British stuntman Richard Graydon, who performed in 10 James Bond films, died Dec. 22 at 92, The Telegraph reported in an obituary.   His first screen credit was in 1952, as one of Robin Hood’s “merrie men” in the Disney film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men. His stunt career started in 1963 with From Russia With Love, according to The Telegraph. It was followed by Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

[The following interview contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season one and The Book of Boba Fett.] Sophie Thatcher thought her Jan. 12 debut on The Book of Boba Fett would be her introduction to the pop culture zeitgeist, but her Showtime series, Yellowjackets, which premiered two months earlier, has instead become the Internet’s new favorite show out of nowhere. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets is a psychological survival drama that explores the immediate and long-term aftermath of a high school soccer team’s plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.

Steve Harvey went off on “cancel culture” while promoting his new ABC courtroom comedy series, Judge Steve Harvey. The comedian and actor claimed to reporters Tuesday that he couldn’t do another stand-up comedy special unless it were the last thing he ever did in Hollywood, due to content sensitivities. “We’re in the cancel culture now,” he said during his show’s Television Critics Association press tour panel. “Nobody can say anything he wants to — Chris Rock can’t, Kevin Hart can’t, Cedric the Entertainer can’t, D.

Hitler’s Hollywood: The Films Nazis Loved and Hated ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ This 1930 Universal Pictures film based on the best-selling Erich Maria Remarque novel about German soldiers during World War I became the first movie to succumb to Nazi pressure after Joseph Goebbels staged a riot during the movie's Berlin premiere. Here's an example of a scene that the Nazis got cut.    Joseph Goebbels Goebbels (1897-1945) was the Third Reich's Propaganda Minister from 1933, when the Nazis took power, until his suicide at the end of World War II.

[Editor’s Note: In Nov. 2013, Brittany Murphy‘s father requested a new toxicology report that suggested that his daughter may have been poisoned. In an interview on Good Morning America,  he said: “I have a feeling that there was definitely a murder situation here. Yeah, it’s poison. Sharon Murphy, Brittany Murphy’s mother, disputed that claim in an open letter to The Hollywood Reporter.”] The following story appears in the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter on newsstands Wednesday.

Robert Lieberman, who directed films including Fire in the Sky and D3: The Mighty Ducks, episodes of The X-Files, Dexter and Criminal Minds and thousands of commercials, has died. He was 75. Lieberman died July 1 in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, his son, Nick Lieberman, who co-directed Searchlight Pictures’ Theater Camp, which hit the big screen this weekend, announced. Lieberman helmed TV spots for such companies as McDonald’s, Hallmark and Oreo and worked with talent ranging from President Clinton, Ray Charles and Jerry Lewis to Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway and Kenan Thompson.

ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen in 1978 with $9,000 on his credit card. Today, it encompasses six U.S. networks, 46 international ones, a radio network, websites, a magazine, even a restaurant chain. It is worth more than the entire NFL, or more than the NBA, the NHL and Major League Baseball combined. The subject of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by Tom Shales, the Pulitzer-winning former Washington Post TV critic, and James Miller, a former journalist and cable executive, is the “mystery of ESPN’s rise to stratospheric heights from subterranean depths.

The news that Nikki Finke — the cantankerous trade blogger who traumatized and entertained Hollywood in equal measure with her vendetta-based brand of entertainment journalism — died Sunday at 68 dislodged a tidal wave of not-so-fond memories in this town. Her reign of terror kicked into high gear when she moved her column Deadline Hollywood from L.A. Weekly over to Penske Media Corporation, owner of The Hollywood Reporter, in 2009; she walked away in 2013 after clashing with the ownership.

Though it’s hard to imagine anyone having a beef with the lovable Tim Gunn, it appears that the longtime Project Runway correspondent is not on the friendliest of terms with fellow fashion veteran Anna Wintour.  What began as an innocent enough question during an interview with the New York Post — where Gunn was asked about the most unforgettable moment he’s ever seen in fashion — soon escalated into a tense exchange with Wintour’s PR team.

Louise Latham, the actress who made her big-screen debut by portraying the manipulative mother of Tippi Hedren’s character in Alfred Hitchcock‘s suspense thriller Marnie, has died. She was 95. Latham died Feb. 12 in a retirement home in Montecito, California, it was announced. On television, Latham showed up as Olivia’s (Michael Learned) Aunt Kate on a 1977 episode of The Waltons, and she portrayed Perky, the mother of Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, respectively) in 1986 on Designing Women.