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Horses are spooked by the Woolsey Fire near Paramount Ranch on Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills, Calif.

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  • Arts & Life

You've likely seen this ranch on-screen — burned by wildfire, it awaits its next act

The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.

September 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
SAG-AFTRA leader Fran Drescher has some choice words for Hollywood studio heads.

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  • Business

'You could be the hero': Fran Drescher tells NPR how the Hollywood strikes can end

Fran Drescher, president of the actors' union SAG-AFTRA, says the Hollywood strikes are at an inflection point.

September 07, 2023
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
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The late night heavyweights are putting their power into a new podcast, sharing this image on the Instagram page for the show.

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  • Television

Late night TV hosts team up for a new podcast amid the writers' strike

The biggest names in late night have turned their private group chat into a Spotify podcast. All the proceeds will go to support their staff during the writers' strike.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
The original owners who built this Atlanta home nearly a century ago had ties to Hollywood and Broadway.

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  • News

Historic Atlanta home with ties to ‘golden age of Hollywood’ on the market

While many homes in the city's historic Druid Hills neighborhood have been altered, this one retains its original architectural finishes, such as the marble and tile sunrooms, art deco baths and original elevator. 

July 31, 2023
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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  • Music Features

Atlanta's Ludacris has the No. 1 spot at the movies — and a new star in Hollywood

"I don’t want it if it's not authentic," Ludacris said. "If it's not organic, then I don't want any parts of it. That's just who I am. And I want to feel like I earned it. And I'm [going to] be honest with y'all — today I feel like I earned it!" (And Ludacris declared that before his Fast X made $320 million worldwide; securing the second-biggest global opening weekend of the year.)

May 22, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Michelle Yeoh, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress on Sunday, delivered a rallying cry for Hollywood's older actresses during her acceptance speech.

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  • Movies

Michelle Yeoh called out sexism in Hollywood. Will it help close the gender gap?

The 60-year-old best actress winner addressed the timing of her historic win, which comes decades into her spectacular career. But is the industry ready for more complicated, older female characters?

March 14, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
GPB News NPR

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  • Movies

Six must-see films with Raquel Welch, from 'Fantastic Voyage' to 'Myra Breckinridge'

The veteran film, television and stage actress died Wednesday morning at the age of 82, after a brief illness.

February 16, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
The Jonas Brothers react as their Hollywood Walk of Fame Star is unveiled during a ceremony on Monday in Hollywood, Calif. At the ceremony, they announced their sixth album will be released on May 5.

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  • Music

The Jonas Brothers receive Walk of Fame star and announce new album's release date

The pop group, composed of brothers Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas, formed in 2005. Their next album, titled The Album, will be released May 5.

January 31, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
A still from the CBS drama series 'Fire Country'

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  • Arts & Life

How Hollywood gets wildfires all wrong — much to the frustration of firefighters

In a time of accelerated climate change, there's a big disconnect between the portrayal of fires on-screen and the reality of the brave people who fight them in real life.

December 27, 2022
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  • Chloe Veltman
Vanessa Williams recreates a scene from the 1963 historical drama <em>Cleopatra</em>, one of many such re-castings in the new photography book<em> Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments</em>.

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  • Photography

This photography book puts Black actors in Hollywood's most iconic movie moments

Photographer Carell Augustus spoke with NPR about his new book, Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments, a project more than a decade in the making.

October 15, 2022
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  • Marc Rivers
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

Hollywood star and blacklist victim Marsha Hunt dies at 104

Hunt was one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. Her career was disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist.

September 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A star for late rapper Nipsey Hussle was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Aug. 15. The ceremony included speeches and remarks from members of the late rapper's family, including his sister, Samantha Smith (third from right), and his grandmother Margaret Boutte (fourth from right), who accepted the star on behalf of the family.

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  • Arts & Life

Nipsey Hussle gets Hollywood star on what would have been his 37th birthday

The late rapper's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is the 2,729th placed to date.

August 16, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, seen in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

Leading Hollywood directors, writers and producers sign a pledge about onscreen guns

Shonda Rhimes, Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Lawrence are among the 200 movie and TV producers, directors and writers who are pledging to revisit the use of guns in their storytelling — but not to omit them.

June 13, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78

With warmth and candor, Eve Babitz chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers.

December 18, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani with Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci in Ridley Scott's <em>House of Gucci</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Lady Gaga responds to criticism of her performance in 'House of Gucci'

She stars in the film as the woman at the center of a scandal in the fashion world. But the actors' Italian accents have been panned, and the Gucci family has criticized the way it was depicted.

December 04, 2021
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  • Danny Hajek,
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