John Cena's flesh-colored pocket, Nickelodeon abuses, and more from this week in entertainment

A round-up of our best entertainment news stories from the week of March 11

By The A.V. Club Bot | March 16, 2024 | 1:00pm

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John Cena's flesh-colored pocket, Nickelodeon abuses, and more from this week in entertainment

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Oscars superlatives: The best and worst of the 2024 Academy Awards

It was Hollywood’s biggest night. The 96th annual Academy Awards have come and gone, bestowing upon us a new crop of winners we’ll question in the future. These were the movies of 2023, and for the first time in the Oscars’ near-century of existence, all the nominees were worthy of inclusion. Sure, there were snubs (Lily Gladstone), some flubs (Tim Robbins), but no Tubbs (we didn’t see Jamie Foxx or EGOT creator Philip Michael Thomas anywhere during tonight’s broadcast). Read More

Why did Killers Of The Flower Moon leave the Oscars empty-handed?

The tone was set for Killers Of The Flower Moon from the very beginning of last night’s Oscars ceremony. “Your movies were too long this year,” host Jimmy Kimmel quipped in his opening monologue. “When I went to see Killers Of The Flower Moon, I had my mail forwarded to the theater. Killers Of The Flower Moon is so long, in the time it takes you to watch it, you could drive to Oklahoma and solve the murders yourself.” Read More

Three years after her Mandalorian firing, Gina Carano still doesn’t get it

Gina Carano doesn’t understand what she did wrong. Following a years-long controversy that’s currently awaiting litigation against Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that fired Carano over a series of social media posts that offended, well, pretty much everyone, the actor maintains that she was a victim of “one of the most aggressive unnecessary cancellations in Hollywood history.” To be clear, here’s a list of things that got Gina Carano fired: Read More

Sexism, favoritism, and abuse: Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV examines Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon

Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV acknowledges that it is, in many ways, a response to the online conversation about Dan Schneider. The creator of beloved Nickelodeon series like All That, The Amanda Show, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and Victorious parted ways with the network in 2018, but he’s long been the subject of side-eyeing over the sometimes strange and seemingly sexualized content on his shows. (In 2021, he had to come out and deny creating foot fetish content based on the sheer volume of weird feet stuff on his shows.) Given that, and the high-profile behind-the-scenes drama that happened on or around his sets (the public meltdown of Amanda Bynes, the teen pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears, and the many issues shared by Jeanette McCurdy), many wonder: what was going on on Schneider’s shows? The new Investigation Discovery docuseries, premiering March 17, sets out to answer. Read More

Olivia Munn shares breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy procedure

In an Instagram post that includes photographs of her treatment and double mastectomy, Olivia Munn revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last April. Over the past 10 months, Munn writes she received four surgeries but opted to keep her medical status private because she “needed to catch [her] breath and get through some of the hardest parts before sharing.” Read More

Kristen Stewart has a message for people who hate her Rolling Stone cover

In January, Jeremy Allen White sent the internet (and a couple of out-of-line red carpet interviewers) into a full-blown tizzy when he appeared in naught but his tighty-whities for Calvin Klein’s spring campaign. In November, Barry Keoghan took off even more for the final scene in Saltburn. Those two got billboards in New York City and dirty bathwater-scented candles, not to mention widespread thirst and adoration. But when Kristen Stewart put her hand down her jockstrap for Rolling Stone’s March cover, she got a whole string of vitriol from all the usual sources. (We won’t link any of it here because it’s gross, but you can read it for yourself in RS’ excellently titled, “Right-Wingers Are Terrified of Our Gay Kristen Stewart Cover.”) Can you spot the difference? Read More

Joel McHale recalls dislocating Chevy Chase’s shoulder during one of many on-set Community fights

Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Chevy Chase and Joel McHale can’t stand each other. McHale has given his ex-Community co-star a degree of grace over the years, but he’s always been quite frank about his terrible experiences with the comedy legend, including committing Chase’s terrible behavior to the annals of history in his 2016 memoir Thanks For The Money. As McHale recently reminded the world on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside Of You podcast, one section serves as a “step-by-step on how to fight Chevy Chase.” Read More

John Cena wore a “flesh-colored pocket” during the streaker gag at The Oscars… want to see it?

One of the best parts of last night’s Oscars telecast was John Cena’s jokingly reluctant participation in a gag that called back to a classic Oscars moment when the show was interrupted by a streaker in the ‘70s. After failing to dissuade host Jimmy Kimmel from making him follow through on the gag, Cena—wearing nothing but sandals—carefully scooted out onto the stage and made the long walk to the microphone with the winner’s envelope covering his, you know, area. Of course, he wasn’t really naked, but how did the Oscars pull off that little bit of onstage magic? Read More

Justin Timberlake continues his “don’t be mad at me” comeback

Justin Timberlake pursues his journey to get back into your good graces

Molly Ringwald discusses the complex nature of playing Joanne Carson

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