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Sources say the ‘Real Time’ host was furious after he wasn’t invited to Bryan Lourd’s Academy Awards bash.Sources say the host of HBO’s Real Time fired CAA, his reps for more than two decades, on Monday after he was not invited to CEO Bryan Lourd’s private Oscar party at his home on Saturday night. Maher, according to sources, was furious that he was snubbed for the event — which was scheduled opposite the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Night Before bash. The party at Lourd’s home drew the likes of J.J. Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger,...

Tonight, Monday, June 24, an all-star cast will perform a live reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, Robert Schenkkan's brand-new stage adaptation of the Mueller Report. The one-night-only event, beginning at 9pm EDT, will be performed in front of a live audience in New York and live-streamed here. Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick Weller, Ben McKenzie, Michael Shannon, Noah Emmerich, Justin Long, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Piper Perabo, Zachary Quinto, and Aidan Quinn will star, with additional participation by Sigourney Weaver, Julia...

The eldest daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening is living as a young man after changing her name. Kathlyn Beatty, 18, is now known as Stephen Ira and is said to be planning a sex-change operation. According to reports in the U.S., Hollywood veteran Beatty, 73, is 'crushed' by his child's determination to change her gender.

In a brief statement Sunday, March 1, US film actress Annette Bening, in Tehran with a Hollywood delegation, said: "I hope we can be a bridge to open a dialogue between out two countries, confirming DEBKAfile's report that president Barack Obama had launched his bid for talks with Iran with a piece of "Hollywood diplomacy" 38 years after Richard Nixon opened the door to China with a ping-pong team. Wearing a headscarf, the actress' remark followed the demand by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's art adviser that Hollywood apologize for 30 years of "insults and slanders" about Iranians in their films. Javad...

Obama-backer Bening pillories PalinBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Actress Annette Bening thinks the Republican party is practicing "bizarre" politics if it seriously believes that the naming of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as John McCain's vice-presidential running mate will win over large numbers of former Hillary Clinton supporters. Bening, a prominent member of the Hollywood liberal elite, made her comments at a news conference promoting her latest film, The Women, which opens Sept. 12. "I think it's exciting to see a woman chosen to be on a major ticket," Bening said. "But the idea that people, who voted for Hillary, who tend...

New York ON A THURSDAY they had the book party. It was a simple affair: just family, friends, coworkers, and journalists. They came to Ambassador Joseph Wilson's house, nestled in the ritzy Palisades neighborhood of Northwest Washington, to celebrate the release of his first book, The Politics of Truth. One thing Joe Wilson keeps track of is his "Notoriety Quotient," or the amount of attention he receives from the media. And that Thursday it seemed to be on the rise. For the past week The Politics of Truth was mentioned in the same breath as Ron Suskind's The Price of...