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  • Who died in the Season 3 finale?

    Who died in the Season 3 finale?

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    Spoiler alert! We’re going to reveal the big death in Sunday’s Season 3 finale of “The White Lotus.”

    Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) was tragically behind many of the deaths in the April 6 Season 3 finale of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” First, he killed the mysterious hotel owner Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), the man Rick believed was behind the death of his father. (Turns out he was his father). The owner of the White Lotus resort didn’t survive the duo’s second meeting: Rick pulled the gun out of the holster hidden in Jim’s jacket and shot him twice.

    Rick then killed two of Jim’s bodyguards in a shootout. To his horror, Rick saw that his girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) had been shot in the melee, lying near death on the ground. Rick started to carry Chelsea off, but urged by Sritala, Jim’s wife, was shot in the back by the resort guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong). Rick fell dead into the water with Chelsea. His face floated eerily about the surface of the water.

    The body bags showing the star-crossed lovers, Rick and Chelsea, are shown later in the episode.

    Here are others who faced a similar fate in Season 1 and 2 of “The White Lotus”:

    Who died in Season 2 of ‘White Lotus’?

    “Please, these gays are trying to murder me!” Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya in “White Lotus” proclaimed in the Season 2 finale.

    The finale, which aired in December 2022, landed with a startling thunk on the side of a boat. Toward the end of the weeklong Sicilian resort stay, viewers learned the body floating in the sea was Tanya’s, who fell to her death off the side of Quentin’s (Tom Hollander’s) yacht while trying to escape what she believed was a murder-for-hire plot.

    At the beginning of the finale, her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) remained far from Tanya, with Quentin’s fake nephew Jack (Leo Woodall), but the pair managed to speak on a brief call that convinced both that their companions have been conspiring with Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries) to murder her.

    Who died in Season 1 of ‘White Lotus’?

    Hotel manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) is killed in a dizzying confrontation with Shane (Jake Lacy). Following a robbery at the Mossbachers’ suite, Shane contacts his mother’s travel agent to raise hell with the hotel’s owner for not informing him of the presence of a “dangerous criminal.” Armond subsequently receives a call from his boss, with the ominous promise of a meeting the next day.

    After a debaucherous night of partying, an intoxicated Armond breaks into Shane and Rachel’s (Alexandra Daddario) Pineapple Suite for revenge and graphically defecates in Shane’s open suitcase. Armond tries to quietly escape the suite, but Shane hears him and grabs a knife from room service, fearful of an intruder.

    A wrong turn from both men leaves them face to face, with Shane’s knife plunged into Armond’s chest. The hotel manager falls back into the suite’s luxurious tub and Shane flees, spluttering, “I’m sorry.”

    ‘The White Lotus’ Season 1 finale: Who died? Who was the killer? And does any of it matter?

    Contributing: Kelly Lawler, Edward Segarra and Pamela Avila, USA TODAY

  • Lovers reunite, a pivotal birth, Dutton death

    Lovers reunite, a pivotal birth, Dutton death

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    Spoiler alert! This story discusses plot details of the “1923” Season 2 finale.

    For most of “1923” Season 2, Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) has desperately sought to reunite with her new husband Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar), while the prodigal fighting machine hightailed it back to the besieged Yellowstone Dutton ranch to save his uncle Jacob (Harrison Ford) and aunt Cara (Helen Mirren).

    Star-crossed lovers Alex and Spencer overcame every conceivable obstacle separately on ships, cars and trains before joyously coming together near frozen Montana train tracks in Sunday’s two-hour season finale (now streaming on Paramount+). After Spencer jumps from his moving train for a final sprint to his stranded, near-frozen wife, their rapturous reconciliation is so hot.

    Like, literally hot. The cruel Montana winter for the Taylor Sheridan series was recreated with special effects and fake snowbanks on an Austin soundstage in the dead heat of Texas summer.

    “Oh my God, it was like 100 degrees hot, the opposite of winter,” Schlaepfer, 30, says during a joint interview with Sklenar, 34, for USA TODAY. “We had to do this weird combination of shivering while actually drenched in sweat.”

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    We bow to the power of storytelling and new-fangled technology, because that much-awaited moment works. “It’s powerful,” Sklenar says. “Running that last distance in the snow, you see how they’ve been fighting to find one another.”

    The new Dutton wife is preggers, Spencer discovers. He gallantly bundles up his weakened spouse to sprint towards warmth on the tracks. Unorthodox acting was required.

    “It was really funny,” says Sklenar, laughing while recalling the dead-serious moment. “I had to hold Jules and pretend to just sort of run in place, and jostle her about. I’ve never had to fake run for such a pivotal, intense scene.”

    Alexandra gives birth to John Dutton. But which John Dutton?

    Fortunately, the train had stopped, making the fake run shorter than expected. But the finale never gets easier for Alex, covered in severe frostbite from her frigid ordeal. Things get much worse for the Dutton family enemies, who Spencer gets to smiting almost single-handedly.

    Alex miraculously gives birth to their premature son and names him John. This is the awaited Big Bang in the Yellowstone-Dutton-verse. Bet the ranch that this is TV-series-connecting child John Dutton II, the father of John Dutton III, played by Kevin Costner in “Yellowstone.”

    “It’s fun to think about. That it ties into the whole world,” says Schlaepfer of baby John. She hastily adds that she’s not confirming that the child is Costner’s TV daddy in swaddling clothes. “The only person who could confirm that is Taylor Sheridan himself, out of his mouth.”

    “John’s a popular name,” adds Sklenar, avoiding confirmation of being Costner’s TV grandfather.

    Who dies in the ‘1923’ finale?

    New-found Dutton family bliss is short-lived. Alex dies in the hospital holding baby John, with Spencer lying next to her.

    “They fall asleep together and she drifts away,” Schlaepfer says, adding that Ford and Mirren were present for the scene out of respect. “There’s no other way to say it. It hurt to film.”

    Spencer puts on his revenge face to take his feelings out on family archenemy, Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), the sadistic developer and early downhill skiing visionary. With Jacob at his side, Spencer shoots Whitfield dead at his pastry-filled breakfast table.

    “Men at that time weren’t really exactly attuned to their emotions. There weren’t podcasts on how to process your grief at the time,” Sklenar says. “His pain moves through his physicality, and his revenge is vindicating. It’s a little bit of the power of Spencer, the power of love and the power of the bullet.”

    Is this the end of ‘1923’?

    Alex is bestowed with the ultimate posthumous Dutton honor, a gravestone in the famed ranch cemetery for top-tier clan only. She is an English aristocrat in Montana, yet still, Alex earns her plot in the Deceased Dutton Hall of Fame.

    “It’s such an honor. I know that everyone will be upset about (Alex) being a part of the Dutton family cemetery,” Schlaepfer says.

    But Alex lived strong, died well, gave birth to a pivotal Dutton baby, dumped her feeble aristo fiancé for Spencer, and gave viewers a love story saga.

    Sheridan and Paramount Global have always planned to keep “1923” to two seasons while moving the story onto the next chapter, “1944” (presumably with a grown-up John Dutton II). So for Ford, 82, and Mirren, 79, the Season 2 finale appears to be the end of the line. Jacob already admits he’s retiring from ranching. Cara points out that baby John is “the future.” The finale fast forwards to an obscured view of the never-remarried, aged Spencer lying down by his wife’s grave. Sklenar refuses to confirm his character’s death.

    “He’s an old man, possibly just taking a nap,” he says. “There might be a (“1923″) version with geriatric Spencer dragging his gun because he’s too weak to hold it.”

    Even if “1923” is over, it’s been a ride. “We did our best to bring this couple’s story to life and do justice to their role in Dutton history,” Sklenar says. “It was such an honor.”

  • Festival canceled after fatal structural collapse

    Festival canceled after fatal structural collapse

    The conclusion of AXE Ceremonia’s 2025 festival in Mexico City was forced to a halt after a structural collapse on Saturday resulted in two deaths.

    The two-day festival, which kicked off on Saturday at Parque Bicentenario, confirmed the suspension in a statement on its social media accounts Sunday.

    “With profound sadness, we confirm the death of the two individuals who were injured in the incident that occurred (yesterday),” the statement, translated from Spanish, reads. “This loss hurts us immensely.”

    The mayor’s office of Miguel Hidalgo, the borough where Parque Bicentenario is located, announced that suspension seals were placed at the festival’s entrance in collaboration with the Institute of Administrative Verification, as well as the borough’s government-and-legal-affairs and civil protection departments, according to a statement issued on social media.

    According to The Associated Press and the Mexican publication El Universal, the individuals — a pair of photographers comprised of one male and one female — were killed after a metal structure at the festival site, described as a “decorative piece,” collapsed due to a wind gust.

    Following the collapse, the photographers were transferred to Dr. Rubén Leñero General Hospital, where they were diagnosed with cranioencephalic trauma and various fractures, the public health services agency IMSS-Bienestar confirmed to the AP and El Universal.

    The victims, who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation, arrived at the hospital with no vital signs, per the outlets.

    The photographers were reportedly identified as Berenice Giles and Miguel Hernández, music outlet Mr. Indie confirmed in a statement on social media Sunday. USA TODAY has reached out to the publication for comment.

    “From our space, we want to honor their devotion, their love for music and photography, and their commitment to this project that was also theirs,” the outlet said in Spanish.

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    In its Sunday statement, AXE Ceremonia said the organization has been in contact with the victims’ families to “accompany them in this very difficult moment and offer them all our support and solidarity.”

    “The safety of our community has always been our priority and we maintain, as from the first moment, a close collaboration and total openness with authorities,” the festival said.

    Tickets for Sunday’s show will be automatically reimbursed via Ticketmaster, AXE Ceremonia shared in a separate statement.

    Charli XCX, The Marías react to AXE Ceremonia tragedy

    AXE Ceremonia 2025’s Saturday launch featured performances from a star-studded lineup that included British pop star Charli XCX, K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together, regional Mexican singer Natanael Cano and former “Elite” star Arón Piper.

    The festival’s Sunday finale was slated to include appearances from top artists such as Tyler, the Creator, Lil Yachty, The Marías and Nathy Peluso, among others.

    Following the event’s suspension, Charli XCX shared a brief tribute on her Instagram Story: “My heart is with the families and friends of Miguel and Berenice.”

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    Arón wrote on his Instagram Story, in Spanish: “All of our love and support to the families of Berenice and Miguel.”

    The Marías also mourned the photographers’ deaths on Instagram, writing, “Due to the tragedy that occurred yesterday at Ceremonia, we will not be performing today.”

    “Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of two photographers, Berenice Giles and Miguel Hernández,” the band concluded.

  • Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, more stars at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony: PhotosCelebrities

    Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, more stars at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony: PhotosCelebrities

    Katy Perry, Alicia Keys, more stars at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony: PhotosCelebrities

  • Will there be a ‘1923’ Season 3? What ‘Yellowstone’ fans need to know

    Will there be a ‘1923’ Season 3? What ‘Yellowstone’ fans need to know

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    Spoiler alert! This story discusses the aftermath of the “1923” Season 2 finale. Hold your horses if you don’t want to know what happens.

    Even before Sunday’s two-hour Season 2 finale on Paramount+ (now streaming), “1923” fans were already asking if there would be a Season 3.

    Led by Harrison Ford, 82, and Helen Mirren, 79, “1923” was originally set to run for two seasons. But there hasn’t been a formal announcement in creator Taylor Sheridan’s ever-changing Yellowstone-verse. There is a new “Yellowstone” saga in the works, “1944,” which will pick up the Dutton story.

    With the Season 2 finale, the “1923” character stables are pretty cleared out. Alexandra Dutton (Julia Schlaepfer) gives birth to son John Dutton before dying in bed with her husband Spencer (Brandon Sklenar). While not confirmed, you can bet the ranch that this baby is John Dutton II, the father of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton III.

    John Dutton II was played in a flashback on “Yellowstone” episode by Dabney Coleman, who died last year. “1944” would undoubtedly feature a new young actor playing John Dutton II, who would be 20 years old.

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    What happens to the Duttons of “1923” in the finale?

    Alex is bestowed with the ultimate posthumous Dutton honor in the finale, a gravestone in the famed ranch cemetery for top-tier clan only. She is an English aristocrat in Montana, yet still, she earns her plot in the Deceased Dutton Hall of Fame.

    “It’s such an honor. I know that everyone will be so upset about being a part of the Dutton family cemetery,” Schlaepfer tells USA TODAY.

    Alex lived strong, died well, gave birth to a pivotal Dutton baby, dumped her feeble aristo fiancé for Spencer, and gave viewers a love story saga.

    Ford’s Jacob already admits he’s retiring from ranching. Cara makes a point of saying that baby John is “the future” while sitting on the Yellowstone Ranch porch. The finale fast forwards to an obscured view of the never-remarried, aged Spencer lying down by his wife’s grave. Sklenar refuses to confirm his character’s death to USA TODAY or that “1923” is done.

    “He’s an old man, possibly just taking a nap,” Sklenar says. “There might be a (“1923″) version with geriatric Spencer dragging his gun because he’s too weak to hold it.”

    Even if “1923” is over, it’s been a ride. “We did our best to bring this couple’s story to life and do justice to their role in Dutton history,” says Sklenar. “It was such an honor.”

    The couples of ‘1923’ get a final moment with one eternal dance

    Cara and Jacob get a touching final scene sitting on the famed Dutton Yellowstone ranch as Jacob refers to his long-time, beloved wife as a “shooting star.”  All-knowing “1923” narrator Elsa Dutton (Isabel May), who also narrated “1883” from beyond the grave, says that Alex was laid to rest in 1924, and “45 years later,” Spencer joined her.

    The couple is shown in their prime in a ballroom scene right out of “Titanic,” with Spencer entering and embracing Alex. “What took you so long?” she asks, before the two start dancing. The potentially series-ending shot of the finale, titled “A Dream and a Memory,” is a black-and-white freeze frame of the swirling couple on the dance floor. They dance through memory, frozen in time — a love story sealed in black and white.

  • '1923' finale: Who lived, who died in Season 2 of 'Yellowstone' prequel? (Spoilers!)TV

    '1923' finale: Who lived, who died in Season 2 of 'Yellowstone' prequel? (Spoilers!)TV

    ‘1923’ finale: Who lived, who died in Season 2 of ‘Yellowstone’ prequel? (Spoilers!)TV

  • Mariah Carey crashes 13-year-old son Moroccan’s Twitch stream

    Mariah Carey crashes 13-year-old son Moroccan’s Twitch stream

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    The stars: They embarrass their kids just like us.

    Mariah Carey, 56, made a surprise cameo Thursday on her 13-year-old son Moroccan Cannon’s live Twitch stream, leaving him hilariously mortified and desperate to get her out of the shot.

    Cannon, whose father is Nick Cannon, broadcast out of a bedroom on Twitch, a platform where users stream themselves playing video games. Early on in the stream, he muted his microphone while talking to somebody out of frame.

    “Sorry, chat,” he said after briefly unmuting himself. “My mom is here.”

    Cannon’s twin sister Monroe could soon be seen in the background, followed by Carey herself. After Cannon asked his mom if she wanted to come over, Carey crouched down into the shot while holding a dog.

    “Y’all need to get out, now,” Cannon told his mother and sister. “Everybody get out. Mom, they can see you.”

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    The 13-year-old, who wore a Kirby beanie, proceeded to put his head in his hand in frustration as a chat of live viewers freaked out about the music icon’s presence. After she addressed live viewers, Cannon again asked, “Can y’all please get out? … Get out of my room!”

    Eventually, Cannon just turned off his camera entirely but could be heard continuing to ask his family to leave, saying, “Bro, get out. Oh, my God. I love you, mom. Shut the door, please!”

    Cannon’s live chat was displayed on screen during the broadcast, showing users type in messages like “HII MARIAH I LOVE YOU,” “hi Ms. Carey” and “is that actually Mariah Carey?”

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    Cannon broadcasts under the username curlyhairrocky on Twitch, where his “about” page clarifies, “Yes, I am Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s son, please stop asking.” He describes himself as “a 13 year old streamer who is just trying to get big on Twitch and YouTube.”

    As a clip from the Twitch stream made the rounds, one viral X post quipped, “This is so funny because mariah carey is one of the greatest singers of all time and to bro she’s just an embarrassing mom.”

    Carey welcomed twins Moroccan and Monroe in 2011 with her then-husband Nick Cannon. The former couple later split and finalized their divorce in 2016.

    When the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” singer teamed up with Fortnite last year, she told People that her son introduced her to the video game, revealing, “I was watching my son play Fortnite for the longest time, and then he taught me how to play.”

  • Spoiler: Stars of the’ 1923’ talk S2 finaleEntertain This!

    Spoiler: Stars of the’ 1923’ talk S2 finaleEntertain This!

    Spoiler: Stars of the’ 1923’ talk S2 finaleEntertain This!

  • Ego Nwodim shocked as ‘SNL’ crowd curses during ‘Weekend Update’

    Ego Nwodim shocked as ‘SNL’ crowd curses during ‘Weekend Update’

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    The audience at “Saturday Night Live” ended up a part of the show this week, much to the chagrin of NBC’s censors.

    In a segment on “Weekend Update” during Saturday’s “SNL,” Ego Nwodim inadvertently prompted the studio audience to shout out a curse word, which aired uncensored for many viewers watching live.

    The moment occurred during a bit inspired by the White House Correspondents’ Association’s decision to drop comedian Amber Ruffin from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in order to avoid “the politics of division.” In response to the news, Nwodim jokingly argued she should host the event, but would avoid controversy by focusing her entire performance on the food being served.

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    The comedian then launched into a sample stand-up routine mixing jokes about food with complaints about men, performing as if she were in her 50s and married with five children.

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    Identifying herself as “Ms. Eggy,” Nwodim included audience participation in the parody set, at one point turning her microphone toward the crowd and asking, “Ms. Eggy don’t what?” But she did not appear to actually expect a response: When the “SNL” studio audience called out the word “play,” she looked surprised and quipped, “How y’all know? Y’all weren’t supposed to know that.”

    Later, Nwodim pointed the microphone at the crowd and asked, “These men ain’t what?” The audience responded by shouting out a curse word, sparking a shocked reaction from Nwodim and from “Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, who were sitting at their desk behind her. Nwodim indicated the response she was looking for was “worth a damn.”

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    “We finna get fined for that. … Y’all gonna have to pay for that,” Nwodim joked. “Lorne gonna be mad at y’all,” referencing “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels.

    Viewers on the East Coast reported hearing the curse word air uncensored while watching the show live, although it was removed when the segment was uploaded to YouTube. The uncensored version was initially available on Peacock Sunday morning but was later replaced with an edited version that removed the profanity.

    Jack Black hosted Saturday’s “SNL” episode, which also poked fun at President Donald Trump’s recent tariffs and made multiple quips mocking musical guest Morgan Wallen for abruptly exiting the show last week. Earlier on in “Weekend Update,” Jost joked, “Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at goodnights.”

  • Bill Murray speaks out on ‘Being Mortal’ misconduct allegation

    Bill Murray speaks out on ‘Being Mortal’ misconduct allegation

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    Bill Murray is speaking out about his misconduct scandal.

    The “Ghostbusters” star, 74, told The New York Times’ ‘The Interview” podcast that he doesn’t “go too many days or weeks without thinking” about what happened on “Being Mortal,” the movie that shut down production in 2022 after a woman complained about his behavior on set.

    “I ended up being, to my mind, barbecued,” Murray said.

    Aziz Ansari was directing “Being Mortal” and starring in the film alongside Murray, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer. But in April 2022, Searchlight Pictures told the crew that production had been suspended after the studio was “made aware of a complaint,” which reports revealed was against Murray.

    On The New York Times podcast, Murray alleged this incident occurred when he kissed a woman he was working with on the movie as a joke while they were both wearing masks. He did not name the woman but said she “wasn’t a stranger” to him.

    “I was wearing a mask, and I gave her a kiss, and she was wearing a mask,” Murray said. “It wasn’t like I touched her. I gave her a kiss through a mask, through another mask, to another person.”

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    Murray said that this was “something that I had done to someone else before,” and he defended it as a lighthearted joke.

    “I certainly thought it was light, and I thought it was funny,” he told the Times. “To me, it’s still funny, the idea that you could give someone a kiss with a mask on. It’s still stupid. That’s all it was.”

    The “Groundhog Day” actor said the incident “still bothers me because that movie was stopped” as a result of the complaint, and he described the situation as a “great disappointment because I thought I knew someone, and I did not.”

    Murray previously told CNBC in 2022 that the misconduct allegation came down to a “difference of opinion” with a woman he was working with. At that time, he said he and the woman were “trying to make peace with each other” but that he was unsure if the production would continue.

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    “We are both professionals, we like each other’s work, we like each other I think and if we can’t really get along and trust each other there’s no point in going further working together or making the movie as well,” Murray said. “It’s been quite an education for me.”

    Murray also told CNBC at the time, “The world’s different than it was when I was a little kid. What I always thought was funny as a little kid isn’t necessarily the same as what’s funny now.”

    “Being Mortal,” which was set to be Ansari’s feature directorial debut, never resumed production. In 2022, Palmer told Variety she was “pretty devastated” that the film wouldn’t be finished but that she hoped there could still be a way to “salvage it.”

    Ansari later moved on to directing “Good Fortune,” a film he stars in alongside Palmer, Rogen and Keanu Reeves. That movie is set for release in October.