Ray Liotta turned down ‘Batman’ meeting with Tim Burton: 'I was an idiot'

Dolly Parton was forced to turn down a very exclusive invitation during a recent trip to London. The 77-year-old American treasure reveals in a new interview why she had to take a rain check on a tea date with Kate Middleton. «Lordy, I even got invited to have tea with Kate,» Parton told Sally 'Traffic' Boazman on BBC Radio2 over the weekend while discussing her latest visit to the U.K.Parton said that her schedule was so jam packed with album promotion for her upcoming release,, that she couldn't fit in a meeting with the 41-year-old Princess of Wales during the trip.

Dolly Parton ain’t got time for tea — even if it’s with the royal family?!

BBC Radio 2 that she received the invite from Kate Middleton, 41, while she was in London for work, but revealed that she was unable to make it.“This time, Lordy, I even got invited to have tea with Kate but I couldn’t even go,” she shared. “I thought it was very sweet and nice of her to invite me and one of these days I’m going to get to do that — that would be great.”The “9 to 5” singer went on to share the hilarious reason she turned the royal down.“But she wasn’t going to promote my rock album, so I had to say no,” she quipped.Parton also admitted that she wished she had more time to explore the city, but she ultimately doesn’t have time to do so.“I love the people, the feel of London.

Dolly Parton means business.

Angelique Jackson On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, Netflix released the trailer for “Rustin,” which explains how civil rights leader Bayard Rustin defied the odds to plan the historic event. “On Aug. 28, Black, white, young, old, rich, working-class, poor will descend on Washington D.C.,” Rustin, portrayed by Emmy winner Colman Domingo, says early in the clip, which chronicles the lead-up to the monumental march.

Married At First Sight star Amy Christophers has revealed the reason she turned down the opportunity to appear on Love Island. Amy, 36, a glamour model-turned-sports presenter appeared on Married at First Sight UK in 2021 and was matched with Joshua Christie by the dating experts. Despite a few hurdles along the way, the pair made it to the end of the experiment but announced they had split at the reunion show a few months later.

David Bowie for a Saturday Night Live sketch.The actor and comedian reflected on a skit he wrote for an episode in November 1991, which was hosted by Macaulay Culkin and featured Bowie and Tin Machine as the musical guest.Speaking on a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast, which Spade co-hosts with Dana Carvey, he remembered casting himself in a sketch as the receptionist that “stops you because he thinks they’re better than you”, with Bowie cast to play himself.As Bowie wasn’t in the pitch meeting, Spade received a request to call the music icon at his hotel.“I called him and he answers and it’s fucking Bowie,” he said. “And he’s like, ‘This [sketch] is so fucking funny.

Tori Spelling‘s ex-husband is spilling the tea amid her widely whispered money problems!

McKinley Franklin editor When Ryan Murphy approached Paris Barclay about directing “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” the Emmy-winning director shot down his offer. “I said no,” says Barclay. He changed his mind, however, when he learned more about Episode 6, titled “Silenced.” Barclay, who previously won two Emmys for directing “NYPD Blue” and garnered nominations for “Glee” and “The West Wing,” ended up receiving his latest Emmy mention for his work on the episode.

Kerry Katona is begging her daughter Lily-Sue, 20, to go on Love Island as she would be the best example to young women due to her free-spirit attitude.The Atomic Kitten star, 42, shares Lilly-Sue with her ex-husband Brian McFadden, 43, and said her daughter would bring some much-needed normality back into the show as she labelled it "shocking." Kerry also revealed that her daughter has been approached to enter the villa twice but has declined the offer both times. During an appearance on Slingo's Getting Lippy Gossip Show Kerry shared that she was begging her daughter to go on it so she can set a proper example to young women. Kerry said: "They’re a different generation but my Lilly doesn’t give a s****.

David Spade once refused a David Bowie request to swap roles for a proposed Saturday Night Live sketch.

The Hunger Games franchise amassed an incredible following and remains beloved to this day. So much so that a new, prequel movie is in the works for late 2023.

According to the man who wrote the bestselling book on which the popular 2009 movie The Blind Side was based, Michael Oher had the opportunity to receive royalties from the film… and chose not to do so?!

When we last talked, Ray Liotta was thinking a lot about mortality. “I’m at the age now there are some things you just forget,” he mused. “60 was a motherf*cker for me.” He was 64 at the time, soon to turn 65, but somehow his face, which once seemed older and wiser than its time, now seemed timeless. “Some people age better, and with some it’s like, ‘Whoa, what happened there!?’” he laughed.

Michael Allio could’ve been The Bachelor season 26 lead, but he turned down the offer — and the paycheck he says may well have been the largest ever for the show.

Josh Allen is offering dating advice to fellow football player Travis Kelce after Taylor Swift turned down the chance to meet him. 

Post Malone is happily engaged to his fiancée — but he had to pop the question twice.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Many reviews for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” pointed out the film felt like the director’s own version of Oliver Stone’s sprawling historical epic “JFK,” and now Stone himself has sounded off on Nolan’s latest achievement. The “Platoon” Oscar winner took to social media to deem Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” a new film classic, while also revealing he flirted with making his own film in the past about theoretical physicist and “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer.

JFK filmmaker Oliver Stone posted a series of tweets Tuesday praising Christopher Nolan’s latest film Oppenheimer during which he revealed he once turned down a project based around J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life because he couldn’t crack the narrative.

Tim Burton will never forget Paul Reubens. Burton has shared a tribute to Reubens, who starred in and co-wrote Burton’s feature directorial debut Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, following Reuben’s death Sunday following a years-long battle with cancer at age 70.