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UPDATE: John Leguizamo and his wife Justine were given choice spots at the White House State Dinner: At the president’s table, seated with figures including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Earlier, Leguizamo told a reporter that he “definitely&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America hasn't said anything publicly about the savage attack on Israel by terrorists on October 7, and a number of irate showrunners and others will be discussing that silence Friday. Almost a week after dozens of high-profile WGA members put out an open letter reprima…

Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has drawn early support from a range of figures in entertainment, media and tech, including six-figure contributions from a list that includes Seth MacFarlane, Netflix’s Reed Hastings and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Among donors in entertainment, Jeffrey Katzenberg gave the…

Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the “blockbuster” $72 million raised by Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee in the initial quarter of his re-election campaign defies doubts about enthusiasm heading into the next election cycle. Biden’s campaign announced the figure on…

Joe Biden wrapped up a fundraising blitz on Thursday with some words of praise for Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has an official role on his reelection campaign as one of its co-chairs. At a fundraiser at the New York event space The Pool, Biden said, according to a pool report, “I have a lot of assets in…

Forget about tripping over a sandbag. Jeffrey Katzenberg wants President Joe Biden to act like Mick Jagger. The Wall St. Journal reports movie mogul Katzenberg has joined with other advisers to tell Biden to "own" his age and turn it into an asset. If Jagger (who turns 80 soon) and Ford (now 80)…

Political kingmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg said he thinks the 2024 presidential election will see President Joe Biden facing off, once again, with Donald Trump. "I believe our current president will run again," the DreamWorks, Quibi and venture capital firm WndrCo co-founder said during a Q&A at the WSJ…

Before Stephen Spielberg’s much-lauded interpretation of West Side Story, there was another high-powered effort to bring the musical conceived by Jerome Robins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents to the screen. It would have been the first remake since…

Hollywood powerbrokers past and present officially said goodbye to one of their own Sunday. Bert Fields, who died August 8 at the age of 93, was celebrated today by clients, family and colleagues at a memorial service in Santa Monica. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Estrich and Michael…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s “Fun and Games” episode of the final season of Better Call Saul. "You asked if you were bad for me," Rhea Seehorn's Kim Wexler says to Bob Odenkirk's Saul Goodman in tonight's fifth to last episode of AMC’s Better Call Saul. "That’s not it," the recently…

UPDATED: The Los Angeles mayoral primary race that saw billionaire Grove developer Rick Caruso in the lead and Rep. Karen Bass trailing on election night has swung the other way as mail-in ballots, which make up the majority of the city’s votes, have crawled in. Caruso’s share of the tally has dropped 5 percentage…

UPDATE: President Joe Biden told a group of donors at the home of Haim Saban that “we’re going to live with this inflation for a while,” but said that “this idea that inflation is caused by the economic growth we’ve caused is simply not true.” Inflation, Biden said, according to pool reporters, is “going to come down…