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David Duchovny got his first guitar to kill time between takes of "Californciation." Now, the "X-Files" star is four albums ...

Brandon Leake made history as the first spoken word poet to win America’s Got Talent in 2020. Since then, he has published a ...

The comedy, starring Mann, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Nico Parker, is about how the pressures of coming of age never really go away.

Poetic License, 2025. Directed by Maude Apatow. Starring Andrew Barth Feldman, Cooper Hoffman, Leslie Mann, Nico Parker, and Method Man. SYNOPSIS: Two inseparable best friends, Sam and Ari, start to ...

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