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Sylvester Stallone Details Teen Stay at Mental Institution
Sylvester Stallone is recalling a past stay at a mental institution as a teenager.
“In my age group, the teenagers, if you ever snuck out to see a girl or do something like that, you’d be reprimanded by being taken to a place called Park Lodge or the Snake Pit,” Stallone, 80, told The New York Times in a profile published Saturday, September 26, repeating claims mentioned in his new memoir, The Steps, about his experience at Devereux Manor High School. “On the outside it looked like a big, old Tudor home from the ’20s, and then you walked inside and you entered the heart of insanity.”
He continued, “The smell, the filth, people running around naked, clawing, hands tied, drooling. This is what they thought would impress you never to break the rules again.”
According to Stallone, he was once remanded to a psychiatric ward for “a couple of weeks.”
Sylvester Stallone and Robert Patrick’s past working relationship made for an “easier” time on the Tulsa King season 3 set. “Because we know each other, we can speak in shorthand,” Stallone, 79, told Us Weekly exclusively ahead of the Paramount+ show’s premiere on Sunday, September 21. “Robert is one of these actors — which I […]
“It was wild, but this to me, was one of the better things that happened, too,” the action star recalled. “I said, ‘I know they’re going to try to break me.’ I was attacked there. They tried to rip my groin off.”
Stallone claimed that he was sent to the facility alongside a fellow student nicknamed Jay Bird.
“He was big, had no hair, always naked, rotten teeth. They called him Jay Bird because he was always naked as a jaybird,” he told The Times. “And I go into the bathroom on the way to the food mess hall, and he comes in and comes around me and he’s like ripping on my throat and he is going into my pants and grabbing my groin.”
Stallone continued, “Then, the two guards come in and they’re beating the crap out of him with razor straps. I go, ‘What the hell is wrong with him?’ And they say, ‘You’re in a crazy house, boy. Nothing’s wrong with him. He’s crazy.’”
Sylvester Stallone is addressing President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to appoint him as a special ambassador to Hollywood. “Well, it just happened. I was watching TV one night, and they go, ‘So Stallone and Mel Gibson and Jon Voight will be …’ And I went, ‘What?’” Stallone, 80, recalled to The Sunday Times in an interview […]
Following the alleged attack, Stallone said he took “a much better lesson” from the incident.
“When I came out of there and was standing before the school principal and he said, ‘You learned your lesson?’ I said, ‘I learned a lot more than that lesson. A much better lesson: You can’t break me,’” he stated. “So when I got to [New York City in my 20s] and everything that came after that, I always felt I was unbreakable in that way. My heart could be broken, like every human being, but I’m talking about will.”
Stallone attended Devereux Manor High School, an educational institution in Pennsylvania run by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health foundation. A rep for Devereux told The Times that they respect Stallone’s “right to tell his story his own way” and are “sorry for any trauma he remembers experiencing” without directly commenting on the accusations.
The Steps hits bookstore shelves Tuesday, September 29.
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Jon Hamm’s New True Crime Series Officially Defeats Titus Welliver’s ‘Bosch’ Replacement
It’s the season of crime on streaming, with the recently released Unabomber movie jumping to the top of the Netflix viewership charts. Meanwhile, the latest seasons of Guy Ritchie‘s The Gentlemen and MobLand are enjoying continued success on their respective platforms, while another face-off unfolds on MGM+. The Westies, a crime drama series headlined by J.K. Simmons and Titus Welliver, had been enjoying relative freedom for the past several weeks, facing competition only in the form of the sci-fi series From. More recently, however, a new crime series has offered a fresh challenge to The Westies, replacing it as the number-one series domestically on MGM+.
The new show is a limited series based on a popular podcast; both the source material and the TV spin-off are fronted by Jon Hamm. The show appears to be following in the footsteps of Ryan Murphy‘s popular anthology series American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Sports Story. Based on a real incident from the 1970s, the new series follows the standoff between a disgruntled man and the authorities after he takes a mortgage broker hostage following a dispute. The hostage taker, played by Giovanni Ribisi, demands to be interviewed by a radio host played by Hamm.
Titus Welliver and Jon Hamm Worked Together on a Crime Classic
The series in question is American Hostage, and according to FlixPatrol, it’s now the most-watched title on the MGM+ charts. Also featuring Mireille Enos, the series has aired three episodes so far, and has pushed The Westies down the leaderboard. American Hostage now holds a stellar 93% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider’s Meredith Loftus describing it in her review as “a crime thriller you don’t want to sleep on.” Meanwhile, The Westies appears to have settled at a 78% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “What The Westies lacks in originality, it makes up for with a sturdy crime story, compelling characters, and a cast that knows how to handle the genre.” Incidentally, Hamm and Welliver played pivotal supporting roles in Ben Affleck‘s critically acclaimed heist movie The Town, which was released in 2010. Recently, Hamm has been acclaimed for his central performance in Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors, while Welliver has become a household name thanks to Prime Video’s Bosch, which could be eyeing a return. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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September 20, 2026
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MGM+
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Adam Arkin
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Abby St. Clair, Eileen Myers, Shawn Ryan
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Reacher Creator Officially Reveals Why Tom Cruise Finally Took the Role After 7 Years [Exclusive]
Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher eventually became one of the most controversial casting decisions in modern action movies, but here’s the weird part: he wasn’t originally attached to play him at all. According to Lee Child, Cruise’s involvement with Jack Reacher began behind the scenes, years before he decided he wanted to step in front of the camera.
Speaking exclusively with Collider ahead of his new Reacher novel, Child revealed that Cruise initially became involved through Cruise/Wagner Productions as an investor. He already knew the books and believed a movie adaptation had potential, but playing Reacher wasn’t initially part of the plan. “Cruise was not attached to it as an actor or producer,” Child told Collider. “He was an investor. He knew the series. He thought, ‘Yeah, this will probably fly.’ He wanted to be an investor, and Cruise/Wagner was the production company.”
So what changed? Christopher McQuarrie. After years in development, McQuarrie wrote the screenplay that would eventually become Jack Reacher. Child remembers being hugely impressed by the script, and Cruise apparently had the same reaction. “After six years, a screenplay was written by Christopher McQuarrie, who’s a shit-hot guy,” said Child, in something of an understatement. “| mean, a great, great writer, great movie man. The screenplay was so good, and it was circulated amongst all the interested parties. Obviously, I got a copy. Cruise got a copy as an executive producer, and so on. Cruise read it and thought, ‘Wow, this is great. I want to play this guy.’ And that’s where it started rolling.”
Tom Cruise Wasn’t Supposed To Be Jack Reacher
The backstory behind how the movie got made makes the whole thing a lot more interesting. This wasn’t a series that Cruise had earmarked for himself the whole time; he just found a series he wanted to see become a movie franchise. But the script was just too good to turn down, and when Tom Cruise says he wants to play a part, he usually gets what he’s after. Of course, that created a problem nobody involved could ignore, because Child’s Reacher is described as a physically enormous man, while Cruise very obviously isn’t. The decision nevertheless paid enormous dividends for the books, which helped build the franchise into a worldwide phenomenon. Cruise was one of the world’s biggest movie stars, and Jack Reacher introduced Child’s character to audiences who had never picked up one of the novels. Child recalled that shortly after the first movie arrived, eight of his older paperbacks simultaneously landed in the Top 10.
Jack Reacher is available to rent or buy digitally. Lee Child was speaking exclusively to Collider in support of Chain Reaction, the latest Jack Reacher novel, which arrives October 20. Child will also co-write Zero Margin, the first Frances Neagley novel, with Yasmin Angoe, arriving in spring 2027. Sign up for a free trial of Audible to listen to the Reacher novels and more.
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December 21, 2012
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2h 10m
There were plenty of NBA Finals jokes to go around when Jalen Brunson’s New York Knicks teammates crashed his Saturday Night Live season 52 premiere monologue.
“Tonight, I’m going to approach hosting [SNL] the same way as I approached the Knicks’ Finals games,” Brunson, 30, vowed on stage in Studio 8H on Saturday, September 26. “The first three-quarters of the show are going to be god awful, the last sketch is going to be amazing.”
The point guard was soon interrupted by Knicks teammates Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, and Josh Hart asking questions from the studio audience.
Brunson poked fun at Towns’ propensity for nearly fouling out during the NBA Finals in June, assuring him that you cannot “foul out of SNL.”
New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson joked that his team’s miraculous NBA Championship run might have played a role in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce picking Madison Square Garden as their wedding venue. “Maybe. Maybe,” Brunson, 29, said last week at Variety’s inaugural Sports & Entertainment Studio in New York. “But knowing how weddings work, […]
“So I could be here like the whole show? Nice,” Towns declared.
Anunoby, 29, quizzed Brunson on whether he remembered “in Game 4, when you took that shot at the end and missed it?”
“Yeah, you tipped it in,” Brunson replied, with Anunoby quipping, “Oh yeah, that was awesome.”
Hart, 31, was most concerned with reports that Brunson took a $113 million pay cut in the summer of 2024 to stay with the Knicks.
When Brunson confirmed that figure was correct, Hart asked, “Wow. So, is that money still up for grabs?”
Hart also finally offered an explanation for the viral clip of him poking Brunson in the butt while they were celebrating their NBA Finals victory over the San Antonio Spurs in June.
“[I did it] because it was funny,” Hart joked.
Jalen Brunson on “Saturday Night Live.” Courtesy YouTube/NBC
Earlier in the monologue, Brunson referenced another pop culture touchstone that took place at Madison Square Garden over the summer.
“The new [NBA] season is just a couple of weeks away and I gotta say it’s going to be pretty cool to be back at Madison Square Garden,” he said. “Looking around like, ‘Wow, just a few months ago this was the exact spot where Taylor [Swift] and Travis [Kelce] got married!’”
Prior to his SNL hosting debut, Brunson admitted on Tamron Hall on Monday, September 21, that he was “probably not” prepared to make his sketch comedy debut.
“I’m being honest with you: I have no idea what I’m walking into, but I know it’s going to turn out great,” he said.
The athlete shot down the possibility of singing on SNL, though he left a little wiggle room for a potential dance number.
“I’m not gonna say no to that. Maybe,” he teased.
Brunson has joined a pantheon of NBA greats who have hosted SNL throughout the show’s 52-year history, including Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Charles Barkley.
Saturday Night Live continues on NBC Saturday, October 3, at 11:30 p.m. ET with host Dakota Johnson and musical guests Turnstile. New episodes can be streamed Sundays via Peacock.
The lion’s share of Taylor Sheridan’s writing efforts in the last few years have been focused on building his TV empire at Paramount, but older fans of Sheridan’s work will remember when he was best known for movies, not TV shows. Sheridan made his feature writing debut all the way back in 2015 on Sicario, which is still widely viewed to this day as one of the best projects of his career, if not the best. Sheridan even penned the script for a Sicario sequel just three years after the release of the original film, but Denis Villeneuve did not return to direct and was instead replaced by Stefano Sollima. Sheridan and Sollima later worked together on the 2021 Tom Clancy adaptation, Without Remorse, starring recent Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan in the lead role of John Kelly.
When Sheridan began his feature writing career with Sicario, most fans and critics felt that there was no way for him to follow it up with a better movie, but that’s exactly what he did with the premiere of Hell or High Water. For those who have never seen or even heard of Hell or High Water, the cleanest way to pitch it is that it’s a perfect mash-up of Yellowstone and No Country for Old Men. Like Yellowstone, Hell or High Water is set against a dusty Western backdrop, but it also features dynamics of organized crime constantly clashing with law enforcement — this theme is heavily present in both Yellowstone and No Country for Old Men. 10 years after Hell or High Water grossed $37 million at the box office against a $12 million budget, the film is available to stream on HBO Max.
What Is ‘Hell or High Water’ About?
The official synopsis for Hell or High Water, which holds scores of 97% from critics and 89% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Toby (Chris Pine) is a divorced father who’s trying to make a better life for his son. His brother Tanner (Ben Foster) is an ex-convict with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that’s about to foreclose on their family ranch. Standing in their way is Marcus (Jeff Bridges), a Texas Ranger who’s only weeks away from retirement. As the siblings plot their final robbery, they must also prepare for a showdown with a crafty lawman who’s not ready to ride off into the sunset.” Hell or High Water was directed by David Mackenzie, who also helmed the streaming hit dominating HBO Max right now, Fuze, starring Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Check out Hell or High Water on HBO Max and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Taylor Sheridan’s future projects.
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August 11, 2016
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102 minutes
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David Mackenzie
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Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn, Peter Berg, Sidney Kimmel
I used to think suspense needed a ticking clock or a killer on the loose to actually work. Turns out the shows that get under my skin the most don’t need any of that, they just take their time and trust you to sit in discomfort with them. Every single show on this list is built around someone pretending to be a different person than they actually are, creating a thrilling story for you to sit with.
I’ve recommended these six shows to people the most, and they are also the ones I’ve had the hardest time explaining why afterward. Something about them just stays with you longer than it should. A single dinner scene or a quiet conversation in a car does more damage here than an actual chase scene manages in most other thrillers.
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‘The Americans’ (2013–2018)
Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) run a normal suburban household with two kids in 1980s Washington D.C., and they’re both undercover KGB agents nobody around them has any reason to suspect. Their next-door neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), happens to be the FBI agent actively hunting Soviet spies just like them, and he has no idea he’s friends with two of the exact people he’s looking for.
Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer himself, created the show, and that real intelligence background shows in how mundane and procedural the actual spy tradecraft looks on screen. Russell and Rhys became a real couple during filming, which adds an odd layer to how convincing their fake marriage looks. The finale is widely considered one of the best series endings ever written, quiet, devastating, and completely deserved.
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‘Hannibal’ (2013–2015)
Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), an FBI profiler with an unusual gift for getting inside a killer’s head, starts working with a psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) who’s quietly manipulating him the entire time. Bryan Fuller shoots the murders here like fine art installations, blood arranged into deliberate, painterly compositions instead of standard crime-scene gore.
The show works as a prequel to the world of Silence of the Lambs, though it barely resembles a typical crime procedural by the time it finds its own rhythm. NBC canceled it after three seasons despite strong reviews, and fans still argue it never got the ending it actually deserved. The relationship between Will and Hannibal has a charged, intimate quality that fans have spent years dissecting online.
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‘Mr. Robot’ (2015–2019)
Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), a cybersecurity engineer with crippling social anxiety, gets recruited by a mysterious anarchist hacker named Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) to help take down the corporation controlling most of the world’s debt. Sam Esmail wrote and directed nearly every episode himself, an unusually hands-on approach for a show running multiple seasons.
The hacking scenes are technically accurate that real security researchers have praised the show for getting details other TV shows are always fake. A major twist eventually reveals something about Mr. Robot’s actual identity that recontextualizes basically every scene that came before it, without the show ever cheating to get there. Malek’s performance holds the whole unreliable narrator structure together, since the audience only ever knows exactly as much as Elliot’s own fractured perspective allows.
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‘Dark’ (2017–2020)
Children start disappearing from a small German town called Winden, and what looks like a simple missing-persons case slowly grows into a time loop connecting four generations of the same interconnected families. Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese created the show together, and the family tree gets so complicated that characters eventually turn out to be their own ancestors, cousins, and children all at once.
Fans built entire spreadsheets and diagrams just to keep track of who’s related to who across which specific decade. The show jumps between 1888, 1921, 1953, 1986, 2019, and beyond, and every timeline still feels too real despite the sheer mechanical complexity underneath it. It’s one of the most intricately plotted shows ever made, full stop, in any language.
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‘Mindhunter’ (2017–2019)
Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), two real-life inspired FBI agents, start interviewing convicted serial killers to figure out what actually makes them tick, back when criminal profiling barely existed as a field. Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton), one of the killers they interview repeatedly, delivers some of the most quietly disturbing dialogue in the whole show without a single act of on-screen violence.
David Fincher directed and produced most of the episodes, and the interview scenes run long on purpose, letting the dread build through conversations. The show got canceled after two seasons despite strong reviews, and Fincher reportedly said continuing it would’ve needed a budget nobody was willing to give him.
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‘Fargo’ (2014–2024)
Each season of this show tells a mostly standalone story set somewhere in the Upper Midwest, borrowing the tone of the original Coen Brothers film without ever directly adapting its actual plot. Noah Hawley created the show, and the first season alone turns an ordinary insurance salesman into someone capable of real violence, mostly because a chaotic hitman named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) decides to destabilize his entire life for fun.
That anthology structure means the show can completely reinvent its cast, setting, and time period every season without ever losing its specific blend of dark comedy and sudden brutal violence. New characters and a new ensemble show up each time, but the same sense of ordinary people getting pulled into something much bigger than themselves stays consistent throughout. Ten years and five seasons later, it’s still finding new ways to tell essentially the same story about how quickly an ordinary life can spiral out of control.
Fargo
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2014 – 2024-00-00
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Noah Hawley
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Dana Gonzales, Michael Uppendahl, Noah Hawley, Dearbhla Walsh, Sylvain White, Randall Einhorn, Adam Arkin, Adam Bernstein, Colin Bucksey, Jeffrey Reiner, Matt Shakman, Mike Barker, Scott Winant, Donald Murphy, John Cameron
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Dan Willmott
Buck Olander
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2026 has been a roller-coaster of a year for Tom Hardy fans, who were led to believe that he would not return as Harry Da Souza in the third season of his hit Paramount Plus crime thriller, MobLand. This news came out of nowhere a few months before the Season 2 premiere of the show, when it was reported that Hardy had been fired due to a growing rift between him and one of the show’s leading producers. These rumors were put to bed a few weeks after they surfaced online, when it was confirmed that he would return in MobLand Season 3, which is already in the works. Hardy is the show’s biggest star, so the studio had no choice but to smooth things over and bring him back if the series was going to find continued success.
Tom Hardy has starred in dozens of famous action projects over the years, and while it’s his work on movies like Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road that come to mind first, he’s also featured in some of the most underrated TV shows of all time. In addition to his role as Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders, Hardy also starred in the perfect Peaky Blinders replacement show, Taboo, which was even produced by Ridley Scott via his Scott Free producing banner. It’s been almost 10 years since all episodes of Taboo were released, and while fans are still awaiting more news about Season 2, it’s easier to watch the show than ever. All eight episodes of Taboo Season 1 are streaming for free courtesy of Pluto TV and Tubi, but they’re also available to watch on Peacock and the Roku Channel.
What Is ‘Taboo’ About?
The official synopsis for Taboo, which earned scores of 76% from critics and 91% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“Adventurer James Keziah Delaney, long believed to be dead, returns home to London from Africa in 1814 in order to inherit his late father’s shipping empire. All is not what it seems, however, as Delaney encounters numerous enemies intent on making his life back in the United Kingdom very difficult. Focused on building a shipping empire to rival the imperious East India Company, Delaney’s other wish to seek vengeance for his father’s death means conspiracy, betrayal and bloodshed are also in the cards. As he works to accomplish that, Delaney must also navigate increasingly complex territories in order to avoid his own death sentence.”
Hardy and Steven Knight have confirmed that a second season of Taboo is in the works, but it’s unclear at this time when it will be released, or if it will even be made. Check out all episodes of Taboo on any of its various streaming platforms and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Tom Hardy’s future projects.
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2017 – 2017-00-00
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BBC One
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Steven Knight
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Anders Engström
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Ben Hervey
Rihanna made her baby daughter, Rocki, feel like she is the only girl in the world in honor of her first birthday.
“Who let me have a daughter, bro?” the “Disturbia” hitmaker, 38, joked via Instagram alongside a trove of rare photos and never-before-seen home movies on Saturday, September 26.
In one clip, Rihanna’s friends and family cracked up as Rocki tried on one of the singer’s full-sized wigs, with one of them joking, “I’m sorry, baby!” (Rocki turned 1 on September 13.)
Rocki also had her first experience on a red carpet — albeit the home playset version — as she donned a yellow furry robe with pink lining and a tiara to pose in front of a faux backdrop of flashing camera bulbs.
Rihanna is looking back at her pregnancy with baby No. 3, daughter Rocki Irish Mayers. The “Pon de Replay” singer celebrated her native Barbados’ 59th anniversary of independence with a carousel of photos posted to Instagram on Sunday, November 30, and included an intimate snap from her pregnancy. In the picture, Rihanna, 37, is seen […]
The 1-year-old already has an eye for style too, as Rihanna shared a clip of Rocki crying when she briefly took away a designer handbag that the baby was exploring.
“Can I have my bag please? Let mommy have it. Thank you so much,” Rihanna asked her daughter as Rocki started to cry.
Another major milestone involved Rihanna teaching young Rocki to wave and say “hey” to the camera. Rocki even joined her mom for a glam session with Fenty Beauty products — though Rihanna did have to stop her little one from putting one of the products into her mouth.
“The most perfect girls,” Euphoria’s Storm Reid replied in the Instagram comment section.
Holly Robinson Peete was equally as excited for the birthday photo dump, commenting, “Omgggg 😍😍😍😍”
Earlier this month, Rihanna’s bestie Melissa Forde shared a sneak peek at Rocki’s first birthday party, where mom and daughter wore matching bubblegum pink outfits. Rihanna stunned in a pastel babydoll dress featuring spaghetti straps, a ruffled neckline and a pleated, loosely fitted bodice, accessorized with matching shorts, diamond earrings, black sunglasses and a matching anklet.
“Happyyy Birthdayyy Rocki Irish I can’t believe Auntie’s baby is alreadyyy a yearrr🥹😍😍😍 Bday twinning wit your beautiful mama and my sestahhh @badgalriri 🥰💖💖🥳🥳🎉🎉🥳🎁🎁🎈🎈🎀🎀🎊,” Forde captioned the photo.
Rihanna announced the birth of her daughter Rocki Irish Mayers in September 2025, after revealing at the Met Gala the previous May that she and partner ASAP Rocky were expecting baby No. 3. (The couple also share sons RZA, 3, and Riot, 2.)
Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s entire world shifted after becoming parents. “It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever,” Rihanna gushed to British Vogue in a February 2023 cover story. “You literally try to remember it — and there are photos of my life before – but the feeling, the desires, […]
Fans may soon have a musical comeback from Rihanna to look forward to. In January, a source exclusively confirmed to Us that “Rihanna is, and has been, working on an album” ten years after the release of her eighth studio record Anti in 2016.
“It’s taken many forms because she’s scrapped a ton of music that she’s made over the years. She basically had an album done at one point, and then she decided to start fresh,” the insider revealed, clarifying that “at no point has she put it aside completely — not even while pregnant or a new mom.”
Rihanna has yet to announce a release date or title for her ninth studio album.
Rebecca Gayheart shared an update on how her teenage daughters, Billie and Georgia, are coping seven months after their dad Eric Dane’s death.
“You know, we’re hanging in there. I think it’s definitely a challenging season, but we’re doing our best,” Gayheart, 55, told People on the red carpet for Step Up’s 2026 Annual Inspiration Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, September 25. “The girls are both in high school — which is also a big transition under any circumstance — so I’m just staying close to my kids.”
Dane’s family confirmed to Us in February that the former Grey’s Anatomy actor had died just shy of one year after going public with his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 53.
“With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” his family’s statement read. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world. Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.”
Rebecca Gayheart is supporting Eric Dane during his health struggles despite their separation. Gayheart, 54, is teaching daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 13, that “we show up for people no matter what,” as Dane, 53, navigates his new normal with ALS. “He is our family. He is your father,” Gayheart said during her Monday, November […]
Us confirmed later that month that Dane died from respiratory failure with ALS as an underlying cause.
In the months since Dane’s death, Gayheart commemorated her family’s first Father’s Day without the star and represented her late husband at their daughter Georgia’s middle-school graduation.
Speaking to People on Friday, the Nip/Tuck actress spoke about how she’s dealing with her own grief over losing Dane. (Dane and Gayheart were separated at the time of his death, but they never divorced. At the end of his life, Dane was in a relationship with photographer Janell Shirtcliff while Gayheart has been linked to Hard Rock Cafe cofounder Peter Morton.)
“[I connect with] friends. My children,” she said at the Hollywood gala. “Being under the same roof with my kids and having them next to me, safe, always makes me feel better. You know, there’s certain people I like to talk to get my feelings out, but really just — again — being connected to other human beings. That’s what gets me through.”
Rebecca Gayheart is still mourning the death of Eric Dane. “There are no words,” Gayheart, 54, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, March 18. “All our love forever — your girls ❤️🩹❤️.” The Jawbreakers actress, who was married to Dane from 2004 to 2018, uploaded a montage of throwback photos of the pair and their two […]
Earlier this month, Gayheart asked Dane’s fans to encourage their members of Congress to pass the ACT for ALS Bill, which she said would “provide $500 million for ALS research, treatment access and hope for families battling this disease.” (Separate versions of the ACT for ALS Reauthorization Act have passed in the House of Representatives and Senate, though a final unified bill has not yet been sent to President Donald Trump for approval.)
“Please help us make sure that Congress does not continue to delay the passing of this bill,” she stated. “Click the link to sign the petition or share it with a friend. … Getting this passed would mean the world to my family.”
Gayheart and Dane were married from 2004 to 2018. Gayheart filed for divorce in February 2018 but ultimately withdrew her petition in 2025 following her ex’s ALS diagnosis.
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‘The Sopranos’ Meets ‘Breaking Bad’ in Paramount+’s Near-Perfect 3-Season Crime Thriller
Get ready for another round of small-town underworld business with Tulsa King, a love letter to the mafia à la The Sopranos, mixed with the drug dealings of Breaking Bad. Starring Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi, Tulsa King is a show about what it’s like to have the crown swatted off your head and learn how to start again. The show is one of the many additions to Taylor Sheridan‘s television portfolio — but unlike his Western projects like Yellowstone or Landman, Tulsa King takes the classic cowboy setting and gives it an Italian-American twist.
Although the previous season ended in September 2025, Tulsa King has continued to earn plenty of attention on streaming, spending the past two weeks in Paramount+’s Top 10. As the show gears up for Season 4, set to premiere on October 16, Tulsa King is heading into another season of bigger ambitions and deadlier enemies, while the spin-off Frisco King is also on the way.
What Is ‘Tulsa King’ About?
Tulsa King introduces former New York Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), fresh out of prison after serving a 25-year sentence. Instead of being welcomed back for refusing to sell out to the feds, Dwight is unceremoniously exiled to middle-of-nowhere Tulsa, Oklahoma, with one job: “setting up business” there. Realizing that his old associates no longer see him as an asset, Dwight reluctantly heads to Tulsa, initially unsure what he can accomplish — until he discovers a potentially lucrative drug business waiting to be established.
Without the traditional mob resources or muscle he’s accustomed to, Dwight builds a new crew from the locals, including enthusiastic chauffeur Tyson Mitchell (Jay Will), scrawny marijuana dispensary owner Bodhi (Martin Starr), and calm, collected outlaw Mitch Keller (Garrett Hedlund). But as Dwight and his gang expand their operations, their list of enemies grows, with each one looking to claim a piece of his money-making pie.
‘Tulsa King’ Season 4 Puts Dwight Manfredi’s Business at Risk
By the end of Season 3, Dwight has conquered much of the Tulsa underworld, a far cry from his humble beginnings, but he’s also not your typical ruthless businessman. He’s fairly content with his drug operation and his cabaret and casino, which he renovated from a run-down saloon — so when he gets the chance to expand his business portfolio with not just any local distillery, but a legacy one, he can’t pass it up. But dealing with a new business, especially one that’s considered fairly legal, proves to be harder than running drugs.
Between being threatened by a rival distillery, dealing with a few hotheads over territory, and being tapped by the feds to do some clandestine work because of his special underworld connections, Dwight’s got a lot on his plate. Meanwhile, his success has attracted the attention of powerful local politicians, setting the stage for another dangerous chapter — and then there’s Cal Thresher (Neal McDonough), who could potentially become Season 4’s greatest enemy. If Sheridan’s shows have taught their audiences anything, it’s that mixing opportunistic, profit-minded politicians like Cal with the criminal underbelly is bad for business.
Samuel L. Jackson Stars in ‘Tulsa King’s Upcoming Spin-Off
Four hours south of Tulsa, former hitman Russell Lee Washington Jr. (Samuel L. Jackson) is carving out his own criminal operation in Frisco King, the Tulsa King spin-off formerly titled NOLA King. Lee was introduced in the later episodes of Tulsa King Season 3 as one of Dwight Manfredi’s longtime friends from his prison days. After seeing how Dwight established himself with only limited mob connections, Lee is inspired to follow a similar path and make a name for himself.
Frisco King also stars Asa Germann (Gen V), Kai Caster (Yellowstone), Lilah Pate (Outer Banks), and Savanna Gann (English Teacher), with Sheridan writing all eight episodes of Season 1. For those anticipating a potential Tulsa King and Frisco King crossover, Frank Grillo, who plays Bill Bevilaqua in the former, says that while it depends on how the season pans out, “it would be silly if there wasn’t some kind of crossover for two, three, four episodes.” With Jackson officially joining the Tulsa King universe, Sheridan may have found another way to raise the stakes — putting two acting heavyweights in the same dramatic sandbox.
- Release Date
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November 13, 2022
- Network
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Dave Erickson, Terence Winter
- Directors
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Allen Coulter, Benjamin Semanoff, David Semel, Guy Ferland, Joshua Marston, Kevin Dowling, Lodge Kerrigan, Jim McKay
- Writers
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Joseph Riccobene, David Flebotte, William Schmidt, Taylor Elmore, Tom Sierchio, Regina Corrado, Stephen Scaia, Terence Winter
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