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Photo: Monarchy Enterprises Max Harwoodis making a splash with his breakout role as a teenage drag queen in the movie musical adaptation ofEverybody’s Talking About Jamie. The British actor, 24, opens up to PEOPLE about making his big screen debut in such a joyously queer role. “I feel like it’s enabled me to really step into myself as a person and as an actor,” says Harwood. “And it’s giving me the inspiration to step into my other projects being unapologetic, in all areas of my work, really....

In the wake of Don Lemon’ssudden termination from CNN, sources tell PEOPLE others at the network are reeling and that no one knew the longtime television personality would soon be fired. “Everyone is shocked,” one source tells PEOPLE. “No one knew this was coming. No one. Everyone is floored at the way this was handled and how he was treated.” A former CNN producer tells PEOPLE: “I love Don, and I’m very sorry to see how badly this went down....

Photo: Newport Beach Police/Twitter As part of an effort to renew interest in the unsolved slaying of an 11-year-old girl more than 40 years ago, police in California used their Twitter account last weekendto recount the story of her life, mysterious disappearance and death. In a series of narrative posts from the perspective of the slain girl, Linda O’Keefe, Newport Beach police relayed what they know about what happened while imploring the public to come forward with any additional information....

Kim Zolciak-BiermannandKroy Biermann’sdivorcecould become contentious as a potential custody battle looms. A source close toThe Real Housewives of Atlantastar, 44, and her estranged husband exclusively tells PEOPLE that “everyone expects this divorce is going to get really bad because neither of them will give in.” “Divorce is terrible but the kids are going to have to go through this in a very public manner,” the insider adds, referring to the couple’s fourchildren: 9-year-old twinsKaia Rose and Kane Ren, plus sonsKash Kade, 10, andKroy Jagger, 11....

Disney+ is packing in the action — and taking it to zany new heights — in its upcoming Disney+ series. American Born Chinese, premiering next month, follows average high schooler Jin Wang who is assigned as a guide to foreign exchange student Wei-Chen. Though taking on such a task wouldn’t have been his first choice, Jin’s connection to Wei-Chen results in him being entangled in a battle between Gods of Chinese mythology....

Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan.Photo: Kevin Winter/GettyDaniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan won the Best Director forEverything Everywhere All at Onceat the 2023 Oscars on Sunday — and made sure to shout out the moms in their acceptance speech.Scheinert and Kwan (known collectively as The Daniels) beat out Martin McDonagh, nominated forThe Banshees of Inisherin; Steven Spielberg, forThe Fabelmans; Todd Field, forTár, and Ruben Östlund, forTriangle of Sadness.Kwan and Schienert’s win forEverything Everywhere All at Oncecomes after their film won several other Oscars earlier in the awards ceremony....

James Hong.Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty A moment nearly a century in the making:Everything Everywhere All At Once’sJames Hongattendedthe Oscarsfor the very first time at age 94. “It’s a great pleasure to be here, the first time to be atthe Academy Awards,” Hong said on ABC’sOn the Red Carpet atthe Oscarspreshow Sunday. “Here I am, after 70 years, I’m here. Actually, I’m 94!” Everything Everywhere All At Oncehasthe most nominations of any movieat the 95th Academy Awards, receiving 11 total nods, include one for the Best Picture category....

Photo: Mark Erickson/Getty Images A man sentenced to 19 years in prison for theattempted premeditated murder of a 5-year-old boy he threw off a third-floor Mall of America balconyheard Monday from the boy’s parents, who forgave him even as the boy’s father decried his “evil and selfish” act. The statement from the mother read, in part: “God will judge you someday and I have peace with that. I hand it off to him and you will takenoneof my thoughts EVER again, I am done with you....

Photo: Courtesy Find Heather Elvis A South Carolina woman was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison forkidnapping her husband’s mistress, who hasn’t been seen in nearly five years, PEOPLE confirms. Tammy Moorer, 46, was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the disappearance of 20-year-oldHeather Elvis, a waitress who vanished without a trace in Myrtle Beach days before Christmas in 2013. “She knows where Heather is. She knows what happened to Heather,” said Heather’s mother Debbi Elvis at the sentencing, according to theMyrtle BeachSun News....

Photo: Elizabeth Fisher/CBSKatja Herbershas a tendency to lose herself in her starring role on the Paramount+ supernatural dramaEvil.The Dutch actress, 40, tells PEOPLE that playing Dr. Kristen Bouchard, a skeptical forensic psychologist tasked with investigating the supernatural on behalf of the Catholic church, has a tendency to rub off on her personal life.“It’s because Kristen, in this season, she gets so extreme that maybe I’m a little bit more extreme in my own life as well,” she says of returning to the role in season 2....

Stephen Lee Rodda.Photo:Cici Steedley/GoFundMe Cici Steedley/GoFundMe The father of a teenage boy in Florida was arrested for allegedly killing his son with a power tool in what the local sheriff termed a “horrific event.” Stephen Thomas Rodda, 37, was taken into custody after he allegedly killed his son, 16-year-old Stephen Lee Rodda, inside a mobile home in Lake Wales, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced at aMonday news conferencestreamed on Facebook....

Photo: Pasco County Sheriff’s Office A Florida man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for intentionally running over a 75-year-old man he didn’t know because he said he wanted to know what it was like to kill someone. Justyn Pennell, 24, was sentenced last week to life in prison after pleading no contest to a felony charge of first-degree premeditated homicide. Pennell was driving his PT Cruiser on January 9, 2020 when he spotted Michael Pratt, a Vietnam veteran and grandfather....

During Friday’s hearing, Judge Sarah Lincoln told the 24-year-old she was “possibly the most evil personwho has ever been in this courtroom,” according to theBattle Creek Enquirer. “You were attempting to kill him slowly,” Lincoln said Friday. “Had you wanted to kill this child you could have done it quicker and more painless but you subjected him to months if not years of prolonged suffering.” In March 2017, Schug brought her frail son, Maloyd Gaines, to a local hospital....