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Tom Tapp
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Tom has covered the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. He joined Deadline in 2020 after working on the homepage teams of both Yahoo and AT&T. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Premiere magazine and on The Daily Beast. Tom founded the popular industry website and newsletter HollywoodWiretap.com, which he later sold. Before that, he spent seven years at Variety, where he was the Managing Editor of Features. While there, he created the trade’s award-winning lifestyle publication, V Life, and was its Executive Editor.
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‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Movie: Tickets, Release Dates, Premiere & Where To Watch
Taylor Swift has the highest-grossing concert tour of the year, and she’s set out to conquer movie theaters, as well. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which opened Thursday, has already sold more than $100 million in advance ticket sales in 8,500 theaters across 100 countries around the world. It could make $1…
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Disney Launching Limited-Time Activation On TikTok Offering Users Video, Music & Custom Effects From 48 Of The Company’s Iconic Brands
Disney and TikTok today announced a collaboration to celebrate The Walt Disney Company's 100th anniversary. Fans on the platform “will be able to watch videos from across Disney's brands, create their own videos with Disney music and effects, play daily Disney trivia, and collect and trade "Character…
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Joel McHale On Chevy Chase’s ‘Community’ Gripes: “You Could Have Left”
Joel McHale is responding to recent comments made by his Community costar Chevy Chase about the show, which Chase left one year before it ended in 2014.
Last month, the SNL star was asked on Mark Maron’s podcast about his Community character, Pierce Hawthorne, and Chase replied, "I didn't mind the…
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Rudolph Isley Dies: Founding Member Of The Isley Brothers Was 84
Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Grammy-winning Isley Brothers who helped create some of the most memorable songs in American musical history, has died. His brother Ron confirmed the news to Deadline. Rudolph Isley was 84.
In a statement provided to Deadline, Ron Isley said of his brother’s…
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Salman Rushdie To Publish ‘Knife,’ A Book About Stabbing Incident That Blinded Him In One Eye
Salman Rushdie hinted in February that he was working on a memoir about the stabbing attack last year that nearly killed him and left him blind in one eye. Now, the Booker Prize winner has announced that book will be called Knife and will be published by Penguin Random House on April 16…
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Santa Monica Pier Evacuated After Man Claiming To Have Bomb Climbs Iconic Ferris Wheel
UPDATED with resolution: A man carrying a backpack and apparently claiming to have a bomb climbed to the center of the Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel today, prompting the closure and evacuation of the entire pier before the man was taken into custody.
Officers were dispatched about 2:40 p.m. to the…
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RFK Jr. Teleprompter Glitch Set To The ‘Curb’ Theme Online After Candidate Announces Independent Presidential Run With Wife Cheryl Hines
Cheryl Hines made her first big public campaign appearance for husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today. The Curb Your Enthusiasm actress introduced the Kennedy scion as he announced his bid as an Independent candidate for the presidency of the United States in Philadelphia.
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U2 Honors Israel Attack Victims, Alters “Pride” Lyrics During Vegas Sphere Show: “Those Beautiful Kids At That Music Festival”
While U2’s series of shows at The Sphere in Las Vegas has thusfar been notable for the brilliant display of technology that the building allows, the band this weekend took a beat to remind those in attendance of the power of music — and human connection.
With the screen around him black, Bono…
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Swedish Model & Singer Who Co-Wrote Katy Perry’s “Walking On Air,” Camela Leierth-Segura, Found Alive After Missing For Three Months — Update
UPDATE: After missing for three months, Camela Leierth-Segura has been found alive and safe. Cecilia Foss, a friend of the Swedish model and singer who co-wrote Katy Perry’s “Walking On Air,” confirmed she was found in California.
“I wanted to let you all know that my friend Camela who has been…
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Drake Did Not Clear Use Of “West End Girls” On His New Song “All The Parties,” Say Pet Shop Boys
Drake’s latest album For All the Dogs is, as usual, garnering much attention. It’s not all pure praise, however.
In a tweet today, the Pet Shop Boys allege the hip-hop superstar didn’t clear the use of lyrics from their catchy 1986 classic “West End Girls” for use in the track “All the Parties” on…
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New ‘SNL’ Castmember: Who Is Chloe Troast?
Chloe Troast is the newest member of the cast of Saturday Night Live, Deadline reported exclusively today. She is the only addition for the upcoming Season 49.
Troast has worked closely with SNL's Please Don't Destroy trio – the writing and performing group that consists of Ben Marshall, John…
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Former CNN Anchor Campbell Brown Leaving Meta As Company Shifts Away From News
Campbell Brown, Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of media and sports partnerships, is stepping down from the post, according to multiple reports.
Brown, who was an anchor and correspondent at CNN for 14 years, joined the company in 2017 as head of Facebook's news partnership program. She later helped lead…
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