By Hillel Italie Near the end of 2020, the pandemic had lasted long enough for author Jodi Picoult to try something that seemed unthinkable for novelists in its early stages — turn it into fiction. “At the beginning of the pandemic, I couldn’t even read, much less write. I didn’t have the focus,” says Picoult, who last November began the novel “Wish You Were Here.” The fall release is set in New York and the Galapagos during the first two months of the pandemic, March-May of last year.

Actor Gary Busey faces sex crime charges pertaining to his appearance at a horror film convention in New Jersey. “It was about contact. It was about touching,” Cherry Hill Police Lt. Robert Scheunemann said according to the Philadelphia Inquirer which reported that the actor allegedly groped two people. Busey is no stranger to accusations—in 2016, five Apprentice employees told The Daily Beast that he sexually assaulted a female employee while he was on the show.

Spoilers ahead for the Season 4 premiere of FBI and Season 3 premiere of FBI: Most Wanted on CBS, and updated with FBI: International. The second season of FBI: Most Wanted ended on a cliffhanger that seemed to quite literally be killer, with Sarah’s armed ex-husband Hugh breaking into the house where Sarah and Tali were alone, with Jess and Kenny outside and unable to come to the rescue right away.

MADRID — Instagram has apologized for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film from the social network because it showed a female nipple, after the poster’s designer complained of censorship. Instagram’s parent company Facebook told The Associated Press on Wednesday that several images of the poster for “Madres Paralelas,” which shows a lactating nipple, were removed “for breaking our rules against nudity” after they were uploaded on Monday.

Josh Brolin could have played Batman in Zack Snyder’s DC films, but instead, the role went to Ben Affleck. “That was interesting to me,” Josh said on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. “That was his decision, that wasn’t my decision.” Click inside to read more… “It would have been the older, the more raspy, for lack of a better word…” he continued. “Honestly, that would have been a fun deal. And maybe I’ll do it when I’m 80.