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Some celebrity comparisons are just good marketing. This one comes with paperwork. Genealogy platform MyHeritage says Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe are distant cousins: ninth cousins once removed, to be exact. The link runs through Ezra Perry, an early settler of Sandwich, Massachusetts, whose descendants eventually branched toward two very different eras of Hollywood. Getty Images / SYRN On Sweeney’s side, the line travels through her father, Steven Sweeney.

Actor Ian Charleson is best known for his role in 1981’s Chariots of Fire, but even as the film notes, people remember the music, not him. But, he undertook a staggering feat in the last months of his life. It’s a story many do not know, even in the LBGTQ+ community, and one worthy of its own biopic. Andrew Scott takes on the role of Charleson in this specific biopic about his death from AIDS in 1990.

Jessica Biel hit the carpet at AMC Lincoln Square on Monday night for the premiere of Matchbox: The Movie, and she did it in one of the sleekest looks of the fall season: a black Dolce & Gabbana suit worn with absolutely nothing underneath the jacket. Consider the engine started. The blazer on the incredible physique did all the talking.

Who’s that girl? Is it Miley Cyrus? That question is lighting up timelines after a screenshot of what appears to be an Apple Music Instagram post started making the rounds. The image is a moody black-and-white silhouette of a woman with tousled waves, stacked necklaces, and a crystal-trimmed corset, backlit by stage beams and captioned with nothing but a guitar, a black heart, and a bouquet. Then, just as quickly, the post was gone. Cue the detective work.

Championships tell one story about who rules WWE. Google tells another. According to worldwide Google Trends data for September 2026, Rhea Ripley drew the highest search interest of any female WWE Superstar on the planet, and she did it without wrestling a single match. The rest of the top 10 is just as fascinating: a newly crowned world champion, two Divas-era icons renewing an old rivalry, a vengeful Role Model and a legend whose future has fans guessing.

I still remember like it was yesterday; my summer vacation back in Poland when I was still in high school. I just borrowed Stephen King’s Carrie from the local library, and I took the entire afternoon to enjoy it. One of my favorite parts was the interaction between the next-door neighbor Stella and little Carrie that turns hostile due to Margaret White, who shames the poor girl for sunbathing.

Dying on television is usually a career setback. For Tommy Walker, it’s job security. The actor plays Gary Jeffries on HBO Max’s The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, where the multiverse keeps serving up new versions of Denise’s handsome boyfriend, and new ways to lose him. Stopping by The Nerd Alert Podcast with Jason and Laura, Walker embraced the obvious comparison.

Jessica Biel touched down in Mexico City to promote Matchbox The Movie, and at the film’s photo call on September 30, she delivered a look sharp enough to cut glass. Posing high above the city with a wall of skyscrapers and a tree-lined boulevard stretching out behind her, Biel somehow made the skyline the second most impressive view in the room. The formula was simple: black on black on black. The execution was anything but.

Sydney Sweeney knows how to get people talking. Turns out she’s just as good at getting people to open their wallets. Novig, the sports prediction platform that counts the 29-year-old actress as an equity partner, has reportedly raised new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. That’s quadruple the $500 million figure it carried after its last raise, a leap made in about seven months. So what changed? A certain Euphoria star walked onto the field.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a crime drama that feels like it was pulled from a time capsule; it lives so comfortably within its influences that Noah Segan’s film wears the grit of 1970s cinema naturally. A Lumet or a Scorsese could have brought their own spin to this story back then, and that familiarity is a part of its pleasure. It’s happy just to be low-key. The one thing a 1970s version would have changed is our main character Harry’s () luck.