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Katy Perry heading to space with Lauren Sanchez and Blue Origin's all-female crew

Feb. 27, 2025

Katy Perry will join Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and others on a journey to space with an all-female crew. The trio will be on board Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space flight with film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, according to a press release shared Thursday. The flight will launch this spring.

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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' star Michelle Trachtenberg's cause of death ruled 'undetermined'

Feb. 27, 2025

Michelle Trachtenberg's cause of death has been released. The 39-year-old actress' cause of death and manner of death were both ruled "undetermined," New York's Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to Fox News Digital. The "undetermined" ruling came after Trachtenberg's family objected to an autopsy, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Trachtenberg for comment.

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Why Hollywood may ignore Trump 2.0 at the Oscars

Feb. 27, 2025

At the 2017 Oscars, when “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as the best picture winner over “Moonlight,” then first-term President Donald Trump blamed the epic blunder on Hollywood’s fixation with him. He suggested that the stars were too distracted by criticizing his administration to properly reveal the final award of the night. “They were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end. It was a little sad. It took away from the glamour of the Oscars,” Trump said in an interview back in February 2017, about a month after his first inauguration.

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Preliminary autopsies performed on Gene Hackman and wife find no external injuries following their ‘suspicious’ deaths

Feb. 27, 2025

Initial findings from preliminary autopsies performed on Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, show there was “no external trauma to either individual,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. The couple was found dead in their New Mexico home on Wednesday along with their dog, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office told CNN. He was 95. The manner and cause of the couple’s deaths have not been determined, according to a Thursday news release from the sheriff’s office. “This remains an open investigation,” the release added.

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Michelle Trachtenberg’s family declines autopsy

Feb. 27, 2025

The cause of death for actress Michelle Trachtenberg has been ruled “undetermined” by the New York City Medical Examiner, according to an agency spokesperson. Trachtenberg, whose memorable projects included roles in “Harriet the Spy” and “Gossip Girl,” died Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 39. Her family declined an autopsy and because Trachtenberg’s death was not deemed suspicious by law enforcement, the medical examiner’s office honored that request, the spokesperson said.

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Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning Everyman actor with an edge, dies at 95

Feb. 27, 2025

Gene Hackman, the unpretentious actor whose performances in such films as “The French Connection,” “Hoosiers,” “Unforgiven” and “The Firm” elevated character roles to leading-man levels, has died. He was 95. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in New Mexico along with their dog, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. Hackman’s best roles were often of conflicted authority figures or surprisingly clever white-collar villains. Many held a hint – sometimes more than a hint – of menace.

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Spotlight on Mike White: Here’s some things you perhaps didn’t know about ‘The White Lotus’ mastermind

Feb. 27, 2025

As we continue to settle in to the luxurious and twisty experience that is another season of “The White Lotus,” there’s one character worth talking about who doesn’t even appear on screen: Mike White, the auteur who has singlehandedly written and directed all three seasons of the endlessly meme-ified series. White is a prolific fixture in Hollywood, responsible f

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‘Buffy’ star Sarah Michelle Gellar honors late on-screen sister Michelle Trachtenberg

Feb. 27, 2025

Michelle Trachtenberg’s former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” costar Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking back at their time together on screen and off, one day after Trachtenberg died in New York City. On Thursday, Gellar posted a series of photos to her verified Instagram account that showed her and the late 39-year-old former child actress throughout the years. They included moments from the show, their time promoting it and some seemingly personal photographs, including one of Trachtenberg smiling at an infant in a tender moment.

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If you’re afraid to watch ‘The Substance,’ read this

Feb. 27, 2025

“The Substance” is decidedly not a film for the squeamish. The gross-out fairy tale is one of the few horror flicks to be recognized by the Academy Awards in categories beyond makeup (though it was deservedly nominated there, too). The excessive gore, much of which occurs while its actresses are nude, may have dissuaded some viewers from checking out the film that could win first-time nominee Demi Moore an Oscar for best actress. The splatter of “The Substance” is cartoonish and over-the-top. But its grossest scenes don’t register the same as a brutal kill in a typical scary movie because the violence here is so heightened — and has something to say, director Coralie Fargeat hopes.

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Brewing tea removes harmful toxins from water, study finds

Feb. 27, 2025

Tea is known to be one of the healthiest beverages — and the benefits aren’t just what’s in the cup, but what’s not in it. The process of brewing tea was shown to remove toxic heavy metals from drinking water in a new study from Northwestern University in Illinois. For a typical cup of tea — one mug of water and one bag of tea, brewed for three to five minutes — the preparation could remove about 15% of lead from drinking water, the researchers stated in a press release.