Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is rumored to play her in “Good Thing” biopic — and she seems to approve

Martha Stewart says Cate Blanchett is set to star as the lifestyle guru in an upcoming biopic.

Key Points

• The film is rumored to be called Good Thing, a reference to Stewart's television catchphrase.

• Stewart previously was the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary, Martha, which she criticized.

Cate Blanchetthas a knack for portraying real-life characters, everyone from the Queen of England (Elizabeth) and Katharine Hepburn (The Aviator) toBob Dylan(I’m Not There). Could her next role beMartha Stewart?

The lifestyle guru broke the casting news, seemingly inadvertently, on Tuesday evening as she walked the red carpet at the New York premiere ofBrunello: The Gracious Visionary, a documentary about Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli.

Asked by aVarietyreporter if she would ever want someone to play her on the big screen, Stewart replied, “I hope so… I’ve been hearing rumors.”

Stewart then went on to spill the tea on what she knows so far. “I think there’s something in the works right now with… Cate Blanchett,” she teased, raising an approving eyebrow, “calledGood Thing.”

Varietysubsequently reported Blanchett’s casting and confirmed Janicza Bravo (2020’sZola) will direct the biopic. A representative for the actress did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

Good Thing— a reference to herMartha Stewart Livingcatchphrase, “It’s a good thing” — wouldn’t be the first time the entrepreneur’s life story was told onscreen. In 2024, she was the willing subject ofMartha, a Netflix documentary that she publiclycriticized.

"I love the first half of the documentary," she admitted to theNew York Times.

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The second half, however, focused too much on her 2003 indictment for insider trading, subsequent conviction, and five months in federal prison.

"The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life,” Stewart said in 2024.

Other gripes were the exclusion of her “utterly fantastic” grandchildren and “my love of travel.” Stewart was particularly annoyed thatMartha’s director, R.J. Cutler, missed much of the “fun” aspects of her life.

“R.J. didn’t get any of that in the movie,” she told theNYT.

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But the worst part was the ending.

"Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those," Stewart said of Cutler. "And he refused. Ihatethose last scenes. Hate them.”

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Was Jack Harlow on 'SNL?' One relative certainly thought so

A “Saturday Night Live” impression ofJack Harlowwas so spot on that even his own aunt thought it was actually him.

The rapper revealed in anInstagram storyon April 13 that a relative mistook “SNL” cast member Ben Marshall for Harlow during an April 11 “Weekend Update” sketch that poked fun at backlash over comments he made about his latest album.

During the segment, “Weekend Update” co‑anchor Michael Che and Marshall, who portrayed Harlow, joked about criticism tied to the release of the rapper’s fourth studio album, "Monica." Specifically, a comment he made to The New York Times about his music getting "Blacker."

“White rapper Jack Harlow recently made headlines for describing the sound of his new album by saying, ‘I got Blacker,’” Che said. “Here to explain himself is Jack Harlow.”

Marshall’s version of Harlow then struggled to talk his way out of the controversy, repeatedly digging himself deeper over the course of the bit. TheKentucky-born rapperdropped the surprise album on March 13, which coincided with his 28th birthday.

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Speaking withthe Times on release day, Harlow said he had reached a moment of reflection, explaining that he had “[got] to a point where as much as you’re trying to find your voice, you’re also hoping to escape yourself.”

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Jack Harlow's aunt was 'proud' after 'SNL' appearance

Harlow said his aunt later texted him to say she was proud of him for going on “Saturday Night Live” and “addressing everything.”

“My aunt that I am related to actually thought that was me,” Harlow said in a now‑expired Instagram story.

While Harlow did not appear on “SNL” this past weekend, he has been featured on the late‑night sketch show before. According to NBC, the rapper made his musical guest debut in March 2021 and returned in October 2022 to pull double duty as host and musical guest.

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Sydney Sweeney winks at past controversy in new jeans ad for American Eagle

Sydney Sweeney is partnering with American Eagle for a new ad campaign, "Syd for Short."

Key Points

• The team-up comes nearly a year after the Euphoria star sparked controversy with her for campaign, "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans."

• The ad was criticized for seemingly promoting eugenics by playing up the "jeans" and "genes" homophone.

Sydney Sweeneyhas moved on from "great" jeans to sun-lit shorts.

Aftercombatting controversyover her 2025 American Eagle ad campaign, theEuphoriastar has teamed up with the clothing company again on "Syd for Short," a summer campaign spotlighting the brand's shorts.

In the first promo, Sweeney sports a fitted pair of jean shorts and a denim jacket. Staring into the camera with her hands in her pocket, she asks, "What brand am I wearing?"

A montage of images sees Sweeney basking in the sunlight, frolicking on a beach and enjoying the blue skies of summer in her jeans shorts.

In an apparent wink to the outrage sparked by her initial blue jeans campaign, "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans," Sweeney then grins at the camera, answering, "Yeah. That one."

In a statement shared withEntertainment Weekly, Sweeney highlighted the brand's partnership with the Crisis Text Hotline, which will receive 100% of the profits for two of AE's custom styles.

"There's something timeless about a great pair of jean shorts. They're simple, but they make you feel confident and put-together without trying too hard," said Sweeney. "Crisis Text Line, a cause so close to my heart, has been a part of this partnership from the beginning. I love knowing that when everyone wears these pieces, they are also a part of something meaningful, that directly helps people who need it."

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Last time around,  Sweeney's partnership with the brand garnered plenty of attention when it arrived in July 2025. The most criticized promo featured the actress reclining on a couch and fastening her jeans as she murmurs, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My genes are blue." Then a male narrator adds, "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans."

The seemingly innocuous world-play of "good genes" vs. "good jeans" struck a discordant chord with many who saw the ad and criticized it for glorifying a racial idea. It was swiftly slammed on social media as several conservative public figures — includingMegyn Kelly,JD Vance, and even PresidentDonald Trump—voiced supportfor Sweeney,mocking othersover their disdainof the ad.

On the heels of the initial wave of criticism, American Eaglereleased a statement defending the adand stating, "'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans' is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans, her story. We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone."

As for Sweeney, shedid not weigh infor several months,finally commenting on the controversyin a NovemberGQcover story.

"I did a jean ad," she said. "I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life."

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WhenGQasked whether Sweeney wanted to address the "genetic superiority" criticism at the root of the controversy, she replied, "I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear."

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“DTF St. Louis” Cast Breaks Down Finale: ‘You'll Probably Have to Go Back to the Beginning to Really Understand’ (Exclusive)

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season 1 finale ofDTF St. Louis.

NEED TO KNOW

• The DTF St. Louis finale reveals who is behind the death of David Harbour's lead character Floyd after a long investigation

• Creator Steven Conrad and stars Joy Sunday and Richard Jenkins, who play detectives in the series, open up to PEOPLE about the complex ending

• Conrad also shares the inspiration behind the miniseries, which sees Floyd struggle with intimacy and relationships, leaving him in "emotional desperation"

The season finale ofDTF St. Louisproves that nothing is truly what it seems.

After weeks of investigating the death ofDavid Harbour’s Floyd, the final episode of the HBO miniseries saw detectives Jodie Plumb (Joy Sunday) and Donoghue Homer (Richard Jenkins) realize that the case might have been much simpler than they imagined.

“You'll probably have to go back to the beginning to really understand the ending, honestly,” Sunday tells PEOPLE.

“Somebody said, ‘When you get a script like that, don't you want to jump to the end and find out what happens?’" Jenkins adds. “I said, ‘If in this script you jump to the end, you still won't know what happened unless you know the whole script beforehand.’”

A central theme of the season was Floyd’s struggling sex life with his wife, Carol (Linda Cardellini), due in part to his Peyronie’s disease, a condition where the penis develops a curvature that causes erectile dysfunction. It was later revealed that Carol was having an affair with Floyd’s best friend, Clark Forrest (Jason Bateman), which led Clark to become the prime suspect in the case.

While the toxicology report showed that Floyd died from an apparent poisoning, detectives suspected Clark was responsible, but that theory began to fall apart when they discovered that Floyd not only knew about the affair, but was accepting of it.

“The writing is just sublime,” Jenkins notes. “I hadn't read anything like that in a long time, so it was an easy yes for me. And it never disappointed in the playing of it, it never disappointed. You almost felt you weren't worthy of it at times. It was that good.”

In the finale, viewers learned that Clark, who had given Floyd — per his request — his prescription for a stimulant drug called Amphezyne in an effort to improve his sex life, was with Floyd in the poolhouse the night of his death. After Floyd admitted that he had mixed some of the drug into his canned drink — which proved to be what killed him — the two stripped down to their underwear and danced together.

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However, when Floyd began to show his romantic interest, Clark confessed that he didn’t share those same feelings.

“I love a show where you can go, ‘Okay, things are going to go poorly for these people who expect things to go well,’” the show’s creator Steven Conrad tells PEOPLE of the concept behind the series.

Meanwhile, Carol’s son, Richard (Arlan Ruf), was watching from the window after finding out that his stepfather was on the dating site called DTF St. Louis, meant for married people seeking outside hookups.

“When I started to conceive this idea, it was 2018, 2019,” Conrad reveals. “These hookup apps were probably at their height of popularity and their promise of, ‘Well, you have a commitment, you'll meet someone else with a commitment, and no one will ever know. You'll share a secret night and then you'll both go home to your partners and everything will go back to normal.’ That idea that there could be excitement without consequences.”

When Clark left, Richard confronted Floyd, who he later watched make a “rock and roll” hand gesture before chugging the rest of his drink. Little did Richard know, the symbol Floyd made actually meant “I love you” in American Sign Language.

The revelation that Floyd’s demise was ultimately at his own hands was a reflection of what Conrad says happens when people “feel emotional desperation and then make bad decisions.”

He adds that Harbour portrayed “a person who was susceptible to this bad idea five years ago, but wouldn't have done it 30 pounds ago, wouldn't have done it one friendship earlier, wouldn't have done it but in a phase of life now where he seems to need some volt of electricity to resuscitate him.”

DTF St. Louisis available to stream on HBO Max.

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Famed ESPN college basketball voice Dick Vitale facing another battle with cancer

Famed ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale isfacing another battle with cancer.

Vitale said Monday that biopsy results had confirmed a diagnosis of melanoma in his lung and liver cavity, which will have him starting immunotherapy. It marks his fifth battle with cancer, which sidelined him from the airwaves for two years before his return shortly before March Madness in 2025.

“I've beaten melanoma,” the 86-year-old Vitale saidin a statement released by ESPN. “I've beaten lymphoma. I've beaten vocal-cord cancer. I've beaten lymph-node cancer. I'm 4 for 4 and I'm fully confident I'm going to make it 5 for 5."

Separate from his ESPN statement, Vitaleposted on social media Mondaythat he had gone through 10 days of testing that included scans, MRIs, bloodwork and a biopsy.

"I obviously did not get the report today that I was hoping for when my oncologist called,” Vitale said, noting he planned on “winning the battle” and adding: “Now at least I know what I face.”

Vitale has made himself a fixture in college basketball, earning the affectionate nickname “Dickie V” with his voice and exuberant style offering a soundtrack to some of the biggest moments in the sport's history. He's inching closer to five decades with ESPN going back to its 1979 launch, armed with a contract through the 2027-28 season as well asthe creation of a basketball event named in his honorthis past season.

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And every step of the way he's quick to tell anyone and everyone how “lucky” he feels to still be working after years of fighting cancer.

That started in 2021 with melanoma, followed by treatments for lymphoma. There were also chemotherapy treatments, radiation for vocal-cord cancer and surgery by summer 2024 to remove cancerous lymph nodes from his neck, while he was unable to speak for a time after the vocal-cord surgery, leaving him having to scribble on eraser-board messages to communicate.

Still, Vitale said in his ESPN statement that he feels “fantastic." And he quickly turned the focus of his statement to his long-running efforts to raise money for pediatric cancer research, notably withnext month’s annual gala in his namethat has raised more than $105 million in its two-decade history.

“At 86 years young, I've lived a hell of a life, and I'm more motivated than ever to raise money for kids battling cancer,” Vitale said, adding that he hopes to raise $12 million with the 21st “Dick Vitale Gala” set for May 1 in Sarasota, Florida.

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Pakistan pushing for Round 2 of "Islamabad Process" after failed Iran talks

A senior Pakistani government official confirmed to CBS News that Islamabad has intensified diplomatic efforts to bring Tehran and Washington back to the negotiating table over theIran war.

Despite the lack of a breakthrough in the historic face-to-face round oftalks over the weekend, Pakistani authorities said they remain cautiously optimistic about the prospects for continued engagement between both sides.

Notably, there appears to be an element of rebranding underway, with officials now increasingly referring to the "Islamabad Talks" as the "Islamabad Process," a shift that suggests an effort to frame the engagement as an ongoing diplomatic track rather than a one-off meeting.

The top-level source also said Monday thatPakistanis in active contact with both Washington and Tehran, urging them to resume dialogue at the earliest opportunity. The primary objective is to reach a workable understanding before thecurrent ceasefire— set to expire around April 22 — ends in order to prevent a return to all-out-war. Efforts are now underway to facilitate a second round of talks within this narrow window.

According to the source, these diplomatic initiatives are being pursued under the direct instructions of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir. Both played a key role in bringing the two sides together, were present at varying times throughout the 21 hours of inconclusive talks, and have been working intensely to move the process forward.

CBS News has been told Pakistan is now waiting for responses from both the U.S. and Iran.On Monday, Qatar's foreign minister told his Iranian counterpart that Iran and the U.S. should engage positively with mediation efforts, warning that maritime routes must not be used as "bargaining tools."Qatari Foreign Minister and Premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani "also emphasised the need to open maritime routes, guarantee freedom of navigation, and refrain from using them as a tool for pressure or bargaining," according to the foreign ministry'sXaccount.

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Pakistan, a nuclear power with a population of 250 million, has been trying to rebrand itself to attract investment and stabilize its crippled economy.

Successfully mediating such peace talks would be a diplomatic coup and go some way toward helping the nation's desire to be seen as a global player.

If the current ceasefire holds, Pakistan may have some wiggle room as it tries to bring the Americans and Iranians back around the table.

But with U.S. threats to blockade theStrait of Hormuz, and Iranian promises to retaliate, officials might be counting the time they have at their disposal in hours, rather than days.

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‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Premiere Slammed by Disappointed Viewers

After a four-year hiatus,Euphoriareturned on Sunday, April 12, and fans had a lot to say about what went down in thepremiere episode. Most controversial were scenes involving Rue (Zendaya) swallowing drugs and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) dressing as a dog and baby for her OnlyFans, which she created to help fund her wedding to Nate (Jacob Elordi).

In addition toThe Guardiancalling the premiere “grubby” and “desperate” in a review, there was an intense online reaction to what happened in the first episode of Season 3. For the most part, viewers were disappointed at how far the show, which has always been known for its scandalous content, had taken things.

“euphoriaback on our screens but it’s just [creator] sam levinson’s weird nasty fantasies being shown,” one personwrote on X, while someone elsesaid, “This is so embarassing even for jacob. But, how Sydney sweeney can agree to do something like this? It’s like a humiliation ritual.”

Another person also called out Levinson for Rue’s storyline,writing, “there’s something seriously wrong with you sam levinson.” Someone else also wrote, “The first episode of Euphoria is disturbing, guys, really tough, I swear, I don’t know how to react.”

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While many have hinted that they’ll still return to watch future episodes this season, some fans are also throwing in the towel already. “I just watched the first episode of Euphoria S3 and I’ve already decided to skip the rest of this new season…Sam Levinson, you’re disgusting,” someonetweeted.

It’s already been speculated that this will be the last season of the HBO series, and Zendaya recently admitted onTheDrew Barrymoreshow that she “thinks” this will be the end of the story. “That closure is coming,” she confirmed.Euphoriapremiered in 2019, then aired two special episodes in December 2020 and January 2021 before returning for Season 2 in 2022.

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