Inside ‘The Activist’ Meltdowns as Show Spun out of Control

By Cheyenne Roundtree

The backlash against “The Activist” continues, with an open letter and response from host Julianne Hough. The Daily Beast spoke with two activists who were approached by the show.

By Laura Bradley

It’s messy, grotesque, and in the end, completely ridiculous. That’s why it’s great, snobbery be damned!

By Tirhakah Love

The ham-fisted social issues thriller, which premiered Tuesday night on BET, is a predictable mess of hateration and holleration.

By Matt Wilstein

The “Late Night” host looked back at just a few of the times his fellow SNL alum made him laugh really, really hard.

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By Laura Bradley

The singer—who chose not to attend the “Jagged” premiere—accused producers of having a “salacious agenda,” and said the documentary implies things that are “simply not true.”

By Caspar Salmon

New doc “The Rescue,” directed by the Oscar-winning team behind “Free Solo,” chronicles the 2018 mission to rescue a football team from caves at Tham Luang Nan Non in Thailand.

By Kevin Fallon

Scathing early reactions to the film go so far as to suggest the filmmakers should be sent to jail. How bad is the movie, really—and how much is a mean-spirited internet pile-on?

By Matt Wilstein

The former “Tonight Show” writer and current “Daily Show” staffer talks about watching Jimmy Fallon ruffle Donald Trump’s hair and his breakthrough stand-up special “Hashtag.”

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The former president hit the phones, and then went on his former press secretary’s Newsmax show to make the case himself.

The troubled lawyer wanted to die so his surviving son could collect $10 million in insurance money, police allege.

Just as the world does not need her verse in “Monster” re-recorded by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world does not need to hear her opinions on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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