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showbiz

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Recent Examples of showbiz Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 June 2026 Over the course of more than seven decades in showbiz, Leachman garnered 22 Emmy nominations and eight wins, tying Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the most Primetime Emmy acting wins. — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026 For a glimpse of where showbiz is headed, walk a few hundred yards off the Burbank Airport runway into a 125,000-square-foot complex of warehouses where Southwest jets roar over the roof and Amtrak trains rattle the walls. — Steven Bertoni, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The visually stunning tome, timed to Marilyn’s centenary, recounts the friendship and creative collaboration between Josh’s grandfather Bruno Bernard, a Jewish German immigrant who became a legendary showbiz photographer, and Hollywood’s most iconic movie star. — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for showbiz

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The mother of two has repeatedly accused Samantha and their father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, of selling stories to the British tabloids.

— Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The prolific Hollywood subgenre of the body-swap comedy had already been around a while when Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan teamed up for the surprise hit, Freaky Friday.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025

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His rattan chairs have seated famed Indian celebrities like members of India’s billionaire Ambani family and Bollywood stars, as well as American bigwigs like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who visited the restaurant last year.

— Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
The cast includes Arjun Bijlani, Dhanashree Verma, Kubbra Sait, and Kiku Sharda from diverse backgrounds spanning Bollywood, music, politics, entrepreneurship, and social media.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025

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