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The MPAA has given the biopic 'Blonde,' starring Ana de Armas as the celebrity icon, an adults-only rating. BY JAMES HIBBERD Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic officially has an NC-17 rating. Blonde, which stars Ana de Armas (Deep Water) as the iconic actress and pinup model, was given the rare adults-only rating for “some sexual content” by the Motion Picture Association on Wednesday. Director Andrew Dominik previously predicted the film, which is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, would get an NC-17, defiantly telling Screen Daily in February: “It’s a demanding movie. If the audience doesn’t like it, that’s the fucking audience’s problem. It’s not running for public office. It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, it’s kind of what you want, right? I want to go and see the NC-1...

The celebrity philanthropists are helping Indigenous youth in Canada train to operate water treatment plants and other measures to ensure safe, clean water for their communities. BY ETAN VLESSING Blake Lively (L) and Ryan Reynolds attend The Adam Project World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on February 28, 2022 in New York City. MONICA SCHIPPER/GETTY IMAGESRyan Reynolds and Blake Lively have donated half a million dollars to Canadian charity Water First Education & Training Inc. The organization trains Indigenous youth and young adults in bringing safe water to their communities through operating key water treatment plants. Residents of First Nations communities often rely on water treatment facilities to end poor, contaminated water supplies, despite Canada being water-rich. “A...

"I don't want you to be broken like my father," the actor and former California governor said, in part, in a nine-minute address attempting to punch through Russian state propaganda, in which he recalled his dad's failings. BY JAMES HIBBERD Arnold Schwarzenegger released an emotional video Thursday addressed to the people of Russia. The 74-year-old actor and former California governor largely focused on stating the basic facts of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, complete with subtitles, in an attempt to punch through Russian state propaganda. “I’m sending this message to various different channels to reach my dear Russian friends and the Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine,” Schwarzenegger said in a nine-minute address embedded below. “I’m speaking to you today because the...

By Jean-Michel Frodon, a well-known critic of French cinema After watching the movie “Paper Dream” in the side section of the Cannes Film Festival Jean-Michel Frodon - Paper Dream Movie Makeup The makeup of the “Paper Dream” movie, one of the films of Iranian cinema participated in the side section of the festival, was one of the best and most thought-out makeups done among the works displayed in the Cannes Film Festival of the Year. In this makeup, not only it had not been attempted to spray the usual repetitive colors and glazes on the characters' faces that we have to face in most productions, rather, the identities of the characters and their behaviors had been thoroughly considered in the makeups. We will first put our focus on the actor who plays Khaled.Khalid has an importa...

The former Harpo Entertainment executive died after giving birth, with her surviving daughter, Beatrice Violet, to be raised by her parents. BY ETAN VLESSING Leah Stephanie Newman, daughter of WME motion picture agent Robert Newman and a former Hollywood TV exec, has died. She was 33. On Nov. 22, Newman gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Violet. Two days later, she died unexpectedly from unknown postpartum complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Her daughter will be raised by Newman’s parents, Cindy and Robert Newman. “To know Leah was to love her. She was an extraordinarily loving, generous and kind person; her big heart overflowed with compassion for humanity. Leah loved to sew, cook, travel and spend time with her family and friends. Leah’s greatest d...