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Late last week, Euphoria star Hunter Schafer revealed that her renewed passport has been issued with a male gender marker. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 requiring the federal government to define sex as only male or female and saying that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the “X” marker that had been available since 2021 and is not honouring requests to change gender markers between “M” and “F.”Schafer, who came out as transgender in Grade 9 as a young teen, said her new United States passport lists her gender as male now and shared the details in an eight-and-a-half-minute video posted to TikTok on Saturday.“I’m sure most of us remember on I think ...

Earlier this month, Netflix India announced Mandala Murders, led by Vaani Kapoor, as part of its 2025 slate. While the murder mystery’s principal photography had been wrapped up early last year, we have now heard that director Gopi Puthran and his unit have gone back to the set to film some portions. The team has been apparently shooting since last week in different parts of the city, including Madh Island, adding as well as reimagining certain sequences as per the editing team’s suggestions. A source close to the production reveals, “The Yash Raj series, which sees Vaani’s character investigating a series of murders, has been a massive undertaking with its action-heavy sequences and layered storytelling. When the show reached the edit table this year, the makers and the editing team felt...

Elon Musk’s ex Grimes has made a public plea to the billionaire, urging him to respond to her about a “medical crisis” involving one of their children. In a series of now-deleted posts on X on Thursday, Grimes, Musk’s ex-girlfriend with whom he shares three children, wrote, “Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis. I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention.”“If you don’t want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this,” she added. “This is urgent, Elon.” A screenshot of Grimes’ post on X. @Grimezsz / X Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, did not elaborate on what...

In 1999, the recorded music industry was swimming, drowning in money. CDs had been on an upward trajectory for more than 15 years, reaching sales of 2.4 billion globally and one billion units in the U.S. alone in 2000. Despite the massive scale of the CD industry and plants running flat out around the world, the promised decline in prices never came. In fact, the industry was caught in a price-fixing scheme that inflated the cost of CDs between 1995 and 2000 with a marketing plan called “minimum advertised pricing.” It’s estimated customers were overcharged US$500 million and up to US$5 per album. (The case was settled with a fine and a promise to give US$75 million to public and non-profit groups.)At the same time, labels moved to eliminate the more affordable CD single. “Want just that o...

Therapeutic is how Saqib Saleem describes his maiden collaboration with filmmaker Sudhir Mishra, on his latest series, Crime Beat. The actor, who plays a rookie crime journalist in the Zee5 show, says while he was intimidated by the maverick initially, he was in awe of Mishra’s spirited nature by the end of the shoot. “Once you get to know him, you realise he is younger than you at heart. He has a great sense of humour and is an ideal director for actors because he empowers them. It was a therapeutic experience working with him. I feel I have come out as a better artiste. He was always trying to figure out how to best express his thoughts and story. That was inspiring. After so many years, only if you still have that desire and zeal, can your work stand out,” he says.  Nurturing collabora...

Nicolas Cage’s ex, Christina Fulton, is suing the actor and their son, Weston, over an alleged assault stemming from an April 2024 incident. Weston, 34, and Fulton were allegedly involved in a verbal dispute that turned physical, an encounter she claims left her with “catastrophic” physical, emotional and financial injuries.Fulton is accusing Cage, 61, of ignoring Weston’s mental health concerns, according to legal documents obtained by People. She is suing the pair for negligence and Weston for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.“Weston has a long history of mental and psychological disorder and a history of committing violent assault and battery and harming numerous individuals,” the lawsuit states, filed in the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles C...

A defence lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a motion to step down as the rapper’s lawyer, according to legal documents filed on Thursday. In the motion filed in New York Federal Court, Anthony Ricco notified the judge of his intent to withdraw and said there are “sufficient reasons” protected by lawyer/client privilege.“Although I have provided Sean Combs with the high level of legal representation expected by the court, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs,” he wrote.He declined to go into the specific details as to why he was leaving Diddy’s legal team, but he did note it followed discussions with the music mogul’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo.Ricco said that his motion for withdrawal of counsel “will not result in a delay of the pr...

The casting of Khakee: The Bengal Chapter has been quite the conversation starter - and for a good reason! Aadil Zafar Khan, stepping into a linguistically intricate role, and Ritwik Bhowmik, finding unexpected personal catharsis through his character, share their behind-the-scenes journeys on their Netflix debuts. From dialect training to building on-screen brotherhood, their stories offer rich insights into the making of this highly anticipated series. Aadil Zafar Khan on learning a new dialect "When Neeraj sir called me to his office and offered me Khakee the Bengal Chapter, I was obviously thrilled! A Netflix debut, a role that excited me, and a team I deeply admired - it felt unreal. Neeraj sir told me I’d need dialect training because my character, Ranjit, has roots in Bihar but ha...

The anthem singer who performed the Canadian anthem prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night changed a lyric in “O Canada” as a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks about making the country the 51st state. Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to The Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from “in all of us command” to “that only us command” and confirmed Trump’s 51st state comments were the reason why. During Canada’s 3-2 overtime victory, Kreviazuk told the AP she did it “because I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should not have to be defending itself against tyranny and fascism.”“I’m somebody who grew up on music that spoke to the heart and the moment, and it shaped me as a songwriter and really as a human b...

Last week, news emerged that Ali Fazal and director Prosit Roy are set to team up for an action thriller series for Prime Video. Now, mid-day has learnt that the series will go on floors as early as April. Reason? Fazal’s date diary has opened up after the shoot of his other project, Raj-DK’s Rakt Bramhand, has been put on hold. So, the actor and Roy will hit the accelerator on their modern-day crime story, kicking off the shoot in Delhi in April. Sources say the yet-untitled series is being developed as a large-scale action spectacle. A source close to the production reveals, “Ali was to start this show a little later in the year. But with the break in Rakt Bramhand’s shoot, owing to the reimagining of some sequences and some reported financial mismanagement, this series is starting earl...