Rance Collins

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It’s been nearly 40 years since Mia Sara first made an impression on moviegoers in the seminal 1986 classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” an experience that Sara recalls fondly — particularly filming that iconic parade sequence. In the scene, Matthew Broderick (aka “Bueller…”) leads an impromptu, elaborate, rag tag dance troop through the streets of Chicago, set to The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout.”“We would do the dance and then we’d get in a van and they’d drive us blocks away,” Sara told People.

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1 hour agoColumn | Trump wanted a military spectacle. Instead, he got a history lesson. The parade must go on, and the Army sidestepped a major crisis of image and messaging. The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief.

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Billy Bob Thornton was almost cast alongside Kathy Bates in her Oscar-winning “Misery” role, something that Bates was unaware of until she sat down with Thornton for their Variety Actors on Actors interview. “I swear to God. Originally, Richard Farnsworth, who played the sheriff, had a deputy. I saw Rob Reiner for it. And Rob said right in the room, ‘You’re the guy. We can send everybody else home.'”But as the production went forward, the project evolved. “I was very excited.

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9 hours agoThe Television Academy in North Hollywood played host to a buzzworthy FYC event for Landman earlier this month. The TV drama created by Taylor Sheridan exploded on Paramount+ in November 2024, becoming the platform’s biggest premiere in two years. Starring Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, Landman …

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Fresh off the success of “Materialists,” Chris Evans is letting his fellow Marvel stalwart Sebastian Stan know that he’s ready to take to the stage, which Stan apparently has been telling Evans he wants to do for years. Evans, though, doubts that the “Thunderbolts*” actor is serious. “He can say that all day, but when I really call him on it — I’m like, ‘Let’s do it. Which one?’ He’s like, ‘Well, you know, I’m a little busy.’ I’m like, ‘Seb, stop using me in press.