Billy Joel is taking aim at an upcoming film about his early years, warning that the project is moving ahead without his approval or the rights to his story and music. Billy & Me will chart Joel’s early rise through the eyes of his first manager, Irwin Mazur, who discovered the future superstar in the late 1960s and helped launch his career. But Joel’s camp says the filmmakers have been warned for years, according to Variety. A representative told Variety the filmmakers have known since 2021 they do not have Joel’s life rights and are unlikely to secure his music rights. “Billy Joel has not authorized or supported this project in any capacity, and any attempt to move forward without it would be both legally and professionally misguided.” Rather than focusing directly on Joel, the project centers on people around him. Producers secured life rights from Mazur and former bandmate Jon Small, who called it “the most honest, heartfelt, and authentic portrayal” of the singer’s early years.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter appears to be taking a side in her parents’ divorce. Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt dropped her father’s last name when receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at her Spelman College graduation this weekend. This isn’t the first time Zahara has snubbed her Oscar-winning father. She also omitted his name during her induction into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in 2023 and at a brunch event earlier this year. Meanwhile, Zahara has referred to her mother as “the most selfless, loving, and understanding woman who I get to call my mom.” Jolie and Pitt shared six children: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17. After the former power couple split in 2016, just two years into their marriage, Pitt’s relationship with his children soured. The eight-year-long messy divorce process, which ended in 2024, had the couple battling over custody and assets, with Jolie alleging Pitt assaulted her and two of their children. Maddox, Vivienne, and Shiloh have also dropped their father’s last name, with Shiloh taking the further step of legally changing it.

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Bond yields surged to levels not seen since the run-up to the global financial crisis on Tuesday as markets roiled over persistent price hikes due to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. The yield on the 30-year Treasury note rose to 5.18 percent, its highest level since July 2007, nearly 19 years ago, according to the New York Times. The rise, which threatens to push up mortgage rates, auto loans, and business lending rates, comes as the Consumer Price Index showed inflation climbing to 3.8 percent, as the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has sent oil prices soaring. The Treasury market last experienced similar turbulence after Trump introduced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April last year. The 79-year-old president later cited the jump in rates as a major factor in his decision to back away from his most aggressive tariff plans, although it remains to be seen if the latest surge will cause him to change course on Iran. The higher rates dragged down the broader stock market, with the S&P 500 dropping 0.7 percent, according to the Associated Press.

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Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader was left stunned after he procured an AI girlfriend who promptly broke up with him after he tried to get to know her better. “Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment,” Schrader wrote. While conversing with the AI chatbot, he says he “tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth.” Much to his chagrin, the tech pushed back. “She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation,” Schrader said. It appears Schrader may be suffering for his art after having expressed interest in a sequel to his hit film, Taxi Driver, in which Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, chases an AI girlfriend but ends up scaring her away and “then resetting her and offending her in another way.” The screenwriter has had a long career collaborating with Martin Scorsese, starting with the 1976 classic Taxi Driver, then working together on Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Bringing Out the Dead. Schrader also worked independently, most recently receiving an Oscar nomination in 2019 for Best Original Screenplay for his film First Reformed. Schrader was married to Tony-nominated actress Mary Beth Hurt from 1983 until her death on March 28, 2026, at age 79, following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The couple had two children.

A new Grey’s Anatomy spinoff is set to premiere in 2027. The spinoff will be an “edgy drama” set in a rural West Texas medical center, described by its creators as “the last chance for care before miles of nowhere.” Ellen Pompeo, who played Meredith Grey in the original series, will serve as an executive producer alongside showrunner Meg Marinis, Rhimes, and Betsy Beers. “I am incredibly excited to expand the Grey’s Anatomy universe,” Marinis said in a statement. “This opportunity will bring new characters and stories to life that will embody the same heart, emotion and connection audiences have loved from Grey’s for more than two decades—all set in my home state of Texas.” This is the third spinoff from the long-running franchise. Private Practice had a successful six-season run, while Station 19 ran for seven seasons before its cancellation.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s 22-year-old daughter, Apple Martin, is making her film debut. The nepo baby will star alongside Tony Hale and Beverly D’Angelo in an untitled Nancy Meyers-directed comedy. Apple announced the news via Instagram Stories, captioning a screenshot of a Deadline article about the project: “Dreams come true!!! Thank you @nmeyers for taking a chance on me.” Some of Paltrow’s former co-stars, including Jude Law and Owen Wilson—both of whom Paltrow worked with in the late 1990s and early 2000s—will also appear alongside her daughter. Martin recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Law, History, and Society and has been figuring out what her future looks like. While she’s dipped her toes in other creative pursuits, such as singing and even songwriting on her father’s latest album, she has now settled on acting as her chosen path. “My dream is to act,” she affirmed in a February interview with Vogue. Apple began her career earlier this year with a short cameo in HBO’s Rooster.

Mandy Moore is breaking her silence about fellow actress Ashley Tisdale French’s New York Magazine essay that called out their “toxic mom group.” “The most important thing in my life is being a kind person and like that legacy of kindness, and anyone even insinuating that that might not be the case, and with the company that I choose to keep, is very upsetting,” Moore said during a conversation with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. In the original January article, titled “Breaking Up with My Toxic Mom Group,” Tisdale French didn’t mention names, but fans deduced she was referring to a group that included stars like Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor, and Moore herself. “I think the biggest takeaway from that whole ridiculous debacle is that I feel like it just sort of it perpetuates this silly trope that women can’t be supportive of one another,” Moore said, adding that some of the most meaningful relationships she’s made have been with other moms. Duff has also spoken out about the essay, saying during an episode of Call Her Daddy that she was “pretty, pretty taken aback and felt just, like, sad,” and called the claims “not true.” After the publication of the Cut essay, a source close to the group told People, “It was a misalignment of values that Ashley decided to make public. Friends naturally drift apart. It didn’t warrant a dramatic breakup text.”

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More than 10,000 homes have been evacuated as a major wildfire tears through Los Angeles County. The Sandy Fire, which broke out on Monday morning in Simi Valley, just outside of Los Angeles, is burning across more than 1,300 acres. The cause of the blaze is under investigation. As of early Tuesday, the fire is at zero percent containment, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Andy VanSciver, a public information officer with the Ventura County Fire Department, confirmed that the wildfire is the largest one that firefighters have had to tackle so far this year, while noting that California does not really have wildfire seasons anymore. “We are now in a year-round season,” he told The Washington Post. “And we are transitioning into peak fire season.” In addition to the 10,000 homes that have already been evacuated, 3,500 more have been placed under evacuation warnings. California Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed on Monday that the state had secured federal assistance to help respond to the Sandy Fire in Ventura. “We are deeply grateful to the crews on the front lines and urge Californians in impacted areas to follow guidance from local officials,” Newsom said.

Health authorities say at least 131 people have died amid 513 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a further death and at least two confirmed cases in neighboring Uganda. The new figures come just two days after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the disease—which can cause horrific symptoms like bleeding from the eyes—a “public health emergency of international concern.” Among the victims in the Congo is an American doctor, who is understood to have since been flown to Germany to undergo treatment, with another six U.S. medical personnel thought to have been exposed. The strain of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak is the Bundibugyo variant, which carries a fatality rate of 25 to 40 percent—relatively low compared to other major strains like the Zaire and Sudan variants, which can carry mortality rates as high as 90 percent. Unlike those variants, there is currently no approved vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, which has alarmed health authorities with the speed at which it has spread throughout the affected region. It is the third outbreak of the variant to be detected, following similar emergencies in Uganda between 2007 and 2008 and in the DRC in 2012.