Jerrod Carmichael burns Tom Cruise and Scientology with Shelly Miscavige joke

Jerrod Carmichael had a pitch for Tom Cruise and Church of Scientology in one of his Golden Globes jokes.

The comedian and host of Tuesday's ceremony referenced Cruise having returned his Globe statues in 2021 in the midst of controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the Globes.

"Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned," Carmichael quipped as he came on stage holding three awards.

Carmichael noted he was "just the host," then added, "but I have a pitch."

"I think maybe we take these three things and exchange them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige," he said.

There were some awkward groans and a few gasps in the room even as some viewers may not have understood the joke.

Cruise is a longtime member of the Church of Scientology. Shelly Miscavige is the wife of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige.

In 2013, after actress and former Scientology member Leah Remini raised concern publicly that Shelly Miscavige had not been seen out in public for some time, the Los Angeles Police Department said detectives had made contact with Shelly Miscavige and found her to be alive and safe.

The church issued a statement at the time accusing Remini of "creating this unne0cessary burden for law enforcement," adding it "was even more irresponsible given the entire episode was nothing more than a publicity stunt for Ms. Remini."

Cruise returned the best actor Globes he won for his performances in "Jerry Maguire" in 1997 and "Born on the Fourth of July" in 1990, and the best supporting actor award for "Magnolia" in 2000.

He did so amid criticism of the HFPA for its lack of diversity, specifically its lack of Black members, as well as ethical questions related to financial benefits to some of its 87 members brought to light in an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.

HFPA has said it has made sweeping changes including increasing its diversity by inviting in new members of color.

CNN has reached out to representatives for Cruise and the Church of Scientology for comment.

 

Former DMN critic Thomas Maurstad will mark release of new novel at Interabang Books

He’ll discuss and sign copies of ‘Mind the Gap’ on Jan. 19.Author Thomas Maurstad, a former Dallas Morning News pop culture critic, will celebrate the release of his new novel, Mind the Gap, with a reception at Interabang Books in Dallas on Jan. 19.

The reception begins at 5:30 p.m., and Maurstad will discuss the book and sign copies starting at 6 p.m. Interabang Books is at 5600 W. Lovers Lane.

Mind the Gap is set against th backdrop of Austin’s South by Southwest festival and features alternating chapters about  advertising whiz Justin Mayhaps and rising musician-video artist Ellis Presley, whose stories ultimately intersect.

Maurstad, who lives in Dallas, plans to release a collection of short stories, Flyover States, this year. He is working on his next novel, tentatively titled Dreaming of Sleep.

Those who wish to attend the Interabang Books event can send an.

 

 

The Banshees of Inisherin’: How to Stream the Golden Globe-Winning Colin Farrell Movie

It might’ve been one of the best movies of 2022, but The Banshees of Inisherin, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, is becoming one of the most talked-about films of the year, thanks in part to its big night at the 2023 Golden Globes. The dark comedy took home three awards during the ceremony, including Best Screenplay, Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for Farrell’s performance.

“Martin McDonagh, I owe you so much, man,” Farrell said during his Golden Globes acceptance speech. “Fourteen years ago, you put me in work with Brandan Gleeson, my dance partner, and you changed the trajectory of my life forever in ways that I, begrudgingly, will be grateful to you for the rest of my days.The next day, the film scored a record-making five nods for the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards — making it an Oscars frontrunner.

“Both a comedy and a tragedy — one that substitutes Irish wit and irony for the Greeks’ gods and monsters — The Banshees of Inisherin somehow feels ancient; it takes place in 1923, not coincidentally when Ireland was embroiled in its own Civil War, yet you’d swear that it was adapted from a fable scribbled centuries ago,” David Fear wrote of McDonagh’s film in Rolling Stone‘s movie review.

Following its big night at the Golden Globes, here’s how you can stream The Banshees of Inisherin online.

Banshees of Inisherin Streaming: Where to Watch the Colin Farrell Movie Free

If you want to stream The Banshees of Inisherin at home and online, you can watch the Golden Globe winner and Oscars contender at the time of this writing on Prime Video and HBO Max.

To see Farrell’s and Gleeson’s award-worthy performances, you can rent or buy The Banshees of Inisherin right now on Prime Video through your Amazon Prime membership for $3.99 or $14.99, respectively.

Don’t have a Prime account yet? You can sign up for a 30-day free trial, and watch the film with a 7-day free HBO Max trial at the same time. After your trial ends, you’ll pay $14.99/month for your HBO Max subscription.

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HBO Max, meantime, costs $9.99/month (with ads) or $14.99/month (ad-free). To save yourself cash in the long run, we recommend signing up for the annual HBO Max subscription package, which costs $99.99/year (with ads) or $149.99/year (ad-free), both saving you about 16% on your HBO Max subscription instead of going with the monthly plans.

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The Banshees of Inisherin: Plot, Cast, Runtime, Rating

McDonagh’s award-winning drama is set in 1923 on the island of Inisherin, and centers on two friends (and a mini pet donkey you might’ve heard about named Jenny), Pádraic Súilleabháin (Farrell) and Colm Doherty (Gleeson), who have a bit of a sudden falling out. The reasons aren’t immediately clear, and spoilers aside, moviegoers will have to watch the movie to find out what happens next.

According to the film’s official synopsis, “Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.” We’ll leave it at that.

Unlike much of the award-season contenders, The Banshees of Inisherin clocks in under the two-hour mark with a runtime of 1 hour, 53 minutes and is rated R.

 

Prince Harry's memoir 'Spare' breaks sales record

  Prince Harry rince Harry has set a record with his tell-all memoir "Spare," after the English language version sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first day of publication.

The bumper sales included all formats of the book -- paper, audio and electronic -- in the US, Canada and the UK, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the book's publisher Penguin Random House.

The first full day of sales of Spare represents the largest first-day sales total for any nonfiction book ever published by Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade publisher," Penguin Random House said.

Harry's 410-page memoir officially went on sale on Tuesday, with some stores in London opening at midnight in anticipation of high demand. Copies of the Spanish version were released days earlier, leading to a whirlwind of headlines and revelations in the global media.

Yet these did not prove to be spoilers for those eagerly awaiting its publication, as the publisher revealed.

Random House also said the first US printing of Harry's memoir was 2 million copies and now the book has "gone back to press for additional copies to meet demand."

The publisher had promised "raw, unflinching honesty" from the prince, who has narrated the unabridged audio version of the book.

"Spare" has gone on sale in 16 languages worldwide.

The Duke of Sussex holds almost nothing back as he dismantles the public's perception of him being the fun-loving, care-free party prince, delving into the devastating impact of his mother's death, experimenting with drugs as a method of coping with grief, and his struggles at finding love.

It is at points scathing and hypercritical toward several family members, who are not defending themselves as the palace is not responding to the claims, and reveals deeply personal conversations despite Harry's previous railing against the media for invasions of privacy.

"Vulnerable and heartfelt, brave and intimate, Spare is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words," Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Group, said in the statement.

To put sales of "Spare" into context, Barack Obama's 2020 memoir "A Promised Land" sold 887,000 copies in all formats on its first day in the US and Canada, breaking records at the time for the book's publisher, Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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Jerrod Carmichael burns Tom Cruise and Scientology with Shelly Miscavige joke

Jerrod Carmichael had a pitch for Tom Journey and Church of Scientology in one of his Brilliant Globes jokes.

The joke artist and host of Tuesday's function referred to Journey having returned his Globe sculptures in 2021 amidst contention encompassing the Hollywood Unfamiliar Press Affiliation, the association behind the Globes.

"Behind the stage, I found these three Brilliant Globe grants that Tom Voyage returned," Carmichael joked as he came in front of an audience holding three honors.

Carmichael noted he was "only the host," then, at that point, added, "however I have a pitch."

"I think perhaps we take these three things and trade them for the protected return of Shelly Miscavige," he said.

There were a few off-kilter moans and a couple of heaves in the room even as certain watchers might not have figured out the joke.

Journey is a long-lasting individual from the Congregation of Scientology. Shelly Miscavige is the spouse of Chapel of Scientology pioneer David Miscavige.

In 2013, after entertainer and previous Scientology part Leah Remini raised concern openly that Shelly Miscavige had not been seen out in broad daylight for quite a while, the Los Angeles Police Office said analysts had connected with Shelly Miscavige and viewed her as alive and safe.

The congregation gave an assertion at the time blaming Remini for "making this unne0cessary trouble for policing," it "was much more unreliable given the whole episode was just an exposure stunt for Ms. Remini."

Journey returned the best entertainer Globes he won for his exhibitions in "Jerry Maguire" in 1997 and "Brought into the world on the Fourth of July" in 1990, and the best supporting entertainer grant for "Magnolia" in 2000.

He did as such in the midst of analysis of the HFPA for its absence of variety, explicitly its absence of Dark individuals, as well as moral inquiries connected with monetary advantages to a portion of lighting in an examination by the Los Angeles Times 87 individuals brought.

HFPA has said it has rolled out clearing improvements including expanding its variety by welcoming in new individuals from variety.

CNN has connected with agents for Voyage and the Congregation of Scientology for input.

 

James Cameron Says He Had to 'Twist' Leonardo DiCaprio's Arm for 'Titanic' at Golden Globes 2023

He didn't want to do it. He thought it was boring," the director told PEOPLE about DiCaprio in an exclusive interview at the Golden Globes

Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't sure he wanted the role of Jack in Titanic.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE at the Golden Globes 2023 on Tuesday, director James Cameron said he had to convince DiCaprio, now 48, to take the job that would end up helping launch him to superstardom.

"He didn't want to do a leading man," recalls Cameron. "I had to really twist his arm to be in the movie. He didn't want to do it. He thought it was boring.

The Canadian filmmaker, 68, says that while DiCaprio eventually "accepted the part" of the ill-fated Jack, it was "only when I convinced him that it was actually a difficult challenge."

"It didn't surprise me, first of all, that he's made a lot of authentic choices going forward," Cameron adds. "And secondly, I never doubted his talent."

Twenty-five years later, Titanic still stands tall as one of the highest-grossing movies ever made, and Cameron recently told Deadline he "can't imagine that film" without its two leading stars: DiCaprio and Kate 

Winslet.

"I think about that casting Leonardo and Kate in Titanic. Leo, the studio didn't want him; I had to fight for him," the director told the outlet during an interview about his career and his new movie, Avatar: The Way of Water.

Kate really liked him," the director said of DiCaprio. "And then Leonardo decided he didn't want to make the movie. So then I had to talk him into it."

During the interview, Cameron noted that Titanic "wouldn't have been that film" if DiCaprio had decided not to take his role as Jack or if anything with the production had come together  differently You think at any one of those places, if that had really kind of frayed apart, it would have been somebody else and it wouldn't have been that film," he told the outlet. "And I can't imagine that film without him and without her."

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the film will be returning to theaters. Cameron's historical-romance epic is set to make a splash on movie screens once more in February, marking the occasion with a new trailer and poster.

Titanic, which won a record 11 Academy Awards in 1998, will be screened in 3D 4K HDR with high-frame rate.

Alongside DiCaprio and Winslet, now 47, the film, which was also written by Cameron, starred Billy Zane,Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, David Warner, Victor Garber and Bill Paxton

"I spent a year researching because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible," Cameron recently told PEOPLE of the film, for a Titanic special edition issue. "I said to the team, 'Guys, I want it to be like we went back in a time machine and filmed what happened.' 

Golden Globes 2023 key moments: Kevin Costner shelters in place and Tom Cruise gets a kicking

There were heroes aplenty – Jennifer Coolidge, Colin Farrell and Michelle Yeoh among them – but only one villain at this year’s star-studded Globes award ceremony

The host insults his hosts

I‘m here because I’m Black,” said incoming MC Jerrod Carmichael, who addressed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s tarnished reputation head-on in his opening monologue. “They didn’t have a single Black member until George Floyd was killed,” he said, shrugging off much of their apparent rehabilitation efforts and saying he only took the gig for the $500,000 paycheck.

The host insults Tom Cruise

Introducing the Top Gun: Maverick star, Carmichael drew awkward gasps and a few whoops with his mention of the main difficulty with Hollywood’s fulsome embrace of its most powerful star. “Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned. Maybe we take these three things and exchange them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige?” he said, referring to the long-invisible wife of the Scientology leader David Miscavige.

Eddie Murphy weighs in on Will Smith

Slap-fatigue was a theme of the evening, but there was special dispensation for Murphy to take a pop at the leading player of last year’s Oscar ceremony. In his acceptance speech for the Globes’ lifetime achievement award, Murphy credited his success to three things: “Pay your taxes. Mind your business. And keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!”

Jennifer Coolidge rules supreme

The White Lotus was the watercooler hit of the season and Coolidge’s speech the smash of the night, alternately very funny and – in its championing of series creator Mike White – extremely moving. Special mention to her response when offered a hand to the stage by Colin Farrell:

Mike White has his moment

Later, a possibly tired and emotional White repaid the compliment to Coolidge and enjoyed gazing into the sea of faces of those who had turned down the chance to make the show with him.

Colin Farrell gains on his Oscar

The Academy Awards’ best actor race this year has been a hard one to call, but Farrell’s charming speech may have nudged him into frontrunner position, over Brendan Fraser and Austin Butler.

Regina Hall doesn’t buy Kevin Costner’s no-show

Picking up Costner’s acting award for Yellowstone, Hall expressed some scepticism over how keen to attend Costner really had been, before reading out that he had to “shelter in place in Santa Barbara”.

Other notable absences were Cate Blanchett, apparently shooting in London so unable to pick up her best actress in a drama prize, and Amanda Seyfried, “deep in the process of creating a new musical and could not be here”.

Michelle Yeoh’s popular touch

Jamie Lee Curtis’s reaction to news her Everything Everywhere All at Once co-star had taken best actress in a comedy or musical was broadly shared across the room –and Twitter. Yeoh’s speech cemented the goodwill.

Shoot the piano player

If the evening had a single villain, it was likely Chloe Flower, the ivory-tinkler assigned to hasten the end of the speeches with jaunty muzak. Yeoh, Farrell and many others demanded she cool her fingers; the most compelling case was made by Austin Butler, whose moving tribute to his late mother was accompanied by an increase in volume from Flower.