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Sunday, August 16

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Halle Berry is celebrating her milestone 60th birthday with some sexy snaps that prove she’s ageless.

Ahead of her special day, the Oscar-winning actor uploaded a series of steamy pictures to Instagram that showed her spending time with beau Van Hunt.

While donning a lace-trimmed red and black robe and seemingly nothing else, Berry posed for the camera as she enjoyed a day in the sun filled with chocolate-covered strawberries and what looked to be a mimosa.

Fans just got a first peek at the upcoming live-action “Tangled” film and one actor in particular blew their minds.

During the showcase at Disney’s D23 convention in Anaheim, California on Aug. 14, audience members were able to see a teaser for the film, which will be a retelling of the 2010 Disney animated movie. The clip included a look at Teagan Croft in the lead role of Rapunzel as well as Kathryn Hahn as the villain Mother Gothel. And people truly cannot handle Hahn’s sinister look.

First look at Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel in the live-action #Tangled movie.In theaters March 31, 2028. pic.twitter.com/4Nc8Y9IJ1w

Ask a teen what they want to be when they grow up, and there’s a fair chance being an influencer is on their list.

Digital media and the people who star in it have been cultural mainstays for teens’ entire lives, so creating social media, video or podcast content seems a natural, albeit nontraditional, career path. And now they can earn a college degree in that very field.

Arizona State University recently launched a new bachelor’s degree in content creation, offered through its Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The curriculum overlaps with that of ASU’s mass communication and media studies degree, with the major departure being a slate of specialized electives on podcasting, studio production and on-camera presence.

Adam Driver will make a long-anticipated entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play super villain Mister Sinister, and “Obsession” breakout star Inde Navarette will play Rogue in Disney ‘s forthcoming film reboot of “X-Men.”

Driver and Navarette were among the new cast members announced Friday night at Disney’s D23 convention by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, along with Driver’s “Girls” castmate Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier and Maya Boyd as Storm. The film is slated for release in May 2028.

The announcements were the biggest news to emerge from Disney Entertainment’s D23 presentation that also brought updates on its forthcoming “Star Wars” titles and a song-and-dance that went sideways from the stars of “Frozen 3.”

Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Steve McQueen and John Wayne, has died. He was 97.

His daughter, Amy Rydell, told The Hollywood Reporter that her father died Thursday of natural causes at a retirement community for the entertainment industry in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.

“Hard to put into words how much I loved my dad,” she posted Friday on her Instagram account. “He was truly one of a kind. Funniest and most talented person I’ve ever known.”

Superstar Selena Gomez and her mother are accused of defrauding investors of their mental health startup, Wondermind, in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

Wondermind, which was co-founded by Gomez; her mother, Mandy Teefey; and Daniella Pierson in November 2021, touts mental fitness practices and tools.

The suit accuses Wondermind and its founders of falsely representing the company’s infrastructure, leadership and partnerships to investors and concealing the alleged fraud for more than three years.