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Ryan Gosling is heading to a galaxy far, far away. The 44-year-old actor has been confirmed as the lead in director Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, People reported. Levy made the announcement during a Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo on Thursday. “I had heard at one point that my movie was going to star Ryan Gosling and, believe me, that would be a dream come true for me,” Levy told fans at the event. “So today, I just wanted to tell you here in this room that that rumor is 100% true.” Gosling then surprised the crowd by joining Levy on stage. The La La Land actor spoke about being a lifelong Star Wars fan and shared a photo of his Empire Strikes Back bedsheets from when he was five. “I was probably dreaming about Star Wars before I even saw the film,” Gosling said. “And it’s probably framed my idea of what a movie even was.” Starfighter will be a standalone film and is not part of the main saga. Its story will take place after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, the most recent installment in the George Lucas-created franchise. The film is “not a prequel, not a sequel, just gives us the Star Wars DNA that we love but with an adventure that’s all new,” said Levy, who most recently directed Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Starfighter is set to begin filming this fall, with a release date of May 28, 2027.
Haley Joel Osment Launches Into Slur-Riddled Rant During Arrest
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Former child star Haley Joel Osment was caught calling a police officer an antisemitic slur and a “Nazi” while being arrested for alleged public intoxication at California’s Mammoth Mountain ski resort last week. In bodycam footage obtained by the New York Post, Osment could be heard saying “I’ve been kidnapped by a f—ing Nazi” and “You are a f—ing k—” to the arresting officer. The Sixth Sense star was arrested for public intoxication and possession of an unidentified controlled substance in Mammoth Lakes on April 8, the Mono County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to People magazine Wednesday. He has since been charged with possession of cocaine and disorderly conduct. The Oscar-nominated actor was booked but is no longer in police custody. In a statement to the New York Post, Osment said he was “absolutely horrified” by his behavior and apologized to the Jewish community. “The past few months of loss and displacement have broken me down to a very low emotional place,” Osment said. “But that’s no excuse for using this disgusting word. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to absolutely everyone that this hurts. What came out of my mouth was nonsensical garbage—I’ve let the Jewish community down and it devastates me.” He continued, “I don’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness, but I promise to atone for my terrible mistake.”
This Antioxidant-Infused Self-Tanner Delivers a UV-Free Glow and Skin-Enhancing Benefits
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FDA Plans to End Most of Its Food Safety Inspections
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reportedly drafting plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections and outsource the task to state and local authorities instead. Citing several federal health officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, CBS News reported Thursday that the FDA’s plans have not been fully finalized yet and may require congressional action to fund. Some sources claim the FDA had been planning to outsource inspections to states for years, so that they could focus on higher priority inspections instead. High-priority inspections that would likely remain under the FDA’s watch include visits to infant formula makers and inspections of foreign food facilities. The FDA already outsources some of its routine food inspections to 43 states and Puerto Rico. CBS’ sources likened the FDA’s plan to their Grade A Milk Safety Program, where states fund most of the inspections themselves and have agreements with the FDA in place on regulations to implement. Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, denied that the FDA was making plans to outsource inspections to states.
NYC Restaurateur Reveals ‘Rude’ A-Lister Who Left Staff in Tears
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Legendary restaurateur Keith McNally revealed that a famous singer once made a waitress cry when she was a regular at a New York restaurant he ran in the 1970s. In an excerpt from his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything—published in New York Magazine— McNally claims that an “incredibly rude” Patti Smith would “belittle staff” and once brought a waitress to tears at One Fifth in Greenwich Village “because she forgot to put bread on the table.” McNally, was general manager One Fifth at the time and went on to open some of New York’s most famous restaurants including SoHo’s Balthazar, The Odeon in Tribeca and Pastis in the Meatpacking District. He recalled that Smith used to dine there with her ex-boyfriend Robert Mapplethorpe and art curator Sam Wagstaff “a few times a week.” He wrote, “On nights when Wagstaff wasn’t at the table, Smith and Mapplethorpe could be very difficult to wait on. Smith, unfortunately, was incredibly rude to the servers.” The 73-year-old claimed that the incident shocked him enough that “it’s impossible for me to listen to a Patti Smith song today without remembering her reducing a waitress to tears.”
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U.S. Veteran Shot Dead After Hijacking a Plane
Akinyela Sawa Taylor hijacked a Tropic Air Belize plane. Belize Breaking News/Channel 5 Belize
An American veteran was fatally shot after he hijacked a small passenger plane in Belize Thursday and stabbed three passengers. At around 8:30 a.m. local time, Akinyela Taylor, 49, wielded a knife and lunged at three people, including one that he struck in the back and lungs. The latter passenger then shot Taylor dead, using a firearm that he was licensed to carry. All passengers were taken to the hospital to treat their injuries and the latter remains in critical condition. The tragic incident took place on a Tropic Air Belize plane that carried only 13 other passengers and was flying from Corozal to San Pedro. The flight made an emergency landing in Ladyville following the incident. Mid-hijack, Taylor had ordered the pilot to take him out of the country and demanded more fuel for the plane. U.S. officials do not know the cause or motive but are working with Belizean authorities. Taylor was refused entry to the country over the weekend and officials are investigating how he was able to get in. The Tropic Air CEO said in a statement that the pilot “acted with extraordinary courage and calm” and his actions were “nothing short of heroic.”
‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Star Recalls Urgent Warning From Robin Williams
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Robin Williams’ co-star in Mrs. Doubtfire will never forget the lessons the late actor taught him. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday, Matthew Lawrence, who played Williams’ son in the ’90s classic, described working with the Oscar winner as the “biggest learning curve.” “I didn’t quite realize it at the time, but that moment there on set of Mrs. Doubtfire, that those six to eight months were the biggest learning curve anyone can get when it comes to making movies and being an entertainer,” Lawrence said, adding that Williams taught him the “type of compassion you need to have for people” and to not “judge until you walk in someone else’s shoes.” Williams, who was often vocal about his struggles with substance abuse, also warned Lawrence to not “put that stuff in your body.” “He really opened up with me, and I’ll never forget it,” Lawrence, now 45, said. “There were times he would just grab me and he’d be like, ‘Don’t put that stuff in your body. If I could go back and tell myself, this is why I’m telling you, don’t put that stuff in your body.’”
Drake Adds Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show to His Lawsuit
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Drake has updated his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group to include Kendrick Lamar’s performance of “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl halftime show, claiming it introduced the song to millions of new listeners and caused “even more people to be duped into believing that Drake was a pedophile.” The infamous diss track, which Drake’s legal team claims had its streams artificially inflated by bots, served as the climax to Lamar’s halftime show, which was viewed by a record-breaking 133 million people. During the performance, which was preceded by a quip about the lawsuit, Lamar looked straight into the camera while rapping, “Say Drake, I hear you like ‘em young,” but censored a line shortly afterward that alluded to the Canadian rapper being a “certified pedophile.” In the updated filing, Drake’s lawyer claims the self-censorship was because “nearly everyone understands that it is defamatory to falsely brand someone a ‘certified pedophile.’” UMG, which represents both Drake and Lamar, responded to the updated lawsuit with a lengthy statement in which it dismissed the suit as “baseless” and claimed Drake was “being misled by his legal representatives into taking one absurd legal step after another.” The label also offered Drake an ominous warning and told him to “be careful what you wish for” should the lawsuit proceed.
‘Clueless’ Series Moving Forward With Original Star
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Alicia Silverstone will return to the screen as Cher Horowitz in a sequel series to the hit movie Clueless on Peacock, Variety reported. Silverstone will also serve as an executive producer. Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, the co-creators of Gossip Girl, will be on the new project as writers and executive producers alongside Jordan Weiss, who wrote the Freaky Friday sequel, Freakier Friday, with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. The writer and director of the 1996 movie, Amy Heckerling, and the film’s producer, Robert Lawrence, will also join the project as executive producers. Silverstone joins a handful of other actors who are reprising iconic roles from the ’90s, notably Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a potential upcoming Hulu sequel show.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton Are Skipping the Royal Easter Celebrations
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Prince William and Kate Middleton are planning to skip this year’s Easter Sunday church service and are also choosing not to join the royal family’s wider gathering at Windsor Castle, it was reported Thursday. Reports said William and Kate have decided to spend the Easter weekend with their children at their country home in Norfolk, with sources saying the couple are “choosing to spend time together as a family before the children go back to school.” It will mark the second year in a row that the Waleses have not attended the service, skipping the 2024 edition after Kate was diagnosed with cancer. The decision aligns with the Wales’ desire to focus as much as possible on their young family before they accede to the throne.
Tina Fey Reacts to ‘SNL’ Boss Saying She Could Replace Him
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Tina Fey responded to Lorne Michaels’ suggestion that she could “easily” replace him as the executive producer of Saturday Night Live by calling her former boss “irreplaceable.” Fey, 54, who served as SNL’s first female head writer before going on to create shows like 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, told The Hollywood Reporter in the new interview that it was “nice” of Michaels to say last year that she “could easily” be his successor. “And I love him very much,“ she added, before calling the 80-year-old creator of the 50-year-old franchise ”irreplaceable.” She added, “His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique. His eye for talent! He’s one of the last three people in show business who actually understand everything. I’ll leave it at that.” Fey’s former “Weekend Update” co-anchor and frequent collaborator Amy Poehler also resisted weighing in on the possibility but did say, “I will say that I feel like there are very few things that Tina wouldn’t do well in this world.” Michaels had previously indicated he would retire from SNL after its 50th anniversary special but has since walked that back and has said he currently has no plans to give up his powerful post.
