Danny DeVito Admits He 'Lusted After' Michelle Pfeiffer on "Batman Returns" Set

Barry King/WireImage Danny DeVito spoke with Colin Farrell, his fellow portrayer of the DC Comics villain the Penguin, forVariety'sActors on Actorsseries DeVito admitted that during the filming of 1992'sBatman Returns, he "lusted after" costar Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Catwoman "Be still my beating Penguin heart," quipped DeVito Danny DeVitois getting candid about former costarMichelle Pfeiffer. In his conversation withColin FarrellforVariety'sActors on Actorsseries, DeVito, 80, admitted that he "lusted" after Pfeiffer while the two were filming 1992'sTim Burton-directedBatman Returns. "She was a goddess," said DeVito, who played the villainous Penguin opposite Pfeiffer's Catwoman andMichael Keaton's Batman. "If I knew she was going to be in a scene that day …" he trailed off. Farrell, 49, quipped, "Did you brush your teeth that morning?" "I got all flushed," responded theIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphiastar. "Put extra makeup on — 'Give me another pound of makeup.' It was very difficult." Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Pfeiffer, now 67, was "just so wonderful. And I lusted after her," DeVito added. He then agreed with Farrell that it was his character, Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a. the Penguin, who was doing the lusting. "I kind of feel like she liked it. She liked Oswald," DeVito said. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. InBatman Returns, Selina Kyle a.k.a. Catwoman rejects Oswald's advances. In 2021, however, DeVito wrote a short story in which the two characters were romantically involved. It was featured in DC Comics'Gotham City Villains, an anthology comic celebrating Batman's rogues gallery. "I got into the fact that I've always been a big fan of Michelle Pfeiffer's, and the Penguin obviously lusts after Catwoman," the Oscar nominee toldEntertainment Weeklyat the time. "So I figured I'd put those two together." Farrell, who played the same role in HBO's dramaThe Penguin, which aired last fall, asked DeVito if he'd play the DC Comics villain again. "Absolutely," answered DeVito. "You can go off the rails with something. The operatic element of Tim Burton'sBatman Returnswas my favorite thing about it — the music and sets and the whole thing. The Shakespeare of it — 'All the world's a stage.' Oswald's realm and his penguins and his minions and his passion. I loved that." Brian J Ritchie/Hotsauce/Shutterstock DeVito later added that his character "would be very content" within his sewer kingdom inBatman Returns— "as long as I could get Catwoman to visit me every once in a while: Be still my beating Penguin heart." After a recent guest star role in acrossover episode withAbbott Elementary, DeVito will continue as a main cast member ofIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, airing its 17th season beginning July 9 on FXX. Following his 2024 seriesThe PenguinandSugar, Farrell will next star in Kogonada'sA Big Bold Beautiful Journey(in theaters Sept. 19) and Edward Berger'sThe Ballad of a Small Player. He will also reprise his role as the Penguin in theplanned sequelto Matt Reeves' 2022 hitThe BatmanstarringRobert Pattinson. Read the original article onPeople

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June 03, 2025

Danny DeVito Admits He 'Lusted After' Michelle Pfeiffer on “Batman Returns” Set

Danny DeVito Admits He 'Lusted After' Michelle Pfeiffer on "Batman Returns" Set Barry King/WireImage Danny DeVito spoke wi...
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is back: After hiatus, author surprised herself with 'Atmosphere'New Foto - Taylor Jenkins Reid is back: After hiatus, author surprised herself with 'Atmosphere'

It's been three years since the book world saw anew Taylor Jenkins Reid novel,a long time considering the "Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" author published eight books in nine years. Now Reid is back, refreshed and fundamentally changed by the research and writing of her space love story "Atmosphere" (out now from Penguin Random House). For starters, she has a pretty good idea of what it's like to be in a catastrophic space accident. She has a deeper appreciation for the world and the people in it, she tells USA TODAY. She's got a healthier relationship with her creative spirit. And earlier this month, she came out publicly as bisexualin a profile in TIME Magazine. "Atmosphere," in the vein of other well-loved Reid novels like"Daisy Jones & The Six,"is full of characters you miss after you turn the last page. Joan Goodwin, the novel's protagonist, is quietly ambitious, devoted to her niece and wading through a complicated relationship with her sister. Her dreams come within reach when she gets accepted into a competitive trainee class at NASA, alongside peers who become her new home. The closely guarded astronaut also has a shot at once-in-a-lifetime love. "Atmosphere" is Reid's first departure from her famous-women quartet of books – "Daisy Jones," "Evelyn Hugo," "Malibu Rising" and"Carrie Soto is Back"– in years. It's also the first extended break she's taken since her debut novel "Forever, Interrupted" came out in 2013. When she wrote "Carrie Soto," Reid says she saw much of herself in the character, who reckons with her legacy, expectations and when to step back. All her characters teach her something about herself – Evelyn Hugo about ambition, Nina Riva about healthy boundaries. Carrie Soto was her catalyst to take a break. "I needed to get more in touch with the thoughts in my own head and get some quiet and rest, and that's not something that I had ever been good at recognizing about myself prior to maybe 2022," Reid says. "I finally started to listen to all the people in my life who told me to slow down and to make sure there's time in the day for joy and rest." Now, after some much-needed time away, writing "Atmosphere" felt like "coming of age," Reid says. She challenged herself. She started to find new things she never realized she loved. Since "Atmosphere," you can often find her in her backyard staring at the moon or searching for the Scorpius constellation. "Joan is driven by the awe she has, not only for the universe itself and our particular solar system, but also the fact that our study of those things is our pursuit of understanding ourselves. That by trying to understand the universe, we're trying to understand our place in it and where we come from and where we may be going," Reid says. "Once you start asking those questions, it becomes more difficult to take any of it for granted." It shows in her writing. Reid's work is third-person and character-driven, plucking the reader from their reality and into something far more star-studded. And though there are blood-pressure-raising missions in "Atmosphere," the most touching parts are when she breaks that fourth wall to call out the reader directly, her gratitude practically leaping off the page. "Look what we humans had done," she writes in one chapter. "We had looked at the world around us – the dirt under our feet, the stars in the sky, the speed of a feather falling from the top of a building – and we had taught ourselves to fly." Though "Atmosphere" is not in the same universe as "Evelyn Hugo" or "Carrie Soto," writing about women in male-dominated spaces still drove Reid to the story. "I don't think anyone was thinking 'Oh, when's Taylor Jenkins Reid going to write her space novel?' I don't think that is an obvious place for me to go," Reid says, laughing. She knew a space odyssey like "Atmosphere" would be a significant undertaking, but she still underestimated how big it would be. There was a healthy amount of self-doubt she had to overcome, Reid says, to stop telling herself she wasn't capable of writing the mechanics of a space shuttle or how to engineer your way out of potentially fatal, zero-gravity danger. So she got help. She started by reading "Shuttle, Houston," the memoir from NASA's longest-serving flight director. And then she called its author, Paul Dye, who wound up being so instrumental in her research process that she dedicated the book to him. "Atmosphere" is a team effort – the words may be all Reid's, but, as she says, "nobody is going to make it to space alone." "This book really represents how, if I'm open, there are so many things out there that I could fall in love with, and so many things I can try and find joy in," Reid says. "I think it cracked open something for me. I'm not the person I would expect to have written this book until I wrote this book." Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY's Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find heron Instagram, subscribe to our weeklyBooks newsletteror tell her what you're reading atcmulroy@usatoday.com. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Taylor Jenkins Reid surprises herself with new book 'Atmosphere'

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Taylor Jenkins Reid is back: After hiatus, author surprised herself with ‘Atmosphere’

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US man charged for framing immigrant in fake plot to kill TrumpNew Foto - US man charged for framing immigrant in fake plot to kill Trump

Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a man withfour feloniesfor attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant's name with a threat to kill Donald Trump. The handwritten, forged letters were mailed to Wisconsin's attorney general, Milwaukee police and US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice). The story received a flood of media attention and was highlighted by the White House and Trump's allies, but appears to have been a hoax. WISN-TV, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee,reported on Mondaythat a criminal complaint alleges Demetric Scott admitted to investigators he wrote the letters threatening to kill the president in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom he was previously charged with assaulting. Related:Undocumented man accused of making threat to Trump's life may be victim of frame-up Among those who fell for the hoax were Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who releaseda statementpraising immigration officers for arresting Morales-Reyes on 22 May, one day after the forged letter was received by an Ice field intelligence officer. "Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars," Noem said in a press release. Her department also released to news agencies an image of the handwritten note in light blue ink, expressing anger over Trump's deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally. Noem also shared the letter on X along with a photo of Morales-Reyes, and the White House also shared it on its social media accounts. "We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this country than you white people – you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him," the letter said. "I will self deport myself back to Mexico but not before I use my 30 yard 6 to shoot your precious president in the head – I will see him at one of his big ralleys." But the claimsoon beganto unravel. Last week, one of Morales-Reyes' childrentold an immigrant rights groupthat he could not have written the letters since he cannot read or write in Spanish, let alone English. As part of the investigation, officials asked Morales-Reyes for a handwriting sample and concluded his handwriting and the threatening letter didn't match and that the threat was not credible, a source familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press. Scott is currently in Milwaukee county jail, charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery. Prosecutors said Morales-Reyes was the victim in that case; he was allegedly assaulted in September 2023 with a box cutter during an attempted theft of his bike. As the case prepared to go to trial, Ice this month received the letter threatening to assassinate Trump. According toa transcript of a phone callprosecutors say Scott made while awaiting trial for assaulting Morales-Reyes, Scott framed Morales-Reyes to keep him from testifying against him. "If he gets picked up by Ice," Scott allegedly said in the call, "there won't be a jury trial, so they will probably dismiss it that day. That's my plan." Morales-Reyes works as a dishwasher in Milwaukee, where he lives with his wife and three children. He had recently applied for a U visa, which is carved out for people in the country illegally who become victims of serious crimes, according to his attorney. Morales-Reyes remains in Ice detention at a facility in Juneau, Wisconsin. José Olivares and Associated Press contributed reporting

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US man charged for framing immigrant in fake plot to kill Trump

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Macron to visit Meloni after rivalry creates tension on Ukraine, tradeNew Foto - Macron to visit Meloni after rivalry creates tension on Ukraine, trade

By Michel Rose and Giselda Vagnoni PARIS/ROME (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday, seeking to improve relations amid tensions between the two European leaders over Ukraine, trade and relations with the United States. Macron is a fervent pro-European who has had a long rapport with Donald Trump, while Meloni is a nationalist with a strong transatlantic tilt who seems more ideologically aligned with the U.S. president. They have advocated different -- even competing - approaches to the new Trump era. Meloni, whose country has a large trade surplus with the U.S., has sought to keep Europe aligned with the U.S., using the slogan "Make the West great again" in a meeting with Trump in Washington in April. Macron has pushed for the EU to take a more independent approach. On the Russian war in Ukraine, Meloni has been sceptical about Macron's "coalition of the willing" and a Franco-British plan put forward earlier this year to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement. Sending troops would be deeply unpopular in Italy. Hostility flared publicly in recent weeks, with officials close to Macron and Meloni privately or openly criticising their respective initiatives over Ukraine or trade. Meloni was criticised in Italy for not travelling to Kyiv with Macron and the German, British and Polish leaders on May 10 and then for missing a call with Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit in Albania a few days later. After Meloni explained her absence by saying the meetings were about sending troops to Ukraine, her government was furious that Macron said publicly that the meetings were about a ceasefire and seemed to equate her justification with "Russian disinformation". French and Italian officials said Macron had taken the initiative to hold Tuesday's meeting and sought to play down talk of a rift, saying the meeting and a working dinner would be an opportunity for Macron to show "respect" and "friendship". "The president is available to all of our European partners, whatever the political persuasion may be," an Elysee official told reporters. The Elysee said the two would discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, the Mercosur trade deal and U.S. tariffs, as well as industrial cooperation between the two countries, including Franco-Italian carmaker Stellantis, which appointed a new Italian chief executive last month. Italian officials said the meeting was meant to "lay the foundations for a further strengthening of relations" and added that talks would also address the situation in the Middle East and Libya. Both Italy and France are worried Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya, to keep a foothold in the Mediterranean after Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in Syria in December. "This Macron-Meloni meeting isn't about rekindling Franco-Italian friendship. It's about necessity, not nostalgia," said Francesco Galietti of Rome-based consultancy Policy Sonar, saying the two capitals should find common ground on Libya "fast". (Writing by Michel RoseEditing by Frances Kerry)

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June 03, 2025

Macron to visit Meloni after rivalry creates tension on Ukraine, trade

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"Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis says 'people are still mad at us' for killing Big on "And Just Like That"

Craig Blankenhorn / HBO Max Much like Carrie did,Sex and the Cityviewers have had a tough time quitting Mr. Big. Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte on that HBO show, its movie adaptations, and its sequel series,And Just Like That, said as much on Monday's edition ofiHeartPodcast'sAre You A Charlotte?. "People, I think, are still mad at us, I think," Davis told her guest,Megan Thee Stallion, who had managed to avoid the news up to that point. are you a charlotte podcast/Instagram They broached the subject as they talked about which man was supposed to be withSarah Jessica Parker's main character, Carrie Bradshaw, in the saga. Was itJohn Corbett's Aidan, who Megan thought was "the person that she should have been with," orChris Noth's Mr. Big, whom Bradshaw was married to when he died from a heart attack. Davis asked if she knew that Carrie and Aidan were still going on in the current Max series. The "Savage" artist did not, noting that she likes to watch things "on my own time." She asked if Big is still on the show, and Davis asked if she really wanted to know. "Something happened to him," Davis said. "Should I tell her?" Megan Thee Stallion wanted to be caught up. "He died," Davis explained. "I feel really bad. We killed him." Davis recounted that Big had died of a heart issue after working out on his Peloton bike. The death occurred in the very first episode ofAnd Just Like That, which, in Davis' defense, aired in December 2021. It made sense, because the original series had been about Carrie — and her friends — searching for romance, and she had now permanently coupled up with the man who caused much of her heartache. Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free daily newsletterto get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. Davis apologized for the spoiler, but Megan Thee Stallion dismissed it. "If I would have been watching that show and saw that man die, I would have gagged," she said. Davis told her that she missed a lot in the movies, but Big died inAJLT. Even though the actress mixes up what happens where. However, the rapper concluded the choice to kill Big in the first episode was "so perfect." Listen to the full conversation above. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly

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“Sex and the City” star Kristin Davis says 'people are still mad at us' for killing Big on “And Just Like That”

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