Some actors spend years working toward career milestones like landing a leading role in a movie or earning an Oscar nomination.June Squibb spent three decades.The 94-year-old star of the action comedy "Thelma" has been honing her craft since 1959, when she made her Broadway debut in "Gypsy." It wasn't until 1990, after three decades of working as a stage actor, that she made her film debut at 61. Another two decades after that, Squibb became one of the oldest people ever <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link c-link--underline" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-who-should-win-2014-2">nominated for an Oscar</a> for her performance in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link c-link--underline" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nebraska-bob-odenkirk-interview-2013-11">2013 Alexander Payne film "Nebraska"</a> at 84.The fact that it took 10 more years after that for Squibb to become a bona fide leading lady as the title character in "Thelma" doesn't bother her — she was never explicitly working toward these milestones in the first place."I mean, I knew she was the leading role," Squibb told Business Insider. "But it doesn't mean that much, really. It doesn't change how I prepare, or what I do when I'm working. It's all the same."<div type="image" title="June Squibb and Fred Hechinger in THELMA" height="858" width="2048" msid="111348548" hostid="261" sizebytes="55932"></div>The film, which is written and directed by Josh Margolin — and loosely based on his own grandmother, Thelma Post — follows an older woman who falls for a phone scam and mails away $10,000. When her family and the police fail to help her get it back, Thelma takes matters into her own hands, zipping across Los Angeles on her friend's two-seater scooter on a journey for revenge.The film is a fitting vehicle for Squibb's versatility as an actor, allowing her to showcase both vulnerability and unhinged glee in a role that's not often written for nonagenarian characters. With <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thelma_2024/reviews">reviews</a> already praising her star turn and <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/movie-review-thelma-june-squibb-4b6734e2261c5a7b132212cbc84e6d32">suggesting</a> she should have been leading movies for much longer, Squibb is happy to oblige."I guess there will be a point where I will just sort of feel that I don't want to do it anymore," Squibb told BI of planning to continue acting. "I haven't reached that. I do want to do it."For the latest interview in Business Insider's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/role-play-series">"Role Play" series</a>, Squibb reflected on her collaborations with Payne, how a guest spot on "Glee" led to one of her closest friendships, and why she doesn't have any regrets about her film career.<div type="image" title="june squibb as kate in nebraska, a woman with oval glasses driving a car. bruce dern, as woody, is sitting in the back seat of the car. the image is in black and white, and kate and woody aren't looking towards each other" height="792" width="1914" msid="111348552" hostid="261" sizebytes="31404"></div><h2>On fighting to audition for 'Nebraska'</h2>You got your first Academy Award nomination for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-famous-movie-set-in-every-state-2014-7">Alexander Payne's "Nebraska,"</a> and that's been called your breakout role. But you had been working in film for almost 25 years at that point. Did it ever feel bizarre to have people call that role a "breakout" when you'd done so much before?[Before "Nebraska"] I did a film called "In and Out." I had a very small role in it but it was very funny, and I got the biggest laugh in the film. All at once, a lot of people knew who I was.But I think the biggest thing [before "Nebraska"] was "About Schmidt." I have to thank Alexander Payne because both ['"Nebraska" and "About Schmidt"] I did with him, and they have made a tremendous difference. And I think "About Schmidt," I don't know — it made me legitimate. It somehow threw me into being a legitimate film actress.<div type="image" title="june squibb and jack nicholson in about schmidt, where they play a married couple. they're sitting in adjacent patterned armchairs, with june's character on the left reading from a newspaper" height="1029" width="1893" msid="111348547" hostid="261" sizebytes="36478"></div>What was it like playing opposite Jack Nicholson in "About Schmidt?"Jack was a gentleman and never made me feel lesser than him. Everything that we did together was on a level of peer, period. It really was. And I give that credit to him.I didn't always even know what I was doing, and he could have come in and made that difficult, but he did not. In fact, it was just the other way. There was such respect from him through the whole period."Nebraska" has such a strong ensemble cast, but you steal every scene you're in as Kate, who seems like such a treat to dig into as an actor. After working with Payne on "About Schmidt," what did your audition process look like for "Nebraska?"Strangely enough, both times — "About Schmidt" and "Nebraska" — they didn't want to see me, believe it or not!The first time they felt, I think, they were trying to get people from LA because they knew they were shooting in Omaha, but my agents were insistent that they at least let me do a tape for them or something. So finally they did, and Alexander told me when he got it, he said, "I knew that you were the role. I knew you were it."And then we came to "Nebraska," and again, [my agents] see Kate and they start pushing. And the casting director, who knows me very well, says, "Oh, Alexander loves June, but we just don't think she's right for this." He had in his mind that sweet little lady from "About Schmidt," and that's what he thought. After much nattering from agents, they said, "Oh, put it on tape." So they sent me the script, and I put one or two scenes on tape.And again, Alexander said to me, "My God, June, I had no idea you could do this." He said, "You were Kate."So neither one! Isn't that funny? Because we have a great relationship, and I've worked twice with him, and they've made tremendous differences in my career, but neither one was a set thing. People feel that after "About Schmidt" he probably asked me to do "Nebraska." No, he didn't. He thought I couldn't — thought I wasn't right for it.<h2>On becoming besties with Chris Colfer through 'Glee' and working with Adam Sandler</h2><div type="image" title="june squibb on glee, singing and facing chris colfer as kurt. they're standing together on a stage, decorated to look like a bedroom" height="1598" width="2864" msid="111348549" hostid="261" sizebytes="50214"></div>You've <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/big-bang-theory-cameos-guest-stars-2018-9">done a lot of television</a>, but there's one guest spot I have to ask about: "Glee." You played a retired Broadway legend and belted out Madonna and "Cats" with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-colfer-terrified-to-play-gay-character-on-glee-2022-11">Chris Colfer</a>. What was it like returning to your theater roots on television?It was wonderful because I met Chris, and we are now close friends. He's like a member of my family. And it was funny, because he wrote that episode, and they wanted me for it. And I'm so glad that I said yes to it, because it opened my whole relationship with him from that time on.I loved doing it. I had never sung much on film. I had certainly sung an awful lot onstage, but there's a difference — it's so technical… So that was interesting to me. And it was fun. All the young people, oh God, we were dancing and singing all over the place.<div type="image" title="june squibb in hubie halloween, standing in a kitchen and proudly displaying a white t-shirt with a cross symbol and the text &quot;boner donor&quot;" height="1438" width="2872" msid="111348550" hostid="261" sizebytes="92532"></div>You wear some very memorable T-shirts in "Hubie Halloween." Tell me a bit about working with Adam Sandler on that film.He is such a leader. He is a real leader. He takes responsibility for everybody on his film set, and that's admirable. I mean, because there has to be a leader. It's usually the director.But with him, because of his position, he became the leader, and everybody had such a good time. I think that surprised me in a way. I mean, not that you don't enjoy your time shooting, but this was almost like a party all the time. And I think he knows everybody so well. That was the first time I had worked with him, but most everybody else had worked with him before and knew him very well.<h2>On family dinners with Will Forte and the future of her career</h2>You've had so many fun and notable costars over the years. Who was the most fun to hang out with on set, or on the awards circuit?Oh, Will Forte, with "Nebraska." He is such fun. He's so bright, so clever, and we got along beautifully. After we finished shooting, we would have dinner together about every month.We would gather up whoever we were talking to from the crew or the cast, and I would bring my son, and he would bring his girlfriend of the time. But it was just such fun. I loved him. I still love him. I saw him not terribly long ago. He has two little girls now, so it's grown. His wife and two little girls, we had brunch together.Has there ever been a moment that you remember turning down a role, or regretting doing so?No. I don't turn something down lightly, so it takes me some time. But once I've done it, I feel I've done the right thing.On the flip side, was there ever something you were going for and didn't get that still sticks with you?I don't think in film. I don't think I've ever had my heart set on something in film that I didn't get, or that I wasn't handed. Stage, yes. Because I went through a lot of time onstage where I felt there was a role I should have done, or should have been able to do.As you look toward the rest of your career, do you plan to keep working for as long as you want to?I guess I am. I don't know the answer to that. I sometimes wonder, and I have said to my agent, "How much longer am I going to be doing this?" And they say, "Well, people still want you to work. People still want you to do things."There's one or two things in the future now. I don't know that I will do them, but I don't know that I won't either.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity."Thelma" is in theaters now.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10119985" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="alaina-pinto">Alaina Pinto</keyword> was a real news anchor for Boston's WHDH 7News.</li><li>She made a cameo in Adam Sandler's latest movie "<keyword id="10035357" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hubie-halloween">Hubie Halloween</keyword>" as the anchor of "Wake Up Boston Morning News."</li><li>Pinto revealed on social media Thursday that because she appeared in the movie she's been "let go" by 7News.</li><li>"I mistakenly violated my contract with the station," Pinto wrote.</li></ul>Get ready for a story that's as strange and puzzling as the plot of an Adam Sandler movie.The news anchor, who stars in Sandler's latest movie, "Hubie Halloween," is in fact a real Boston anchor. And turns out, she was fired from her job for starring in the <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> comedy. Alaina Pinto — who has a very brief cameo in the movie as the "Wake Up Boston Morning News" anchor, who dressed up as Harley Quinn to celebrate Halloween — is an anchor at Boston's WHDH 7News.<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDj4QXgAbER" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">High fives, jazz hands or spirit fingers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #boston #massachusetts #bostonma #amnews #7news #newengland #goteam</a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by A L A I N A P I N T O (@alainapinto) on Aug 6, 2020 at 1:04pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-08-06T20:04:38+00:00">Aug 6, 2020 at 1:04pm PDT</time></div></blockquote>But on Thursday, Pinto took to social media and announced that she was "let go from 7 News" because she starred in the movie."I want to be open and honest with all of you," Pinto wrote in a statement shared to Instagram. "Last year, I participated in a cameo in the recently released Netflix movie by Adam Sandler, 'Hubie Halloween.' In doing so, I mistakenly violated my contract with the station and I understand why management unfortunately chose to terminate me. I am deeply disappointed and saddened, and I hoped this would not be how things evolved."<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CGXdyhwA4Io" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">✨Life update!✨</a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by A L A I N A P I N T O (@alainapinto) on Oct 15, 2020 at 6:56am PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-10-15T13:56:40+00:00">Oct 15, 2020 at 6:56am PDT</time></div></blockquote>In the movie, Pinto plays an anchor who does a story about Salem, Massachusetts being the unofficial capital of Halloween in the US, leading to a report from Salem of all the fun events set to take place during the holiday.Also throughout is a running joke of how Pinto's news anchor, the weather woman, and the reporter in Salem all decided to dress up as Harley Quinn for the spooky holiday.<div type="image" title="hubie halloween" height="494" width="988" msid="78704762" hostid="261"></div>There are still so many questions on why a small cameo in a Sandler movie led to Pinto losing her job.Was it the comedic material? Did she not tell her boss that she would be in the movie? Do the bosses at Boston's WHDH 7News really hate Adam Sandler <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword> to this level?Insider contacted both Pinto and WHDH 7News for comment, but did not get responses."Hubie Halloween" is available now on Netflix.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="126162" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Adam-Sandler">Adam Sandler</keyword> paid tribute to his "<keyword id="178771" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Grown-Ups">Grown Ups</keyword>" co-star <keyword id="258310" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cameron-Boyce">Cameron Boyce</keyword> during the end credits of his new <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> movie, "<keyword id="10035357" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hubie-halloween">Hubie Halloween</keyword>."</li><li>Boyce died in 2019 from epilepsy.</li><li>The actor played Sandler's son in "Grown Ups" and its sequel.</li><li>"Gone away too soon and one of the kindest, coolest, funniest, and most talented kids we knew," the tribute reads.</li></ul>Adam Sandler's latest Netflix movie, "Hubie Halloween," is a fun-loving comedy that will get you in the mood for the spooky season. But it will also pull at the heartstrings when the end credits hit.Halfway through the credits things get somber when a title card comes up that pays tribute to actor Cameron Boyce, who died in 2019 at the age of 20 from epilepsy.Boyce played one of Sandler's sons in his 2010 comedy "Grown Ups," and its sequel in 2013."In loving memory of Cameron Boyce," the tribute reads. "Gone away too soon and one of the kindest, coolest, funniest, and most talented kids we knew. You live on forever in our hearts and are truly missed every day."<div type="image" title="Hubie Halloween Netflix" height="768" width="1366" msid="78555234" hostid="261"></div>Boyce is known best for his roles in Disney Channel favorites "Descendants" and "Jessie." Sandler certainly had a soft spot for the young actor. The comedy legend even made a cameo on "Jessie" in 2013, where he shows up at the school dance and gives relationship advice to Boyce's Luke character.In May, Sandler posted a picture of Boyce on what would have been his 21st birthday. "Such a great kid. We all miss him a lot," Sandler wrote, including a link to the website <a href="http://www.knowsudepnow.org/">knowsudepnow.org</a>, which brings awareness epilepsy risks and aims to tackle epilepsy deaths.<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAyE_ROAG2s" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Happy birthday to Cameron. Would have been 21 years old. Such a great kid. We all miss him a lot. Especially his incredible family. www.knowsudepnow.org</a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Adam Sandler (@adamsandler) on May 29, 2020 at 11:51am PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-05-29T18:51:05+00:00">May 29, 2020 at 11:51am PDT</time></div></blockquote>"Hubie Halloween" is streaming now on Netflix.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Adam Sandler's family stars alongside him in "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah."</li><li>Sandler married his wife Jackie in 2003. </li></ul>Adam Sandler's latest Netflix film is a family affair."You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah," based on the 2005 novel of the same name, stars Sandler's daughters Sunny and Sadie, in addition to his wife Jackie. Sunny plays Stacy Friedman, a preteen girl who, along with her best friend Lydia Rodriguez Katz (Samantha Lorraine), dreams of having one of the best Bar Mitzvahs of the year.Sadie Sandler plays Stacy's older sister, Ronnie, while Adam plays their father Danny. Idina Menzel reunites with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/idina-menzel-wants-darker-character-roles-like-uncut-gems-2021-8">Sandler to play his wife for the second time</a>, while Sandler's real-life wife Jackie plays Lydia's mother, Gabi Rodriguez Katz.Here's everything to know about Adam Sandler's family.<h2>Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie have been married since 2003</h2><div type="image" title="jackie sandler in you are so not invited to my bat mitzvah, smiling behind the wheel of a car" height="1612" width="2150" msid="103145070" hostid="261" sizebytes="146800"></div>Jackie Sandler (née Titone) started her career modeling, eventually making her film debut in the 1999 Rob Schneider Film "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo."She and Adam met on the set of the 1999 film <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/best-adam-sandler-movies-streaming-right-now">"Big Daddy," in which Sandler starred</a> and Jackie played a waitress, <a target="_blank" href="https://people.com/celebrity/adam-sandler-wife-have-a-baby/">People reported</a>. They were married in 2003, and in the years since, Jackie has made cameos in Adam's other films like "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," "Grown Ups," and "Hubie Halloween."The pair regularly walk red carpets together, and are <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/adam-sandler-jennifer-aniston-friendship-mothers-day-flowers-2023-8">both friends with Jennifer Aniston</a>, whom Adam met in 1990.<h2>Sadie Sandler, 17, is their oldest daughter</h2><div type="image" title="sadie sandler in you are so not invited to my bat mitzvah, holding a phone to her ear" height="1559" width="2079" msid="103145071" hostid="261" sizebytes="129656"></div>Adam and Jackie welcomed Sadie in May 2006, which Adam announced in a blog post at the time, per People."Kid is healthy!! Wife is healthy!!" he wrote in the post.Sadie has appeared in a number of her father's other films like "Hotel Transylvania" (and assorted sequels), "Hubie Halloween," and "Murder Mystery."Adam has spoken in the past about his daughter as she's grown up. Close to her own Bat Mitzvah, he said on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnmRti-J_C4">"The Ellen DeGeneres Show"</a> that he had noticed that Sadie was starting to get into boys."I drive around with her friends and I hear them talking about boys now," Adam told Ellen. "It's amazing the feelings I had about the same boys like five years ago, when they would mention the kid's I would be like, 'I love that kid.' Now I get very jumpy."And as for Sadie's Bat Mitzvah, Adam pulled some strings to get Adam Levine of Maroon 5 to perform at the event, he said on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLlJx-TZn4A">"Jimmy Kimmel Live."</a><h2>Sunny Sandler, 14, is the couple's younger daughter</h2><div type="image" title="sunny sandler smiling in you are so not invited to my bat mitzvah" height="1641" width="2188" msid="103145072" hostid="261" sizebytes="202092"></div>Adam announced the birth of his and Jackie's second daughter, Sunny, in November 2008, <a target="_blank" href="https://people.com/parents/adam-jackie-san/">People reported</a>."You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah" isn't Sunny's first Sandler film, either: she's previously appeared in "Jack and Jill," "Grown Ups," and "Pixels," among others.In addition to acting, Sunny also sings: she <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/adam-sandler-daughters-perform-taylor-swift-lover-video-2019-10">appeared alongside Adam and Sadie</a> at the Rock4EB! Charity event in October 2019. In footage captured by The Hollywood Reporter's Chris Gardner, the girls sang Taylor Swift's "Lover" while their father played guitar. She's also previously joined her father onstage to perform a song from "The Greatest Showman," <a target="_blank" href="https://people.com/parents/adam-sandler-daughter-sunny-sings-greatest-showman-video/">People reported.</a>Sunny's Bat Mitzvah was also a star-studded affair, featuring appearances from Taylor Lautner, Jennifer Aniston, and Peyton List, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4teD_lnyj0">Entertainment Tonight reported</a>.Once, Sunny crashed one of Adam's 2020 remote interviews on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcyVcaK2kk">"Jimmy Kimmel Live,"</a> pegged to the release of his film "Uncut Gems." In the clip, Adam recounted a story about Sunny finding a hair in his ear and helping him shave it before his television appearance. Eventually, Adam dismissed her to go do her homework.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Alaina Pinto, a local morning news anchor at <keyword id="6368596" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="boston">Boston</keyword>'s WHDH 7News, said she was let go from the station after she made an appearance on Adam Sandler's <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> movie "Hubie <keyword id="600" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Halloween">Halloween</keyword>" dressed as Harley Quinn.</li><li>In a string of Tweets, Pinto said her appearance in the movie was a violation of her contract with the station.</li><li>"I am deeply disappointed and saddened, and I hoped this would not be how things evolved," Pinto wrote in the Tweet.</li></ul>A <keyword id="35129" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="local-news">local news</keyword> anchor is out of a job after appearing in Adam Sandler's latest movie.Alaina Pinto, a morning news anchor at Boston's WHDH 7News, <a href="https://twitter.com/alainapinto/status/1316739632873250816">announced on Twitter that she was let go</a> from the station for violating her contract because of her appearance in Netflix's "Hubie Halloween" where she dressed as DC Comics character Harley Quinn."Earlier this week I was let go from 7 News," Pinto wrote. "I am posting this because I want to be open and honest with all of you. Last year, I participated in a cameo in the recently released Netflix movie by Adam Sandler, 'Hubie Halloween.' In doing so, I mistakenly violated my contract with the station and I understand why management, unfortunately, chose to terminate me. I am deeply disappointed and saddened, and I hoped this would not be how things evolved."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Alaina Pinto (@alainapinto) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1316739692122042369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2020</a></blockquote>Pinto, <a href="https://whdh.com/news/news-team/alaina-pinto/">who joined WHDH 7News in 2016</a>, plays a news anchor dressed as Harley Quinn on a fictional morning show in Sandler's comedic Halloween movie. "Hubie Halloween," which premiered October 7, is currently a trending movie on the streaming service."Thanks to all my wonderful 7 News viewers and my supportive and great colleagues at the station," Pinto wrote in her Tweet. "Reporting the news to you every morning was an honor and a privilege. I promise to stay in touch and keep you updated on the next chapter - the future is bright!"Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/things-you-missed-disneys-halloweentown-cool-details">18 details and references you probably missed in 'Halloweentown'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/kardashian-jenner-wild-halloween-costumes-2020-10">The wildest Halloween costumes the Kardashian-Jenner family has worn throughout the years</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/underrated-disney-halloween-costume-ideas-2018-10">22 underrated Disney costumes that will help you stand out on Halloween</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/best-cheap-things-to-get-at-target-this-month-2020-10">13 of the best things to get at Target this month for under $10</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In <keyword id="10080250" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="borat-2">Borat 2</keyword>, Giuliani was interviewed by an actress whom he believed to be a reporter.</li><li>Now he has been nominated for worst supporting actor at the <keyword id="125560" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Razzies">Razzies</keyword> for the infamous scene.</li><li>Sacha Baron Cohen, who won a Golden Globe for the film, praised Giuliani as a "comedy genius."</li></ul><keyword id="324847" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rudy-Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</keyword> received two nominations Friday for the annual Golden Raspberry Awards, a mock awards show that serves as the Oscars of bad movies.The Razzies, as they are also known, were founded in 1981 and honor the year's least-best films with awards like worst picture and worst screenplay.Giuliani is being honored in two categories for his portrayal of himself in "<keyword id="10149503" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Borat-Subsequent-Moviefilm">Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</keyword>," including worst supporting actor and worst screen combo.He is nominated in the latter category alongside Maria Bakalova, the 24-year-old actress who plays Borat's daughter in the film. Her character, Tutar, is a news reporter who lands an interview with Giuliani, an attorney for then-President Donald Trump. The former mayor of New York reportedly <a href="https://www.insider.com/rudy-giuliani-cameo-in-borat-2-involes-seeming-inappropriate-encounter-2020-10">did not know she was an actress or that the interview was for a Borat film</a>, and the stunt became one of the most talked-about aspects of the movie. During one scene, while Giuliani is in a hotel room with Tutar, he appears to reach his hand into his pants, though Giuliani has said he was just <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-says-he-was-just-tucking-my-shirt-borat-scene-2020-10">tucking in his shirt</a>.Giuliani and Bakalova face stiff competition in their category. They're up against "Robert Downey Jr. &amp; His Utterly Unconvincing 'Welsh' Accent" in "Doolittle," as well as "Adam Sandler &amp; His Grating Simpleton Voice" in "Hubie Halloween." Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of Borat, who duped Giuliani into the interview, was also honored for the Borat sequel recently when his film won best musical or comedy motion picture at last month's Golden Globes.In his acceptance speech, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sacha-baron-cohen-mocks-rudy-giuliani-golden-globes-speech-2021-3">Baron Cohen praised Giuliani</a> as "a fresh new talent who came from nowhere, and turned out to be a comedy genius."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11804" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="George-Clooney">George Clooney</keyword> could have been young Noah in "<keyword id="208364" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Notebook">The Notebook</keyword>."</li><li>The actor revealed to <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment">Entertainment</keyword> Weekly that at one time he was considering the role with <keyword id="154148" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Paul-Newman">Paul Newman</keyword> starring as older Noah.</li><li>Clooney finally told Newman he couldn't play the role. "You're too famous at 30 for me to be playing you at 30," he told Newman.</li></ul>File this in the what-could-have-been pile.There was a time in Hollywood when George Clooney was circling the big-screen adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks book, "The Notebook.""I was going to do it with Paul Newman," Clooney revealed recently to Samantha Highfill at <a href="https://ew.com/movies/george-clooney-the-notebook-noah/">Entertainment Weekly</a> while talking about his upcoming Netflix movie, "The Midnight Sky." "I was playing the flashback and Paul Newman was the old guy."Clooney as Noah Calhoun and Newman as the older version of the character would have been quite a one-two punch. So why did it not happen?<div type="image" title="Paul Newman wearing rolex daytona" height="1295" width="1727" msid="78749596" hostid="261"></div>"Paul and I talked about doing it, and we were sitting there one day and I was looking at him and I go, 'I can't do this movie, Paul,'" Clooney recalled. "He was like. 'Why?' I was like, 'Because everybody knows what you look like at 30 years old. You got blue eyes, I got brown eyes. You're too famous at 30 for me to be playing you at 30, it's never gonna work.' And he's like, 'I guess you're right.'"Clooney's instinct was correct. One of the many things that works about the version that got made starring <keyword id="262151" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ryan-Gosling">Ryan Gosling</keyword> as young Noah and James Garner (no slouch in the legend category compared to Newman) as old Noah is that once you realize they are playing the same character at different times in his life it doesn't take you out of the movie that Gosling doesn't look anything like a young Garner.<div type="image" title="The Notebook New Line Cinema" height="1367" width="1822" msid="78749598" hostid="261"></div>A Clooney/Newman version would have led to much more attention to the movie and more scrutiny of the pairing, as both were much more famous. Using the then lesser-known Gosling led to a star-making role, as the release of "The Notebook" in 2004 flew under the radar theatrically then became the classic we know now once it went to home video and cable.Clooney didn't reveal to EW the actresses attached back when he and Newman considered it, but it would be fascinating to know who would have played Allie, which eventually went to Rachel McAdams and Gena Rowlands.Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/adele-announces-saturday-night-live-hosting-instagram-excited-terrified-2020-10">Adele says she will be a 'flaming hot mess' for her first time hosting 'Saturday Night Live'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/boston-anchor-alaina-pinto-fired-hubie-halloween-cameo-2020-10">The Boston news anchor in 'Hubie Halloween' says she's been fired because of her movie cameo</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-original-rom-coms-ranked-critics-2019-2">54 of Netflix's original romantic films, ranked from worst to best</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="2631061" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ava-DuVernay">Ava DuVernay</keyword> spoke to Insider about a virtual reality series she's involved in called "<keyword id="2280786" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-Realities">New Realities</keyword>."</li><li>It spotlights 10 women all over the world who tell their unique stories using 360-degree VR.</li><li>DuVernay said it's "amplifying other points of view" that are important to hear in this time of division in the country.</li></ul>Ava DuVernay has a plan to stop the country's division that <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> has fueled since coming into office. And it goes beyond Election Day."Yes, we're going to vote, and yes, we're going to make a plan to vote and do all those things, but we also have to not let his narrative of racial dominance and ignorance take over," DuVernay told Insider over a Zoom call this week. "The only way to combat it is to tell more stories."For most of her career, DuVernay, who is known best for directing movies like "Selma," Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time," and Netflix's "When They See Us," has been dedicated to telling stories that don't get enough attention.That mission has only amped up with Trump's government and seeing people taking to the streets to protest social injustice — she has launched an initiative called <a href="https://www.leapaction.org/">LEAP</a>, which highlights police accountability.So along with putting the focus on her own work — which currently ranges from executive producing season five of her OWN series "Queen Sugar," overseeing post-production on her TV pilot, "DMZ," and getting the DC Comics project "The New Gods" off the ground (working with Chadwick Boseman may have been in the cards, but she says "that's too personal" to get into since his sudden death) — she's also putting her name to projects that she hopes will help both female and underrepresented voices.Announced this week is "<a href="https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/newrealities">New Realities,</a>" a virtual reality documentary film series in which 10 women from around the world tell their unique stories using 360-degree storytelling. DuVernay is involved through Lenovo, the United Nations initiative <a href="https://girlup.org/">Girl Up</a>, and her grassroots distribution company, <a href="http://www.arraynow.com/">Array,</a> which has partnered to raise awareness for the films.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wYgll7x_aBw" frameborder="0"></iframe>"This technology applied to the stories and experiences of the girls around the world, I found it beautiful and poignant," DuVernay said about why she got involved.But there's also another reason: DuVernay believes getting different voices out into the world than just those in power — which are typically old and white — is essential to causing change.She said that was what came to mind over the weekend when the world watched President Trump get <a href="https://www.insider.com/trump-stricken-by-covid-19-flown-to-military-hospital-2020-10">flown to Walter Reed Medical Center</a> after contracting COVID-19 then return back to the White House on Monday and <a href="https://www.insider.com/trump-still-infectious-back-at-white-house-without-mask-2020-10">defiantly take off his mask</a>."When I see that I think about amplifying other points of view," she said. "It's so important that there not be this one narrative of dominance, of ignorance, of harm. It really ignites in me the desire to make sure that more people are heard.""This is why this project is dropping at this time," DuVernay said of "New Realities.""You have to counter it with story. You have to tell another side of the story. This is the antidote to all of that."Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/ava-duvernay-bubble-queen-sugar-2020-10">Ava DuVernay says 'Queen Sugar' cast and crew are living in a 36-room hotel to film new season</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/adam-sandler-hubie-halloween-netflix-pays-tribute-to-cameron-boyce-2020-10">Adam Sandler's Netflix movie 'Hubie Halloween' pays special tribute to his late 'Grown Ups' son Cameron Boyce</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/kristen-stewart-hounded-labeling-sexuality-2020-10">Kristen Stewart explains how being 'hounded about labeling' her sexuality affected her when she was younger: 'It felt like such thievery'</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Federal prosecutors say they've busted a nationwide ring trafficking in stolen human remains.</li><li>Harvard Medical School's morgue manger, his wife, and two others are accused of selling human remains.</li></ul>Federal prosecutors say they've busted a nationwide ring trafficking in stolen human remains. According to indictments from the Department of Justice, four people were charged with conspiracy and moving stolen goods across state lines.Between 2018 and 2022, Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge stole body parts from corpses donated to the school's anatomical gift program, prosecutors say. He took the remains from Harvard Medical School's Boston campus to his home in New Hampshire, the indictment says.There, prosecutors say Lodge and his wife Denise sold the parts to Katrina Maclean and Joshua Taylor, arranging the deals through texts and social media."Some crimes defy understanding," said United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam in a statement. "The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human."One defendant, Katrina Maclean — from historically spooky Salem, Massachusetts, — operated a doll shop called "Kat's Creepy Creations."On the store's Instagram page, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8WW1nWFxdV/">she posted a picture of one her dolls</a>, along with the caption: "Throwback to the set of Hubie Halloween. This doll has been sold and yes that is a real human skull. If you're in the market for human bones hit me up!"Prosecutors say that sometimes Lodge let Maclean and Taylor into the morgue to pick out what they wanted."The defendants violated the trust of the deceased and their families all in the name of greed," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Jacqueline Maguire in a statement. "While today's charges cannot undo the unfathomable pain this heinous crime has caused, the FBI will continue to work tirelessly to see that justice is served."If convicted, the defendants each face up to 15 years in prison, supervised release, and fines. The FBI, US Postal Inspection Service, and local police investigated the case together. More charges could be coming, they say.

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