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EXCLUSIVE I just reported that Global Citizen, the sketchy humanitarian group, is putting together the half time show for the FIFA World Cup finale. We don't know how much they're being paid, but a look at their latest tax filing -- for 2024 -- ...

Madonna really wants to be relevant again. She's going to perform at the FIFA World Cup halftime show on July 19th in New Jsersey. She'll be joined by Coldplay, Shakira, and BTS. Madonna, of course, is releasing a new album called "Confessions on the ...

Jeff Sneider is known to all of us as the peripatetic King of Scoops in Hollywood. His Insneider Newsletter is a must read in Tinseltown. This morning Jeff was musing about not having gone to the Cannes Film Festival this year. But I bet he's happy . ...

Years ago, when she was a little girl, it was Paris Jackson who blew the whistle on her aunts and uncles when they kidnapped her grandmother. So it's no surprise that Paris, 28, Michael's second oldest child, has now prevailed in her court case ...

Just as the current Russian Tea Room in New York is not the actual place it once was, something similar has happened in Cannes. Tetou was a legendary restaurant on the beach in Golfe Juan, the seaside part of Antibes. For decades celebrities camped . ...

There are plenty of watches in the world that have black dials. A lot of them have brand names that use the word 'black' or 'noir.' Now only one that I can find uses "negro." Ocho Negro is the name of one of the new pendant watches announced in a ...

The news from Broadway is not that great from this past week. "Chicago" fell back to Earth, dropping by $1 million after the departure of its reality stars. With Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas on stage, "Chicago" had its biggest receipts ever after ...

ABC has announced that Conan O'Brien will be back next March as host of the Oscars. This will be Conan's third year in a row keeping the Academy Awards on track. Next March's show will be the 99th anniversary of the Academy Awards. They'll have one . ...

Rock producers don't get much respect because no one knows what they do. But their contribution to making hit records is incalculable. Such was the case for Jack Douglas, who has died at 80. Douglas's relationship with Lennon began when he engineered ...

Years ago, I was a Swatch collector. This was at a time before there was really an internet, to give context. Swatch was an innovative design company. Also, the watches cost $40. So fast forward. This week, word went out that Swatch was doing a ...