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The App Store charts tell the story, at least for the first week of AI-generated video apps: This doesn’t, somewhat embarrassingly, match my initial impressions: I liked the Vibes addition to the MetaAI app and was somewhat cool on Sora. I spent much of last week’s episode of Sharp Tech exploring why my initial impressions were so off base, and …

Biography, autobiography and Apple-supported family therapy come together in Ben Stiller‘s uneven but potent documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, premiering at the New York Film Festival ahead of a launch on Apple TV+ later this month.  Easily Stiller’s most personal film as a director, it works as an interesting complement to Mariska Hargitay’s recent HBO documentary, My Mom …

Jennifer Lopez laughed off Craig Melvin‘s very direct line of questioning while promoting her new film Kiss of the Spider Woman. The actress and singer appeared to be caught off guard during Monday’s episode of Today after interviewer Melvin bluntly noted that the filming the movie coincided with the finalization of her divorce from Ben Affleck, who executive-produced the musical, …

Obituaries Love Never Dies Star Ben Lewis Has Died at 46 The Australian baritenor starred in the filmed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Australian baritenor Ben Lewis has died, after a public battle with bowel cancer. He was 46 years old. The son of opera singers Michael Lewis and Patricia Price, Mr. Lewis …

Ben Stiller is opening up about an incredibly vulnerable time in his life. The “Severance” director talks about his 2017 separation from his wife, Christine Taylor, in a new documentary he made about his late parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Stiller says in the documentary, “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,” that because of how connected his actor parents’ …

Jennifer Lopez was in the midst of promoting her new musical, Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, when she was confronted with a question about her divorce from Ben Affleck. Today show host Craig Melvin interviewed the Emmy-nominated actress-singer about her new project on Monday when Affleck’s name entered the conversation. Jennifer Lopez gave credit to her ex-husband for …

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor. Photo: Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic Ben Stiller’s new documentary about his parents’ marriage, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, led him to reflect on his period of separation from his own wife, Christine Taylor, from 2017 through 2022. In the film, which debuted at the New York Film Festival on October 6, Taylor and Stiller have a conversation …

To an older generation, they were Stiller & Meara, the comedy duo with an endless reserve of gently absurd sketches on The Ed Sullivan Show. To a younger generation, he was the fulminating father of George Costanza on Seinfeld. To Ben Stiller, of course, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were something far more intimate: his lovable but deeply complicated parents. …

Ben Kindel looks like he’s about to join an elite club of players who make the NHL debut in the same regular season as the year they were drafted. To make matters even more impressive, the lion share of the impact of draft+1 NHLers tends to be at the very top of the draft in the first few picks. Last …

The Seattle Mariners are finalizing their 26-man roster for the ALDS, and Adam Jude of the Seattle Times reports that it will come with a few changes from the group they finished the season with. This article will be updated with the full roster as soon as it is public. Most notably, RHP Bryan Woo has been omitted from the …