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Daily Tribune
3 hours ago
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- Daily Tribune
Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals why he would never ‘complain' about his fame
Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles Arnold Schwarzenegger has no reason to 'complain' about his fame. The 77-year-old bodybuilder-turned-Hollywood star has been known around the world for decades and claimed that the desire to 'get attention' is what most celebrities have, but he has no problem with fans approaching him because he is aware of the advantages that come with his status. When it was suggested to him that he has no 'hostility' towards being famous, he told The Sunday Times: 'You're absolutely right. What people miss the most is to get attention. 'That someone knows them, is aware of them, that they're somebody. And so they go to a shrink. They lie on the couch and someone is listening to them. 'But I go out anywhere to a crowd and they all listen. And they love to listen to my s***, right? 'I'm having fifty thousand shrinks sitting out there, and I don't pay a penny. I get paid! So how can I complain about that? 'OK, yes, there are times when you go to a restaurant and someone comes up and says, can I take a picture of you? 'But I can walk into this restaurant at any time, I can sit at any table I want, I make no reservation. For that I take a picture with someone. It takes three minutes. So why would I complain?' Meanwhile, the Terminator star is father to Katherine , 35,Christina, 33, Patrick, 31, and Christopher, 27, with his ex-wife Maria Shriver as well as 27-year-old Joseph with Mildred Patricia Baena and his oldest son has become something of a household name himself through his role as Saxon Ratliff in the hit HBO series The White Lotus. Arnie admitted that 'everything has changed' now with his son's newfound celebrity status, but he will actually be very pleased if Patrick has 'outdone' him in the long run. He said: 'All of a sudden, everything has changed around. I walk into the gym now and it used to be the girls would come up and give me their contact. And then after White Lotus comes out, the girl comes up and says, 'Here's my contact, give it to Patrick.' So it's wonderful. If I go to my grave and know that my son has outdone me, I'm in heaven.'
Newsweek
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
The Emmy Race Is On—Here's Who's Leading
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Emmy nominations won't be announced until July 15, but the campaigns are in full swing. (June in Los Angeles is basically one big "For Your Consideration" event every single day.) The big question is, who will be nominated? From Kathy Bates in Matlock to Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This and literally the entire cast of The White Lotus, Newsweek has had so many potential nominees on the Parting Shot Podcast with H. Alan Scott. So make sure you're subscribed to never miss some of the best chats in entertainment news. Emmy nomination season is here, with Severance, The Bear, and The White Lotus leading the prediction pack. Expect a mix of returning favorites and buzzy newcomers—and a few inevitable snubs. Emmy nomination season is here, with Severance, The Bear, and The White Lotus leading the prediction pack. Expect a mix of returning favorites and buzzy newcomers—and a few inevitable snubs. Getty Images DRAMA CATEGORIES: CAN ANYONE STOP SEVERANCE? Severance is likely to be a big contender, but don't count out new entries like The Pitt and Paradise. In the acting categories, Noah Wyle (The Pitt) and Kathy Bates (Matlock) are likely winners. Everyone has been talking about them all season, and both of their shows are brand new and very buzz worthy. But don't count out Sterling K. Brown (Paradise) or even Gary Oldman (Slow Horses). Other names that would be nice to see in the mix are Jon Hamm for Your Friends & Neighbors and Melanie Lynskey for Yellowjackets. Also, Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale) and Penn Badgley (You) should get some recognition for the finales of their respective shows. But the one series you can expect to be all over the drama categories: The White Lotus. Expect most of the cast, including Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood and Parker Posey, to get nominated. Will they win? Unlikely, considering the less than thrilled reaction to the season, but they will certainly be recognized. COMEDY CATEGORIES: WILL GHOSTS FINALLY GET RECOGNIZED? Ghosts has consistently been a hit in the CBS' lineup, and yet it has never received much love from the Emmys. (Which is crazy considering that CBS announced earlier this year a two-season renewal for the hit comedy, a rarity these days for any show, let alone a network sitcom.) Asher Grodman, who plays Trevor on the series and is one of the potential nominees from the show, talked about this on a recent episode of the Parting Shot Podcast. It's seriously about time this incredible ensemble cast gets some Emmys love. Besides Ghosts, expect lots of mentions of new entries like The Studio and Nobody Wants This to be among the Emmy nominees. In addition to these new entries, past winners like Hacks, The Bear and Abbott Elementary will likely pick up multiple nominations. While it's no surprise that Jean Smart from Hacks will be nominated (and likely win), this could be Hannah Einbinder's year to finally win in the Supporting category. She had a stand-out season this year, and her name is the one that keeps coming up in many of these FYC conversations happening in Hollywood. Another show that deserves more attention is Mid-Century Modern. The entire cast is worthy of nominations, but Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer are the most likely to pick up nominations. Also, don't count out the love people have for Linda Lavin, who died while the show was still in production. Other worthy contenders in the comedy categories include Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters and Wendi McLendon-Covey's incredible performance on St. Denis Medical. (It's one of the funniest shows from last year and she's yet to ever get any Emmys love. It's her time.) It would also be incredible to see Somebody Somewhere finally get some love. Bridget Everett's small town comedy ended this year, but it had so much heart and humor that hopefully its small but loud fanbase are screaming loud enough to help it finally pick up a nod. TV MOVIE AND LIMITED SERIES CATEGORIES: HAS ADOLESCENCE KILLED THE MONSTERS? Going into awards season, for a long time it seemed like Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was going to dominate all categories. Then Adolescence debuted and everyone couldn't stop talking about it. At this point, it doesn't look like anything is going to stop Adolescence's momentum. That said, you can expect Monsters to pick up nominations for literally everyone involved, including Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Cooper Koch, Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny and Ryan Murphy. But there's one person from Monsters who really deserves some recognition: Leslie Grossman. She's been consistent in so many of Murphy's projects and always delivers, but she especially delivered in Monsters. Another one to watch out for is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Renée Zellweger's return as Bridget Jones was a hit for Peacock and well, when it comes to awards, nobody ignores Zellweger. (We couldn't either, we made her our cover story when the film premiered.) Expect the two-time Oscar winner to be a first-time Emmy winner. Another is Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead. This all-star cast will almost certainly pick up nominations, but there's one member of the cast who truly deserves a nomination: Cory Michael Smith. His performance is literally haunting and we chatted with him about it on the Parting Shot Podcast. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 15, and the 77th annual Emmy Awards will air on CBS on September 14. Subscribe to the Parting Shot Podcast with H. Alan Scott and the For the Culture newsletter for all the latest in pop culture and entertainment news.
Business Insider
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Gap's CEO: We're done bombarding you with promotions
This week, the world's top leaders in advertising and marketing have been on the coast of France at the Cannes Lions festival to talk about all things brand strategy. There, the CEO of an iconic American company took to the mic to discuss why his company is doing less promotions as it tries to revitalize its image and reputation to consumers. Richard Dickson, the chief executive officer of Gap Inc. — which owns its namesake company, plus retailers Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta — was open about the company's past blunders in a conversation with the Wall Street Journal. "This is a brand that, through its narrative, changed culture and/or shaped culture," he said. "Somewhere along the way, we lost the art of that brand-merchant storytelling and became a retailer that sold stuff. So we had to go in and edit." Here's what Dickson said about what the retailer and its subsidiary brands got wrong in the past — and how he's "reinvigorating" them. Dickson joined as CEO in 2023, after more than 20 years at another iconic brand, toymaker Mattel. There, as BI previously reported, he was credited with reviving the Barbie franchise. He came on as Gap had been facing years of underperformance and brand identity issues as other fast fashion retailers gained steam. But the appeal he saw when joining as CEO nearly two years ago, he said, was that "everybody wants Gap to win." "There's not haters out there of Gap. There's, to some extent, what happened? Where did it go? I used to, if you will, shop at Gap," he said. "These are fertile ground ingredients for any marketing/business narrative." Gap has been around for more than 50 years, and had its heyday in late 90s with iconic commercials like the Khaki Swing video, which he cited in the conversation with the Journal. "The brand started and sort of personified itself by celebrating big product ideas into major campaigns that were about what we'll call fashion-tainment," he said. Now, the company is getting back to that. Recent examples include pop singer Troye Sivan's baggy jeans campaign with Gap, plus Banana Republic's recent partnership with actor Patrick Schwarzenegger, who gained popularity in the hit TV show "The White Lotus." But even though the brand is attempting to transform, it won't be spending more on marketing, said Dickson — the focus will be more on what they spend on and how those strategies come across to consumers. "Today, you don't need to spend more, you need to be more effective in the stories that you're trying to tell." Since he joined in 2023, he's also been trying to dial back Gap's infamous and constant "percentage off" promos. "If you had gone into a Gap store a year ago, or Old Navy, you were to some extent bombarded," he said. "It was almost unbelievable to the extent that even internally, we would pull up our sites and I would say, what are we selling?" "When you go into stores and you see a sign on every single fixture, that's not an experience that's gonna be appealing. So our signing system has gotten a lot more refined. Our sites have become a lot more precise." Although their promotional cadence is not changing, the narrative and how they approach them is. "We love promotions. We love exciting the consumer with great price and great value and great style," he said. "But our communication and how we promote is a much more refined and directed narrative." He's said they've already started to see greater consumer resilience and loyalty as a result. "Each brand is in a different stage of what we'll call revitalization," he said about Gap Inc.'s portfolio. "But the formula is the same: cultural relevance, great product, great execution, and great experience."
Yahoo
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Murray Bartlett Thought Leaving NYC Could Hurt His Career — Then Landed The White Lotus
When Murray Bartlett moved to the Provincetown, Massachusetts area a few years ago, he feared that it could cost him acting roles. He'd moved from his native Australia to New York City, after all, to be available for as many opportunities as possible. But he was drawn to the Provincetown region — an idyllic LGBTQ+ and arts mecca at the tip of Cape Cod — because of the chance to be close to nature, to enjoy woods and beaches away from the tumult of a big city. It felt like the right thing to do at that stage in his life, even if it diminished his professional opportunities. Then he got his best role to date — playing a pushed-to-the-limit resort employee on the first season of Mike White's The White Lotus. His career exploded just after he turned 50, and The White Lotus led to opportunities on shows like The Last of Us and Nine Perfect Strangers, and in new films like Opus, released earlier this year, and Ponyboi, out later this month. He's been nominated for two Emmys, and is incredibly in-demand. "I knew I wanted to live here," he told producer Christine Vachon during a Q&A this past weekend at the Provincetown International Film Festival, where he received PIFF's award for Excellence in Acting. "I was nervous at leaving the city but it felt like a thing that was important to me for my life. ... I feel like I followed the things that felt good for me in my life." That meant he was "happy and grounded," he said, when the opportunity arose, soon after he left New York, to star on The White Lotus. He also started to hone in on the question, "What are the stories that I really want to tell? And so that's sort of been my guiding principle from from then on." Vachon, known for such acclaimed films as Far from Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Carol, May December and the brand-new The Materialists, noted that Murray Bartlett is such a chameleon that the first time they met for a meeting, she passed by without recognizing him. He recounted for the Provincetown audience on Saturday evening that he got his start as an actor when his brother accidentally knocked out his two front teeth with a hammer, while trying to kill a spider back home in Australia. Bartlett had to go to speech therapy to learn to enunciate after his injury. That involved delivering lots of monologues — and he found that he loved it. Also Read: Plainclothes Wins Best Narrative Feature at Provincetown International Film Festival When he started acting professionally, he scored big roles on the Australian shows headLand and Neighbours. When he moved to New York City in 2000, his first big role was on Sex and the City. It made him realize he could make it as an actor in the United States. Moving to Provincetown wasn't the first time he left New York City, certain that it would hurt his career — and then had the opposite happen. He recounted that he moved to Egypt during the Arab Spring to pursue a relationship with an Egyptian man, and ended up growing a mustache to try to fit in better with the locals. "A lot of people had facial hair, so I grew a mustache to try and fit in," he told Vachon. "Then I got a call to audition for Looking, and so I just I did my first audition from Cairo, and I'm pretty sure the mustache had quite a lot to do with me getting the role." His work on White Lotus included a hilariously explicit sex scene that many in the largely gay audience clearly remembered. Bartlett recalled that before appearing on the show, he spoke only briefly with White, mostly about how explicit he was willing to be. 'When I met with Mike, we only had a 45-minute meeting before we started shooting, and that was to talk about — rimming, really," he said. The crowd erupted in laughter and applause. "This is a man who knows his audience," noted Vachon. Main image: Murray Bartlett at the Provincetown International Film Festival. MovieMaker. Related Headlines 13 Awesome '90s Movies Only Cool Kids Remember Plainclothes Wins Best Narrative Feature at Provincetown International Film Festival 5 Ugly Abraham Lincoln Facts No One Likes to Talk About
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Leslie Bibb on why she and Sam Rockwell don't want to marry after 18 years together: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'
Leslie Bibb and longtime partner Sam Rockwell have no interest in marriage, thank you very much. Bibb spoke about the decision to forgo such traditional institutions while co-hosting an episode of Today with Jenna & Friends earlier this week, after fellow host Jenna Bush Hager read aloud a headline about a study that found that more women were ditching marriage. "About 50 percent of women felt marriage was not important to having a fulfilling life," Bush Hager noted. "Listen, you're speaking to the choir," Bibb, who has been in a relationship with Rockwell since 2007, said. "I mean, listen. I love Sam Rockwell. I would put him in my pocket and carry him with me all the time. I love him. I do not want to get married.' Bibb further quipped, "I feel like we are married!" The White Lotus star recalled Rockwell not being completely convinced that that was her stance early in their relationship, which "annoyed the crap out of me," she said. "Because he's like, 'Really, you don't want to get married?' I was like, 'Stop saying it. I already said I don't want to marry you. Stop asking me like I'm gonna pull like a sneak on you.' But he didn't want it either." As for the reason for that general disinterest, 'Maybe it's probably something about the way we grew up, but I feel like if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Bibb said. Bibb also spoke about the mutual decision to not have children, telling Bush Hager, "I just don't have that chip in me." Though she has a deep respect for mothers, calling motherhood one of the "hardest jobs," she said that "it's just not in me."Rockwell later joined his girlfriend and Bush Hager on the show, where he chatted about cameoing in Bibb's season 3 of The White Lotus and first impressions of his partner when they first met in 2007. "We had that kind of thunderbolt, like 'Dream Weaver' moment in Wayne's World when we saw each other,' Rockwell said. 'I found out that she studied in the same acting school that I did, so that was really handy.' "If I weren't a good actor, would you go out with me?" Bibb asked. Rockwell quipped, "No." Bibb previously spoke to Entertainment Weekly about having no role in Rockwell's casting on The White Lotus, sharing that it was the producers who informed her that they would be offering him the part of Frank. "We were there for six months, Sam was there for eight days," Bibb shared. "Sam did not the same experience in eight days. He got The White Lotus light. But it's nice to be able to have a context to share, and I think he's a great actor, and we're lucky to have him, and I think he chewed up that character." Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
