start Date; Alec Baldwin Criminal Case Stumbles For D.A. As Minitrial Looms

The description of the supporting role, a character named Jacob Hollister, reads, “a smart, sweet little boy who knows nothing of the world other than what his older brother Lucas has created for him. Lucas is all Jacob has in the world.” Start of date for the “6-to-7 years old white boy” role is April 23.

That’s three days ahead of Rust‘s return to production, which we here is April 20. The production is casting several roles, we hear. Rust producers didn’t provide return for comment.

With a previously announced spring start to Rust, Baldwin is back in his lead role as the title character in the indie Western which is set to film at the Yellowstone Film Ranch. Even with that, unanswered questions about insurance surround the revamped production as Baldwin and former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed each face an 18-month sentence and various fines if found guilty on counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Still, if those Rust production dates hold, the $7 million-budgeted flick will be filming when the two-week preliminary hearing in Baldwin’s and Reed’s cases begins on May 3 in front of New Mexico Judge Mary Marlow Sommer. A minitrial for all practical purposes, the hearing will see Santa Fe D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies present the prosecution’s evidence and call witnesses in the matter. After responses from Reed’s attorneys and Baldwin’s NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan team, Sommer will decided whether she believes there is enough there to go to a full trial later this year.

That trial looks to see Hutchins’ family now standing with Baldwin and the Rust producers, literally and figuratively. Last October, widower Matthew Hutchins called off a wrongful-death suit against Baldwin and Rust producers to become an executive producer on the upcoming movie. Unimaginable just weeks before, that surprise settlement was the first indication Rust was really coming back

However, when charges were unveiled against Baldwin and Reed in late January, Hutchins’ lead lawyer seemed to lean away from the ethos of the settlement. “Our independent investigation also supports charges are warranted,” said Hutchins’ family attorney Brian J. Panish on January 31. “It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law,” the LA-based Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP partner added. “We support the charges, will fully cooperate with this prosecution, and fervently hope the justice system works to protect the public and hold accountable those who break the law.”

In another twist, in late February, Carmack-Altwies added Matthew Hutchins to the D.A. witness list.

Even with that strong swing, the D.A.’s case has stumbled repeatedly against determined defense attorneys. “Publicly, they’ve made some many amateur mistakes, you have to wonder if local Santa Fe prosecutors are in over their head with this case,” a prominent L.A.-based criminal defense lawyer said.

After taking more than a year after the October 21, 2021 killing of Hutchins on the Rust set to file charges, last month, New Mexico’s First Judicial District Attorney walked back a firearm enhancement, that came with a five-year prison stint, after Baldwin’s lawyers asserted it was “unconstitutional.” Add to that, the D.A.’s office earlier this week saw another set-back in their case as Special Prosecutor Andrea Reeb resigned on March 14. Appointed by last summer, Reeb, the ex-district attorney for New Mexico’s Ninth Judicial District, was under attack for holding both the special prosecutor office and being an elected GOP member of the Land of Enchantment’s legislature.

Baldwin’s lawyers challenged her duel roles, and potential conflicts of interest.

Facing a March 27 disqualification hearing, Reeb fell on the sword before further damage was done. “It has become clear that the best way I can ensure justice is served in this case is to step down so that the prosecution can focus on the evidence and the facts, which clearly show a complete disregard for basic safety protocols led to the death of Halyna Hutchins,” she said in a statement announcing her sudden exit, despite continued solid backing from Carmack-Altwies.

The D.A.’s office had no further comment today on when or if a new special prosecutor would be named.

Right now, it looks more certain that Rust is coming back than the Rust criminal case could actually go to trial.

Seeing Frances Fisher and other main actors back for the rejuvenated Rust, the most recent storyline of the Western written and directed by Joel Souza reads: “A 13-year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, is taken on a violent, harrowing journey to old Mexico by his long estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.”

Grant Hill, who is known for his talent of overseeing challenging productions including James Cameron’s Oscar-winning Titanic, the Waschowskis’ Jupiter Ascending and Terrence Malick movies like the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning The Tree of Life, was previously announced as boarding Rust as producer. He is producing the revised movie with star Baldwin, Matt DelPiano, Ryan Smith, Anjul Nigam, Ryan Winterstern and Nathan Klingher.

As a documentary on his wife’s life is also planned, Matthew Hutchins is still listed as the executive producer of the resurrected Rust.

Alec Baldwin Scores Another Win In ‘Rust’ Criminal Case As Besieged Special Prosecutor Steps Down

Less than two weeks before a New Mexico court hearing on a motion by the actor’s legal team to disqualify the Special Prosecutor, the Special Prosector herself has suddenly quit the high profile case.

In what can only be seen as a blow to New Mexico First Judicial D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies, her office just released a statement on behalf of Andrea Reed, announcing the special prosecutor will be stepping aside asap:

After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to step down as special prosecutor in the Rust case. My priority in this case—and in every case I’ve prosecuted in my 25-year career—has been justice for the victim. However, it has become clear that the best way I can ensure justice is served in this case is to step down so that the prosecution can focus on the evidence and the facts, which clearly show a complete disregard for basic safety protocols led to the death of Halyna Hutchins. I will not allow questions about my serving as a legislator and prosecutor to cloud the real issue at hand.

Documents have been filed Tuesday in New Mexico state court on Reed’s resignation. Though teh D.A.’s office still has over $300,000 in extra funds allocated by the state, there is no word yet if a new special prosecutor will be appointed by Carmack-Altwies and when that could occur if it does.

Either way, losing another battle with the defense in an already tricky case, time is now certainly not on the D.A.’s side.

With their not guilty pleading client facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter, Baldwin’s NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan declared in early February that it was unconstitutional for Reeb to serve as special prosecutor because of her dual role as an elected GOP New Mexico legislator.

A now redundant hearing on the motion was set for March 27 in front on Judge Mary Marlow Sommer.

After an extensive and FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office was released in November 2022, Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged by the Santa Fe D.A. with two counts of involuntary manslaughter on January 31 over the horrific October 21, 2021, death of Hutchins at Bonanza Creek Ranch. Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in that shooting.

Under the laws of the Land of Enchantment the first charge is a fourth-degree felony, with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act, also was a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. However, the second charge also carried a firearm enhancement, which transforms the offense to a mandatory five years in state prison if found guilty. As allowed under New Mexico law, the D.A. intended to let jurors decided which charge they wished to pursue in deliberations

Quickly following the filing of the long awaited formal charges, attorneys for both Baldwin and Reed decried the second charge as “unconstitutional,” because it was actually introduced as a state statute months after the killing of Hutchins. After initially pushing back against “celebrities with fancy attorneys,” the somewhat sheepish D.A. dropped the charge on February 20 .

As a resurrected Rust intends to go into production in Montana in the next few months, Baldwin and his team clearly have the D.A. on the back foot heading into a preliminary hearing a.k.a. mini-trial. Set to start on May 3 and last two weeks, the preliminary hearing will see the D.A. and a potential new special prosecutor present their evidence in open court. If Judge Sommer determines there is enough in their case, the matter will move to a formal trial later this year.

From a primetime interview on ABC with with George Stephanopoulos just weeks after Hutchins was killed, Alec Baldwin has long insisted that he did not pull the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that ended DoP Hutchins’ like and injured Souza. While FBI disagreed with Baldwin in their analysis of what occurred on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set, as of yet no one has been able to identify how live ammo got on the set of the $7 million budgeted Rust.

In another virtual hearing last week that saw D.A. Carmack-Altwies bedeviled by technical glitches, Baldwin defense lawyer Alex Spiro exclaimed that the gun in question had been “destroyed by the state.” Not long afterwards, D.A. spokesperson Heather Brewer put out a statement saying “the gun Alec Baldwin used in the shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins has not been destroyed by the state.” She went on to say: “The gun is in evidence and is available for the defense to review.”

“The defense’s unexpected statement in the status hearing today that the gun had been destroyed by the state may be a reference to a statement in the FBI’s July 2022 firearms testing report that said damage was done to internal components of the gun during the FBI’s functionality testing,” Brewer added. “However, the gun still exists and can be used as evidence.”

If you have any doubt of how bitter and bare knuckles this case is going to get, that dispute over the condition of the gun itself and today’s exit by the special prosecutor should make it crystal clear …and there’s more to come for sure.tc

Alec Baldwin Sees ‘Rust’ Crew Member’s L.A. Negligence Trial Paused As New Mexico Criminal Case Moves Forward

Facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico for the fatal October 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the actor has gotten a bit of breathing room in the California courts.

Responding to a petition from lawyers for Baldwin, Rust producers and other defendants as well as plaintiff Maime Mitchell in the latter’s negligence lawsuit, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has paused the civil case and lifted any self-incrimination risk for the actor until next year, aka after the expected criminal trial in the Land of Enchantment in over.

In an order inked Tuesday by LASC Judge Michael E. Whitaker, he stipulated that “The trial date be continued from May 17, 2023 to February 21, 2024, or as soon thereafter in accordance with the Court’s calendar and availability.”

“The Parties believe a continuance of the trial and all related dates serves the interests of all parties by allowing the parties to maximize good faith settlement negotiations and complete discovery,” said the order, hinting at a possible settlement down the line.

Regardless of any deal or not, this kind of stay is a standard move in instances of overlapping criminal and civil cases, as Bill Cosby and Danny Masterson have found in recent rape trials and tribulations of their own. The order by Whitaker comes as Baldwin and his Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed are expected to appear before New Mexico state Judge Mary Marlow Sommer on Thursday in a virtual status conference/hearing in the criminal case. With lawyers for all parties, plus Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies scheduled to be in attendance, the hearing is anticipated to lay down a preliminary hearing date in the matter. A date for Baldwin’s motion to disqualify special prosecutor and GOP state legislator Andrea Reeb could also be put on the calendar Thursday.

With all that, and a resurrected Rust supposedly set to start filming soon in Montana, it could be some time before Baldwin and Reed actually go to trial. Now facing 18 months behind bars and some fines for the death of Hutchins, the duo could still try to cut a deal of some sort with the D.A., like Rust first assistant director David Halls did.

Mere weeks after Hutchins’ death on October 21, 2021, Baldwin sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos for a primetime interview where he insisted he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the loaded un that killed the cinematographer and wounded director Joel Souza. Baldwin’s assertion was not backed up by the FBI in its analysis of the incident and the gun, as detailed in a 551-page report released by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office in November 2022. Add to that, Carmack-Altwies has claimed in the formal charges delivered January 31 that Baldwin was absent and neglectful of vital firearms and safety training on Rust.

Having entered a plea of not guilty in the criminal case February 23, Baldwin had a big win last month when a firearm enhancement statute that carried a five-year mandatory sentence was dropped by the D.A. amid the defense teams’ cries of unconstitutionality.

Still, in a case that will be no easy effort for prosecutors, no one has determined how rounds of live ammunition got on the Rust set.

To that point and, one of the first of a series of suits now before the courts in the Golden State and in New Mexico, Rust script supervisor Mitchell filed her lawsuit against Baldwin, the indie Western’s producers, Reed, Halls, property master Sarah Zachry and others on November 17, 2021.

Mitchell, who is being represented by Gloria Allred, was almost right next to Hutchins and Souza in the Bonanza Creek Ranch church set when the 1880s prop gun Baldwin was pointing in a rehearsal fired. Early in November 2022, Whitaker scorned Baldwin’s attempt to get out of the lawsuit. He also denied a motion from Baldwin and his El Dorado Pictures Inc to strike the script supervisor’s claim for punitive damages.

In response, Baldwin on November 11, 2022 hit back with a cross-complaint for negligence and indemnification against Reed, Halls, Zachry and Rust weapons and rounds supplier Seth Kenney.

That case is also halted until next year.

Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates & Alfre Woodard Set For Castille Landon Comedy ‘Summer Camp’

The film heading into production in North Carolina in April tells the story of Nora, Ginny and Mary, who have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so when the chance to reunite for a summer camp reunion arises, they all take it, some begrudgingly and others, excitedly. Each of their lives might not be where they’d imagined, but one thing is for sure — Nora, Ginny, and Mary need each other, and summer camp reminds them why.

Summer Camp is a Saks Picture Company production, in association with and financed by Taylor & Dodge and Grant S. Johnson’s Project Infinity. Producers include Alex Saks (No Hard Feelings, Book Club), Dori A. Rath (Pig), Keaton, Stephanie Heaton-Harris (Mack & Rita) and Tyler W. Konney (May December). Johnson (May December) is exec producing, with Mariela Villa, Nicholas Erickson and Elayne Schmidt serving as co-producers. Konney’s Taylor & Dodge and CAA Media Finance are co-repping world rights.

“Alex, Dori, and I wanted to develop a fun, high energy comedy for Diane, that really allowed us to see women spreading their wings and taking on new life during what used to be the traditional slowed-down retirement years,” Landon told Deadline of the inspiration behind the project. “We hit on this idea, pitched it to Diane, who loved it, and set out to cast legendary actors that have always wanted to work together, and I couldn’t be more excited. The chemistry is going to be undeniable…and I can’t wait to reveal who else we have attending our zany camp.”

Keaton is an Oscar and Golden Globe winner known for roles in such iconic films as Annie Hall and The Godfather who will next be seen reunited on screen with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen in Book Club: The Next Chapter — Focus Features’ sequel to the Bill Holderman-directed comedy Book Club, which grossed over $104M upon its release in 2018.

Bates is an Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner who recently inked a deal to star in a Matlock reboot at CBS. Among the actress’s other upcoming films are Lionsgate’s adaptation of the Judy Blume coming-of-age novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which hits theaters on April 28, as well as Netflix’s rom-com A Family Affair with Zac Efron, Joey King and Nicole Kidman, which debuts on the platform on November 17.

Woodard is an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner and Oscar nominee who recently wrapped production on The Book of Clarence, The Harder They Fall filmmaker Jeymes Samuel’s epic biblical dramedy for Legendary, which has her starring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, LaKeith Stanfield and more. She’ll next appear in Warner Bros/New Line’s supernatural horror Salem’s Lot, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.

Landon is best known for directing After We Fell and After Ever Happy — two installments in the hugely popular After series of romantic dramas, based on the novels by Anna Todd, which star Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. Her next film Perfect Addiction, based on the bestselling Claudia Tan novel — which has garnered 81 million reads on the social storytelling platform Wattpad — is set for two nights in theaters via Fathom Events later this month and will subsequently become available for streaming on Prime Video.

Keaton is represented by WME and Pearlman & Tishbi; Bates by CAA; Woodard by CAA, Circle of Confusion and Gochman Law Group; and Landon by Verve. Johnson, Project Infinity, Konney, and Taylor & Dodge are with Singh, Singh & Trauben LLP.e

Alec Baldwin sued by 3 ‘Rust’ crew members after pleading not guilty in shooting

The individuals claim they have suffered anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021. She was 42.

As Page Six previously reported, the “30 Rock” alum pleaded not guilty in the case on Thursday.

The plaintiffs in the new suit — including dolly operator Ross Addiego, set costumer Doran Curtin and key grip Reese Price — were in the church set at New Mexico’s Bonanza Creek Ranch when Baldwin’s gun fired, killing Hutchins and striking director Joel Souza.

Addiego, Curtin and Price allege they were in close proximity to Baldwin, 64, when the gun was fired and sustained “blast injuries” from the ear-splitting sound of the shot.

The complaint accuses Baldwin of not paying attention during weapons training, for failing to ensure that the gun was not loaded with a live bullet and for discharging the round.

Reps for Baldwin did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Prosecutors have charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly firing the weapon while it was pointed at Hutchins.

He initially denied accusations that he ever pulled the trigger on the prop gun, but prosecutors argued that “photos and videos clearly show Baldwin, multiple times, with his finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger,” ahead of the deadly shooting.

Moving forward, Baldwin is not allowed to drink alcohol, own a gun or talk to potential witnesses besides discussing the continuation of filming “Rust.” The movie is scheduled to resume production this spring.

Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty To Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting; First Hearing In Criminal Case Axed

Facing involuntary manslaughter charges in the criminal case, the plea by the multiple Emmy winning actor comes one day before what was supposed to be the first hearing in the matter. With the plea entry, Baldwin has waived his right to that hearing and New Mexico Judge Mary Marlow Sommer has canceled the February 24 session.

After a detailed and FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office was released late last year, Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged by D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies with two counts of involuntary manslaughter on January 31 over the October 21, 2021, death of Hutchins at Bonanza Creek Ranch. Rust director Joel Souza was wounded in that shooting.

Baldwin is now facing a maximum of 18 months behind bars and some fines if found guilty in the upcoming trial — unless a deal is work out beforehand.

“I hereby certify that I have explained to Mr. Baldwin his right to personally appear before the District Cou11 to enter a plea of Not Guilty and to have his rights explained to him by the judge and I am satisfied that Mr. Baldwin understands the waiver of these rights,” Baldwin’s lead lawyer Luke Nikas said in paperwork submitted in court in the Land of Enchantment Thursday (read it here).

As part of the conditions imposed by Judge Sommer today, Baldwin is not to hold a gun, drink or speak with potential or probable witnesses in the criminal case unless it is in “connection with completing the Rust movie and other related and unrelated business matters.

Baldwin was to appear virtually at tomorrow’s now axed hearing. A preliminary hearing is set to occur with two months of the defendants entering a plea. Accused of “criminal negligence” by the D.A. for firing the 1880’s prop gun that killed Hutchins, the Rust star/producer is expected to be in person at that upcoming hearing.

Reed will still be making a virtual appearance at the February 24 hearing for herself, the crew member’s lawyer Jason Bowles tells Deadline. Reed has not yet entered a plea and is not required to do so tomorrow.

When Baldwin and Reed were first formally charged, the second count had a potential sentence of five years in state prison attached, but that was “removed” on February 20 by First Judicial D.A. Carmack-Altwies, likely with some reluctance. In what can only be characterized as a big win for the defense, Baldwin and Reed’s lawyers successfully objected to the “enhancement” charge as “unconstitutional” because it had become a state statute in mid-2022, months after the tragic shooting on the set of the indie Western.

Under New Mexico law, the first charge is a fourth-degree felony, with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act was also was a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. However, the second charge also carried a firearm enhancement, which transformed the offense to a mandatory five years in state prison if found guilty. As allowed under New Mexico law, the D.A. intended to let jurors decided which charge they wished to pursue in deliberations.

With a resurrected and Baldwin-starring Rust supposedly going into production in Montana this spring, according to producers, the actor and his NYC-based legal team are still trying to have special prosecutor Andrea Reeb removed from the case because of her dual role as an elected GOP New Mexico legislator.

After reaching a settlement with Rust producers in his wrongful death suit last October, widower Matthew Hutchins in still on paper set to be an EP on the resuming Rust as well as a documentary about his last wife. However, as well as throwing some shade on Baldwin and team when the D.A. introduced charges, Matthew Hutchins is also on the witness list for the prosecution in the case.

Alec Baldwin No Longer Facing 5 Years In Prison For Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting; Big Win For Actor In Battle With Santa Fe D.A.

“In order to avoid further litigious distractions by Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys, the District Attorney and the special prosecutor have removed the firearm enhancement to the involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the Rust film set,” Heather Brewer, spokesperson for New Mexico First Judicial D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies told Deadline this morning. “The prosecution’s priority is securing justice, not securing billable hours for big-city attorneys,” tossing some distinct swipe at the contentious Baldwin and his lawyers.

After an extensive and FBI-assisted investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office was released late last year, Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged by D.A. Carmack-Altwies with two counts of involuntary manslaughter on January 31 over the tragic October 21, 2021 shooting of Hutchins at Bonanza Creek Ranch.

The first hearing in the Rust case is set for February 24 with Baldwin and Reed scheduled to join virtually.

Under New Mexico law, the first charge had lighter consequences as a fourth-degree felony, with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act, was also a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. However, now disregarded, the second charge also carried a firearm enhancement, which transforms the offense to a mandatory five years in state prison if found guilty.

It was the second charge and the recent statute that created the sentence that Baldwin and his Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyers began to argue with the D.A. over earlier this month.

An argument that they have now won.

The first amended criminal information filing in New Mexico court occurred on February 17, but became public today. It now reads: “Count 1: Involuntary Manslaughter, (0007), on or about October 21, 2021 in Santa Fe County, New Mexico at the Bonanza Creek Ranch located at 545 Bonanza Creek Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508 the above-named defendant did cause the death of Halyna Hutchins, committed in the commission of an unlawful act, to wit: Negligent Use of a Deadly Weapon, contrary to 30-7-4 (a)(3), and/or 30-7-4(a)(4), a fourth degree felony, contrary to NMSA 1978, Section 30-2-3(B)(1994)” (read it here).

Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles today Deadline: “We applaud the decision of the District Attorney to drop the gun enhancement and it was the right call, ethically, and on the merits.” Contacted by Deadline, reps for Baldwin had no comment Monday on the move by D.A. Carmack-Altwies.

It goes without saying that the multiple Emmy winner and his NYC-based legal team must be ecstatic over their successful challenge of the charges and the blunting of the sword of Damocles hanging over Baldwin and co-defendant Reed.

“The prosecutors in this case have committed an unconstitutional and elementary legal error by charging Mr. Baldwin under a statute that did not exist on the date of the accident,” said Baldwin’s defense team in a motion filed in New Mexico court on February 10. “It thus appears that the government intended to charge the current version of the firearm enhancement statute, which was not enacted until May 18, 2022, seven months after the accident,” the filing went on to say.

“Accordingly, that enhancement should not be bound over,” the document adds in an opinion that has divided legal scholars. “Application of the current version of the statute would be unconstitutionally retroactive, and the government has no legitimate basis to charge Mr. Baldwin under the version of the statute that existed at the time of the accident.”

Taking a hit on Baldwin and his “fancy attorneys, the D.A.’s office responded at the time by saying that “In accordance with good legal practice, the District Attorney and the special prosecutor will review all motions – even those given to the media before being served to the DA.”

Still fighting with Baldwin and his certainly emboldened team over their efforts to have special prosecutor Andrea Reeb removed from the case because of her dual role as an elected GOP New Mexico legislator , the result of Carmack-Altwies’ self-described review isn’t a good position for the D.A. to be in going into what could be a long and bitter trial — if it even gets to that.

FYI: New Mexico Judge Mary Marlow Sommer has granted the D.A. its request to have until March 6 to respond to the defense’s motion on Reeb.

Alec Baldwin Sued For Negligence By Slain ‘Rust’ Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ Parents, Sister

“We have filed a lawsuit today in Los Angeles Superior Court against Alec Baldwin, Rust producers, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first assistant director David Halls, and other defendants who may have been responsible for the death of Halyna Hutchins,” attorney Gloria Allred said Thursday of the negligence and battery civil action filed on behalf of Hutchins’ Ukrainian-based family members Olga Solovey, Anatoli Androsvych and Svetlana Zemko. “May she rest in peace.”

“Anyone who is responsible for her loss must be held accountable,” the lawyer added, quoting Hutchins’ sister.

The jury trial seeking 32-page filing asks for unspecified damages “against each Defendant, jointly and severally, in an amount to be proven at trial, including, without limitation, related to the direct harm to the relationship between Halyna Hutchins and them as her surviving mother, father, and younger sister and for the resulting emotional distress due to the loss of loss of love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, guidance, training, assistance, and moral support of Halyna Hutchins”.

In laying out the claims, Allred today detailed the conditions of the family in the war-torn Eastern European nation under attack by Vladimir Putin and Russian forces. Allred also noted that Halyna Hutchins intended to bring her relatives to the U.S., a move that has now clearly been stymied. Having said that, the family may be traveling to America in the next few months because of this latest suit, according to co-counsel John Carpenter.

“There has been no outreach by Mr. Baldwin, no apology,” Allred said when asked why this suit by the parents and sister has been filed when Hutchins’ widower husband and son reached an October 2022 settlement in their wrongful death action with Baldwin and Rust producers. “We want accountability and justice for them,” the attorney said of the complex move in California, home of Rust Productions, that seeks loss of of consortium under the laws of New Mexico, where the shooting happened.

“The settlement was for Matthew and his child, and we are now representing others in the family, Mom, Dad and sister, and there has been no settlement for them,” Allred said at a press conference in her L.A. office this morning.

Made public on October 5 last year, the deal between Matthew Hutchins, Baldwin and Rust producers saw Matthew Hutchins’ wrongful-death suit dropped, and the widower named an executive producer on a resurrected Rust movie. However, with insurance hurdles galore and now criminal charges in New Mexico against Baldwin and Reed, that settlement looks pretty much torn up for all practical purposes.

No stranger to high-profile cases Allred currently also represents Rust script supervisor Maime Mitchell in her November 2021-filed negligence suit against Baldwin, Rust producers and others. Amidst a glut of civil suits over the tragedy, Baldwin countersued over the harm to his career after failing repeatedly to stomp Mitchell’s action or get out of it. Today, Allred indicated she may move at one point to meld the two cases.

After an extensive probe by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office was released late last year, Baldwin and Reed were formally charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter on January 31 over the October 21, 2021 shooting of Hutchins at Bonanza Creek Ranch.

Baldwin has long denied he pulled the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza.

As Baldwin battles the charges and the prosecutors, a first hearing in the criminal case is scheduled in front of New Mexico state Judge Mary Marlowe Summer on February 24. If Summer determines out of that hearing that there is enough evidence to move forward, the case will move towards a later preliminary hearing and eventually a trial.

Today’s announcement by Allred and Hutchins’ family comes a day after it was revealed that the “firearm enhancement” charge Baldwin and Reed were hit with last month could be on shaky legal ground. That unease isn’t from the charge itself, which carries that additional five years behind bars sentence, or even the alleged crime. Rather, because the enhancement charge didn’t become law in New Mexico until May 2022, several months after Hutchins’s death, it could be barred.

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told Deadline that the D.A.’s review of the charges and the law is ongoing. “The District Attorney and special prosecutor are actively reviewing all applicable laws to ensure they have the strongest case to secure justice for Halyna Hutchins,” said Heather Brewer, noting no changes to the charges had occurred.

Having called the charges by the Santa Fe D.A. a “terrible miscarriage of justice,” Baldwin and his Quinn Emanuel legal team are also trying to have the appointed special prosecutor dismissed. Lead defense attorney Lubke Nikas filed a motion February 7 to disqualify recently elected GOP state legislator Andrea Reeb from the high-profile case and subsequent trial because of the unconstitutional nature of her duel role.

“Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys can use whatever tactics they want to distract from the fact that Halyna Hutchins died because of gross negligence and a reckless disregard for safety on the Rust film set,” the D.A.’s office said in response.

Alec Baldwin Wants ‘Rust’ Special Prosecutor Tossed Off Case; 1st AD Added To D.A.’s Witness List In Blow To Defense

One day after Rust 1st assistant director David Halls was added to the prosecution’s already deep-bench witness list, lawyers for Baldwin are now trying to get the D.A.-appointed special prosecutor thrown off the case.

“Ms. Reeb’s continued service as a special prosecutor in this case is unconstitutional,” lead defense attorney Lubke Nikas said Tuesday in a motion to disqualify recently elected GOP state legislator Andrea Reeb from the high-profile case and subsequent trial. “The legal question is not a close one. She must be disqualified.”

“Under Section 1 of Article III of the New Mexico Constitution, however, a sitting member of the Legislature may not ‘exercise any powers properly belonging’ to either the executive or judicial branch,” the NYC-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyer added in the motion. “As a special prosecutor, Representative Reeb is vested by statute with ‘all the powers and duties’ of a District Attorney, who is considered to be a member of either the judicial or executive branch of the New Mexico government.”

Picked by Carmack-Altwies last year near the conclusion of the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office’s long-awaited investigation into what really happened that terrible October 21, 2021 day on the Rust set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, longtime lawyer Reeb was elected as a Republican in November last year to serve the 64th district in the state House of Representatives.

Facing up to five years behind bars and deep fines if found guilty, Baldwin and Reed were formally charged January 31 by the D.A.’s office over the shooting of Hutchins. Baldwin has long denied he actually pulled the trigger on the 1880s prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza.

“We’re trying to definitely make it clear that everybody’s equal under the law, including A-list actors like Alec Baldwin,” Reeb, an ex-former D.A. for New Mexico’s Ninth Judicial District, said after the charges were unveiled last month.

When those charges were initially announced January 19, Baldwin’s legal team called the move a “terrible miscarriage of justice” and vowed to “fight these charges, and we will win.”

Clearly, the strategy behind those words is taking incremental form with filings like today’s disqualification motion. The D.A.’s office had very stern words for the strategy today in what was a dismissal of their own.

“Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys can use whatever tactics they want to distract from the fact that Halyna Hutchins died because of gross negligence and a reckless disregard for safety on the Rust film set,” Heather Brewer, spokesperson for New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney told Deadline. “However, the district attorney and the special prosecutor will remain focused on the evidence and on trying this case so that justice is served.”

The first hearing in front of Judge Mary Marlowe Summer is scheduled for February 24, with Baldwin and Reed sent to appear virtually. If the state judge thinks there is enough evidence to move forward, the case will start to check off more calendar dates for a preliminary hearing and eventually a trial. Of course, today’s motion by Baldwin’s team could throw a spanner in the works if Reeb is tossed out and a new special prosecutor has to be found.

In another chess or checkers move depending on your perspective, the addition of Halls to the D.A.’s witness list could prove unpleasant for Baldwin and Reed.

Long at the heart of the horrible incident, industry vet Halls was the one who handed Baldwin the gun and supposedly announced “cold gun” in the hand-off. While no one publicly seems to be saying how live ammo tragically got on the Rust set, Halls was in the chain of responsibility for on-set safety.

Likely putting pragmatism and financial resources ahead of ego, the now-retired Rust 1st AD struck an as-yet unreleased or judicially approved plea deal with prosecutors. Pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of negligent use of a deadly weapon, he will get a suspended six-month sentence of unsupervised probation, some community service, safety training and a $500 fine if the court green lights the agreement.

“Dave Halls approached us and was cooperative with our inquiry, with our investigation,” stated D.A. Carmack-Altwies when Halls’ deal was made public last month. “He will be testifying or cooperating in the prosecution.”

At the time, Halls’ Albuquerque lawyer Lisa Torraco was vague about who her client would be taking the stand for. However, being that Halls already countersued Baldwin and other Rust crew members in December last year for “active and primary negligence” as a part of script supervisor Maime Mitchell’s wide-ranging civil litigation in Los Angeles Superior Court, it wasn’t too hard to tell what side he was likely taking in the criminal case.

Halls now officially joins the previously announced 44 individuals — including director Souza, Mitchell, armorer mentor Seth Kenney, prop master Sarah Zachary and a ton of Santa Fe cops — on the D.A.’s list, and clearly has something to say the defense doesn’t want to hear.

Set to eventually go before a jury, under New Mexico law, the first of the two involuntary manslaughter charges Baldwin and Reed face is a fourth-degree felony with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, which is formally a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act, is also a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. That second charge additionally carries a firearm enhancement. That gives the offense a punishing mandatory five years in state prison if the high-profile defendants are found guilty.

In what will certainly become a flashpoint down the line, the D.A. will permit the jury to choose which charge they want to center on in deliberations.

CBS Orders Pilot For ‘Matlock’ Reboot With Kathy Bates

Along with the two pilot orders for the 2023-24 season, CBS also ordered writers rooms for two medical drama projects — The Pact, from writer Marcus Dalzine and the NAACP/CBS Studios production venture; and Watson, from Craig Sweeny and Kapital — which are being put on track for potential straight-to-series orders targeting the following 2024-2025 season.

Put in development by the previous CBS regime of Kelly Kahl and Thom Sherman, the projects were picked up by the network’s new entertainment president Amy Reisenbach in her first pilot season at the helm. Comedy pilot orders will be coming next.

CBS doesn’t have a lot of needs for next season as its schedule has been pretty stable, stacked with established drama procedural franchises like FBI and NCIS, as well as a solid freshman class of Fire Country, East New York and So Help Me Todd, all of which earned full-season orders. Fire Country has already been renewed for a second season.

For now, there is only one guaranteed open slot as NCIS: LA is ending its run this season, but CBS already has one new drama series on deck for next season, The Never Game, starring Justin Hartley, which originated as an off-cycle pilot, a strategy the network plans to continue to employ.

CBS leaning heavy into IP with three of the four projects — Elsbeth, Matlock and Watson, the latter about Sherlock Holmes’ partner, Dr. John Watson — is reminiscent of the network’s 2020-2021 and 2021-22 lineups when all but one of the picked up new drama series were based on existing titles (Clarice, The Equalizer, FBI: International, CSI: Vegas, and NCIS: Hawai’i).

Elsbeth extends The Good Wife franchise and brings it back to broadcast where it started with the original legal drama created by the Kings. They went on to help launch the streaming service that became Paramount+ with offshoot The Good Fight.

Preston’s Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, was a breakout on The Good Wife where she heavily recurred. She then reprised the fan-favorite role in five episodes of The Good Fight. Elsbeth is now getting her own series, in which she will utilize her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

I hear the project, which demonstrates a collaborative relationship between CBS and Paramount+ that has allowed for a franchise to jump back and forth between broadcast and streaming, was developed as a broadcast procedural for CBS.

In Matlock, written by Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and inspired by the classic TV series starring Andy Griffith, after achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock (Bates) rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within.

I hear the new show and its heroine will have a tie to the original Matlock, created by Dean Hargrove, which starred Griffith as criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock, a renowned, folksy and popular though cantankerous attorney.

Matlock, which is part of the CBS Studios library, aired from 1986-1992 on NBC before moving to ABC for three more seasons.

This marks a return to broadcast — and the legal drama field — for Bates a decade after NBC canceled her previous broadcast series, David E. Kelley’s Harry’s Law, even though it was the network’s most watched drama series, in large part because its audience skewed older. Bates didn’t mince words at the time.

“I think they treated us like sh*t. They kicked us to the curb. They disrespected us; they disrespected our 7 [million to]-11 million viewers,” she said.

CBS would be a much better fit as the network for years has been focused on total viewership and not demos and has multiple long-running series fronted by actors who, like Bates, are in their 70s, including Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck and NCIS, until recently headlined by Mark Harmon.

The writers-room order for The Pact, based on the book The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, comes in the second development season for the NAACP production venture with CBS Studios, run by president Sheila Ducksworth. In it, after a childhood pact leads three friends from inner-city Newark to become doctors, they reunite in their hometown to open a medical center to serve their community.

Watson, a medical drama with detective elements based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, was written by Sweeny, who spent five years on CBS’ Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson procedural Elementary, most of them as executive producer. In it, a year after the death of his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty, Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.

Here are details about CBS’ drama pilot and writers room orders:

ELSBETH

STUDIO: CBS Studios

EP/W/D: Robert King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil) (King Size Productions)

EP/W: Michelle King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil) (King Size Productions)

EP/NW: Liz Glotzer (The Good Fight, Evil, Your Honor) (King Size Productions)

STAR: Carrie Preston (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Claws)

LOGLINE: After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston), an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. Based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

MATLOCK

STUDIO: CBS Studios

EP/W: Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane The Virgin)

EP/NW: Joanna Klein (Good Sam, Broke)

EP/NW: Eric Christian Olsen (Woke), John Will

STAR/EP: Kathy Bates (Misery, American Horror Story)

LOGLINE: After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock (Kathy Bates) rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Based on the classic television series of the same name.

THE PACT- CBS Drama Development

W/EP: Marcus Dalzine (Prodigal Son, How To Get Away With Murder)

NW/EP: Sheila Ducksworth (Ambitions, With This Ring), Leon Russell and Derrick Johnson (CBS/NAACP Production Venture)

NW/EP: Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. George Jenkins and Dr. Rameck Hunt

STUDIO: CBS Studios

LOGLINE: After a childhood pact leads three friends from inner-city Newark to become doctors, they reunite in their hometown to open a medical center to serve their community. Based on the book “The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream” by Dr. Sampson Davis, Dr. George Jenkins, and Dr. Rameck Hunt, with Lisa Frazier Page.

WATSON – CBS Drama Development

W/EP: Craig Sweeny (Elementary, Limitless)

EP: Aaron Kaplan (The Chi, A Million Little Things), Brian Morewitz (A Million Little Things) (Kapital Entertainment)

EP: Shäron Moalem MD, PhD

STUDIO: CBS Studios

LOGLINE: Shortly after the death of his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty, Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare genetic disorders, only to uncover a startling secret that puts him in the crosshairs of Moriarty once again. Inspired by the characters from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries.

Alec Baldwin Was Negligent On ‘Rust’ Set, D.A. Says As Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Formally Filed Over Fatal Shooting Of Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins

Just filed, the dense document also contends that the gun that killed Hutchins was not properly inspected, that ongoing safety issues on the set were not addressed, that Baldwin neglected to take required training, and that the veteran actor directly pointed a gun at someone on set – something that is never supposed to happen.

Attorneys for Baldwin had no comment on Tuesday’s formal filing when contacted by Deadline.

As promised by First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ office yesterday, the long-awaited official charges against the duo over the tragedy, that also saw director Joel Souza injured, were placed in the state court docket in Santa Fe this afternoon. The filing, plus information on the plea agreement Rust 1st assistant director David Hill made with the D.A., follows the January 19 announcement that multiple Emmy winner Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed would be charged and could face up to five years in New Mexico prison if found guilty.

Though Rust star/producer Baldwin has repeatedly insisted he did not pull the trigger while pointing the 1880s prop gun at director of photography Hutchins during a rehearsal on the indie Western, evidence and analysis from the local Sherriff’s office and the FBI contained in a 551-page report made public on November 18 strongly suggests otherwise. “With the hammer at full cock, the revolver could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional,” the police probe said.

Along with labor issues on the $7 million budget flick, that investigation also cited various “negligent discharges” on set even before the shooting of Hutchins, as well as finding five more rounds of live ammunition on the set. How that ammo got there and in the gun that was in Baldwin’s hand remains a mystery, and is destined to be a focal point of the forthcoming trial.

However, in a case that has been far from straightforward from the beginning when the weapon went off on the Bonanza Creek Ranch location outside Santa Fe over a year ago, getting a conviction and what that verdict could be is thorny. Besides finding responsibility in the accident itself, the D.A. has said that she intends to allow the jury to pick between the two involuntary manslaughter charges.

Under the law of the Land of Enchantment, the first charge has lighter consequences as a fourth-degree felony, with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

The second charge, which is an involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act charge, also is a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine on the books. However, the second charge carries a firearm enhancement in addition. That transforms the offense to a punishing mandatory five years in state prison if the defendants are found guilty.

A requested hearing in the next 60 days or so will occur where prosecutors will lay out their case in front of a judge. If the judge decides there is enough evidence to warrant moving forward with the case, a trial date will soon follow. Neither Baldwin nor Gutierrez-Reed have been arrested, and both will likely be allowed to appear remotely at self described “first appearance” in about 30 days under New Mexico statutes.

Earlier this month, lawyers for Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed relatively inexperienced armorer G-Reed called the D.A.’s decision to go for criminal charges a “terrible miscarriage of justice” and the result of a very flawed investigation, and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts,” respectively. After the D.A. said she and would be filing criminal charges, SAG-AFTRA came out on January 19 to call the claims against Guild member Baldwin wrong and uninformed.” The more than 116,000-member strong union added: “The death of Halyna Hutchins is a tragedy, and all the more so because of its preventable nature. It is not a failure of duty or a criminal act on the part of any performer.”

Amidst a torrent of lawsuits from Rust crew members and even Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed themselves over what happened that terrible day in 2021, today’s filing of the criminal charges come almost a year after the production was fined the maximum of around $137,000 by New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau for “willful and serious” violation of workplace safety procedures on the film.

Blunting a potential legal leg-hold trap, Baldwin and Rust producers reached a settlement with the Hutchins Estate on October 5, 2022, ending the wrongful death suit brought forth in mid-February against the production and its star.

Under that deal, the cinematographer’s husband Matthew Hutchins was set to become an executive producer on the resurrected Rust movie, which was tentatively scheduled to start reshooting early in 2023. While the production has been scouting locations in California, such as Simi Valley, insurance issues were sure to bedevil the film, and thereby stop it from restarting.

After much congratulations all round last year, the tone of that settlement with the Hutchins family also altered when the D.A. made public her intention to seek criminal charges in the case.

“We want to thank the Santa Fe Sheriff and the District Attorney for concluding their thorough investigation and determining that charges for involuntary manslaughter are warranted for the killing of Halyna Hutchins with conscious disregard for human life,” said Hutchins family attorney Brian J. Panish on January 19. Our independent investigation also supports charges are warranted. It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law. We support the charges, will fully cooperate with this prosecution, and fervently hope the justice system works to protect the public and hold accountable those who break the law.”

Alec Baldwin & ‘Rust’ Armorer To Face Criminal Charges Over 2021 Fatal Movie Shooting, Santa Fe D.A. Says

Close to 16 months after Baldwin shot Hutchins and wounded the movie’s director Joel Souza with a loaded gun during rehearsal on the set of the indie Western, New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies finally unveiled her decision as to who should be charged and not charged in the tragic incident.

“After a thorough review of the evidence and the laws of the state of New Mexico, I have determined that there is sufficient evidence to file criminal charges against Alec Baldwin and other members of the Rust film crew,” Carmack-Altwies said this morning. “On my watch, no one is above the law, and everyone deserves justice.”

In charges set to be formally filed by the end of the month, Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’ death.

Heading towards a hearing before a state judge and then a jury trial, the first charge is a fourth-degree felony with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, which is formally an involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act charge, is also a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. However, the second charge additionally carries a firearm enhancement. That gives the offense a punishing mandatory five years behind bars if Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed are found guilty.

Long a key figure in the events surrounding Hutchins’ death, Rust assistant director David Halls reached a plea agreement with prosecutors for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, the D.A.’s office said today. The industry vet faces a suspended sentence and six months of probation.

While Baldwin has in the past vowed to fight any charges, Halls’ plea deal and the cooperation he likely provided to prosecutors could become a major factor for Baldwin going forward.

“If any one of these three people—Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls—had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple,” said Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor assigned to the case. “The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the ‘Rust’ film set. In New Mexico, there is no room for film sets that don’t take our state’s commitment to gun safety and public safety seriously.”

Over the months, while the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office put the final touches on its wide-ranging investigation of the late 2021 shooting at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, the D.A. has been partially planting the seeds for today’s announcement.

An August 30 letter to the New Mexico Board of Finance from Carmack-Altwies revealed the D.A’s possible intentions to prosecute as many as four individuals with criminal and homicide charges related to Rust including “one of the possible defendants” being “well known movie actor Alec Baldwin.” In her ask, Carmack-Altwies was requesting $635,000 for the matter, but was only granted $317,750 by the state.

Much has happened around the Rust tragedy on-screen and in the courts, as many have waited on Carmack-Altwies’ decision.

In an ABC news interview with George Stephanopoulos in December 2021, Baldwin insisted he never actually pulled the trigger of the gun that took Hutchins’ life during a quick-draw rehearsal move in a church location on the set of Rust. Just minutes before the shots that killed Hutchins and wounded Souza, Baldwin was told by Assistant Director Dave Halls that the 1880s Colt prop weapon was a “cold gun, as many witnesses including Hall have asserted. Seemingly indifferent to his own tone, Baldwin also told the Good Morning America co-host in the now infamous sit-down, that he had been told by people who are in the know, in terms of even inside the state, that it’s highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally.”

Just a couple of weeks prior to the anniversary of the tragedy, Baldwin and Rust producers reached a settlement with the Hutchins Estate on October 5, 2022, ending the wrongful death suit brought forth in mid-February against the production and the actor, who also served as a producer on the $7 million budgeted film.

Part of the agreement entailed the DP’s husband Matthew Hutchins becoming an executive producer on the resurrected Rust movie, which was scheduled to start reshooting this month. While the production has been scouting locations in California, such as Simi Valley, Deadline heard, no official word has been given about the Western fully resuming production and where it would actually film. There is also no word if Rust has been able to get insured, a necessary requirement to make a movie.

At the time the deal with the Hutchins estate was made public, the Santa Fe-based District Attorney made sure that there was no perception this was all over. “The proposed settlement announced today in Matthew Hutchins’ wrongful death case against Rust movie producers, including Alec Baldwin, in the death of Halyna Hutchins will have no impact on District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ ongoing investigation or her ultimate decision whether to file criminal charges in the case,” her office said in a quickly issued statement.

Staying in the public eye over the last year, Baldwin was set to star in the spy movie Chief of Station, shooting in Budapest, however, the actor had to vacate the role over scheduling issues back on October 31.

As civil lawsuits and that wrongful death action from Hutchins’ family hit court dockets in New Mexico and California over the last year, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in late 2022 finally made public the FBI assisted police report which detailed the calamities that ensued before the shooting of Hutchins on October. 21, 2021.

The raw 551-page report cast suspicion on Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, among others on what appeared to be an openly problematic set. Dolly grip Ross Addiego, for instance, claimed to police that the armorer and her crew had issues that involved “negligent discharges”. The armorer was preparing one of six guns and one of the revolvers went off toward her foot. A few minutes later at the cabin set, a discharged gun went off that wasn’t announced, which would have been assistant director Dave Halls’ responsibility to announce, per Addiego.

Besides the live round in the gun in Baldwin’s hand, the FBI found five more rounds of live ammo on the Rust set, the report detailed. Additionally, the report cast doubt on Baldwin’s assertion that he never pulled the trigger. “With the hammer at full cock, the revolver could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional,” the document stated.

The report also went into detail on other instances of guns going off on Rust.

Reese Price, a key grip, told authorities that “accidental discharge” occurred twice during the course of one day on set. “One of the accidental discharges occurred by ‘armorer girl’ who was messing with a gun,” Price told authorities. Souza, in his interview with the cops, reported there wasn’t any negligence on the set, and didn’t believe the armorer intermingled live rounds with blanks.

While staying in the public eye over the last year, multi-Emmy winner Baldwin hasn’t been in front of the camera much professionally since the Rust shooting. Baldwin was set to star in the spy movie Chief of Station, shooting in Budapest, however, the actor had to vacate the role over scheduling issues back on October 31.

In that vein, in mid-November last year, Baldwin took on the role of plaintiff and hit Rust armorer Gutierrez Reed, first assistant director Halls, property master Sarah Zachry, and weapons and rounds supplier Seth Kenney and his company with a negligence lawsuit.

Filed in LA Superior Court, the action claimed that “Baldwin has also lost numerous job opportunities and associated income” because of what happened on Rust. “For example, he’s been fired from multiple jobs expressly because of the incident on Rust and has been passed over for other opportunities, which is a direct result of the negligence of Cross-Defendants Gutierrez-Reed, Halls, Kenney, PDQ, and Zachry,” stated the cross-complaint paperwork prepared by Quinn Emanuel attorney Luke Nikas for Baldwin.

Along with a much challenged but still enduring suit from Rust‘s script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, that matter remains before the California courts.

Alec Baldwin’s Lawyer Calls ‘Rust’ Shooting Criminal Charges “Terrible Miscarriage Of Justice”

“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win,” said Alec Baldwin’s attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel.

“He didn’t do any of the things he was supposed to do to make sure the people around him were safe,” Carmack-Altwies said Thursday to CNN about Baldwin’s alleged negligence handling the prop gun after the charges were made public. “They didn’t exercise due caution …lack of care on that set,” she added.

“An actor doesn’t get a free pass just because they’re an actor,” the prosecutor went on to say, emphasizing Baldwin was being charged as both an actor and a producer on Rust.

Stating that there will be no attempt to arrest Baldwin, the D.A. also told the cable newser that Baldwin’s camp knew the charges were coming.

Carmack-Altwies also charged Rust armorer with two counts of involuntary manslaughter Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

“Hannah is, and has always been, very emotional and sad about this tragic accident. But she did not commit involuntary manslaughter,” said Gutierrez-Reed lawyer Jason Bowles this morning.

“These charges are the result of a very flawed investigation, and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts. We intend to bring the full truth to light and believe Hannah will be exonerated of wrongdoing by a jury.”

In response to the announcement by Carmack-Altwies, the attorney for the Hutchins family, Brian J. Panish, said, “We want to thank the Santa Fe Sheriff and the District Attorney for concluding their thorough investigation and determining that charges for involuntary manslaughter are warranted for the killing of Halyna Hutchins with conscious disregard for human life. Our independent investigation also supports charges are warranted. It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law. We support the charges, will fully cooperate with this prosecution, and fervently hope the justice system works to protect the public and hold accountable those who break the law.”

Providing no comment this morning was the collective of Rust producers –comprised of Ryan Donnell Smith, Ryan Winterstern, Anjul Nigam, Nathan Klingher, Matt DelPiano and Baldwin. They settled with the Hutchins estate back in October in a wrongful death suit, Halyna Hutchins’ husband Matthew Hutchins becoming an EP on the revived production of Rust whenever cameras roll again.

The first charge of involuntary manslaughter carries an 18-month jail sentence and $5,000 fine in the state of New Mexico. The second charge of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act requires proof that there was more than simple negligence involved in a death. This is also a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine.

“If any one of these three people—Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls—had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple,” said Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor appointed by the DA to the case. “The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the ‘Rust’ film set. In New Mexico, there is no room for film sets that don’t take our state’s commitment to gun safety and public safety seriously.”

Per the DA’s office, Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will be “charged in the alternative” with the two counts of manslaughter, meaning that a jury would decide not simply if they were guilty, but under which definition of involuntary manslaughter they were guilty.

Assistant director David Halls, who had informed Baldwin that the prop gun which took Hutchins’ life was “cold gun”, signed a plea agreement for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon. The terms include a suspended sentence and six months of probation.

SAG-AFTRA Defends Alec Baldwin, Says ‘Rust’ Shooting Charges Against Him Are “Wrong & Uninformed”

“?The death of Halyna Hutchins is a tragedy, and all the more so because of its preventable nature. It is not a failure of duty or a criminal act on the part of any performer,” the guild said in a statement today that did not mention Baldwin by name.

“The prosecutor’s contention that an actor has a duty to ensure the functional and mechanical operation of a firearm on a production set is wrong and uninformed. An actor’s job is not to be a firearms or weapons expert. Firearms are provided for their use under the guidance of multiple expert professionals directly responsible for the safe and accurate operation of that firearm. In addition, the employer is always responsible for providing a safe work environment at all times, including hiring and supervising the work of professionals trained in weapons.

“The Industry Standards for safety with firearms and use of blank ammunition are ?clearly laid out ?in Safety Bulletin 1, provided by the? Joint? Industry-Wide Labor Management Safety Commission. The guidelines require an experienced, qualified armorer to be put in charge of all handling, use, and safekeeping of firearms on set. These duties include ‘inspecting the firearm and barrel before and after every firing sequence,’ and ‘checking all firearms before each use.’

“The guidelines do not make it the performer’s responsibility to check any firearm. Performers ?train to perform, and they are not required or expected to be experts on guns or experienced in their use. The industry assigns that responsibility to qualified professionals who oversee their use and handling in every aspect. Anyone issued a firearm on set must be ?given training and guidance in its safe handling?g and use,? but all activity with firearms on a set must be under the careful supervision and control of the professional armorer and the employer.”

n charges set to be formally filed by the end of the month, Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’ death.

Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed each face two charges of involuntary manslaughter in the incident that occurred on the indie Western’s New Mexico set in October 2021.

One charge is a fourth-degree felony with sentencing of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The second charge, which is formally an involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act charge, is also a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail and up to a $5000 fine. However, the second charge additionally carries a firearm enhancement. That gives the offense a punishing mandatory five years behind bars if Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed are found guilty.

After the charges were revealed today by New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, Baldwin’s attorney Luke Nicas of Quinn Emanuel said “the decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’ tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.”

Dan Lauria To Play Tip O’Neill In Ronald Reagan Biopic

He’ll play opposite Dennis Quaid, who plays the 40th president.

In a statement, director Sean McNamara said, “He and Dennis have the chemistry needed to portray Reagan and O’Neill as two politicians who were respectful adversaries.”

In Washington, the 1980s friendship between Reagan and O’Neill has long been viewed as a contrast to recent decades, as partisan rifts have gotten more personal.

Others in the cast include Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan, Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Kevin Dillon as Jack Warner and Jon Voight as a fictional KGB agent who tracks Reagan over the course of 40 years. Howard Klausner and Jonas McCord wrote the script.

Reagan is scheduled for a 2023 release, with shooting already completed.

Lauria received critical acclaim for playing Vince Lombardi in the Broadway play Lombardi, and his recent feature credits include The Way Back and Holidate. In addition to The Wonder Years, he also starred in the series Sullivan & Son and Pitch.

In a statement, Lauria said, “I’ve seen wonderful works ruined by bad casting and I’ve seen others made great by the chemistry of great casting. Playing Tip O’Neill opposite Dennis Quaid’s Reagan was a great challenge for both of us. I look forward to sharing it with the world.”

Alec Baldwin Sues ‘Rust’ Crew For Negligence; Actor Wants “To Clear His Name” After Fatal Set Shooting, Says Incident Cost Him Roles

“This tragedy happened because live bullets were delivered to the set and loaded into the gun, Gutierrez-Reed failed to check the bullets or the gun carefully, Halls failed to check the gun carefully and yet announced the gun was safe before handing it to Baldwin, and Zachry failed to disclose that Gutierrez-Reed had been acting recklessly off set and was a safety risk to those around her,” says the cross complaint from Baldwin’s Quinn Emanuel attorney Luke Nikas (read it here).

Filed on a day when Los Angeles Superior Court is closed for the Veterans Day holiday, the photo and email heavy cross-complaint for negligence and indemnification names Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, first assistant director David Halls, property master Sarah Zachry, and weapons and rounds supplier Seth Kenney and his company as defendants. Recently having settled a wrongful death suit with Hutchins’ husband and family and intending to get Rust back on track, Baldwin has long declared that he never pulled the trigger on the 1880s period gun that he was pointing at the cinematographer on October 21, 2021.

In a move that risks backfiring on the now plaintiff, today’s filing makes a point of noting how the aftermath of the shooting has impacted Baldwin’s career.

“Baldwin has also lost numerous job opportunities and associated income,” it says “For example, he’s been fired from multiple jobs expressly because of the incident on Rust and has been passed over for other opportunities, which is a direct result of the negligence of Cross-Defendants Gutierrez-Reed, Halls, Kenney, PDQ, and Zachry.”

Coming just over a week after Baldwin failed to convince a LASC judge to remove him from Rust script supervisor Mamie Mitchell’s own negligence lawsuit or see the matter dismissed, Friday’s filing also claims the Emmy winning has suffered personal consequences from the horrible October 2021 incident. “More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy,” the actor’s lawyer writes of his client who held the gun that killed DoP Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. “By these Cross-Claims, Baldwin seeks to clear his name and hold Cross-Defendants accountable for their misconduct.”

‘There can be no doubt that others have suffered from Cross-Defendants’ negligence far more than Baldwin has,” the suit does go on to say of that day at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, just outside Santa Fe New Mexico. “Hutchins lost her life, and her young child lost his mother,” the jury trial cross-complaint states. “Producer Joel Souza was shot in the shoulder and has suffered physical and emotional pain. Though by no means comparable, Baldwin must live with the immense grief, and the resulting emotional, physical, and financial toll, caused by the fact that Cross-Defendants’ negligent conduct, assurances, and supervision put a loaded weapon in his hand and led him, Hutchins, and everyone else on set to believe that his directed use of the weapon was safe.”

Reps for the cross-complaint defendants did not return request for comment from Deadline on today’s filing in LASC. Mamie Mitchell is not a defendant in the cross-complaint. However, Gloria Allred certainly had something to say for her client Mitchell about Friday’s filing by Baldwin and his legal team. “Baldwin’s cross complaint is a shameful attempt to shift the blame to others, just as he has done since he fired the fatal shot which killed Ms. Hutchins and injured our client, Mamie Mitchell,” the high profile Allred said. “He claims that everyone else was negligent and that everyone else is at fault. Mr. Baldwin appears to argue that he is the only one that is truly innocent.”

“One last thing I have to say to you, Mr. Baldwin – take responsibility for your actions,” Allred went on to state. “I am not suggesting that others did not also bear some responsibility for what occurred. However, if you look in the mirror you will see the person that we believe bears the most responsibility for what happened on that tragic day on the set of Rust in New Mexico.”

In one of several legal actions currently in the courts over the shooting, Rust script supervisor Mitchell first filed her lawsuit against Baldwin, Rust producers and crew members Gutierrez Reed, Halls, Zachry and others back on November 17, 2021. Mitchell was standing right near Hutchins and Souza when the gun Baldwin was holding fired. On November 1, Judge Michael E. Whitaker not only refused Baldwin’s effort to exit the suit, but also denied a motion from Baldwin and his El Dorado Pictures Inc to strike the script supervisor’s claim for punitive damages.

Santa Fe DA Mary Carmack-Altwies finally received the final Sheriff’s Office report on the Rust shooting on October 27. “The District Attorney and her team of investigators and prosecutors will now begin a thorough review of the information and evidence to make a thoughtful, timely decision about whether to bring charges,” her office said at the time, weeks after seeking greater funding from the state for a possible prosecution on the matter.

“As with all cases that the District Attorney handles, her focus will be on upholding the integrity of the process, enforcing the laws of the state of New Mexico, and pursuing justice.”

William Atticus Parker’s Sophomore Film ‘Atrabilious’ Toplined By Leon Addison Brown With Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Wright, More

Parker, the son of Mary Louise Parker and Billy Crudup, shot Atrabilious with A-list actors in New York City on a micro-budget much like his first pic, Forty Winks.

Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner (Brown) as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son’s sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death. Atrabilious is a bar where the grief-stricken go to heal and move on with their lives, but what does it have to do with the disappearance of Steven’s son?

The cast also includes Mark Boone Junior, Lewis Black, Evan Jonigkeit, Joel de la Fuente, David Pittu, Andy Karl, Ward Horton, Hunter Parrish, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Dan Finnerty

“Atrabilious is the darkly comedic and magical characterization of grief,” Parker said. “It’s a story I’ve wanted to tell for a while, and I’m so glad I get to do so with this wonderful cast and crew.”

Daniel Harlow of Bunker 15 Films is executive producer and Sabina Friedman-Seitz is co-producer. Ash Parker, William’s sister, wrote and recorded an original song for the film.

The filmmakers are now in discussions with distributors and crafting a festival release strategy.

Alec Baldwin Reaches Settlement With Halyna Hutchins Estate

The Hutchins family had filed a wrongful death lawsuit February 15 over the shooting of Hutchins that occurred on the set of the in Western on October, 21, 2021, when Baldwin discharged a prop gun after being informed by the production’s assistant director David Halls that the weapon was “cold.”

“We have reached a settlement, subject to court approval, for our wrongful death case against the producers of Rust, including Alec Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions, LLC. As part of that settlement, our case will be dismissed,” Matthew Hutchins said Wednesday morning.

“The filming of Rust, which I will now executive produce, will resume with all the original principal players on board in January 2023,” Hutchins added of the most confidential agreement.

“I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame (to the producers or Mr. Baldwin). “All of us believe Halyna’s death was a terrible accident. I am grateful that the producers and the entertainment community have come together to pay tribute to Halyna’s final work.”

The culmination of weeks of negotiations, today’s news comes as the final report of the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into Hutchins’ death and what really went down at the Bonanza Creek Ranch location that terrible day is expected to be handed over soon to local District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies. Several Rust crew members including armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed have already filed ongoing civil lawsuits of their own in New Mexico and California. However, Wednesday’s agreement between the Hutchins family and Baldwin and other Rust producers could shift the legal landscape for those civil cases and any possible criminal charges from the Santa Fe D.A.

Rust Movie Productions, LLC, through its attorney, Melina Spadone of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, said today: “We are pleased the parties came together to resolve this matter, which, subject to court approval, marks an important step forward in celebrating Halyna’s life and honoring her work.”

Baldwin’s attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel, added: “Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna’s son. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation.”

Later this morning, the Oscar-nominated actor of The Cooler added this on Instagram: “We are pleased to announce today the settlement of the civil case filed on behalf of the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna’s son. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation.”

Joel Souza, Director of Rust, said: “Those of us who were lucky enough to have spent time with Halyna knew her to be exceedingly talented, kind, creative, and a source of incredible positive energy. I only wish the world had gotten to know her under different circumstances, as it surely would have through her amazing work. In my own attempts to heal, any decision to return to finish directing the film could only make sense for me if it was done with the involvement of Matt and the Hutchins family. Though certainly bittersweet, I am pleased that together, we will now complete what Halyna and I started. My every effort on this film will be devoted to honoring Halyna’s legacy and making her proud. It is a privilege to see this through on her behalf.”

The Hutchins original lawsuit in February claimed that “Defendant Baldwin, the Producers, and the Rust Production Companies were aware of firearms safety issues that had occurred on the set of Rust and did not take action to correct the situation and ensure that basic gun safety rules were followed on October 21, 2021…Had Defendant Baldwin, the Producers, and the Rust Production Companies taken adequate precautions to ensure firearm safety on the set of Rust or if basic firearm safety rules had been followed on the set of Rust on October 21, 2021, Halyna Hutchins would be alive and well, hugging her husband and nine-year old son.”

Close to a year since the tragic incident occurred, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office has yet to charge anyone.

Last month, Deadline obtained a letter from Santa Fe D.A. Carmack-Altwies to the New Mexico Board of Finance requesting $635,000 to prosecute as many as four individuals with criminal and homicide charges related to the Rust tragedy (the DA was granted $317,750). The DA said in her letter that “one of the possible defendants is well known movie actor Alec Baldwin.” Nikas, speaking on behalf of Baldwin, responded to the DA’s letter “that it would be premature to discuss the case because they had not yet reviewed the file or deliberated about their charging decision.”

“It is irresponsible to report otherwise,” Nikas blasted at the time. “The DA has made clear that she has not received the sheriff’s report or made any decisions about who, if anyone, might be charged in this case.”

Nikas stated in April that an New Mexico OSHA report “exonerates” Baldwin. That agency fined Rust Productions, LLC a maximum allowable $136,793 after a six-month investigation that found a “willful and serious” violation of workplace safety procedures.

In an ABC news interview with George Stephanopoulos last December, Baldwin insisted he never actually pulled the trigger of the gun that took Hutchins’ life during a quick-draw rehearsal move in a church location on the set of Rust.

Baldwin also told Stephanopoulos, “I have been told by people who are in the know, in terms of even inside the state, that it’s highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally.”

Rita Gardner Dies: Original Cast Member Of ‘The Fantasticks’ Was 87

Gardner’s death was announced by her friend and colleague Alex Rybeck on Facebook.

In 1960, Gardner, who had recently appeared Off Broadway in the Jerry Herman musical review Nightcap, was cast in what would be her signature role: Luisa, or “The Girl,” in the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical The Fantasticks. Based loosely on Edmond Rostand’s 1894 play The Romancers, the musical told the allegorical story of two fathers who trick their children – The Girl, Luisa, and The Boy, Matt – into falling in love by pretending to oppose the union.

The production, at a tiny Off Broadway venue in Greenwich Village called the Sullivan Street Playhouse, became a huge success, spawning a hit song (“Try To Remember”), running 42 years and boosting the careers of Gardner and other cast members (including Kenneth Nelson, who went on to star in The Boys in the Band, and, most notably, Jerry Orbach, the Law & Order star who enjoyed a long career on stage, film and television).

In the years after her stint with The Fantasticks, Gardner appeared in other Off Broadway shows including The Cradle Will Rock (1964), To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1969), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1972), Steel Magnolias (1987), Wings (1993) and The Foreigner (2004).

On Broadway, she appeared in the short-lived musical A Family Affair in 1962, a 1963 revival of Pal Joey and Ben Franklin in Paris in 1964. Later Broadway credits would include the featured role as Rosie in the 2006 stage adaptation of Adam Sandler film comedy The Wedding Singer.

In addition to numerous regional theater credits, Gardner staged a one-woman revue called Try to Remember in New York in 2002 and again in 2011. A planned revival in 2020 was canceled due to the Covid shutdown.

Television credits included the long-running franchise that starred her old cast mate Orbach: She appeared on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

In addition to performing, Gardner taught acting at New York’s HB Studio and as a guest teacher in other colleges and universities.

Gardner’s first marriage to playwright Herb Gardner ended in divorce. She is survived by husband Robert Sevra.

Hilaria Baldwin gives birth to Ilaria, her 7th baby with Alec Baldwin, his 8th

Hilaria Baldwin gave birth Thursday, Sept. 22, welcoming her and Alec Baldwin’s seventh baby together — Ilaria Catalina Irena Baldwin.

In a heartwarming Instagram reel, Hilaria Baldwin wrote, “She’s here! We are so excited to introduce you to our tiny dream come true, ilaria catalina irena [sic]. 9-22-22 6lbs 13oz”

“Her Baldwinito siblings are spending the day bonding and welcoming her into our home.”

Hilaria continued, “Much love to you all. We are so happy to celebrate this wonderful news with you.”

The infant joins big siblings Carmen, 9, Rafael, 7, Leonardo, 5 1/2, Romeo, 4, Eduardo, 23 months, and Lucia, 18 months, as well as Alec’s 26-year-old daughter with ex-wife Kim Basinger, Ireland Baldwin.

Hilaria, 38, revealed her pregnancy news to her Instagram followers in March.

“After many ups and downs over the past few years, we have an exciting up and a huge surprise: another Baldwinito is coming this fall,” the former yoga instructor wrote at the time.

“We were pretty sure our family was complete, and we’re beyond happy with this surprise,” the Boston native continued. “Our new baby is a very bright spot in our lives. A blessing and a gift.”

Two months later, Hilaria chose to share the sex of their upcoming arrival, a baby girl, “differently” than she had before.

“[It] is up to our baby to discover their own, unique self,” the then-expectant star captioned an Instagram video of her children offering advice to their future sister.

While she and the “Saturday Night Live” star, 64, did not share their thoughts on a name for their daughter at the time, the duo joked about choosing “an all-American” one during an April gala.

Alec proposed the monikers “Babe Ruth or Chase Manhattan” at the time, according to a Page Six spy.

The pair’s joke referenced the backlash Hilaria faced in late 2020 when she was accused of cultural appropriation after claiming to be from Spain.

Hilaria reflected on her family’s “challenging year” in a November 2021 Instagram post.

“Sometimes I didn’t think I was gonna make it through. I want you to know how much you have helped me through some pretty dark struggles. Knowing you were there — such comfort.”

Alec was at the center of his own tragic controversy in October when he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun that had a live round while filming “Rust.”

The Emmy winner was sued for negligence in November 2021 by crew members of the western flick. Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alec two months later.

18th Annual Stars And Strikes Event To Honor Jerry verDorn

Interview with Michael R. Jackson and Kim Zimmer - Sept 14

Michael Will be here to talk about his Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway show, A Strange Loop as well as his love of daytime television and Guiding Light. One of Michael’s favorite daytime actresses, Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis) will join Michael for this interview.

A Strange Loop won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Musical, the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle award. The New York Times called it a “laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins… [a] gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies". The New Yorker wrote "To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher.” Awards and associations: Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Page 73’s Writers Group, New Professional Theatre Festival Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, Antonyo Award, Fred Ebb Award, Windham-Campbell Prize.

Richard Roat Dies: Actor In ‘Seinfeld’, ‘Friends’, ‘Dallas’ & Dozens Of Other Shows Was 89

Roat died August 5 in Orange County, CA, according to his family. No other details were available.

Born on July 3, 1933, in Hartford, CT, Roat had a couple of bit TV roles before being cast as Dr. Jerry Chandler in the 1962 pilot of NBC soap opera The Doctors. He appeared in more than 170 episodes during the first year of the which, would go on to air for two decades.

He guested on a 1965 episode of The Fugitive and became a busy character actor during the following decade. Roat appeared in memorable 1970s comedies and dramas as Hawaii Five-O, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Columbo, Cannon, Kojak, The Bob Newhart Show, Police Story, Vega$, Fantasy Island, Happy Days, Charlie’s Angeles and Dallas.

Roat also had small roles in the 1970s features Westworld, American Hot Wax and Corvette Summer.

He continued to be an in-demand TV character actor throughout the 1980s and ’90s, appearing on such hits as 7th Heaven, Cybill, The Practice, Ellen, Coach, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Murphy Brown, The Nanny, Melrose Place, Blossom, Grace Under Fire, Living Single, Mad About You, Lois & Clark, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Night Court, Baywatch, Murphy’s Law, Simon & Simon, L.A. Law, Matlock, ALF, St. Elsewhere, Hart to Hart and others.

He also co-starred with Eva Gabor, Robert Hays and a young Jay Leno in the 1978 telefilm Almost Heaven.

Roat is remembered by Seinfeld fans as one of the doctors who found Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Elaine Benes to be a “difficult patient” in the Season 8 episode “The Package” in 1998. He also appeared as a professor colleague who busts Ross (David Schwimmer) for dating a student in a 2000 episode of Friends.

Farther back, he appeared in two episodes of The Golden Girls, including a Season 1 role as a man who dies while having sex with Rose (Betty White). Roat also recurred as Farnsworth on multiple Hill Street Blues episodes from 1982-85 and as a publisher on Dynasty in 1986.

In a 1985 episode of Cheers, Roat played Norm’s (George Wendt) boss Mr. Hecht, who promotes him to corporate killer — responsible for firing people in the office.

About that time, he returned to his soap opera roots to play Professor Henry Moore in about a dozen episodes of NBC’s Days of Our Lives from 1985-91. His final credit was a 2009 episode of 24.

Roat also appeared briefly on Broadway and onstage at The Public Theatre in Central Park, The Huntington Hartford Theatre in Los Angeles and the Pasadena Playhouse. Along with his long acting career, he had a successful practice as an entertainment tax preparer for more than 50 years.

Survivors include his wife of more than 40 year, Kathy.

Alec Baldwin Says He Worried About His Own Safety After Donald Trump’s Comments About ‘Rust’ Shooting

Shortly after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of the movie Rust, Trump pinned the blame on Baldwin. During a rehearsal, the actor aimed his gun at Hutchins when it fired.

Baldwin told CNN, in an interview that aired on Friday, “The former president of the United States said, he probably shot her on purpose. To me, [that was] the only time I thought about … that I worried about what was going to happen to me. Because here was Trump who instructed people to commit acts of violence and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death. One thousand percent I am nervous that a bunch of people who were instructed by the former president to go the Capitol and they killed a law enforcement officer. They killed somebody. And you don’t think think to myself are some of those people going to come and kill me.”

Trump has railed against Baldwin for his impersonation on Saturday Night Live.

Baldwin has said that he pulled back the gun’s hammer, but did not pull the trigger.

Last week, the FBI forensic report concluded that the gun used in the accident could not have been fired without pulling the trigger. Prosecutors have not yet made a decision about any charges.

But his attorney told CNN that Baldwin had no reason to think there would be a live bullet in the gun and that it would be a “huge miscarriage of justice” to charge him.

Baldwin told CNN that he hired a private investigator after the shooting.

“That private investigator, as you probably know, did not have a difficult time accessing the staff of the sheriff’s department. And that person told us, ‘We’ve known in the department since January that Alec would not be charged with a crime.'”

Alec Baldwin Tells Chris Cuomo He Did Not Pull Trigger On ‘Rust’ Set, Questions Who Put Live Round In Gun

Last week, the FBI forensic report concluded that the gun used in the accident could not have been fired without pulling the trigger. Prosecutors have not yet made a decision about any charges.

Baldwin explained the concept of “fanning a gun” to Cuomo, which may have contributed to the deadly shooting.

“In old Western movies, you would see someone fan the hammer of the gun,” Baldwin said.

If the hammer didn’t lock, and someone pulled it back far enough, it would fire the bullet without someone having to pull the trigger, Baldwin explained.

“The man who is the principal safety officer of the set of the film declared the gun was safe when he handed it to me,” Baldwin said. “The man who was the principal safety officer of the film declared in front of the entire assemblage, ‘This is a cold gun.’ Now, why did he say that if he didn’t know and hadn’t checked? The point is we were told everything was cool and you can relax and we are working with a gun that is safe to rehearse with.”

“What is likely is that someone who was responsible for one situation or one line of responsibility and the other person — a tandem of the two people — one of them or both were negligent,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin’s attorney said in April that the OSHA investigation “exonerates” Baldwin. It concluded that Rust Movie Productions LLC’s management “knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action” when the fatal incident occurred.

Baldwin told Cuomo, that while he is frustrated by the situation, he is not the victim here, Hutchins is.

“Nothing is going to bring this woman back. She’s dead. She has a little boy,” Baldwin said. “This is the real tragedy. Everything we’ve said doesn’t matter – me, the press. My point is, the real tragedy is here is what happened to this woman.”

You can watch the complete interview here.

Report: Alec Baldwin Must've Pulled Trigger in 'Rust' ... FBI Concludes in Analysis

ABC News published a bombshell story Friday, claiming to have obtained a copy of the forensic analysis report recently completed by the Bureau ... which was examining all facets of the fatal accident in a broader investigation to see if criminal charges are warranted.

Per ABC, citing part of the FBI report, the feds found that the revolver in question -- a single-action .45 Colt caliber F.lli Pietta -- could not have been fired without someone pulling the trigger ... a determination they made after conducting accidental discharge testing.

Unclear if they did this testing with the same exact gun Alec used, or a separate but identical one -- but what the FBI notes in their reports is ... that gun, when working properly, will not release a bullet and primer simultaneously by just fiddling with the hammer alone.

That's what Alec said he was doing when the shooting occurred. You'll recall ... in a sit-down interview with ABC, he claimed all he'd done was pull the hammer back and pose it for the camera while Halyna coached him on positioning. When they were done, he released the hammer ... and says it fired without him pulling the trigger. The rest, of course, is history.

Well, that just doesn't make sense to FBI officials. Their report, per ABC, notes they set the hammer at varying angles and positions to see if they could make it fire without pulling the trigger ... but they say they couldn't. The only thing the hammer COULD do when de-cocked and then directly struck on its own (without pulling the trigger) was detonate the primer.

That essentially means it could set off the actual gunshot sound itself, without discharging a bullet, according to the FBI -- but that's obviously not what happened in AB's case.

Now, this conclusion doesn't necessarily mean Alec is in hot water quite yet -- again, we don't know if the testing they did here was with his gun or another ... it's totally possible the revolver he used that day did, in fact, malfunction and that he's telling the truth.

These findings have been sent off to law enforcement officials in New Mexico, who are still conducting their investigation dating back to October. One of the things they're still waiting on, per an official statement from the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office, is phone records from Alec.

He'd said a few months ago that he was cooperating and getting those records over to local law enforcement in New York (so that they could send it over to NM) -- but it sounds like someone might be dragging their feet. Once that's in, the D.A. can have a review once and for all ... with their own findings, the FBI's findings, plus any accompanying documentation.

Alec Baldwin & Olga Kurylenko Board Spy Action Thriller ‘Chief Of Station’ For Bee Holder & Concourse Media

The movie from scribe George Mahaffey is set across Europe and will begin shooting later this year in Budapest.

In Chief of Station, a former CIA Station Chief (played by Baldwin), after learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with adversaries and a rogue agent (played by Kurylenko) to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.

Johnson previously directed such action movies as White Elephant starring Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker, Avengement starring Scott Adkins, and Triple Threat starring Tony Jaa. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he worked as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on large-scale studio films including Mission Impossible 3, Planet of the Apes, Total Recall, Terminator 3 and Starship Troopers.

“I am honored to be collaborating on this epic action adventure with one of the bona-fide legends of cinema, and pairing Alec and Olga will certainly bring some on-screen magic, she is a force-of-nature,” Johnson tells Deadline.

Baldwin has been working regularly since the Rust tragedy.

Kurylenko previously worked with Johnson on White Elephant and can most recently be seen in Hulu’s action fantasy The Princess. The Ukraine born actress will next be starring in the Netflix spy drama series Treason, created by Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman opposite Charlie Cox. She notably has starred in Black Widow, Quantum of Solace, Oblivion, Seven Psychopaths and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.

Steve Lee Jones is producing Chief of Station for Bee Holder Productions and Matthew Shreder for Concourse Media who is executive producing and handling worldwide rights.

“Jesse continues to deliver fun escapist fare that rocks on all cylinders, and we are super excited to team him with Alec and Olga on this elevated and layered international picture which will take Alec back to some of the classic films that made him a screen icon and Olga will add the sizzle that will make this a must-see thriller,” Jones tells Deadline.

Baldwin is repped exclusively by Cavalry Media, Kurylenko is repped by UTA and Independent Talent Group, and Johnson is repped by Gersh.

Kathy Bates & Liza Koshy Board Netflix Romcom Opposite Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron & Joey King

The Fisher King Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese is directing off a screenplay he co-wrote with Carrie Solomon.

The story is set following a surprising romance which kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity.

Producers for the pic are Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. EP is Alyssa Altman for Roth/Kirschenbaum.

Bates, who is repped by CAA, is starring in the upcoming Lionsgate adaptation of the Judy Blume classic, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Ken Kwapis’ Thelma and The Miracle Club opposite Maggie Smith and Laura Linney. Other feature credits include The Highwaymen, Richard Jewell, Titanic, Dolores Claiborne, Revolutionary Road, Fried Green Tomatoes, Primary Colors and About Schmidt. She has starred on 58 episodes of American Horror Story and also starred on Feud, Harry’s Office and Six Feet Under.

Koshy is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. As a YouTube comedian, Koshy swelled her channel to 17.4M subscribers, and is the co-creator and star of the portal’s series Liza on Demand which ran for three seasons. She made her big screen debut in Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween and stars in the upcoming Players opposite Gina Rodriguez and Damon Wayans Jr. She also starred on the Hulu series Freakish and YouTube Red’s Escape the Night.

Mary Alice Dies: ‘A Different World’ & ‘Matrix Revolutions’ Actor Won Tony Award For ‘Fences’

Her age has been variously reported as 80, 84 and 86. Her death was confirmed to Deadline by the New York Police Department. No additional details were immediately available.

“A shoulder we all stood on,” tweeted actor Colman Domingo today,

A prolific character actor on screen and stage, and a pioneer in the representation of Black actors on the Off Broadway and Broadway scenes, Alice is perhaps most widely known to TV audiences for her two-season run as a main character on NBC’s Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, in which she played dorm director Leticia “Lettie” Bostic. In 2003, she featured prominently in The Matrix Revolutions, portraying The Oracle, who imparts words of wisdom to Keanu Reeves’ Neo.

On Broadway, Alice made her debut as a standby in 1969’s No Place To Be Somebody, then taking a starring role in a 1971 production. Her greatest Broadway success came in 1987, when she played Rose in the acclaimed Fences. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the performance.

Subsequent Broadway credits include The Shadow Box in 1994 and a Tony-nominated performance in 1995’s Having Our Say.

Born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, was working as a teacher in Chicago during the mid-1960s when she turned her attentions to acting, and by the early 1970s was gaining a profile in New York’s Off Broadway theater community through appearances at the notable experimental venue La MaMa.

Her first screen role arrived in 1974, when she made her film debut in The Education of Sonny Carson, and within a year she was beginning what would be a long and prolific run of TV guest appearances. In 1975, she gave memorable performances on Sanford & Son, Good Times and Police Woman.

In 1976, Smith had her first breakout film role in Sparkle, playing Effie Williams, the mother of three daughters who form a Supremes-like singing group. Though lambasted by critics, the musical drama launched the careers of Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dorian Harewood and Philip Michael Thomas. Sparkle, which arrived five years before the similarly themed Broadway musical Dreamgirls, was remade in 2012 as a vehicle for Jordin Sparks, with Whitney Houston taking the role of the mother.

Alice would subsequently appear on TV in All My Children, The Women of Brewster Place, L.A. Law, Cosby, Touched By An Angel, Providence, Soul Food, Oz, Line of Duty, The Jury and 2005’s Kojak. Her performance as recurring character Marguerite Peck on I’ll Fly Away earned her the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (she’d been nominated in the same category the year before).

On the big screen, Alice had roles in, among many others, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Awakenings, Malcolm X, Down in the Delta and Sunshine State. Her performance as The Oracle in 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions was nominated for a Black Reel Award.

Alice was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting five years later.

Gravitas Ventures Takes Rights To Romantic Drama ‘The Swearing Jar’ Starring ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’s Adelaide Clemens

The Swearing Jar is based on Kate Hewlett’s award-winning play of the same name, which she adapted for the screen. Billed as an intimate story told through music, comedy, subtly shifting timeframes and a few tears, it tells two love stories at once: exploring the joys and challenges of dating, marriage, heartbreak… and moving on. The film was produced by Jane Loughman for Monkeys & Parrots in association with Kyle Bornais of Farpoint Films and Tony Wosk of Middle Child Films. Its original score is by composer Timothy Williams, who also arranged the original songs by Hewlett.

“I had the pleasure of bringing Kate Hewlett’s beautiful script to life,” said MacKay. “With the help of an incredible crew and a wonderful cast, I believe we managed to create something heartfelt, nuanced, and special. I’m excited for audiences to see this and am very pleased that they will have the opportunity to do so in theaters!”

“THE SWEARING JAR is a beautiful story about the trials of romance and grief, wrapped into an absolute crowd pleaser with amazing music,” added Gravitas Ventures’ Manager of Acquisitions, Brett Rogalsky. “Gravitas is excited to be able to share the film with audiences this fall.”

Gravitas Ventures is a distributor of indie features and documentaries founded in 2006, which sold to multi-platform media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment last November, and recently announced the launch of the new theatrical release label, Gravitas Premiere. Recent releases from the company include Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson and Jason Segel; Vanguard, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Andy Tennant’s The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes.

Rogalsky negotiated the deal for The Swearing Jar on behalf of Gravitas Ventures, with Will Machin from Metro International Entertainment.

‘Mrs. American Pie’: Jordan Bridges, Kaia Gerber & Julia Duffy Among 6 Set To Recur In Apple Series

Bridges portrays Perry Donahue, an entrepreneur and old schoolmate of Douglas’ (played by Josh Lucas).

Gerber portrays Mitzi, a local manicurist.

Duffy portrays Mary Jones Davidsoul, an old-money member of the Palm Beach high society.

Canela portrays Eddie, a tennis pro at the Palm Beach high society club.

Cohn portrays Ann, an editor for the society column.

Ferri portrays Raquel, a Cuban ex-pat and member of the Palm Beach high society club.

Written by Abe Sylvia and directed by Tate Taylor, Mrs. American Pie is a story about gorgeously impossible people. Set during the powderkeg era of the early 1970s, it follows Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) and her attempt to secure her seat at America’s most exclusive table: Palm Beach high society. As Maxine attempts to cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots, the series asks the same questions that baffle us today: Who gets a seat at the table, how do you get a seat at the table, and what will you sacrifice to get there?

The 10-episode series also stars Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Ricky Martin, Amber Chardae Robinson, Allison Janney, and Leslie Bibb.

Mrs. American Pie was developed by Dern and her producing partner Jayme Lemons via their Jaywalker Pictures banner. Sylvia is writing, executive producing, and showrunning the series. Taylor will direct and executive produce alongside his producing partner John Norris via their Wyolah Entertainment banner. Katie O’Connell Marsh executive produces for Boat Rocker. Apple Studios produces.

Bridges is repped by Buchwald, MJ Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein; Gerber is repped by CAA and DNA Model Management; Duffy is repped by Artists & Representatives and Alan Lezman of Shelter Entertainment Group; Canela is repped by Encompass and Vision Entertainment; Ferri is repped by Open Entertainment and Metropolitan Talent Agency.

Alec Baldwin Launches Production Company With Anjul Nigam

Baldwin and Nigam were among producers of Rust, the film whose production was halted last year when DP Halyna Hutchins was killed from a bullet discharged from a gun that contained a live round.

Baldwin is due to star in and exec-produce Persona’s first project, psychological thriller False Awakening, about a man whose waking nightmares start to fuse with his everyday life. Baldwin will play a psychologist who compels the man to tap his higher powers in confronting his past and preventing his life from spiraling into a violent psychosis.

Writer-director is Benjamin Tomson (Forgotten Bayou). Nigam will produce and star in a supporting role. Robert Menzies (House At The End Of The Street) is also producing under his Zed Filmworks banner. Amp International will launch worldwide sales in Cannes.

The film is slated to start principal photography this summer in the U.S.

Baldwin has been living his own waking nightmare following the Rust tragedy, when he was given a loaded gun and accidentally shot Hutchins, who died from her wound. Baldwin starred in the unfinished film.

Three months ago, Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Baldwin, the film’s production companies, its other producers, and other key members of the crew. Baldwin has denied responsibility in the fatal shooting and subsequently sought to indemnify himself through his own arbitration filing.

In April, the New Mexico Environment Department issued a maximum fine to Rust Movie Productions for failing to adequately follow safety guidelines. The company disagreed with the findings and said it would appeal.

False Awakening is among the first new projects Baldwin has been announced for since the tragedy, though he has acted in multiple films since.

Baldwin and Nigam also collaborated on Rust filmmaker Joel Souza’s Crown Vic on which both served as producers, and they star in the upcoming features Supercell and 97 Minutes, with Nigam serving as an executive producer on both pictures.

We’re told that Baldwin’s existing banner El Dorado Pictures, a production company on Rust, Crown Vic, and series Match Game, won’t work on future film and TV projects but will focus on podcasts and publishing. The company formerly had a deal with ABC Studios but that pact has expired.

30 Rock and The Departed star Baldwin said today of his partnership with Nigam: “I have enjoyed producing with Anjul Nigam for a few years now. He brings to the table the rare combination of skills that move the process forward and that result in something I am proud to be a part of.”

Nigam commented: “Alec and I complement each other perfectly and I couldn’t be more honored to be in partnership with him. It’s thrilling to have False Awakening, a film that’s a tribute to classics like The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, be our first production.”

Amp’s James Norrie added about the project: “A false awakening is a real condition. And it is the stuff of nightmares. Ben has crafted a terrifyingly believable script about a little-known condition that has all the hallmarks of classic in the making. We are thrilled to be a part of the team.”

Norrie, Stephen Foreht and Steve Straka will serve as executive producers, and Esther Egg and Matt Taylor are co-producers.

Baldwin is represented by ICM. Nigam is repped by Ellis Talent Agency and DiSante Frank & Co.

Alec Baldwin jokes baby No. 7 will have an ‘all-American’ name

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin — who are expecting their seventh child together — joked that their next kid will have an “all-American” name while chatting with guests at Wednesday night’s New York Philharmonic Spring Gala at Alice Tully Hall, a Page Six spy exclusively shares.

Alec, 64, was overheard telling veteran entertainment journalist Tom Murro that they’re going to name their newborn “Babe Ruth or Chase Manhattan” after the baseball legend or the consumer banking company.

The couple has chosen traditionally Spanish or Italian names for their expansive brood, including daughters Carmen, 8, and María Lucía, 1, and sons Rafael, 6, Leonardo, 5, Romeo, 3, and Eduardo “Edu,” 1. Alec also shares 26-year-old daughter Ireland Baldwin with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

It makes sense that Hilaria — who announced her latest pregnancy in March — would choose an American name for her child as she hails from Boston and not from Mallorca, Spain, as she previously led the public to believe.

In December 2020, the 38-year-old yoga instructor and lifestyle expert (born Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas) faced accusations that she’d been faking her Spanish accent and lying about her name and heritage for years.

Addressing her fluctuating speech at the time, Hilaria explained that her split childhood between Massachusetts and Europe contributed to the inconsistency.

“I am that person, if I’ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them or if I’m speaking a lot of English,” she said. “I mix that, it’s one of those things I’ve always been a bit insecure about.”

The Baldwins faced a far more serious scandal this year when Alec was named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in February by the family of Halyna Hutchins, the “Rust” cinematographer killed in an on-set shooting.

The “30 Rock” alum is accused of firing the single bullet that hit and killed Hutchins, then exited her body and struck director Joel Souza in the clavicle, while filming the Western flick in New Mexico on Oct. 21.

The actor has claimed in a weepy interview that he had no idea there were real bullets in the gun and that he “didn’t pull the trigger.”

Despite the recent drama, the Baldwins appeared to be in “great spirits” at the New York Philharmonic fête, our insider says.

“They were very friendly with everyone at the event and clearly enjoying their night out together,” the source notes. “They just looked really happy.”

Alec Baldwin’s Lawyer Says ‘Rust’ OSHA Report “Exonerates Mr. Baldwin”

“We are grateful to the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau for investigating this matter,” Luke Nikas wrote in a post on Baldwin’s Instagram page (see it below). “We appreciate that the report exonerates Mr. Baldwin by making clear that he believed the gun held only dummy rounds and that his authority on the production was limited to approving script changes and creative casting. Mr. Baldwin had no authority over the matters that were the subject of the Bureau’s findings of violations, and we are pleased that the New Mexico authorities have clarified these critical issues. We are confident that the individuals identified in the report will be held accountable for this tragedy.”

The report concludes that Rust Movie Productions LLC’s management “knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set and demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety by failing to review work practices and take corrective action.”

Environmental Cabinet Secretary James Kenney said Wednesday that “there were serious management failures and more than sufficient evidence to suggest that if stardard industry practices were followed, the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutching and the serious injury to Joel Souza would not have occurred. … This is a complete failure of the employer to follow recognized national protocols that keep employees safe.”

Hutchins was killed and Souza wounded by a bullet fired from gun held by Alec Baldwin, who has said that he was told that the gun was not loaded. He has also claimed that he did not pull the trigger and that it must have misfired as he pointed the gun toward the camera during rehearsals October 21 at the Bonanza Creek Ranch outside Santa Fe.

‘Star Trek: Picard’: LeVar Burton & Michael Dorn Among 6 ‘Next Generation’ Alums Joining Third & Final Season

The casting news was announced on Tuesday, First Contact Day. As depicted in the film Star Trek: First Contact, starring the aforementioned Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members, April 5, 2063, is the day that humans first make contact with Vulcans, marking a pivotal moment of exploration and acceptance in Star Trek history. Since the film’s debut, First Contact Day is celebrated worldwide annually on April 5.

In Star Trek: Picard, Stewart reprises his role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and follows the character into the next chapter of his life.

Frakes, Sirtis and Spiner have appeared in previous in Star Trek: Picard episodes over the first two seasons.

“I remember watching the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation almost 34 years ago with my father like it was yesterday. It was the spark that ignited my love for science fiction,” said Terry Matalas, season three showrunner and executive producer. “So, it’s most fitting that the story of Jean-Luc Picard ends honoring the beginning, with his dearest and most loyal friends from the U.S.S. Enterprise. It would be an understatement to say that giving these characters a proper send-off is an honor. The entire Star Trek: Picard team and I can’t wait for fans to experience this final, high-stakes, starship-bound adventure in season three!”

The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. For season three, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Patrick Stewart, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski and Dylan Massin serve as executive producers. Terry Matalas serves as showrunner for season three.

Season two of Star Trek: Picard is currently streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S., with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays.

First Look: Alec Baldwin Narrates ‘Flint: Who Can You Trust?’ Documentary On Michigan City’s Drinking Water Nightmare

Flint: Who Can You Trust?, directed by Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped), opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 29, followed by other cities. A digital release is set for May. It was to have been released in October 2021 but was postponed after the accidental shooting on the set of Baldwin’s film Rust.

“I feel it’s crucially important that the people of Flint are not forgotten,” Baxter said in a statement. “Hopefully this film will shed a fresh spotlight on their ongoing plight.”

In April 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint’s source of water was changed from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River, a polluted body of water. Residents soon began complaining of the taste and color of the water, as well as its odor. By August of that year coliform bacteria was detected in drinking water, causing residents to have to boil their water to kill the contaminants.

That was not the only danger posed by the water. Aging water pipes and a failure to treat water with corrosion inhibitors allowed lead into the drinking water supply for about 100,000 city residents, including 10,000 or more children. A study published in the American Journal of Public Health found, “The percentage of children with elevated blood lead levels increased after water source change, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.”

To this day, most residents of Flint are still drinking bottled water, many of them concerned about the safety of the city’s water supply.

“In this explosive documentary filmed over five years,” reads a description of the documentary, “award-winning journalist/filmmaker Anthony Baxter’s Flint: Who Can You Trust? goes beyond the headlines to investigate the escalating betrayal and deceit by government officials, the breakdown in public trust and faith in official science, and ultimately, the community’s enduring fight for one of our most basic rights: clean water.”

The documentary’s original release was delayed out of respect to the victims of the tragedy that befell Rust, a scripted film Baldwin was working on as both actor and producer. Last October 21, during a rehearsal on location in Bonanza City, New Mexico, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when Baldwin fired a prop gun that was mistakenly loaded with a live round.

Flint: Who Can You Trust? is from Cargo Film and Releasing, produced in association with the BBC. Baxter directs; producers are Richard Phinney, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, and Justin Weinstein.

The exclusive clip above begins with a line of Baldwin’s narration, followed by footage of a meeting of concerned residents in Flint. Then Jessica Gutierrez, a mother of five who saw her children affected by Flint’s contaminated water, speaks to the human toll of the crisis.

‘Panhandle’: Forrest Goodluck Joins Spectrum & Roku Dramedy As Series Rounds Out Cast

The Spectrum Originals and Roku series has also added series regulars including Clue’s Lesley Ann Warren, Hacks and Women is Losers actor Lorenza Izzo, Black Lightning’s Wallace Smith, 24’s Glenn Morshower.

They star alongside Luke Kirby, who plays Bell Prescott, and Tiana Okoye, who stars as Cammie Lorde.

Separately, Melanie Minichino, who featured in the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, joins in a recurring role.

Panhandle follows an eccentric, agoraphobic arm-chair detective with a reluctant traffic cop in a series that showcases community, connection, and only-in-Florida characters. Together, Prescott and Lorde wrestle with personal demons, shocking twists and a few Florida gators on their journey to heal themselves and their town.

Goodluck plays Checotah, the local delivery guy and consummate stoner, who remembers everything that everybody orders. Checotah has formed a friendship with the agoraphobic Bell after delivering many packages to his property, and on one such delivery he gets inadvertently sucked into the investigation of the murdered man on Bell’s property.

He previously starred in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Cherry, The Liberator and The Revenant as well as nabbing the lead in the upcoming Pet Sematary prequel for Paramount+.

Izzo plays Vida, Bell’s beautiful and complicated Cuban-American wife, whose family runs a rum company and who’s carrying a secret of her own.

Smith plays Dr. Otis, the local doctor working in Boggsville, Florida – at least until he can pay off his student loans and open a Botox clinic in Atlanta. Otis is concerned that Bell, ignoring his agoraphobia to go out in the world, is going to work himself into a heart attack.

Morshower plays Sheriff Grant, the Okaloosa County Sheriff and Cammie’s boss. Grant and Cammie get off on the wrong foot, especially when Grant learns that she’s working with Bell – with whom the Sheriff has a lot of beef.

Warren plays Millicent Prescott, Bell’s Florida grande dame of a mother. After losing her husband, Bell’s father, six years ago, Millicent has devoted herself to taking care of her traumatized and agoraphobic son – holing herself up with him in their massive Florida estate. Millicent is fairly fearless and knows her way around a shotgun, which she’ll point at either a gator or an irritating police officer.

Minichino plays Darby Hix, an ex-stripper and the town’s certified pest exterminator. Darby takes her new business very seriously. She’s smart and witty, and an old friend of Bell’s from high school.

Goodluck is represented by Artists First and Gersh. Izzo is represented by ICM Partners, M88, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Smith is repped by Piper Kaniecki Marks and TalentWorks. Morshower is repped by Talentworks. Lesley is repped by Innovative Artists, Management Production Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. Minichino is repped by STW Talent Agency and managed by Dan Cotoia Talent.

Alec Baldwin's Match Game, Three More Game Shows Cancelled at ABC

Based on the classic ’70s hit, Match Game asked contestants to fill in a blank in a sentence, trying to match the answers of a panel of celebrity guests. Baldwin served as host, with a rotating panel of celebs including Niecy Nash, Jack McBrayer and Cheryl Hines. It debuted in 2016 and ran for a total of five seasons, with Season 5 debuting in May 2020.

Baldwin, of course, was in the headlines last fall after a tragic incident on the set of the film Rust where he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. But Match Game‘s cancellation was not connected to that incident, Variety reports; in fact, the show hadn’t been in production since the COVID pandemic shut down all film and TV production in March 2020.

Card Sharks was a remake of the ’70s and ’80s game show, hosted by Joel McHale, with players answering questions to control a board of playing cards and guessing if the next card is higher or lower. It premiered in 2019, airing two seasons.

Its sophomore run (which wrapped in July) averaged 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo ratings (in Live+Same Day), down 33 and 45 percent from its freshman season.

The Celebrity Dating Game, hosted by Zooey Deschanel and Michael Bolton, paired up single celebrities with civilians eager to date them, in a fresh take on the classic dating show. Its first and only season aired last summer, averaging 2.1 million viewers and a 0.4 rating.

On The Hustler, five contestants were asked a series of trivia questions to amass a cash prize while one of them has secretly been given all the answers, with Craig Ferguson serving as host. Its second season ran last summer into early fall and averaged 1.7 mil and a 0.3, down 41 and 44 percent from its freshman run.

Celebrity Family Feud, Press Your Luck and The $100,000 Pyramid, however, are expected to return, Variety notes.

Hilaria Baldwin is pregnant, expecting 7th child with Alec Baldwin

Hilaria Baldwin announced Tuesday that she is pregnant with her and Alec Baldwin’s seventh child together.

“After many ups and downs over the past few years, we have an exciting up and a huge surprise: another Baldwinito is coming this fall. We were pretty sure our family was complete, and we’re beyond happy with this surprise,” Hilaria captioned an Instagram video showing her breaking the news to the other “Baldwinitos.”

“I’m sharing with you the moment we told the kids—as you can see, they are super excited! Our new baby is a very bright spot in our lives. A blessing and a gift during such uncertain times,” she continued, seemingly referencing the wrongful death lawsuit filed against Alec in February over the “Rust” movie set shooting.

“I’ve missed you during my break from social media…I’m back and looking forward to continuing with you this wild journey that we call ‘life.’ Our love to you and your loved ones.”

Born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, the former yoga instructor and the “Boss Baby” star, 63, are already parents to daughters Carmen, 8, and María Lucía, 13 months, and sons Rafael, 6, Leonardo, 5, Romeo, 3, and Eduardo “Edu,” 18 months.

Alec is also a father to daughter Ireland, 26, whom he shares with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

The news of the Baldwins’ expanding family comes as the “30 Rock” alum is in Italy filming his first movie since being accused of shooting and killing “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.

Alec denied any wrongdoing in legal documents responding to the suit filed by Hutchins’ family, instead blaming other people on set for the mishap-turned-tragedy.

“This is a rare instance when the system broke down, and someone should be held legally culpable for the tragic consequences,” the “Saturday Night Live” alum’s lawyer, Luke Nikas, wrote in an arbitration filing shared by Deadline.

“That person is not Alec Baldwin,” the filing argued, adding that Alec is just “an actor.”

Hilaria and Alec married in June 2012.

Alec Baldwin Set To Make Acting Comeback In Italian Christmas Comedies ‘Kid Santa’ & ‘Billie’s Magic World’

Deadline has confirmed that Baldwin and his brother William Baldwin are flying to Italy to shoot Kid Santa and Billie’s Magic World, two live-action and animation-hybrid family comedies. The Baldwins will be appearing in the live-action segments of the films.

The projects see Alec Baldwin re-team with filmmaker Francesco Cinquemani following the 2015 sci-fi Andron. That film’s producers, Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino of ILBE, are partnering with Minerva Pictures to produce the Christmas films.

Filming has now begun in Italian capital Rome on the two projects. The news was first reported by Italian news org ANSA.

On October 21 last year, Ukrainian-American DoP Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a live bullet in a prop gun that was discharged by Baldwin. The tragic incident has now led to a wide-reaching legal battle.

Alec Baldwin 'Rust' Contract Makes Me Untouchable

Baldwin's lawyers filed an arbitration claim, alleging his deal shields him from any financial responsibility in connection with Hutchins' death. What's more ... the lawyers say Baldwin's legal fees must be covered by the production as well.

But that's not all. In the docs, Baldwin says Hutchins is the one who told him how to position the gun, saying, "She directed Baldwin to hold the gun higher, to a point where it was directed toward her. She was looking carefully at the monitor and then at Baldwin, and then back again, as she gave these instructions."

The lawyers go on ... "In giving and following these instructions, Hutchins and Baldwin shared a core, vital belief: that the gun was 'cold' and contained no live rounds."

The attorneys also say Baldwin asked Hutchins if she wanted him to pull back the hammer ... the lawyers say Hutchins responded in the affirmative.

And, there's this ... the docs reference Baldwin's interactions with Hutchins' husband, Matthew shortly after the shooting. When Hutchins hugged Baldwin, the actor's lawyers say Hutchins said, "I guess we're going to go through this together."

That relationship blew up after Baldwin sat down with ABC News and not only absolved himself of responsibility, but blamed Halyna.

The docs say it's not the actor's responsibility to check a gun for live ammo ... the lawyers say it's the armorist's job.

As for liability because of Baldwin's Executive Producer title, the lawyers say his contract indemnifies him. Besides, the lawyers say, Baldwin was just a creative E.P.

As we reported, there were numerous safety concerns on the set, to the point some of the crew staged a walk-off.

Matthew Hutchins and his son are suing Baldwin and others for wrongful death.

Alec Baldwin: ‘Rust’ Lawsuits Targeting Those With Deep Pockets, Not The Actual Negligent Parties

Speaking Saturday at the Boulder International Film Festival, Baldwin told moderator Rod Bostwick “deep-pocket litigants” are being targeted, rather than those who were potentially negligent in the incident.

“What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever, on whatever side, who their attitude is, ‘Well, the people who likely seem negligent have no money and the people who have money are not negligent,’ ” Baldwin said, as reported by CNN.

Baldwin was working with a prop gun on the Rust set last fall when it fired, killing cinematographer Hutchins and wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza.

“All my career, without incident, I’ve relied on the safety experts there to declare the gun safe and never had a problem, and this happened,” Baldwin said.

“Of course, this is to me sometimes it’s, it’s so surreal, I don’t even know what to say,” Baldwin added. Hutchins’ family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Baldwin, the film’s production companies, its producers, and other crew members. At least two of the film’s crew members have also sued Baldwin and other production figures.

Baldwin talked of the support he’s received, pointing to his 40-years in entertainment without any safety issues.

“When someone, whose job is to ensure the safety of a weapon, hands someone else, whose job is to be the secondary layer of protection for safety of a weapon, and they hand you that weapon, you declare that that weapon is safe,” said Baldwin.

“That’s how I’ve done it my whole life because you’re not allowed as an actor to declare the weapon … I mean, the joke is, you don’t want the actors doing the safety check. They can’t even make coffee, they’re so stupid,” said the actor.

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Alec Baldwin & ‘Rust’ Producers Declare Wrongful Death Lawsuit “False”; Slain Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ Estate Sued Earlier Tuesday

This morning Hutchins estate attorney Brian Panish put blame on Rust producers and Baldwin for their negligence with safety during production of the Western that led to Hutchins being shot and killed by a prop gun discharged by the Oscar-nominated actor, an incident that also saw the pic’s director Joel Souza injured. Using an animated video to reconstruct the alleged incidents that occurred, Panish showed Baldwin cross-drawing and firing the gun straight at crew during a “line-up”.

“Everyone’s hearts and thoughts remain with Halyna’s family as they continue to process this unspeakable tragedy,” said Baldwin and Rust attorneys Aaron Dyer, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, “We continue to cooperate with the authorities to determine how live ammunition arrived on the Rust set in the first place.”

To date, the Sante Fe Sheriff’s Department hasn’t made any charges in the Rust tragic incident which occurred on Oct. 21, 2021.

“He (Baldwin), Halyna and the rest of the crew relied on the statement by the two professionals responsible for checking the gun that it was a ‘cold gun’ – meaning there is no possibility of a discharge, blank or otherwise,” the statement continued from team Rust.

“This protocol has worked on thousands of films, with millions of discharges, as there has never before been an incident on a set where an actual bullet harmed anyone,” concluded team Rust‘s remarks, “Actors should be able to rely on armorers and prop department professionals, as well as assistant directors, rather than deciding on their own when a gun is safe to use.”

Attorneys for the Hutchins’ estate argued that armorer Hannah Reed-Gutierrez wasn’t onsite in the church when Hutchins was shot, and that assistant director Dave Halls wasn’t qualified in weapon safety. In addition, they argue that Baldwin refused weapons training, and should have used a rubber prop gun. Additionally, there should have been protective glass in front of the crew, who were four feet away from Baldwin, or they should have been wearing protective gear, Panish argued this AM during a press conference.

“Defendant Baldwin, the Producers, and the Rust Production Companies were aware of firearms safety issues that had occurred on the set of Rust and did not take action to correct the situation and ensure that basic gun safety rules were followed on October 21, 2021,” the suit this morning from the Hutchins’ estate said. “Had Defendant Baldwin, the Producers, and the Rust Production Companies taken adequate precautions to ensure firearm safety on the set of Rust or if basic firearm safety rules had been followed on the set of Rust on October 21, 2021, Halyna Hutchins would be alive and well, hugging her husband and nine-year old son.”

Interwoven in the animated video that was shown by Hutchins’ family attorneys this morning were notes from crew members indicating tension on the set over the alleged misappropriation of safety. Prior to Hutchins’ death and Souza’s injury there were already two accidental weapon discharges and an explosive that went off between takes, per research amassed by Panish.

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Alec Baldwin To Narrate True-Crime Podcast ‘Art Fraud’ With Cavalry Audio & iHeartRadio

Baldwin will narrate Art Fraud, an eight-part series from his El Dorado Pictures and Cavalry Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio, that tells the story of The Knoedler.

It marks the first major project for the actor since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in October in on-set shooting of a prop gun being held by Baldwin, the film’s star and producer.

Art Fraud is written by Michael Shnayerson and based on his Vanity Fair article that chronicles the fall The Knoedler Gallery. In operation since 1846 and home to some of the city’s greatest artists, the gallery’s fortune changed the moment an unassuming woman walked through the door with a canvas under her arm allegedly painted by the Abstract Expressionist master Mark Rothko. So began a 17-year relationship that would result in the sale of nearly 40 paintings from the likes of Motherwell, de Kooning and Jackson Pollock totaling more than $80M. The only problem was that they were all fake.

Baldwin himself has history dealing with art fraud. In 2017, he won a seven-figure settlement against art gallery owner Mary Boone over a fake painting by contemporary artist Ross Bleckner.

The podcast, which launches on February 1, will feature never-before-heard interviews with the mastermind behind the years long con.

Baldwin and Shnayerson serve as exec producers alongside Cavalry Media’s Matt DelPiano and Keegan Rosenberger. Branden Morgan, Senior Podcast Producer at Cavalry Audio, serves as producer with Zach McNees as well as Nikki Ettore and Lindsay Hoffman for the iHeartPodcast Network

Cavalry Media has worked with Baldwin in the past on his own Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin podcast.

It comes after Cavalry Audio launched true-crime podcast The Devil Within, which has had more than 3.5M downloads and is being adapted into both scripted and non-scripted television series.

SPECIAL GUESTS AND STARS UNVEILED FOR NBC’S ‘CELEBRATING BETTY WHITE: AMERICA’S GOLDEN GIRL’

The special airs Monday, Jan. 31 at 10 p.m. and will be available the next day on Peacock.

Co-stars, friends, admirers and those who shared special moments with White recount their favorite memories and reveal untold stories to commemorate the life and legacy of the trailblazing television star. The telecast will include clips and never-before-seen footage that best capture White’s irreverent tone, spirit and impeccable comedic timing that are a hallmark of her decades-long career.

White was an Emmy, Grammy and SAG Award winner as well as being a tireless advocate for animals. With breakout performances in “Mary Tyler Moore” and “The Golden Girls,” she starred in two of the most popular comedies of all time and had hundreds of TV credits.

“Celebrating Betty White: America’s Golden Girl” is from Emmy-Award winning Brad Lachman Productions and is executive produced by Brad Lachman and Bill Bracken, and produced by Matt Lachman.

Kim Zimmer - One on One 2/2/22

Kim made her daytime television debut as Bonnie Harmon on ABC’s One Life to Live in 1978. In 1979, she replaced Kathleen Turner in the role of Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors before returning to the role of Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live. In 1983 Kim took Springfield by storm creating the iconic role of Reva Shayne on the long running Guiding Light. Kim played the part with everything she had for over 20 years earning four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress.

When Kim left Guiding Light in 1990 for five years, she joined the cast of Santa Barbara as Jodie DeWitt Walker and landed some memorable prime-time roles on Seinfeld, Designing Women and MacGyver to name a small few.

Kim has starred in several stage roles, including several at The Barn Theater in August, MI including Blood Brothers, Mama Mia, The Lion in Winter, Gypsy, Sunset Boulevard, Hello Dolly! to name a small few. Kim also joined the first North American tour of Broadway's Wicked where she played the role of Madame Morrible.

Kim has been married to A.C. Weary for almost 41 years and together they have three children Rachel, Max and Jake. Today Kim and A.C. enjoy spending time with their three grandchildren, Vincent, Ava and Reed.

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‘Thelma’: Kathy Bates, John Malkovich & Lewis Pullman To Star In Indie From Director Ken Kwapis

Thelma recounts the true story of the mother of John Kennedy Toole (Pullman), the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma (Bates) made it her life’s mission, through outrageous gamesmanship, to see the book published. She eventually succeeded in getting the manuscript into the hands of writer Walker Percy (Malkovich), who became the novel’s champion. It would be published in 1980, eleven years after Ken’s death, thereafter becoming a widely celebrated cult classic.

Black List screenwriter Andrew Farotte penned the original screenplay. Steven P. Wegner (Blade Runner 2049, The Blind Side) and Filmula’s Johnny Lin (American Made, Bernie) are producing the pic, with Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee handling casting.

“Thelma Toole is one of the most audacious characters I’ve ever encountered, and I can imagine no one better to bring her tenacity to life than Kathy Bates,” said Kwapis. “With rising star Lewis Pullman in the role of her gifted, if doomed, son and John Malkovich playing literary legend Walker Percy, I feel we’re putting together a real confederacy of brilliance.”

“We are thrilled that Kathy and John will be starring in the story of a fantastical woman who will stop at nothing to ensure the legacy of her talented son,” added Lin. “Aging and guilt-ridden, Thelma dedicates her life to finding a publisher in the hopes of redeeming herself and her son. Andrew Farotte has done a remarkable job of capturing Thelma’s life and pursuits, and we look forward to bringing this story to the masses.”

Bates landed her fourth Oscar nomination in 2020 for her turn in Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell. The actress nabbed her 13th Emmy nom in 2016 for the role of Hotel Cortez manager Iris in the fifth season of Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, American Horror Story, having won an Emmy for her work in the same series two years prior. She will next be seen in Kelly Fremon Craig’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic YA novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret for Lionsgate.

Malkovich earned his Oscar noms for the films In the Line of Fire and Places in the Heart, winning an Emmy back in 1986 for his portrayal of Biff Loman in a CBS adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic play, Death of a Salesman. The actor has recently appeared on the TV side in Steve Carell and Greg Daniels’ Netflix comedy Space Force and Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope. He’ll next be seen in a pair of thrillers: Luis Prieto’s Shattered and Randall Emmett’s Wash Me in the River.

Pullman will next be seen in the Amazon series Outer Range opposite Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor and Tom Pelphrey; Paramount’s anticipated Top Gun: Maverick opposite Tom Cruise; and as author Ben Mears in New Line’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem’s Lot. The actor has previousy appeared in films including Pink Skies Ahead, Bad Times at the El Royale, Battle of the Sexes and Lean on Pete, as well as the Hulu series Catch-22.

Kwapis came to exec produce series including Happyish, Outsourced and The Office, after producing both The Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle. He has directed features including A Walk in the Woods, He’s Just Not That Into You and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, as well as episodes of such series as #BlackAF, Santa Clarita Diet, The Dangerous Book for Boys, One Mississippi, Happyish, The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Bernie Mac Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Freaks and Geeks and The Larry Sanders Show. He most recently helmed the entire second season of Space Force, which he also exec produces. His memoir But What I Really Want To Do is Direct was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2020.

Farotte is a graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts who spent more than a decade as a producer of non-scripted television. His screenplay Francis & The Godfather was optioned by Echo Lake Entertainment and subsequently included on the 2015 Black List. He was then hired to pen a second screenplay for Echo Lake, as well as a television pilot for Double E Pictures and Freedom Road Entertainment. Farotte has also signed on to script a feature based on the life of public relations pioneer Edward Bernays for Rubicon Entertainment and producer Andrew Garfield.

Wegner is a former longtime Alcon production executive who is currently producing Sony Pictures’ animated reboot of Garfield, starring Chris Pratt.

Lin is the son of legendary producer and Royal Country Club owner Jimmy Lin and the founder of Filmula, the production company, financier, and distributor that has released more than 2,000 films to the pan-Asian market, with exclusive rights to distribute Miramax movies and television shows in Taiwan. He has exec produced titles including American Made and Bernie while producing such films as Hesher and Another Happy Day.

Barden and Schnee’s credits include Spotlight, Dallas Buyers Club, Winter’s Bone, The Help, Stillwater and the Pitch Perfect franchise.

Filmula and Lin are represented by Matthew Wallerstein of Hirsch Wallerstein; Kwapis by UTA and Code Management; Bates by ICM Partners and ID; Malkovich by WME; Pullman by ICM Partners, Anonymous Content and ID; Farotte by Jon Levin of Sustainable Imagination and Jeff Belkin of Zero Gravity Management; and Barden and Schnee by the Michael Moore Agency.

Alec Baldwin Finally Hands Over Phone To Police In ‘Rust’ Fatal Shooting Probe

Sought by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office to help determine what actually occurred on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set of the indie Western, the iPhone has been handed over to Suffolk Country police in New York state, near one of the multi-Emmy winner’s residences.

After much back and forth during the Christmas break with Santa Fe D.A.’s office over some of the private contents of the phone, Baldwin’s iPhone was delivered today. Now possessing the necessary password to unlock the phone, the Empire State police and other law enforcement will examine the device for what I’m told is “relevant information” before it is sent to the Land of Enchantment.

“Alec voluntarily provided his phone to the authorities this morning so they can finish their investigation,” the actor’s lawyer Aaron Dyer, told Deadline. “But this matter isn’t about his phone, and there are no answers on his phone,” the civil attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP added. “Alec did nothing wrong. It is clear that he was told it was a cold gun, and was following instructions when this tragic accident occurred. The real question that needs to be answered is how live rounds got on the set in the first place.”

Officials in the Suffolk County cop shop declined comment today on whether or not they had the phone, citing that the investigation was under the primary jurisdiction of Santa Fe law enforcement. “The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office does not yet have physical possession of the data to be retrieved off the Baldwin phone,” Public Information Officer Juan Rios said Friday, noting that evidence was being “gathered” by Suffolk County cops. “This is in process.”

Even with the nearly monthlong delay after the December 16 search warrant was approved by a New Mexico judge, camera chatty Baldwin in a January 8 Instagram post proclaimed his right to privacy. “Any suggestion that I am not complying with requests or orders or demands or search warrants about my phone, that’s bullsh*t, that’s a lie,” the actor said.

Insisting to ABC in early December that he never actually pulled the trigger on what he thought was a safe weapon, Baldwin’s gun fired and killed DP Hutchins and wounded Rust director Joel Souza on October 21 while the actor was practicing a “quick draw” move during a rehearsal in a church location on the set. Baldwin was interviewed by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. He was released with no conditions or restrictions.

Even as the civic lawsuits start to pile up and the search for how live rounds got on the set of the troubled $7 million-budgeted film continues, there have been no arrests or charges in the matter. Previous search warrants executed by Santa Fe police at the Rust set have found a number of weapons and, according to Sheriff Adan Mendoza, “500 rounds of ammunition … a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what we are suspecting are live rounds.”

SAG Awards Nominations

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

BELFAST
CAITRÍONA BALFE / Ma
JUDI DENCH / Granny
JAMIE DORNAN / Pa
JUDE HILL / Buddy
CIARÁN HINDS / Pop
COLIN MORGAN / Billy Clanton

CODA
EUGENIO DERBEZ / Bernardo Villalobos
DANIEL DURANT / Leo Rossi
EMILIA JONES / Ruby Rossi
TROY KOTSUR / Frank Rossi
MARLEE MATLIN / Jackie Rossi
FERDIA WALSH-PEELO / Miles

DON’T LOOK UP
CATE BLANCHETT / Brie Evantee
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET / Yule
LEONARDO DiCAPRIO / Dr. Randall Mindy
ARIANA GRANDE / Riley Bina
JONAH HILL / Jason Orlean
JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Kate Dibiasky
MELANIE LYNSKEY / June Mindy
SCOTT MESCUDI / DJ Chello
ROB MORGAN / Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe
HIMESH PATEL / Phillip
RON PERLMAN / Benedict Drask
TYLER PERRY / Jack Bremmer
MARK RYLANCE / Peter Isherwell
MERYL STREEP / President Orlean

HOUSE OF GUCCI
ADAM DRIVER / Maurizio Gucci
LADY GAGA / Patrizia Reggiani
SALMA HAYEK / Pina Auriemma
JACK HUSTON / Domenico De Sole
JEREMY IRONS / Rodolfo Gucci
JARED LETO / Paolo Gucci
AL PACINO / Aldo Gucci

KING RICHARD
JON BERNTHAL / Rick Macci
AUNJANUE ELLIS / Oracene “Brandi” Williams
TONY GOLDWYN / Paul Cohen
SANIYYA SIDNEY / Venus Williams
DEMI SINGLETON / Serena Williams
WILL SMITH / Richard Williams

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
ALEXIS BLEDEL / Emily Malek
MADELINE BREWER / Janine Lindo
AMANDA BRUGEL / Rita Blue
ANN DOWD / Aunt Lydia Clements
O-T FAGBENLE / Luke Bankole
JOSEPH FIENNES / Commander Fred Waterford
SAM JAEGER / Mark Tuello
MAX MINGHELLA / Commander Nick Blaine
ELISABETH MOSS / June Osborne/Offred
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI / Serena Joy Waterford
BRADLEY WHITFORD / Commander Joseph Lawrence
SAMIRA WILEY / Moira Strand

THE MORNING SHOW
JENNIFER ANISTON / Alex Levy
SHARI BELAFONTE / Julia
ELI BILDNER / Joel Rapkin
NESTOR CARBONELL / Yanko Flores
STEVE CARELL / Mitch Kessler
BILLY CRUDUP / Cory Ellison
MARK DUPLASS / Charlie “Chip” Black
AMBER FRIENDLY / Layla Bell
JANINA GAVANKAR / Alison Namazi
VALERIA GOLINO / Paola Lambruschini
TARA KARSIAN / Gayle Berman
HANNAH LEDER / Isabella
GRETA LEE / Stella Bak
JULIANNA MARGULIES / Laura Peterson
JOE MARINELLI / Donny Spagnoli
MICHELLE MEREDITH / Lindsey Sherman
RUAIRI O’CONNOR / Ty Fitzgerald
JOE PACHECO / Bart Daley
KAREN PITTMAN / Mia Jordan
VICTORIA TATE / Rena Robinson
DESEAN K. TERRY / Daniel Henderson
REESE WITHERSPOON / Bradley Jackson

SQUID GAME
HEO SUNG-TAE / Deok-su
JUN YOUNG-SOO / Game Operator Voice
JUNG HO-YEON / Kang Sae-byeok
KIM JOO-RYOUNG / Mi-nyeo
LEE BYUNG-HUN / Front Man
LEE JUNG-JAE / Seong Gi-hun
OH YOUNG-SOO / Oh Il-nam
PARK HAE-SOO / Cho Sang-woo
ANUPAM TRIPATHI / Ali
WI HA-JUN / Hwang Jun-ho

SUCCESSION
NICHOLAS BRAUN / Greg Hirsch
JULIANA CANFIELD / Jess Jordan
BRIAN COX / Logan Roy
KIERAN CULKIN / Roman Roy
DAGMARA DOMINCZYK / Karolina Novotney
PETER FRIEDMAN / Frank Vernon
JIHAE / Berry Schneider
JUSTINE LUPE / Willa
MATTHEW MACFADYEN / Tom Wambsgans
DASHA NEKRASOVA / Comfrey Pellits
SCOTT NICHOLSON / Colin
DAVID RASCHE / Karl Muller
ALAN RUCK / Connor Roy
J. SMITH-CAMERON / Gerri Kellman
SARAH SNOOK / Shiv Roy
FISHER STEVENS / Hugo Baker
JEREMY STRONG / Kendall Roy
ZOË WINTERS / Kerry Castellabate

YELLOWSTONE
KELSEY ASBILLE / Monica Dutton
WES BENTLEY / Jamie Dutton
RYAN BINGHAM / Walker
GIL BIRMINGHAM / Thomas Rainwater
IAN BOHEN / Ryan
EDEN BROLIN / Mia
KEVIN COSTNER / John Dutton
HUGH DILLON / Sheriff Donnie Haskell
LUKE GRIMES / Kayce Dutton
HASSIE HARRISON / Laramie
COLE HAUSER / Rip Wheeler
JEN LANDON / Teeter
FINN LITTLE / Carter
BRECKEN MERRILL / Tate Dutton
WILL PATTON / Garrett Randle
PIPER PERABO / Summer Higgins
KELLY REILLY / Beth Dutton
DENIM RICHARDS / Colby
TAYLOR SHERIDAN / Travis
FORRIE J. SMITH / Lloyd
JEFFERSON WHITE / Jimmy Hurdstrom

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

THE GREAT
JULIAN BARRATT / Dr. Vinodel
BELINDA BROMILOW / Aunt Elizabeth
SACHA DHAWAN / Orlo
ELLE FANNING / Catherine
PHOEBE FOX / Marial
BAYO GBADAMOSI / Arkady
ADAM GODLEY / Archbishop
DOUGLAS HODGE / Velementov
NICHOLAS HOULT / Peter
FLORENCE KEITH-ROACH / Tatyana
GWILYM LEE / Grigor Dymov
CHARITY WAKEFIELD / Georgina

HACKS
ROSE ABDOO / Josefina
CARL CLEMONS-HOPKINS / Marcus Vaughan
PAUL W. DOWNS / Jimmy Lusaque, Jr.
HANNAH EINBINDER / Ava Daniels
MARK INDELICATO / Damien
POPPY LIU / Kiki
CHRIS McDONALD / Marty Ghilain
JEAN SMART / Deborah Vance
MEGAN STALTER / Kayla Schaeffer

THE KOMINSKY METHOD
JENNA LYNG ADAMS / Darshani
SARAH BAKER / Mindy Kominsky
CASEY THOMAS BROWN / Lane
MICHAEL DOUGLAS / Sandy Kominsky
LISA EDELSTEIN / Phoebe
ASHLEIGH LaTHROP / Breana
EMILY OSMENT / Theresa
HALEY JOEL OSMENT / Robbie
PAUL REISER / Martin
GRAHAM ROGERS / Jude
MELISSA TANG / Margaret
KATHLEEN TURNER / Roz

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
AARON DOMINGUEZ / Oscar
SELENA GOMEZ / Mabel Mora
JACKIE HOFFMAN / Uma Heller
JAYNE HOUDYSHELL / Bunny
STEVE MARTIN / Charles-Haden Savage
AMY RYAN / Jan
MARTIN SHORT / Oliver Putnam

TED LASSO
ANNETTE BADLAND / Mae
KOLA BOKINNI / Isaac McAdoo
PHIL DUNSTER / Jamie Tartt
CRISTO FERNÁNDEZ / Dani Rojas
BRETT GOLDSTEIN / Roy Kent
BRENDAN HUNT / Coach Beard
TOHEEB JIMOH / Sam Obisanya
NICK MOHAMMED / Nathan Shelley
SARAH NILES / Dr. Sharon Fieldstone
JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso
JEREMY SWIFT / Leslie Higgins
JUNO TEMPLE / Keeley Jones
HANNAH WADDINGHAM / Rebecca Welton

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RECURRING CAST includes: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum)

The Nana Project’: Mercedes Ruehl, Nolan Gould & Will Peltz To Star In Mockumentary From Director Robin Givens

The film is set primarily in Timeless Acres Retirement Home and follows feisty chess master Helen “Nana” Lewis (Ruehl) and her estranged grandsons, Andrew (Gould) and Cody (Peltz). With the support of Nana’s resident friends, the family embarks on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.

Givens’ latest feature was written by Eric Ulloa (Jekyll and Hyde, Nickelodeon/Noggin’s Meet the Alpha Beats), Anthony Del Negro (The Girl in the Window) and 12-time Tony Award winner Carl Moellenberg (Wakefield). The latter is also producing on behalf of Dominion Pictures alongside Zach O’Brien, Shane O’Brien and Del Negro on behalf of Stargazer Films.

Givens recently directed episodes of The CW’s Riverdale, along with the TV movies The Jenkins Family Christmas and Ann Rule’s A Murder to Remember. Her recent credits on the acting side include Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime drama KIMI, The CW’s Batwoman (in which she plays Jada Jet) and The CW’s Riverdale.

Ruehl earned her Oscar and Golden Globe in 1992 for her supporting turn as Anne in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King. The actress has also appeared on the film side in Hustlers, Last Action Hero, Lost in Yonkers, Another You, Married to the Mob, Big and Radio Days, among other titles, appearing on the TV side in Bull, Power, Frasier and more.

Gould is a four-time SAG Award winner best known for his turn as Luke Dunphy in ABC’s Modern Family. He’s also featured in series including Sofia the First and Good Luck Charlie, along with films including The To Do List and Friends with Benefits.

Peltz has previously appeared in films including 13 Minutes, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Men, Women & Children and Unfriended, as well as such series as Manifest and Euphoria.

Givens is represented by A3 Artists Agency and Kaplan-Stahler Agency; Ruehl by Sue Leibman of Barking Dog Entertainment and Peikoff-Mahan; Gould by Artists & Representatives, MC Talent Management, The Brand Partners and Myman Greenspan Fox; Peltz by Innovative Artists and Management Production Entertainment.

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RECURRING CAST: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum).

Alec Baldwin’s iPhone Sought By Police In ‘Rust’ Fatal Shooting Probe

“Affiant is requesting a warrant for the seizure and search of Alec Baldwins’ cell phone to search for any evidence relating to the death investigation of Halyna Hutchins,” said Sheriff’s Office Det. Alexandria Hancock in an search warrant approved by a judge today.

“Affiant believes there may be evidence on the phone, due to individuals using cellular phones during and/or after the commission of crime(s),” the affidavit goes on to say. “Such information, if it exists, may be material and relevant to this investigation. Affiant was also made aware there were several emails and text messages sent and received regarding the movie production Rust in the course of interviews”

Even though Baldwin has been communicating with Det. Hancock during the police probe of the October 21 tragedy, the Rust star/producer’s lawyers refused to hand over the requested phone without an explicit warrant — which the cops now have.

And they may have more on the man who was holding the 1880s gun that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.

“Affiant has not included every fact related to this investigation, but has included only those facts Affiant believes are necessary to establish probable cause, for the issuance of a search warrant for the above mentioned device,” Det Hancock noted in her successful search warrant bid.

Interviewed on a number of occasions by the Sheriff[s Office, Baldwin in a sit-down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos earlier this month declared that he “did not pull the trigger” of the gun that killed Rust DP Hutchins. The Oscar nominated actor said, “had no idea” how a live bullet made its way onto the set. Following that interview, Baldwin deleted his Twitter account.

Baldwin told Stephanopoulos that he’s “highly unlikely” to face criminal charges over the fatal shooting of Hutchins, but the Santa Fe District Attorney hasn’t ruled out the option.

Last Friday, a New Mexico judge ordered that the First Assistant Director Dave Halls, who told Baldwin that the pistol being handled on set was a “cold gun”, was subpoenaed by District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid after he ducked various attempts to be interviewed by an Occupational Safety and Health probe into Rust.

In addition to Halls, another person being questioned on the tragic incident is the pic’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Her attorney Jason Bowles, as well as her veteran film industry armorer father, Thell Reed, in an ABC News interview earlier this month, are pushing a theory that sabotage is to blame for the loaded gun on the Rust set. Thell Reed said that his daughter stayed outside the church where the rehearsal took place that resulted in Hutchins’ death; that it was the first time since cameras rolled that Gutierrez-Reed didn’t directly hand the gun to Baldwin.

Reed told ABC that that had his daughter been inside the church, “She would have re checked that gun, and if there was a live round in there she would have caught it.”

Reed also defended his daughter’s experience, saying that “she has been raised around gun safety since she was a little girl.”

Bowles said that Gutierrez-Reed “had spun the cylinder, she had given it to Halls, she had shown him each of the six rounds. Halls was going to take custody of that weapon.” He said that sabotage “is the most likely possibility. Probability.” He has previously said that he believes that someone may have “intended to sabotage this set with a live round intentionally placed in a box of dummies.”

Looking to counter any notion that the Rust set was a dangerous one are 25 crew members who wrote a public letter, that was re-posted on Baldwin’s Instagram on Dec. 9 who “believe the public narrative surrounding our workplace tragedy to be inadequate and wish to express a more accurate account of our experience.”

“The descriptions of Rust as a chaotic, dangerous and exploitative workplace are false and distract from what matters the most: the memory of (DP) Halyna Hutchins, and the need to find modern alternatives to outdated industry firearm and safety practices,” the note further read.

“Unfortunately, in the film industry, it is common to work on unprofessional or hectic productions to gain experience and credits,” the note continued, “Many of us have worked on those types of productions. Rust was not one of them. Rust was professional.”

Alec Baldwin Says He’s Been Told It’s ‘Highly Unlikely” He’ll Be Criminally Charged In ‘Rust’ On-Set Shooting

“I have been told by people who are in the know, in terms of even inside the state, that it’s highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally,” he said.

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies has not ruled out criminal charges as the investigation continues.

Baldwin sat down with Stephanopoulos for his first extensive interview since the Oct. 21 fatal incident on the set of Rust at a location near Santa Fe, NM. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when the antique Colt .45 revolver that Baldwin was using during a dress rehearsal discharged.

During the interview, which aired in primetime Thursday as a one hour special titled Alec Baldwin Unscripted, the actor grew emotional at points, breaking down as he described Hutchins and the passion that she had for her work.

Baldwin said that Hutchins had been guiding him during the rehearsal on the set on Oct. 21, as she was “marking” scene for shooting angles.

He said that he advised Hutchins, “Now, in this scene, I am going to cock the gun.”

“So I take the gun and I start to cock the gun. I’m not going to pull the trigger. I said, ‘Did you see that?’ [She said] ‘Well, just cheat it down and tilt it down a little bit like that.'” Baldwin said that the gun “ended up being aimed right below her armpit.”

“And I cocked the gun and go, ‘Can you see that? Can you see that? And I let go of the hammer on the gun, and the gun goes off.”

In the immediate aftermath, Baldwin said that it was not immediately clear what had happened.

Everyone is horrified. They’re shocked. It’s loud,” he said. “They don’t have their earplugs in. The gun was supposed to be empty. I was told I was handed an empty gun, if there were cosmetic rounds, nothing with a charge at all.”

Baldwin said that after Hutchins was struck by the bullet, “I thought to myself, ‘Did she faint?’ The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me for probably 45 minutes to an hour later.” He thought that Hutchins perhaps may have been struck by wadding that comes out of a blank cartridge.

“No one could understand. Did she have a heart attack? The idea that someone put a live bullet in the gun was not even in reality,” Baldwin said.

Souza was standing behind Hutchins and also had been struck.

He said that he stood over her for about 60 seconds “and she just laid there kind of in shock.” He said that she was still conscious. The set was then cleared and medics were brought in, he said.

Baldwin said that he has no idea how live ammunition got in the gun or even on the set.

“Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property,” he said.

Stephanopoulos asked him whether he didn’t check the gun himself. George Clooney had said that he does that when he is handed a gun on a set.

“What I was taught years ago by someone was, if I took a gun, and I popped a clip out of a gun or manipulated the chamber, they would take the gun away from me and redo it,” Baldwin said. “The prop master said, ‘Don’t do that.’ When I was young. One thing that they said was ‘We don’t want to be the actor to be the last line of defense against a catastrophic breach safety with the gun.”

In a nod to Clooney’s comment, Baldwin also pushed back on those who have weighed in on the incident, which he said “really didn’t help the situation at all.”

ABC News released a trailer of the special on Wednesday in which Baldwin said that he “didn’t pull the trigger” of the gun, a clip that was certainly tantalizing to draw in viewers, but a bit of an odd tease for a tragic incident with the investigation ongoing. On Thursday, an attorney for “Rust” assistant director David Halls said that her client backed up Baldwin’s claim that he didn’t pull the trigger.

“I didn’t pull the trigger. No, no, no, no, no. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. Never. That was the training I had. You don’t point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. On day one of the instruction I had in this business, never take a gun and go click, click, click. click. that was the training that I had. You don’t want to go and pull trigger. On day one of my instruction in this business people said to me, never take the gun and go click click click click click. Because even though it’s incremental, you damage the firing pin on the gun if you do that. Don’t do that.”

Baldwin said that he was “handed a gun and someone declares, ‘This is a cold gun.'” Stephanopoulos asked if that was Dave Halls, the first assistant director, and Baldwin responded that it was.

“In my years on the sets of films ‘hot’ meant that there was a charge and ‘cold’ gun meant that there was nothing in there.”

When he’s saying, ‘This is a cold gun, what he’s saying to everybody on the set is, ‘You can relax because it’s empty.’ … A cold gun means there is no charge in there. There could be dummy rounds.”

Baldwin said that he had “no idea” as to “what happened there, and why he made that statement, and what the realities were.”

According to ABC News, Halls’ attorney Lisa Torraco said that checking the gun was not her client’s responsibility. She did not confirm that it was Halls who handed Baldwin the weapon.

Baldwin said that he decided to sit down for the interview in part to counter some of the statements that have been by others about what happened on the set.

Two civil lawsuit have been filed against the production, including one by the script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, and another by chief lighting technician Serge Svetnoy. Both lawsuits have named Baldwin, who also was a producer on the movie. More litigation is expected.

In the interview, Baldwin made a distinction between the type of producer that he was and that of a more active line producer. But he also said that he was not aware of crew concerns about safety on the set.

“I never heard one word about that. None,” he said.

Earlier on Oct. 21, Lane Luper, the first camera assistant on the film, walked off the set with six other crew members in protest of poor working conditions. Baldwin said that he spoke to Luper the day before, and while he talked of the need for better hotel rooms closer to the location, he “didn’t raise safety issues.” Baldwin said that he would have been willing to give up some of his salary to pay for the improved accommodations. He instead suggested that the crew members who walked out “decided to renegotiate the contract in the middle of filming.”

Baldwin also distanced himself from the decision to hire Hannah Gutierrez-Reed as the film’s armorer, responsible for handling the weapons. He said that he was told by her that after using a gun for a scene or rehearsal, “you give the gun to me or Halls.” He said that he had an hour and a half safety demonstration with her on Oct. 12.

While Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney has raised the possibility that someone may have tried to sabotage the set by placing a live round in a box of dummy rounds, Baldwin seemed to reject that possibility.

Baldwin said that he met Hutchins widowed husband, Matthew, and their nine-year-old son. He said they went to dinner and they went to the memorial service together.

“I have communicated with him a couple times since then, but I do believe he has gone off in a direction where he is not going to communicate with people at the advice of his lawyer right now,” he said.

Baldwin also said that his career “could be” over after what happened, and that he has dreams about what happened “constantly.”

“Do you feel guilt?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“No. No. I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me. Honest to God, if I felt that I was responsible, I might have killed myself if I felt that I was responsible. And I don’t say that lightly.”

Stephanopoulos did ask Baldwin about what Donald Trump has said about the incident. The former president, who at times attacked Baldwin’s imitation of him on Saturday Night Live, suggested that the actor may have shot Hutchins deliberately.

Baldwin told Stephanopoulos, “I thought to myself, just when you think that things can’t get more surreal, here’s the former president of the United States making a comment on this tragic situation.”

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RECURRING CAST includes: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum).

Alec Baldwin Gives First Post-‘Rust’ Movie Shooting TV Interview To ABC – Report

Baldwin, of course, has close ties with ABC via Match Game, which he hosts. He also has longtime links to NBC via his work with Lorne Michaels on SNL and 30 Rock.

One day after the October 21 shooting, Baldwin posted a brief statement to social media. “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,” Baldwin tweeted. “I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.”

On Oct. 30, Alec Baldwin told a group of paparazzi following him in Vermont that the Rust production was “well-oiled” despite weapons discharges and crew resignations before the fatal shooting of Hutchins.

“A woman died,” the actor told the paparazzi. “She was my friend. She was my friend. The day I arrived in Santa Fe to start shooting, I took her to dinner with Joel, the director. We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together and then this horrible event happened.”

He followed that up on Nov. 2 by reposting on his Instagram the lengthy Facebook post by Rust costume designer Terese Magpale Davis who defended the indie Western, writing claims of “unsafe, chaotic conditions are bullsh*t.”

There is no announced air date or timeslot for the Baldwin sit down.

Alec Baldwin To Be Represented By Attorney Aaron S. Dyer In ‘Rust’ Civil Suits

Baldwin fatally shot Hutchins while filming at Santa Fe, NM’s Bonanza Creek Ranch on October 21. He did so with a prop gun that assistant director Dave Halls told him was “cold,” which in fact contained at least one live round of ammunition. Also injured on the set of the film produced by and starring Baldwin was director Joel Souza.

Thus far, two lawsuits have been filed in the aftermath of the tragic incident. Script supervisor Mamie Mitchell filed a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing “physical and emotional injuries” she’d suffered as a result of the events on the Rust set, which named Baldwin, along with other producers and crew members. Also filing suit was gaffer Serge Svetnoy, who claimed to have suffered similar harm, having likewise been in close proximity to Baldwin when he fired the fatal shot. Mitchell is being represented by attorney Gloria Allred; Svetnoy, by Gary A. Dordick.

While Hutchins’ husband and son are repped by attorney Brian J. Panish, they have not yet filed suit. Whether Baldwin will face criminal charges for the shooting on the set of Rust is not yet clear. Investigations into the fatality on the set of Rust, on the part of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and OSHA, are ongoing.

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Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ Producers, Armorer & First AD Sued For “General Negligence” By Film’s Gaffer Over Fatal Shooting

Seeking a wide range of unspecified damages, Rust gaffer Serge Svetnoy has filed a complaint of general negligence against the production, the financiers, star Alec Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, first Assistant Director David Halls and many more.

“This incident was caused by the negligent acts and omossion of Defendants, and each of them, as well as their agents, principals, and employers,” the complaint states. “Simply put, there was no reason for a live bullet to be placed in that .45 Colt revolver to be present anywhere on the Rust set, and the presence of a bullet in a revolver posed a lethal threat to everyone in its vicinity,” it continues in blunt terms (read it here).

Handed what he was told was a “cold gun” by First AD Halls during a “quick draw” rehearsal at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe last month, Baldwin let off what police now call “live rounds” – killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

The complaint goes on to say:

Defendants, and each of them, among other acts of negligence, failed to implement and maintain industry standards for custody and control over firearms used on the Rust Set, allowed real bullets to be present on the Rust set, failed to properly inspect the subject firearm for safety before passing it along the chain of custody to an actor, allowed a firearm to be loaded with or otherwise contain a live bullet, failed to observe basic gun safety practices on the Rust set, allowed a revolver loaded with live ammunition to be pointed at living persons on the Rust set, failed to hire a competent and experienced armorer for Rust, failed to hire an adequate support crew for the production’s armorer, and failed to implement appropriate safety standards and measures on the Rust movie production.

Defendants, and each of them, by their negligent conduct describer below, failed to act with reasonable care, violated relevant and prevailing industry standards, and negligently exercised their assigned and assumed duties in the filming of this motion picture. Those duties encompassed responsibilities and required maintaining an industry-appropriate standard of care to prevent just this type of occurrence. These failures caused and contributed to the discharge of a live bullet on the Rust set and the resulting damages to Plaintiff and others.

The 25-page document placed in the docket in LA Superior Court today desires a jury trial. The production has not responded to request for comment from Deadline on the suit. If and when they do, we will update.

On set when the tragedy occurred that saw Hutchins killed and director Joel Souza injured, Svetnoy was one of the few Rust crew members to speak out publicly about what went sideways on set as many quickly became silenced due to the ongoing probe by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office.

In a Facebook post on Oct. 24, Sevetnoy called out “the person who was supposed to check the weapon on the site did not do this; the person who had to announce that the loaded gun was on the site did not do this; the person who should have checked this weapon before bringing it to the set did not do it.”

“To save a dime sometimes,” Svetnoy continued, “you hire people who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job, and you risk the lives of the other people who are close and your lives as well. I understand that you always fight for the budget, but you cannot allow this to happen. … It is true that the professionals can cost a little more and sometimes can be a little bit more demanding, but it is worth it. No saved penny is worth the LIFE of the person!”

“Yes, I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Halyna during this fatal shot that took her life and injured the director Joel Souza,” Svetnoy writers. “I was holding her in my arms while she was dying. Her blood was on my hands.”

Svetnoy did not specifically name Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed in his Facebook rant.

“I’m sure that we had the professionals in every department, but one – the department that was responsible for the weapons. There is no way a twenty-four-year-old woman can be a professional with armory; there is no way that her more-or-less the same-aged friend from school, neighborhood, Instagram, or God knows where else, can be a professional in this field.

“Professionals are the people who have spent years on sets, people who know this job from A to Z; These are the people who have the safety on set at the level of reflexes; they do not need to be told to put the sandbag on a tripod, fix the ladder on the stage, or fence off the explosion site. They have it in their blood.”

Last month Svetnoy also made sure to name the producers: “To save a dime sometimes, you hire people who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job, and you risk the lives of the other people who are close and your lives as well.

“I understand that you always fight for the budget, but you cannot allow this to happen. There should always be at least one professional in each department who knows the job. It is an absolute must to avoid such a tragedy, like the tragedy with Halyna.”

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RECURRING CAST: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Ben Vereen (Peter), Priscilla Lopez (Meredith), Jim Beaver (Spencer), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum), D.B. Sweeney (Bert).

Alec Baldwin Speaks Out On Halyna Hutchins: “She Was My Friend”

Baldwin and wife Hilaria, who was filming his interaction, pulled over to talk in Manchester, Vermont.

In the course of the four-minute conversation with the group, Baldwin claimed Hutchins “was my friend” and said he had dinner with her and the director on the first day of filming.

“A woman died,” he said. “She was my friend. She was my friend. The day I arrived in Santa Fe to start shooting, I took her to dinner with Joel, the director. We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together and then this horrible event happened.”

Baldwin told photographers he had been told by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office “not to talk about the investigation.” He said he was “eagerly awaiting for the sheriff’s department’ to release their findings,” and said he “talks to the cops every day.”

Hilaria Baldwin interjected when a photographer stuttered Hutchins’ name, rebuking them that “You should know her name. Halyna, her name is Halyna. If you’re spending this much time waiting for us…”

Both Baldwins then said, “You should know her name.”

Baldwin said he “wouldn’t know how to characterize” his meeting with Matthew Hutchins, Halyna’s husband, and her eight-year-old son, Andros.

Several times, Alec Baldwin was interrupted by Hilaria, who reminded him, “You know what, no details.”

But at one point, Alec Baldwin took control, telling her, “Do me a favor. I’m going to answer the questions.” He then said that Matthew Hutchins was “overwhelmed with grief.” .

Baldwin also called the on-set shooting “one in a trillion,” and called for “new measures” to enforce set safety. “How many bullets have been fired in films and tv shows in the last 75 years?” he said. “This is America. Probably billions. And nearly all of them without incident.”

“It’s urgent for you to understand that I am not an expert in this field,’ he said. It’s “whatever other people” decide.

The couple then asked photographers to stop following them after they talked “out of courtesy,” and asked for cameras to be turned off.

Val Bisoglio Dies: Character Actor Who Played Father In ‘Saturday Night Fever’, Appeared On ‘Quincy, M.E.’ & ‘Sopranos’ Was 95

His wife Bonnie Bisoglio said the actor died October 18 of Lewy body dementia at his home near San Olivos, CA.

Born on May 7, 1926, in Manhattan, Bisoglio began his screen career with guest roles on series including Bonanza and Mayberry R.F.D. By the early 1970s, he appeared on such popular TV fare as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, The Partridge Family, Mannix and Love, American Style. He landed his first series-regular role on the short-lived CBS sitcom Roll Out in 1973.

He scored a second series-regular gig on a CBS sitcom, Working Stiffs, playing the owner of a Chicago office building where his sons — played by Michael Keaton and Jim Belushi — worked as janitors. It lasted a half-season in 1979.

Meanwhile, the actor continued to pile up guest credits on top ’70s TV shows including Kojak, Baretta, Ironside, Barney Miller, Police Woman, McCloud, The Rockford Files and Starsky and Hutch and into the ’80s on M*A*S*H, B.J. and the Bear and The Fall Guy.

Bisoglio had appeared in a handful of movies by 1977, when he was cast as the disapproving father of Travolta’s Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, the low-budget film that helped propel disco in the mainstream. His Frank Manero character famously whacked his son on the head multiple times, mussing the boy’s well-tended hair, during a memorable dinner scene.

That led to a role as Chief Gray Cloud opposite Gene Wilder in the 1979 comedy Western The Frisco Kid.

Along with Saturday Night Fever, Bisoglio might be best remembered for his role as restaurant owner Danny Tovo on Quincy, M.E., the 1976 NBC drama that starred Klugman as a medical examiner in Los Angeles. The title character lived on a boat in Marina del Rey and would frequent Danny’s, the eatery run by Bisoglio’s character.

The show premiered in a 90-miniute format as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie and became a weekly series in early 1977. It wasn’t a breakout hit ratings-wise and would bounce around the network’s schedule but proved popular enough to run for eight season, wrapping in 1983.

After Quincy, Bisoglio guested on Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice and Life Goes On before landing a three-episode arc on one of TV’s greatest dramas. He was cast in 2002 on HBO’s The Sopranos as Murphy “Murf” Lupo, an elderly former capo of Junior Soprano who is brought in to replace the departed Philly Parisi. The stint didn’t go well for Murf, and he was replaced by Bobby Bacala. It would be Bisoglio’s final screen credit.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by sons Joseph Bisoglio and Scott Chapman. No memorial or funeral service plans were announced.

‘Flint: Who Can You Trust?’ Documentary Narrated By Alec Baldwin Sees Release Date Postponed Indefinitely Following ‘Rust’ Tragedy

Flint had previously been set to open on Friday in cities across North America, including Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto, with a digital release scheduled for November through Cargo Film & Releasing. Montrose Pictures and Cargo announced the delay on Monday, with director Anthony Baxter sharing a statement.

“Out of the deepest respect for all those affected by this terrible tragedy, we feel now is not the time to release FLINT: Who Can You Trust?” said Baxter. “The film sheds a crucial spotlight on the ongoing plight of Flint residents because of the water disaster. However, we will now be positioning the film for release in the US at a future date.”

While the film’s producers had been raising funds via Kickstarter, in hopes of bringing it to dozens of additional cities, that campaign has also been halted “out of respect, following recent events.”

Hutchins died on Friday following the accident at Albuquerque’s Bonanza Creek Ranch. Investigations into the incident are ongoing. Like Flint‘s release, production on Rust has been indefinitely postponed.

Alec Baldwin On Halyna Hutchins’ Tragic Death: “There Are No Words”

“There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,” he wrote. “I am fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.”

The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department confirmed Thursday night that Baldwin “discharged” the prop gun that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the set of the Western feature film on location in New Mexico. Hutchins died after being airlifted to an Albuquerque hospital. Souza was treated and has been released.

Criminal Investigators were called to the scene at the Bonanza Creek Ranch set just outside Santa Fe on Thursday afternoon. Sources say Baldwin, unaware of the type of ammunition in the gun, cocked it, hitting Souza, 48 and Hutchins, 42. The entire location went under lockdown during the investigation.

Baldwin was questioned by investigators Thursday and released, Deadline understands. No charges in the matter have been filed.

As of now, law enforcement does not know if the prop gun contained a “live single round,” despite claims from a Los Angeles IATSE Local.

“We haven’t even begun the forensics on that issue,” Sante Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Rios told Deadline today. “That hasn’t been determined by us as of yet. We expect to have more information next week as our investigation continues.”

IATSE Local 44 sent an email to members late Friday alleging that there were more than blanks in the prop gun, adding that none of its members were part of the crew of the indie Western.

IATSE Says Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Prop Gun Had Live Round; Cops Say “Hasn’t Been Determined”

“We haven’t even begun the forensics on that issue,” Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Rios told Deadline this morning. “That hasn’t been determined by us as of yet,” he added. “We expect to have more information next week as our investigation continues.”

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by the weapon Rust star-producer Baldwin “discharged” on Thursday on location just outside Santa Fe. Director Joel Souza was also injured and taken to a local hospital; he has since been released. Baldwin was questioned by the police after the incident and released later in the day. “No arrests or charges have been filed,” the Sheriff’s department has said.

Halyna Hutchins’ Agency Praises ‘Rust’ DP: “Her Talent Was Immense”

Late last night, as details were still emerging of what happened on the Rust set, IATSE Local 44 sent out an email to members alleging there were more than blanks in the prop gun.

Dear Members,

As many of us have already heard, there was an accidental weapons discharge on a production titled Rust being filmed in New Mexico. A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halyna Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza. Both were rushed to the hospital. Unfortunately, we lost Sister Hutchins who passed from the wound.

Local 44 has confirmed that the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by New Mexico crew members. There were no Local 44 members on the call sheet.

On behalf of Local 44’s Officers, Executive Board and Staff, our thoughts and prayers go out to Halyna and her family. We also send good thoughts to Joel and his family for a full recovery.

In Solidarity,

Anthony Pawluc
Secretary-Treasurer
IATSE Local 44

According to sources close to events, the union local believes there was a “live single round” in the prop gun because of the amount of damage the blast caused to Hutchins and to Souza, who supposedly was standing behind the DP when the shot struck her.

Hector Elizondo & Anna Maria Horsford recur on B Positive 11/11/21

RECURRING CAST include: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum).

Anna Maria Horsford & Hector Elizondo recur on B Positive 11/4/21

RECURRING CAST includes: Hector Elizondo (Harry), Jane Seymour (Bette), Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum).

Soap Actor Patrick Horgan Dead at 92

Born in Nottingham, England, Horgan’s career began in the ‘50s with appearances on BBC Sunday Night Theatre and THE GENTLE FALCON. The ‘70s brought his career to soaps, where from 1970-74, he played Dr. John Morrison on THE DOCTORS, and from 1978-79, Thatcher Ross on RYAN’S HOPE. In the ‘80s, he played Neil Blake on GUIDING LIGHT and then Anton Cunningham on AS THE WORLD TURNS. His final daytime role was playing Andrew Berryman and Arthur Vandenburg on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in 1985 and 1995, respectively.

In addition to his daytime roles, Horgan could be found guest-starring in numerous primetime series over his decades-long career in acting. Viewers can see him in episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, GREEN ACRES, STAR TREK, THE WILD WILD WEST, BEWITCHED, THE FACTS OF LIFE, and THE COSBY SHOW. He also appeared in films such as The Thomas Crown Affair, Zelig, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.

Anna Maria Horsford recurs on B Positive 10/21/21

RECURRING CAST: Anna Maria Horsford (Mrs. Ludlum)

John Cena & Kathy Bates Join Brian Cox & Jodie Turner-Smith In Political Thriller ‘The Independent’

Set during “the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history,” the movie will follow an idealistic young journalist (Turner-Smith) who teams up with her idol (Cox) to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands. The Suicide Squad star Cena and Misery and Richard Jewell star Bates both play Presidential candidates.

The Black List script is due to film in November of this year in NYC. Director is Amy Rice (By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama), who is currently wrapping documentary Broadway Rising. Pic is written by Evan Parter, who is currently writing the untitled John Dean movie with Chris Pine for Amazon.

Ryan Cunningham of Anonymous Content and Sam Bisbee of Park Pictures and Thea Dunlap are producing alongside Caddy Vanasirikul of The Exchange and Evan Parter.

Lance Acord and Jackie Kelman Bisbee of Park Pictures and Brian O’Shea and Nat McCormick of The Exchange are serving as executive producers. Sales firm The Exchange is financing and handling sales.

“We’re incredibly excited to partner with Kathy Bates and John Cena on The Independent. Kathy’s exceptional acting skills, paired with Cena’s global appeal and ability to transform on-screen, make them incredible additions to this film. We couldn’t be happier that they’ve signed on,” said O’Shea of The Exchange.

The Exchange’s line-up includes Kaley Cuoco’s Meet Cute and Morgan Freeman’s Muti.

Bates and Cena are represented by ICM Partners.

Christopher Goutman Interview 9/24/21

Chris has spent most of his career working as a director, producer, and writer. He started his career as an actor appearing on The Doctors, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night and Texas. Chris served as the Executive Producer for Another World and As the World Turns as well as directed episodes from nine different daytime dramas.

He created and produced two web series, In Turn and L.A. Diaries, which he also directed, as well as promotional campaigns for network television, commercial movie theater trailers, and an award-winning Presidential campaign ad. For his work in television, he has shot on locations all over the world. He also wrote, produced, and directed two short films, The Square Root of Three and Visions of Joanna, both of which received extensive exposure on the independent film circuit. In theatre, he has directed in New York, Philadelphia and Florida, including productions at EST, NYC Fringe, the Harold Clurman Theatre and the Theatre at Madison Square Garden. His plays have been performed at L.A. Stage and Film Company, the Barrow Group and EST. He has five Emmy Awards for his work as a producer and director and a Directors Guild of America Award.

Chris currently serves as the Artistic Director, Associate Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

‘B Positive’: Linda Lavin, David Anthony Higgins, Darryl Stephens Upped To Series Regulars; Six Set To Recur

Created by former Mom co-executive producer Marco Pennette inspired by personal experience, B Positive is about a therapist and newly divorced dad (Middleditch) who is faced with finding a kidney donor when he runs into a rough-around-the-edges woman from his past (Ashford) who volunteers her own. Together they form an unlikely bond and begin a journey that will change both of their lives. Izzy G, Sara Rue, Kether Donohue and Terrence Terrell co-star.

Lorre, who serves as executive producer, highlighted several big changes that will be happening in the new season. “Having donated a kidney and saved a man’s life, Gina (Ashford) has learned that happiness is in the giving, not the getting,” said Lorre. “She puts this principle to work by trying to improve the lives of the elderly residents of Valley Hills, the assisted living facility where she’s been working. In the meantime, Drew (Middleditch) is struggling with a strange new feeling. Post-surgery, he’s convinced he’s in love with Gina. It’s complicated.”

Lavin’s Norma is a sharp-tongued resident at Valley Hills, as well as a mother figure to Gina. She’s in a longstanding feud with her daughter and in denial about personal health issues.

Higgins’ Jerry is Drew’s friend from dialysis and a dentist. A sweet guy with a big heart, as well as heart problems.

Stephens is Gideon, Drew’s former dialysis nurse who now works with Gina as the Head of Nursing at Valley Hills. Always has an ear to lend, but not without a little attitude.

Elizondo recurs as Harry, a gruff, no-nonsense resident at Valley Hills, fighting to keep his terminally-ill wife, Meredith, comfortable.

Seymour is Bette, an aging beauty who is incapable of coming to terms with her senior status.

Vereen plays Peter, a brilliant, retired professor struggling with a failing memory.

Weston portrays Meredith, dealing with her terminal illness as best as she can while trying to help her husband, Harry, move.

Beaver is Spencer, former NYPD transit cop, was a 9/11 first responder. Politically and socially, he finds it difficult to behave appropriately.

Horsford plays Althea Ludlum, the no nonsense administrator of Valley Hills. She’s a thorn in Gina’s side, but Gina needs help running the place.

Jim Patterson serves as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Pennette. The pair EP alongside Lorre and it is produced by Warner Bros Television in association with Chuck Lorre Productions.

Lavin is repped by Innovative Artists. Stephens is repped by Metropolitan Talent Agency & Steven Simon/Landis-Simon Productions and Talent Management. Elizondo is repped by Gersh and Mark Teitelbaum at Teitelbaum Artists Group. Seymour is repped by Innovative Artists and attorney Paul Mayersohn at Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill, LLP. Vereen is reppd by Pamela Cooper. Weston is repped by Innovative Artists and Framework Entertainment. Beaver is repped by Artists & Representatives.

‘Catching A Shadow’ Docuseries From Pamala B. Green’s Legwork Collective Lands A-List Narrators As Slate Expands

The newest project in the works is Catching a Shadow, a docuseries highlighting diverse and exceptional people who broke boundaries in different domains, overcoming personal traumas and the prejudices of their time – much in the vein of Green’s 2018 docu on Guy-Blaché, the mostly unsung first female filmmaker. Zach Barack, Dawson, Jeong, Messing, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Reedus are attached so far to narrate the docuseries, which will feature deep dives into the likes of pioneers including chemist Alice Ball, author William Melvin Kelley, photojournalist Gerda Taro, photography pioneer Robert Cornelius, physicist Narinder Singh Kapany and more.

“The power of these countless untold tales depends entirely on the imagination and creativity of the people we’ve teamed up with. We’re beyond thrilled to be collaborating with such extraordinary talents,” Green said.

Legwork has already been developing Aces Never Sleep, the period spy/detective series that centers on Warne, the first female detective in the U.S., and the early years of Chicago’s Pinkerton Detective Agency. Based on true stories and questionable events, it is being executive produced by Bates, John Ptak, Jamie Wolf and Foothill Productions. Gersh is repping the project, which is different from the feature pic about Warne set up at Amazon with Emily Blunt starring.

Said Bates: “I’m having a blast collaborating with Pamela and the team developing Kate and the Pinkerton ensemble and the challenging world they live in…a world not unlike our own.”

Green’s company is also working on a Guy-Blaché feature biopic written by Green, Joan Simon and Cosima Littlewood. It includes thrilling material uncovered during the making of the Be Natural doc, which was an official selection at Cannes in 2018 and was narrated by Jodie Foster. The feature is being exec produced by Wolf, Geralyn White Dreyfous and Ptak.

Green has also creative directed and produced marketing campaigns and more than 200 title sequences for film and TV including for The Kingdom, Bourne films, Fast & Furious franchise, Twilight, Now You See Me, The Muppets, Supergirl and Black Lightning.

Alec Baldwin auctions off French Open tickets for record $250K at US Open

A source told us of the gala event — where guests included Mike Tyson, Anna Wintour, Vera Wang, Gayle King, Lindsey Vonn and Billie Jean King — “The highlight was when [the night’s co-host] Baldwin adopted an Inspector Clouseau-like French accent and started auctioning off the Roland Garros package.”

The package included six tickets each day of the 2022 French Open, plus roundtrip travel on a private Gulfstream G550 jet, suites at the Ritz Paris, and more.

Said the source, “Alec started the bidding at $100K, and his comedic chops got the room rocking, and ultimately sold the package for $250K… the highest price in the gala’s history.”

We hear that a second French Open package was later added that also went for another $250,000. The event raised a record $2 million-plus for the charitable arm of the USTA.

Spies said that the “most visited” table of the gala was one that included the power trio of Vogue vet Wintour, designer Wang, and ski champ Vonn.

The night honored a group known as “The Original 9” with the Trailblazer Award. Last year marked the 50th anniversary since the group of nine women tennis players — including King — signed one dollar contracts to launch women’s pro tennis as it’s known today. The nine players were protesting the inequality in prize money that was being awarded in the men’s and women’s games.

USTA board president Tom Chen was awarded with the Serving Up Dreams Award. Current board members including Kathleen Wu, Molly John and Y. David Scharf also attended the event.

Later, Giants legend Tiki Barber was among the stars spotted in the President’s Box at the match.

At the night’s opening ceremony, cast members of the reopening “Moulin Rouge, The Musical,” performed, featuring the New York debut of Natalie Mendoza who has joined the cast and sang a duet with Aaron Tveit.

Pioneering Asian-American Broadway Star Alvin Ing Died Of Breakthrough Covid-19, Reps Say – Update

Ing’s death was previously confirmed by his representation, Shushu Entertainment, but today his reps disclosed that the fully-vaccinated Ing was first diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July and then confirmed to have Covid-19 a few days later. After two weeks of battling the illness, he died due to cardiac arrest, they said.

“Honolulu native and American Army veteran with a gift to serve, he felt a duty to himself and his fellow citizens to be fully vaccinated,” said spokesperson Shaina Manlangit in a statement approved by Shushu.

Deaths and hospitalizations from breakthrough Covid are considered to be extremely rare.

A longtime advocate for the AAPI community in the entertainment industry (he was an active member of the Theater for Asian American Performing Artists), Ing was praised by colleagues. BD Wong, who co-starred with Ing in Broadway’s Pacific Overtures, said, “Since forever, the reputation of Asian American actors has been defiled by a well known, but rarely spoken, sentiment: we will never be as good as our colleagues of other colors, never mind better. One day Alvin Ing sang for me, and I finally knew, for keeps, that anyone who thought this was pitifully mistaken.”

Lea Salonga, who starred with Ing in Broadway’s Flower Drum Song, said, “His voice was glorious and filled the room with its flawless sound, but beyond that, his sound was steeped in joy. Alvin was a joyful presence to be around at every rehearsal and performance. Beyond that his voice always sounded incredible, he brought a sweetness and kindness everywhere and to everyone. There was always a gentleness to him, but also a sassy sense of humor. He was a gift to everybody that got to work with him, and I’m only extremely blessed to have had that opportunity.”

Born in Honolulu, Ing studied music at the University of Hawaii before moving to New York at age 25, where he landed various roles Off Broadway and in touring stage productions prior to making his Broadway debut in the 1976 original production of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Pacific Overtures. He would reprise that performance as Shogun’s Mother when the musical was revived on Broadway in 2004 with Wong.

Also on Broadway, Ing starred in the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song, a production that featured a heavily revised book by David Henry Hwang. Ing, as Uncle Chin, performed a song — “My Best Love” — that had been left out of the original 1958 production. Ing also appeared in many other productions of the musical.

In a statement, Hwang said, “He was the beloved link between generations of AAPI performers who had found employment and sometimes even stardom during a time when other opportunities were virtually non-existent. As an AAPI actor of his generation, Alvin faced terrible racist exclusion, yet survived as an artist with his joy and talent (not to mention, his high notes) intact.”

Other stage credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, City of Angels, The World of Suzie Wong and the Dick Lee musical Sing to the Dawn.

Ing’s many television credits, beginning with a 1974-75 recurring stint on daytime drama The Doctors, would include the 1976 presentation of Pacific Overtures, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Benson, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the reboot of Hawaii Five-0. He appeared in such films as Stir Crazy (1980), Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) and this year’s Bad Detectives. In 2014, he played Mister Lee in The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange.

During the 1970s, Ing was involved with the Theater for Asian American Performing Artists, performing skits and protesting Asian American stereotypes.

In 2013, Ing auditioned for The X-Factor, announcing that he would celebrate with a nine-course dinner in Chinatown.

Ing also performed in cabaret over the decades, coming out publicly as gay at once such event in 2016 at age 84. In an interview from earlier this year, Ing explained that decision: “Lainie Sakakura, who put my act together, she convinced me that I was old enough not to be so reticent about it. In a way, it was very satisfying, but I really would like to do it for the gay community…Because, number one, I’m old, I’m Asian, and I’m gay, so maybe it would be, I don’t know, an inspiration for other people.”

Two celebrations of Ingj’s life are being produced by his Flower Drum Song revival cast members, Yuka Takara and Lainie Sakakura. An online memorial titled “Old Friends” will take place on Sunday, August 15, for close friends and family. A live memorial concert titled “A Celebration of Alvin Ing’s Life and Legacy” is being planned for New York and will be streamed online, with additional details to come. In lieu of flowers, Abingdon Theatre Company is accepting donations for Alvin Ing’s New York Memorial Celebration and the newly created Alvin Ing Scholarship Fund.

Alvin Ing Dies: Pioneering Asian-American Star Of Broadway’s ‘Flower Drum Song’, ‘Pacific Overtures’ Was 89

Ing’s death was confirmed by his representation, Shushu Entertainment. A cause of death has not yet been disclosed.

“I mourn the loss of my friend,” wrote The King and I actor Alan Ariano on Twitter. “RIP Alvin Ing.”

Lea Salonga, who starred with Ing in the 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song, tweeted a photo of herself with Ing in rehearsal for the production, noting: “Never forgot that his were shoulders upon which all of us younger ones stood. Rest In Peace, dearest.”

Born in Honolulu, Ing studied music at the University of Hawaii before moving to New York at age 25, where he landed various roles Off Broadway and in touring stage productions prior to making his Broadway debut in the 1976 original production of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Pacific Overtures. He would reprise that performance as Shogun’s Mother when the musical was revived on Broadway in 2004 with B.D. Wong.

Also on Broadway, Ing starred in the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song, a production that featured a heavily revised book by David Henry Hwang. Ing, as Uncle Chin, performed a song — “My Best Love” — that had been left out of the original 1958 production. Ing also appeared in many other productions of the musical.

Other stage credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, City of Angels, The World of Suzie Wong and the Dick Lee musical Sing to the Dawn.

Ing’s many television credits, beginning with a 1974-75 recurring stint on daytime drama The Doctors, would include the 1976 presentation of Pacific Overtures, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Benson, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the reboot of Hawaii Five-0. He appeared in such films as Stir Crazy (1980), Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) and this year’s Bad Detectives. In 2014, he played Mister Lee in The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange.

During the 1970s, Ing was involved with the Theater for Asian American Performing Artists, performing skits and protesting Asian American stereotypes.

In 2013, Ing auditioned for The X-Factor, announcing that he would celebrate with a nine-course dinner in Chinatown.

Ing also performed in cabaret over the decades, coming out publicly as gay at once such event in 2016 at age 84. In an interview from earlier this year, Ing explained that decision: “Lainie Sakakura, who put my act together, she convinced me that I was old enough not to be so reticent about it. In a way, it was very satisfying, but I really would like to do it for the gay community…Because, number one, I’m old, I’m Asian, and I’m gay, so maybe it would be, I don’t know, an inspiration for other people.”

Information about survivors was not immediately available.

2021 Primetime Emmy Nominations

Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Bridgerton
Netflix • A Netflix Original Series in association with shondalandmedia
Regé-Jean Page as Simon Basset

The Crown
Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television for Netflix
Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles

Lovecraft Country
HBO • HBO in association with afemme, Monkeypaw, Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Television
Jonathan Majors as Atticus Freeman

Perry Mason
HBO • HBO in association with Team Downey, Dwight Street Book Club, and Inflatable Moose
Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason

Pose
FX Networks • FX Productions in association with 20th Century Television
Billy Porter as Pray Tell

This Is Us
NBC • 20th Television
Sterling K. Brown as Randall Pearson

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Black-ish
ABC • ABC Signature
Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson

The Flight Attendant
HBO Max • HBO Max in association with Berlanti Productions, Yes, Norman Productions, and Warner Bros. Television
Kaley Cuoco as Cassie Bowden

Hacks
HBO Max • Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment
Jean Smart as Deborah Vance

Mom
CBS • Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television
Allison Janney as Bonnie Plunkett

Shrill
Hulu • Hulu, Warner Bros. Television, Broadway Video, Brownstone Productions, A. Rushfield Productions
Aidy Bryant as Annie Easton

Supporting Actress in a Limited/Anthology/Movie

Hamilton
Disney+ • Lin-Manuel Miranda and Nevis Productions LLC, Old 320 Sycamore, and RadicalMedia
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler

Hamilton • Disney+ • Lin-Manuel Miranda and Nevis Productions LLC, Old 320 Sycamore, and RadicalMedia
Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton

Mare Of Easttown
HBO • HBO in association with wiip Studios, The Low Dweller Productions, Juggle Productions, Mayhem and Zobot Projects
Julianne Nicholson as Lori Ross

Mare Of Easttown • HBO • HBO in association with wiip Studios, The Low Dweller Productions, Juggle Productions, Mayhem and Zobot Projects
Jean Smart as Helen

The Queen’s Gambit
Netflix • Netflix Moses Ingram as Jolene

WandaVision
Disney+ • Marvel Studios
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness / Agnes The Nosy Neighbor

Guest Actor In A Comedy Series

The Kominsky Method • Chapter 20. The Round Toes, Of The High Shoes
Netflix • Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television
Morgan Freeman as Morgan Freeman

Saturday Night Live • Host: Daniel Kaluuya
NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Daniel Kaluuya as Host

Saturday Night Live • Host: Dave Chappelle
NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump

Saturday Night Live • Host: Dave Chappelle
NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Dave Chappelle as Host

Saturday Night Live • Host: Dan Levy
NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video
Dan Levy as Host

Guest Actress In A Drama Series

The Crown • 48:1
Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television for Netflix
Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II

The Handmaid’s Tale • Pigs
Hulu • Hulu, MGM, Daniel Wilson Productions, The Littlefield Company, White Oak Pictures
McKenna Grace as Esther Keyes

The Handmaid’s Tale • Testimony
Hulu • Hulu, MGM, Daniel Wilson Productions, The Littlefield Company, White Oak Pictures
Alexis Bledel as Emily

Ratched • The Dance
Netflix • A Fox21 Television Studios Production for Netflix
Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte Wells

This Is Us • I’ve Got This
NBC • 20th Television
Phylicia Rashad as Carol “Mama C” Clarke

HCA TV Awards Nominations

Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television MovieBryan Cranston – Your Honor (Showtime)Chris Rock – Fargo (FX)Colman Domingo – Euphoria Two-Part Special (HBO)Hugh Grant – The Undoing (HBO)Joel Edgerton – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)Leslie Odom Jr. – Hamilton (Disney+)Paul Bettany – WandaVision (Disney+)

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television MovieJean Smart – Mare of Easttown (HBO)Jessie Buckley – Fargo (FX)Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown (HBO)Kat Dennings – WandaVision (Disney+)Kathryn Hahn – WandaVision (Disney+)Marielle Heller – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)Teyonah Parris – WandaVision (Disney+)

Best Actress in a Streaming Series, ComedyKaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)Hailee Steinfield – Dickinson (Apple TV+)Cristin Milioti – Made for Love (HBO Max)Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)

Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, ComedyHannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO Max)Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Juno Temple – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Kaitlin Olson – Hacks (HBO Max)Kathleen Turner – The Kominsky Method (Netflix)Paula Pell – Girls5Eva (Peacock)Rosie Perez – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)

Best Actor in a Broadcast Network or Cable Series, DramaBilly Porter – Pose (FX)Christopher Meloni – Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC)Freddie Highmore – The Good Doctor (ABC)Jonathan Majors – Lovecraft Country (HBO)Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason (HBO)Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, DramaAlexis Bledel – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Ann Dowd – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Gillian Anderson – The Crown (Netflix)Ming-Na Wen – The Mandalorian (Disney+)Samira Wiley – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)Yvette Nicole Brown – Big Shot (Disney+)Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu).

Dr. Death Premiere Date

Jackson (The Affair) plays Dr. Christopher Duntsch in a story inspired by the real-life neurosurgeon. “Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead,” per the official synopsis. “As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (30 Rock‘s Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Mr. Robot‘s Christian Slater), as well as Dallas prosecutor Michelle Shughart (The Carrie Diaries‘ AnnaSophia Robb), set out to stop him.”

Talk Show Appearance

Monday, June 7

Actress Ellen Burstyn

Arlene Golonka Dies: ‘The Andy Griffith Show’, ‘Mayberry R.F.D.’ Actress Was 85

Her death was announced by her friend, the literary agent Cary Kozlov.

Golonka, who made her Broadway debut in 1958’s short-lived The Night Circus before landing stage roles in 1962’s Come Blow Your Horn and 1963’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, already had made numerous appearances on television prior to her breakthrough role on The Andy Griffith Show in 1967, among them Car 54, Where Are You?, The Doctors, The Flying Nun and The Big Valley. She made her first Griffith appearance on Oct. 16, 1967, in an episode that introduced her as Millie Hutchins, initially intended as a love interest for bookish bachelor Howard Sprague (played by Jack Dodson). Golonka reprised the role the following month in an episode about the couple’s failed elopement.

Golanka returned to the Griffith universe the following year, this time as a regular on the spinoff series Mayberry R.F.D. starring Ken Berry. Renamed Millie Swanson, Golanka’s character was paired with Berry’s town councilman, a role that continued throughout R.F.D.‘s three-season run.

A Chicago native, Golonka studied at the city’s storied Goodman Theatre prior to a move to New York and the Broadway stage.

Following her signature role on R.F.D., Golonka was a familiar presence on television, making guest appearances on The Rookies, The FBI, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, M*A*S*H, Cannon, Love American Style, That Girl, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Alice, One Day at a Time and, in perhaps her most memorable post-Mayberry roles, as a call girl on All In The Family and as the daughter of Chuckles the Clown on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Her TV career continued well into the 1990s and beyond, with credits including Matlock, 1st & Ten and, in 2005, The King of Queens. As a voice actress, Golonka’s credits include The New Yogi Bear Show, Capitol Critters and the Scooby-Doo franchise.

On film, Golanka was featured in Hang ‘Em High (1968) with Clint Eastwood, Airport ’77 (1977), The In-Laws (1979) and Longshot (1981), among others.

Golonka is survived by sister, Zorine, and nine nieces and nephews.

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Tu 6/1: Kathleen Turner (ex-Nola, The Doctors)

Kathleen Turner Joins ‘The White House Plumbers’ HBO Watergate Limited Series

The project hails from Veep executive producers Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, David Mandel and Frank Rich, and Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District. The limited series is a co-production between HBO and wiip.

Created and written by Gregory and Huyck and directed by Mandel, The White House Plumbers is based part on public records and the book Integrity by Egil “Bud” Krogh and Matthew Krogh. The series tells the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson), and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally toppled the presidency they zealously were trying to protect.

Turner will play Dita Beard, a crusty, foul-mouthed lobbyist for the ITT corporation involved in some dirty deals with the Nixon Administration.

Harrelson and Theroux executive produce with Gregory, Huyck and Mandel; alongside Fleischer and Bernad for The District; and Rich, who has a deal at HBO and exec produces the network’s Emmy-winning drama Succession. Paul Lee, Nne Ebong and Mark Roybal executive produce for wiip, Len Amato for Crash&Salvage. Gregg Fienberg also executive produces.

Oscar-nominated Turner portrays Roz opposite Michael Douglas on Chuck Lorre’s comedy The Kominsky Method, which is heading into its third and final season on Netflix. She was seen in a guest-starring role on another Lorre comedy series, CBS’ Mom. She also starred in the “These Old Bones” episode of Netflix’s Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings anthology series, which earned an Emmy nomination for an Outstanding TV Movie. Turner is repped by Buchwald and Group Culture.

Anne Heche, Skeet Ulrich & More Join Alec Baldwin Natural-Disaster Movie ‘Supercell’

Also joining the cast are Daniel Diemer who starred in Tribeca Film Festival winner The Half of It and newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón who starred in HBO’s We Are Who We Are. Highland Film Group is handling international rights for the film, with CAA Media Finance repping domestic rights. The film is financed by Emily Hunter Salveson (Academy Award nominated The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Tax Collector) and Ryan Donnell Smith’s Streamline Global.

Supercell tells the thrilling tale of William (Diemer), a good-hearted teenager, who lives in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody who was killed in action. His father’s legacy has been turned into a storm chasing tour business managed by the greedy and reckless owner Zane Rogers (Baldwin). After William runs away from home, he teams up with his dad’s old partner Roy (Ulrich) and enters into the world of storm chasing. But the tornadoes have only gotten bigger. As his mother (Heche) anxiously searches for her son, she’s joined by his classmate (Jordan Kristine Seamón) in hopes of protecting William as Zane leads the group deep into the eye of the most dangerous supercell ever seen.

“I am excited to join this talented group of filmmakers and cast to tell this story. I’ve always been a fan of Alec Baldwin’s work and am honored to have the opportunity to work with him,” Ulrich said.

“With Skeet, Anne, Daniel and Jordan joining Alec, I’m so grateful to have such a versatile and talented cast behind this story,” director Herbert James Winterstern added.

Short Porch Pictures’ Ryan Winterstern (Most Wanted, Inheritance) and Nathan Klingher (Zone 414, Becky) and Thomasville Pictures’ Ryan Donnell Smith (The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Tax Collector) are producing. Anjul Nigam (Crown Vic) will serve as an EP.

Ulrich recently starred in the hit CW series Riverdale as FP Jones, Jughead’s dad. Ulrich also starred in the Emmy award-winning series #Freerayshawn, produced by Antoine Fuqua. Ulrich’s many acclaimed credits include Steven Spielberg’s executive produced TNT movie Into the West, Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, James L. Brook’s As Good as It Gets, and Wes Craven’s classic horror masterpiece Scream. Ulrich will next star in the psychological thriller Blood, directed by Brad Anderson, alongside Michelle Monaghan.

Heche’s portrayal of Lily Garland in Twentieth Century garnered her a Tony Award nomination. Heche’s most iconic films include Sony Pictures Donnie Brasco, Columbia Pictures’ I Know What You Did Last Summer, Volcano, Six Days, Seven Nights opposite Harrison Ford, and Gus Van Sant’s horror remake film Psycho.

Diemer last starred in the Netflix feature The Half of It from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. The film won best narrative feature at Tribeca 2020 Film Festival as well. Daniel also recently wrapped a recurring role on The Midnight Club for Netflix.

Seamón, while filming HBO’s We Are Who We Are, wrote and released her debut album “Identity Crisis,” and followed it up with her self-directed documentary The Making of in 2021.

Highland Film Group’s slate includes Renny Harlin’s The Misfits starring Pierce Brosnan, Nick Cannon, and Tim Roth, Edward Drake’s Gasoline Alley starring Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson, and Devon Sawa, Mark Neveldine’s Panama starring Cole Hauser and Mel Gibson, and Randall Emmett’s Wash Me in The River starring Robert De Niro, Jack Huston, and John Malkovich.

Ulrich is represented by Paradigm and Luber Roklin. Heche is represented by Zero Gravity and APA. Diemer is represented by Atlas Artists, Nuance Talent Management and Gersh. Seamón is represented by ICM.

Baldwin, Cohen, Cummings Fighting To End Retail Puppy Sales ... It's Just Too Cruel!!!

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars are teaming up with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to support a NY bill that would shut down what they say is a puppy mill pipeline funneling poorly-treated dogs into pet stores.

An ASPCA official tells TMZ ... thousands of pups are for sale in NY pet stores, and the dogs are shipped there from out-of-state breeders and middlemen, all of whom the ASPCA claims are running puppy mills.

Alec, Andy and Whitney fired off a letter in support of the Puppy Mill Pipeline Bill to NY lawmakers ... and it's also signed by Brooke Shields, Justin Theroux, Kristin Chenoweth, Sir Patrick Stewart and Edie Falco.

The bill, which would end the sale of puppies in pet stores once and for all, was passed by the NY Senate this month ... but it still needs to be approved by the State Assembly before landing on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's desk.

Edie, who played Carmela in "The Sopranos," tells TMZ ... her dog, Sami, spent 2 years living in a box in the dark without a name and was forced to have puppies who were sold to pet stores.

Falco says Sami's not the only dog who's been through this nightmare ... and she's urging NY lawmakers to take action and break this cycle of cruelty.

Stay tuned.

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Olympia Dukakis Dies: Oscar-Winning Actress For ‘Moonstruck’ Was 89

“My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City,” wrote her brother Apollo, who confirmed her death on his Facebook page. “After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis [Zorich].” The cause of death has yet to be determined.

Her other film credits include Over the Hill (1992), I Love Trouble (1994) and Picture Perfect (1997).

Her television credits include the 1993 transgender drama Tales of the City and its 1998 sequel, which earned her an Emmy nomination. Dukakis also appeared in Netflix’s 2019 revival, titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.

Dukakis was a theater veteran who struck gold in the film business later in life. She was 56 when she played Cher’s sardonic mother, Rose Castorini, in Norman Jewison’s classic romantic comedy Moonstruck. Her portrayal of a woman overly involved her daughter’s love life earned her an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA nomination.

1988 was a year of prominence beyond the Oscars, as Dukakis’s cousin, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, was the Democratic nominee for president. She stumped for him during her Oscars acceptance speech, shouting “OK, Michael, let’s go!”

A lifelong activist and philanthropist, Dukakis earned a star on the the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.

Born on June 20, 1931, in Lowell, MA, she was the daughter of immigrants from southern Greece. That upbringing shaped her life, leading her to take to the stage as a means of expression.

She graduated from Boston University with a degree in in physical therapy and a master’s in performing arts. She then began her career in New York City. She made her debut in The Aspern Papers in 1962. That same year, she married actor-producer Louis Zorich, famous for his hit NBC comedy Mad About You decades later. They had three children.

In 1963, she won an Obie Award for A Man’s a Man, and then a second two years later in The Marriage of Bette and Boo.

Her work in the Broadway comedy Social Security playing Marlo Thomas’s mother was her ticket into filmdom.

She and Zorich founded the Charles Playhouse in Boston and the Whole Theater in Montclair, N.J. in the 1970s, appearing together in several productions. She also taught drama at New York University, while teaching at the American Conservatory Theater, and serving on its Board of Trustees.

No information was immediately available on memorial plans.

Alec Baldwin & Kelsey Grammer’s Comedy Series Not Going Forward At ABC, Being Shopped Elsewhere

The project, starring Baldwin, Grammer and Alec Mapa, had a straight-to-series order. The studio behind the comedy, 20th Television, is now shopping the pilot, written by Modern Family’s Chris Lloyd and Vali Chandrasekaran and directed by James Burrows, to other networks and streamers.

The high-profile comedy landed at ABC in November, a couple of weeks before the regime change at the network, with Hulu’s Craig Erwich taking over programming at ABC and the network’s Karey Burke becoming head of 20th TV. There have been multiple scripts from top auspices with big commitments bought under Burke that got a pass from ABC’s new regime this season.

The Baldwin/Grammer half-hour had a straight-to-series pickup for the 2021-22 season, and I hear a writers room was assembled a couple of months ago and has been working on scripts. Like with all series orders, the network had an option not to go forward with the project after the pilot episode. The move is associated with significant kill fees to the creative and on-screen talent.

Lloyd, Chandrasekaran, Baldwin and Grammer executive produce the series with Jason Schrift, Matt DelPiano, Tom Russo, Adam Griffin and Jeff Morton. Burrows is an executive producer on the pilot.

The untitled comedy follows three men — played by Grammer, Baldwin and Mapa — who were roommates in their 20s until their warring egos drove them apart. They reunite decades later for one more run at the lives they’ve always wanted. The sitcom had been eyed as a potential companion to ABC’s flagship comedy series, the multi-camera The Conners.

Meanwhile, Grammer also has the Frasier revival, which has a series green light at Paramount+. He spearheaded and executive produces the project, in which he reprises his signature character, Frasier Crane.

Can’t-Miss Event! Soap Con Live On May 1

AS THE WORLD TURNS “Live from Oakdale!” will begin at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PST featuring Mark Collier (ex-Mike), Terri Conn (ex-Katie), Trent Dawson (ex-Henry), Austin Peck (ex-Brad; ex-Austin, DAYS) and Colleen Zenk (ex-Barbara).

“The Cramer Women” of ONE LIFE TO LIVE will follow at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PST featuring Kristen Alderson (ex-Starr; ex-Kiki, GH), Laura Bonarrigo (ex-Cassie), Kassie DePaiva (ex-Blair; ex-Eve, DAYS) and Gina Tognoni (ex-Kelly et al).

GENERAL HOSPITAL “Love & Tragedy” will round out the evening at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PST featuring Shell Danielson (ex-Dominique), Brad Maule (ex-Tony), Kin Shriner (Scotty) and Jackie Zeman (Bobbie).

All the panels with Q&As will stream LIVE back to back on The Locher Room with surprises in between. Visit SoapConLive.com to sign up for the FREE live panels and keep up with special guest announcements and info on paid fan opportunities. Stay tuned for more chances to visit with your favorite Soap Stars, both virtually and in-person when it’s safe.

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Alec Baldwin’s defamation claims in parking spat can go forward to trial

The “Saturday Night Live” star — who routinely played Donald Trump during his presidency — alleged that Wojciech Cieszkowski lied and defamed him when he claimed Baldwin punched him in the face during the fracas on Nov. 2, 2018.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen denied Cieszkowski’s bid to have Baldwin’s defamation claim against him tossed out.

“The plaintiff must meet a high bar of proof on his motion to dismiss and, since he fails to definitively prove the truthfulness of his interpretation of the incident, he does not meet his burden,” Cohen’s ruling reads.

Cieszkowski sued the “30 Rock” star first in April 2019 for assault and slander accusing Baldwin of going ballistic on Cieszkowski — a Polish immigrant — outside Baldwin’s East 10th Street apartment because the man had taken his parking spot.

Cieszkowski then claimed Baldwin lied when he told Ellen DeGeneres and Howard Stern on their shows that he thought Cieszkowski was going to run wife Hilaria over with his car.

Cohen dismissed Cieszkowski’s slander claim against Baldwin, finding the actor’s statements in the public were exaggerations and opinions which don’t rise to the level of defamation.

In that case, Baldwin then filed his counterclaims alleging that Cieszkowski defamed him when he spoke to the cops, the medical staff at the hospital where he was treated, the media and a courtroom pushing his narrative that he was punched in the face by Baldwin.

Baldwin also alleged that Cieszkowski’s lies led to his false imprisonment. The judge granted Cieszkowski’s request to dismiss the false imprisonment claim since Cieszkowski didn’t imprison Baldwin himself.

Cohen also found that Cieszkowski couldn’t be held liable for defamation for any statements he made to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office — which prosecuted Baldwin over the incident.

Baldwin pleaded guilty to harassment over the incident in January 2019. He was sentenced to anger management classes and had to pay a $120 fine.

Both sides have argued that video of the incident supports their interpretations of events.

Lawyers on both sides said they were happy with Thursday’s mixed ruling.

“We’re very pleased with the decision,” Baldwin’s lawyer, Luke Nikas, said. “From the beginning, Alec has maintained that these charges were frivolous.”

Cieszkowski’s lawyer, Douglas Lieb, said, “We are pleased that the court found Mr. Baldwin’s false imprisonment claim to be baseless.

“Since Mr. Baldwin seems determined to put his reputation at issue in this case, we look forward to exploring that reputation at trial.”

Alec Baldwin quits Twitter, says it’s full of ‘a–holes’

The 62-year-old actor made the decision after getting skewered on Twitter for commenting about Gillian Anderson’s use of an American accent while accepting a Golden Globe on Sunday.

The former “30 Rock” star fumed that Twitter is where “all the a–holes in the United States and beyond go to get their advanced degrees in a–holines.”

He added: “You can’t do any irony in the United States anymore because the United States is such an uptight, stressed out place.”

Addressing news of Anderson’s accent-switch earlier in the day, Baldwin tweeted, “Switching accents? That sounds … fascinating.”

The actor’s wife, Hilaria Baldwin, was recently roiled in controversy for her fluctuating Spanish accent while leading people to believe she was raised in the country, when, in fact, she grew up in Boston.

“The difference is Gillian lived in London during her childhood and lives there so an accent developed. She’s never denied her Americanism. Big fan of yours, but this is an awful take,” one person commented on Baldwin’s tweet.

Another Twitter user wrote: “Except Anderson was really raised in London. Born in the US and raised in PR and London.”

Baldwin, in a nearly 10-minute video that he recorded while driving home from work, said his tweet was in no way an insult to Anderson.

“When I made that comment about people switching cultures, if you will. It was in no way meant to be derogatory toward someone who I admire,” he said, without naming the actress.

Alec Baldwin amused by talk of Gillian Anderson switching between accents

“Switching accents? That sounds … fascinating,” Baldwin, 62, tweeted Wednesday.

He was just one of many discussing Anderson’s normal Yank voice, with some hardly able to believe that the 52-year-old Chicago native and former “X-Files” star was even American.

“Just had my mind blown discovering @GillianA doesn’t actually have an English accent in real life,” wrote one fan, with another adding, “I feel so uncomfortable knowing Gillian Anderson is American and not British.”

Anderson had a lot of time to hone her Brit accent, as she spent several years living in London, and has said in the past that she often slips back and forth between accents.

“Even on the phone, my accent will change,” she told British newspaper The Telegraph in 2009.

Baldwin’s decision to bring up Anderson’s accent is possibly an attempt by the actor to slyly defend his wife Hilaria Baldwin.

The 37-year-old mother of six was called out in December for her fluctuating Spanish accent shortly before she admitted to her real name was Hillary. She was also raised in Boston, as opposed to Mallorca, Spain, as she deliberately led people to believe.

More recently, the couple shocked the public as they welcomed child number six just five months after a son, Eduardo, joined their brood.

Kathy Bates Joins ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Adaptation At Lionsgate

The coming-of-age story, first published in 1970, follows Margaret Simon (Fortson), a sixth-grader who is questioning everything about adolescence and puberty, is searching the universe for whatever answers she can find. With her mother (McAdams) and grandmother trying to guide her through a time when everything is changing, they too find that you never stop questioning your path and defining what is meaningful in your life.

Bates, who was last seen on the big screen in Richard Jewell, will play Margaret’s grandmother Sylvia.

Craig is reuniting with Oscar-winning producer James L. Brooks and his Gracie Films banner, following their collaboration on the acclaimed film The Edge of Seventeen. Additional producers include Julie Ansell, Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks, Fremon Craig, and Blume.

“Kathy Bates has given us so many memorable, iconic characters,” said Craig. “Whether it’s comedy or drama, she is perpetually captivating on-screen. I’m thrilled to employ her extraordinary talents on this film I care so much about.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with a talent like Kathy. As she joins Abby and Rachel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret will be a special multi-generational moviegoing moment and the kind of entertainment that really creates a chance for mothers, daughters, and granddaughters to celebrate what it means to grow up and come of age,” said Erin Westerman, Lionsgate’s president of Production.

Bates, a two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner, is repped by ICM.

Alec Baldwin To Star In Action Film ‘Supercell’ From Short Porch Pictures

Highland will now rep worldwide or international sales rights on Short Porch movies. For Supercell, it is repping international at this week’s virtual European Film Market. CAA Media Finance is repping domestic.

Supercell, written by Herbert James Winterstern & Anna Elizabeth James, centers on William, a good-hearted teenager who always lived in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody, killed by a massive super tornado. His father’s legacy has now been turned into a storm-chasing tourist business, managed by the greedy and reckless Zane Rogers (Baldwin), who is now using William as the main attraction to lead a group of unsuspecting adventurers deep into the eye of the most dangerous supercell ever seen.

Ryan Winterstern, Klingher and Thomasville Pictures’ Ryan Donnell Smith are producing, and Anjul Nigam is an executive producer. Ryan Donnell Smith and Emily Savelson’s Streamline Global is financing.

Short Porch and Streamline Global previously teamed on the just-wrapped One Way, starring Colson Baker, Kevin Bacon, Storm Reid and Travis Fimmel.

Baldwin is repped by CAA and Cavalry Media.

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin welcome baby No. 6 — five months after baby No. 5

A source confirms to Page Six that Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin have welcomed their sixth child together — just five months after the fitness guru gave birth to their son Eduardo.

Hilaria, 37, announced the news Monday with a picture on Instagram that showed her and the baby lying alongside Eduardo, 2-year-old son Romeo Alejandro David, 4-year-old son Leonardo Ángel Charles, 5-year-old son Rafael Thomas and 7-year-old daughter Carmen Gabriela.

She captioned on the family snap “7” and included a red heart emoji. Alec, 62, is also dad to 25-year-old daughter Ireland, who we’re told is the seventh child referenced in the pic.

The comments under Hilaria’s Instagram post have been turned off, but niece Hailey Baldwin liked the photo. Alec, whom Hilaria married in June 2012, has yet to post about the birth on social media.

A rep for Hilaria declined to comment.

The news of the Baldwin family’s latest addition comes after Hilaria suffered two miscarriages in 2019.

Earlier this year, Hilaria was involved in a scandal about her non-existent Spanish heritage, which caused her to take a brief break from social media.

After her return, she shared she had “spent the last month listening, reflecting, and asking myself how I can learn and grow,” adding that she and Alec were “raising our children to share the same love and respect for both [cultures]. Being vulnerable and pushing ourselves to learn and grow is what we’ve built our community on, and I hope to get back to the supportive and kind environment we’ve built together.”

In November, Hilaria told People she was content with having five children.

“I think, right now, I’m so tired. And I feel, just with COVID, it’s just insanity,” she said at the time. “Right now, during times of COVID, it very much feels like we’re done.” AARP The Magazine Sets Movies For Grownups Nominees (2/8/21) For two decades, AARP’s Movies for Grownups program has championed what it calls “movies for grownups, by grownups.” It claims to advocate for the 50-plus audience, fighting industry ageism and encouraging films that resonate with older viewers.

Hoda Kotb, NBC News’ Today coanchor and cohost of Today with Hoda & Jenna, will host the awards ceremony broadcast by Great Performances on Sunday, March 28 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS, its PBS.org website for the event, and the PBS Video app. Winners will be announced on March 4. on the website section dedicated to the event.

Best Actress
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Sophia Loren (The Life Ahead)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit)
Robin Wright (Land)

Best Actor (TV/Streaming)
Jason Bateman (Ozark)
Ted Danson (The Good Place)
Hugh Grant (The Undoing)
Ethan Hawke (The Good Lord Bird)
Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True)

Video: The Doctors Cast Reunion #3- 1/15/21

Retro TV airs The Doctors weekdays at 12 noon and at 7:30 p.m. EDT/PDT (see listings at MyRetroTV.com) and streams online at 4 p.m. EDT weekdays at MyRetroTV.com and on the Retro TV Roku channel. Episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series and exclusive interview content is available on-demand at WatchTheDoctors.com, Roku and App Stores.

Alec Baldwin staying in separate house from Hilaria over COVID concerns

The 62-year-old actor has been staying at a rental house in Amagansett about a mile away from his family’s Hamptons estate, sources told Page Six. One source said Alec has been quarantining there as he goes back and forth to New York City while filming a project.

A spy said Alec has been spotted coming and going alone from the rental.

In December, Alec opened up about his having to quarantine away from his wife and their five children.

“I’m here in this guesthouse that’s near our house, that I’m staying in when I’m quarantining,” the former “30 Rock” star said in an Instagram video. “I go into New York and work a little bit and come back and have to quarantine here for a few days. It’s not a lot of fun.”

New photos also show the “It’s Complicated” actor leaving a Hamptons Starbucks alone, carrying a cup of coffee and food.

A rep for the couple didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Alec’s self-imposed quarantine comes amid the Spanish heritage scandal surrounding Hilaria, which revealed she’s a born and bred Bostonian named Hillary Hayward-Thomas — and not a native of Spain.

Since the new year, Alec and Hilaria were photographed together one time on the property of their swanky estate. Hilaria, with baby Edu strapped to her chest, strolled the grounds for an hour with Alec, their kids and a pair of nannies. Hilaria spent most of the walk holding up her phone and talking into it, though at one point, Alec stepped in to give her and baby a big hug.

The couple are reportedly “very upset” over the scandal and Hilaria is said to be handling the influx of social media criticism poorly.

In an attempt to salvage her image, Hilaria, 37, tried to explain her pseudo-Spanish accent and heritage to the New York Times but ended up blaming everyone else.

“There is not something I’m doing wrong, and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a boundary,” she said.

The Doctors Cast Reunion #3- 1/15/21

Retro TV airs The Doctors weekdays at 12 noon and at 7:30 p.m. EDT/PDT (see listings at MyRetroTV.com) and streams online at 4 p.m. EDT weekdays at MyRetroTV.com and on the Retro TV Roku channel. Episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series and exclusive interview content is available on-demand at WatchTheDoctors.com, Roku and App Stores.

Retro TV To Air THE DOCTORS Classic Episodes

Guiding Light - A Very Special Deck the Zoom

School closures, job disruptions, and health risks are causing millions of Americans to turn to food banks for much-needed support right now. You can help families impacted by COVID-19 in our community by supporting our partner tonight. www.feedingamerica.org/coronavirus.

Joining The Locher Room for this very special holiday show are Grant Aleksander (Phillip), Laura Bell Bundy (Marah), Bryan Buffinton (Bill), Ellen Dolan (Maureen), Jean Carol (Nadine), Beth Chamberlin (Beth), Crystal Chappell (Olivia), Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea), Frank Dicopoulos (Frank), Beth Ehlers (Harley), Judi Evans (Beth), Jamie Goodwin (Johnny), Melissa Hayden (Bridget), Liz Keifer (Blake), Harley Jane Kozak (Annabelle), Jessica Leccia (Natalia), Joy Lenz (Michelle), Rachel Miner (Michelle), Karla Mosley (Christina), Michael O'Leary (Rick), Robert Newman (Josh), Saundra Santiago (Carmen), Peter Simon (Ed), Tina Sloan (Lillian), Nancy St. Alban (Michelle), Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny), Krista Tesreau (Mindy), Jerry verDorn (Ross), Michael Woods (Jim), Yvonna Kopacz-Wright (Mel) and Kim Zimmer (Reva).

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Victoria Racimo Dies: ‘Prophecy’, ‘Falcon Crest’ Actress Was 69

A cause of death was not announced.

Through the 1960s to the 1990s, Racimo appeared in, among others, 1970’s The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, starring Don Johnson; 1976’s High Velocity, with Ben Gazzara; 1980’s Mountain Men, with Charlton Heston; and, in 1987, the Jim Varney comedy Ernest Goes to Camp.

TV credits in the 1970s include Cannon, Mannix, Mod Squad, Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-0, Lou Grant, Doogie Howser, M.D., Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and, in recurring roles, The Chisholms (1980) and Falcon Crest (1983).

Following her acting career, Racimo turned to directing, writing and producing. She was executive producer of 2006’s HBO film Casi Casi produced and directed One Day, a 2015 documentary about Kentucky’s Our Mims Retirement Haven for thoroughbred racehorses and broodmares. A strong supporter of equine welfare and rescue, she co-wrote the 2017 book All the King’s Horses: The Equestrian Life of Elvis Presley.

Born in New York City of Filipino-Irish heritage, Racimo attended the High School of Performing Arts, Juilliard and Columbia University. She would later write about her show business roots: “My mother was a dancer and my father a musician. You know the expression ‘born in a trunk’ – my mother placed me in the bottom drawer of her steamer trunk – long enough so that my parents could honestly quote that expression about how I began. I still have that trunk in storage.”

Guiding Light - A Very Special Deck the Zoom 12/17/20

School closures, job disruptions, and health risks are causing millions of Americans to turn to food banks for much-needed support right now. You can help families impacted by COVID-19 in our community by supporting our partner tonight. www.feedingamerica.org/coronavirus.

Joining us for this very special holiday show are Grant Aleksander (Phillip), Laura Bell Bundy (Marah), Bryan Buffinton (Bill), Jean Carol (Nadine), Beth Chamberlin (Beth), Crystal Chappell (Olivia), Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea), Frank Dicopoulos (Frank), Beth Ehlers (Harley), Morgan Englund (Dylan), Judi Evans (Beth), Jamie Goodwin (Johnny), Melissa Hayden (Bridget), Liz Keifer (Blake), Jessica Leccia (Natalia), Joy Lenz (Michelle), Rachel Miner (Michelle), Michael O'Leary (Rick), Robert Newman (Josh), Saundra Santiago (Carmen), Peter Simon (Ed), Tina Sloan (Lillian), Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny), Krista Tesreau (Mindy), Jerry verDorn (Ross), Yvonna Kopacz-Wright (Mel) and Kim Zimmer (Reva).

Malcolm Marmorstein Dies: ‘Pete’s Dragon’, ‘Dark Shadows’ Writer Was 92

The cause of death was cancer, his stepdaughter Romy Fleming told Deadline.

A New Jersey native, Marmorstein began his career as a stagehand and stage manager on Broadway, working on such iconic productions as A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Damn Yankees with Gwen Verden.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 1967, Marmorstein began writing for the New York-based soap The Doctors, where he was head writer before being hired away by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis in late 1966. During Marmorstein’s early tenure on what was then a failing Jane Eyre-style melodrama, Curtis and his small writing staff began adding supernatural elements — at first a ghost or two and then a strange woman who turned out to be a from-the-ashes phoenix.

But it was the introduction of the vampire Barnabas Collins in spring 1967 that turned the daytime drama into a national pop-culture phenomenon. Played by actor Jonathan Frid, the tragic, reluctant vampire character grabbed hold of the public’s attention and turned Dark Shadows into a hit.

Although its popularity would burn itself out within a few years, the soap — which soon would be populated by witches, werewolves, warlocks, a Frankenstein, a Jekyll-Hyde and even odder characters based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos — would inspire a cultlike devotion that continues to this day. The series, which spawned two original-cast movies and a 1990s TV reboot, is available on Amazon Prime. Among its fans: Tim Burton, who directed the 2012 Dark Shadows feature film starring fellow enthusiast Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins.

Exactly which Dark Shadows taking creditscribe created Barnabas long has been disputed, with writers Marmorstein, Joe Caldwell and the late Ron Sproat at one point or another. In a 2012 interview, Marmorstein said he told Curtis” “We have to pretend we’re doing a vampire for the very first time. Let’s get a young, blond guy, because our audiences are very young. They’ll fall in love with him.’” (Frid was neither blond nor particularly young, prompting Marmorstein to advise the glum-looking actor: “Don’t act. Be a nice man, as you are. This is your family in the house, and you’ve got to be charming for them.”)

Marmorstein and Curtis soon fell out, and the writer, his wife and four children moved to L.A., where he quickly found work writing for the popular 1968 nighttime soap Peyton Place. In 1974 he co-wrote the feature S*P*Y*S, starring Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland in an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the acting duo’s earlier MASH success. Marmorstein and Gould reteamed, again unsuccessfully, for 1975’s Whiffs.

Marmorstein was considerably more successful in his next outing, 1977’s Pete’s Dragon, a live-action/animation musical hybrid starring singer Helen Reddy. The following year saw Marmorstein back with Disney for Return from Witch Mountain, a sci-fi adventure sequel with Bette Davis and Christopher Lee as its adult leads.

Marmorstein’s subsequent credits include a 1986 TV adaptation of Frankenstein, some installments of children’s series ABC Weekend Specials and, in 1990, a final outing with his old friend Gould for Dead Men Don’t Die. In 1993, he revisited the reluctant vampire theme with his feature film comedy Love Bites starring Adam Ant.

Despite his longtime interest in vampires, Marmorstein was not impressed with the Burton-Depp iteration of Barnabas Collins. “I was shocked to see, at the beginning of the movie, Barnabas killing seven or eight innocent people, who weren’t even trying to harm him,” the writer told Yahoo News after seeing the film. “Barnabas would never do that. And I saw no reason whatsoever for the movie to be set in 1972. For nothing, I would have told them not to do that.”

Marmorstein was predeceased by first wife Martha, and is survived by his wife of 17 years, Barbara; sons Larry, Wayne, and Mitchell; daughter Darragh; stepdaughters Romy and Dena; as well as in-laws, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.g

Kelsey Grammer & Alec Baldwin Comedy From ‘Modern Family’ Duo Gets ABC Series Order

Written by Lloyd and Chandrasekaran, in the Untitled Alex Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer Project, roommates in their twenties until their warring egos drove them apart, three men — two of them played by Grammer and Baldwin — reunite decades later for one more run at the lives they’ve always wanted.

Baldwin, Grammer, Lloyd and Chandrasekaran executive produce with Jason Schrift, Matt DelPiano, Tom Russo, Adam Griffin and Jeff Morton. 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio.

Baldwin, who portrays Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live and is one of the show’s most popular hosts, won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive SAG Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. He received an Oscar nomination for The Cooler and a Tony nom for A Streetcar Named Desire. He’s next set to produce and star in action/western feature Rust and also hosts ABC’s Match Game revival game show. He’s repped by CAA and Cavalry Media.

Grammer, winner of six Emmys, three Golden Globes, a SAG Award, a Tony Award, will next be seen in the movies Charming the Hearts of Men, The Space Between, and The God Committee. Recent films include Netflix hit Like Father and Grand Isle. Through his TV production company Grammnet NH Productions, he most recently lent his voice to IMDB’s first scripted series; the short form, adult, animated series You’re Not a Monster and served as executive producer for both seasons of Light as a Feather which he sold to Hulu. Grammer is repped by Vault Entertainment and UTA.

Lloyd co-created, executive produced and co-showran ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Modern Family, which wrapped its 11th season last spring. The project reunites Lloyd with Grammer, with whom he worked on Frasier on all 11 seasons as co-executive producer/executive producer, and on the Fox comedy series Back To You, which Lloyd co-created/exec produced and Grammer starred in.

Chandrasekaran most recently worked as an executive producer on Modern Family with Lloyd. His previous credits include 30 Rock, working with Baldwin, My Name is Earl and Mixology.e

Mel Boudrot Dies: Former SAG New York President & Commercials Voice Actor Was 87

Boudrot had recurring roles on daytime’s All My Children and The Doctors but perhaps was best known as a commercial voice-over artist and union activist. He served as a SAG national board member from 1988-99, as the union’s second and fourth vice presidents, and as president of the New York branch from 1995-99.

“Mel Boudrot truly wanted to make a difference in all that he did,” said SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris. “When it came to his union, Mel stepped up and served wherever he was needed, with experience, passion and a spark in his eye. Our thoughts are with his wife, Jane, and his family at this time.”

Born on December 13, 1932, in Boston, Boudrot served as a trustee for the SAG-AFTRA Motion Picture Player Welfare Fund up until his death, and was a former SAG Foundation board member, trustee of the Actors Federal Credit Union trustee, and proctor on the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Scholarship Committee. Throughout the 1990s, he took part in more than two dozen SAG local and national committees, including Commercials Negotiating, Communications, Finance, Awards, Legislative and New Technologies.

He played Father Tierney on All My Children in a handful of episodes between 1978-91 and District Attorney Darryl E. Harrigan on The Doctors a half-century ago. His distinctive voice could be heard on ads for Heineken, Lufthansa, Burger King, IBM, Dunkin’ Donuts and many others.

“Mel was a mentor and a friend to so many in the industry, and we honor his commitment to his fellow union members, which continued up to his passing,” said SAG-AFTRA EVP and New York Local president Rebecca Damon. “We will miss him beyond belief and are so grateful for the work he did that has shaped SAG-AFTRA for generations to come. Mel and his wife, Jane, were avid sailors and we wish him fair winds.”

He is survived by Jane Boudrot, his wife of 65 years; sons Mark and Jon; granddaughters Alix, and Clara, and great grandchildren Everett and Josie.

Alec Baldwin Pays Tribute To ‘The Hunt For Red October’ Co-Star Sean Connery: “You Made Life Better”

In a candid Instagram video, the Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star recalled his time on set with Connery. Baldwin reminisced in Connery’s professionalism and kindness.

“We talk about people in the legend category – rest in peace Sean Connery,” Baldwin said. “You made life better. The work you did, the films you made. The experience you gave me, the kindness you showed me. Thanks for that.”"

The two actors worked alongside one another in John McTiernan’s Oscar-winning adventure thriller The Hunt for Red October. Connery starred as Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec as CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan. The latter recalled the friendly moments he shared with the late actor, who was 59 at the time of filming.

Baldwin remembered how Connery would show up to set ready to shoot, with hair and makeup ready finished before arriving to the scene. In the social media post, Baldwin also remembered marveling at Connery’s custom made leather jacket from the film. He told his followers that the Oscar winner had offered to pay the Red October costume department to make make a similar leather jacket for Baldwin.

“I learned so much from him,” Baldwin said. “He was so kind toward me, so warm toward me, which he didn’t have to be.”

The SNL comedian went on to mention how Connery only adds to a list of “great” Hollywood figures he’s worked with, including Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep. However, The Untouchables star stood out from the rest.

“This guys’ the king. This guy’s a king and he was the king,” he said.

Connery died peacefully Saturday morning in the Bahamas after a long illness. He was 90.

Watch Baldwin’s Instagram video here.

Capitol - Reunion with Catherine Hickland, Nicholas Walker and Constance Towers

Capitol - Reunion 10/29/20

Kelsey Grammer & Alec Baldwin Comedy From ‘Modern Family’ Duo Gets ABC Series Order

Written by Lloyd and Chandrasekaran, in the Untitled Alex Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer Project, roommates in their twenties until their warring egos drove them apart, three men — two of them played by Grammer and Baldwin — reunite decades later for one more run at the lives they’ve always wanted.

Baldwin, Grammer, Lloyd and Chandrasekaran executive produce with Jason Schrift, Matt DelPiano, Tom Russo, Adam Griffin and Jeff Morton. 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio.

Baldwin, who portrays Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live and is one of the show’s most popular hosts, won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive SAG Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. He received an Oscar nomination for The Cooler and a Tony nom for A Streetcar Named Desire. He’s next set to produce and star in action/western feature Rust and also hosts ABC’s Match Game revival game show. He’s repped by CAA and Cavalry Media.

Grammer, winner of six Emmys, three Golden Globes, a SAG Award, a Tony Award, will next be seen in the movies Charming the Hearts of Men, The Space Between, and The God Committee. Recent films include Netflix hit Like Father and Grand Isle. Through his TV production company Grammnet NH Productions, he most recently lent his voice to IMDB’s first scripted series; the short form, adult, animated series You’re Not a Monster and served as executive producer for both seasons of Light as a Feather which he sold to Hulu. Grammer is repped by Vault Entertainment and UTA.

Lloyd co-created, executive produced and co-showran ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Modern Family, which wrapped its 11th season last spring. The project reunites Lloyd with Grammer, with whom he worked on Frasier on all 11 seasons as co-executive producer/executive producer, and on the Fox comedy series Back To You, which Lloyd co-created/exec produced and Grammer starred in.

Chandrasekaran most recently worked as an executive producer on Modern Family with Lloyd. His previous credits include 30 Rock, working with Baldwin, My Name is Earl and Mixology.e

As the World Turns Final Episode Script Reading

The Cast of As the World Turns will reunite virtually for one night on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020, at 8 p.m. EST, to support the non-profit theatre company, Katonah Classic Stage (KCS), founded by their co-star, Trent Dawson. At least 26 veteran cast members, including Larry Bryggman, Don Hastings, Kathryn Hays, Elizabeth Hubbard, Michael Park and some surprise guests will gather online for a virtual and lively reading of the daytime drama’s final episode, which aired 10 years ago this past September. The show will be live-streamed on The Locher Room’s YouTube channel where fans will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions of the cast. Fans interested in watching can make a minimum $15 donation (tax-deductible)* to KCS to receive a link to watch the live event.

ATWT reunion tickets: Click here.

Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on many industries across the globe. The theatre industry has been hit particularly hard and actors, directors, designers, crew, and all of the other businesses that support live events, are struggling to stay afloat. The cast of As the World Turns is coming together to support Katonah Classic Stage (KCS), a professional, nonprofit theatre company an hour north of NYC, which was founded by ATWT alum, Trent Dawson. The goal is to raise funds to hire actors, musicians, and all the crew necessary to produce live performances when it is safe to do so.

KCS is currently being sponsored by The Field* and all donations will be made through their website. Once your donation has been received, a private link to this live event will be sent to your email address just before show-time on October 28th (be sure to check your spam folder!). If you have any questions, please send them to info@katonahclassicstage.com.

Please support KCS by purchasing a ticket to this live, one-time-only event, for a minmum donation of $15. Feeling generous? your donation is 100% tax-deductible so if you love live theatre and you’re looking for a big tax write-off, here’s your opportunity! All donations go through our fiscal sponsor, the field*

ATWT reunion tickets: Click here.

THE DOCTORS Cast Reunites - Oct 23

Kathleen Turner Joins ‘The Kominsky Method’ Full-Time For Third & Final Season

The addition of Turner reunites her with Douglas after starring together in such classic movies as Romancing The Stone, Jewel of the Nile and War of the Roses. It also helps fill the void left by the departure of Alan Arkin, who was a series regular and Douglas’ main onscreen partner for the first two seasons.

Turner’s Roz Volander is a highly skilled doctor with whom Sandy has a very volatile relationship. Roz comes to LA to spend time with their daughter Mindy (Sarah Baker).

The Kominsky Method was created by Chuck Lorre who executive produces with Al Higgins and Douglas. The series is produced by Chuck Lorre Prods. in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Oscar-nominated actress Turner recently did a guest arc on another Lorre comedy series, CBS’ Mom. She also starred in the These Old Bones episode of Netflix’s Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings anthology series, which landed an Emmy nomination for an Outstanding TV Movie. She is repped by Buchwald and Culture Group.

The first two seasons of The Kominsky Method followed Douglas as Sandy Kominsky, an aging actor-turned-acting coach and his agent and friend Norman Newlander (Arkin). In Season 2, they continued to navigate their later years in Los Angeles with new challenges – Kominsky dealt with health issues as well as his daughter’s new boyfriend, played by Paul Reiser, while Newlander got together with an old flame, played by Jane Seymour. Nancy Travis and Lisa Edelstein also starred.

Video: The Doctors - Reunion

Retro TV airs The Doctors weekdays at 12 noon and at 7:30 p.m. EDT/PDT (see listings at www.myretrotv.com) and online at 4 p.m. EDT weekdays and streaming at www.MyRetroTV.com and on the Retro TV Roku channel.

Video: Crystal Chappell and Hillary B. Smith

THE DOCTORS Virtual Reunion Scheduled

‘Chick Fight’: Quiver, Redbox Entertainment Team On Rights To Comedy Starring Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin & Bella Thorne

Written by first-time feature writer Joseph Downey, the plot follows Anna Wyncomb (Akerman), who is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn her life around, when she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

Dominique Jackson, former pro-wrestler Kevin Nash, Fortune Feimster, Dulcé Sloan, and Alec Mapa round out the cast.

Producers are Akerman, Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Michael J. Rothstein, Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements as well as Frances Lausell and Ash Christian, who spearheaded the film’s development. Christian, a beloved Emmy-winning independent producer, tragically passed away last month at age 35.

The deal was negotiated by Quiver’s Larry Greenberg with Elsa Ramo on behalf of Yale Productions.

Donnie Yen, Alec Baldwin & Frank Grillo To Star In Action-Thriller ‘The Father’; AGC & CAA Launch Sales

Described as an ode to the revered action movies of the 1980s, The Father is set against the Irish-American gangland of South Boston and charts the struggle of middle-class Hong Kong immigrant John Chung (Yen) making the best of his family’s new American life while working as a modest fish broker in the city’s infamous docklands. When his wayward teenage boys stumble upon four kilos of heroin, they’re hunted by a local crime ring and a group of corrupt cops.

Arthur Sarkissian (Rush Hour), Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road (John Wick), John Schramm and Yen will produce from a script by P.G. Cuschieri to be directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters).

Principal photography is due to get underway early in 2021. CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. distribution rights.

CAA represents Yen, Baldwin, Grillo and Wirkola and negotiated the deal with AGC’s VP Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa and Thunder Road’s EVP Business Affairs Jonathan Fuhrman. Yen is managed by David Unger at Artist International Group.

Kevin Dobson Dies: ‘Knots Landing’ and ‘Days Of Our Lives’ Star Was 77

The United Veterans Council of San Joaquin County announced the actor’s death on Facebook. Dobson, who died on Sunday, served as chairman of the San Joaquin County group.

Dobson was born in New York on March 18, 1943. Before pursuing his acting career, the New York native first worked multiple positions for the Long Island Railroad. After working as brakeman and conductor for the transportation system, he worked as a waiter.

The actor’s first big break into the industry was as Govorner Harrison Brooks in the TV series One Life to Live in 1968. The television appearance was the first of many roles Dobson would hold throughout his decades-long career. After his breakthrough, Dobson starred in a handful of other TV series including The Doctors, The Rookies, Emergency! and Stranded.

As the actor became a more regular face to the TV space throughout the late 60s and early 70s, Dobson landed a series regular role as Detective Bobby Crocker in Kojak. As Detective Bobby Crocker, Dobson starred alongside Telly Savalas, who played the titular Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Additional co-stars were George Savalas, Mark Russell and Dan Frazer.

In 1982 Dobson took on a new series regular role as Mack MacKenzie in CBS’ popular drama Knots Landing. In the Golden Globe-nominated show Dobson acted with Michele Lee, Nicollette Sheridan and Ted Shackelford.

While he’s most known for his TV work, Dobson also starred in a number of films as well. He played Ensign George Gay in Jack Smight’s Midway, Bobby Gibbons in All Night Long and Donald Shawnessy in She’s No Angel.

Among his most recent credits are Dark Power, Days of Our Lives, Hawaii Five-0 and House of Lies. In Days the actor played Mickey Horton, following John Clarke and John Ingle.

Dobson set to appear the TV series 12 to Midnight, which will premiere in 2021.

Survivors are Dobson’s wife Susan and their children Mariah, Patrick and Sean.

US Open’s virtual opening-night gala will boast Alec Baldwin, Mike Tyson

Page Six has learned that speakers beaming in via Zoom will include Alec Baldwin, Mike Tyson, Dr. Oz, Katie Couric, “Shark Tank” stars Daymond John and Robert Herjavec, tennis greats Chris Evert and John and Patrick McEnroe, and USTA honcho Katrina Adams, among others.

The event will support Rally to Rebuild, which seeks to raise $5 million to support National Junior Tennis and Learning.

Video: Another World Reunion 8/13/20

Alec Baldwin seeks justice in abuse of Dillan, the obese black bear

Dillan was released from Union County Sportsmen’s Club in Pennsylvania to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado in January, and now Baldwin, on behalf of PETA, is asking Wolf to pursue neglect and cruelty to animals charges to the group.

In a letter sent to Wolf Thursday morning and obtained exclusively by Page Six, the 62-year-old “30 Rock” star thanked Wolf for freeing the Asiatic black bear but urged him to set an example for other animal abusers.

“…his abusers still haven’t been charged with cruelty to animals and neglect over Dillan’s mistreatment. An example must be set to help other animals stuck in similarly shoddy situations,” Baldwin’s letter reads.

Baldwin said Dillan underwent dental surgery within three weeks of arriving at the sanctuary after the UCSC ignored the issues, which the USDA cited in its report, three years ago. Dillan had 12 teeth removed and received a root canal, according to Dillan’s dental report.

“An infected abscess in his mouth was so advanced that pus was draining through a hole that had bored through his gums,” the gruesome letter continues.

Baldwin also discusses Dillan’s “morbidly obese” weight at 857 pounds, “which is more than two and a half times the normal weight for a male Asiatic black bear.”

“It’s a miracle that he survived. What the club failed to do in three years, the sanctuary did in less than three weeks,” Baldwin writes. “There is no excuse for the club’s cruel mistreatment of Dillan, and it must be held accountable.

“I respectfully ask that you use your power to ensure that Dillan’s longtime abusers are brought to justice,” he ends his letter.

A rep for Wolf didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.

Another World Reunion 8/13/20

‘Big Sky’: Valerie Mahaffey Joins David E. Kelley’s PI Drama Series For ABC

Written by Kelley, Big Sky is a procedural thriller in which private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Winnick) on a search for two sisters, Danielle and Grace Sullivan, played by Lind and Pettyjohn, respectively, who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Mahaffey will play Helen Pergman. Helen is a meticulous parent, weathering the ups and downs of a contentious relationship with her live-at-home adult son, Ronald (Geraghty).

John Carroll Lynch, Dedee Pfeiffer and Jade Pettyjohn also star.

Kelley executive produces with Ross Fineman and Box.

Mahaffey, who won an Emmy for her turn as the hypochondriacal Eve in Northern Exposure, most recently was seen as Lorna in Dead To Me. Her film credits include Sully, Jungle 2 Jungle, Seabiscuit and Summer Eleven. She’ll next be seen in French Exit alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges. Mahaffey is repped by Innovative Artists and Howard Entertainment.

Emmys 2020 Nominations

(former soap stars in bold)

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away With Murder
Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black
Harriet Walter, Succession
Cherry Jones, Succession
Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid’s Tale
Phylicia Rashad, This Is Us

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Don Cheadle, Black Monday
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Ramy Youssef, Ramy

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Adam Driver, Saturday Night Live
Luke Kirby, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Eddie Murphy, Saturday Night Live
Dev Patel, Modern Love
Brad Pitt, Saturday Night Live
Fred Willard, Modern Family

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Uzo Aduba, Mrs. America
Toni Collette, Unbelievable
Margo Martindale, Mrs. America
Jean Smart, Watchmen
Holland Taylor, Hollywood
Tracey Ullman, Mrs. America.

Video: Guiding Light - Josh, Reva & The Marahs 7/22/20

Guiding Light - Lewis Family Reunion 7/22/20

Download the Emmys App to Watch Past, Present, and Future Shows!

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The platform will allow fans to watch behind the scenes interviews, clips of memorable moments, and past Emmy ceremonies. Plus, you’ll be able to watch the upcoming shows live as they happen, because this year’s Daytime Emmys were split up into multiple shows to separate out the categories. Here’s what’s coming up:

Sunday, July 19, at 9 p.m. ET: The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards – Digital Dramas
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Tuesday, August 11, at 8 p.m. ET: The 41st Annual Sports Emmy Awards
September 2020: The 41st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards

The app is completely free and all you have to do is sign up. Watch The Emmys is available on the web, as well as for iOS, Android, Amazon FireTV, and Roku.

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‘30 Rock’ Returns To NBC For Upfront Special

The hourlong commercial-free special, which will air Thursday, July 16 at 8 PM, will feature the return of cast members from the original series including Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and more. The special will be rebroadcast across USA Network, Bravo, E!, Oxygen, Syfy and CNBC as well as available to stream on Peacock on Friday, July 17 at 9 PM.

“We’re all happy to have this excuse to (remotely) work together again for NBC,” said Fey and Robert Carlock, the executive producers of 30 Rock. “To quote Kenneth the Page, there are only two things we love in this world, television and everyone.”

“At NBCUniversal, we’re excited to produce an Upfront that reflects a new reality and celebrates our relationship with viewers and advertisers alike,” said Linda Yaccarino, chairman, Advertising & Partnerships, NBCUniversal. “Historically, this event is about the future of programming; this year, it’s about the future of our industry—a future where we can meet audiences wherever they are, with the stories that move them. As the old saying goes… when life hands you Lemon, have her host the Upfront!”

“We put our fans first in everything we do at NBCUniversal, so of course our audiences are at the heart of our reimagined Upfront experience,” said Josh Feldman, EVP, Head of Marketing & Advertising Creative, NBCUniversal. “This very special 30 Rock event will bring together video, advertising, and humor to show the world the power of One Platform in a whole new way.”

The Upfront event will feature 30 Rock characters including Liz Lemon (Fey), Jack Donaghy (Baldwin), Tracy Jordan (Morgan), Jenna Maroney (Krakowski), Kenneth Parcell (McBrayer) and more to celebrate “the stories and talent featured in NBCUniversal’s 2020-21 television season,” the network said.

The special will feature guest appearances from talent from across its portfolio and platform, and will highlight new and returning programming from NBC, Telemundo, USA Network, Syfy, E!, Bravo, and more.

Broadway Video and Little Stranger are producing the special in association with Universal Television and NBCUniversal Creative Partnerships. Oz Rodriguez (Saturday Night Live) will direct the special.Originally airing on NBC from October 2006-January 2013, 30 Rock won 16 Emmys including three in a row for Outstanding Comedy Series; seven Golden Globes; 22 guild Awards among SAG, WGA, DGA and PGA; as well as Image, Peabody and AFI Awards. The series is also the record-holder for most Emmy nominations in one season for any comedy series, and received a total of 103 Emmy nominations over its seven-season run.

Mel Winkler Dies: ‘Doc Hollywood’, ‘Oswald’ Actor Was 78

His death was announced by family spokesperson Courtney Benson.

Winkler made his Broadway stage debut in 1968’s The Great White Hope, appearing in several productions thereafter before taking the role of Seth Holly in 1988’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. His final Broadway role was in 1997’s Proposals, written by Neil Simon and directed by Joe Mantello.

Winkler appeared in such films as Doc Hollywood (1991), All the Right Moves (1983) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). After a 1969 stint on daytime’s The Doctors, he appeared steadily in episodic TV roles from the 1970s through the early 2000s, including such series as The Cosby Show, The Young Riders, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Touched by an Angel, NYPD Blue, The Hughleys and The Shield.

As a voice actor, Winkler played Lucius Fox in The New Batman Adventures (1997) and Johnny Snowman in Oswald (2001). He voiced the guardian mask Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot series of video games in the early 2000s.

Born in St Louis, MO, Winkler is survived by sons Maury and Mark, and four granddaughters.

Alec Baldwin dinged for promoting Woody Allen interview

But Baldwin fired back, belittling the posts. “I had no idea about this … national day of whatever,” he replied to a critic. “The professional lives of some people cannot be put on hold at the whims of political correctness.”

Baldwin, who has acted in three of Allen’s movies, also said, “I believe Allen is innocent and that is my right.”

Alec Baldwin To Produce & Star In ‘Rust’ Western With ‘Crown Vic’s Joel Souza Directing

The plot follows infamous western outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), who has had a bounty on his head for as long as he can remember. When his estranged 13-year-old grandson Lucas is convicted of an accidental murder and sentenced to hang, Rust travels to Kansas to break him out of prison. Together, the two fugitives must outrun the legendary U.S. Marshal Wood Helm and bounty-hunter Fenton “Preacher” Lang who are hot on their tail. Deeply buried secrets rise from the ashes and an unexpected familial bond begins to form as the mismatched duo tries to survive the merciless American Frontier.

Oscar nominee Baldwin will produce under his El Dorado Pictures banner alongside Anjul Nigam, who he previously produced Souza’s Crown Vic with, as well as Anna Granucci. Matthew Helderman and Elizabeth L. Barbatelli are executive producers. Highland Film Group will launch international sales at the upcoming Marché du Film Online, with CAA Media Finance handling the domestic rights, and BondIt Media Capital on board for financing.

The 30 Rock star most recently served as an executive producer of Sundance drama Beast Beast, reprised his role as Donald Trump on the season 45 finale of Saturday Night Live, and co-stars in the upcoming action-comedy, Chick Fight. Baldwin is repped by CAA and Cavalry Media. Baldwin’s El Dorado is repped by Fox Rothschild.

Souza, who also wrote and directed credits Break Night and Ghost Squad, is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, The Gersh Agency, and Miloknay Weiner.

Nigam, a veteran actor who appeared on Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, is a client of Stephen Foreht and DiSante Frank & Co.

Paley Center announces upcoming ‘Front Row’ virtual panels

First, on May 29, the cast and creatives from Apple TV+’s animated musical comedy “Central Park” will chat about the upcoming series. Kristen Bell, Daveed Diggs, Kathryn Hahn and Leslie Odom, Jr. — as well as co-creators/executive producers Loren Bouchard and Josh Gad and executive producers Nora Smith, Sanjay Shah and Halsted Sullivan — will participate in the panel.

MSNBC anchors Mika Brzezinski (“Morning Joe”), Katy Tur (“MSNBC Live”), Stephanie Ruhle (“MSNBC Live”) and Yasmin Vossoughian (“First Look”) will convene on June 5 to have a candid conversation about how women in particular balance work, motherhood and keeping their families safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

The final program will run on June 12, bringing together ABC’s “Summer Fun & Games” hosts Alec Baldwin (“Match Game”), Anthony Anderson (“To Tell the Truth”), Steve Harvey (“Family Feud”), Rob Riggle (“Holey Moley”) and Joe Tessitore (“Holey Moley”). The conversation will be led by “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan.

All programs will be available on Paley Center’s YouTube Channel beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

Dishing with Digest - 5/15/20 - Hillary B. Smith

‘THE STORY OF SOAPS,’ A TWO-HOUR TELEVISION EVENT

“The Story of Soaps” explores how no genre of television has laid deeper roots into our cultural consciousness and serialized storytelling than the soap opera. In today’s shifting television landscape, “The Story of Soaps” traces how female creators migrated from radio to television to become the dominant force in daytime for more than three decades. Today, that legacy is alive and well all over prime time and reality, and much of what propels modern television traces its roots back to those first sprawling, steamy storylines. “The Story of Soaps” takes an extensive look at this iconic, impactful genre and the cultural phenomenon its massive impact has had on the world at large.

“The Story of Soaps” brings together an impressive company of experts and familiar voices to help illustrate this remarkable story (listed alphabetically by first name):

Abigail De Kosnik, author

Agnes Nixon, creator of “All My Children”

Alec Baldwin, actor

Allan Sugarman, co-founder of Soap Opera Festivals Inc.

Andy Cohen, creator

Angela Shapiro-Mathes, executive

Brad Bell, executive producer

Bryan Cranston, actor

Carol Burnett, actor

Chandra Wilson, actor

Chris Van Etten, writer

David Jacobs, creator

Deidre Hall, actor

Denise Richards, actor

Donna Mills, actor

Drake Hogestyn, actor

Eddie Mills, actor

Eileen Davidson, actor and reality star

Erika Jayne, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”

Erika Slezak, actor

Finola Hughes , actor

Genie Francis, actor

Greg Vaughan , actor

James H. Brown, writer

Jill Farren Phelps, executive producer

John Aniston, actor

John McCook, actor

John Stamos, actor

Jon Hamm, actor

Jonathan Murray, executive producer

Joyce Becker, co-founder of Soap Opera Festivals Inc.

Kate Coyne, editorial director, entertainment, PEOPLE

Ken Olin, executive producer

Krista Smith, consultant

Laura Wright, actor

Lorraine Broderick, head writer

Marc Samuel, actor

Marc Cherry, creator

Mark Teschner, casting director

Mary Crosby, actor

Maurice Benard, actor

Melody Thomas Scott, actor

Shelly Altman, head writer

Susan Lucci, actor

Susan Sullivan, actor

Vivica A. Fox, actor

Yhane Smith, creator of “Harlem Queen”

Video: Daytime Cares Live Event

Daytime Cares: A Live Event Scheduled

The event can be viewed here and in addition to those mentioned above, will feature:

Lamon Archey (Eli, DAYS), Maurice Benard (Sonny, GH), Ian Buchanan (ex-Duke, GH et al), Crystal Chappell (ex-Carly, DAYS et al), James DePaiva (ex-Max, ONE LIFE TO LIVE et al), Kassie DePaiva (ex-Eve, DAYS et al), William deVry (Julian, GH), Chad Duell (Michael, GH), Andrea Evans (ex-Tina, ONE LIFE TO LIVE et al), Linsey Godfrey (Sarah, DAYS), Stacy Haiduk (Kristen, DAYS), Bill Hayes (Doug, DAYS), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie, DAYS), Finola Hughes (Anna, GH), Michael E. Knight (Martin, GH), Kyle Lowder (Rex, DAYS), Katelyn MacMullen (Willow, GH), Sofia Mattsson (Sasha, GH), Eric Martsolf (Brady, DAYS), Robert Newman (ex-Josh, GUIDING LIGHT), Wes Ramsey (Peter, GH), James Reynolds (Abe, DAYS), Melissa Reeves (Jennifer, DAYS), Scott Reeves (ex-Steven, GH et al), Emme Rylan (Lulu, GH), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, Y&R), Paul Telfer (Xander, DAYS), Heather Tom (Katie, B&B), Jordi Vilasuso (Rey, Y&R), Cynthia Watros (Nina, GH), Maura West (Ava, GH), Josh Swickard (Chase, GH), Kim Zimmer (ex-Reva, GUIDING LIGHT)

Video: As The World Turns Chat 5/1/20

Don’t Miss a Special AS THE WORLD TURNS Reunion with Elizabeth Hubbard and Martha Byrne

Hubbard had brief stints as Anne on GUIDING LIGHT and Carol on THE EDGE OF NIGHT, then hit it big playing Dr. Althea Davis on THE DOCTORS, earning the very first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Following that soap’s cancelation, the actress played Estelle on ONE LIFE TO LIVE for a bit before joining ATWT in 1984 as high-powered businesswoman Lucinda Walsh. Hubbard will reminisce about her career in daytime, and will also be joined by TV daughter Martha Byrne (Lily/Rose) for a fun-filled afternoon of memories!

Promo: The Story of Soaps

Video: GUIDING LIGHT Reunion!

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin expecting fifth child after miscarriages

“Sound up…I’ll let the baby do the talking because I don’t have the words to express how this sound makes us feel,” Hilaria, 36, captioned a video of her belly with the sound of her baby’s heart beating in the background. “Just got the great news that all is well and all is healthy with this little munchkin. I wanted to share this with you Here we go again.”

Hilaria and Alec, 62, have been trying for another baby for some time now.

The yoga instructor revealed she was “devastated” after she miscarried while four months pregnant in November 2019.

They were expecting a baby girl.

Hilaria also miscarried a baby after 10 weeks in April that same year.

“There was no heartbeat today at my scan…so it’s over,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.

She has since shared the hardships of experiencing two miscarriages.

The couple also shares daughter Carmen, 6, and sons Romeo, 2, Leonardo, 3, and Rafael, 4.

The “30 Rock” actor is also father to 24-year-old daughter Ireland whom he shares with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

James Lipton, Longtime Host of TV's Inside the Actors Studio, Dead at 93

“There are so many James Lipton stories, but I’m sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with,” Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner, told TMZ.

Lipton created Inside the Actors Studio in 1994, when it premiered on Bravo. The Q&A program — in which Lipton asked actors in-depth questions about their craft — ran for 22 seasons at that network, before moving to Ovation in 2019. After moderating more than 250 conversations with thespians, Lipton stepped down as host when the show changed networks, and the program is now led by a series of guest hosts.

“It’s very gratifying to see the legacy of Inside The Actors Studio being carried forward for a new generation to appreciate and enjoy,” Lipton said at the time. “I made a vow early on that we would not deal in gossip — only in craft, and Ovation, as a network dedicated to the arts, will continue that tradition with the next seasons of the series.”

Ovation reacted to the news of Lipton’s passing with the following statement: “We celebrate and honor the great legacy of James Lipton. James is beloved around the world for his passion, insight and dedication to the craft of acting. With Inside the Actors Studio, James has created a long-lasting impact on the acting world. Ovation mourns his loss and offers deepest condolences to his family, friends and fans.”

Lipton also held guest roles on shows such as Arrested Development, Suburgatory and According to Jim, and he voiced himself on episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy.

Behind the camera, Lipton served as a writer on several projects, including many episodes of Inside the Actors Studio. His credits also included Another World, The Best of Everything and Return to Peyton Place.

Alec Baldwin countersued by man he allegedly punched, then sued for defamation

Baldwin sued Wojciech Cieszkowski for defamation in November 2019, claiming the man made up a false story about him when he said the actor punched him in the face during a Nov. 2, 2018, dispute over a parking spot.

Baldwin — who plays a raging President Trump on TV’s “Saturday Night Live” — was arrested in the parking incident at the time and pleaded guilty to harassing Cieszkowski. But he has maintained he never punched the small-business owner. Baldwin had to pay a $120 surcharge and complete a one-day anger management class to resolve the criminal case against him.

Cieszkowski, in new papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, is now protesting Baldwin’s defamation suit against him, saying, “Alec Baldwin was already exactly the kind of person who the public thought would punch someone in the face over a parking spot.

“When it comes to his notorious temper and penchant for assaulting people in the streets, Alec Baldwin is the classic libel-proof plaintiff.

“Now he has the gall to sue his victim, claiming he was ‘defamed’ and ‘falsely imprisoned’ based on the distinction between a hard push and a punch. Seriously?” Cieszkowski said.

“Like the man he plays on television, Alec Baldwin is an entitled celebrity with a long history of verbally and physically mistreating others he sees as beneath him.”

Alec Baldwin’s lawyer, Luke Nikas, responded to The Post, “The motion contains numerous false statements that we will disprove at trial. There are real cases, with people who have actually been injured, who need and deserve access to our courts. Mr. Cieszkowski’s case against Alec Baldwin is not one of them.”

Reach High Media Group Will Celebrate Retro Day 2020 By Releasing Subscriber-Based Interactive Platform For The Doctors

With the new platform launch, WatchTheDoctors and Reach High Media Group television network Retro TV will be the exclusive homes of the beloved daytime drama.

Joel Wertman, president of Reach High Media Group says, “Streaming options give us the opportunity to engage our audience more than ever before.

Our fans have the ability to watch, share and interact with the programming that they love in new, exciting ways.”

Beginning Feb. 27, viewers can subscribe online at WatchTheDoctors.com, through OTT (over-the-top) devices like Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and through their Android or iOS App Store. Subscriptions will include hosted trivia games on Wednesday and Saturday nights that will create opportunities to unlock exclusive original interview content.

Set in the fictional New England city of Madison, The Doctors was known for featuring cutting-edge storylines and received 17 Emmy Award nominations. The series ran for 20 seasons with cast alums including Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), daytime stars Kim Zimmer (Guiding Light) and Anna Stuart (Another World), Ted Danson (Cheers), Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married) and Emmy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Hubbard (As the World Turns).

Kevin Conway Dies: ‘Gettysburg’, ‘Thirteen Days’ & ‘Invincible’ Actor Was 77

New York City-born Conway worked as an IBM sales analyst before becoming an actor at age 24. He went on to a decades-long career with dozens of credits in film, television and on the stage. His first major screen role was playing Roland Weary in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse Five, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel. He went on to play Crum Petree, the insane mailman in the 1988 film Funny Farm; Frank Papale in the 2006 Disney football drama Invincible; and General Curtis LeMay in the 2000 historical drama Thirteen Days. He also played the fictional Sgt. Buster Kilrain in Ron Maxwell’s 1993 epic Gettysburg (see photo above) and its 2003 follow-up Gods and Generals.

His television work included playing Roger Chillingworth in a 1979 TV production of The Scarlet Letter, a role later played by Robert Duvall in 1995’s The Scarlet Letter. Conway also had a memorable guest-starring role on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street. In the 1995 episode titled “Heartbeat,” he played Joseph Cardero, the prime suspect in a cold-case murder who is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. Cardero ultimately meets his end in the same manner his victim did – and with a chilling nod to Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart.

Conway’s stage credits include a 1974 Drama Desk-winning Off Broadway performance in When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? and a 1970 Broadway debut in the play Indians starring Stacy Keach and Raul Julia. In 1975 he played George opposite James Earl Jones’ Lennie in Of Mice and Men, and in 1979 starred opposite Philip Anglim in the acclaimed The Elephant Man. His last Broadway credit was 2002’s Dinner at Eight opposite Joanne Camp, John Dossett, Marian Seldes and Christine Ebersole.

As a director, Conway helmed the 1987 independent film The Sun and the Moon.

His numerous other TV credits include the Control Voice for The Outer Limits revival series from 1995-2002. He guest-starred on Star Trek: The Next Generation as the clone of the legendary Klingon figure Kahless, as well as on The Good Wife, JAG, Law & Order, In the Heat of the Night and The Black Donnellys. Conway also recurred on HBO’s prison drama Oz as Seamus O’Reilly, the abusive father of Irish gang inmates Ryan and Cyril O’Reilly.

Kathleen Turner Guest on Mom 2/6/20

John Karlen Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Cagney & Lacey,’ ‘Dark Shadows’ Actor Was 86

Karlen’s death was announced via Twitter on the Dark Shadows News page. The actor had been in declining health for a decade. Last March, the ShadowGram Dark Shadows newsletter posted that Karlen had suffered a stroke.

A frequent and favorite guest at Dark Shadows festivals over the decades, Karlen joined the supernatural ’60s soap in 1967 as the no-account, slightly menacing thief Willie Loomis. Soon after his arrival in the fictional Collinsport, Maine, Karlen’s Loomis, hearing tales of treasure in a secret mausoleum chamber, discovered the old coffin and inadvertently freed the sleeping vampire within, quickly becoming the undead monster’s unwilling slave and, eventually, loyal friend.

Planned as a short-term last-chance plot, the vampire storyline, starring Jonathan Frid as the fanged Barnabas Collins, turned the failing soap into a phenomenon, providing the fledgling ABC daytime line-up with its first hit. Karlen would remain with the series until its end in 1971, playing, as did most of the ensemble, multiple characters in various centuries and parallel universes.

Karlen reprised the Igor-like Willie for the bloody 1970 big-screen adaptation House of Dark Shadows, and a nice-guy victim character in 1971’s ghostly Night of Dark Shadows.

Prior to Dark Shadows (which currently streams on Amazon Prime), Karlen had small roles in ’50s anthology series, ’60s primetime episodic series and daytime soaps, but the Loomis role pegged him for horror through much of the early ’70s. Film and TV credits from the era include Daughters of Darkness, Night of Terror, The Sixth Sense, Night Gallery, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Wide World of Mystery and Trilogy of Terror.

By the end of the decade and into the next, guest shots on non-chillers began to stack up: Medical Center, Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons, The Streets of San Francisco, All in the Family, Police Story, Charlie’s Angels, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, Hill Street Blues and The Winds of War, to name a sampling.

But his real second act came with CBS’ 1982-88 female buddy cop drama Cagney & Lacey: As Harvey Lacey, devoted, stay-at-home husband to Tyne Daly’s Det. Mary Beth Lacey, Karlen was Emmy-nominated three times (1985, ’86 and ’87), winning the Outstanding Supporting Actor trophy in ’86. He reprised the role in several stand-alone TV movies during the 1990s, including 1996’s Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions, his last major credit.

Also in the ’90s he recurred in Murder, She Wrote and Mad About You (as father to Helen Hunt’s lead character).

Karlen is survived by son Adam and former wife Betty.

2020 Oscar Nominations

Actor in a Leading Role
Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory (Sony Pictures Classics)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Adam Driver - Marriage Story (Netflix)
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker (Warner Bros.)
Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes (Netflix)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell (Warner Bros.)
Laura Dern - Marriage Story (Netflix)
Scarlett Johansson - Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
Florence Pugh - Little Women (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Margot Robbie - Bombshell (Lionsgate)

Actor in a Supporting Role
Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes (Netflix)
Al Pacino - The Irishman (Netflix)
Joe Pesci - The Irishman (Netflix)
Brad Pitt- Once upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing).

Ted Danson and Charlize Theron among Golden Globe presenters

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association also announced Thursday that other presenters will include Sofia Vergara, Kerry Washington, Tiffany Haddish, Glenn Close and Will Ferrell. Kate McKinnon and Ted Danson will also present.

Ricky Gervais will host the 77th annual Golden Globes Awards that will air on NBC. It will be the fifth time Gervais emcees the ceremony after hosting the show from 2010 to 2012 and 2016.

Gervais’ hosting stints have been marked by relentless skewering of his fellow actors, and the HFPA.

Tom Hanks will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an accolade for film. He is a four-time Golden Globe winner for his acting work on “Big,” “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump” along with his directing efforts in HBO’s 2001 miniseries “Band of Brothers.”

Ellen DeGeneres will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television.

The talk-show and game-show host is a multiple Emmy winner and Globe nominee.

2020 Golden Globes Nominations

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

DANIEL CRAIG
KNIVES OUT

ROMAN GRIFFIN DAVIS
JOJO RABBIT

LEONARDO DICAPRIO
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

TARON EGERTON
ROCKETMAN

EDDIE MURPHY
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE

KATHY BATES
RICHARD JEWELL

ANNETTE BENING
THE REPORT

LAURA DERN
MARRIAGE STORY

JENNIFER LOPEZ
HUSTLERS

MARGOT ROBBIE
BOMBSHELL

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE

TOM HANKS
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

ANTHONY HOPKINS
THE TWO POPES

AL PACINO
THE IRISHMAN

JOE PESCI
THE IRISHMAN

BRAD PITT
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Critics' Choice Awards Nominations 2020

Best Actress in a Drama Series
Christine Baranski, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Olivia Colman, The Crown (Netflix)
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve (BBC America)
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Regina King, Watchmen (HBO)
Mj Rodriguez, Pose (FX)
Sarah Snook, Succession (HBO)
Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Asante Blackk, This Is Us (NBC)
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (Apple)
Asia Kate Dillon, Billions (Showtime)
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Justin Hartley, This Is Us (NBC)
Delroy Lindo, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Tim Blake Nelson, Watchmen (HBO)

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown (Netflix)
Gwendoline Christie, Game of Thrones (HBO)
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Audra McDonald, The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Jean Smart, Watchmen (HBO)
Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies (HBO)
Susan Kelechi Watson, This Is Us (NBC)

Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Ted Danson, The Good Place (NBC)
Walton Goggins, The Unicorn (CBS)
Bill Hader, Barry (HBO)
Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Paul Rudd, Living With Yourself (Netflix)
Bashir Salahuddin, Sherman’s Showcase (IFC)
Ramy Youssef, Ramy (Hulu)

BEST ACTOR - Film
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro – The Irishman
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Eddie Murphy – Dolemite Is My Name
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Film
Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse
Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

The National Board of Review Award Winners

Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates, RICHARD JEWELL

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin say they’ll try for another baby after miscarriage

The couple attended the American Museum of Natural History gala on Thursday, where they opened up about their loss and hopes for one more child.

“I’m doing as best as you can,” Hilaria, 35, said to “Entertainment Tonight.” “I’m much better than I was last week and coming out and talking about it and sharing I think has been very healing for me.”

Alec and Hilaria have four children together, ranging in age from 17 months to 6 years.

“I have got a very good husband who has been there with me the whole time,” she added, as her 61-year-old spouse stood by her side. “Bringing me into the surgery, sort of being there when I wake up.”

Hilaria suffered her first miscarriage in April and shared the news on her Instagram to keep fans informed and help erase the stigma from society. On Thursday, she said talking about both losses made it more “real” for her and helped her heal.

“I believe, when you go through something difficult, the sooner you make it into something real, you can do something with it,” said Hilaria, who was dressed in Badgley Mischka. “And it was something that you don’t want to be real … I kept on waking up and thinking it was a bad dream and it wasn’t, but the more that you talk about it, the more you make it real, and when it’s real, then you can work on it.”

The “Motherless Brooklyn” actor also revealed they’re going to continue to try for a fifth child. They’re already parents to daughter Carmen Gabriela, 6, as well as sons Rafael Thomas, 4, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 2, and Romeo Alejandro David, 17 months. Alec is also dad to model daughter Ireland, 24, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

“If you have kids, and if you’re like us, sometimes you feel like you can’t stop having kids,” Alec shared. “Every time we have them, we’re like, ‘This is great. Let’s have more!'”

“We can’t end on that note. I don’t want to,” Hilaria said. “At least, we’re trying not to end on that note. Cause that was a sad note.”

“Yeah, we’re gonna have another one,” Alec responded.

Joanna Going on The Good Doctor 12/2/19

The series stars Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne, Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez, Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews, Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman, Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim, Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick, Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park, Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo and Jasika Nicole as Dr. Carly Lever.

Guest starring is Michael Trucco as Ethan Murphy and Joanna Going as Marcie Murphy.

“Friends and Family” was written by Tommy Moran and directed by Mike Listo.

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, November 12 – KATHLEEN TURNER

Alec Baldwin Sues Man in Parking Space Dispute ... I Didn't Punch You!!!

According to the lawsuit -- obtained by TMZ -- the "SNL" star claims Wojciech Cieszkowski repeatedly lied about what went down during the 2018 spat.

Baldwin says, "When two New Yorkers get into an argument over a parking space, typically what happens is they exchange a few sharp words and then move on with their lives. But that is not what happened here. Cieszkowski has instead made up a false story about the encounter and refused to move on unless Baldwin succumbs to his extortionate demands."

As we reported ... Baldwin says the whole thing started when Cieszkowski pulled into a parking spot and came way too close to his wife and child waiting on the curb.

Baldwin does fess up to "lightly" pushing Cieszkowski during the dispute but says his opponent then lied to cops, claiming he was badly assaulted. Baldwin points to hospital records and video surveillance footage to back up his side of things. The video seems to back up his story.

Baldwin cut a deal with prosecutors earlier this year and was only charged with harassment in the 2nd degree. He was sentenced to just a few anger management courses ... but now he wants a jury to decide if he's the victim ... of defamation.

Alec Baldwin’s family hustled by fake Statue of Liberty tickets

Baldwin posted about the ruse on his Instagram Sunday, writing they shelled over $40 a ticket for a shuttle bus to New Jersey.

“I kid you not. We paid. Then we read the tickets. NO ON EVER MENTIONED NEW F***ING JERSEY!!!” he wrote in the post.

“This is a scam. Take the SI Ferry. It’s the best ride in NY,” the “30 Rock” star added.

Hilaria Baldwin then posted a photo of her, Alec and three of their children on the deck of the Staten Island Ferry.

Faulty ticket sellers have hawked scam passes near Battery Park City for years as the city and the NYPD have repeatedly tried to crack down on them.

In July, Chinatown Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou said a pack of the ticket hawkers hurled insults at her during an argument, calling her a “bitch” and a “whore.”

Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, pregnant with baby No. 5

The “Mom Brain” co-host, 35, made the announcement on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a video of the baby’s heartbeat monitor.

“It is still very early…but we have learned that there is a little person inside of me ??. The sound of this strong heart makes me so happy—especially because of the loss we experienced in the spring,” she wrote.

“We want to share this news as we are excited and don’t want to hide the pregnancy. These first few months are tough with exhaustion and nausea…and I don’t want to have to pretend that I feel ok.”

She requested that paparazzi leave her alone because “I want to remain peaceful during this very early time in my pregnancy and getting chased around by cameras is not in the doctor’s orders.”

She then shared a picture of her growing baby bump, joking, “When you’ve had so many babies, 6 minutes pregnant = looking like 6 months pregnant.”

About two weeks ago, Alec confirmed that he and Hilaria wanted a fifth child, though he maintained she wasn’t pregnant at the time.

“We have four kids. She wants to have another one. We’re having another one,” Alec, 61, told Kevin Nealon on his YouTube series “Hiking with Kevin.” “We’re gonna have a fifth baby.”

The couple are already parents to Carmen Gabriela, 6, as well as sons Rafael Thomas, 4, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 3, and Romeo Alejandro David, 15 months. Alec is also dad to model daughter Ireland Baldwin, 23, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

TV icon Valerie Harper loses cancer battle

Harper died on Friday morning, her daughter Cristina Cacciotti said, declining to give further details.

Harper’s husband, Tony Cacciotti, said in July that doctors advised that the actress, who was suffering from brain cancer, be placed in hospice care.

Harper had revealed to People magazine in March 2013 she had leptomeningeal carcinomatosis – cancer cells in the membrane of her brain.

She made a surprising comeback after the 2013 diagnosis, which had given her only months to live. Just seven months later she competed on the “Dancing With the Stars” show and in 2015 made an appearance on the sitcom “2 Broke Girls.”

Harper, who also was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009, stayed busy campaigning for cancer research and taking occasional acting and voice-over jobs as recently as 2019.

She won three straight Emmys for best supporting actress in a comedy on Moore’s show – 1971 through 1973 – and in 1974 Time magazine featured the two of them in a cover story titled “TV’s Funny Girls.”

That same year “Rhoda” was given her own show, which ran for five years and earned Harper another Emmy for best actress in a comedy in 1975.

Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy & Alec Baldwin Set For Comedic Thriller ‘Pixie’

Filming is currently underway. The plot centers on Pixie (Cooke), who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men (Hardy, McCormack) who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters. She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.

Thompson, who picked up an Oscar nom as a producer of the short film, Dear Rosie, is producing the pic with James Clayton (My Generation, Pride). Thompson has produced films such as Spiceworld, Wayne’s World 1&2, An Ideal Husband, and produced and directed the indie films St. Trinian’s 1&2. He most recently served as executive producer of the UK film, Fisherman’s Friends.

“I am excited to be returning to the Emerald Isle, the birthplace of my father and where I started my career directing documentaries, to make a comedic thriller with a wonderful cast against an extraordinary landscape. I’m also thrilled the film is going to be distributed in the UK and Ireland by Paramount, where I started my career producing movies,” said Thompson.

Peter Touche and Samantha Allwinton from Ingenious Media are the executive producers of Pixie.

Funded by Ingenious and Fragile Films, with support from Northern Ireland Screen, Pixie will shoot in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland for seven weeks, with additional photography in the West of Ireland.

Endeavor Content is handling worldwide sales. Paramount Pictures has acquired distribution rights in the UK and Ireland.

Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin & Christian Slater To Star In ‘Dr. Death’, UCP Limited Series Based On Podcast

With the high-caliber talent on board, UCP is shopping the project to networks and streaming platforms. The studio took the same approach with two other series based on podcasts, Homecoming, which was sold to Amazon with Julia Roberts attached, and Dirty John, which landed at Bravo with Connie Britton in negotiations to star. Both those projects scored two-season pickups.

Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us. It tells the disturbing true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, he was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow surgeons (Baldwin and Slater) and a young Assistant District Attorney set out to stop him.

Baldwin plays Robert Henderson, a quiet, deliberative and methodical neurosurgeon who believes wholeheartedly both in the system in which he rose through the ranks and that anything worth doing shouldn’t be rushed. It should be gotten right. Slater is vascular surgeon Randall Kirby, who, on the other hand, is brash, impulsive and more than willing to burn that system to the ground in the name of justice. There’s a time and a place for deliberation and there’s a time and a place to just get things done.

Together, they form something of a Woodward-and-Bernstein duo who constantly will be at odds in terms of their personalities and their methods but on the exact same page as it relates to their endgame.

Dr. Death is executive produced by Patrick Macmanus (Happy!) under his overall deal with UCP, the studio behind The Act, Homecoming and Dirty John, which is shopping the project. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch executive produce via Escape Artists, as well as Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery, whose Dr. Death podcast has been heard by more than 50 million people.

UCP acquired the rights to Dr. Death before the podcast had premiered.

Dornan is repped by UTA, Troika and Sloane Offer; Baldwin with CAA and Cavalry Media; and Slater is repped by UTA. Wondery and Escape Artists are with UTA.

Hulu Picks Up All Seasons Of ‘Designing Women’; Will Launch Classic Sitcom On Women’s Equality Day August 26 – TCA

The digital platform will air all 163 episodes of the series, which was produced by Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television for CBS, after striking a deal with Sony Pictures Television.

The series, which ran from September 29, 1986, until May 24, 1993, centers on the lives of four women and one man working together at an Atlanta interior design firm. Designing Women starred Dixie Carter (The Edge Of Night/The Doctors), Annie Potts, Jean Smart (Another World), Delta Burke, Meshach Taylor, Alice Ghostley (Passions), Julia Duffy (The Doctors/Passions/Love Of Life), Jan Hooks and Judith Ivey.

The pick up comes after a reboot of the show, written by original creator Bloodworth-Thomason, was developed last year by ABC.

Hulu’s head of originals Craig Erwich said that the show was “ahead of its time” when it launched. “We saw these four fabulous women balancing work and home lives, running businesses, handling setbacks and dating. But the show never shied away from tough topics like domestic abuse, homophobia, racism and women’s rights and its themes and storylines continue to have revelance today,” he added.

In terms of other holidays, Erwich claimed that The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, was the “most watched original” on Mother’s Day. The anthology series follows Gypsy Blanchard (King), a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother, Dee Dee (Arquette).

Erwich said, “I guess after the disturbing scenes between Patricia Arquette and Joey King, we all feel better about our relationships with our moms.”

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Kathy Bates Joining Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’

Bates will play the role of Bobi Jewell, Richard’s mother who was an insurance claims adjuster.

The news follows yesterday’s announcement that I, Tonya actor Paul Walter Hauser will play the title role as the security guard whose life was turned upside down after he was believed to be a possible suspect in the Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Sam Rockwell is playing Jewell’s defense attorney in the film.

Eastwood’s movie, scripted by Billy Ray, centers on Jewell, who discovered a suspicious backpack in the Olympics compound, cleared the area and saved lives that day, but after he was falsely accused he became a pariah. Even though the FBI cleared Jewell as a suspect three months later, the true American hero never fully got his reputation back or his confidence in himself, and his health was forever damaged. Jewell, who later became a police officer, died in 2007 of a heart attack at age 44.

Producing Richard Jewell are Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, Kevin Misher, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Davisson. Production companies are Malpaso, Misher Films, 75 Year Plan, and Appian Way.

Bates is repped by ICM.

Alec Baldwin Weighs In on Game Show Revival Craze

What’s behind this game show revival craze, aside from a need to help people recover from Daenerys Targaryen’s reign of terror? And does Match Game‘s host ever have private thoughts about the more, um, eclectic contestants? TVLine spoke with Alec Baldwin about those topics and others, including 30 Rock‘s psychic powers, why the [BLANK] his own wife is doing Match Game, and how his take on Trump is ultimately powerless.

TVLINE | As excited as I was for ABC to bring back Match Game years ago, I’m equally jazzed to be getting Card Sharks this week from Joel [McHale] and Press Your Luck with Elizabeth Banks. Why do you think game show revivals do as well as they do for ABC?

[Tongue planted semi-firmly in cheek…?] My career has been so groundbreaking, when you think about it. I mean, no one has done what I’ve done. I’ve done movies and Emmy Award-winning TV shows… I’ve been nominated for a Tony on Broadway… and then I fake everybody out and I go and host a game show. Everybody in the business — even Christian Bale, I bet — sat there and said, “You know, maybe I oughta be hosting a game show? Doing all these really important roles and Oscar-nominated films is so much work. Why don’t I go and just hit a bucket of golf balls like Alec Baldwin?”

No, I think that there’s such an incredible variety of programming these days, and some of those shows I love and watch are very dark, and very violent, and very traumatic. In a world where people want sweet and sour on the menu, game shows have enjoyed a resurgence. People just want to have some fun. They don’t want to stress too much about, “Which character’s head is the dragon going to bite off of in the next episode?”

TVLINE | There’s a steady influx of new celebs rotating in and out of the Match Game panel. Do you have any say in that?

I only have one rule, which is, “Don’t bring any of my brothers on the show.” That’s the critical rule here.

TVLINE | None. Ever.

None. Bring on people named Baldwin, but none of my three brothers.

But in all seriousness, we have great casting people and we have great returning people who I love and some of whom are dear friends, but we also have people who I get to learn about, people I don’t know. I don’t watch a lot of TV — I watch some — so I’ll say [to producers], “Who’s Bob so-and-so?” “Well, he’s in his fifth season of this white-hot comedy” that I’ve never heard of. This gives me a chance to learn about people who are out there in the whole constellation, and it’s been fun.

TVLINE | Is there anybody you’d like to have on the show? Personal friends or past co-stars?

All the usual suspects. We’d love to have some of the great comedy actors and actresses. Who wouldn’t want Julie Louis-Dreyfus and [Jerry] Seinfeld, Tina [Fey], Jimmy Fallon, Howard Stern… Bill Clinton? We have a whole list of people like that. But do you want to know something? We’re not missing anything. Everybody we have, we love. We’ve always had people on who are just blackbelt comics, like Adam Carolla, Ali Wentworth, Kenan Thompson, Joel McHale, Sherri Shepherd…. We have Wayne Newton coming on! We are not lacking.

Alec Baldwin Wife HilariaTVLINE | You do have a Baldwin coming up [next season] — your wife Hilaria. Whose idea was that?

We have four kids so we need all the money we can get our hands on. [Laughs] I tried to book my wife for all 12 shows — and my daughter Carmen, who I think would do well; she’s pretty funny. No, we were going to do a show with a bunch of my family — like my brother Billy’s wife Chynna [Phillips], and my brother Stephen’s daughters and so forth, and my daughter Ireland — but scheduling-wise it didn’t work out. But they stayed with the idea of bringing on Hilaria, and she is quick to do any show where really smart writers give her the opportunity to let the air out of me on TV. She can’t wait for that.

TVLINE | When a Match Game contestant reveals a very, very, very specific, and peculiar, hobby, do you ever have an internal monologue where you’re like, “Oh, come on“?

[Laughs… a lot] I’m glad you said internal monologue, because….

TVLINE | I mean, someone who “makes tiny foods”…?

Please come and write for the show. You need to come be with us. Where are you? New York? We’ve got to get you out of TVLine and over here.

TVLINE | This seems to be a long way of you answering, “Yes.”

It’s such a funny thing, because when [the contestants] come around the corner, the way they present themselves when we first introduce them tells you everything you need to know about them. Some of them look like they’re in a seat with a taser in the cushion, and they’re hopping up and down like a robot. Some of them are so animated! And some of them are like, “Let’s ease our way into the craziness.” But you can tell so much about them when they come around that corner.

TVLINE | Do you have a favorite instance of 30 Rock predicting the future? For example, Tracy Jordan once filmed a political ad in which he claimed that Martin Luther King’s dream was to build a 200-foot wall between Mexico and the United States.

[Laughs] I still believe that Jack McBrayer is going to become the president of NBC one day. I still believe that prediction. They could use him.

TVLINE | At this moment — at 1:59 pm on Monday, June 10 — what is your current answer on doing more Trump for Saturday Night Live?

Lorne [Michaels] is my dear friend; if he wants me to continue, I probably will. I get sick of it and Iv’e whined about it regularly, because in the zeitgeist, I’m a pretty political person, and where I would normally put that energy is into voter registration, to work with MoveOn.org, to get involved in an actual candidacy which I used to do a lot of but stopped for a while. My wife and I have four little kids, so what I choose to do, I’m a bit precious with my time. But Lorne is my dear friend and that’s like another home to me, so if they want me to do it, I probably will. I’m just afraid that come the fall, I’m going to be very busy.

TVLINE | TVLine actually did an op-ed saying that maybe your time at SNL is up. That, at least the way they’re writing for you, they are not saying anything fresh anymore with the Trump character. Maybe it is time to turn it over to someone else, or drop it for a bit.

I do believe that their cold openings that don’t include Trump have been some of the best cold openings of the year. The thing is — and I don’t say this with any pride, or any crowing at all — that evvverywhere I go, people thank me. People say, “I love you doing that.” “It’s such a great thing for us to be able to make fun of this.” There are a lot of people out there who are still deeply disturbed by where we are [as a country] and I think probably there’s a right amount of it [to do on SNL], regardless of who is playing Trump.

But for me, I hate phrases like “move the needle” and so forth, because who knows what needle that is and what we’re trying to move. I’m not in the business of trying to leverage impeachment, though I have my own opinions about that. The thing that people keep reminding me is Saturday Night Live is a comedy show, it is an entertainment show. And Lorne has been political, Lorne has been acerbic, Lorne has buffed off the edges as it suits his purpose. He kind of feels what the public-at-large wants. He doesn’t want to appeal to just one half of the country, and I trust his judgement. If you’re really out to get Trump, if you’re somebody who wants to affect a change in the White House and get Trump out of office, well, you’ve got your work cut out for you next fall. You’ve got a whole path you can get into, registering people to vote….

When Huffington Post writes something like, “Stephen Colbert Gives a Stinging Reply to Trump!,” they all talk about these things like they matter. Like John Oliver matters, and Colbert, Samantha Bee, all of them that are hyperpolitical, and I really don’t see any difference between them and SNL. You’re just helping people massage a type of bile gland they have, and it’s not really leading to any course of action. It just isn’t.

For me, I’m doing a comedy show with a bunch of old friends of mine, and when Lorne says to me, “I think we’re done” and the audience is sick of it, I would certainly take his advice. But in the meantime, for those people who want to change things in this country, there is only one way to do that — and that is to put their shoulder into a campaign next year and give it everything they’ve got.

Alec Baldwin Changes Tune on Being 'So Done' as Trump: 'If SNL Wants Me to Continue, I Probably Will'

In a recent USA Today profile, Baldwin said of playing Trump, “I’m so done with that. I can’t imagine I would do it again.” As he explained, “My wife [Hilaria] and I had a son a year ago, and since he was born, I’ve worked minimally because I wanted to be there for my wife and kids…. SNL just crushes my weekends, and now weekends are going to become much more precious to me because that’s time with my kids.”

But in speaking to TVLine on Monday afternoon, Baldwin put his future as FauxTUS in SNL boss Lorne Michaels’ hands. “Lorne is my dear friend, and if he wants me to continue, I probably will,” he said.

“I get sick of [appearing as Trump] and I’ve whined about it regularly, because in the zeitgeist I’m a pretty political person and where I would normally put that energy is in voter registration, to work with MoveOn.org, to get involved in an actual candidacy and get more into that,” he went on to explain. “But Lorne is my dear friend and [SNL] is like another home to me, so if they want me to do it, I probably will.”

That is, if his ever-busy schedule allows. In addition to swinging by ABC’s New York studios now and again to bang out fresh batches of Match Game episodes (Season 4 resumes this Wednesday at 10/9c), Baldwin steadily banks film roles. In the past year alone, he appeared in A Star Is Born, Mission: Impossible — Fallout and BlackKklansman, while in the newly released documentary Framing John DeLorean he fills the title role (via reenactments).

“I’m just afraid that come fall, I’m going to be very busy,” he says.

TVLine very recently opined that SNL would be wise to give Baldwin’s Trump a rest or turn the role over to someone else, seeing as the sketch comedy series has had little fresh to say about the controversial commander-in-chief. Responding to that op-ed, Baldwin at first offered, “I do believe that the cold opens that don’t include Trump have been some of the best cold opens of the year.”

That said, “Everywhere I go, people thank me,” he relates. “People say, ‘It’s such a great thing to do, to make fun of this.’ There are a lot of people out there who are deeply disturbed by where we are [as a country], so I think maybe there’s a ‘right amount’ of it [to do on SNL], regardless of who’s playing Trump.”

Could SNL perhaps use less soft of a touch when it comes to spoofing the president? Politico, for one, recently suggested that Baldwin’s take on Trump is practically a favor to POTUS, seeing as it suggests he has little sense of the damage he is arguably doing.

“I’m not in the business of trying to leverage impeachment and so forth, though I have my own opinions on that…,” Baldwin said. “But people keep reminding me that Saturday Night Live is a comedy show, an entertainment show. And Lorne has been political, Lorne has been acerbic, Lorne has buffed off the edges as it suits his purpose. He kind of feels what the public at large wants. He doesn’t want to appeal to just one half of the country, and I trust his judgement.”

Alec Baldwin “So Done” With ‘SNL’ Trump Gig: “I Can’t Imagine I Would Do It Again”

In an interview to promote the hybrid feature-documentary Framing John DeLorean, in which he plays the notorious car designer (opening in New York and on-demand today), Baldwin was asked whether he’ll return to SNL when the late-night sketch comedy show returns in the fall.

“I can’t imagine I would do it again,” Baldwin said. “I just can’t. They should find somebody who wants to do it. They’re all my dear friends and I love going there, but the other thing is that I’m going to go to work this fall in a way I haven’t done in a while. My wife and I had a son a year ago, and since he was born, I’ve worked minimally because I wanted to be there for my wife and kids. But the party’s over this fall and I’ll be traveling. SNL just crushes my weekends, and now weekends are going to become much more precious to me because that’s time with my kids.”

Asked who should replace him, Baldwin said, “I don’t know. Darrell Hammond did it and is a far better impressionist than I’ll ever be. When Anthony Atamanuik (started impersonating Trump on Comedy Central’s The President Show), all these people were attacking me, saying, ‘Oh, your impression sucks and you suck. Please go away.’ It also was something I thought to myself: ‘I really don’t have a lot invested in my Trump impersonation, so please find someone and convince Lorne (Michaels) to replace me.’ I’m completely down with that. Winning the Emmy for that show aside, it was not some career goal of mine.”

Baldwin said he’s enjoyed the gig, especially at first. “I mean, I had a lot of fun with (the cast), and when Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider wrote (Trump sketches in 2016 and 2017), that was new, it was fresh and the ratings were good. But I feel like I’m done with that now. I’m so done with that.”

Comedy Central to Roast Alec Baldwin This Summer — Watch First Promo

“Getting roasted will be the greatest honor of my lifetime besides being a father, a husband, hosting SNL 17 times, receiving Golden Globes, Emmys, and working with Martin Scorsese,” Baldwin said in a statement.

“Alec Baldwin has done so many great things, it will be a unique treat to spend a night focusing on everything he’d rather forget,” added Jonas Larsen, Comedy Central’s Executive Vice President of Talent and Development.

This is technically the second time Baldwin has been roasted in his own cable special, having been the subject of Spike TV’s One Night Only: Alec Baldwin in 2017. That star-studded event included appearances by Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Horatio Sanz, Daniel Baldwin and even former President Bill Clinton.

Alec Baldwin Tweets: “If I Ran For President Would You Vote For Me?”

Unlike the flock of Democrats who already have thrown their hats in the ring, boasting of the number of small donors who’ve put dollars in their pots, Baldwin insisted “I won’t ask you for any $.”

“And I promise I will win,” the actor added, citing no poll. In fact, he added, “These tweets save me millions in polling.”

“Beating Trump would be so easy,” Baldwin bragged, adding, “So easy. So easy” to drive home his point/get into a Twitter war with his former fellow NBC star. Reaction on Twitter was mixed.

“Wow, that’s actually brilliant,” chimed in one enthusiast.

“If we’re going to have a comedian I prefer [former Senator Al] Franken,” responded a disciple of Aristophanes.

“Only if your VP was Pete Buttigieg or Kamala Harris and you resigned first week,” added another skeptic.

“Dude you can’t handle finding a parking spot in NYC,” suggested another.

“I think you’re great and I love your work, but the experiment is over,” a fan tweeted, apologetically, adding, “let’s get some experienced pros in there so that we can begin the long, hard job of unfucking this country.”

“I would not vote for you, but your presence and humor are comforting to a wounded nation,” tweeted a fan.

And, speaking for many, another promised Baldwin his vote but, “only if, during one of the debates, you promise to ‘play’ him, a la SNL,” because Trump’s head would explode on national TV.

Just last week, Baldwin talked to NBC’s Tonight show host Jimmy Fallon about being unsure how long he would continue doing his “world famous mediocre Trump impression” for Saturday Night Live.

Baldwin told the host he has no firm commitment to continue the cold opens that so irritate the president (“stinks” was one of the more memorable Trump reviews of Baldwin’s work as POTUS doppelganger).

“Lorne [Michaels] will call me up and be like, ‘Are you coming this weekend?’” Baldwin told Fallon of the recurring gig, adding, “They keep pulling me back in,” mimicking Al Pacino’s Godfather III moment.

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Alec Baldwin compared to Trump in assault lawsuit

“Like the man he plays on television, Alec Baldwin is an entitled celebrity with a long history of verbally and physically mistreating others he sees as beneath him,” reads Wojciech Cieszkowski’s Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

In the November 2, 2018, incident, Baldwin allegedly went ballistic on the Polish immigrant outside Baldwin’s East 10th Street apartment because the man had taken his parking spot.

Cieszkowski says he didn’t realize anyone was waiting for the spot. Baldwin hulked over him, — as he is “slightly built” — called him an a–hole, socked him in the jaw and shoved him as he was paying the parking meter, his lawsuit claims.

Cieszkowski — who was going to a business meeting in Greenwich Village that day — said his “life changed forever because he dared to park his car in a public parking spot on a public street that Mr. Baldwin apparently believed he owned,” the court documents claim.

The 60-year-old “30 Rock” star “feels entitled to act abusively toward those he believes to be beneath him–which seems to be pretty much everyone,” the suit says, citing several other times when Baldwin publicly lost it on other people.

“Mr. Baldwin never faced meaningful accountability for his conduct,” the lawsuit claims.

Despite the fact that Baldwin pleaded guilty to harassment for the parking incident — for which he was sentenced to take an anger management class and pay a $120 fine — he’s since gone onto Ellen DeGeneres’ “The Ellen Show” claiming that he thought Cieszkowski was going to run his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, over with his car.

“That is a malicious fabrication and an intentional life,” the court documents allege.

The Pearl River, NY, contractor says he’s lost 10 pounds and has had sleepless nights since he was thrown into “the center of a national media circus” to be forever known as “the guy Alec Baldwin assaulted over a parking spot,” the court papers say.

Cieszkowski’s lawyer, Douglas Lieb told The Post, “At the end of the day, this is about accountability for wrongdoing, and we think when a jury sees the evidence and hears the evidence, it will want to hold Mr. Baldwin accountable for his behavior.

“That is what our client is looking for, and that is what we anticipate he will get.”

A rep for Baldwin declined to comment.

‘Framing John DeLorean’ Trailer: Alec Baldwin Stars Alongside Real DeLorean In New Hybrid Film

Combining archival footage with a more traditional biopic approach featuring Alec Baldwin sporting massive, jet-black eyebrows and a mop of gray hair, Framing John DeLorean is the first feature film about a man whose name dominated headlines in the 1980s. Here’s how Sundance Selects describes it: “For the first time, Framing John DeLorean recounts the extraordinary life and legend of the controversial automaker, tracing his meteoric rise through the ranks of General Motors, his obsessive quest to build a sports car that would conquer the world, and his shocking fall from grace on charges of cocaine trafficking. Interweaving a treasure trove of archival footage with dramatic vignettes starring Alec Baldwin, Framing John DeLorean is a gripping look at a man who gambled everything in his pursuit of the American Dream.”

The hybrid-style film was written by Tamir Ardon, Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, and along with Baldwin stars Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, Dean Winters, Michael Rispoli, Jason Jones, Dana Ashbrook, Josh Cooke and Sean Cullen. Producers are Tamir Ardon and Don Argott, with Nate Bolotin exec producing.

Sundance Select’s Framing John DeLorean will have its world premiere at the Tribeca fest (April 24 to May 5) and open in theaters and VOD June 7.

Check out the trailer above.

Beverley Owen Dies: ‘The Munsters’ Original Marilyn Was 81

Her death was confirmed by her former cast mate Butch Patrick, who played little wolfish boy Eddie Munster on the 1964-66 series.

“Beautiful Beverly [sic] Owen has left us,” Patrick posted on Facebook yesterday. “What a sweet soul. I had the biggest crush on her. RIP Bev and thanks for your 13 memorable Marilyn Munster episodes.”

Owen’s daughter Polly Stone told TMZ that her mother died following a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. The former actress had not publicly disclosed her illness, but was surrounded by friends and family at her Vermont home when she passed, according to Stone.

Stone’s acting career was short-lived. After debuting on As the World Turns and guest starring on a half-dozen other episodic early ’60s series, Stone, in a blonde Marilyn Monroe-style wig, appeared in the first 13 episodes of the The Munsters, the sitcom about a friendly family of monsters – Fred Gwynne as the Frankenstein-like Herman, Yvonne De Carlo as vampire wife Lily, Al Lewis as vampire Grandpa, and Patrick as a sort of hybrid werewolf-vampire kid with a memorable widow’s peak.

As the gorgeous human Marilyn, Stone played the family oddball. In other words, the one Munster who appeared normal to the outside world.

Owen left the series after only one season to marry Jon Stone, a writer, producer and editor who would go on to a long association with Sesame Street. The couple divorced in 1974, with Stone reportedly going back to school to earn a master’s degree in early American history.

The actress was replaced on The Munsters by look-alike Pat Priest.

Owen divorced Stone in 1974 after a decade of marriage and she reportedly went on to earn her master’s degree in early American history in 1989. She is survived by daughters Polly and Kate.

Alec Baldwin ponders family’s safety after Donald Trump tweets about ‘retribution’ against ‘SNL’

The American leader was enraged by Baldwin’s portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live this weekend, when the actor recreated the president’s Friday news conference on his planned border wall, calling him out for declaring a “fake” national emergency.

The 72-year-old politician took to Twitter and wrote about the possibility of “retribution” for SNL and NBC bosses (who air the show) for their “hit jobs” on his administration, later tweeting: “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019

THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019

This led the 60-year-old to ponder whether Trump was threatening him, as he wrote on Sunday: “I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?”

I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?

— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) February 18, 2019

At The White House press conference Trump outlined his decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funds for the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that was a key campaign promise during his 2016 election campaign.

During the SNL segment Alec, who has won a Primetime Emmy award for playing the president on the sketch comedy show, mocked the president’s explanations and stunted delivery, saying: “Wall works, wall makes safe. You don’t have to be smart to understand that — in fact it’s even easier to understand if you’re not that smart.”

‘Drunk Parents’ Trailer: Alec Baldwin & Salma Hayek Are Going Broke In Wine Style – But It’s A Secret

Here’s the first trailer for Drunk Parents, starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek as the proud dad and mom who must scramble to cloak their financial implosion. Here’s the logline: Frank and Nancy Teagarten are a staunchly lower upper-class couple with a shiny black Range Rover and tasteful Tudor-style home. They couldn’t be prouder as they anxiously drop off their daughter at her first day of college. However, a visit by the repo man shortly thereafter leaves them scrambling to make ends meet, and it seems their wealth is less secure than it appears. Committed to getting their daughter through school, they hold a house-wide yard sale coupled by a night of heavy drinking and wake up to some very regrettable decisions. This sees them try to hide their evaporating net worth from friends and family alike in an ever-increasing downward spiral of elaborate neighborhood schemes.

Jim Gaffigan, Joe Manganiello, Ben Platt and Michelle Veintimilla also star in the film directed by Fred Wolf from a script he wrote with Peter Gaulke. The R-rated pic premieres March 21 exclusively on DirecTV before hitting theaters on April 19 via Vertical Entertainment. Check out the Drunk Parents trailer above, pour yourself a tall one, and tell us what you think.

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Alec Baldwin Pleads Guilty To Second-Degree Harassment In Parking Spat, Will Attend Anger Management Program

Prosecutors had previously dropped an earlier charge of misdemeanor assault. Saturday Night Live‘s go-to Trump impersonator will pay a $120 fine and was ordered to return to court in March to confirm completion of the anger management program.

Media reports indicate Baldwin offered no comments to reporters covering his appearance before Judge Herbert Moses.

The guilty plea stems from a Nov. 2 incident in which the actor shoved a man during an argument over a parking spot on a Greenwich Village street. Baldwin was arraigned on the downgraded charge Nov. 26 after disputing, on social media, the other driver’s claims that the actor punched or slapped him.

Baldwin’s attorneys have said they provided the New York district attorney’s office with video that proves the actor did not punch or slap the other man.

King, Kennedy Families Want New Probe of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X Murders

The group -- The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) -- believes all 4 assassinations were the result of conspiracies that were covered up by the government.

Members of TRC include Oliver Stone, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, David Crosby, Mort Sahl, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and MLK's nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr.

TRC claims, "The conviction of James Earl Ray [MLK's convicted killer] has steadily lost credibility over the years." They note following the verdict, Coretta Scott King said, "There is abundant evidence of a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband."

The JFK assassination has long been controversial and scores of experts and others including Dr. Robert McClelland, one of the surgeons who tried to save JFK's life, believe Oswald did not act alone.

There has also been significant criticism into the murder of Malcolm X, suggesting the investigations was a massive coverup.

As for Robert Kennedy, TRC calls the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, "A mockery of a trial that has been demolished by numerous eyewitnesses, investigators and experts," including the then L.A. County Coroner. TRC says forensic evidence proves the fatal shot was not at the hands of Sirhan.

TRC wants Congress to establish real oversight and document release, including a public inquest which will be modeled on the Truth and Reconciliation process in post-apartheid South Africa.

Alec Baldwin Arraigned On Downgraded Charges In Parking Spat

The actor said nothing, entered no plea and was released after being arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of attempted assault in the third degree and a count of harassment in the second degree. The charges have been downgraded by prosecutors since Baldwin was arrested Nov. 2 on assault and harassment charges.

The incident involved a spat over a parking space in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. The other driver claimed Baldwin slapped or punched him in the neck area.

Baldwin, on social media, has called the allegations false, and his attorneys have provided the district attorney’s office with video that they claim proves the actor did not punch or slap the other man.

Alec Baldwin, Cecily Strong Set For Broadway’s ‘Celebrity Autobiography’; Rachel Dratch, Susan Lucci In Line-Up

The show will run on four consecutive holiday-season Mondays at the Marquis Theatre beginning Nov. 26. Each performance will include a different line-up of the rotating cast members (see below for the complete roster).

In addition to Baldwin, Strong, Dratch and Lucci, the cast includes Lewis Black, Mario Cantone, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Antoni Porowski.

The teaming of Baldwin, Strong and Dratch reunites the Saturday Night Live players. The Baldwin casting is his first announced gig since his arrest in New York last week for allegedly punching a man over a parking space dispute. Yesterday, ABC moved The Alec Baldwin Show from Sundays to Saturdays.

Created by writer-performer Pack and developed by Pack and Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography features cast members performing from actual celebrity memoirs.

The show features “mashups” with the entire cast performing multiple memoirs covering themes such as fitness, music, food, sports, politics, celebrity poetry, and Hollywood love triangles. For example, the love story of Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton is told from all sides.

Various productions of Celebrity Autobiography have played Off Broadway, London’s West End, Edinburgh, and Australia’s Sydney Opera House over the past 10 years. The show is produced on Broadway by MagicSpace Entertainment, Angelo Fraboni, Carl Pasbjerg, Dayle Reyfel and EP Productions. (On other nights during the holiday season, Broadway’s Marquis Theatre plays host to The Illusionists – Magic of the Holidays.)

Though individual performance lineups are subject to change, the four Monday-night line-ups are:

November 26
Lewis Black
Mario Cantone
Rachel Dratch
Eugene Pack
Dayle Reyfel
Cecily Strong

December 3
Mario Cantone
Rachel Dratch
Susan Lucci
Eugene Pack
Dayle Reyfel

December 10
Alec Baldwin
Mario Cantone
Rachel Dratch
Eugene Pack
Dayle Reyfel
Cecily Strong

December 17
Mario Cantone
Rachel Dratch
Susan Lucci
Eugene Pack
Antoni Porowski
Dayle Reyfel.

Alec Baldwin Show Pulled Off Schedule, Will Move to Saturdays in December

Repeats of Shark Tank will air in Alec Baldwin‘s previous Sundays-at-10 slot, beginning Sunday, Nov. 18. (They’ll be preempted by The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Sunday, Dec. 2, and by The Sound of Music on Sunday, Dec. 16.) Baldwin’s talk show will resume airing in a new time slot — Saturdays at 10/9c — beginning Dec. 8.

The Alec Baldwin Show — in which the Emmy-winning actor has long-form chats with guests like Robert De Niro and Kim Kardashian West — premiered last month to barely 2 million viewers and a 0.3 demo rating, and has seen its total audience decline for three straight weeks. It’s even underperforming year-ago time slot holder Ten Days in the Valley, which averaged 2.7 mil and a 0.4 before it, too, got banished to Saturdays.

On a perhaps related note: Baldwin was also arrested last week and charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly punching a man in a dispute over a parking spot in New York City. The actor later denied the charges on Twitter.

Alec Baldwin's Assault Arrest May Have Been Mutual Combat, Not a Crime

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Wojciech Cieszowski -- the man who swooped in and took a parking space that Baldwin believed was his -- told cops Baldwin struck him with his hand. That is more consistent with a slap than a punch. True enough, a slap can still be assault, but it's generally less serious.

What's more ... we're told there is surveillance video, but it's super grainy. You see what appears to be a shoving match between the two men but it's hard to make out if Baldwin actually struck him.

Here's the key -- if the 2 men were shoving each other, Baldwin could make the case it was mutual combat and not assault, and therefore not a crime. Cieszowski told cops he suffered face and neck injuries as a result of the alleged attack and was taken to the hospital.

As we reported, Baldwin had someone on the street in front of his apartment building blocking an empty space so he could park there. and Cieszowski swooped in and took it. They both got out of the car and started arguing, and that's when the alleged attack went down. Baldwin was arrested, taken to the police station, given a desk appearance ticket for assault and harassment, and he was released.

Kathy Bates on The Big Bang Theory 11/8/18

Alec Baldwin arrested after allegedly punching someone in parking dispute

The actor was taken into custody just before 2 p.m. Friday in Manhattan’s West Village neighbourhood.

Police say Baldwin claimed he had a family member holding the spot when a man driving a station wagon pulled up and took it.

Officials say the men were arguing and pushing each other before the 60-year-old Baldwin turned violent.

The 49-year-old station wagon driver was taken to a hospital with jaw pain.

A representative for Baldwin did not immediately respond to a message requesting comment.

Baldwin is known for playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” Asked about Baldwin’s arrest, Trump said: “I wish him luck.”

Alec Baldwin Set To Host Inaugural Arthur Miller Foundation Honors

The inaugural Arthur Miller Foundation Honors is set for Monday, Oct. 22, at Manhattan’s City Winery. Baldwin hosts, with appearances by Nathan Lane, Edie Falco, Tituss Burgess, Anthony Ramos, Denée Benton, Katrina Lenk, Ari’el Stachel, Solea Pfeiffer, Sherie Rene Scott and Brandon Victor Dixon.

The evening will conclude with a musical performance from children impacted by the Arthur Miller Foundation’s theater program. In addition to HBO Documentary Films (Legacy Award) and Kushner (Humanitarian Award), the foundation will also recognize one veteran public school teacher who has displayed excellence in theater education.

The Arthur Miller Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing access and equity to theater education in New York City public schools. Co-Chairs of the inaugural honors event include filmmaker Rebecca Miller (whose documentary about her father, Arthur Miller: Writer, premiered this year on HBO), Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw, Sandi Farkas, Janine & Michael Smith.

The event will raise funds for the Foundation’s theater education programs.

After SNL, Baldwin urges voters to ’overthrow’ Trump government

After reprising his role as Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” Baldwin flew to New Hampshire, where he was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual fall fundraising dinner.

“The way we implement change in America is through elections. We change governments here at home in an orderly and formal way,” he said. “In that orderly and formal way and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night.

Baldwin said on issue after issue, Republicans are destroyers, not builders.

“There is a small cadre of people currently in power who are hell-bent on continuing a malicious immigration policy that has set this country up for human rights violations charges by the global community. This cadre has looted money from the federal treasury and deposited it directly into the bank accounts of their most ardent political supporters,” he said.

He said Republicans “shrug” when it comes to gun violence, “spit in the face” at the rest of the world at the notion of changing outdated energy policies and offer neither hope nor solutions to people of colour “who seek a decent seat at the American economic table but instead are issued a prison term, or worse, a bullet.”

The recent confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh showed that Republicans view women as undeserving as the same constitutional protections as men, Baldwin said.

“They themselves are sons, husbands, fathers, and yet when the time arrived in the thick of the #metoo movement to set politics aside and establish that women’s rights were more important than political expediency, they failed and it was ugly,” he said.

Several of the political leaders and candidates who spoke before Baldwin praised survivors of sexual assault who were moved to tell their stories during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, saying they should inspire others to speak up and advocate for issues they care about.

“People raising their voices and sharing their experiences is what has been critical for our democracy and our capacity to move forward throughout our history,” U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan said. “As difficult as the Kavanaugh battle was, those moments have been incredibly important and will continue to be as we move forward.”

Congressional candidate Chris Pappas echoed that sentiment.

“If we’re not hoarse by the time the election rolls around, we’re not doing our jobs or we’re not paying attention,” he said. “It’s about raising our voices and what we’re all about as a country.”

In 2016, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster went public with her own account of a renowned heart surgeon reaching up her skirt during a business luncheon more than 40 years ago, when she was a young staffer on Capitol Hill.

“I want to say to everyone, to the survivors who have come forward and those who have not, I believe you and you are not alone,” Kuster said Sunday.

Baldwin’s appearance in the state that holds the first presidential primary came hours before the premiere of his new talk show. “The Alec Baldwin Show,” which airs on ABC at 10 p.m., will feature one-on-one conversations with celebrities and cultural icons.

But Baldwin said it won’t be overtly political. Asked Sunday if he’d consider running for office himself, he didn’t rule it out but joked that his wife would likely divorce him.

Alec Baldwin: ‘Ever since I played Trump, black people love me’

“I don’t know how to say this and I don’t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off, but ever since I played Trump, black people love me. They love me,” Baldwin, 60, told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Everywhere I go, black people go crazy. I think it’s because they’re most afraid of Trump. I’m not going to paint every African-American person with the same brush, but a significant number of them are sitting there going, ‘This is going to be bad for black folks.'”

Baldwin previously said portraying the POTUS was “agony,” but says he’ll be back for future episodes of “SNL” anyway.

“I’m going to mosey in there and hopefully we’ll have a fresh round of indictments to tear into,” he said. “From my mouth to Robert Mueller’s ears.”

He explained of his “cartoonish” portrayal of the president, “All I wanted my Trump to be is mean-spirited and miserable, like Mr. Potter from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ But then I’ll say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to do it anymore,’ and people will go, ‘Don’t you dare give that up, we need you.’ Like I’ve gotten people through something in our nation’s history.”

Baldwin also touched on the #MeToo movement, claiming there have been attempts to write about allegations of misconduct against him — but that none ever came to fruition because they were all false.

“I want to preface this by saying that all these guys who have done terrible things, who doesn’t want them punished? This whole idea that I’m covering for [accused director] Jimmy Toback or whatever? The minute that people are found guilty of some crime or there’s a glistening reservoir of information or evidence … It’s not a witch hunt because a witch hunt indicates that there is very little truth, if none at all, and there is a lot of truth here. But what worries me is that this is a fire that needs constant kindling,” he griped.

Baldwin alleged that after Harvey Weinstein‘s decades of sexual misconduct allegations surfaced, a publication reached out to one of Baldwin’s former co-stars who was underage at the time they’d filmed together in the 1980s. (Baldwin asked that THR omit the names of the publication and the co-star.)

“She goes, ‘Alec, they called me and they said that a wardrobe person said you sexually molested me and that you constantly had me sitting on your lap and they asked me for a comment,'” he recalled. “I go, ‘My God, what did you say?’ And she said, ‘I told them it was ridiculous, that you never groped me.'”

“I just remember thinking in that moment, ‘Wow, they’re looking for people. This is a fire that needs fresh wood, and they’re coming for me,'” he said.

Baldwin added of Rose McGowan specifically, “She’s a tragic front person for [the #MeToo] cause, and I say that because you don’t stand much of a chance of getting where you want to be if you’re going to arbitrarily alienate and excoriate innocent men. … It’s like all of a sudden, she’s one of the Crips — the head of her own gang.”

‘Alec Baldwin Show’ Sets Guest List: Kim Kardashian, Robert De Niro, Taraji P. Henson, RuPaul, Norway’s Prime Minister

Kim Kardashian West, wife of President Donald Trump’s new BFF Kanye West, will guest the next week, October 21. That day Baldwin will devote his show’s entire hour to talking to the “reality star, entrepreneur and cultural phenom” about her “famous family,” and her recent political advocacy.

Last May, Nearly a decade after President Donald Trump reportedly complained he’d been stuck with Khloe Kardashian on his Celebrity Apprentice reality TV series when he really wanted her “hot” sister Kim, Trump finally got the Kardashian of his dreams on his latest reality series, The White House. Kim Kardashian came to the White House to make the case for pardoning 63-year-old Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving a life sentence on drug offenses and had been behind bars for more than two decades.

An Associated Press journalist who had a lot to learn about reality TV stars reported at the time it was unclear if Kim, who, like Trump, is an NBCU reality TV star, would get to sit down with Trump in the Oval Office.

“Great meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing,” POTUS tweeted proudly to his 53 million followers that afternoon. Meanwhile, Kardashian tweeted – to her 60M followers – “Happy Birthday Alice Marie Johnson. Today is for you.”

Alec Baldwin, of course, plays Donald Trump, brilliantly, on Saturday Night Live. President Trump is not amused. Baldwin does not care. Trump likely will watch that interview.

Meanwhile, ABC announced some of Baldwin’s other guests for the first season of his Sunday sit-down show: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., RuPaul, Kerry Washington, former President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards, Jeff Bridges, Sarah Jessica Parker, former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, Mike Myers, Regina King, Gloria Allred, Ricky Gervais and the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg.

Charlie Matthau Readying ‘The Book Of Leah’ With Armand Assante

Brianna Joy Chomer plays Leah Gold, who after sneaking into a night club with her friends, is sexually assaulted in 1980s Chicago. The police do not take her case seriously, trying to blame Leah for being a minor, and the way she dressed. Her high-class family, embarrassed by the incident, sends Leah to a girls school, where she ultimately meets her uncle, played by four-time Golden Globe nominee Assante, who is a Holocaust survivor.

More than another female Karate Kid film, there are layers in The Book of Leah which echo a lot of what we’ve read lately about sexual assault; how alleged victims like Christine Blasey Ford and Patti Davis remained quiet about their incidents for several decades for many reasons. The Book of Leah puts a spotlight on the injustice that rape victim weather; the disbelief some face by those in authority after pointing a finger at their attackers.

In the film, Assante’s Adam Siegel forms a strong bond with Leah and builds her into a karate champ. Also starring in the pic is jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole in his first feature role as a musical mentor to Leah, Kate Linder as Leah’s mother, Ty Olwin as the love interest, and Melanie Neilan as Leah’s friend.

Based on a true story, The Book of Leah was written by Leslie Neilan and Alan Roth. Neilan also produces with Kenneth Atchity. Matthau’s directorial credits include such pics as the 2012 feature take of Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky starring Christian Slater, Billy Burke and Crispin Glover as well as 1995’s The Grass Harp based on the Truman Capote novel in which Matthau directed his Oscar-winning father Walter Matthau, Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The Grass Harp won best English Language Film at the 1996 Palm Springs Film Festival.

‘Drunk Parents’ Starring Salma Hayek & Alec Baldwin Lands Vertical & DirecTV Deal – Toronto

Directed by Fred Wolf, the film centers on the attempts of two parents to hide their ever-increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes that take their lives on a hilarious downward spiral. Jim Gaffigan, Joe Manganiello and Ben Platt also star.

Wolf and Peter Gaulke penned the screenplay for the film, which was produced by Rob Barnum and Aaron L. Gilbert; Jason Cloth, David Friendly and Nadine de Barros are exec producers. The film is a co-production from BRON Studios and Fortitude International, in association with Creative Wealth Media.

The deal was negotiated by Rich Goldberg and Peter Jarowey at Vertical with Anjay Nagpal of BRON.

Emmys Sets First Group Of Presenters: Alec Baldwin, Michael Douglas, Kit Harington, Tina Fey, More

The initial roster, announced by the Television Academy and exec producer Lorne Michaels today, includes five presenters who are up for awards themselves: (Baldwin, Saturday Night Live), Rachel Brosnahan ?(The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Millie Bobby Brown ?(Stranger Things), Kate McKinnon ?(Saturday Night Live), Sandra Oh? (Killing Eve).

Hosted by SNL‘s Colin Jost and Michael Che, the 70th Emmy Awards will telecast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Monday, September 17, (8-11 PM ET/5:00-8:00 PM PT) on NBC. Exec producer is Lorne Michaels (SNL, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon).

Here is the complete first group of presenters announced today:

- Alec Baldwin? (Saturday Night Live, Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series nominee)
- Rachel Brosnahan ?(The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) – Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series nominee
- Millie Bobby Brown ?(Stranger Things) – Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series nominee
- Michael Douglas ?(The Kominsky Method)
- Tina Fey ?(Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
- Kit Harington ?(Game of Thrones)
- Taraji P. Henson ?(Empire)
- Kate McKinnon ?(Saturday Night Live) – Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series nominee
- Tracy Morgan ?(The Last O.G.)
- Bob Odenkirk ?(Better Call Saul)
- Sandra Oh? (Killing Eve) – Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nominee
- Constance Wu ?(Fresh Off the Boat).

Alec Baldwin Departs ‘The Joker’ Movie

In an interview with USA Today just days after taking the supporting role, the 30 Rock actor cited scheduling conflicts.

Production begins September 10 for the DC title, and we hear that the talks went down to the five-yard line, given how close it is to cameras rolling. Warner Bros. had no comment. Baldwin was to play Thomas Wayne, Bruce Wayne’s father. “I’m sure there are 25 guys who can play that part,” the actor told USA Today,

The Joker is set for release on October 4, 2019.

Alec Baldwin Joins Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’

While Warner Bros has not confirmed what role, buzz is that Baldwin is poised play the role of Thomas Wayne, who in DC canon is Bruce Wayne/Batman’s father. Thomas Wayne was first introduced in Detective Comics #33 (Nov. 1939) and he is respected physician and philanthropist in Gotham City. Wayne and his wife are murdered exiting the theater, an incident which young Bruce witnesses. That becomes his m.o. for ultimately becoming a vigilante. In the early comics, Wayne’s murderer is mugger/hitman Joe Chill, but starting with the first Tim Burton 1989 Batman movie, it’s the Joker who is the culprit.

Baldwin joins a growing cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, and Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond. As has been previously reported, Phillips’ take on the famed DC character will possess a grittier, ’80s sensibility.

Baldwin was recently nominated for his 19th Primetime Emmy. For the second consecutive year, he’s up for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Love, a role which delivered him a win in the category last September. Overall, Baldwin counts three Emmy wins, his other two being in 2008 and 2009 for outstanding lead comedy actor on 30 Rock. Baldwin was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar in 2004 for The Cooler and recently starred in this summer’s half-billion-plus grossing hit Mission: Impossible – Fallout as well as Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman which is taking off on the specialty circuit with north of $31M. Baldwin is already starring in another Warner Bros.’ feature, the Ed Norton-directed period drama Motherless Brooklyn due out next year.

Baldwin is repped by CAA. Joker opens on Oct. 4, 2019.

Kathy Bates on Big Bang Theory 9/24/18

RECURRING CAST: Kathy Bates (Mrs. Fowler), Teller (Mr. Fowler), Neil deGrasse Tyson (Himself), Bill Nye (Himself)

Alec Baldwin To Exec Produce Indie ‘Beast Beast’ Based On ‘Krista’ Short Film

Set in a southern town, the film deals with the new and old issues of growing up and reaching for more. As the three main characters navigate changing masks of identity out in the world, at school, within their families and online, their lives hit a boiling point swirling with trauma, petty crimes, new love and gun violence.

Baldwin will EP with Casey Bader under their El Dorado Pictures banner. Producers are Jim Cummings, Matt Miller, Tara Ansley, and Benjamin Wiessner, the team behind Thunder Road, the SXSW Grand Jury prize-winning film. Madden, Cummings and Wiessner’s Ornana and Miller’s Vanishing Angle are the production companies behind the project.

Talk Show Appearance

Wednesday, July 25: Guests include Alec Baldwin

2018 Primetime Emmy Nominations

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY (2017 winner: Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Allison Janney, Mom
Issa Rae, Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY (2017 winner: Donald Glover)
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry
William H. Macy, Shameless

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY (2017 winner: Alec Baldwin)
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Brian Tyree Henry, Atlanta
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live
Henry Winkler, Barry

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY (2017 winner: SNL host Dave Chappelle)
Katt Williams, Atlanta
Sterling K. Brown, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Bryan Cranston, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Donald Glover, Saturday Night Live
Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE (2017 winner: Laura Dern)
Adina Porter, American Horror Story: Cult
Letitia Wright, Black Mirror, “Black Museum”
Merrit Wever, Godless
Sara Bareilles, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Judith Light, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE (2017 winner: Alexander Skarsgård)
Jeff Daniels, Godless
Brandon Victor Dixon, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Ricky Martin, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story<

Legendary Soap Scribe Dead At 96

Alec Baldwin bashes Peter King at Democratic fundraiser

“He will do anything to hold onto power. The guy probably couldn’t get a job,” said Baldwin, who spoke at a Bridgehampton money raising bash for Democratic candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley, who hopes to challenge King.

Baldwin said King wouldn’t have “as much attention,and as much glory and as much ego stroking if he weren’t on the government dime.”

“This job is a job that completes him as a human being. If he was in the private sector, he’d probably be a crossing guard or something I don’t really know,” Baldwin said to laughter.

Grechen Shirley, who standing to the left of Baldwin, looked nervous for an instant when Baldwin compared King to crossing guards.

“No offense to crossing guards, by the way,” Baldwin quickly added.

Grechen Shirley then smiled.

“He’s a guy that’s held onto this job, gaming the current system, getting re-elected. Incumbency is a very, very powerful,” Baldwin said..

“His time is up. He’s got to go. He’s got to go,” said Baldwin, who won an Emmy award for his portrayal of President Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live.'”

Alec Baldwin To Howard Stern: “If I Ran For President, I Would Win – Hands Down”

“If I ran for president, I would win, hands down,” Baldwin said on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show today. “It would be the funniest, most exciting, most crazy campaign.” Watch the video clip above.

Funnier and crazier than that last GOP one, dude? Well maybe — seeing as Howard Stern suggested he “run for president as Donald Trump.”

The King of All Media, of course, teed it all up by bantering with Baldwin about the potential gig. Then the host realized a fact: “But you’re busy with Match Game.” Once the ensuing comedy jokes subsided, Baldwin appeared to get serious. Stern began, “If you’re the hope of the Democratic Party …” “I’m not,” the actor interrupted. “I’m only saying that [about running] because people really don’t have a sense of who is gonna come up. I mean, somebody great is gonna come up, I hope. But the only reason I say it is because I’d love to run for that kind of position — to have things be very common sense. There’s so many things this country needs to do that are so obvious.”

Maybe future Democratic National Committee chairman David Letterman could introduce the top two candidates at the 2020 convention: “Alec … Oprah. Oprah … Alec.”

Soap's Robert Mandan Dead at 86

Mandan passed away in Los Angeles on April 29 after suffering a long, undisclosed illness, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He is survived by his wife, Sherry Dixon.

The veteran TV actor got his start in soap operas, with stints on From These Roots (1959-1961), The Edge of Night (1963), The Doctors (1963) and Search for Tomorrow (1966-1970). He continued to work regularly throughout the 1970s, appearing on episodes of All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Mission: Impossible and The Streets of San Francisco, among other high-profile series.

Mandan’s star-making role came soon after, when he was cast on the aforementioned Soap as the philandering husband to Katherine Helmond’s Jessica from 1977 to 1981. The series ran for a total of four seasons and spawned the successful spinoff Benson, starring the late Robert Guillaume.

After Soap, Mandan starred as Col. Lawrence Fielding in the TV adaptation of Private Benjamin, which ran on CBS from 1981-1983. In 1984, he starred opposite John Ritter on the short-lived Three’s a Crowd, in a role he originated in the final episodes of Three’s Company. In 1986, he appeared on The Facts of Life as Dr. Bruce Gaines, a member of the Peace Corps who married Mrs. Garrett in Charlotte Rae’s farewell episodes. Then in 1991, he reunited with Soap spouse Helmond in two episodes of Who’s the Boss.

Mandan’s film credits include Hickey & Boggs, MacArthur and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Other notable TV gigs included episodes of The Love Boat, CHiPS, Highway to Heaven, Santa Barbara, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Married… with Children.

‘American Princess’: Lesley Ann Warren & Max Ehrich Set To Recur In Lifetime Series

Created, written and executive produced by Denbo (Ronna & Beverly), American Princess follows Amanda (Flood), an Upper East Side socialite who runs away from her own dream wedding when she realizes that the life she thought she wanted, wasn’t actually right after all. When she stumbles upon a Renaissance Faire, she experiences an unexpected awakening, leading her to leave everything she thought she cared about behind. While at the Faire, Amanda quickly develops new friendships, rivalries and romance that opens her eyes to new beginnings.

Warren will play Joanntha, Amanda’s (Flood) snobby Upper East Side mother from hell. Joanntha has a narcissistic personality disorder, a massive pill problem and never fails to drunkenly bulldoze every social event she attends. Ehrich is Brett, Amanda’s Manhattan lawyer groom and a bit of an Upper East Side prince. In addition to Flood, they join previously announced cast members Lucas Neff, Seana Kofoed, Rory O’Malley and Mary Hollis Inboden.

Production on the 10-episode series, from A+E Studios and Global Road Entertainment, is slated to begin this summer in Los Angeles. Kohan (Orange is the New Black, GLOW), Herrmann, (Orange is the New Black, GLOW) and Mark Burley (Orange is the New Black, GLOW) also executive produce.

Warren received a supporting actress Oscar nomination for her role as Norma Cassady in 1982’s Victor/Victoria. On TV, she was most recently seen in recurring roles on Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce and Starz’s Blunt Talk. She’s repped by Innovative Artists, Management Production Entertainment and Jackoway, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Austen, Mandelbaum, Morris & Klein.

Ehrich is known for his roles as Hunter May on CBS’ Under the Dome and Freddie Ridge in Hulu’s The Path. He’s repped by MGMT Entertainment and Abrams Artists Agency.

Alec Baldwin, wife welcome fourth child

The Boss Baby star and his yogi other half announced the exciting news on Instagram on Thursday, sharing a photograph of the couple together in hospital with Hilaria holding the newborn in her arms.

“He’s here! He’s perfect! 8lbs 2oz #wegotthis2018,” she captioned the sweet image, posted on her profile.

The new mother and dad have yet to reveal their baby son’s name.

Alec and Hilaria are already parents to daughter Carmen, four, as well as sons Rafael, two, and Leonardo Charles, one.

Alec is also dad to 22-year-old model daughter Ireland from his first marriage to Kim Basinger.

The actor wed yoga instructor and TV presenter Hilaria in 2012 after meeting her at New York restaurant Pure Food and Wine in 2011, when Alec walked up to her and handed her his business card.

Just weeks ahead of the birth of her newborn son, Spanish beauty Hilaria revealed to HOLA! USA she wears the pants in the household.

“I am the boss at home and everybody knows that. They call me that,” she said. “You ask them (her children), ‘Who is the boss’, and they’ll say, ‘Mommy is the boss’.

“Alec lets me be the alpha parent, which is definitely our personalities and it works well,” she added of her husband. “That doesn’t mean that we don’t talk about things and I ask his advice and stuff like that. I’m just very clear about how I want things to be done.”

Eva Green, Ed Skrein, Kathy Bates To Star In Sci-Fi Thriller ‘A Patriot’

The script takes place in a future authoritarian state that has walled itself away from a world ravaged by climate chaos and resource wars. The story follows the unquestioning Border Corp Captain Kate Jones (Green) as she fights to defend the purity of the population, until a chance discovery makes her doubt the authorities she has pledge her allegiance and life to protect.

The Exchange’s Cannes lineup includes Aja Naomi King’s A Girl From Mogadishu, Ethan Hawke’s Blaze and Jeremiah Zagar’s We The Animals.

Sin City and Penny Dreadful star Green is represented by Tavistock Wood Management and UTA, Oscar-winner Bates by ICM and Deadpool star Skrein by 42, CAA and Bloom, Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman.

American Horror Story: Kathy Bates Returning to Star in Season 8

“Kathy and Sarah Paulson have a lot of great stuff to get to do” in the upcoming season, Murphy teased. “So, with Evan Peters, the three of them are the leads this year.”

A veteran cast member of four previous AHS seasons, beginning with 2013’s Coven (which won her an Emmy), Bates skipped last season’s AHS: Cult to star in the Netflix weed-dispensary sitcom Disjointed. But that series was cancelled last month after one season, freeing Bates up to return to the AHS fold.

No word yet on the theme of AHS‘ eighth installment, but Murphy would “neither confirm or deny” to EW the online rumor that it’ll be subtitled Radioactive. The EP has hinted, though, that the new season will take place in the future, calling it “different from what we’ve done before.”

Alec Baldwin Talk Show Ordered; ABC to Air 'Preview' Episode After Oscars

Not only has ABC ordered eight episodes of Sundays With Alec Baldwin, a talk show modeled after the actor’s popular interview-based podcast, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, the network will air a special “sneak peek” immediately following the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday. This preview installment is not considered one of the official eight episodes that ABC ordered.

Baldwin’s guests on Night 1 will be friend Jerry Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live cohort Kate McKinnon, both of whom will be opening up in lengthy interviews about their lives, their careers and more.

“I’m excited about this show and grateful to ABC for taking a chance on me in what is, admittedly, a crowded field,” Baldwin said in a statement. “I’ve enjoyed doing my podcast for WNYC and look forward to the challenge of doing a show on camera.”

Additional information, including when ABC plans to air the other eight episodes, is not yet known.

Alec Baldwin making film on fake art after being scammed himself

In 2016, the “30 Rock” actor sued a gallery for selling him a counterfeit of what he believed to be a 1996 painting, “Sea and Mirror” by Ross Bleckner, for $190,000.

Now Page Six is told that he’s working on a film based on a 2012 Vanity Fair story, “A Question of Provenance,” by Michael Shnayerson.

We’re told that Baldwin is teaming up with former Paramount exec and Jean-Michel Basquiat dealer and collector Andy Terner on the documentary.

The article addresses the $100 million scam involving fake Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock works. Baldwin bought the ­bogus Bleckner from dealer Mary Boone in 2010, paying her $15,000 in fees.

In the lawsuit, he claimed he immediately felt the painting “appeared brighter and smelled different than he would have expected,” but was told the odd odor was because the previous owner was a heavy smoker. His suspicions were eventually confirmed by a ­Sotheby’s expert, and he won a seven-figure settlement in November.

Disjointed Cancelled at Netflix

Co-created by Chuck Lorre, the series found Oscar-winner Bates playing the owner of a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary. The cast also included Mozart in the Jungle‘s Aaron Moten, The Flash‘s Tone Bell and Another Period‘s Betsy Sodaro.

The show’s second season dropped last month. All told, 20 episodes were produced.

After years of renewing even its lowest-profile shows, Netflix has entered the cancellation business in a big way of late. Recent terminations include Lady Dynamite, Love, Haters Back Off!, Chelsea, Gypsy and Girlboss.

Alec Baldwin recovering from hip replacement surgery

“Thank you for your kind wishes,” Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, wrote on Instagram alongside a pic of her holding Alec’s hand at the hospital. “I know many of you are anxious to hear how he is doing. We have been here since very early…All went well in surgery and I am with him in recovery. ?? to all #wegotthis2018”

On Tuesday night, she revealed the 59-year-old “Boss Baby” star was to undergo the surgery the following day.

“Now we rest because tomorrow morning we are in the hospital bright and early for his hip to be replaced,” the 34-year-old yoga expert wrote. “Think good thoughts for us. We are gonna eat lightly, relax, and take deep breaths.”

The couple — who wed in 2012 — are currently expecting their fourth child together.

Alec Baldwin Exits ABC Comedy Series

The 30 Rock alum and current Match Game host — who was slated to star in an untitled ABC family comedy co-created by Kenya Barris (black-ish) — will not be appearing in the project after all, TVLine has confirmed. Baldwin will, however, stay on as an exec producer.

Last December, ABC handed a straight-to-series order to the multi-cam comedy, which also counts Julie Bean (grown-ish) as an EP. The show follows an opinionated former TV star who moves in with his liberal daughter, her girlfriend and their child.

An ABC rep declined to comment.

Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin & More Board Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’

Inspired by Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name, the pic, set in 1950s NY, follows Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.

Norton is producing the project alongside his Class 5 Films producing partner Bill Migliore as well as MWM Studios’ Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane. Executive producers are Michael Bederman, Adrian Alperovich, Sue Kroll, Robert F. Smith, Brian Sheth, and Daniel Nadler. Warner Bros will release the film worldwide.

Alec Baldwin Responds To Dylan Farrow’s Woody Allen Accusations; Compares Her To Character From ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

In his tweet, Baldwin says said that like Mayella, Dylan Farrow’s “tears/exhortations [are] meant [to] shame [you into] belief in her story.” He adds, “But I need more than that before I destroy [someone], regardless of their fame. I need a lot more.”

He continued by tweeting a New York Times story blasting Dylan and Moses Farrow saying, “To say that [Dylan Farrow] is telling the truth is to say that [Moses Farrow] is lying. Which of Mia’s kids got the honesty gene and which did not?”

In one last tweet, Baldwin doesn’t mince words if you don’t agree with his stance on the director, who he has worked with multiple times, “If my defense of Woody Allen offends you, it’s real simple. Unfollow. Condemn. Move on.”

This isn’t the first time Baldwin has come to the defense of Allen. Earlier this month, he called the “renunciation” of the director “unfair and sad.” He said that he was “investigated forensically” and that “no charges were filed.

“Is it possible to support survivors of pedophilia and sexual assault/abuse and also believe that [Woody Allen] is innocent?” he said on Twitter. “I think so. The intention is not to dismiss or ignore such complaints. But accusing [people] of such crimes should be treated carefully. On behalf of the victims as well.”

Al1 of the most effective things Dylan Farrow has in her arsenal is the “persistence of emotion.” Like Mayella in TKAM, her tears/exhortations r meant 2 shame u in2 belief in her story.
But I need more than that before I destroy some1, regardless of their fame.
I need a lot more.

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

To say that @RealDylanFarrow is telling the truth is to say that @MosesFarrow is lying.
Which of Mia’s kids got the honesty gene and which did not?https://t.co/vpPhe5VFcG

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

If my defense of Woody Allen offends you, it’s real simple.
Unfollow.
Condemn.
Move on.

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

Lin Bolen Dies: First Female VP Of Programming At A Network Was 76

Bolen worked for NBC in the 1970s and was responsible for commissioning the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune. She also is credited with bringing long-form narrative to soap operas, expanding them to hour-long formats.

It was long rumored that the ruthless Faye Dunaway character of Diana Christiansen in the 1976 satrical film Network was based on Bolen, something Bolen denied.

She was appointed VP of daytime programming at NBC in 1972, rising to become the VP of programming in Sept. 1975. NBC thrived under her leadership, becoming the No. 1 network in ratings.

Some of her moves were controversial. Bolen ended the 11-year run for Jeopardy!, citing its older demographics and stodgy host Art Fleming, and also killed the 15-year-old game show Concentration. Instead, she pivoted to a new concept from creator/producer Merv Griffin, a casino-like game called Wheel of Fortune that debuted in 1976. It became a huge hit.

Merv Griffin remembered Bolen in his Simon & Schuster memoir, Merv: Making The Good Life Last. He described her as a “hard-driving” and “difficult” woman, with whom he had many “bitter fights.” Still, he noted, “I developed a gruding respect for her talent and determination. She wanted to put her own stamp on NBC’s daytime lineup, and if that meant throwing out a few babies along with the bathwater, then so be it.”

Bolen left NBC in 1976 to form her own, self-named producion company focused on creating and developing game shows, movies of the week, and theatrical films for networks and studios. Among its show was Stumpers!, hosted by Allen Ludden (which lasted 13 weeks before cancellation), and W.E.B., a show that looked seriously at the men who ran network television. It, too, was canceled after 13 weeks, done in by its slot against the ABC hit Charlie’s Angels.

She fared better in television movies. The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle, starring Kurt Russell and Melissa Gilbert, was the highest-rated movie of the year for NBC.

Survivors include a son, Jason Wendkos. No details on memorial services have been made public.

Will & Grace Guest Stars

The latest actors set to reprise their roles on the NBC comedy include Alec Baldwin (as Karen’s government-agent ex Malcolm Widmark), Blythe Danner (as Will’s mom Marilyn Truman) and Sara Rue (as Grace’s sister Joyce).

Additionally, Mary McCormack (In Plain Sight) and Robert Klein (The Mysteries of Laura) will appear in upcoming episodes.

Alec Baldwin Says Treatment Of Woody Allen Is “Unfair And Sad”

Baldwin took to Twitter to point out that Allen was “investigated forensically” and that “no charges were filed. He adds “I worked [with Woody Allen] 3 times and it was one of the privileges of my career.”

“Is it possible to support survivors of pedophilia and sexual assault/abuse and also believe that [Woody Allen] is innocent?” he continued on Twitter. “I think so. The intention is not to dismiss or ignore such complaints. But accusing [people] of such crimes should be treated carefully. On behalf of the victims as well.”

Baldwin’s response comes shortly after Timothee Chalamet and Rebecca Hall, who both star in Allen’s upcoming A Rainy Day in New York, announced that they will donate their salary from the movie to charity. Their actions come in the wake of articles written by Dylan Farrow and Ronan Farrow about Allen’s alleged sexual misconduct.

@ABFalecbaldwin : Woody Allen was investigated forensically by two states (NY and CT) and no charges were filed. The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose. But it’s unfair and sad to me. I worked w WA 3 times and it was one of the privileges of my career.

@ABFalecbaldwin : Is it possible to support survivors of pedophilia and sexual assault/abuse and also believe that WA is innocent? I think so. The intention is not to dismiss or ignore such complaints. But accusing ppl of such crimes should be treated carefully. On behalf of the victims, as well.

Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels Race to Stop 9/11 in Looming Tower Trailer — Watch

The scripted docudrama, which premieres Wednesday, Feb. 28 on the streaming service, chronicles the FBI and CIA’s efforts to hunt down Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years leading up to 9/11 — and the errors they made along the way. In the new trailer above, when Peter Sarsgaard’s CIA analyst is told there’s “too much risk” to aggressively going after al-Qaeda, he comes back with: “Someday, this administration will be remembered for the risks it didn’t take.”

Emmy winner Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) stars as FBI agent John O’Neil, who angrily points out that the bureau has only eight Arabic speakers out of 10,000 agents: “That’s how seriously our government takes this threat.” We see infighting between the FBI and CIA, and a number of high-ranking officials downplaying the threat of al-Qaeda, including Alec Baldwin as CIA director George Tenet, who urges Sarsgaard’s character to “use the chain of command. It exists for a reason.”

As we can see from the bloody carnage left by al-Qaeda’s bombings of African embassies, though, that threat was clearly underestimated. Later, we see Fargo‘s Michael Stuhlbarg as counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke, testifying before Congress and telling the American people, “Your government failed you.”

Stephen Baldwin thinks Alec will vote for Trump

Stephen Baldwin is predicting that older brother Alec Baldwin — impersonator and vocal critic of Donald Trump — will be voting to reelect the president.

Stephen, an avid Trump supporter, told The Hollywood Reporter he believes his brother will be voting for Trump after the actor receives “this new tax cut” from the GOP tax bill.

“I’m calling it now: With the amount of money Alec is going to make with this new tax cut, I bet he votes for Trump for re-election. Just saying!” the 51-year-old actor said.

But Stephen, 51, may just have to text Alec, 59, his predicition, because he also revealed he hasn’t spoken to his brother, infamous for his impersonation of the president on “Saturday Night Live,” since the surprise 2016 results came in.

“I can’t get into it. I haven’t spoken to [Alec] since the election. That’s the truth,” Stephen said when asked about his brother’s Trump impression. “That is by his choice. We grew up in a dumb-jock, competitive, ‘Friday Night Lights’ kind of environment.”

Stephen said he is “absolutely” still a supporter of Trump because they are the “same kind of guy.” He added that he isn’t worried about being a vocal supporter of the president when most people in Hollywood criticize Trump.

“I’m a Baldwin brother, and that sends fear into anyone’s heart, instantly,” he said.

Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression could be headed to Broadway

Those were the questions raised Monday when Baldwin told Howard Stern he has Broadway in his sights for a solo show based on his Emmy-winning impersonation of President Donald Trump, with Lorne Michaels producing. Michaels is also producing Fey’s musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” slated to arrive on Broadway in the spring.

Baldwin was interviewed on Stern’s Sirius XM program to promote “You Can’t Spell America Without Me,” his new book, co-written with Kurt Andersen. The parody purports to tell the “really tremendous inside story” of the president’s first year in office.

“We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin said, adding that the book was written with the blessing of Michaels, who controls the rights to the impersonation. “What Lorne did do is give me permission to write this book,” Baldwin said. “My rendering of [Trump] is his intellectual property.”

Baldwin added that “We’re all sick of the whole Trump as source of comedy thing, and I am too, but Kurt goes to another level.”

Baldwin has a lucrative model for the possible show: In 2009, Will Ferrell brought his “Saturday Night Live” impression of George W. Bush to the Cort Theatre in “You’re Welcome, America. A Final Night with George W. Bush.” The three-month stand was a smash hit.

Baldwin has had a celebrated stage career that includes five Broadway shows including “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which he played Stanley Kowalski opposite Jessica Lange’s Blanche Du Bois and Amy Madigan’s Stella.

Kenya Barris/Alec Baldwin Family Comedy Gets Straight-To-Series Order By ABC

Written by Barris and Bean, who will serve as showrunners, the untitled project is described as a classic dysfunctional family comedy series about a stuck-in-his-ways, opinionated, fading TV star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her girlfriend and the child they are raising together.

While ABC didn’t pick up to series any of its multi-camera pilots in May and opted not to renew its existing multi-camera series, the network nabbed a revival of classic 1990s multi-camera sitcom Roseanne, which will air later this season and has put a number of multi-camera projects in development for next season. The Barris/Bean/Baldwin comedy also is eyed for a premiere next season.

Under his ABC Studios overall deal, Baldwin, who hosts ABC’s Match Game revival, is in negotiations to headline a talk show for ABC based on his radio show and podcast Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin.

Baldwin won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and record-setting six SAG Awards for his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC’s 30 Rock. He is coming off a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy for his Donald Trump impersonation on Saturday Night Live. He is repped by CAA.

Barris is creator/executive producer on ABC/ABC Studios’ Black-ish on ABC and its upcoming spinoff series Grown-ish on Freeform. Black-ish this morning landed two more Golden Globe nominations, best comedy series and best lead actor in a comedy series for star Anthony Anderson. The acclaimed single-camera comedy won a Golden Globe last year for female lead Tracee Ellis Ross. Barris, who also co-wrote this year’s feature comedy hit Girls Trip, is repped by CAA, Principato Young, and attorney Gregg Gellman Yorn.

Under her ABC Studios deal, Bean serves as an executive producer on Grown-ish. She previously worked as a co-executive producer on ABC/ABC Studios’ American Housewife. Both she and Barris have multi-camera comedy experience. They worked together on The Game. Bean also has done stints on CBS’ Mike & Molly and NBC’s NewsRadio, Barris on Girlfriends.

ABC Studios and its cable/digital division ABC Signature received 5 Golden Globe nominations this morning, two each for Black-ish and Showtime’s SMILF, and one for ABC drama The Good Doctor, a co-production with Sony Pictures TV Studios.

Alec Baldwin defends tweet about late-night hosts

Now, Baldwin’s Wednesday tweet continued, owing to “the likes of” John Oliver and Stephen Colbert, the shows “have flipped that and they are beginning to resemble grand juries.”

“And a lot of people by the way, they endorse that,” Baldwin conceded, on “Megyn Kelly Today.”

“They think that those hosts of those shows are perfectly, not only within their rights, but it’s very attractive or very necessary for them to be pressing this cause. I just don’t want to see people who are innocent get into trouble…[Harvey] Weinstein, for example, is in a rehab hiding behind millions of dollars’ worth of lawyers. And I want to see the people who really did something get convicted. I want the people who are the wrong, I want them to be punished. But I don’t want to see innocent people get hurt either.”

Baldwin’s latest controversial tweet came after Oliver asked Dustin Hoffman about a former production assistant’s allegation he sexually harassed her on the “Death of a Salesman” set in the ’80s, while moderating a film fest anniversary screening of “Wag the Dog” at the 92nd St. Y.

Kelly, Thursday morning, described it as Oliver having “cross examined” Hoffman.

“For me, what is different, what is odd, this is no excuse, but like 40 years ago there was a kind of way that people had a kind of sexualized by-play, and a kind of fooling around that was wrong,” Baldwin argued.

“You look back and you say it was wrong then. But it seemed to be less problematic than it is now. Where we live now, there are a lot of things you just don’t do any more. [Women] put up with it more but now they don’t put up with it.”

“And there are people who say that if an entire television show and all very well paid crew and cast of that show lose their jobs , year ago that was used as means of leveraging the woman to keep quiet: you don’t want to put all those people out of work.” Now, Baldwin added, “that’s collateral damage.”

Kelly wondered into which category Baldwin would put his friend James Toback. Baldwin said he had not seen much of Toback lately but condemned “anyone who is guilty of this kind of predatory behavior.”

“Men that I know, and I think most women would agree with this, we don’t understand men who want a woman, her tears streaming down her face and she is begging you not to do the thing you are going to do, most men that I know would say, what’s with that?”

Alec Baldwin Slams John Oliver, Stephen Colbert for Turning Talk Shows into "Grand Juries"

On Wednesday, Baldwin chided late night hosts John Oliver and Stephen Colbert — of Last Week With John Oliver and Late Night with Stephen Colbert, respectively — of turning their programs into "grand juries."

Baldwin wrote on Twitter, "Talk shows were once promotional pit stops for some blithe chit chat about movies, etc. Now the likes of @iamjohnoliver and @StephenAtHome have flipped that and they are beginning to resemble grand juries."

Baldwin's words closely follow Michael Rappaport's criticism of Oliver's decision (a video which Baldwin re-tweeted before making his own remarks) to bring up sexual misconduct allegations against actor Dustin Hoffman at an anniversary screening of Wag the Dog. Rappaport dinged the host for not discussing the matter privately and instead initiating the conversation during the cast panel.

As for why Colbert was included in Baldwin's criticism, well, some suspect the inclusion may have to do with Colbert's many segments covering the #MeToo movement, including asking Ben Affleck about accusations lobbied against him during what would've otherwise been a mere puff promotional interview for Justice League.

"I'm pro for people being punished through a due process of law. I'm against people asserting that the process begins and ends with accusations only," Baldwin added on Twitter.

Reactions to Baldwin's comments have been mixed, but many take issue with what he may or may not be advocating for, in terms of late show styles.

Considering Alec Baldwin himself is reportedly in contention for his own talk show at ABC, perhaps Baldwin was simply making a pitch for his own prospective program to steer clear of such weighty subjects.

Alec Baldwin Eyes Hosting ABC Talk Show Based On ‘Here’s The Thing’ Podcast

The show stems from the deal he made with ABC Studios in August to host the network’s primetime game show Match Game. No details yet on when the talk show will premiere or who would be involved with it.

Here’s the Thing launched in October 2011 as an outlet for other polarizing political firebrand Baldwin to interview public figures — from celebrities and athletes to politicians and economists.

Alec Baldwin gets seven-figure settlement in art-fraud lawsuit

Baldwin gloats over the victory in an upcoming New Yorker piece, even joking, “Maybe I’ll have Ross paint a picture of the seven-figure check that Mary paid me to settle.” The settlement includes “several Bleckner paintings, including one commissioned to [Baldwin’s] specifications.”

According to the New Yorker, Boone’s “agreed to write [Baldwin] a seven-figure check” to settle the civil-fraud case over Bleckner’s 1996 painting “Sea and Mirror.” Baldwin’s suit alleged that, in 2010, the “30 Rock” star asked Boone about buying the work he coveted from another collector. Baldwin bought it but began to suspect the painting was a fake.

The actor’s suit claimed that when Boone could not procure the original, Bleckner reproduced it. When Baldwin asked why the work looked different, he says that Boone explained it was “cleaned” since the previous collector was a smoker. The New Yorker reports that before his 2016 suit, Baldwin “decided to confront Bleckner” and “the artist admitted that the painting was a copy, and later wrote, in an email to Baldwin, ‘I’m so sorry about all of this. I feel so bad about this.’?” Baldwin claims, “Mary cried on the phone. She said, ‘You caught me. I wanted to make you happy.’ ”

In April, a judge cleared the way for the case to head to trial. But with it now settled, the New Yorker says, “The reproduction of ‘Sea and Mirror’ is now crated up in the basement of Baldwin’s East Hampton house,” and he’ll donate half the proceeds to the Sag Harbor Cinema. The star even boasts that he’ll put the painting on a lecture series on “art fraud,” saying, “I’ll call it the Boondoggle Tour.”

Bleckner commented to the New Yorker, “It is resolved. I am sorry the whole thing happened.”

Boone commented to Page Six: “Words like ‘counterfeit’ and ‘fake’ are being used in a sensational fashion. No one is contesting that Ross Bleckner is the artist who made this painting; therefore, the work cannot be fake. The significant thing is that Alec Baldwin liked the painting that he bought from me so much that not only did he keep it, but he commissioned the artist recently to make him two more paintings for his collection. Just last week at the Paley Center, Alec Baldwin admitted to ‘bullying women’ and ‘treating women differently than men.’ This never would have happened the way it did if I was a male dealer.”

Alec Baldwin taking Twitter break after Weinstein comments

“It is w some degree of sadness that I will suspend posting on this a TWITTER account for a period of and in the current climate,” he wrote.

“It was never my intention, in my public statements, to ‘blame the victim’ in the many sexual assault cases that have emerged recently,” he continued.

“I simply posited that the settlement of such cases certainly delayed justice, though I am fully aware that those settlements were entered into w the understanding that settlement is wise, intimidated into believing so.”

He added that his heart goes out to all the victims of sexual assault and that his foundation will continue to post on the topic of its work with the arts and environment.

Baldwin faced backlash over comments regarding settlements that he made during an interview with PBS NewsHour, in which he pointed out that when women settle sexual harassment suits and are silenced in the process through NDAs, “the course of change” is delayed.

“When you talked about Harvey Weinstein in the business, you knew that he was highly intrusive in the process of making films … you knew that he was a very intense guy … and last but not least, you heard the rumor that he raped Rose McGowan. You heard that over and over — we heard that for decades. And nothing was done,” he began.

“Rose McGowan took a payment of $100,000 and settled her case with him,” he continued, after being asked why no one had come forward if they were aware of the alleged incident. “And it was for Rose McGowan to prosecute that case.”

He referenced a New York Times article and stated that many people had wondered, “Do the settlement of these cases hurt the cause of exposing and bringing us to a place of real change?”

“When women take money, and are silenced by that money – even though they took the money and were silenced because they were told beyond the money it was the right thing for them to do, keep quiet, don’t make too many waves, it’s going to hurt your career — when they do it, nonetheless, does it set back the course of change? That’s an issue, I think,” he finished.

Asia Argento, who accused Weinstein of raping her in a New Yorker piece following the original New York Times exposé, retweeted the PBS NewHour video, and wrote, “Hey, [Alec Baldwin] you’re either a complete moron or providing cover for your pals and saving your own rep. Maybe all three.”

She followed up with a second tweet: “Alec Baldwin mansplaining ‘the cause’ for women everywhere. That’s a good caption for that video.”

She also commented on Baldwin’s departure from Twitter, asserting, “We won’t miss you bully boy.”

Alec Baldwin Says He Had Heard a Rumor 'for Decades' About Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Raping Rose McGowan

“I didn’t know anything,” Baldwin said when questioned about what he knew of Weinstein. “But I know that when you talked about Harvey Weinstein in the business, for example, for decades, you knew that he was highly intrusive in the process of making films. You know, his nickname was Harvey Scissorhands and he was very intrusive in the path of the directors who worked for him. Number two, you knew that he was a very intense guy and very bullying guy, and was shouting and screaming at people and exhorting them when he didn’t get his way. And, last but not least, you heard the rumor that he raped Rose McGowan. You heard that over and over. We have heard that for decades, and nothing was done.”

Last month, McGowan alleged via Twitter that “HW raped me.” The former Hollywood mogul denied “any allegations of non-consensual sex” in a statement issued through his representative, Sallie Hofmeister.

Speaking to PBS News Hour, Baldwin noted the initial New York Times report revealed Weinstein had paid a settlement to McGowan after an alleged incident at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.

“It was for Rose McGowan to prosecute that case,” Baldwin said. “I don’t think you and I are working at a job, and we vet everybody we work for in terms of, not just sexual crimes, racism. Do I sit there and say to myself, I want to have a forensic psychiatrist come and examine the entire board of Warner Bros., and I will never take another paycheck from Warner Bros. until everybody on that board of directors that runs that company have been vetted that they’re not racist, sexist, homophobic, you name it, I need to have a report on that?”

The actor questioned where to draw the line. “Where this thing with Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan came along was, I had no idea, until now, that she had settled the case,” he said.

McGowan responded to Baldwin’s interview on Twitter by writing, “Told you everyone knew. No one cared. Men ran the show. Women toed the line. No more. #ROSEARMY.” She added in a response to another user, “It has been a truly lonely road.”

Asia Argento, an Italian actress and filmmaker who accused Weinstein of sexual assault, also took issue with Baldwin’s words. “Hey @AlecBaldwin,” she tweeted on Saturday, “you’re either a complete moron or providing cover for your pals and saving your own rep. Maybe all three.”

In the wake of the backlash online, Baldwin announced he was leaving Twitter for the forseeable future. “It is w some degree of sadness that I will suspend posting on this a TWITTER account for a period of and in the current climate,” Baldwin wrote in a series of tweets on Saturday.

The New York Police Department is currently gathering evidence against Weinstein after detectives interviewed actress Paz de la Huerta, who claims Weinstein raped her twice in 2010. (Weinstein has continued to deny allegations of non-consensual sex.) Los Angeles police are also probing for “lewd conduct” stemming from an incident in 2015, while a similar investigation is underway in Beverly Hills.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin expecting their fourth child

“Our Baldwinitos are getting a new teammate this spring ??,” Hilaria captioned a family photo on Instagram Friday. “I’m gonna make them a special cake to tell them if it’s a boy or a girl…I’ll post it tomorrow midday ??. We are so excited!”

The Baldwins’ rep had no additional comment.

Hilaria, 33, and Alec, 59, are already parents to daughter Carmen and sons Rafael and Leonardo. They welcomed Leonardo a little over a year ago in September 2016.

The couple wed in 2012.

The “30 Rock” alum is also father to Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, whom he shares with ex Kim Basinger.

Alec Baldwin Admits He's Been 'Very Sexist' and 'Bullied' Women — While Calling for Change

The Emmy Award winner made the remarks while receiving a career honor from The Paley Center for Media on Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Speaking about the sexual misconduct allegations that have permeated the film industry this month, Baldwin reportedly said, “I certainly have treated women in a very sexist way.”

He added, “I’ve bullied women. I’ve overlooked women. I’ve underestimated women. Not as a rule, [but] from time to time I’ve done what a lot of men do, which is … when you don’t treat women the same way you treat men. You don’t. I’m from a generation where you really don’t and I’d like that to change. I really would like that to change.”

Baldwin called for reform across all industries. “I think it’s important for us to try to make the workplace and beyond not only comfortable and right and fair and appropriate but as productive, as well,” he said. “I think a lot of what we’re dealing with within this issue is hurting our business. It’s making it less productive.”

As for the allegations that have been levied against Hollywood power players like Harvey Weinstein and James Toback, Baldwin said, “I knew of certain things that there were rumors of things happening to people, but I didn’t necessarily know the scope when you hear the hundreds and hundreds of women who are complaining about this.”

He added, “It’s been a very eye-opening experience for me personally. We’ve got to be vigilant in a new way to make sure that everybody is comfortable and that we get the job done together that we’re there to do.”

Baldwin previously spoke out about the sexual misconduct claims against Toback, who directed Baldwin in Seduced and Abandoned and The Private Life of a Modern Woman.

“In all the time I’ve known Jimmy, I never had one conversation about his sex life, which is not unusual for me because I’m not sitting down with some guy and he’s saying to me, ‘Man, you should have seen what I did last night with this girl in this hotel.’ I don’t go there,” Baldwin told The Los Angeles Times, which first broke the news of the Tobak scandal.

“I’d always heard Jimmy was peculiar,” he continued. “I remember years ago, with [the movie] The Pick-up Artist, Jimmy had this reputation 20, 25 years ago or more of hitting on [women], going up and saying provocative things to them. I’d heard of that. But in my time with Jimmy, it was absolutely, positively business.”

Toback was initially accused of sexual misconduct by 38 women in the Los Angeles Times story. The paper later reported that more than 300 women have come forward with similar allegations. In the days since, numerous famous actresses accused Toback of harassment, including Selma Blair, Rachel McAdams and Julianne Moore.

Alec Baldwin Says He Wasn’t Aware Of James Toback’s History With Women & Calls Trump “A Sexual Predator”

In sum, Baldwin told Whipp that in his time with Toback on the 2013 HBO Cannes Film Festival documentary, as well as his latest movie The Private Life of a Modern Woman, “I never had one conversation about his sex life” that “in my time with Jimmy, it was absolutely, positively business.”

“I don’t have any information firsthand about what I’m hearing. These are everybody else’s secondhand assertions about what he did,” the The Cooler Oscar nominee told the LAT. “I can’t assume that all these people are lying. And I feel terrible.”

Many believed Baldwin was sidestepping the media storm around Toback, largely remaining silent except for a tweet last Tuesday in which Baldwin said, “I cheered when Gawker lost its case to Hulk. So, of course The Decider wants to tar me w the Toback brush. Kayla Cobb, ur a dreadful writer.”

Baldwin told Whipp in a report published today that he had heard whispers years ago about Toback’s history of hitting on women, when the director was making the Robert Downey Jr-Molly Ringwald comedy The Pick-Up Artist. But Baldwin says he had no clue of the alleged severity of Toback’s encounters, especially the audition episode involving Selma Blair which the actress detailed last week for Vanity Fair.

In fact, the flood of sexual harassment allegations post-Harvey Weinstein has Baldwin’s head spinning: “It is overwhelming for people to grasp the magnitude of this. Daryl Hannah. Probably half the actresses I’ve ever heard of in my life have from these recent generations have come forth to talk about Harvey or this one or that one.”

Asking Baldwin his thoughts about the 325 women who’ve accused Toback of sexual misconduct, the actor said what this scandal is really about is President Donald Trump, who he impersonates on Saturday Night Live.

“There is some veneer to it of complexity because they can’t get the guy they really want to get,” he said. “[Donald] Trump is a sexual predator. On the record, there’s all kinds of evidence that Trump has behaved this way, and he’s the president of the United States and that being just one of the things that is horrifying people about Trump, his opinions, his behavior, his methodology and there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot touch him.”

Alec Baldwin has drink-throwing meltdown on NYC street

A fellow pedestrian at University Place and 11th Street tells us that the “30 Rock” star was seen in a verbal exchange with a presumably reckless motorist that included insults and soft-drink throwing.

“Baldwin called the driver of a big black SUV ‘a meatball’ and kept asking him and the passenger to get out,” said the witness, who noticed the incident after it had already begun.

When the people in the car wouldn’t get out, “Alec got out his phone and started videotaping them. They pulled away right after, and he took a pic of their license plate and threw his extra-large drink in the street. Then he just went on his angry way.”

Baldwin’s rep had no comment.

In 2014, the actor was arrested in the same area for biking the wrong way down Fifth Avenue and reportedly becoming “belligerent and .?.?. arguing” with cops.

He also went on a Twitter tirade against an Upper West Side Starbucks barista in 2011, and delivered a homophobic rant against a Post photographer in 2013.

Alec Baldwin headlines Iowa Democrats event

That is, in the form of actor Alec Baldwin, the walking parody of the Republican president.

The actor who received an Emmy award last month for his running parody of Trump on “Saturday Night Live” is to be the keynote speaker at the state party banquet in Des Moines on Nov. 27.

It’s a role often reserved for presidential prospects in the leadoff presidential caucus state.

Whether or not Baldwin entertains the light-hearted urgings of former President Bill Clinton to run for president, Baldwin should certainly expect an audience hungry for lifted spirits.

Iowa Democrats are at a 20-year low, having reveled for the past eight years in first launching Barack Obama to the presidential nomination and twice delivering the state for him.

But today, Republicans control the Statehouse in Des Moines, both U.S. Senate seats and a majority of U.S. House seats.

“Heading into the 2018 midterm elections and beyond, I have decided to rededicate my efforts to helping the Democratic Party win across the country,” Baldwin said in a statement distributed by the Iowa Democratic Party. “That effort begins in earnest in Iowa.”

Iowa Democrats see the state’s governor’s race as a prime opportunity to recapture power in the state.

Eight candidates are seeking the 2018 nomination, a dynamic even some Republicans see as an opportunity for the out-of-power party.

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is finishing the final 18 months of veteran Republican Terry Branstad’s term. Reynolds is seeking the governorship next year, having served as lieutenant governor before Branstad was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to China in June.

‘On The Basis Of Sex’ Adds Justin Theroux & Kathy Bates To Round Out Cast

Mimi Leder is directing a script the pic penned by Daniel Stiepleman, Ginsburg’s nephew. It follows Ginsburg from when she a young lawyer who teamed with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the Supreme Court and overturn a century of gender discrimination.

Robert Cort is producing, and Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King as well as Karen Loop and Betsy Danbury are executive producers. Participant is also financing.

A 2018 theatrical release is planned to coincide with Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the High Court. As per Participant’s output arrangements via Amblin Partners, Focus Features is distributing domestically.

Adam Baldwin Cast In ‘The Kid’

Emmy Awards Winners

Alec Baldwin Definitely Will Trump ‘Saturday Night Live’ Season Premiere

“We’re going to do it until…”, teases Baldwin on today’s Ellen, leaving host Ellen DeGeneres hanging a bit as to exactly how long he’ll keep Trumping. Baldwin suggests he’ll do “a couple” episodes of SNL, without further detail.

The 30 Rock alum already had promised to resurrect the SNL character, telling CNN in June that he’d “fit that in,” but he tends to keep the appearances secret until the day of, tweeting out hints.

Baldwin appeared on Ellen to plug his new book You Can’t Spell America Without Me, a Donald Trump parody memoir.

Baldwin’s Trump impersonation revitalized the show last season, kicking off a string of political parodies that drew the attention of the real president and more recently helped earn Melissa McCarthy, aka SNL‘s Sean Spicer, an Emmy for guest actress on a comedy series. SNL returns for Season 43 on September 30, with host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Jay-Z.

Alec Baldwin To Play John DeLorean In Scripted Scenes For Docu About Famous Automaker

To give him the look of the man who brought us the iconic, cutting-edge car of the ’80s, Baldwin has enlisted the help from his hair and makeup team from Saturday Night Live.

The film is directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce (The Art of the Steal, Last Days Here, Batman & Bill ) and produced by Tamir Ardon, XYZ Films, and 9.14 Pictures and backed by Ingenious. Sundance Selects is distributing the film domestically. Production is currently underway with a scheduled release date in 2018.

“Sheena Joyce and Don Argott are two of the most intelligent and creative filmmakers that I’ve come across over the last many years. Their documentary, The Art of the Steal, is among my favorites of all time and I look forward to collaborating with them on their inventive take on the life of John DeLorean,” said Baldwin.

The film will document DeLorean’s rise to stardom as well as his shocking fall from grace. In addition to the narrative scenes, the docu will include interviews with colleagues, employees, lawyers, friends, and family who knew him best.

“We are so honored to have the opportunity to explore the complex character of John Z. DeLorean with the legendary Alec Baldwin. As longtime fans, we cannot wait to see DeLorean through the lens of Alec’s immense talent and sharp intellect. We’re confident this collaboration will lead to an exciting film about a mysterious, misunderstood automotive icon,” said Argott and Joyce.

Baldwin is repped by CAA.

Talk Show Appearance

We 9/13: Alec Baldwin

Primetime Emmy Presenters

As previously announced, Emmy Award winner Stephen Colbert, the multi-talented host of THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, is set to host, marking his first time as master of ceremonies for the event.

The 69TH PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS is produced by White Cherry Entertainment. Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner are executive producers, Weiss is director and Chris Licht, executive producer of THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, is a producer.

ALEC BALDWIN CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH IN NBC’S ‘A FEW GOOD MEN’

Baldwin and Sorkin will join Craig Zadan and Neil Meron as executive producers of “A Few Good Men.” Zadan and Meron’s “Hairspray Live!” received seven Emmy nominations last week, including Outstanding Special Class Program.

“Alec Baldwin is the gift that keeps on giving at NBC, and we’re excited to have him starring in Aaron Sorkin’s towering work as we expand our live theater imprint beyond musicals,” said Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment. “No stranger to live television, Alec is the most multi-faceted actor in the world and his range is incomparable. He will put his own inimitable stamp on the role of Col. Jessep in a play that is still as surprising and relevant as ever, from one of the most gifted writers working today.”

“Alec is one of our greatest actors. Having him play this role — live onstage for a television audience — is a dream come true. This will be a brand new take on Nathan Jessep and I expect that Alec is going to bust through TV screens and right into living rooms,” Sorkin said.

Sorkin will write the teleplay adaptation of “A Few Good Men,” which he penned at age 26 as a stage production that premiered on Broadway in 1989 at the Music Box Theatre to critical acclaim. Three years later he adapted the play as a feature film that went on to receive an Oscar nomination for best picture.

“A Few Good Men” marks NBC’s first live production of a Broadway drama in more than 50 years since the network began reinvigorating live programming in 2013 with the hugely popular production of “The Sound of Music Live!,” starring Carrie Underwood. That was followed by musicals “Peter Pan Live!” “The Wiz Live!,” and “Hairspray Live!” as well as next season’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Easter Sunday.

Baldwin won two Emmys as well as three Golden Globes for his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy series “30 Rock,” co-starring Tina Fey. Nominated for 18 Emmys, 11 Golden Globes, a Tony (Best Actor in a Play for “A Streetcar Named Desire”) and an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actor for “The Cooler”), Baldwin is one of the most diverse actors of his generation, earning acclaim in a broad range of dramatic and comedic roles.

Prestigious or highly popular films on Baldwin’s resume include “Beetlejuice,” “Working Girl,” “The Hunt for Red October,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “The Aviator,” “The Departed” (both from director Martin Scorsese) and “Blue Jasmine,” (from director Woody Allen and featuring Cate Blanchett in an Oscar-winning performance). On the TV side, Baldwin has hosted NBC’s iconic late-night franchise “Saturday Night Live” a record 17 times – more than any other host. Other TV projects over Baldwin’s career include “Knots Landing,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” the telefilms “Nuremberg” and “Path to War,” and “Will & Grace.”

Set in 1986 and taking place in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “A Few Good Men” centers on newbie military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee, who comes up against the formidable Col. Jessep when he is asked to defend three Marines on trial for murder. Tom Hulce (“Amadeus”) was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of Kaffee on Broadway. The film adaptation starred Tom Cruise as Lt. Kaffee and Jack Nicholson as Col. Jessep.

“A Few Good Men” will air in the second quarter of 2018. A date will be announced soon.

2017 Emmy Awards Nominations

LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Carrie Coon - Fargo, FX Networks
Felicity Huffman - American Crime, ABC
Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies, HBO
Jessica Lange - Feud: Bette And Joan, FX Networks
Susan Sarandon - Feud: Bette And Joan, FX Networks
Reese Witherspoon - Big Little Lies, HBO

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Pamela Adlon - Better Things, FX Networks
Jane Fonda - Grace And Frankie, Netflix
Allison Janney - Mom, CBS
Ellie Kemper - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep, HBO
Tracee Ellis Ross - Black-ish, ABC
Lily Tomlin - Grace And Frankie, Netflix

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson - Black-ish, ABC
Aziz Ansari - Master Of None, Netflix
Zach Galifianakis - Baskets, FX Networks
Donald Glover - Atlanta, FX Networks
William H. Macy -Shameless, Showtime
Jeffrey Tambor - Transparent, Amazon

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Vanessa Bayer - Saturday Night Live, NBC
Anna Chlumsky - Veep, HBO
Kathryn Hahn - Transparent, Amazon
Leslie Jones - Saturday Night Live, NBC
Judith Light - Transparent, Amazon
Kate McKinnon - Saturday Night Live, NBC

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Louie Anderson - Baskets, FX Networks
Alec Baldwin - Saturday Night Live, NBC
Tituss Burgess - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix
Ty Burrell - Modern Family, ABC
Tony Hale - Veep, HBO
Matt Walsh - Veep, HBO

HOST FOR A REALITY/REALITY COMPETITION PROGRAM
Alec Baldwin - Match Game, ABC
W. Kamau Bell - United Shades Of America With W. Kamau Bell, CNN
RuPaul Charles - RuPaul’s Drag Race, VH1
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn - Project Runway, Lifetime
Gordon Ramsay - MasterChef Junior, Fox
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg - Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, VH1.

Kathy Bates was told cancer could harm her career

“Back in 2003, when I had ovarian cancer, my agent told me not to tell anyone about it,” she told WebMD. “Even my gynecologist, whose husband worked in the business, warned that I shouldn’t come out with it because of the stigma in Hollywood. So I was very careful.”

The 69-year-old “American Horror Story” star changed her mind as soon as she saw another famous figure take her battle with the disease public.

“But then I saw Melissa Etheridge doing a concert and just wailing on her guitar with her bald head, and I thought, ‘Wow, I wanna be her!’ So when the breast cancer diagnosis came, I knew I wanted to be honest about it,” she said.

Bates underwent a double mastectomy and never had reconstructive surgery, so she has no breasts — and wants to keep it that way.

“I’ve joined the ranks of women who are going flat, as they say,” she told WebMD, adding that she won’t even wear prosthetics for a role. “I don’t have breasts — so why do I have to pretend like I do? That stuff isn’t important. I’m just grateful to have been born at a time when the research made it possible for me to survive. I feel so incredibly lucky to be alive.”

Alec Baldwin Imagines Donald Trump As George Washington For ‘One Night Only’

“I come to you this Independence Day with a special message. First, you’re welcome, for your amazing freedoms, all this tremendous democracy. I grabbed so much freedom from those British losers – when you’re president they let you do it.”

“I won our nation’s first election, fair and square. Complete landslide. Nobody thought I could win all 13 colonies but I did.”

Baldwin this week told CNN he will continue playing President Donald Trump on the upcoming season of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

Spike TV’s One Night Only: Alec Baldwin taped at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on June 25. Previous honorees have included Eddie Murphy and Don Rickles. Bill Clinton makes a surprise appearance at Baldwin’s roast; previous roasters have included David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Robert De Niro, Jon Stewart, and Martin Scorsese, among others.

Described as part This is Your Life, part Dean Martin Roast, One Night Only: Alec Baldwin premieres on Spike TV on Sunday, July 9 at 9 PM.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are renewing their vows

The actor and his yoga instructor wife plan to remarry in front of close family and friends at the scenic Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack on Friday night, Page Six has exclusively learned.

The two, who have three children, tied the knot in June 2012 in Manhattan.

In a recent interview, Baldwin said, “We’re getting remarried on Friday .?.?. if we make it to Friday.”

He continued, “I need reassurance, I need to know I still got you there. I need to know you’re not going anywhere.”

Hilaria told the AP that she thinks “once you get married, you’re done. But it’s really good to say, ‘Hey, I’m still in this.’?”

Alec Baldwin Confirms He'll Play Trump on SNL Again Next Season

The actor told CNN on Monday that he’ll reprise his impression of Trump on Season 43 of NBC’s late-night sketch show: “Yeah, we’re gonna fit that in. I think people have enjoyed it.” But he warns that his appearances may be more infrequent next season, likening it to “a couple celery sticks” rather than “a full meal.”

Baldwin debuted as Trump in SNL‘s October 1 season premiere, sparring with Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton. He went on to play Trump in 16 more episodes last season, including the February 11 episode, which he also hosted. He’s now the most frequent host in SNL history, with a record total of 17 hosting stints under his belt.

His lampooning of President Trump was very good for SNL‘s ratings: Viewership of the long-running sketch show soared last season, climbing more than 30 percent to its highest level in more than two decades. One famous viewer wasn’t a fan, though: President Trump tweeted about Baldwin’s impression of him back in October, saying it “stinks.”

Julianne Moore, Tracy Morgan, Kate McKinnon Join Alec Baldwin Tribute

Additional names will be announced shortly, Spike says.

One Night Only: Alec Baldwin, described as part roast, part This Is Your Life, will include comedy, music, “candid personal stories and a few surprises for the superstar,” Spike said in announcing the headliners.

Set for taping at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Sunday, June 25, the special is produced by Casey Patterson Entertainment and directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. One Night Only: Alec Baldwin will premiere on Spike TV on Sunday, July 9, 9 pm ET/PT.

Alec Baldwin helps raise $5.1M for New Jersey Democrats

Philly.com reports about 1,000 people attended the Thursday night event in Collingswood.

According to the fundraiser’s organizers — a political action committee called General Majority PAC — the amount of money raised is believed to be the most ever raised by either major party at one event in the state’s history.

Tricia Mueller, the organization’s treasurer, says the fundraiser puts New Jersey Democrats in a good position to win races across the state. All 120 seats of the New Jersey Legislature are up for grabs in November, along with the governorship currently held by Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

Alec Baldwin thought his Lyme disease would kill him

Speaking at Sunday’s Bay Area Lyme Foundation LymeAid benefit, the actor opened up about his diagnosis after first being bitten by a tick nearly 17 years ago.

“I got the classic Lyme disease [symptoms] for each successive summer, for five years, every August, like this black lung, flu-like symptoms, sweating to death in my bed,” Baldwin described (via People). “The first round [was the worst], and then it diminished, at least that’s how I perceived it.”

Though Baldwin, 59, received treatment after the first bite, he was bitten again years later.

“The first time was the worst of all,” he said. “And I really thought, ‘This is it, I’m not going to live.’ I was alone, I wasn’t married at the time, I was divorced from my first wife. I was lying in bed saying, ‘I’m going to die from Lyme disease,’ in my bed and ‘I hope someone finds me and I’m not here for too long.'”

Baldwin first revealed his bout with Lyme disease six years ago to the New York Times, but has kept quiet about it publicly until now.

“I want my kids to grow up riding horses and bikes and enjoying themselves every day and not have to spend every day with us going over them with a magnifying glass to make sure they don’t have any ticks on their body or their dogs,” Baldwin shared of his three children with wife Hilaria, “but that is part of the lifestyle of where I live.”

Alec Baldwin sells Art Deco NYC apartment for $1.25M

According to public records, the actor-slash-Trump-impersonator sold the one-bedroom apartment for $1.25 million on May 3.

Baldwin, 59, sold another apartment in the El Dorado in 2011, a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath that went for $9.5 million, according to records. He now lives with his wife, Hilaria, and their three children on East 10th Street, according to records.

Both apartments were put on the market in 2009, according to listings. The smaller, first-floor apartment in the Art Deco building on Central Park West was described as an “annex,” to be used as a library or office or as a separate living quarter for staff.

The one-bedroom looks out onto West 91st Street. It has 12-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, a large living room and an eat-in kitchen, according to the listing.

The El Dorado is one of the Upper West Side’s most recognizable buildings, with two soaring towers overlooking the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. It was designed by Emery Roth, and completed in 1931. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

A host of celebrities have lived in the building, from late writer Sinclair Lewis to the likes of Moby and Faye Dunaway. Meredith Vieira still makes her home there, according to reports, and Ron Howard has his home on the 26th floor of the building on the market for $12.5 million.

Calls to Baldwin’s publicist were not returned.

Antonio Banderas, Alec Baldwin Set For Lamborghini Biopic With Michael Radford At Wheel

The film is based on a book from Lamborghini’s son, Tonino, and spans the long life of the entrepreneur, from the manufacturing of tractors to creating military vehicles during World War II. After that, came the designing and building the Lamborghini cars that ultimately defined his legacy and was a catalyst in pulling Italy out of its post-war slump. The plan is to shoot the film this summer in Italy and other worldwide locales. Baldwin will shoot for about a week in the film.

Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Group optioned the rights to Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale (The official story) two years ago. They are financing and producing after hiring Oscar-winning writer/director/producer Bobby Moresco (Crash, Million Dollar Baby) to write the screenplay for the film.

AMBI Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the AMBI Group, is handling global sales and will introduce the packaged project to buyers in Cannes.

Tonino Lamborghini, son of Ferruccio and writer of several books about his father, said in making the announcement: “My book Ferruccio Lamborghini. La storia ufficiale (The official story) is the only text perfectly respectful of the real life of my father, despite of numerous legends and anecdotes written or told by other people looking for a moment of celebrity. I really believe this film can translate into images and words the great humanity of Ferruccio and transmit to the viewers worldwide my father’s personality: a man full of energy, charisma and passion.”

This film will also include a love story. A lover of fast luxury cars, Lamborghini had one car for each day of the week however Lamborghini’s personal loves extended far beyond cars. His love of women, celebrity lifestyle, and the business of car making made for prodigious drama in Lamborghini’s life and these pursuits and experiences will be just as much a part of the movie as the cars themselves, they say.

Banderas is repped by Paradigm; Baldwin is repped by CAA., and Radford is repped Primary Wave Entertainment.

Alec Baldwin & Whoopi Goldberg Chat Up Plans For Global Leonard Bernstein Centenary Extravaganza

“Though I never met him, we would have definitely been pals,” Baldwin – who is in his seventh year hosting the radio broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic – told a gathering at Lincoln Center. “We share similar passions, not least of which is for the music of Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and his beloved New York Philharmonic. I am in constant awe of musicians who use their art to raise us all. What a gift.” Given the range of Bernstein’s work in concert halls and theaters, universities, television and radio, Baldwin added, a single year was insufficient for ‘Leonard Bernstein At 100,” and festivities have been planned from this fall through August, 2019.

At present some 1,000 events are planned, kicking off in Washington at the Kennedy Center in September with a Grammy exhibition opening on the 21st and a concert, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma, presenting music from West Side Story and Candide. Film composer David Newman (Ice Age, Matilda) will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in November at Disney Hall in a live accompaniment to the film of West Side Story, and the LA Opera will present Francesca Zambello’s production of Candide, conducted by James Conlon.

The first New York City events begin in October, with conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin (who was present for the announcement) and pianist Lang Lang leading the Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of music from On The Waterfront and West Side Story. In November, trumpeter, composer and conductor Wynton Marsalis will lead the Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestra in concerts of Bernstein’s popular music, and on New Year’s Eve, Bramwell Tovey will conduct the New York Philharmonic in music from Bernstein’s Broadway shows, including On The Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story and Candide.

“I was a kid when I first heard his name,” Goldberg said, “and my mother insisted that I should have other references for music than Bugs Bunny.” In fact, she added, she’d learned a lot about classical music from cartoons, which were often scored by serious composers. “Years later when I met him,” she said of Bernstein, “I think I might have tried to pick him up.” Bernstein’s Mass, she said “is the one thing that, in my house, by myself, I will sing at the top of my lungs. Because you feel like you’re closer to God, which may sound strange coming from me, but that’s how I feel.

“Bernstein lent his name and energy to causes that he believed would make the world a better place,” Goldberg continued. “In 1944, at the age of 26, he insisted on having a mixed-race cast on his very first Broadway production of On The Town. One would think they would have recognized that every time they’ve put it up, but sometimes they forget. But I digress. Black folks, Asian-American folks, Caucasian folks sang and danced side by side in major roles and held hands, my God, directly confronting Broadway’s habits of segregation at the time.”

She paid tribute to Bernstein’s continued activism through the decades. “In 1989, in perhaps his finest hour as a world humanitarian, he conducted a historic performance of Beethoven’s ninth symphony to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall. It was broadcast live on Christmas Day and watched by millions around the world. For the occasion, he changed Schiller’s wording from ‘Ode to Joy’ to ‘Ode to Freedom.’ In this country, as you may or may not know, being outspoken can be a bitch. You can land in all kinds of trouble. So maybe it’s the greatest tribute of all, to his lifelong commitment to social justice, that his FBI file is 800 pages long.”

The announcement included recollections by Bernstein’s children, Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein and Nina Bernstein Simmons, all of them active in promoting their father’s multiple legacies. Soprano Julia Bullock, accompanied on the piano by Michael Barrett, sang two Bernstein songs, including a moving rendition of “Somewhere,” from West Side Story.

Noting Bernstein’s lifelong commitment to liberal causes, Baldwin lamented the fact that he wasn’t around today to comment on the state of the union. For that, one need only turn to Bernstein’s Bicentennial show 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which, although a legendary 1976 flop, produced one of his loveliest – and timeliest – compositions, “Take Care of This House.” Sadly, it wasn’t mentioned during the proceedings.

Info at leonardbernstein.com.

Alec Baldwin's Hulu Gig

The ubiquitous actor will guest-star in Hulu’s upcoming 9/11 drama The Looming Tower as the agency’s former director of central intelligence, George Tenet.

Based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé, the 10-episode series chronicles the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have set the stage for the 9/11 attacks.

Judge OKs Alec Baldwin’s art-fraud lawsuit

The argument persuaded a Manhattan judge, who ruled that Baldwin’s fraud case against gallerist Mary Boone over the sale of a $190,000 Ross Bleckner work can proceed to trial.

Baldwin’s attorney, Steven Feldman, said Boone tricked the actor into thinking he was purchasing a 1996 painting called Sea and Mirror, which he had been coveting for years, but then sold him a copy.

“He’s a noncollector, she’s one of the most prominent art dealers in the world,” Feldman said.

Boone’s lawyer, Ted Poretz, countered that Baldwin was a “sophisticated collector” who should have noticed the differences in the pieces.

Kathy Bates Pot Comedy Disjointed Gets Premiere Date

The streaming service announced a premiere date for the Emmy-winning actress’ new weed-themed comedy Disjointed on Thursday — aka April 20, the highest of high holidays. The first season will premiere on Friday, August 25, with Bates starring as Ruth, the owner of a L.A. marijuana dispensary. Along with her son, a security guard and three “budtenders,” Ruth provides herbal refreshments for her clientele — and yeah, she also gets high on her own supply.

Sitcom guru Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) is onboard as a co-creator and executive producer. Netflix has already committed to 20 episodes.

Netflix also released a brief teaser for Disjointed —which you can watch above — with Bates in full hippie earth-mother mode, sporting long gray hair and a flowing robe. She emerges from her smoke-filled dispensary, Ruth’s Alternative Caring, with a joint in hand and takes a puff while a peppy jazz song about smoking reefer — “I’m so high/I’m so dry” — plays in the background.

Happy 4/20, everybody! (Now just write down that premiere date somewhere so you don’t forget it.)

Alec Baldwin Hosts Essentials

Hilaria Baldwin won’t let Alec act like a diva

But the actor, who’s been lampooning President Trump on “SNL” to acclaim, says he has met his match with wife Hilaria.

When asked how donning the orange makeup to play Trump has played into his career redemption, he told Gothamist that Hilaria won’t let him act the diva.

“My wife has a line, it’s a wonderful line. If I’m whining, kvetching about something, my wife will turn to me and she’ll say, ‘Nobody feels sorry for Alec Baldwin.’ She’ll turn literally to anybody on the street corner, ‘Do you feel sorry for Alec Baldwin? Anyone? Anyone?’?”

Alec Baldwin gripes about poor editing and ‘errors’ in memoir

The actor’s memoir “Nevertheless” came out this week and he shared some complaints in a Facebook posting. Baldwin wrote that the finished work had typos and other errors and complained that HarperCollins had failed “to do a proper and forensic edit.”

He promised to compile a list of revisions, along with material that didn’t make it to print. One clarification, for those who wondered: When he said he was “in love” with Tina Fey and Kate McKinnon, he didn’t mean romantically. He is in love with their talent.

HarperCollins declined comment.

Alec Baldwin knew Nikki Reed was underage in risqué movie, producer claims

According to the 59-year-old actor, he didn’t know actress Nikki Reed was underage when they filmed a racy movie together in 2006, titled “Mini’s First Time.” The film depicts the now-28-year-old star playing a high school call girl who develops a love affair with a client: her stepfather, played by Baldwin.

“I was 47, and it never occurred to me to ask how old Nikki Reed was,” wrote Baldwin in his book. “When I found out, just as we finished, that she was 17, I flipped out on the producers, who had told me something different.”

Brunettti quickly took to Twitter and responded to the allegations, hinting that Baldwin lied in his book.

Both Baldwin and Reed have yet to comment on Brunetti’s claims.

Since “Mini’s First Time,” Reed has found fame with the “Twilight” film series, while Brunetti moved on to other films, like “The Social Network” and “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Alec Baldwin: Calling my daughter a pig gets ‘thrown’ in my face every day

Baldwin recalled the incident in his memoir, “Nevertheless,” writing that it left a “permanent break” in their relationship.

“It’s thrown in your face every day,” Baldwin, 59, told George Stephanopoulos in a “Good Morning America” interview airing Monday. “There are people who admonish me or attack me and use that as a constant spearhead to do that.”

He added, “It’s a scab that never heals cause it’s being picked at all the time by other people. My daughter, that’s hurt her in a permanent way.”

Still, Alec and Ireland have mostly reconciled. In 2012, she told Page Six, “The only problem with that voicemail was that people made it out to be a way bigger deal than it was. He’s said stuff like that before just because he’s frustrated. For me it was like, ‘OK, whatever.’ I called him back I was like, ‘Sorry, Dad, I didn’t have my phone.’ That was it.”

They’ve also at least been able to poke fun at the incident: In 2015, she posted a photo with Alec on Instagram reading a book called “If I Were a Pig,” writing, “If I were a pig … I would be rude and thoughtless, of course!”

Alec Baldwin kept his drug overdose private for years

Baldwin, 58, detailed his experiences with substance abuse, addiction, and recovery in his memoir, “Nevertheless,” hitting shelves Tuesday.

“I think I was one of the people who was lucky that it stuck, and therefore if I didn’t get it then, I would’ve got it eventually,” he told George Stephanopoulos in a “Good Morning America” interview airing Monday.

“I know that at that time, what I describe [in the book] — overdosing on drugs — which I’ve kept very private for years and years and years. I think I would have gotten it eventually, but, I’m glad I got it when I did ’cause not many people get sober when they’re young.”

He added, “I got sober when I was just about to turn 27, and those two years that I lived in that white, hot period, as a daily drug abuser, as a daily drinker, to my misery, boy, that was a tough time. There was really, really a lot of pain in there. A lot of pain.”

Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin set for ACLU Telethon

“Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” is billed as a modern-day telethon to raise funds for the venerable advocacy organization that has been working overtime with legal challenges to aspects of President Trump’s political agenda.

“Our work in the courts is essential right now to hold off the worst of the abuses,” said ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero. “But it is also the collective will and tireless actions of ‘we the people’ that serve as a bulwark against unconstitutional and wrong-headed policies and executive orders. By supporting our work through this telethon, we can fight even harder to defend the rights guaranteed by our Constitution.”

Actors Tracy Morgan, Padma Lakshmi, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Uzo Aduba, Josh Charles, Zosia Mamet and Ike Barinholtz are also on board to participate. More talent is expected to sign on in the coming days.

The live stream will originate from an undisclosed location in New York City starting at 7 p.m. ET via the Facebook pages for Stand for Rights 2017, the Huffington Post and Funny or Die. Funny or Die is producing original videos that will premiere throughout the telecast, which is expected to run at least three hours.

“Stand for Rights” will be produced by Friend of a Friend Productions in collaboration with The Huffington Post, Funny or Die and Maggie Vision.

Alec Baldwin Comedy Tribute Special Set On Spike

Described as part This is Your Life, part Dean Martin Roast, One Night Only: Alec Baldwin is a black tie affair that will be taped at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo Theater in New York City on Sunday, June 25, with Baldwin’s friends and luminaries from the worlds of comedy, film and television. The special will feature comedy, film packages, music, candid personal stories and a few surprises for Baldwin. It will premiere on Spike TV on Sunday, July 9 at 9 PM.

“I am dreading this. I am truly dreading this. But if Tracy Morgan is coming, it’ll be okay. Is Tracy coming?” said Baldwin.

Spike’s One Night Only previous honorees have included Eddie Murphy and Don Rickles with appearances by David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Robert De Niro, Jon Stewart, Martin Scorsese, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Jamie Foxx and Adam Sandler, among others.

Alec Baldwin On Playing Trump On ‘SNL’: “I’m Not Going To Do It Much Longer”

“His policies aside, which you can hate, I thought he would have just relaxed,” Baldwin told Extra’s Mario Lopez. “The maliciousness of this White House has people worried, which is why I’m not going to do it much longer, the impersonation, I don’t know how much more people can take it.”

Baldwin’s impersonation has been a hit on SNL since he took on the temporary gig during the election. Yet with Trump’s unexpected win, Baldwin has continued to portray Trump over the last month, but, as mentioned, doesn’t see it lasting very long.

Baldwin also explained that Trump “just overwhelmingly lacks any sportsmanship,” called him “bitter, and angry,” and added, “you just want to look at him and go, ‘You won!’”

When asked if he would fill in for Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, for which the president will be absent, he said it wasn’t likely.

“I don’t think it’s going to happen,” Baldwin replied “I honestly don’t think that they want that. I think that for their prestige and their integrity… I think a lot of people are thinking that if Trump himself doesn’t come and face the music, as it were, I don’t know what kind of program they’re going to have. If they wanted me to do it, I would probably do it, but I’m not quite sure they’ll do. I think they may have a whole other idea.”

Alec Baldwin pokes fun at Andrew Lloyd Webber

Spies at that B’way show “Cats” said that Baldwin visited the cast backstage and “broke out into a flamboyantly British imitation of the show’s creator, Andrew Lloyd Webber.”

“After a few photos ... he donned a pink ‘kitty’ hat for one,” a spy said. “He FaceTimed his 3-year-old [Carmen], so she could ‘meet the kitties.’" She pointed at an actor and exclaimed, “I want that one!” we hear.

General Hospital Admits Hillary B. Smith — as OLTL's Nora Buchanan

The video is capped by a fun little wink from Rebecca Budig, who currently plays GH‘s Hayden but who used to work down the street from Smith, when she was All My Children‘s Greenlee.

Though several OLTL actors (including Roger Howarth and Kristen Anderson) migrated to GH after the East Coast-based soap left ABC’s airwaves, Smith’s casting as Nora marks the first time a One Life character has set foot in Port Charles since ABC and Prospect Park, the media group that (briefly) “saved” AMC and OLTL as online-only series, got entangled a legal quagmire, over character rights.

(Video) Smith’s previous daytime-TV credits include The Bold and the Beautiful (as Dr. Stacy Barton), As the World Turns (as Margo) and The Doctors.

SNL's Trump, Alec Baldwin, to Host for Record-Breaking 17th Time

On the heels of the news that Kristen Stewart will host the show’s next outing, on Feb. 4, NBC has announced that Baldwin — who was conspicuously MIA from this weekend’s, post-inauguration telecast — will formally lord over Studio 8H the following week, on Feb. 11.

Making his second appearance as musical guest that night will be Grammy Award winner Ed Sheeran, whose third studio album, “÷,” will be released March 3.

Actors, mayors to join inauguration-eve Trump demonstration

Aiming to energize and unite city dwellers concerned about the president-elect's plans, activists and dignitaries planned to gather Thursday evening in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower, about a half-mile from his Trump Tower home. Groups including Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood and MoveOn.org have signed on.

Organizers said they expect thousands of people, including stars Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei and Alec Baldwin, whose Trump impression on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has drawn barbs from the president-elect.

"Cities and towns across the country have the power to protect people and the environment by joining together," actor Mark Ruffalo said in a statement, adding that the rally would signal to Washington "that we will fight, at every step, discrimination and harmful policies."

New Yorkers, however, are split on how Mayor Bill de Blasio should deal with Trump, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

Forty-six percent said the Democratic mayor should try to get along with the Republican president-elect, while 45 percent said de Blasio should be a national leader in opposing the Trump administration's policies, the poll of 1,005 voters found. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Meanwhile, Trump left New York for Washington on Thursday morning.

Alec Baldwin's Trump May Show Up in 'Other Venues' Outside of SNL, He Says

The 30 Rock alum and Match Game host says that his Donald Trump impression, heretofore seen only on Saturday Night Live, may show up in “other venues” in the future.

In an interview with ABC News, Baldwin says he’ll continue to appear on NBC’s weekly sketch-comedy series “as much as I can” while looking into other ways he can lampoon the president-elect in a public setting.

Or, as he puts it: “There’s discussions about other venues we might pursue to further express our gratitude and admiration for the Trump administration.”

Baldwin also jokes that PEOTUS should get a writing credit for some SNL sketches, given how closely they mine his real-life speech and tweets and how easy it is to craft them into sketches.

“We’re just gonna sit back and just let the good times roll,” Baldwin adds.

TVLine has reached out to SNL for comment.

Alec Baldwin wants to sing ‘Highway to Hell’ at inauguration

“We are not far from the day when the most reviled candidate in our history will become President,” Trump critic Baldwin tweeted Thursday night. “…Inauguration Day means the beginning of the countdown to when he will be gone. And he will be gone. January 20. The countdown begins.”

“I wanna perform at Trump’s inauguration,” Baldwin, 58, mockingly added. “I wanna sing HIGHWAY TO HELL.”

Baldwin famously impersonated the president-elect multiple times on “Saturday Night Live” for just $1,400 per appearance.

Trump may want to take Baldwin up on his suggestion as he’s had some difficulty finding performers.

As Page Six reported, a reality-TV booker is having difficulty finding stars to appear at the inauguration slated for Jan. 20. Opera singer Andrea Bocelli backed away from the idea of performing after receiving much backlash.

Trump has famously voiced distate for Baldwin’s impersonation.

Alec Baldwin only makes $1,400 playing Trump on ‘SNL’

As the 58-year-old actor revealed in an interview with the New York Times published Tuesday, he earns just $1,400 per appearance. While it takes Baldwin just seven minutes in the makeup chair to transform into the president-elect, the actor knows that portraying Trump goes far deeper than donning his signature hair.

“I see a guy who seems to pause and dig for more precise and better language he wants to use, and never finds it,” Baldwin noted of Trump’s speech pattern. “It’s the same dish — it’s a grilled cheese sandwich rhetorically over and over again.”

While Baldwin works on mastering the 70-year-old’s mannerisms, he’s also been sparring with the future president on Twitter. Since Baldwin’s first appearance on Oct. 1, Trump has slammed both the Long Island native and the show.

With Trump’s inauguration a month away, Baldwin will likely pop up on late night again, as long as his schedule permits (he’s slated to film two movies).

Should Baldwin be promoted to a full-time cast member in the future — given that Trump’s inauguration is only a month away — he could be looking at a six-figure paycheck. As Forbes previously estimated, series regulars make around $500,000 per 21-episode season.

2016 Critics’ Choice Award Winners

BEST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES: Alec Baldwin – Saturday Night Live – NBC

Days of Our Lives Star Joseph Mascolo, Who Played Stefano, Dead at 87

Mascolo passed away Thursday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, the show said in a statement on Friday. He joined the Days cast in 1982 and made crime lord/business tycoon Stefano DiMera into one of the most hated (and most loved) bad guys in soap-opera history.

Mascolo left and returned to the role of Stefano several times over the years, even joining CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful for an extended stint from 2001 to 2006. But he always came back to Days, most recently for the character’s death earlier this year. He also made appearances on TV shows like All in the Family and Lou Grant, and in films like Jaws 2 and Sharky’s Machine.

“It is with great sorrow that I’m sharing the news of the passing of our dear friend and beloved member of the Days of Our Lives family, Joseph Mascolo,” Days executive producer Ken Corday said in a statement. “The smile on Joe’s face is something we’d all come to find comfort in, and he will be sorely missed. His larger-than-life presence, kind heart and unwavering positivity has impacted us all for decades, and will live on in the memories of his many fans. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family during this difficult time.”

Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jena Malone & Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith Join Emilio Estevez-Directed ‘The Public’

Written by and co-starring Estevez, the public centers around a standoff with police and library officials during a brutal, life-threatening cold snap. Staging an Occupy-style sit-in, library patrons — many of whom are homeless and mentally ill — turn the Cincinnati Public Library into an impromptu shelter for one night. Drawing from the current political climate, the film strives to give equal voice to both sides as it examines the question of who will care for those who are unable to care for themselves?

Baldwin (Still Alice) will play a crisis negotiator attempting to de-escalate the standoff. Estevez and Malone (The Hunger Games trilogy) play librarians caught up in the crisis. Schilling (Orange Is the New Black) will play a character who helps expose the truth as a corrupt media spins the story for ratings. And Smith (who co-wrote the Oscar-winning song “Glory” from the Selma soundtrack) portrays one of the homeless Occupy patrons.

The public is produced by Estevez’s longtime producting partner Lisa Niedenthal alongside Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Oriah Entertainment, with Michael Bien of Cedarvale Pictures serving as executive Producer. Casting is headed up by Mary Vernieu and Michelle Wade Byrd.

Estevez previously directed, wrote and co-starred in the Golden Globe- and SAG-nominated drama Bobby, which follows the hours leading up to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, and the acclaimed indie drama The Way, which follows a group of pilgrims traveling the Camino de Santiago.

Lebovici and Ponce’s recent credits include The Billionaire Boys Club with Kevin Spacey and Emma Roberts and The Clapper, starring Ed Helms, Tracy Morgan and Amanda Seyfried.

Baldwin is represented by CAA; Schilling and Malone are with Gersh; Estevez is repped by Primary Wave Entertainment.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin Open Up About Raising Their Children: "Carmen's First Language Is Spanish"

The couple and their kids, who are HOLA! USA's cover stars, open up about how they met, upcoming projects and raising their three beautiful children.

When it comes to the pair's three-year-old daughter, Hilaria reveals that teaching her daughter her native language is crucial and she's already speaking two languages at home.

"Carmen's first language is Spanish. I only speak Spanish with her...and with Alec she is smart enough to know that she needs to switch to English," Hilaria explains. "Alec's Spanish is getting better and better. His accent is very good."

We seriously applaud that!

Hilaria said that many people think that she and her husband met in a yoga class, but they didn't. Instead, they met because of yoga.

The yoga instructor, who was born in Majorca, Spain, has made Alec brush up on his Spanish among other things.

"My Spanish can only get better. It can only improve...maybe by the time I'm 90, I will nail it," he said before adding. "I love Madrid. I think it's one of my favorite cities in the world."

The actor, who is currently portraying President-elect Donald Trump on NBC's Saturday Night Live, admits that he's glad that people find the skits funny.

"But at the same time, I think people were very worried about the election," he said. "Both sides are very passionate so it's been a very, very difficult time in this country. I haven't felt like this in a long, long time."

When it comes to his wife, the star thinks that she offers more of a philosophy. "She wants to open up minds to allow to change," he explained.

Hilaria's The Living Clearly Method: 5 Principles for a Fit Body, Healthy Mind & Joyful Life will go on sale Dec. 27.

"It has been a very natural process...I've been teaching for 12 years now...you don't become a yoga teach for the teachings, you do it because you love it. Teaching is very fulfilling because every day I go home feeling like I helped people. Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands," she said.

In her upcoming book, Baldwin reveals lifestyle secrets but admits that although sleeping is crucial, she isn't getting much of it because they are still co-sleeping with their newborn son Leonardo. The couple also has one-year-old son Rafael.

"It all comes down to eating right. Sleeping is also imperative, but I'm not able to really do that right now. Whatever you eat is what you see," she said.

Margaret Whitton Dies: ‘Major League’ Actress & Producer-Director Was 67

Her film credits include The Secret Of My Success, 9 1/2 Weeks and Mel Gibson’s Man Without A Face. She began her career on the stage, with credits there including as director of the Public Theater’s production of Dirty Tricks, starring Judith Ivey as Martha Mitchell. She made her directorial debut with 2011’s A Bird On The Air, a Robert Towne adaptation of Joe Coomer’s novel.

Whitton was a highly regarded stage actress whose most notable performance on Broadway was as part of the memorable ensemble in Nell Dunn’s 1983 Steaming. The cast included Linda Thorson, Judith Ivey, Lisa Jane Persky, Polly Rowles and Pauline Flanagan, in addition to Whitton. She also was a regular at the Public Theater, where she was seen in Wallace Shawn’s 1985 Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Tina Howe’s 1980 The Art Of Dining, as well as in the classics, including Henry IV, Pt. 1, Othello and The Merry Wives Of Windsor.

Whitton most recently was a partner with Steven Tabakin in Tashtego Films, a New York-based film, TV and new media production company. She was an associate producer of the documentary Been Rich All My Life and co-exec producer of Casting By, a 2012 docu on casting directors.

In the Major League movies she played Rachel Phelps the Vegas dancer-turned-baseball owner who inherited the team from her late husband tried to make them awful enough to relocate them to warmer Miami. The 1989 original movie starred Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert and Rene Russo and is considered one of the best baseball movies of all time. There was a 1994 sequel.

Whitton’s bio on the Tashtego website says she wrote about baseball for publications including the New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Newsday and The National.

Alec Baldwin compares buying faux art to a bank robbery

In a new Manhattan Supreme Court filing, Baldwin pleads with the judge to punish gallery owner Mary Boone for ripping him off by making her pay him three times the value of the painting at issue.

“Dismissing [his] demand for punitive damages, and allowing defendants to pay nothing but compensatory damages (essentially a refund), would be akin to asking a bank robber to simply return the money if caught; it would tell New York’s art dealers that fraud pays,” court papers state.

Baldwin sued Boone in September, claiming she tricked him into buying a forgery of Ross Bleckner’s 1996 “Sea and Mirror.” Boone has denied the claims.

People’s Choice Awards Nominees Feature Former Saop Stars

FAVORITE COMEDIC TV ACTRESS
Anna Faris
Gina Rodriguez
Kaley Cuoco
Sofia Vergara
Zooey Deschanel

FAVORITE DRAMATIC TV ACTOR
Jesse Williams
Justin Chambers
Scott Foley
Taylor Kinney
Terrence Howard

FAVORITE CABLE TV ACTRESS
Ashley Benson
Hilary Duff
Keri Russell
Lucy Hale
Vera Farmiga

FAVORITE TV CRIME DRAMA ACTOR
Chris O’Donnell
Donnie Wahlberg
LL Cool J
Mark Harmon
Tom Selleck

FAVORITE PREMIUM SERIES ACTOR
Aziz Ansari
Dwayne Johnson
Joshua Jackson
Kevin Spacey
Nick Jonas

FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY TV ACTOR
Andrew Lincoln
Ian Somerhalder
Jensen Ackles
Sam Heughan
Tyler Posey

FAVORITE DAYTIME TV HOST
Dr. Phil
Ellen DeGeneres
Kelly Ripa
Rachael Ray
Steve Harvey

FAVORITE ACTRESS IN A NEW TV SERIES
Jordana Brewster
Kristen Bell
Mandy Moore
Minnie Driver
Piper Perabo

FAVORITE COMEDIC COLLABORATION
Conan O’Brien’s Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears’ Mall Mischief
James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke with Adele
Lip Sync Battle with Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum
Saturday Night Live with Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon

Critics’ Choice TV Nominations Include Former Soap Stars

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep – HBO
Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish – ABC
Phoebe Waller-Bridge – Fleabag – Amazon
Constance Wu – Fresh Off the Boat – ABC

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Julie Bowen – Modern Family – ABC
Anna Chlumsky – Veep – HBO
Allison Janney – Mom – CBS
Jane Krakowski – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Judith Light – Transparent – Amazon
Allison Williams – Girls – HBO

BEST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Christine Baranski – The Big Bang Theory – CBS
Larry David – Saturday Night Live – NBC
Lisa Kudrow – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Liam Neeson – Inside Amy Schumer – Comedy Central

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones – HBO
Kit Harington – Game of Thrones – HBO
John Lithgow – The Crown – Netflix
Mandy Patinkin – Homeland – Showtime
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot – USA Network
Jon Voight – Ray Donovan – Showtime

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christine Baranski – The Good Wife – CBS
Emilia Clarke – Game of Thrones – HBO
Lena Headey – Game of Thrones – HBO
Thandie Newton – Westworld – HBO
Maura Tierney – The Affair – Showtime
Constance Zimmer – UnREAL – Lifetime

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander – Starz
Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder – ABC
Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black – BBC America
Keri Russell – The Americans – FX
Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld – HBO
Robin Wright – House of Cards – Netflix

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Bryan Cranston – All the Way – HBO
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock: The Abominable Bride – PBS
Cuba Gooding Jr. – The People v. O.J. Simpson – FX
Tom Hiddleston – The Night Manager – AMC
Tim Matheson – Killing Reagan – National Geographic
Courtney B. Vance – The People v. O.J. Simpson – FX

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Elizabeth Debicki – The Night Manager – AMC
Regina King – American Crime – ABC
Sarah Lancashire – The Dresser – Starz
Melissa Leo – All the Way – HBO
Anna Paquin – Roots – History
Emily Watson – The Dresser – Starz

Alec Baldwin On Trump Win: “Berlusconi Was Adlai Stevenson Compared To This”

From his foundation’s account, he wrote last night: “Trump on his way to becoming President-Elect Trump: “The billionaire Republican businessman is close to winning the race and world markets are crashing. He’s all yours, America.”

He went on to say, “the thing to focus on now is our families. To love those that were put in our lives to care for.” That was followed by “The American political system is broken.” His most recent tweet: “Italy survived Berlusconi.” (Then again), “Berlusconi was Adlai Stevenson compared to this.”

Alec Baldwin accused of dodging taxes

Baldwin sued Mary Boone saying the gallery owner tricked him into paying $190,000 for a counterfeit version of a painting he’d long coveted.

But in a response to that suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday afternoon, Boone reveals that the “30 Rock” star allegedly used a complex maneuver to avoid paying $16,000 in New York state sales tax on the Ross Bleckner artwork “Sea and Mirror.”

“Mr. Baldwin was able to avoid paying sales tax by having the painting shipped from New York to California shortly after purchasing it, even though the true destination was New York all along,” according to a statement released by the gallery.

The filing cites bills and invoices tracing the alleged tax dodging trip the painting took.

“Mr. Baldwin’s efforts to bully Ms. Boone and his past failure to pay taxes suggest that he is even more like Donald Trump than what we have seen on ‘Saturday Night Live,'” Boone’s lawyer, Ted Poretz, quipped.

The response also says that Baldwin waited too long to sue since he bought the piece in 2010. It further argues that the suit is “frivolous” because the painting was an original, not a copy.

A lawyer for Baldwin called Boone’s response “remarkable in that she fails to deny that she sold Mr. Baldwin a counterfeit of the original painting that he long admired.”

“Ms. Boone’s diversionary tactics include that Mr. Baldwin waited too long to catch her deception. As for the desperate shipping and tax allegations, they do not merit a response,” said the lawyer, John Hueston.

Alec Baldwin Lawsuit -- It's Too Late to Bitch About 'Fake' Art ... Says Gallery Owner

Mary Boone responded to Baldwin's suit, saying the actor waited more than 6 years to file the suit over "Sea and Mirror" -- the Ross Bleckner painting Boone's gallery sold him for $190k. In docs, Boone's legal team says the statute of limitations has run out, so Baldwin's got no beef ... legally speaking.

Further, she claims Baldwin committed tax fraud. Boone's attorneys claim he should have paid $16,625 in NY city and state tax on the painting, but instead had it "shipped momentarily" to his Cali home, then back to his NYC pad.

Translation: He has unclean hands in this deal, and therefore shouldn't be pointing fingers at her in court.

Boone says she's not conceding Alec's counterfeit claims are true ... she's just not addressing it because his lawsuit's too late. She's asking the court to toss the case.

Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, Politicos Jump-Start Oscar Race For Anti-NRA Documentary ‘Making A Killing’

Newsom, who has been leading the charge in California for sensible gun legislation, has also advocated for the film on video as well. You can see all of the videos here.

The documentary about America’s gun issues comes after the fallout of Katie Couric’s editing debacle on Under The Gun. She and director Stephanie Soechtig are being sued for defamation to the tune of $12M after leaving out responses to questions from interviewees in the documentary.

Now that Under The Gun is unlikely to receive attention, Hollywood and political activists are putting their weight behind Making A Killing. The film got its Oscar-qualifying run courtesy of indie distributor Gravitas Ventures in August when it bowed in New York and Los Angeles. Last month, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) scheduled a congressional screening for House members in D.C.

Even Kaine is getting into the act, offering up this promotional quote for the film: “Making a Killing shines a light on the inordinate power that gun manufacturers and the NRA exert on our political system and the countless tragedies that occur because of politicians’ unwillingness to stand up to that power. The stories of the victims of firearm loopholes are instrumental in exposing what’s wrong with our gun laws. I hope my colleagues in Congress will hear the voices in this film and find the courage to side with citizens over the gun lobby.”

The documentary focuses on victims of gun violence while interspersing video and documents showing the amount of money that the NRA and gun manufacturers are amassing. Douglas, Baldwin, Goldwyn and Newsom are encouraging people to view the film and host screenings at their homes and churches.

Greenwald is a well-known documentary filmmaker that previously took on the Koch brothers (Koch Brothers Exposed), Walmart (The High Cost Of Low Price), the lead-up to the Iraq War (through several documentaries), the use of drones (Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars), the price of whistleblowing (War On Whistleblowers: Free Press And The National Security State) and Fox News (Outfoxed) through his Brave New Films moniker.

The filmmaker, who for decades has exposed the dark side of power via film, has yet to be nominated for an Oscar. However, his films have won other awards including a Peabody. Greenwald has also been honored with a DGA Award for his contribution to diversity, two NAACP Awards, and a TV Producer of the Year award from the American Film Institute for his body of work.

‘The Boss Baby’ Trailer: Alec Baldwin As ‘The Apprentice’ Host-In-Training?

McGrath (the Madagascar movies ) directs the family comedy from a script by Michael McCullers based on Marla Frazee’s kids book. Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Miles Bakshi as Tim also provide voices. Ramsey Ann Naito is producer.

DWA is prepping its November 4 movie Trolls, and Boss Baby will follow on March 31. Both are being released by 20th Century Fox before DWA starts producing at its new home Universal.

Check out the trailer above.

Martha Byrne Reunites Co-Stars Elizabeth Hubbard and Paolo Seganti

After walking the red carpet with Colleen Zenk (Barbara) and Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda) at the gala opening of the Paley Center exhibit, Byrne enjoyed a day out with her former on-screen mother and lifetime friend.

“Took Liz on an adventure today and found Paolo Seganti, aka Damian Grimaldi, at his restaurant La Pergoletta in Los Feliz,” she tweeted. “Amazing place!”

You’d never see Damian and Lucinda getting along that well on ATWT! But Hubbard looks delighted to be reunited with her former castmate. And Seganti has turned into quite the silver fox!

Alec Baldwin’s Trump gig makes for a very busy weekend

We’re told that after the Hamptons fest kicked off Thursday, Baldwin was called by “SNL” guru Lorne Michaels on Friday and told he was needed in a sketch in the wake of Trump’s “Access Hollywood” tape scandal.

We hear Baldwin raced from the Hamptons to the NBC show, then rushed straight back before “SNL” ended on Saturday.

He made it in time for Sunday’s Chairman’s Reception, where, still in practice, “he did his Trump impersonation,” said a source.

“This stuff stays with you,” we hear Baldwin told the crowd.

He also dropped a left-field hint he wants to make his own film — a documentary on power p.r. maven Peggy Siegal, who was in the crowd.

(Many have floated the idea over the years.)

Later, at a dinner honoring Edward Norton, Baldwin and others huddled around a TV, watching the debate, when “Baldwin went up to the mike to do another impression of the Donald,” we hear.

Alec Baldwin is winning in new 'SNL' role as Donald Trump

Facing off against Kate McKinnon as she impersonated Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, Baldwin delivered an orange-faced, blustery impression of her GOP rival.

He railed about U.S. jobs fleeing to "Chi-naah."

He sputtered that "my microphone is broken," and pointed to his opponent, insisting, "She broke it with Obama."

"Wrong!" ''Wrong!" ''Shut up!" he interrupted repeatedly.

As the "debate" progressed, make-believe Clinton seemed increasingly encouraged.

"Can America vote right NOW?" she inquired.

"I get it: You hate me," she then summed up in her closing statement. "You hate my voice and you hate my face. But if you never want to see my face again, elect me president and I swear to God I will lock myself in the Oval Office and not come out for four years."

Baldwin's deal to play Trump for the remainder of the race was announced by NBC just days before "SNL" began its 42nd season and a little more than a month before voters choose between real-life Trump and Clinton.

Saturday's premiere featured Margot Robbie as guest host. In a "Family Feud" sketch, she impersonated the GOP candidate's daughter, Ivanka Trump, as a member of Team Trump, going up against Team Clinton, which included Larry David reviving his popular role as former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.

Alec Baldwin's very big deal: playing Donald Trump on 'SNL'

NBC announced this deal Wednesday with a promo on social media, just days before "SNL" begins its 42nd season and little more than a month before voters choose between Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Baldwin, a veteran "SNL" guest host, will debut his Trump impression opposite cast member Kate McKinnon's continuing turn as Clinton. Trump had previously been played by announcer Darrell Hammond and by the now-departed Taran Killam.

Previously, "SNL" went over the heads of its cast to select Larry David to play former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

Saturday's premiere features Margot Robbie as guest host, with musical guest The Weeknd. It airs at 11:30 p.m. EDT.

'Misery' actress Kathy Bates gets Walk of Fame star

The 68-year-old actress spoke emotionally at the ceremony, recounting how she believed her career was over several years ago until she was offered a role on the series "American Horror Story".

She said the award-winning show created by Ryan Murphy had "literally brought me back to life," coming at a time when she was dealing with health issues and the cancellation of her NBC show "Harry's Law".

She also recalled her big breakout in Hollywood at age 42 thanks to her memorable Oscar-winning performance as a deranged nurse obsessed with an author played by James Caan in the 1990 film "Misery", based on the Stephen King novel.

"Sixty years ago I stood not far from this very spot with my beloved aunt Lee," she recalled, speaking in front of the TLC Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. "We were going to see 'The King and I'. And then 34 years later I came back to this very theatre with another king by the name of Stephen with a movie called 'Misery' that changed my life."

Shirley MacLaine and Billy Bob Thornton -- who will share the screen with Bates in the upcoming "Bad Santa 2" -- also spoke at the ceremony praising Bates for her talent and charity work.

"She is the type of actor who is not only loved by the public, the fans and the critics but also actors who know how good she is and what she can do," Thornton said.

"I'm gonna keep this short and tell you that if I could be a woman, I'd be Kathy Bates."

The actress who has survived both ovarian and breast cancer dedicated her star on Tuesday to an eight-year-old girl named Emma, whom she said was like her battling lymphedema, a condition often associated with cancer patients and which causes swelling of the limbs.

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Welcome Baby No. 3

The famous duo just made the exciting announcement on Instagram by posting a photo of the newborn snuggled up with his mother.

"We are so pleased to introduce you to our new baby, Leonardo Ángel Charles Baldwin," Hilaria wrote alongside the sweet family pic. "It was such a special day bringing him into this world."

Back in March, the two shared the news that they were expanding their family in a similar fashion.

"Ireland, Carmen, Rafael, Alec, and I are excited to share with you that we are going to have another addition to our family," the mother of three captioned the post. "A little boy coming this fall #366daysoflivingclearly #HilariaLCM."

Congratulations to the Baldwin family on their latest arrival!

Alec Baldwin -- Sues Art Dealer ... You Sold Me a Fake!

Baldwin says Mary Boone passed off a copy of Ross Bleckner's "Sea and Mirror" as the real thing and took steps to make it look like the real thing ... this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.

Baldwin claims Boone went as far as fraudulently stamping the back of the painting with the inventory number of the original. He says Boone ultimately admitted to duping him out of $190k.

According to the docs ... Baldwin grew suspicious as soon as the painting arrived ... claiming the colors were brighter and the artwork smelled clean. Baldwin claims Boone told him she cleaned it prior to delivery cause the previous owner was a heavy smoker.

Still suspicious ... Baldwin had a Sotheby's art expert take a look ... who said it was a fake.

'One Life to Live' director, Great Neck resident dies at 91

Hall was an avid supporter of Great Neck/North Shore Public Access Television and served on its Board of Directors from 1994 until this year.

“He shared all of his knowledge consistently,” said Erica Bradley, PATV’s executive director. “He brought us up so many notches. He was an amazing teacher, an amazing mentor and just a good person also.”

Hall found success in the late 1960s when he served as a director for the NBC daytime soap opera “The Doctors.”

His work as a director for “One Life to Live” saw him win a 1983 Emmy award for “Outstanding Direction for a Daytime Drama Series” along with fellow directors Allen Fristoe, Peter Miner and David Pressman.

Hall began serving on PATV’s Board of Directors the year after winning his Emmy, representing the Village of Great Neck Estates on the board.

In 1999, Bradley said, he began serving as president of the board, a position he held until 2007, when he stepped aside and served as the vice president in 2008.

Hall then served as the board’s secretary in 2009, a position he held until he died.

One of his most memorable contributions to PATV, Bradley said, was the creation of the “PATV Playwrights Showcase.”

She said the showcase is a contest that accepts 10-minute play submissions from playwrights across the country.

Two plays are chosen every year and made into a television production, Bradley said, which Hall directed himself.

The current PATV board president, Robert Schaufield, and the rest of the board recently agreed to change the name of the contest and dedicate it to Hall.

It is now called “The Norman Hall Memorial Playwrights Festival.”

PATV’s Studio A control room, which is located in the PATV facility at 1111 Marcus Ave., will be dedicated in his name as well.

Bradley, who worked for PATV as a technical director before taking the executive director’s position, said Hall often shared his experiences and expertise in directing.

“He brought so many talents,” she said. “I worked, personally, super close with him. He taught me how to edit and how to direct.”

This year, Hall finished directing a play called “The White Chalet” and, before his death, was preparing to direct his own play, “I Can See You.”

Bradley said that in honor of him, she would continue and complete the production of “I Can See You.”

“He’s wanted to do this play for well over a year now,” she said. “We know it’s something that was important to him and now it’s extremely important for us to do it and do it right.”

Charles Wagner IV, a longtime friend of Hall’s, will step in as the director for the play, Bradley said.

“Having him be a part of the team is amazing and it’ll just bring so much more to this production,” she said.

PATV will be cablecasting a special programming block in honor of Hall starting at noon on Sept. 25.

Hall’s wife, Helene, died on Nov. 28, 2011.

He is survived by his three children, Andrew, Stephen and Eve, and his grandchildren.

Alec and Hilaria peruse $16.5M penthouse as due date nears

The actor has taken a liking to the penthouse at 470 W. 24th St., close to the High Line, which is said to be owned by “Sopranos” creator David Chase and has a stunning wrap-around terrace.

Witnesses tell us Baldwin has been a regular visitor to the building, “He has seen the apartment at least three times, and he has been hanging out in the lobby asking residents about the building and what it’s like to be there.”

One source added that in true Baldwin style, the “30 Rock” star even stood on the street corner asking passersby about the neighborhood. “People were like, ‘Sorry, dude, it’s nice here, but I can’t talk, I’ve got to go.’”

The apartment at the top of one of the pre-war London Terraces towers is nearly 5,000 square feet and boasts five bedrooms and 4½ baths. Its big selling point is the terrace that gives 360-degree views including of the High Line, Hudson River and Empire State Building.

But there is one snag, the source added: “What Alec may not realize is there is a communal roof terrace above that penthouse, so all the gays in Chelsea can look down and see him sunbathing naked on his terrace — should he choose to do so.”

Also the building is a co-op, which will require the hot-tempered star to put on a charm offensive and get approval from the board.

Hilaria, his yoga-instructor wife, is about to give birth to their third child any minute. They already have Carmen, 3, and Raphael, 1. And they need room for the help: Last year she was criticized after thanking their children’s five caregivers — some of whom, she explained, are nannies and others of whom are babysitters.

Baldwin currently owns a $12 million duplex penthouse in Greenwich Village’s Devonshire House, which at 4,137 square feet is smaller and features three bedrooms. He also owns another one-bedroom apartment next door.

A rep for Baldwin didn’t get back to us.

Alec Baldwin shows off his sweet side

Said a Greenwich Village source, “Alec was buying lemonade for everyone on the block at this 8-year-old’s lemonade stand on University Place.”

At the adorable tyke’s table, with a Radio Flyer wagon nearby to haul supplies, Baldwin “bought everyone in line a lemonade” for 50 cents apiece, and “gave the kid a $20 tip!” Perhaps Baldwin was on cloud nine after Barbra Streisand released a clip of his new duet with her.

Alec Baldwin not happy with George Clooney’s tequila pal

The hot-tempered actor taped a public service announcement calling the Hills in East Quogue “the biggest and baddest development on Long Island.”

Clooney told me, “I’ve never heard of it,” although he is partners with Meldman in Casamigos Tequila, along with Cindy Crawford’s husband, Rande Gerber.

All three partners had houses in Meldman’s El Dorado Golf & Beach Club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — Clooney and Gerber sold each of theirs this year — and they often vacation together.

Baldwin claims the Hills, with its 118 houses, will pollute the water and increase traffic and local taxes. But Meldman disputes that, because the Hills buyers will be limited to stays of just 60 days per year at the resort.

Many locals are in favor of the project because it will help the local economy and invigorate a very sleepy hamlet. Maybe Clooney will buy a house and liven things up.

Guiding Light Star Is Mother of the Bride in It Shoulda Been You

Seen on Broadway last season, the musical comedy runs July 28-30 and August 4-6 at the Gretna Theatre in Mt. Gretna, PA.

Conceived by Barbara Anselmi, It Shoulda Been You has book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove, with music by Anselmi and additional lyrics by Jill Abramovitz, Carla Rose Fisher, Michael Cooper, Ernie Lijoi and Will Randall.

The cast also features Joe Briel, Jane Brockman and Mark Epperson, as well as Molly Tower, Tracy Bidleman, Luther Chakurian, Kayleen Seidl, Ryan Bloomquist, Chris Giordano, Drew Tildon, Tom Blaisse, and Kevin Toniazzo-Naughton.

The production is directed and choreographed by Dennis Courtney. Music direction is by Ryan Edward Wise.

Visit gretnatheatre.org.

Former Soap Stars on the 2016 Emmys Nominations List

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Ellen Burstyn, House of Cards
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY
William H Macy, Shameless

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Allison Janney, Mom
Judith Light, Transparent

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory

LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo

LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Bryan Cranston, All The Way

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Melissa Leo, All The Way
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Hotel
Jean Smart, Fargo

Tommy Lee Jones, Alec Baldwin & Milla Jovovich In Talks For Rob Reiner’s ‘Shock And Awe’

Written by Reiner’s LBJ screenwriter Joey Hartstone, which also starred Harrelson, the politically-charged project centers around a group of journalists who asked the tough questions about Saddam Hussein’s alleged WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction) which was the way the Bush administration sold the Iraq War to the American public and around the world in 2003.

The pic follows Knight-Ridder reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who after the events of 9/11, meet with their bureau chief John Walcott to get to the bottom of who was responsible. They find their sources telling them the Bush Administration is trying to tie Saddam Hussein to the terror attacks, even though there is no evidence to support the claim. As the push for war in Iraq increases, they bring in legendary reporter Joe Galloway to give them the high-level sources to help counter the false narrative of Hussein, al-Qaeda and WMDs. They find themselves one of the only media sources running stories countering the prevailing narrative. In the end, Iraq is invaded and their reporting is proven true.

While more iconic papers follow the administration line, the smaller-market Knight-Ridder papers try to get beneath the surface and serve the smaller markets where the military bases are, with the reporters believing the military troops in their markets were going to be the most affected by the decision to go to war. It is those troops whose lives would be risked and lost on the battlefield.

The film, which Reiner has had in development for several years, is scheduled for production this year, with financing from Savvy Media Holdings and Acacia Filmed Entertainment. The producers are Reiner, Matthew George and Michele Reiner.

Tommy Lee Jones has history with Iraq dramas, having starred in Paul Haggis’ terrific but underrated In the Valley of Elah. He next stars in Jason Bourne opposite Matt Damon. He is repped by CAA. Alex Baldwin has a slew of projects in various stages of completion, including Warren Beatty’s long-awaited Rules Don’t Apply. He, too, is repped by CAA.

Jovovich, currently in post on another battle against the undead in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

Netflix, Chuck Lorre and Kathy Bates Team Up for a Marijuana Comedy

On Wednesday, the streaming giant ordered to series Disjointed, a new comedy from The Big Bang Theory's Chuck Lorre set at an L.A.-based pot dispensary. Oscar and Emmy winner Kathy Bates (American Horror Story) will star as the dispensary's proprietor. The order is for 20 episodes.

The series, which was originally shopped around to the networks before landing at Netflix, is a multi-camera comedy co-written by Lorre and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show). In addition to Bates' pot-shop owner, the workplace comedy will feature the shop's three budtenders, Bates' character's 20-something-year-old son and the shop's security guard. Netflix points out that all characters will be "more or less constantly high."

Disjointed is Netflix's third multi-cam series, the first two being the Ashton Kutcher-led series The Ranch and the wildly successful Fuller House.

There is no premiere date set.

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Alec Baldwin aims for retro game show glory with ‘Match Game’ reboot

In front of an audience at a studio on Manhattan’s West Side, Baldwin was soliciting racy fill-in-the-blank answers from a panel of boozed-up celebrities who took advantage of a full bar backstage. With a long, skinny microphone made famous on the 1970s daytime hit, he breezily played his host role as if it was one long “Saturday Night Live” sketch. At one point, he introduced himself as “the love child of Charles Nelson Reilly” — a reference to the flamboyant panelist from “Match Game’s” past.

The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor is bringing some marquee value to a genre that doesn’t get much critical respect, especially in an era when quality scripted TV is abundant. But when “Match Game” premieres Sunday (June 26), ABC will have four game shows on the air, the most of any prime-time broadcast network lineup since “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” first became a white-hot hit 16 years ago.

This summer’s game show wave is driven by revivals of classic titles such as “To Tell the Truth,” “$100,000 Pyramid” and “Celebrity Family Feud” filling a network need for recognizable, low cost and easy-to-launch first-run programming at a time when it’s tougher to get viewers to notice new shows.

“The audience’s options are endless, and these game shows are known commodities,” said Rob Mills, head of alternative programming at ABC. “They are known and loved. They are comfort food.”

Networks were once able to draw summer audiences with reruns of their hit shows once the official TV season ended in May. Those days are long gone as viewers can catch up on their favorite programs through online streaming, video-on-demand services or their DVRs.

Although complex serial dramas draw buzz and accolades, there is still a large segment of the TV audience with an appetite for programming they can just turn on and enjoy without requiring any binge-watching to catch up on plot points. And classic game shows fit the bill.

“At the end of the day, people like to see other people win,” said CBS Daytime President Angelica McDaniel. “When you turn on a game show, you have that inevitable opportunity to experience joy. It’s a great escape.”

Although game shows are cost-efficient to produce, as several episodes can be shot in one day on a single set, they are by no means cheap programming when a big name is attached. For “Match Game,” Baldwin’s talent fee is said to be more than $200,000 an episode.

But the license fee a network pays for a game show — typically $600,000 to $1 million for an hour — is well under the cost for a scripted series, making them an affordable option for the summer.

Three of ABC’s shows come from FremantleMedia North America, stewards of the classic game formats created by Goodson-Todman Productions during the first few decades of television. “To Tell the Truth” — hosted this summer by “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson — first showed up in 1956, while “Match Game” premiered in 1962. Both have been revived numerous times. “Celebrity Family Feud” with Steve Harvey as host, is a spinoff of the current syndicated “Family Feud,” which first appeared on ABC daytime in 1976.

CBS has tapped into Fremantle for summer programming as well, airing three prime-time episodes of its long-running daytime show “The Price Is Right,” with Drew Carey, late last month.

“The fact that there is a lot of demand for original programming in the summer definitely helps,” said Jennifer Mullin, co-chief executive of FremantleMedia North America, the U.S. arm of European broadcaster RTL Group’s production unit.

In recent years, RTL has increased its global investment in programming to offset the decline of Fremantle’s long-running franchise “American Idol,” which ended in May. Fremantle now has 24 other shows in production for various broadcast and cable networks — up from 16 in 2014 — including NBC’s perennial hit “America’s Got Talent.”

Mullin has been feeding Fremantle’s U.S. pipeline with established game show properties since 2008, when the company sold an updated version of “Password” to CBS for a summer run. She also brought back crazy-costumed traders of “Let’s Make a Deal,” with Wayne Brady as host, for CBS’s daytime lineup in 2009.

The original versions of Goodson-Todman shows became mass-appeal hits when viewers had fewer channel choices. As a result, Fremantle has found that the games have strong brand recognition spanning several generations.

“The audience might not remember exactly how to play the game, but they certainly remember the title,” Mullin said. “And generally speaking, these titles evoke warm memories. ‘I watched it with my grandmother’ or ‘I watched it when I was home sick.’ That’s what we hear all the time.”

The enduring appeal of the programs has also led Fremantle to launch Buzzr, an over-the-air retro TV network that features vintage episodes of the Goodson-Todman games from the 1950s through the early ’80s. A viewer can watch Buzzr for hours, and Betty White will be the only living celebrity seen on the screen. But the network has been gaining fans and affiliate stations, reaching 67 percent of the U.S. after a year on the air.

Even stars have a soft spot for the Goodson-Todman formats. Baldwin seemed like a long shot to host “Match Game” when Mills first suggested the idea to his agents. It turned out he was among the viewers who loved it when it was a bawdy, innuendo-filled daily cocktail party on CBS from 1973 to 1979.

“Alec said ‘I’m not doing this without Gene Rayburn’s microphone,'” recalled Mills, referring to the telescoping mic that the show’s original host wielded on the set.

ABC’s new “Match Game” has the same logo and wah-wah guitar-infused theme song that longtime fans will fondly recall. But game shows can’t make it on nostalgic appeal alone, especially among younger viewers. Having strong personalities — such as Baldwin, Anderson and Harvey — as hosts who are “invested” in the show is must, Mullin said.

McDaniel believes comedians Carey and Brady have brought new energy — and a lift in ratings — to her network’s shows. “They are not just hosts standing up there with a microphone delivering a line — they’re performers who give the shows an added dimension,” McDaniel said.

Alec Baldwin cracks Kardashian, Leo jokes at award show

The crowd laughed as the often surly star took jabs at Hollywood royalty.

When Baldwin noted well-traveled Hearst exec Michael Clinton was at the show, he added, “He’s been in and out of more countries than Leonardo ­DiCaprio has been in and out of Victoria’s Secret models.”

The former “30 Rock” star also quipped of Kim Kardashian’s eponymous perfume: “It’s the only Armenian fragrance that isn’t found on the dashboard of a taxi cab.” And, “The top half of the bottle is beautiful. The bottom half looks like a mailbox. People keep stuffing envelopes in there. When you spray it, the smell does nothing, but it’s still very rich.”

Rihanna’s scent was up for best celebrity fragrance. “A lot of time and patience went into making this perfume, because it’s the only thing she actually wears,” he said.

Baldwin even went after his brother when he introduced Mary Elizabeth Winstead, saying of her new political TV series, “BrainDead,” “That’s about my brother Stephen campaigning for [Donald] Trump.”

Ironically, Victoria’s Secret was a big winner, and many of its Angels presented.

Also there were John Varvatos, Lionel Richie, Eric Dane, Nico Tortorella, Laverne Cox and Nacho Figueras.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin on Kids Carmen and Rafael: They’re ‘Very Opinionated’

He has also, on occasion, been known to have a strong opinion. And apparently, his children — daughter Carmen Gabriela, 2½, and son Rafael Thomas, 11 months — are following in their father’s footsteps.

“Carmen is very opinionated,” Hilaria Baldwin, 32, who’s expecting the couple’s second son, told PEOPLE of their daughter.

“[She’s] very verbal,” adds ebullient dad Alec, 58. “Just interesting phrases. This morning, I said, ‘Would you like to sit down and read a book with me?’ And she said, ‘Of course.’ She’s very sophisticated.”

“Our son is a moment away from walking,” Alec adds. “He’s tough, a tank. But happy — he’s a very happy child.”

“He’s almost walking,” interjects Hilaria of Rafael, “but he’s very interested in crawling because he likes his independence. He wants to smash everything.”

Though both kids obviously seem wise beyond their years — or in Rafael’s case, months — their penchant for conversation differs.

“Our daughter started talking at 5 months,” Hilaria says. “Compared to her, he doesn’t talk as much. His words are ‘Mama,’ ‘Dada.’ ”

But apparently when the Baldwins’ kids, including Rafael, do talk, they make their words count.

“We have very opinionated children,” Hilaria continues. “[Rafael] is very opinionated, too, but he only has five words. My kids are very smart, they say ‘Mama’ first. And ‘no,’ — he’s very good at ‘no.’ ”

” ‘Come, come,’ ” adds Alec, who is also dad to 20-year-old daughter Ireland with ex Kim Basinger.

“And ‘dog,’ ” Hilaria says.

Alec Baldwin Ballistic in Bev Hills ... SHUT UP!!!!

Baldwin and Hilaria were in Bev Hills when he unleashed on the photog with ear-shattering volume, ordering him to "shut up."

It's unclear what preceded Baldwin's tirade, but he tells the photog in no uncertain terms his wife is out of bounds for the paparazzi ... interesting for sure, because Hilaria is a prolific Instagram user who chronicles her life on the app. She's also a correspondent for "Extra."

It's even more interesting ... Baldwin wrote an essay where he said he was moving from New York to California because he can't stand the paparazzi presence in the Big Apple. He wrote in New York Magazine, "L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal."

The incident occurred in a very public part of town ... Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills.

We reached out to Baldwin's rep ... so far no word back.

Match Game Revival Ordered at ABC, With Alec Baldwin to Host

ABC has ordered a 10-episode revival of the 1960s/70s/80s game show, with 30 Rock grad Alec Baldwin set as host.

As first reported by Vulture, the upcoming reboot will debut as part of a Sunday-night programming block that already includes Celebrity Family Feud (hosted by Steve Harvey) and The $100,000 Pyramid (to be hosted by Michael Strahan). Much like the original program, Baldwin will serve as emcee while contestants try to guess how a celebrity panel will answer comical fill-in-the-blank questions.

Match Game first launched on NBC in 1962 with host Gene Rayburn and went on to spawn nearly a dozen revivals both in primetime and in syndication. This latest incarnation is set to debut June 26 at 10/9c.

Alec Baldwin & Scott Eastwood Take The Wheel For Cop Thriller ‘Crown Vic’

Baldwin is fresh off of Blind and Drunk Parents, while Eastwood just wrapped Live By Night for director Ben Affleck and Overdrive. Eastwood next will be seen starring in the ensemble of the David Ayer-directed Suicide Squad, which Warner Bros releases August 5, and the Oliver Stone-directed Snowden, which Open Road releases September 16. 13 Films is handling international sales on Crown Vic for Brand Inc Group.

Baldwin is repped by CAA and Eastwood by Joanne Horowitz Management and UTA.

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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are moving to Los Angeles

The actor, 57, and his wife of nearly three years are packing up the family and relocating from NYC to LA for work from April until the summer, a source close to the couple told Page Six.

The 32-year-old brunette beauty — who is expecting her third child with the “30 Rock” star — couldn’t stop gushing about her growing family while teaching a yoga class in New York on Wednesday evening.

“Hilaria did most of the poses — many of which were really challenging — but faked the ab work because of her pregnancy,” a source explained.

“As a warm-up to the routine she played Gloria Estafan’s ‘Conga,’ saying it was her daughter’s favorite song,” the source continued. “She also played a Spanish tune that she wanted for the first dance at their wedding, but said Alec vetoed it.”

In addition to daughter Carmen, 2, the couple has a son, Rafael, 9 months. The “SNL” favorite is also father to model Ireland Baldwin, 20, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

Benson's James Noble Dead at 94

The stage and screen actor passed away at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut after suffering a stroke.

Prior to his time on the long-running ABC sitcom, Noble was known for his work on Broadway, including a 1949 staging of The Velvet Glove and a later production of 1776 (which was adapted for film in 1972). His TV credits also included episodes of The Love Boat, Perfect Strangers, Law & Order and the soap operas One Life to Live and Another World.

Per IMDb, his last prominent role came in a 2008 episode of the British medical drama The Royal.

Noble is survived by his daughter, Jessica Katherine Noble Cowan.

James Douglas Dies: ‘Peyton Place’, ‘As The World Turns’ Actor Was 86

During the five seasons (1964-69) that Peyton Place set the bar for timely, often risqué TV drama, Douglas played lawyer Steven Cord on some 400 episodes of the half-hour serial based on Grace Matalious’ scandalous 1956 novel. Cord had an intermittently fiery romance with Betty Anderson (played by Barbara Parkins), in which his rival was Ryan O’Neal’s Rodney Harrington, Cord’s half-brother. Having joined the cast early, Douglas stayed with the show until the end and returned for a 1985 reunion telefilm.

Douglas played another lawyer, Grant Colman, on As The World Turns from 1973-81 and a few times after, the last time in 1995.

In Connecticut, the Douglases were befriended by the starlet-turned-Benedictine nun Dolores Hart (famed for being the beneficiary of Elvis Presley’s first on-screen kiss in 1957 Loving You). Mother Dolores founded the Act Association, which performed Shakespeare, musical revues and other works at The Gary-The Olivia, a 200-seat open-air theater on the grounds of her abbey. In 1999, James Douglas appeared opposite another neighbor, Patricia Neal, in Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 hit comedy of manners, She Stoops to Conquer.

Douglas is survived by three children, Kimberly, Taryn and Cort; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin expecting third child

“Ireland, Carmen, Rafael, Hilaria and I are excited to share with you that we are going to have another little addition to our family,” the actor wrote on Instagram Wednesday.

Alec, 57, and Hilaria, 32, also have a daughter named Carmen, who will turn 3 in August. The “30 Rock” star is the father of 20-year-old model Ireland Baldwin with ex-wife Kim Basinger.

Alec Baldwin targets Trump at theater gala

We hear the “30 Rock” star took aim at the billionaire businessman and Republican front-runner during a speech at the Roundabout Theatre Gala at the Waldorf Astoria on Monday before guests including Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Liam Neeson and Dame Helen Mirren.

“If Trump wins it all and decides he wants to buy the American Airlines Theatre, tear it down and build a casino there, you know who will be there to stop it: all of us here,” Baldwin told the crowd, referencing the venue that houses some of the company’s plays.

Those attending reportedly booed Trump, but cheered at the mention of Hillary Clinton, whom Baldwin called one of the most “admired figures in the country.”

Jane Krakowski performed an aerial act while singing, and auctioned off dinner with herself to two separate people. Laura Benanti also performed. The event raised $3.8 million.

‘Late Night Snack’ With Alec Baldwin To Premiere On TruTV

Alec Baldwin’s Love Ride: Renowned International Relationship Expert Alec Baldwin takes surprised but game couples for a ride in his office/limo, learning their stories and providing them with hilarious (and sometimes poignant) relationship advice. Alec’s famous & funny friends also join in the action, following the star and his “Love Ride” closely behind in a separate car and offering their own advice in Alec’s unending quest to save all relationships on Earth. Produced by Above Average and El Dorado Pictures.

Alec Baldwin, Richard Linklater join polar bear plunge

Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/1Tvs34w ) reports that Baldwin and Linklater were among dozens who took part in Friday's plunge in the Atlantic Ocean. The event in the posh beach town raises money for a food pantry.

Baldwin is a Long Island native and a regular at glitzy charity events on the island's East End.

The Texas-based Linklater was vacationing in the area and decided to join the plunge. He said it was "really cool, so many people coming out for a good reason."

Baldwin has starred in numerous films as well as the NBC show "30 Rock."

Linklater's films include "Dazed and Confused," ''School of Rock" and "Boyhood."

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin rush to aid unconscious man

Yoga instructor Hilaria Baldwin took off her young son’s blanket and put it under the prone man’s head until paramedics arrived.

The drama unfolded at about 10:30 a.m. outside the Baldwins’ building — near East 10th Street and University Place — as they took their infant son, Rafael, for a walk.

Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore & Dylan McDermott Team For Michael Mailer-Helmed Indie ‘Blind’

The film, just getting underway in New York, is the story of a novelist (Baldwin) who was blinded in a car crash that killed his wife. Several years later, he rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife (Moore) of an indicted businessman (McDermott).

“’Blind’ has been a long gestating project,” Mailer said. “But to have the superb cast that I have, my brother as the writer, and a very talented group of producers surrounding me I can say with true conviction it was worth the wait.”

Baldwin and Moore previously starred in 1996’s The Juror. Both are repped by CAA. Moore, who stars in the upcoming Wild Oats for The Weinstein Company, is managed by Jason Weinberg at Untitled.

Baldwin’s coming off Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and next co-stars in Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes project and the Peter Landesman-directed hot-button drama Concussion.

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George Coe dies; ‘Archer,’ ‘West Wing’ actor was 86

Coe acted for more than 50 years of film, television, commercial and stage work. He had a lengthy career as a commercial performer both on camera and voiceover, including six years as the voice of Toyota.

He served more than a dozen years on the SAG national board of directors, having the vice president title for two years and creating the template for what became SAG’s first low-budget production contract.

Coe was born in Jamaica, Queens. His Broadway theater career began in 1957 and included performing as M. Lindsey Woolsey opposite Angela Lansbury in the original cast of Jerry Herman’s “Mame” and as Owen O’Malley in “On The Twentieth Century.”

Coe was also an original member of “Not Ready For Prime Time Players,” the original cast of “Saturday Night Live,” and was credited as a cast member for the first show in October, 1975.

He portrayed the head of an ad agency in “Kramer vs. Kramer” and was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1968 comedy short film “The Dove,” a parody of Ingmar Bergman’s films, which he co-directed as well as starred in.

Coe’s TV credits included “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Max Headroom,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Bones,” “Judging Amy,” “The King of Queens,” “Nip/Tuck,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Columbo,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Gilmore Girls,” ” The Golden Girls” and “The West Wing.”

He voiced the character of Woodhouse in the FX animated series “Archer” and the Autobot Wheeljack in Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”

The Hollywood Division of SAG awarded Coe with the Ralph Morgan Award for service to the guild in 2009.

Alec Baldwin Plots TV Return As NYC Mayor In HBO Series

The project had multiple bidders chasing it and it’s a put pilot deal with a substantial penalty if it runs anything less than a full season. The plan is to shoot in New York, most likely in September, and they are just beginning to figure out which major director will shoot the pilot. It will be an hour drama that explores celebrity and the political landscape in New York City, dark but not as pitch black as House Of Cards. The way it was put to me is the aspiration is to be most consistently hit the tone of the lightest and most entertaining episodes of The Sopranos. Baldwin, who has mulled a possible move into real politics, will play a larger-than-life divorced entrepreneur whose burst into the political spotlight is made interesting by his appetite for women and a dark past.

“Cary and I were going to do this together nine years ago, but I got detoured by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey into 30 Rock,” Baldwin told me. Universal TV, which had been trying to get him to do another half-hour sitcom, sparked to this idea and it came together quickly. Both Baldwin and Brokaw were intrigued by the endless creative possibilities inherent in making HBO the home. They interviewed a slew of young writers before fixing on Tower.

“The character is a philanthropist, a big businessman and well-known tabloid fixture in New York,” Baldwin said. “He’s Trump without the baggage, Bloomberg but a Democrat, George Soros if he was in real estate, a left-leaning Democrat who is also a businessman who understands the reality of how the city has to be run to create the right climate for the business community. He’s drafted for this run because the alternative would be catastrophe. We’ve seen from shows like Kevin Spacey’s House Of Cards that you can go anywhere creatively. He throws Kate Mara’s character in front of a subway train and you think, what the hell is going on? You can create these Shakespearean character arcs, and pull the curtain back on how New York City is actually run and how political careers are made and lost in the city.”

Baldwin has a deal with Universal TV going back to 30 Rock, which trumped the overall deal Brokaw’s Avenue Pictures has at Warner Bros Television, where he is allowed a handful of exclusions. Tower, whose fiction and nonfiction writing has been published by The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, is a correspondent for GQ magazine. He previously wrote the HBO pilot Paper, and adapted his short story into the HBO pilot Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.

H. Wesley Kenney Dies; TV Producer & Director Of Soaps, 'All In The Family'

Kenney was a producer on hundreds of episodes of soap operas Days Of Our Lives, The Young And The Restless, The Doctors and General Hospital. During a 35-year career starting at the DuMont Television Network, he directed for such series as My Favorite Martian, Big John Little John, Flo and the pilot for All In The Family spinoff The Jeffersons, which aired an episode of Norman Lear’s landmark series starring Carroll O’Connor.

“I was an average guy, who with great luck was able to be successful,” he said in a 2008 interview with the Archive of American Television. “I think that’s as much as I can say. I love people. I love actors. I love doing the dramatic shows. So that’s how I’d like to be remembered, working with terrific people, great talented people.”

He was born Harry Wesley Kenney Jr on January 3, 1926, in Dayton, Ohio. After a stint in the Navy, he joined the DuMont Network, directing as many as a dozen live broadcasts a day. He helmed numerous episodes of the early ’50s series Rocky King, Detective, starring Roscoe Karns, and was at the control board for Mike Wallace’s 1950s interview programs Night Beat and The Mike Wallace Interview. Decades later, he taught at UCLA.

Kenney is survived by his wife, actress Heather North Kenney; sons Wesley and Kevin; daughters Nina and Kara; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Retro TV Announces Launch Date for "The Doctors"

Set in Hope Memorial Hospital in the fictional New England city of Madison, The Doctors' storylines center on the hospital's Chief of Staff Dr. Matthew Powers (James Pritchett) and his dedicated team. The soap opera ran for 19 years, spanned 5,280 episodes and won several Daytime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series (1971, 1972 and 1974), Lead Actor (James Pritchett, 1978) and Lead Actress (Elizabeth Hubbard, 1974).

Several well-known actors and actresses passed through the halls of Hope Memorial during its run, including Academy Award nominee Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Academy Award winner Kathy Bates (Misery), Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), Emmy Award winner Ted Danson (Cheers), Emmy Award winner Terry O'Quinn (Lost) and Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married).

Emily Bronze, Luken's Director of Affiliate Relations, said "The positive feedback we've received since Retro TV's initial announcement of The Doctors has been phenomenal. Classic soap fans are excited about Retro TV and we look forward to expanding our offerings with this genre and audience."

Luken Communications is a Chattanooga, TN-based broadcast group with networks including Retro TV, The Heartland Network, The Family Channel, PBJ, Frost Great Outdoors and TUFF TV. Luken Communications offers diverse, family-friendly programming on its networks reaching approximately 80 percent of all U.S. households via a blend of over-the-air, cable and satellite television. For more information about Retro TV, please visit www.WatchRetroTV.com or www.facebook.com/WatchRetroTV.

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