Sideshow: Krasinski, Del Toro, Lee to announce Oscar noms
The great day is almost upon us - Oscar night!
Oscar noms due
The great day is almost upon us - Oscar night!
The Feb. 28 event will be kicked off Thursday with the announcement of this year's nominations.
Guillermo del Toro, John Krasinski, and Ang Lee will rattle off noms in all 24 categories at a live two-hour news conference on ABC beginning at 8:30 a.m. (It'll also be streamed live at www.oscars.org/live.)
Murdoch to wed again
Keith Rupert Murdoch, 83, has decided to take a fourth wife. The Australian-born international media mogul is making an honest woman of his GF, model-actress Jerry Hall. He announced their engagement Monday in the Times of London.
Murdoch has six children and 13 grandchildren with his various wives. He went through his most recent divorce, from Wendi Deng, in 2013. He also broke with longtime friend former British prime minister Tony Blair, who allegedly had an affair with Deng.
Hall, 59, had a 22-year relationship with Mick Jagger that began in 1977 and yielded four children.
A 'Boo Boo' love story
Mama June (June Thompson) of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo fame has announced that her 16-year-old daughter, Pumpkin, has become engaged to a real nice 19-year-old feller named Joshua Efird.
He proposed at a seafood joint.
The couple say they are saving themselves for marriage.
Gossip petits fours
Filmmaker J.J. Abrams will present Amy Schumer with the Critics' Choice MVP Award at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards Sunday. It'll be shown live on A&E, Lifetime, and LMN beginning at 7 p.m. . . . Kristen Bell and Ted Danson have signed to star in NBC's new sitcom Good Place from Parks and Recreation creator Michael Schur. Bell stars as a woman who is not a good person and Danson as a life coach who helps her become good. . . .
'El Chapo,' the movie?
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was recaptured last week in northern Mexico after a daring jailbreak, wanted to make a film about his life.
Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola tells Reuters El Chapo started the process by applying to make his nickname a trademark. The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property has denied his request.
'Good Wife' to go on?
Robert and Michelle King, the married team behind Julianna Margulies' CBS drama The Good Wife, are leaving after its current, seventh season.
CBS prez Glenn Geller says the show, which has yet to be renewed for an eighth season, can and most likely will go on. For their part, the Kings are creating a summer series for CBS called BrainDead.
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