Norby Walters Dies: ‘Night Of 100 Stars’ Oscar Party Impresario, Music Agent & Hollywood Poker Game Host Was 91

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Whishaw will reunite with director Ira Sachs to shoot an “intimate” movie about photo artist Peter Hujar.

In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, a small group of people toil in obscurity, tending to broken pegs, stuck valves, clogged tubing and damaged keys – all to restore musical instruments to perfect working order for the city’s public-school students. 

the hours after her Oscars 2003 win, which weren’t pleasant.The 56-year-old actress won her first Academy Award for her role as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” opposite Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore in 2003, but despite taking home the statuette for “Best Actress,” Kidman felt at her worst.At the time, Kidman had recently finalized her divorce from Hollywood’s titular leading man, Tom Cruise, after 11 years of marriage. During her acceptance speech, she appeared so distraught that she couldn’t hold back tears.“I was struggling with things in my personal life, yet my professional life was going so well,” she told author Dave Karger in his new book “50 Oscar Nights.” “That’s what happens, right?” she went on.“Russell Crowe said don’t cry when you get up there and now I’m crying,” she recalled of the moment that should have been a highlight of her career.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a January 29 streaming premiere date for The Greatest Night in Pop, a feature doc just announced as world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on the 19th of this month.

“Mary Poppins,” has died. She was 100. After a career spanning eight decades, Johns died Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Hollywood, her manager, Mitch Clem, told the Hollywood Reporter.Born in South Africa in 1923, Johns had a theatrical family – her father, Mervyn Johns, was a Welsh actor, and her mother, Alyce Steele-Wareham, was an Australian-born concert pianist.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The red carpet is rolling up for “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood,” the casual mobile game that let players create their own aspiring virtual celebrity. The game, after launching nearly a decade ago, was a smash hit — and pulled in millions of dollars in revenue over its run.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have been photographed together for the first time since confirming their relationship!

told Business Insider in 2014. “She’s very digitally savvy, which helps get people into the game that have never played games before.”Kardashian’s sisters Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, as well as her half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and their momager Kris Jenner all appeared as characters in the game.

When Lauren Boebert put some blame on Hollywood for forcing her to switch Colorado districts in her reelection bid, she was just the latest in a long line of Republicans to target the industry and its lopsided support for the left.

As The Tourist once again returns to our screens for a second nail-biting series this week, all eyes will undoubtedly be on stars Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald as they continue to unravel the secrets of Jamie’s character Elliot Stanley’s mysterious past. While the first series took place in Australia, the second series picks up in Ireland instead and will continue to expand on the storyline that saw Elliot mysteriously lose his memory in a car accident and slowly piece together his identity with help from Danielle’s character Probationary Constable Helen Chambers.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Hollywood got back on its feet on Wall Street this year, and if it wants to remain on solid ground in 2024 — or even climb a few steps higher — it needs to look beyond what movies and TV shows were the greatest hits. The biz is overdue when it comes to keeping an eye on the video game titles consumers poured their time into over the past 12 months.

Paula Patton and her son Julian just made their first red carpet appearance together!

The stars are stepping out for Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost‘s Christmas party!

Valerie Wu Intern Norby Walters, a music agent who hosted the annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscars viewing party for more than 25 years, died Dec. 10 in Burbank. He was 91.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sydney Sweeney’s starring role in the Rolling Stones‘ music video for “Angry,” the lead single off their most recent album “Hackney Diamonds,” led to some claims that she was sexualized during the nearly four-minute clip. The video features Sweeney wearing black studded chaps and dancing in the back seat of a convertible as it speeds down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The street is lined with animated billboards showing the history of the Rolling Stones.

Alix Earle took her best friends to a casino for her 23rd birthday!

Rich Paul is celebrating!

Plenty of stars stepped out to celebrate the latest Saturday Night Live episode!

Kathy A. McDonald Finally, Hollywood’s red-carpet drought is over and the business of awards season socializing is back. In anticipation, venues in Los Angeles and New York City are primed for entertainment industry celebrations from post-premiere blow-outs to intimate tastemaker dinners.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events With so many Broadway icons — including Christine Baranski, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Cerveris and Nathan Lane, to name a few — starring in HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” Morgan Spector thinks a musical episode of the series is overdue. “You know what we should do? There’s the British tradition of the Christmas special,” Spector tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “If we could have a Christmas special, then we could have some singing and it would be great.