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<b>Brian Kelly Files Suit Against LSU Over Buy-Out Dispute, Igniting a Legal Showdown       </b>

Brian Kelly Files Suit Against LSU Over Buy-Out Dispute, Igniting a Legal Showdown

NewsmakersNovember 12, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Brian Kelly, the former head coach of Louisiana State University (LSU) football, has launched a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that his departure was “without…

<b> Hoodrich Pablo Juan Hits the Ground Running: Released from Prison, Returns to Atlanta with Fresh Music and New Vision         </b>

Hoodrich Pablo Juan Hits the Ground Running: Released from Prison, Returns to Atlanta with Fresh Music and New Vision

NewsmakersNovember 12, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The Atlanta rap scene witnessed a long-anticipated moment this month when Hoodrich Pablo Juan, born Sterling Leroy Pennix Jr., walked out of prison and stepped…

<b>  Musician & Friend: Cleto Escobedo III, Bandleader for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Lifelong Companion to Jimmy Kimmel, Passes at 59    </b>

Musician & Friend: Cleto Escobedo III, Bandleader for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Lifelong Companion to Jimmy Kimmel, Passes at 59

Newsmakers, TVNovember 12, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Cleto Escobedo III, the saxophonist-bandleader whose presence anchored the house band of Jimmy Kimmel Live! for more than two decades, died on November 11, 2025,…

<b>Robert Pattinson: From Teen-Heartthrob to Audacious Actor    </b>

Robert Pattinson: From Teen-Heartthrob to Audacious Actor

FilmNovember 11, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born on 13 May 1986 in Barnes, London, England. He grew up in a creative household—his mother worked at a…

<b>Motherhood, Madness, and Mastery: Jennifer Lawrence at Full Power    </b>

Motherhood, Madness, and Mastery: Jennifer Lawrence at Full Power

FilmNovember 11, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Jennifer Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990, in a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. She grew up on a horse farm, an athletic child who…

<b> Jennifer Lawrence Goes to the Edge—and Brings Us With Her in <i>Die, My Love</i>   </b>

Jennifer Lawrence Goes to the Edge—and Brings Us With Her in Die, My Love

FilmNovember 10, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

From the opening frames of Die, My Love, director Lynne Ramsay plunges us unflinchingly into the raw turbulence of new motherhood, marriage, and isolation. The…

<b>Grammys 2025 Nod Recital: Beyoncé Reigns, Kendrick Lamar Commands the Moment    </b>

Grammys 2025 Nod Recital: Beyoncé Reigns, Kendrick Lamar Commands the Moment

NewsmakersNovember 8, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The 2025 Grammy nominations revealed a musical landscape where dominance, surprise and transition all shared the spotlight. Beyoncé led the field with eleven nods, arriving…

<b>When Suburbia Explodes: <i>Down Cemetery Road</i> Unravels a Quiet Town’s Deadly Secrets     </b>

When Suburbia Explodes: Down Cemetery Road Unravels a Quiet Town’s Deadly Secrets

TVNovember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The new eight-episode thriller series Down Cemetery Road, streaming on Apple TV+, opens with what appears at first as a banal suburban incident—a dinner gone…

<b>When the Gloves Came Off: The Unseen Battles of Christy Martin     </b>

When the Gloves Came Off: The Unseen Battles of Christy Martin

Film, NewsmakersNovember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Born in the coal-mining town of Mullens, West Virginia, Christy Renea Martin grew up with grit in her blood and fire in her heart. The…

<b>Sydney Sweeney Is Nobody’s Ingenue     </b>

Sydney Sweeney Is Nobody’s Ingenue

FilmNovember 7, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Born on September 12, 1997 in Spokane, Washington, Sydney Sweeney grew up in a lakeside home in the Idaho panhandle where her family had lived…

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