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Matthew McConaughey Covered Judy Greer’s Valet Bill When She Was Broke

Matthew McConaughey Covered Judy Greer’s Valet Bill When She Was Broke

Published by Daniella Wilson

Judy Greer is recalling when her Wedding Planner co-star Matthew McConaughey once came to her rescue. During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actress said she had gotten herself into a situation when she accidentally parked at an upscale hotel in New York City for the table read of the 2001 rom-com, starring McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez. Greer played Penny, the latter’s best friend in the film. “I valeted my car; I didn’t know any better,” Greer said of when she arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel. “I didn’t have enough money to get my car out of the valet because I was so broke.” She continued, “I was on the pay phone in the lobby, calling my friend Sean Gunn [Gilmore Girls and Guardians of the Galaxy actor], and Matthew McConaughey overheard me and gave me $20. I was so mortified, but also: my hero.” The film, directed by Adam Shankman, follows Mary Fiore (Lopez), San Francisco’s most successful wedding planner, who books the biggest wedding of her career. But when she realizes she’s unknowingly …

Matthew Brown More Than Doubles Los Angeles Space

Matthew Brown More Than Doubles Los Angeles Space

Published by José Betancourt

Dealer Matthew Brown is more than doubling his Los Angeles footprint with a move to a former warehouse at 1145 Seward Street in the Hollywood Media District. It’s just a mile or so from the two Hollywood spaces he has occupied since opening in 2019, at 712 N La Brea Avenue, but the design is worlds apart, he said in a phone conversation. “It’s night and day,” said Brown. “It’s the details, it’s the lighting, it’s the placement of the skylights, the way offices are built out, the way the viewing rooms are built out. When we built the first gallery, I just didn’t have the experience I have now.”  Related Articles The new facility is in the same neighborhood with a number of galleries, including Jeffrey Deitch, Karma, Lisson, Nonaka Hill, and Regen Projects. Brown went with a builder he has worked with before, tapping architect Markus Dochantschi of StudioMDA, who designed Brown’s New York gallery, at 390 Broadway in Tribeca. Brown’s gallery will be the first in Los Angeles for the architect, who …

The Americans star Matthew Rhys deals with demons in Widow’s Bay teaser

The Americans star Matthew Rhys deals with demons in Widow’s Bay teaser

Published by Daniella Wilson

Matthew Rhys is swapping spy drama for small town thrills in his surreal new Apple TV series Widow’s Bay. The Americans actor plays Tom Loftis, the mayor of a small town, who is faced with residents convinced that their town is haunted. But as the evidence stacks up, can he continue to deny what he views as nothing but superstition? A new teaser for the show, which has been exclusively shared with Radio Times, introduces us to Rhys’s mayor, Tom Loftis, who accidentally puts his foot in his mouth when colleague Patricia (Kate O’Flynn) tells him a story about a spirit supposedly haunting the town, the boogeyman. “Have I told you about the boogeyman?” she asks him, her voice beginning to shake. “I was home alone and it started with the calls. Weird breathing, hang-ups, and then I heard someone downstairs and I hid under the bed.” As she recounts the story, increasingly haunting scenes from the town start to play out – before abruptly stopping when Tom says: “I think you did tell me …

Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen’s sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms

Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen’s sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms

Published by skeptic

Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks star in The Miniature Wife Peacock Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy going all the way back to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and shrunken characters have taken the spotlight in everything from classic Hollywood movies like Bride of Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage to family-friendly blockbusters like Ant-Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. References to these movies and others are strewn throughout the new Peacock limited series The Miniature Wife, but the drawn-out, 10-episode show isn’t a particularly worthwhile addition to the sci-fi shrinking canon. Taking only the title and basic premise from Manuel Gonzales’s 2014 short story, The Miniature Wife stars Elizabeth Banks as Lindy Littlejohn, a once-prominent author who now works as a university professor and has been overshadowed by her scientist husband Les (Matthew Macfadyen). Lindy, you see, feels metaphorically small in both her personal and professional lives, and is about to become literally small following an accident – or is it? – with Les’s potentially world-changing invention, a compound that shrinks …

‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha jailed for 15 years over death of Matthew Perry | Ents & Arts News

‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha jailed for 15 years over death of Matthew Perry | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen”, who supplied the fatal dose of the drug that killed actor Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Jasveen Sangha initially denied the charges but agreed to change her plea in a signed statement last year, just a few weeks before she had been due to stand trial. In a victim impact statement submitted ahead of the sentencing hearing, Perry‘s stepmother Debbie described Sangha as “heartless” and called for the judge to give her the maximum jail time. Image: Matthew Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison and her husband Keith Morrison were in court for today’s hearing. Pic: AP/ Damian Dovarganes The Friends star died in October 2023, aged 54. He had struggled with addiction for years, but released a memoir a year before his death during a period of being clean. He had been using ketamine through his regular doctor as a legal, but off-label, treatment for depression, but in the weeks before his death had also started to seek more of the drug illegally. Five …

Matthew Perry’s family want maximum jail time for ‘Ketamine Queen’ | Ents & Arts News

Matthew Perry’s family want maximum jail time for ‘Ketamine Queen’ | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Matthew Perry’s family have urged a judge to give the maximum sentence to the “heartless” drug dealer who supplied the fatal dose of ketamine taken by the star before his death. Debbie Perry, the Friends actor’s stepmother, made the request in a victim impact statement filed to the court ahead of the sentencing of Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, later today. Five people, including doctors and Perry‘s personal assistant, have pleaded guilty to various charges connected with Perry’s death. Sangha is the latest to be sentenced and prosecutors are calling for her to be jailed for at least 15 years. Image: Pic: Reuters In her statement to the US district court for central California, Debbie Perry said the pain caused by Perry’s death “to hundreds maybe thousands” was “irreversible”. She said there is “no escape” from the thought that they will never see Perry again, and added: “You caused this.” Making a request to the court, she said: “Please give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won’t be able to …

Matthew Kelly looks completely unrecognisable – 22 years after disappearing from spotlight

Matthew Kelly looks completely unrecognisable – 22 years after disappearing from spotlight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Beloved presenter Matthew Kelly has made a welcome return to the limelight this week, delighting fans with his joyful appearance on an ITV News segment. The 75-year-old entertainer, best known for presenting family entertainment shows Game for a Laugh, You Bet!, and Stars in Their Eyes, seemingly vanished from the spotlight after stepping down as host of Stars in Their Eyes in 2004 following an 11-year run. © ITVMatthew Kelly appeared on ITV News this week, making a welcome return to the limelight Quizzed during the segment about why he stopped gracing our TV screens, Matthew made merry of the fact that he stopped booking jobs due to being aged out of the industry. “I didn’t really have any choice, I got old! I’m not Ant and Dec, I know I look fabulous,” he joked, gesturing at his new beard. “There came a time when they went, thank you very much, Matthew, next I just went back to what I know, which is the theatre. I do dramas, but I’d never go back to the …

Matthew Macfadyen Shrinks Elizabeth Banks in ‘Miniature Wife’ Trailer

Matthew Macfadyen Shrinks Elizabeth Banks in ‘Miniature Wife’ Trailer

Published by Daniella Wilson

Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen have quite a little problem on their hands in the newly released trailer for The Miniature Wife. The Peacock series, which is based on the short story by Manuel Gonzales, “is a dramedy examining the power (im)balances between spouses after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis,” the official logline reads. Banks’ Lindy Littlejohn says at the beginning of the footage (below), “My husband and I, we take turns supporting each other. So he supported me through my first book, and now it’s my turn.” However, that support is put to the test when Macfadyen’s Les Littlejohn develops what he calls “the miracle of miniaturization,” which is supposed to help crops. But when it gets sprayed on Lindy by accident and she gets shrunk down to a few inches tall, Les must quickly find a way to restore her to her regular size. “How long until you can fix me?” Banks character asks Les at the end of the trailer. O-T Fagbenle, Zoe Lister-Jones, Sian Clifford, Sofia Rosinsky, Ronny Chieng, Aasif Mandvi, …

Matthew Lillard Says Quentin Tarantino Jibes Felt Like A 'Punch In The Mouth'

Matthew Lillard Says Quentin Tarantino Jibes Felt Like A 'Punch In The Mouth'

Published by Sam Flores

Matthew Lillard Matthew Lillard has admitted he had a profound reaction to the support he received after Quentin Tarantino’s recent disparaging comments about him.  Late last year, during an interview on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said he didn’t “care for” Lillard, as well as taking shots at fellow actors Paul Dano and Owen Wilson.  Talking to People magazine, the Scream actor joked that the outpouring of love he received in the wake of the controversial interview made him feel like he was going to his own funeral. “It felt like I had died and was in heaven watching everyone send out their RIP tweets,” he explained, adding that the likes of George Clooney and Superman director James Gunn had “been really generous” by sticking up for him and “telling me how much they loved me and liked my work”. “I mean, it was really nice being a part of your own wake, sort of sitting there living through all the nice things people say after you die,” the Scooby-Doo star quipped. He admitted …