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  • Actor Eric Dane Dead at 53

    Eric Dane in 'The Ravine.'
    Eric Dane in ‘The Ravine.’

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    • Eric Dane has died at the age of 53.
    • He was best known for his breakout role as Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey’s Anatomy and, more recently, for his complex portrayal of Cal Jacobs on HBO’s Euphoria.
    • Over a career spanning more than three decades, he became a familiar presence on both network television and the big screen.

    Eric Dane, the actor who rose to fame as the charming and complicated Dr. Mark Sloan on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and later captivated a new generation of viewers with his performance as Cal Jacobs on HBO’s ‘Euphoria’, has died at the age of 53.

    Diagnosed with ALS last year, he had been candid about his health struggles and became a staunch champion of those with the condition.

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    Dane’s family released a statement:

    “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received..”

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    Eric Dane: Early Life and Breakthrough

    (L to R) Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles) and Nathan Blythe (Eric Dane) in 'Countdown'. Photo: Elizabeth Morris © Amazon Content Services LLC.
    (L to R) Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles) and Nathan Blythe (Eric Dane) in ‘Countdown’. Photo: Elizabeth Morris © Amazon Content Services LLC.

    Born November 9, 1972, in San Francisco, California, Eric William Dane discovered his passion for acting in high school. After relocating to Los Angeles to pursue his career, he began landing guest roles in popular television series throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

    His major breakthrough came in 2006 when he joined the cast of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ as Dr. Mark Sloan. Originally introduced as a recurring character, Dane’s portrayal of the confident plastic surgeon — quickly nicknamed “McSteamy” by fans — proved so popular that he was elevated to series regular. The role cemented his status as a television heartthrob and showcased his ability to balance charisma with emotional vulnerability.

    Following his departure from ‘Grey’s,’ Dane starred in TNT’s action drama ‘The Last Ship’, further demonstrating his range as a leading man in high-stakes storytelling.

    Eric Dane: A Career of Reinvention

    Eric Dane in 'One Fast Move'.
    Eric Dane in ‘One Fast Move’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Prime. © Amazon Content Services LLC.

    In 2019, Dane returned to critical prominence with his role as Cal Jacobs in HBO’s ‘Euphoria.’ As the troubled patriarch navigating secrecy, identity, and control, Dane delivered a performance widely praised for its intensity and nuance. The role introduced him to a younger audience and reaffirmed his staying power in an evolving television landscape.

    In addition to his television success, Dane appeared in films including ‘X-Men: The Last Stand,’ where he portrayed the mutant Multiple Man, and the romantic comedy ‘Valentine’s Day.’

    Throughout his career, he navigated both professional triumphs and personal challenges, speaking candidly in interviews about struggles with health and the pressures of fame.

    Eric Dane: Off Screen

    Eric Dane in 'Euphoria'. Photo: Eddy Chen/HBO.
    Eric Dane in ‘Euphoria’. Photo: Eddy Chen/HBO.

    Off camera, Dane was known for his easygoing demeanor and deep devotion to his family. He often described fatherhood as his greatest role and spoke about the importance of resilience and self-awareness.

    Dane leaves behind a body of work that continues to resonate with audiences — from hospital corridors in Seattle to the fraught households of modern suburbia — and a legacy defined by talent, candor, and enduring appeal.

    Eric Dane stars in 'One Fast Move'.
    Eric Dane stars in ‘One Fast Move’.

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  • Taylor Swift to Make Her Feature Directorial Debut

    Taylor Swift in the "Love Story" video. Courtesy of Taylor Swift's YouTube channel.
    Taylor Swift in the ‘Love Story’ video. Courtesy of Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel.

    Though she’s long since proved herself as a powerhouse creator for songwriting and performance, Taylor Swift’s directorial career has so far stretched to music videos for her tracks and, more recently, short film ‘All Too Well’.

    Now, she’s making the jump to full-fledged film director with an untitled movie for Searchlight.

    “Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller. It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield say in a statement.

    The new movie is being kept quiet for now––all we really know is that it’ll draw from a script that Swift has written. Beyond that, we’ll have to wait for casting and other announcements. But we’d be shocked if the movie didn’t have some relationship element, given the usual emotional depth of the performer’s songs.

    Swift made history at this year’s VMA Awards as the only solo artist ever to be honored with two Best Direction awards for her work on ‘All Too Well’ and ‘The Man’. She is the first artist ever to win three Video of the Year awards and only the second female to direct the winning video for Best Longform Video with ‘All Too Well’. The short is also eligible for an Oscar.

    Taylor Swift in "All Too Well: The Short Film (Behind The Scenes)" video. Courtesy of Taylor Swift's YouTube channel.
    Taylor Swift in ‘All Too Well: The Short Film (Behind The Scenes).’ Courtesy of Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel.

    And it’s not like she hasn’t been connected to movies in the past. A wealth of films and trailers have used her music, and she’s also shown up in front of the camera too.

    Her first appearance (outside of acting as herself in ‘Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience’ and ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’ was in 2010’s ‘Valentine’s Day’, where she played Felicia, the girlfriend of Taylor Lautner’s track star Willy. The pair ended up dating briefly in real life.

    She followed that up with a voice role in Illumination’s 2012 animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Lorax’, playing Audrey alongside the likes of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms and Betty White.

    Next was ‘Cats’ (though she, along with many of her co-stars might rather wish to forget it), playing perky cat Bombalurina in the CG/live-action musical adaptation, for which she also collaborated on a new song, ‘Beautiful Ghosts’.

    ‘All Too Well’ saw her in front of the camera as well as behind it, and more recently, she had a small role in David O. Russell’s ‘Amsterdam’ as Liz Meekins, the worried daughter of a recently deceased military man who is convinced he was murdered. That saw her sharing scenes with the likes of Christian Bale and John David Washington and gave her the chance to sing on screen.

    We don’t yet know whether she’ll appear in the new movie, but we’re fairly confident she will write music for it.

    Taylor Swift in the "Anti-Hero" video. Courtesy of Taylor Swift's YouTube channel.
    Taylor Swift in the ‘Anti-Hero’ video. Courtesy of Taylor Swift’s YouTube channel.
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  • 6 Days of the Year That Will Probably Be Movies Soon

    We’ve seen “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve,” and now we prepare to welcome Garry Marshall‘s latest rom-com “Mother’s Day,” which hits theaters April 29th.

    We eat these delightful star-studded ensemble films up like buttered popcorn, and chances are we probably haven’t seen the last of these holiday-themed love stories on the big screen. What other days-of-the-year movies can we expect in the future? Here are our pitches for 6 “holiday” flicks that we could see being produced. And we’d totally watch them, by the way.

    Your move, Hollywood. We’ll be waiting for your call.

    1. “April Fool’s Day”
    Synopsis: Punk’d.”) In order to revive the near-forgotten series, a live April Fool’s extravaganza is planned and will epically “burn” the world’s biggest and most scrutinized (supposed diva) pop star, Skylar Costa, in a nasty “Carrie” pig’s blood moment when she opens a major awards show that definitely doesn’t exist in real life. She will be played by Selena Gomez. Dev Patel portrays a PA setting up the whole thing who obviously falls hard for Skylar when he sees the real her behind-the-scenes, including one sequence where he follows her to a family homeless shelter, where she goes to on her free time to volunteer “because it’s the only place she can be away from the cameras and be herself.” He spends the entire day trying to stop the prank. Will he? For sure! And they’ll kiss. Billy Eichner plays Skylar’s annoyed assistant. Taylor Swift‘s entire squad makes a brief cameo for no reason.

    Tagline: Everybody plays the fool…this April.

    2. “National Grilled Cheese Day”
    Synopsis: Patrick Wilson and Taraji P. Henson play rival food truck owning chefs who came up together in the same Michelin starred restaurant once upon a time. They find themselves competing at the Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational (on April 12th, National Grilled Cheese Day, duh) and sexual-tension-turned-true-love ensues. See, Taraji’s cooking technique is fancy and stuff, so her truffle-infused epoisses on artisanal dark rye is sure to impress! But is she any match for old school Patrick’s classic style American with secret ingredient (cut up hot dogs) in it? Doesn’t matter, because they fall hard by the end of the day and Jacob Tremblay plays a precocious culinary wunderkind who ends up beating them both. Demi Moore plays his mom, who tries to distract Wilson with her hotness and make Taraji jealous when she gets wind of their flirty situation. She ends up with Vince Vaughn, who plays a Guy Fieri-esque celeb chef who’s hosting the whole contest.

    Tagline: The cheesiest love story ever told.

    3. “Super Tuesday”
    Synopsis: Imagine this: Kevin Hart, Ellen Barkin, and Pierce Brosnan are all vying for the presidential candidacy on a sweltering March day in Texas. Anna Kendrick plays Hart’s driven junior campaign manager and Topher Grace is Ellen Barkin’s. Clearly they will bicker the entire day until they realize they have major hots for each other. Wilmer Valderrama plays Brosnan’s assistant, and he and Ellie Kemper (his social media manager) spend the day trying to undo the damage from an embarrassing accidental Snapchat in the B-story of this jumbled fairytale. Lance Bass plays a wise caterer.

    Tagline: All’s fair in love and politics.

    4. “Super Bowl Sunday”
    Synopsis: Margot Robbie is an up-and-coming TV journalist determined to prove herself in the cutthroat world of sports reporting! Her jerk producer, played by Colin Hanks, says her promotion from strictly sidelines to main panelist on the famed sports debate show “Shot Callers” is contingent on an interview with notoriously private quarterback Mac “The Mack” Dobson, who is projected to be the game’s MVP. He’s played by The Rock, whose name is featured prominently on the poster but is really only in the movie for 2 minutes. She spends the game tracking him in tandem with seemingly-sleazy-but-actually-sweet James Marsden, an agent who is trying to sign “The Mack” to a huge endorsement deal. Bella Thorne plays a cheerleader who comes off confidently on the field, but is actually super shy and needs Margot’s help to talk to a cute camera man, played by her real-life BF Gregg Sulkin. Everything works out obviously and Katy Perry and the left shark make a cameo and she makes out with Colin Hanks in the final scene because movies.

    Tagline: The players aren’t the only ones who’ll score.

    5. “Cyber Monday”
    Synopsis: Sofia Vergara is the fashionable CEO of a failing flash sale site that’s on the verge of being bought by a major online retailer, which is run by Simon Baker. In a last ditch effort to maintain ownership, Sofia uses “groundbreaking” new marketing tactics (um, there’s a flash mob at one point…) to show her new bosses who’s, well, boss. The pressure builds when he shadows her for 24 hours, critiquing her on all the business’s shortcomings along the way. He’ll eat his words when they realize it was the most financially successful Cyber Monday in website history! She blows up at him for all his cocky antics in the end but they’ve already gone past of the point of no return and will probably get married in like three months. Lucy Hale plays a PR assistant who ends up falling for an up-and-coming jewelry designer featured on the site, played by America Ferrera. Ian Somerhalder is a hunky IT guy who uses a lot of bad sexual innuendo unknowingly when he fixes everyone’s computers.

    Tagline: Do you believe in love at first byte?

    6. “That Night Before Thanksgiving When You Stay in Your Childhood Home and Go Out With High School People”
    Synopsis: Mandy Moore and Amanda Seyfried are sisters who return home to stay with their newly single mom, Sigourney Weaver, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Seyfried is a former high school “Mean Girl” (get it?) who pens a wildly influential lifestyle blog. Mandy Moore is the overlooked sis in this scenario, a “nerdy” reader who is trying to write the next great American novel while working in book store. They decide to go out to their old local hang (Moore’s never been because she’s a huge loser) and meet up with Josh Duhamel, Seyfried’s former high school basketball star ex, now the town’s middle school guidance counselor. Moore always thought he was “just a jock” but over the course of the night they hit it off and discover what they were missing back in the day. Blake Griffin plays Duhamel’s goofy pal who used to be the school’s dorky mascot, but is now an actual NBA player following a growth spurt. He and Seyfried get together after she breaks down and reveals she pays college students to write her blog. Sigourney ends up at the same bar on an online date (awkward!) with a wealthy businessman (played by Sting), but he ends up being a total douche and she hits it off with a hilarious and humble bartender played by Tony Shalhoub. They all have Thanksgiving together the next day!

    Tagline: Home is where the (sweet)heart is.

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  • 15 Leslie Knope Moments to Get You Pumped for Galentine’s Day

    %Slideshow-361727% Forget Valentine’s Day, guys. Let’s focus our attention on an unofficial holiday that should be celebrated by lady friends all across the world. We’re talking about Galentine’s Day, which was created by none other than “Parks and Recreation” goddess Leslie Knope.

    February 13th is all about honoring female friendships, and there’s no gal pal we’d rather have in our corner than Leslie. Here are 15 times she showed off her words of feminist wisdom, oddly endearing compliments, and her devotion to a stronger sisterhood. Happy Galentine’s Day to all.

  • 10 Essential Valentine’s Day TV Episodes We Love

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    Don’t sweat it if you haven’t got Valentine’s Day plans. And if you do, we say skip the fancy schmancy dinner or the moonlight balloon ride you had planned (well, maybe don’t cancel that one) and make room for some romantic TV time. Whether you’re spending the day with someone you love or you’re hanging stag, why not indulge in some classic Valentine’s Day episodes? Here are 10 that have captured our hearts.

  • #TBT: 13 Celebrity Couples of the Past

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    Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and in honor of the lovey-dovey holiday, this week’s throwback Thursday is all about Hollywood romances of the past. These couples didn’t make it, but photographic evidence proves they were awfully cute while they lasted. Take a trip down celebrity relationship memory lane and witness these 13 surprising former love connections for yourself.