ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS 

NOVEMBER 09, 2020

Is Alec Baldwin’s Nightmare Over?

For Alec Baldwin, a long personal nightmare may be over. Now that President Donald Trump has lost his reelection bid, the 30 Rock star may finally get to stop playing Trump on Saturday Night Live—a prospect that, as Christopher Rosenpoints out, the Emmy winner has spent years publicly longing for. 

Elsewhere in HWD, Karen Valby recounts the sketch series’ jubilant first post-Trump-loss episode; Donald Liebensonremembers the great Alex Trebek, who died over the weekend; and, as the fourth season of The Crownapproaches, Julie Miller speaks with star Tobias Menzies,while royal expert Elizabeth Holmes explains why Princess Diana, a vital character in the next installment of the series, will never go out of style.

Alec’s Free

“I don’t believe I’ve ever been this overjoyed to lose a job before,” Baldwin wrote ahead of Saturday Night Live this weekend.

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Celebration, and a Warning

SNL celebrated the president’s defeat to Joe Biden, while host Dave Chappelle warned that white people “don’t know how to survive yourselves.”

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Goodbye, Alex Trebek

The Ontario-born Jeopardy! host, a television mainstay for decades, has died of pancreatic cancer.

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The Prickly Prince

Tobias Menzies opens up about his final season of The Crown,Prince Philip’s intriguing relationship with Princess Diana, and the royal’s impressive “bullshit-o-meter.”

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The People’s Princess

There was always a message to the Princess of Wales’s style, and as royal expert Elizabeth Holmes writes in this excerpt from her new book HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style, it remains an indelible part of her legacy.

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