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| Famous birthdays for Nov. 5: Famke Janssen, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport | Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. |
| Owen Wilson wanted more Timothy Olyphant for 'Stick' Season 2 | Stick star and executive producer Owen Wilson says he wanted to expand Season 1 guest star Timothy Olyphant's role for Season 2 of their golf comedy, which premieres on Apple TV Wednesday. Created by Jason Cahill, the show casts Wilson as Pryce Cahill, a washed-up former pro golfer who gets a new lease on life when he mentors young phenom Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager) and forms bonds with Santi's mother Elena (Mariana Trevio) and her boyfriend Mitts (Marc Maron). Season 1 ended with Pryce seriously considering competing again after successfully launching Santi's career. |
| Pope Leo XIV meets with Bob Dylan at Vatican | American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan visited Pope Leo XIV at the pontiff's residence on Wednesday as part of the Vatican's wider effort to create a bridge between the Catholic Church and popular culture. The Vatican News said the visit between the two men was brief and included a few lighthearted exchanges. Pope Leo gave Dylan a rosary and the singer gifted the pontiff a copy of his book Chronicles: Volume One. The Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican official, arranged the meeting, CNN reported. He also arranged the meeting between the pope and musician Patti Smith earlier this year. |
| Disney+ teases 'Proud Family Wizmas' stop-motion holiday special | The Proud family will return in the musical Disney+ holiday special A Proud Family Wizmas. The streaming service shared a trailer for the animated stop-motion holiday special Wednesday, which will premiere Nov. 14 ahead of Christmas. A Proud Family Wizmas is based on the Disney Channel animated series The Proud Family, which aired from 2001 to 2005, and its Disney+ revival, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, which ran from 2022 to June of this year. Kyla Pratt returns to voice Penny Proud, the teenage daughter of Oscar (Tommy Davidson) and Trudy Proud (Paula Jai Parker). |
| Nicolas Cage, Bill Skarsgard face off in 'Lords of War' teaser trailer | Vertical is giving a glimpse of the new film Lords of War. The studio shared a teaser trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Nicolas Cage and It star Bill Skarsgard. Lords of War is a sequel to Cage's 2005 crime drama Lord of War, starring the actor as Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian-American arms trafficker working in the '80s and '90s amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the new film, Yuri (Cage) faces off with Skarsgard's character, a mercenary intent on "destroying his legacy, thrusting them into a blood-soaked and bullet-riddled battle to the death," an official synopsis reads. Other cast members include Laura Harrier, Sylvia Hoeks and Greg Tarzan Davis. |