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16 Celebrities Whose Names Sound So Natural You’d Never Guess They Were Changed

In fact, some of the new monikers sound so natural or suit them so well that you might have never even stopped to think that ...

Jane Fonda joins other stars to revive a group that emerged during Hollywood's anti-communist panic

The original group was formed in October 1947 at a time when the US government worried that there were communists in ...

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

Fonda, a star who has championed progressive causes since the 1970s, explained when she announced the group’s new edition on Oct. 1, 2025, that the effort isn’t really new. Instead, it marks the ...
TheDerrick.com

NBC developing Wordle game show hosted by Savannah Guthrie

Wordle, the addictive digital puzzle game offered daily by the New York Times, could soon be coming to television. NBC has ordered a pilot based on Wordle, according to people familiar with the ...
CNN

Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’

Eight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane ...
Boston Herald

A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime — and made it hard to leave

Here’s how to save during open enrollment Smucker sues Trader Joe’s, saying its new PB&J sandwiches are too similar to Uncrustables Estates of Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland ... confident that the facts ...
The Cheat Sheet

The Man Convicted of Stealing Judy Garland’s Ruby Red Slippers Had Never Seen ‘The Wizard of Oz’

In Hulu’s Ruby Red Handed: Stealing America’s Most Famous Pair of Shoes, a documentary film crew explores the theft of one of the most iconic and recognizable film memorabilia pieces of all time. The ...
Washington Blade

Get happy and read new book on Judy Garland

The monkeys used to scare you a lot. The Wicked Witch was one thing but those flying simians with their booming voices? Ugh, they gave you nightmares for weeks. And despite that you knew how things ...
IndieWire

And Just Like That… Mario Cantone Is Spending Summer Under the Stars at TCM

The "Sex and the City" favorite talks to IndieWire about moonlighting as a movie host this August — highlighting Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, and more — and we're here for it. Perhaps the real coup ...
The New York Times

Gary Smith, TV Producer Who Put a Spotlight on Stars, Dies at 90

A multiple Emmy winner, he helped create sophisticated shows for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ben Vereen, Burt Bacharach and Bette Midler. By Richard Sandomir ...
The Daily Progress

UVa alumna returns, brings Judy Garland to Virginia Theatre Festival stage

Presenting her Judy Garland tribute show at the Virginia Theatre Festival gives University of Virginia alumna Jenna Pastuszek a chance to connect her passions for music and history in the place where ...