President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at the McDonald’s Impact Summit at the Westin DC Downtown on November 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has given Hollywood icon Tom Cruise a backhanded compliment. Trump, 79, made a rambling speech at a McDonald’s Impact Summit in Washington on Monday, where he pleaded for the fast food chain to add more tartar sauce to his favorite menu item, the Filet-O-Fish. The president also mentioned inviting the pilots who flew the “gorgeous B-2 bombers” that attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in June to the Oval Office. “And we met ‘em, all handsome,” Trump said. “They looked like Tom Cruise. They really did. I don’t want to be a wise guy and say ‘But taller.’ I’m not gonna say that. No. They’re perfect specimens. I mean, these guys are like from a movie. I could take every one of them and put them in a movie.” Cruise’s height is listed as 5′ 7″. The White House has stated that Trump is 6′ 3″, however there was a noticeable height difference between the president when he stood next to Prince William, who is also 6-foot-3, during a U.K. visit in September. It is not the first time Trump has referenced the 63-year-old movie star’s appearance when praising the U.S. military. In 2019, during a rally in Michigan, Trump was discussing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. “We have the F-35s—it’s stealth—and I was at one of the areas where they’re displaying it and I went up to the pilots and, honestly, they’re better-looking than Tom Cruise,” Trump said. Cruise reportedly turned down an invitation to be part of the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees next month due to “scheduling conflicts.”
Bob Costas, Tom Cruise and Donald Trump at the Friars Club roast of Matt Lauer at the New York Hilton on October 24, 2008 in New York City. Bobby Bank/WireImage
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Oscar Nominated Actress Diane Ladd’s Cause of Death Revealed
Oscar nominee Diane Ladd’s cause of death has been revealed just two weeks after her death aged 89. Ladd’s daughter, fellow actress Laura Dern, shared that she died in her Ojai, California home on Monday, November 3. “My profound gift of a mother… passed with me beside her this morning,” she said in a statement. People obtained the mother of two’s death certificate, which revealed the actress’s cause of death was acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure. Hypoxic respiratory failure occurs when there is an insufficient amount of oxygen in the blood, often caused by a lung condition. The document confirmed that Ladd had been dealing with interstitial lung disease for years before her death. The report found that esophageal dysmotility was another contributing condition. The released certificate listed that Ladd was cremated on Nov. 10. “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist, and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern said.
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Why ‘Wicked’ Stars Won’t Do Interviews on NYC Red Carpet
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are skipping interviews at the New York City premiere of Wicked: For Good. The movie is the second installment of Wicked, coming just one year after the franchise’s first movie was released. The first film was extremely successful, earning more than $746 million worldwide in ticket sales and 10 Oscar nominations. Just hours before the opening of the red carpet at Lincoln Center, Universal reps told the media that “Cynthia is not feeling well and has lost her voice, therefore she and Ariana will not be doing interviews this evening.” The stars are still expected to pose on the red carpet. Wicked: For Good will hit theaters on Nov. 21. The Wicked stars have recently been in headlines; after Erivo, 38, protected Grande, 32, from a fan who leaped barricades and grabbed Grande at the movie’s Singapore premiere on Thursday. On Saturday, Erivo told Variety“We have come through some s---…even this last week, let’s be honest.”
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Kelsey Grammer’s Daughter Unveils Details About Complex Relationship With Dad
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Kelsey Grammer’s daughter, actress Greer Grammer, 33, has revealed details about her relationship with her father while responding to nepo baby claims. “I never know how to talk about it except to just like trauma dump, but the biggest misconception about me is that I didn’t know my dad until I was 16,” she said on the Pretty Basic podcast. “I’m technically a nepo baby, people have misconceptions about me when they hear my last name,” the Awkward actress said, explaining that people have a certain image of her life growing up that’s incorrect, as she was mainly raised solo by her mom, Barrie Buckner. “My dad left when I was 4, and then I didn’t meet him again until I was 16,” she said, noting that she technically bumped into him once at a Blockbuster when she was 11, but “ran away” from him. They ended up reconnecting when she was 16 and they bumped into each other again at a Christmas tree lot. “And then he gave me his phone number and we went to lunch the next week and that’s kind of what started our relationship,” she added. After reuniting, Greer Grammer ended up appearing on the reboot of her dad’s hit show Frasier. Representatives for Kelsey Grammer did not immediately respond to the Beast’s request for comment.
Selena Quintanilla‑Pérez’s autopsy report has been revealed, 30 years after she was murdered by a crazed fan. The Mexican artist was killed at the age of 23 in a Texas motel by Yolanda Saldívar in March 1995. Saldívar, former president of her fan club and manager of her clothing boutiques, was found to have embezzled $60,000 from the singer’s businesses. Fans and employees alerted the artist’s family that money given to the fan club and boutique kept going missing. After an investigation, Saldívar was fired. The artist agreed to meet Saldívar at the Texas motel to collect financial records. After an argument that occurred between the two, Saldívar shot the artist in the back as she was leaving. The crazed fan is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. The newly released 1995 autopsy, which features in Netflix’s newly released documentary, Selena y Los Dinos, reports the artist suffered “massive bleeding” from a gunshot that entered through the singer’s back and went through her ribs and her lungs. This injured her subclavian artery, ultimately causing her death. “The Queen of Tejano music” rose to stardom through her groundbreaking music and iconic fashion.
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The ousted prime minister of Bangladesh has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity. Sheikh Hasina, 78, served as the country’s prime minister from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2024, becoming the longest-serving female head of government in the world. In July 2024, peaceful student-led protests erupted in response to government actions but grew tense after Hasina gave a speech in which she called protesters “razakar,” a term used for pro-Pakistan collaborators during Bangladesh’s War of Independence, Al Jazeera reports. The demonstrations ultimately led to Hasina’s downfall and to the deaths of an estimated 1,400 people, according to the United Nations. Hasina was sentenced on Monday by the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, which found her guilty of inciting the killings of protesters. “She expressed that she ordered to kill and eliminate the protesting students,” the judges concluded. Hasina responded to the verdict by calling it “biased and politically motivated,” adding that she simply “lost control of the situation” and that to “characterize what happened as a premeditated assault on citizens is simply to misread the facts.” Alongside Hasina, the former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was also sentenced to death. Both Hasina and Khan remain in exile in India and have been ordered by Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry to be extradited to their country.
Eddie Murphy, 64, claimed that on his 21st birthday, he received a sexual proposition from a famous actor. “My 21st birthday party I had at Studio 54,’” Murphy said in the Netflix documentary, Being Eddie. “Yul Brynner, Ten Commandments, he was with his wife and he was like, ‘How would you like to go back to my apartment with my wife and I and party?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, I’m cool!’ And I realized as I got older, his wife was smiling. Did he want me to go f--k his wife?” Murphy added that the story would have had a better ending if he “went back to Yul Brynner’s and f--ked his wife, and he was watching me going, ‘Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!’“ Murphy said, referencing a quote from Brynner’s famous film The King and I. When Murphy turned 21 in April 1982, Brynner was not married. He divorced his third wife, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume, in 1982 and married his fourth wife, Kathy Lee, in 1983. Brynner died from lung cancer in 1985. Before his death, he was best known for playing King of Siam in the musical and film adaptation of The King and I—for which he won a Tony Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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The Louvre Forced to Close Gallery Over Safety Concerns
The Louvre has temporarily closed one of its galleries to address a structural weakness found within the building. The world’s most visited gallery has been under scrutiny since last month, when four thieves stole $102 million worth of jewelry from the national museum due to its outdated security system. The museum’s Campana Gallery has been closed after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in the building’s beams. The Campana Gallery, named after Italian art collector the Marquis Giampietro Campana, is located on the first floor of the Sully wing. The gallery holds an extensive collection of ancient Greek ceramics. The structural issues were found in the room above, used as an office space where sixty-five people are typically assigned to work. Laurence des Cars, Louvre director, claimed there is a “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition.” The gallery will be closed to the public while the structural beams are investigated.
SNL reveals that Cher will be on the show as a musical guest for the first time in 38 years alongside Ariana Grande. Cher, 79, performed earlier this year for SNL’s 50’s season concert celebration. The “Goddess of Pop” appeared on the show as a musical guest in 1987, performing “We All Sleep Alone” and “I Found Someone.” She also made a brief cameo appearance in 1992 during the show’s ‘Weekend Update’ segment. The Oscar winner has been frequently referenced on the show, being impersonated by many celebrities, including Sarah Silverman, Blake Lively, and Drew Barrymore. SNL announced that Ariana Grande and Cher will be the host and musical guests for the show’s Christmas episode in an Instagram post. Fans rushed into the comments in excitement. “CHER AND ARI HELLLOOOO” one user wrote, “I SCREAMED OMG ARIANA AND CHER” another fan wrote. Cher’s guest performance will premier place on Dec. 20.
