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Illeana Douglas Looks Back on Hollywood’s Biggest ‘Cat Fight’

After publishing a book about the 1939 classic “The Women,” the actress and writer talks about her film career and her role in #MeToo.

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Douglas says she has learned to be “very strong and very direct.”

Steve Kornacki and NBC Drew Crowds as Midterms Got a Ratings Bump

More than 31 million viewers followed along with the Democrats’ big night on television, a 23 percent jump from the 2022 midterm elections.

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NBC led all the major cable and broadcast networks with 6.7 million viewers, a total that did not include a significant online audience for the livestream of its indefatigable data nerd, Steve Kornacki, in the white shirt.

American Is Convicted of Murder in Case That Gripped Italy

A TV program helped to identify the victims, a Russian woman and her young daughter, who were found dead in a Rome park.

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Investigators in Villa Pamphili park in Rome, where the bodies of Anastasia Trofimova and her daughter Andromeda were found, in 2025.

Late Night Gets Carried Away by the Blue Wave

“There’s going to be so many Republicans leaving the Capitol it will look like a reverse January 6,” Jimmy Fallon said after Democrats swept the midterm elections.

Trump Is Watching Fox News, and He Is Not Thrilled

On a consequential midterm night, the president offered some harsh criticism of the cable news channel on his social media account.

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President Trump raged against Jessica Tarlov, a co-host of “The Five” on Fox News, on his social media account on Tuesday.

How Broadcast, Cable and Late-Night Shows Plan to Cover the Midterm Elections

Viewers will be flooded with options, including 13 straight hours of NBC footage and a continuous livestream of Steve Kornacki and his big board.

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Steve Kornacki, NBC’s data analyst, will host a continuous livestream beginning late afternoon on Election Day.

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks the President’s ‘Pettysburg Address’

“And where better to reassure the public that they are in good hands than in front of a pool you’ve repeatedly botched to the tune of $16 million?” Kimmel said of Trump’s speech before the midterms.

‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes,’ a Canadian Sketch Show, Beats American Late Night to the Punchline

The long-running comedy show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” is having a heyday playing with the fraught relationship between President Trump and Canada.

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Mark Critch, a veteran cast member of “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” plays President Trump on the show.

‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes,’ a Canadian Sketch Show, Beats American Late Night to the Punchline

The long-running comedy show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” is having a heyday playing with the fraught relationship between President Trump and Canada.

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Mark Critch, a veteran cast member of “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” plays President Trump on the show.

Cyril Hilsum, Who Helped Invent Flat-Panel Displays in TVs and iPhones, Has Died at 101

The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.

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Cyril Hilsum with a fellow scientist in England in 1966. Known as “the father of liquid crystals,” he helped develop the technology that allowed electronic screens to go from bulky to svelte.

As Political Ad Spending Skyrockets, Broadcast TV Remains King

Even though marketers have increasingly shifted their dollars to other media, local stations are reaping a bonanza during these midterm elections. Nowhere is this is more evident than in Texas.

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Cyril Hilsum, Who Helped Invent Flat-Panel Displays in TVs and iPhones, Has Died at 101

The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.

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Cyril Hilsum with a fellow scientist in England in 1966. Known as “the father of liquid crystals,” he helped develop the technology that allowed electronic screens to go from bulky to svelte.

Patrick Stewart Embraced His Baldness and Became an Icon

It took him a while to realize that his lack of hair only added to his quietly commanding presence.

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In his memoir, Patrick Stewart wrote that he came to regard his baldness as a strength: “As I reconciled myself to my fate — or is it pate? — I realized that I had been given a strategic advantage.”

Taking the Saga of a Criminal Gang From Page to Screen to Opera Stage

Italians can’t get enough of “Romanzo Criminale,” a best-selling novel that has been made into a hit film, a bigger hit TV show and now, an opera.

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“Romanzo Criminale,” an opera based on the best-selling novel, at the Maggio Musicale theater in Florence, Italy, this month.
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