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For some celebrities, fame and fortune weren’t enough to keep them in Hollywood forever. These former stars stepped away from the spotlight to pursue unexpected careers, from business ventures to ordinary nine-to-five jobs. Here are 13 celebrities who traded red carpets for surprising new paths.

This study uses difference-in-differences models to evaluate the impact of early social media use on academic performance among children aged 7–16 years. A dataset comprising 5,227 students from northern Italy was constructed by merging data from a questionnaire on lifetime digital media habits with longitudinal standardized test scores in Italian, English and mathematics. Participants who…

Los Angeles County’s entertainment sector eliminated roughly 20,000 positions between 2023 and 2024. Broadcast divisions shrank. Development slates contracted. Legacy studio lots that once employed thousands consolidated floor by floor. From the outside, the market looks like it should be flooded with available talent.

OpenAI last week launched Sora 2, an artificial intelligence model that can generate high-definition video clips with sound and more realistic physics. The release has been described by the company as a turning point for AI-video generation. 

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath met last week with leaders of the Entertainment Union Coalition to discuss challenges facing the region’s film and television industry and strategies to keep production, jobs and investment local. She laterintroduced amotion at the Board of Supervisors meeting to support legal action against the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger.

There is a particular kind of Colombo success story that rarely gets written until years after it has  already happened, the kind built quietly, in the gap between two people’s very different strengths, long before anyone outside the business notices. This week marks one such story reaching its first public milestone: the first anniversary of…

Danny DeVito has spent more than five decades proving that making a lasting impression can matter just as much as fitting Hollywood’s expectations. The actor, director, and producer has built a career spanning classic sitcoms, blockbuster films, Broadway, and ambitious projects behind the camera. Now, at 81, DeVito is sharing the simple advice he believes…