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13-06-2025
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Jeff Goldblum Says This 1 Celebrity Actually Left Him Starstruck: 'It Made My Life'
Fear not, mere mortals, as even world-famous Hollywood actors can get starstruck. Jeff Goldblum joined Thursday's edition of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' to promote his latest jazz album, only to reveal that he encountered his lifelong idol at a recent Broadway performance of George Clooney's play 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' 'I saw the great George Clooney and his wonderful play, very important, very great, but I found out shortly before we went, guess who's also going to be there?' Goldblum teased. 'Paul McCartney. Paul... McCartney. I have never met Paul McCartney.' 'I was very excited,' he admitted. 'And then sure enough, after the play, I was looking and we both got a chance to go backstage and meet George and the cast. I saw him in the flesh for the first time ever, and there he was. My golly, I'm very starstruck.' Goldblum has starred in some of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, including 'Jurassic Park' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' but is also a fervent musician who came of age when The Beatles conquered the world — and said McCartney 'means a lot' to him. He waxed rhapsodic Thursday about actually interacting with the legendary Beatle at Clooney's show. 'And then they were taking pictures, and he saw me, and he was very nice,' Goldblum told Meyers. 'This is bragging, I shouldn't do it, but he said, 'Jeff, Jeff Goldblum, I love Jeff Goldblum. Come here, Jeff, let's take a picture,' and all that stuff.' 'It made my life and my year,' he continued. Goldblum arguably has one of the most distinct manners of speaking and an effusive personality that has made for some of the funniest talk show appearances over the years. On Thursday, he jokingly presented Meyers with his own, refined jaywalking technique. The actor-turned-musician appeared earnest while reflecting on his chance encounter with McCartney, however, and vividly recalled the Beatles' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' and 'She Loves You' hitting the airwaves in 1964 when he was '12 or 13.' Goldblum has performed his own music with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra ensemble for more than a decade now. The entertainer released his third, aptly titled CD, 'Still Blooming,' in April — and performed at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City earlier this month. On Thursday, he vowed to stop dropping names during public appearances. 'I impress my own self with a lot of the people that I seem to have rubbed shoulders with,' he said. 'I have to, as a matter of fact, restrain myself from taking reflected glory and saying, 'Hey, you know who else I met? You know who else I know?' I seem to like that.' 'I shouldn't do that,' Goldblum acknowledged. 'And starting here and now, I won't.' Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals The 1 Mistake Fans Make When Meeting Her Miley Cyrus Says She Wears 'Very Modest' Bathing Suits Because Of Memes Eric Dane Describes Waking Up With ALS In First TV Interview Since Announcement
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13-06-2025
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Wicked star Jeff Goldblum reveals that once celebrity he was 'very starstruck' by
Jeff Goldblum was "very starstruck" when he got to meet George Clooney for the first time. The 72-year-old actor has worked with A-listers such as Julia Roberts, Matthew Broderick and Ariana Grande over the course of his decades-long career in film, but admitted that he was very taken aback when he got to see the Ticket to Paradise star backstage at his Broadway show Good Night, and Good Luck alongside Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney. Speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he said: "I was very excited. After the play, I was looking and [McCartney and I] both got a chance to go backstage and meet George and the cast. "I saw him in the flesh for the first time ever, and there he was. "I just thought 'My golly, I'm very starstruck,' because he means a lot to me." The Wicked actor described George as being "very nice" to him and couldn't help but "brag" in revealing that it was the former ER star who asked him for a picture, as opposed to the other way round. "He was very is bragging, I shouldn't do it. "But he said, 'Jeff, Jeff Goldblum. I love Jeff Goldblum. Come here, Jeff, let's take a picture,' and all that stuff. "It made my life and my year." Meanwhile, Jeff was full of praise for the Beatles and recounted discovering the rock band - which also consisted of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison - in his early teen years. He added: "Everybody, you've all got stories like this." "But I was a kid when I Want to Hold Your Hand and 'She Loves You, came out. "And I remember Suzy Connolly ... in her cut-off jean shorts, and I was like 12, 13... "And they went, 'Here, come and listen to this song.' It's all mixed in my nostalgic bosom in a way that's very, very exciting and meaningful."
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13-06-2025
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George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck on CNN: The Live Broadcast's Most Notable Moments — Plus, Grade It!
Couldn't get a ticket to see George Clooney make his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck? Take heart: On Saturday, CNN broadcast the play's penultimate performance — live — as a commercial-free TV event. Based on the 2005 film of the same name, Good Night, and Good Luck stars ER alum Clooney as legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow. The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War. More from TVLine Good Night, and Good Luck: Live Broadcast of Broadway Play Delivers CNN's 2nd-Biggest Night of 2025 Yes, George Clooney Has Seen The Pitt - Here's What the ER Vet Had to Say About Noah Wyle's New Medical Show Save the Dates: Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck Live on CNN, and More The 100-minute production ran without intermission, as it has since it opened at New York's Winter Garden Theatre on April 3. Clooney directed the film, in which he played Murrow's producer, Fred Friendly. In the Broadway show, Friendly is played by Glenn Fleshler (True Detective). Clooney and Grant Heslov wrote both the movie and the play. The play's cast also includes Clark Gregg (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Carter Hudson, Paul Gross, Christopher Denham, Fran Kraz, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger and Georgia Heers. The production is nominated for five Tony Awards, including Clooney for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play. (A quick note: Though the CNN-provided press photos below are black-and-white, the broadcast was in color.) Readers of a certain age will remember that George Clooney took part in the live Season 4 premiere of ER in 1997. So how did his latest live bid go? Scroll through our list of notable moments below. McCarthy couldn't have succeeded in his campaign of fear-mongering had the political and social climate of the time not allowed him to, Murrow pointed out in a broadcast that uses the politician's own words to indict him. 'The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies,' he said. 'And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully. Cassius was right. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.'' Though Gregg's Don Hollenback is the show's tragic figure — Hollenback, a CBS newscaster who was accused of leftist leanings, died by suicide — Clooney and Gregg shared a scene at roughly the hour-mark in which Clooney seemed to be on the verge of laughing (when the script didn't call for it). But both men pulled it together, and the show continued apace. The show's scenic design, which earned Scott Pask a 2025 Tony nomination, allowed Clooney & Co. to move throughout CBS' newsroom with ease and purpose. The control room, the conference room, the broadcasting booth — all evoked a bustling newsgathering operation of the era, with video screens deployed to show the audience what viewers at home would've seen at the time. The serious nature of the story doesn't allow for a lot of comedy. That said, if there was a line that got a big laugh from the live audience, it was delivered by Fleshler as Friendly. Clooney delivered the play's final monologue, pulled from a speech Murrow gave to an association of radio and television journalists in 1958, at a lectern in front of a giant screen — even bigger than the one shown here. Huge moments in news and pop culture appeared in a montage as he spoke about how television news — and TV in general — wouldn't cater to the lowest common denominator if the audience didn't repeatedly show up for exactly that sort of content. 'Our history will be what we make of it,' Clooney-as-Murrow warned, rebuking those who'd choose programming that entertains without informing. The montage unfolded, featuring I Love Lucy, Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy's assassination, Laugh In, the Challenger explosion, The Jerry Springer Show, the first plane flying into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, Megyn Kelly insisting that Santa is white, conspiracy theories about the attempted Jan. 6 coup, Beyoncé, and a ton more images before culminating in Elon Musk giving an alleged Nazi salute. 'The question is not what power unchecked can do. We've seen that answered,' he said. 'The question is, what are you prepared to do?… Good night, and good luck.' What did you think of the live telecast? Grade it via the poll below, then hit the comments with all of your thoughts! Best of TVLine Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now
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13-06-2025
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Good Night, and Good Luck: Live Broadcast of Broadway Play Delivers CNN's 2nd-Biggest Night of 2025
'Twas a good night, indeed. CNN's live broadcast of the George Clooney-led Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck on Saturday night reached 7.34 million global viewers, including streaming audiences on Max and More from TVLine Andor Tops Nielsen Streaming Chart With Release of Series Finale; Rogue One Returns to Top 10 Movies Ratings: Tony Awards Surge 38% to Biggest Audience Since 2019 Yes, George Clooney Has Seen The Pitt - Here's What the ER Vet Had to Say About Noah Wyle's New Medical Show The Stateside share of that audience tallied 5.64 million people, with an additional 1.7 million tuning in internationally. On CNN alone, Good Night, and Good Luck drew north of 2 million total viewers, fueling a No. 1 ranking across all of cable for the day, and leading the newser to its second-highest Prime (7 pm-11 pm) delivery of the year in total viewers — trailing only President Trump's address to Congress on March 4. TVLine readers gave the telecast an average grade of 'A.' Good Night, and Good Luck gave CNN its third-biggest event of 2025 on the Max platform, viewing peaked at 8:33 pm (during the closing monologue of the performance, suggesting sustained tune-in). Of note, 155,000 total people attended Good Night, and Good Luck performances throughout its nine-week Broadway run. Good Night, and Good Luck on CNN: The Broadcast's Most Notable Moments View List Based on the 2005 film of the same name, Good Night, and Good Luck — which wrapped its Broadway run on Sunday — starred ER alum Clooney as legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow. The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War. The 100-minute production ran without intermission, as it has since it opened at New York's Winter Garden Theatre on April 3. Clooney directed the 2005 film, in which he played Murrow's producer, Fred Friendly. In the Broadway show, Friendly is played by Glenn Fleshler (True Detective). Clooney and Grant Heslov wrote both the movie and the play. The play's cast also includes Clark Gregg (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Carter Hudson, Paul Gross, Christopher Denham, Fran Kraz, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger and Georgia Heers. The production is nominated for five Tony Awards, including Clooney for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play. Note: Though the CNN-provided photos below are black-and-white, the broadcast was in color.
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13-06-2025
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Andor Tops Nielsen Streaming Chart With Release of Series Finale; Rogue One Returns to Top 10 Movies
With the release of its fourth and final three-episode batch, Disney+'s Andor rose to the top of Nielsen's latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals. For the week of May 12, Andor amassed 931 million minutes viewed — another weekly high for the series — across 24 total episodes. (In turn, Andor's 'sequel movie,' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, returned to Nielsen's Top 10 Movies ranking, landing at No. 9 with 179 million minutes viewed.) More from TVLine Good Night, and Good Luck: Live Broadcast of Broadway Play Delivers CNN's 2nd-Biggest Night of 2025 Ratings: Tony Awards Surge 38% to Biggest Audience Since 2019 Is Doctor Who Reunion Inevitable? Did Cleaning Lady Kiss Leave You Cold? How Would SNL Have Handled Trump/ Musk Break-Up? More TV Qs! Netflix's YOU placed second on the streaming originals ranking with 779 million minutes viewed/50 episodes, followed by Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (680 million minutes/18 episodes), ABC's Prime Video's Netflix's Forever (671 million minutes/eight episodes) and Netflix's American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden (552 million minutes/three episodes). Rounding out the Top 10 streaming originals for the week of May 12 were Netflix's The Four Seasons, Peacock's Poker Face, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, Paramount+'s MobLand and Netflix's Secrets We Keep. Want SCOOP on any of the TV shows above? Email InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line!
