UK PM Rishi Sunak, Salman Rushdie & More Join Criticism Of Changes To Roald Dahl Books

South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, as Terry Crews resurrected one of his most famous roles, President Camacho from the cult comedy “Idiocracy,” to announce a party for a fake presidential campaign in 2024. Back in 2006, Crews appeared in Mike Judge’s comedy about Joe Bauers, an Army corporal deemed the “most average person in the military,” whom along with a sex worker named Rita are selected for a military cryogenic experiment.

Jamie Lee Curtis holds hands with husband Christopher Guest while walking the Oscars red carpet!

The 2023 Oscars are kicking off in just a few hours and there’s luckily a live stream of all of the red carpet arrivals!

Nicole Kidman arrives at the Chanel/Charles Finch Pre Oscars soirée and dinner at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills and makes clear that she’s just stopping by to say hello. ”I have two daughters at home, and they’ll be up all night unless I put them to bed!”

Oscars presenter Glenn Close has been forced to withdraw from the ceremony with just hours to go, after testing positive for Covid-19. It means producers have been left scrambling as they attempt to replace the Fatal Attraction star, who 'is isolating and resting'. Glenn had been among 40 different presenters who were due to take to the stage tonight.

Strictly Come Dancing professional Dianne Buswell has confirmed that she and YouTube star Joe Sugg are very much together after the pair were plagued by split rumours.

Derek Hough has joined his family in mourning the loss of a beloved family member – his grandfather.Joined by his sisters Julianne, Katherine, Sharee and Marabeth, as well as their mother Marriann Hough, the former Dancing with the Stars professional now and judge attended an extended family gathering to give thanks for the life of Don Oliver Heaton.A post shared by Derek Hough (@derekhough)Derek's Instagram storyWriting on Instagram after the event, the 37-year-old said: "Spending time with family celebrating Grandpa Heaton’s long life…"It’s wild to think how we only get to know our grandparents after they have already lived so many different lives," he continued. "We only really get to witness the fall/winter of their journey on this earth."MORE: Derek Hough and his fiancée Hayley Erbert share distressing details of 'scary' car accidentDerek explained that during the memorial event, the family had gathered to read letters his grandfather had written to his grandmother in 1949.

, and as expected, everyone is bringing the drama, the elegance, and the wow factor. (And yes, even pretzels).

as she celebrated her first Oscar nomination. On March 11, the Blonde star arrived at the Netflix Oscar Nominee Celebration at Sunset Tower wearing a slinky nude sequins dress with a corset-inspired bustier. She paired the shimmering slip with a pair of matching heels, a green clutch, and gold bracelets.

Vanessa Hudgens has hit the red carpet for the 95th Academy Awards looking absolutely stunning and very shiny!The 34-year-old actress arrived Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles wearing an elegant and strapless black gown. Hudgens, who tied her hair in a bun, accessorized the outfit with black shimmery nails, a diamond necklace and earrings, but the true show-stopper was her engagement ring.Hudgens rocked the ring her MLB star fiancé, Cole Tucker, used to pop the question in Paris at the end of 2022.

Oscars are finally here, and the champagne-colored carpet is filled with glitz and glamour. On Sunday, celebs descended upon the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, dressed to the nines.Newly engaged Vanessa Hudgens flashed her gorgeous ring while keeping her look sophisticated and simple. Dressed in a strapless black gown with a white band both at the bust and the hem of the dress, Hudgens let her new, shiny piece of jewelry serve as her standout accessory for the night.Laverne Cox brought the drama in an eye-catching black-and-turquoise gown that featured nude paneling and black off-the-shoulder sleeves that doubled as gloves.

Sofia Carson is giving us a princess moment on the Oscars red carpet!

Kat and Elliot look like they’re about to confess feelings for one another in this new look at tonight’s episode of The Way Home.

, continues to build, Hulu shared the first official look at the upcoming episodes and one of its many upcoming guest stars: Meryl Streep. During the short clip, it's revealed that she's one of the cast members in Oliver Putnam's (Martin Short) upcoming ill-fated Broadway play previously teased at the end of season 2. Streep will appear as one of the actresses in the ensemble led by Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) and Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd), who died on stage during opening night one year later. «Oh my God, it's me.

Kody Brown's daughter, Gwendlyn Brown, is continuing to call him out in her weekly YouTube recaps of their family's show, .Gwendlyn has been going back and reviewing season 17 of the TLC reality series, which documents her mom, Christine Brown's, decision to leave Kody after they had been spiritually married for 25 years.During the episode, Gwendlyn says Kody has «a lot of double standards» when it comes to how he approaches his relationships, specifically citing Kody's claim that his wife, Janelle Brown, tends to sweep their problems under the rug. Gwendlyn accuses her father of doing the same thing in his failed relationship with her mother, Christine.At one point during the episode, Kody notes that Christine has referred to him as a «coward.»«I've been a little cowardly.

Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan's new Disney+ series, , has a premiere date.Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, where Yeoh and Quan could make history if they win Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for, Disney+ announced the upcoming series will drop Wednesday, May 24. A 30-second teaser highlights Yeoh and Quan's performances, along with their co-star, Stephanie Hsu, who guest stars on  Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang,  tells the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary that bears his name, remains imprisoned outside Moscow, and thus unable to attend the Academy Awards tonight. But he will be represented at the ceremony by his closest family members.

Disney+ will launch its upcoming series American Born Chinese on May 24, hoping that the Everything Everywhere All at Once magic of Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu boosts the streamer.

Making a movie with your own child is perilous enough at a time when the media, which is stuffed with them, has decided that “nepo babies” are the latest blight on the eco-system of filmmaking. It’s even more of a risk when your private life has been splashed all over the tabloids, and the facts of that controversy — man leaves wife and kids to start a new family with a younger woman — are a key part of that movie. But whether or not Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara saw the film as a chance for family therapy, or whether they even thought about these things at all, Emma Westenberg’s affecting, slow-burn debut leaves all that kind of real-world baggage firmly at the door.

It’s all led to this.

Hulu dropped the first footage of Meryl Streep from the new season of Only Murders in the Building.

Written, produced, directed, and starring Jake Johnson, Self Reliance follows Tommy (Jake Johnson), a man accomplishing nothing else in life except to exist, and attempts to spice up his life lead to some near-death encounters. Along with Johnson, the film stars Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, and Emily Hampshire. 

with his performance as the King in “Elvis,” and who’s nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars on Sunday.The kid’s on the brink of the big-big-time, right when the industry needs it badly. For more than a decade, Hollywood has searched in vain for worthy successors to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio while trade publications have mourned the death of the old-school Leading Man. Our former heartthrobs can still sell tickets (see: “Top Gun: Maverick”), but they are getting long in the tooth and caring less and less about the state of their beards.While plenty of great young actors are on the rise, there’s no cultural consensus around most of them. Timothée Chalamet, 27, is a major talent and has rapidly become a film fixture, but has so far preferred prestige films (“Dune” is as arthouse as science-fiction gets) by filmmakers such as Luca Guadagnino and Wes Anderson, whose work most Americans don’t know or go out of their way to see.Smiley Eddie Redmayne and Andrew Garfield are quirky if good-looking and respectable Brits (Garfield, who has a British accent, is technically British-American) and already, respectively, 41 and 39.

at the awards show after all.Just a few days after Oscars producer Glenn Weiss said that Gaga will not be performing at the ceremony, a source close to production confirmed to The Associated Press that she will actually be singing “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.”The addition of Gaga means all of this year’s nominees for Best Original Song will be performing at the Academy Awards.Other nominees who will perform this year include Rihanna (“Lift Me Up”), Sofia Carson and Diane Warren (“Applause”), Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne and Son Lux (“This Is a Life”) and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava (“Naatu Naatu”).It was reported earlier that the “Poker Face” singer had to turn down the offer to perform due to scheduling conflicts, Weiss confirmed Wednesday during the Oscars Creative Team press conference.“We invited all five nominees. We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp.

“The Equalizer” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network and is available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.

Oscars 2023 takes place tonight in Los Angeles, with Everything Everywhere All At Once leading the nominations with 11 nods.The ceremony will take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, beginning at 8pm ET (1am GMT), and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.As well as Everything Everywhere All At Once, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Insherin and the Netflix adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front are also up for multiple awards, with nine nominations apiece. All three movies will battle it out for Best Picture alongside the likes of Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way Of Water, and more.As is tradition, the artists behind the nominees for Best Original Song will perform at the ceremony.

Ricky Gervais has had his say in the debate surrounding Puffin’s decision to edit Roald Dahl’s books.Last week, the book publisher announced that Dahl’s books were being edited to remove language deemed offensive in order to make sure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”. Words such as “fat” and “ugly: have been completely removed and there have also been alterations made in relation to subjects such as gender, race and mental health.The decision sparked discourse online and in the press about censorship, creative freedom and treating certain creative works with outdated language as a product of its time. Even the Queen Consort weighed in, saying that the edits were the work of “those who may wish to curb the freedom of your expression or impose limits on your imagination”.In response, Gervais took to Twitter to joke about changing his comedy routines for the benefit of the “fragile” and “easily offended”.He captioned a photo of himself looking pensive with the caption: “This is me pondering whether they’ll change any of the words I’ve used in my work after I’m dead, to spare those who are fragile and easily offended.

Ricky Gervais has entered the debate surrounding Roald Dahl’s books for children, which have been edited to remove words like “fat” and “ugly” in their most recent versions. 

Today marks one full year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began and fears remain that it could last for another.

Naman Ramachandran Publisher Puffin U.K. will release “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection,” which will have the author’s original texts. “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” will be available alongside the newly released Puffin Roald Dahl books for young readers, “which are designed for children who may be navigating written content independently for the first time,” Puffin said. “Readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer.” Last week, Puffin was in the eye of a storm when it emerged that the works of Dahl, who died in 1990, had been rewritten, with the phrase “enormously fat” edited to just “enormous” and “most formidable female” to “most formidable woman” among numerous other examples from his most famous books. People who opposed the edits include author Salman Rushdie, who described it as “absurd censorship,” and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

maligned by many, the notorious Roald Dahl word purge could prove a boon to one segment of society: the owners of the original books. “Unedited” versions of the classic children’s novels have reportedly been listed for as much as $7,000 on eBay.This comes after the news broke that Puffin Books — a Penguin Books imprint for children — had tapped so-called sensitivity experts to scrub language they deemed offensive in an effort to appease the “woke” masses.

The language used in the work of writer Roald Dahl has been changed to remove anything that my be deemed offensive. The publisher of Dahl’s work, Puffin books has removed words like “fat” to describe characters and gender neutral terms are also now being used.

It’s a second week at Number 1 for Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, which continues its reign at the top based on digital download sales only.

Publisher Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, has edited Roald Dahl’s books in an effort to reflect a more inclusive language. Titles like James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have been altered by modifying words that are now deemed offensive.

Naman Ramachandran Editors at Penguin’s children’s imprint Puffin have taken a red pencil to the works of iconic, but divisive British writer Roald Dahl, known for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda” among many others. An extensive report by U.K. newspaper The Telegraph says “language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race has been cut and rewritten.” In 1964 novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which has been adapted twice as films in 1971 and 2005, starring Gene Hackman and Johnny Depp respectively, for example, the phrase “enormously fat” has been edited to just “enormous.” The same phrase in 1970 book “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” adapted as an animated film by Wes Anderson with a voice cast of George Clooney and Meryl Streep in 2009, has also been edited to “enormous.”

The Telegraph compared the latest editions by the publisher Puffin to older versions of Dahl’s work and discovered the newer versions edited and/or removed parts of the books that described characters “fat,” “crazy,” “ugly” and “black.”Specifically, “fat” is removed from all of the books, with Augustus Gloop in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” now described as “enormous.” And those orange-ish workers at Willy Wonka’s factory, those Oompa Loompas are no longer “little me;” they are now gender-neutral “little people.” Likewise, the Cloud-Men in “James and the Giant Peach” have become Cloud-People, according to the paper.In 2020, Roald Dahl Story Company and Puffin confirmed they began a review of his books and that any changes made were “small and carefully considered.”“We want to ensure that Roald Dahl’s wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today,” a spokesperson for Roald Dahl Story Company said at the time. “When publishing new print runs of books written years ago, it’s not unusual to review the language used alongside updating other details including a book’s cover and page layout.”The statement continued, “Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text.