February 2, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Disney+/Marvel Studios(NEW YORK) — It’s already well known that everyone who joins a Marvel Studios project is subjected to security that would impress the CIA, and Owen Wilson is no exception. However, he tells ABC Audio it’s no secret he’s excited about being a part of the anticipated Disney+ series, Loki.

While Tom Hiddleston’s titular god of mischief died at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, the time-spanning Avengers: Endgame gave him an out: while Iron Man, Ant-Man and Captain America travel back to 2014 to steal the Tesseract following the Battle of New York, there’s a scuffle, and a captured Loki steals the multiverse MacGuffin and vanishes into time.

The trailer for the series, which debuts on Disney+ in May, shows that Loki ends up in the custody of the Time Variance Authority, an agency that polices violations of the time/space continuum, where he’s interrogated by Mobius M. Mobius, an agent played by Wilson.

“I don’t like to talk,” Hiddleston’s character says. “But you do like to lie — which you just did…” Wilson responds with a laugh, “‘Cause we both know you LOVE to talk.”

Given the security around the six-episode project, Wilson wasn’t giving away any spoilers. While promoting his new Amazon Prime drama Bliss, he would only tease, with a smile, “I think it’s gonna be pretty cool.” 

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By Stephen Iervolino
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February 2, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Ashley Tisdale is counting down the days until she welcomes her newborn daughter and, on Monday, reminded her fellow expecting moms to have pride in their bodies.

The High School Musical alum shared a tastefully nude maternity shot that fully shows her pregnant body.  The actress said that she hopes to promote self-love and acceptance with her vulnerable post.

“So much of the time we give our love to others. Let’s start loving ourselves and our bodies in every shape and form,” captioned Tisdale, 35. “Our bodies do a lot for us every day and we neglect to acknowledge that.”

The Masked Dancer host closed out her inspirational post by telling her followers to “Thank your body and say I love you.”

Tisdale’s followers were quick to praise the message and received words of encouragement from famous friends like Vanessa Lachey who gushed, “Babe! This is so Beautiful!!!! So damn happy for YOUUUU!”

Fellow Disney Channel alum Hilary Duff, who is also expecting, told Tisdale that she’s “Lookin like a queen.”

Sarah Hyland and Vanessa Hudgens also left positive remarks, both telling the soon-to-be mom that she looked “gorgeous.”

Tisdale is expecting a daughter with husband Christopher French.  The two wed in 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child in September.

By Megan Stone
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Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Angelina Jolie says she’s a mother first and foremost, which is why she is focusing on “healing our family” after her public and, sometimes, contentious divorce from ex Brad Pitt.

Opening up to British Vogue for the magazine’s upcoming March issue, the 45-year-old actress admits, “The past few years have been pretty hard.”

Jolie and Pitt, who announced their divorce in 2016 and, in the following years, engaged in a public and difficult legal battle over custody of their six children: Maddox, 19, Pax, 16, Zahara, 15, Shiloh, 14, and 12-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

The former couple secretly wed in 2014 after dating for nearly a decade.

“I’ve been focusing on healing our family,” the Salt star continued. “It’s slowly coming back, like the ice melting and the blood returning to my body.”

Jolie revealed that she has since moved to be closer to Pitt.

The actress revealed that her new Los Angeles estate once belonged to the famed Cecil B. DeMille, telling Vogue, “I wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away. I felt a little pressure moving in. Like I had snuck into where DeMille and Chaplin would hang out.”

Adds Jolie, “I feel very fortunate we have that at this time” — referencing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has challenged her family in other ways.

“Pax going into his senior year, but not being able to enjoy all that it is to be a senior; Zahara finally getting her driving license, but she’s taking the test with the driver wrapped in the full outfit with the masks. It’s not how you imagine these moments,” she reflected. “But birthdays go on, and I think that for many people, it’s made us all feel very human together. There’s something beautiful about that.”

By Megan Stone
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Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Hal Holbrook, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actor best known for channelling the iconic Mark Twain, died on January 23 at his Beverly Hills, California home, his assistant confirmed to the New York Times on Monday.

He was 95.

Holbrook channeled the legendary writer on his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight!, which ran for six decades. He was also known for starring as Deep Throat, the government informant in All the President’s Men, and as Lou Mannheim in Wall Street, who tries to be the conscience that Charle Sheen’s Bud Foxx loses for love of money.

In his later years, the actor was nominated for an Oscar for his 2008 work Into the Wild, becoming the oldest actor at 82 to be nominated for best supporting actor. He is survived by three children and was pre-deceased by wife, Dixie Carter.

By Danielle Long
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Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Audible(LOS ANGELES) — As allegations of abuse against Marilyn Manson pour out, his ex, Rose McGowan, is making it known where she stands — with the victims. 

McGowan, who dated and was engaged to the rockstar until their split in 2001, took to Instagram on Monday threw her full support behind Manson’s accusers. 

“I am profoundly sorry to those who have suffered the abuse & mental torture of Marilyn Manson. When I say Hollywood is a cult, I mean the Entertainment industry including the music industry is a cult. Cult’s protect the rot at the top. Theirs is a sickness that must be stopped,” the 47-year-old actress wrote in a statement. 

“The industrial fame complex chooses who they protect & who they’ll let be their victims. For profit. I stand with Evan Rachel Wood and all of those who have or will come forward,” she continued. “And please don’t pull out the ‘why did they take so much time to come forward?’ question that shames victims/survivors, it’s what stops others from coming forward. And to all of those who have covered for monsters, shame on you. Rise and say no more.”

McGowan’s statement comes hours after Wood openly accused Manson of alleged abuse, claiming he “started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission.”

The “Sweet Dreams” singer has since responded to the allegations with an Instagram post of his own. 

“Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” Manson wrote. “My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”

By Danielle Long
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