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The Dennis Quaid-led Ronald Reagan biopic “Reagan” landed in theaters Aug. 30 and has drawn mixed reviews. The historical drama follows Reagan’s life from his childhood to his time as an actor in Hollywood and his second marriage to Nancy Reagan, all the way to his years in the White House. It concludes with his announcement of his Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis at age 83.

The movie is directed by Sean McNamara and written by Howard Klausner and Jonas McCord. It’s largely told through conversations between two former Kgb agents.

Here is how to watch “Reagan” in theaters and on streaming platforms.

When did “Reagan” come out?

“Reagan” was released in theaters on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024.

Is “Reagan” in theaters or streaming?

“Reagan” was released exclusively in theaters, so right now that is the only way to see the movie.

It’s currently unclear if “Reagan” will be available on any streaming platform.

Half a century ago, Universal Pictures hoped to carry over the success of its entries in the short-lived disaster film vogue to naval combat movies, stirring some box office if few other rewards via dullish “Midway” and “Gray Lady Down,” which felt like bloated retro B-movies. Having revived the disaster genre with trilogy “The Wave,” “The Quake” and “The Burning Sea,” their Norwegian producers seem to be going the same route with “The Arctic Convoy,” about the perilous voyage of a freighter delivering supplies to Allies on the eastern front during World War 2.

The fact-inspired story’s central situation is compelling enough. But director/co-writer Henrik M. Dahlsbakken (of recent biopic “Munch”) delivers a middling effort too sparing of excitement to satisfy action fans, and without the character depth or involvement to score as drama instead. Released on the film’s home turf at Christmas, the competent but uninspired Scandinavian...

New month, new recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. The second installment of 2024 features selections reflecting holidays, events or traditions of February.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s horror offerings include reincarnation, vampires and more.

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)

Pictured: Michael Sarrazin and Jennifer O’Neill in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson.

Author Max Ehrlich handled the screenplay for his own novel’s adaptation. Despite its quirky title, though, this movie is a rather surreal and sad, not to mention unpredictable viewing experience. The obsession with metaphysical matters seeped into ’70s cinema, and this trippy psycho-horror gem, one directed by J. Lee Thompson, is a valid reflection of that bygone trend.

The namesake of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) is having what...

Herman Raucher, a best-selling author and the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of “Summer of ’42,” died Dec. 28 of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 95.

Raucher got his start in the industry working in live television. He wrote one hour dramas for anthology series including “Studio One,” “Good Year Playhouse” and “The Alcoa Hour.” In his screenwriting career, he wrote the scripts for two films starring Anthony Newley, “Sweet November” (1968) and “Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?” (1969), which Newley also directed.

Raucher was inspired by Bobbie Gentry’s popular song “Ode to Billie Joe” to write the screenplay for Max Baer Jr.’s 1976 romance film of the same name starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor. Raucher also co-wrote the script for the 1977 film “The Other Side of Midnight.”

Raucher is remembered for penning the script for the popular coming-of-age film “Summer of ’42,...

Veteran screenwriter Herman Raucher, best known for writing the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the 1971 coming-of-age drama “Summer of ’42,” has died. Raucher was 95.

Raucher died on Dec. 28 of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford Connecticut, his daughter Jenny Raucher told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Summer of ’42,” directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gary Grimes and Jennifer O’Neill, tells the bittersweet story of a teenage boy who falls for an older woman while on summer vacation as her husband is away fighting in World War II. A major hit for Warner Bros., “Summer of ’42” earned critical acclaim and several Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay for Raucher’s script.

Raucher went on to adapt the story into an international bestselling novel in 1971. Though he wrote several other popular films over his decades-long career, such as “Ode to Billy Joe” and “The Other Side of Midnight.” “Summer of ’42” remained his most notable work.

Herman Raucher, whose Oscar-nominated Summer of ’42 screenplay became one of Hollywood’s best-loved coming-of-age tales, has died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Ct. He was 95.

His December 28 death was announced by daughter Jenny Raucher, who was by his side when he passed.

Subsequently adapted by Raucher into an international best-selling novel, 1971’s Summer of ’42 was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. It told the nostalgic and bittersweet story of teenager Hermie — played by Gary Grimes and based on Raucher himself — who, during a summertime vacation on Nantucket Island, becomes infatuated with a beautiful (and soon grieving) older woman (Jennifer O’Neill) whose husband has gone off to fight in World War II.

The film, directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), was a critical success and a major hit for Warner Bros. Michel Legrand’s score won an Oscar and quickly became...

Herman Raucher, the best-selling author and screenwriter who earned an Oscar nomination for the coming-of-age classic Summer of ’42 and wrote the script for the thought-provoking Watermelon Man, has died. He was 95.

Raucher died Thursday of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, his daughter Jenny Raucher told The Hollywood Reporter.

Raucher, who started out in live television, penned the screenplays for two Anthony Newley-starring films: Sweet November (1968), directed by Robert Ellis Miller and also featuring Sandy Dennis, and Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), featuring Joan Collins.

He also was given inspiration from Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit song to write the screenplay to Ode to Billy Joe (1976), a love story that starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor and was helmed by Max Baer Jr.

With the Robert Mulligan-directed Summer of ’42 (1971) in postproduction, someone came up with the idea of Raucher writing a...

Yesterday we shared the news of the three-disc special edition 4K release Severin Films is planning for the 1981 film Nightmare, a.k.a. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain. Now we have another awesome Severin Films release to let you know about, as they will be giving legendary director Lucio Fulci‘s 1977 film The Psychic a four-disc special edition 4K release!

Described as Fulci’s “ultimate giallo masterpiece”, The Psychic was scripted by Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, and Dardano Sacchetti, and is also known as Seven Notes in Black or Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes. Apparently Quentin Tarantino entertained the idea of remaking the film with Bridget Fonda in the lead role back in the ’90s. Fulci’s film stars Jennifer O’Neill (Scanners) as a woman tormented by violent visions of past slayings. Or are they premonitions of murders still to come?

O’Neill is joined in the cast...

Now considered one of the biggest male revues in the world, Chippendales has a surprisingly dark past, including arson and murder, that is revisited in “Welcome to Chippendales“. The true-crime saga stars Kumail Nanjiani as Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the unlikely man behind the male-stripping empire whose ambitions eventually led him down a deadly path, as well as Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis and Annaleigh Ashford.

“All of the stuff that happens in it is so unbelievable,” Nanjiani tells Et about the eight-part series, which is adapted by co-showrunners Robert Siegel and Jenni Konner and director Matt Shakman from the 2014 book Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders. “There are, like, 20 unbelievably bonkers things that happen in this thing.”

With the limited series premiering Nov. 22 on Hulu, here’s what to know about Banerjee, his many crimes and other figures key to the Chippendales’ legacy.

Steve Banerjee and Other Key Figures

Born in Bombay,...

A series version of the David Cronenberg film “Scanners” is in development at HBO, Variety has confirmed.

Per the official description, the series is “set in the mind-bending world of David Cronenberg’s seminal film. Pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers, two women living on the fringes of modern society must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.”

William Bridges will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the series. Yann Demange will direct and executive produce via Wayward Films. Cronenberg, who wrote and directed the original film, will serve as an executive producer. Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer will executive produce on behalf of Media Res Studio. Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Films will also executive produce along with René Malo and Fanny-Laure Malo, Pierre David, Clark Peterson, and Aaron Gilbert. The show is a co-production between HBO,...

Most noted for its troubled production background, this hospital-set murder thriller turns a doctor into a detective: James Coburn’s medico undertakes an amateur investigation of a crime involving an illegal abortion, and the cover-up thereof. Although tangled up in the crazy James Aubrey-Kirk Kerkorian regime at MGM, Blake Edwards’ film can boast a strong supporting cast: Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Allan, Dan O’Herlihy, James Hong, Michael Blodgett, Regis Toomey and John Hillerman.

The Carey Treatment

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Warner Archive Collection

1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 101 min. / Available at Amazon.com / General site Wac-Amazon / Street Date May 10, 2022 / 21.99

Starring: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Elizabeth Allan, Dan O’Herlihy, James Hong, Michael Blodgett, Regis Toomey, Jennifer Edwards, John Hillerman, Alex Drier, Robert Mandan, Melissa Tormé-March.

Cinematography: Frank Stanley

Art Director: Alfred Sweeney

Film Editor: Ralph E. Winters

Original Music: Roy Budd

Screenplay by “James P. Bonner” and...

By Lee Pfeiffer

The Warner Archive has released the 1972 MGM thriller The Carey Treatment on Blu-ray.  James Coburn has one of his best roles as Dr. Peter Carey, a rebellious but esteemed pathologist who moves to Boston to take a prominent position at one of the city's most highly regarded hospitals. The charismatic Carey loses no time in gaining friends, alienating top brass and bedding the comely chief dietician (Jennifer O'Neill). However, he soon finds himself embroiled in a politically volatile investigation when a fellow surgeon is arrested for performing an illegal abortion on the 15 year-old daughter of the hospital's crusty administrator (Dan O'Herlihy). (The movie was released a year before the landmark Roe V. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America and now appears to be on the verge of being reversed.) Coburn believes his friend's protestations of innocence and decides to launch his own investigation into the matter.

“Doctors play God in a lot of crappy ways.”

James Coburn in Blake Edwards’ The Carey Treatment (1972) will be available on Blu-ray May 10th from Warner Archive

he remarkable Blake Edwards directed this unconventional medical mystery thriller based on a novel written by Michael Crichton and starring the unforgettable James Coburn. Coburn takes on the role of pathologist Dr. Peter Carey who brings his West-Coast counterculture ways to a Boston hospital, where he quickly causes a stir. But things only become more tense when the daughter of one of his new colleagues dies after an illegal abortion–and Dr. Carey uses his forensic skills to defend the doctor accused of causing the girl’s death.

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New 2022 1080p HD Master!Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye AubreyBD-50COLOR101 MinutesAspect Ratio: 16×9 2.40 LetterboxAudio Specs-dts HD Ma 2.0 MONOIncludes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)

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Jennifer O’Neill stars as a fabulously dressed clairvoyant in Fulci’s revived 1977 thriller that looks amazing, even if the sexual politics are dodgy

Italian director Lucio Fulci’s dusty giallo thriller from 1977 – also known as Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes – has been retrieved from the shelf of some rights holder’s back catalogue and spruced up for rerelease. That gives us all a chance to appreciate, either anew or for the first time, its glorious deployment of tacky camera zooms, lurid colours and dubbed dialogue – the latter being a particularly evocative hallmark of 1970s Italian cinema, just a fraction out of sync with the actors’ lip movements. And like many other so-called classics from the giallo cupboard, the script is cheesy tosh with a nasty taste for violence against women; you have to put it down as par for the course given the time it was made.

This article contains spoilers for the ending of Scanners.

Scanners was the fifth commercially released feature film (and seventh overall) directed by David Cronenberg, the independent Canadian auteur who initially made a name for himself as a director of visceral, provocative horror films such as Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood. Released 40 years ago on January 14, 1981, Scanners was a turning point for Cronenberg in many ways: it edged away from the sexually tinged “body horror” of his first few films and into the realms of sci-fi, action, and conspiracy thriller, while adding advanced visual effects and an overall polish to the director’s clinical esthetic.

Although none of his films up to that point had achieved any sort of mainstream success outside Canada, Scanners was a breakthrough for Cronenberg: his most expensive film to date (with a budget of $4 million), it was his first to also earn decent money in the lucrative North American market.

Luchino Visconti’s handsome final feature adapts a classic Italian novel about an arrogant aristocrat whose selfish double-standard philosophy causes ruin and misery. The 19th century villas and ornate costumes dazzle, but the depressingly fated story will be tough going for sensitive audiences. This new disc encoding highlights the intoxicating atmosphere, and the intense performances of Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli and Jennifer O’Neill.

L’innocente

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Film Movement Classics

1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 129 112 min. / Street Date July 14, 2020 / 29.95

Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O’Neill, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Didier Haudepin, Marie Dubois, Roberta Paladini, Claude Mann, Marc Porel.

Cinematography: Pasqualino De Santis

Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

Original Music: Franco Mannino

Production Design: Mario Garbuglia

Costumes: Piero Tosi

Written by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti from the novel by Gabriele D’Annunzio

Produced by Giovanni Bertolucci

Directed by Luchino Visconti

The availability of European art cinema became spotty in the 1970s,...

By Lee Pfeiffer

The Warner Archive has released the 1972 MGM thriller The Carey Treatment. James Coburn has one of his best roles as Dr. Peter Carey, a rebellious but esteemed pathologist who moves to Boston to take a prominent position at one of the city's most esteemed hospitals. The charismatic Carey loses no time in gaining friends, alienating top brass and bedding the comely chief dietician (Jennifer O'Neill). However, he soon finds himself embroiled in a politically volatile investigation when a fellow surgeon is arrested for performing an illegal abortion on the 15 year old daughter of the hospital's crusty administrator (Dan O'Herlihy). (The movie was released a year before the landmark Roe V. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America.) Coburn believes his friend's protestations of innocence and decides to launch his own investigation into the matter. The case soon unveils a lot of skeletons that some prominent people would...

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Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 (image: Marie Dubois in the mammoth blockbuster 'La Grande Vadrouille') Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality of the '60s and the leading lady in one of France's biggest box-office hits in history, died Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at a nursing home in Lescar, a suburb of the southwestern French town of Pau, not far from the Spanish border. Dubois, who had been living in the Pau area since 2010, was 77. For decades she had been battling multiple sclerosis, which later in life had her confined to a wheelchair. Born Claudine Huzé (Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé according to some online sources) on January 12, 1937, in Paris, the blue-eyed, blonde Marie Dubois began her show business career on stage, being featured in plays such as Molière's The Misanthrope and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. François Truffaut discovery: 'Shoot the...

New York, Oct er 22: Lady Gaga has settled a lawsuit brought by her former assistant alleging unpaid overtime pay.

The 27-year-old American singer agreed to settle a Manhattan federal court lawsuit filed by her Jennifer O'Neill, who claimed that she had been cheated out of overtime pay and was forced to be available for the pop star 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the 2009-to-2011 'Monster Ball' tours, New York Post reported.

The former assistant claimed that the 'Poker Face' singer owed her 7,168 hours of overtime and about 400,000 dollars in damages. (Ani)...

Their words laid out in court documents were full of vitriol, but Lady Gaga has settled the lawsuit filed by her former assistant.

Back in 2011, Jennifer O'Neill claimed she worked 7,168 hours of overtime between 2009 and 2011 and her former employer owed her at least $393,000.

In response, the "Applause" singer called herself the "Queen of the Universe" and accused her assistant of wearing her clothes and using her Yves Saint Laurent discount without her permission.

Details of the settlement are undisclosed, but the 27-year-old songstress is focused on other things, having just released "Do What U Want" off of her upcoming album, Artpop.

Fiercely refuting claims by her former assistant, Lady Gaga submitted a 200-page witness statement in the lawsuit filed by Jennifer O'Neill.

According to documents obtained by the Daily Mail, the "Born this Way" singer addresses her allegation that she's owed for 7,168 hours of overtime pay.

In the lengthy explanation, Gaga starts off, "It’s actually based on a bubbly, good heart. I am quite wonderful to everyone that works for me. I am going to tell you exactly what ******* happened, so that the judge can read on this transcript exactly what’s going on, which is my ex-best friend is a ******* hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn’t earn. The job was essentially a favour, and Jennifer was majorly unqualified for it."

In the complaint, O'Neill says that she was required to share a bed with her boss, rub the corns on her feet, and...

London, Sep 12: A judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Lady Gaga, brought by her former personal assistant, can go to trial.

Jennifer O'Neill has claimed that she was cheated out of overtime pay and forced to be available to the 27-year-old pop star 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Daily Star reported.

According to sources, the New York judge said that a jury can decide to what extent O'Neill might be owed compensation. (Ani)...

London, Feb 8: Two former celebrity personal assistants, who lived at the 24-hour, seven days a week, beck and call of their A-list employers, have revealed the inner workings of a job that knows no boundaries, but pays incredibly well.

Rebecca White and Jennifer O'Neill, who have worked for the likes of Lady Gaga, Naomi Campbell and Claire Danes, opened up to the New York Post to give a candid behind-the-scenes look into the world of a celebrity aide, the Daily Mail reported.

"There's no such thing as overtime or having your own life. You are married to these people. You are literally in a relationship with them," O'Neill.

Lady Gaga wants to give the money she allegedly owes an ex-employee to another staff member who is battling breast cancer. The 'Edge Of Glory' singer is being sued by her former personal assistant Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments because she was forced to spend 24 hours a day with her, but the superstar insists the ex-staff member doesn't 'deserve' the money and she wants to give it to another aide stricken with the disease. According to The Sun newspaper, she testified: 'Now her parents will keep paying for her and keep her until my cheque comes through, which she doesn't deserve and I'm not giving to her. 'She doesn't deserve a dollar more.

Lady Gaga wants to give the money she allegedly owes an ex-employee to another staff member who is battling breast cancer. The 'Edge Of Glory' singer is being sued by her former personal assistant Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments because she was forced to spend 24 hours a day with her, but the superstar insists the ex-staff member doesn't ''deserve'' the money and she wants to give it to another aide stricken with the disease. According to The Sun newspaper, she testified: ''Now her parents will keep paying for her and keep her until my cheque...

Los Angeles, Feb 6: Singer Lady Gaga has decided to provide financial support to her new assistant Sonja for her breast cancer treatment and says she won't pay her former assistant Jennifer O'Neill.

O'Neill is suing Gaga for $393,000 over unpaid dues.

However, Gaga says she will give her money to someone who needs it more.

"She (O'Neill) doesn't deserve a dollar more. "I'm not going to give it to her so she can go and buy a new tube top," thesun.co.uk quoted Gaga as saying.

"I'm going to give all the money she wants to my employees that work hard for me and deserve it. I am going to give it to Sonja for her breast.

What Mother Monster wants, Mother Monster gets. Though Lady Gaga, who is currently in the middle of an ugly legal battle against former personal assistant Jennifer O'Neill, can be quite specific about O'Neill's shortcomings, she is not outrageously demanding about the things she wants in her dressing room, a recently released tour rider reveals. In the documents, originally obtained by Celebuzz, Gaga's list of requests range from the mundane -- "two large fluffy lavender towels" -- to the pickier -- "fresh yellow, lavender or white roses." The most [...]...

New York, Feb 5: Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour rider included an unusual request for a mannequin with puffy pink public hair, it has been revealed.

Celebuzz has exclusively obtained Gaga's tour rider as part of the court documents detailing her six-hour deposition in the lawsuit involving her former assistant, Jennifer O'Neill.

In it, Gaga makes various demands: that her dressing room be decorated in a "glam rock" fashion and furnished with white leather couches, fresh roses and black satin drapes, the Huffington Post reported.

The document also makes note of Gaga's peculiar request for a "manquin [sic] with puffy pink.

Pop star Lady Gaga’s former assistant Jennifer O'Neill sues the pop star for working overtime for Gaga and claimed that she was not paid for the overtime. She even claimed that she had to sleep with Gaga as she could not sleep alone. Gaga owes her to pay Usd 380,000 for spending 24 hours 7 days with her and sharing the same bed during The Monster Ball tour but till date the overtime payment was not paid to her.“I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone," O'Neill said.When asked if sleeping with Gaga was part of her job, she said, "I fe...

Los Angeles, Feb 3: Lady Gaga's former assistant Jennifer O'Neill says her job profile included sharing the bed with the singer.

Neill has sued Gaga for $393,000 for not giving her unpaid dues.

"I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone," radaronline.com quoted Neill as saying.

Ians...

New York, Feb 3: Lady Gaga's former personal assistant shared a bed with the pop star during her 'The Monster Ball' tour in 2010, according to court papers.

When asked if the unusual task was required as part of her job, Jennifer O'Neill said that she felt it was, the New York Post reported.

She said that unlike anybody else on that tour, she did not have her own hotel room and had not even been asked if she had wanted one.

O'Neill said that she had no privacy, no chance to talk to any family, no chance to talk to any friends, no chance to have sex, in fact she had no chance to do anything. (Ani)...

Lady Gaga's former personal assistant claims she was forced to sleep in the same bed as the star. The 'Edge Of Glory' hitmaker is being sued by ex-employee Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments because she had to spend 24 hours a day with her and share the same bed during 'The Monster Ball' tour in 2010. According to court papers obtained by the New York Post's Page Six, Jennifer testified: 'I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone.' When asked if sleeping with Lady Gaga - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta -...

Lady Gaga's former personal assistant claims she was forced to sleep in the same bed as the star. The 'Edge Of Glory' hitmaker is being sued by ex-employee Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments because she had to spend 24 hours a day with her and share the same bed during 'The Monster Ball' tour in 2010. According to court papers obtained by the New York Post's Page Six, Jennifer testified: ''I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did...

New York, Feb 2: Singer Lady Gaga's former assistant has sued the singer for$393,000 over unpaid dues.

Gaga's former assistant Jennifer O'Neill has claimed that she did over 7,000 hours of overtime, which she was never paid for. The sum for it amounts to almost $400,000.

However, Gaga is unwilling to pay up. In a video-taped deposition from August 2012 in New York, obtained by the New York Post newspaper, the popstar explained why.

"She slept in Egyptian cotton sheets every night, in five-star hotels, on private planes, eating caviar, partying with (photographer) Terry Richardson all night, wearing my clothes, asking Ysl.

If a Lady Gaga had written a song about her former personal assistant, it could have been "Judas." Because betrayal is what likely came to mind when the pop superstar was forced to sit for a deposition in a lawsuit Jennifer O'Neill filed against her erstwhile boss accusing Gaga of failing to compensate her for $393,000 in overtime and seeking that amount plus damages. In court records obtained by the New York Post, the 26-year-old singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, unloaded under oath on the woman whom she "called a "f--king hood rat" for "suing me for money she didn't earn" after Gaga let her into her inner circle for a year-and-a-half-long period from 2009 to 2011 to tend to...

Lady Gaga has branded her former personal assistant a 'f**king hood rat'. The 'Edge Of Glory' hitmaker is being sued by ex-employee Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments from her time on tour, and the singer launched a foul-mouthed rant against the woman while giving evidence under oath. In a video-taped deposition from August last year in New York, obtained by the New York Post newspaper, Gaga rants: '[Jennifer is a] f**king hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn't earn. She thinks she's just like the queen of the universe. And, you know what, she didn't want to be a slave to one, because in my work and what I do,...

Lady Gaga has branded her former personal assistant a ''f**king hood rat''. The 'Edge Of Glory' hitmaker is being sued by ex-employee Jennifer O'Neill, who claims Gaga owes her $380,000 in overtime payments from her time on tour, and the singer launched a foul-mouthed rant against the woman while giving evidence under oath. In a video-taped deposition from August last year in New York, obtained by the New York Post newspaper, Gaga rants: ''[Jennifer is a] f**king hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn't earn. She thinks she's just like the queen of the universe. And, you know...

Lady Gaga is not amused with her former assistant Jennifer O'Neill who is suing her for unpaid overtime.

The deposition was made in August where the former assistant claims she worked overtime and wants her money.

Lady Gaga is calling her a hood rat who was unqualified and is suing for money she didn't earn.Jennifer is asking for 3,000.

Gaga said "This whole case is bulls***t and you know it".The singer insists that the former assistant knew what she was getting into and she knew there was no overtime.Jennifer is said to have agreed to ,000 a year.

Mother Monster's claws are out. Lady Gaga couldn't hide her rage when she testified against former personal assistant Jennifer O'Neill, who is taking the "Born This Way" singer to court over unpaid overtime she claims she's owed. According to court records obtained by the New York Post, Gaga's six-hour sworn deposition is largely an expletive-filled rant against her ex-aide. At various points during the testimony, the star refers to O'Neill as a "witch," "a disgusting human being," and a "f--king hood rat who is suing me for [...]...

New York, Feb 1: Lady Gaga unloaded her anger on a former personal assistant who has sued the pop diva for overtime pay - blasting the woman in a sworn deposition as a "f-king hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn't earn."

The 26-year-old singer said that her former aide Jennifer O'Neill thinks that she's the queen of the universe, the New York Post reported.

In her six-hour testimony in a Midtown Manhattan law office, Gaga even asked O'Neill if she was going to stare at her like a witch.

Her foulmouthed assertions came in response to a 2011 suit filed in Manhattan federal court by O'Neill, who claims.

London, September 24: Lady Gaga has no right to privacy because she is always exposing her body for the world to see, her former personal assistant Jennifer O'Neill claimed in court papers filed in New York.

The allegation emerged as the pop star courts attention at the launch of her new perfume Fame in Paris, France on Sunday, the Daily Mail reported.

Gaga and O'Neill are set to go to court later this year over.

Lady Gaga's former personal assistant insists the star has ''no right to privacy''. Jennifer O'Neill is suing the 'Bad Romance' singer for $380,000 in unpaid overtime from the $75,000-a-year job, alleging she was on call at all times and has issued a subpoena demanding some unpublished photos of Gaga, which she says support her claims. However, the pop star is fighting the request for the photos - which were taken by Terry Richardson for the 'Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson' book - calling them ''private and personal'' in court papers, prompting her former employee to argue against her ''ludicrous'' claim to privacy...

Lady Gaga's former personal assistant insists the star has 'no right to privacy'. Jennifer O'Neill is suing the 'Bad Romance' singer for $380,000 in unpaid overtime from the $75,000-a-year job, alleging she was on call at all times and has issued a subpoena demanding some unpublished photos of Gaga, which she says support her claims. However, the pop star is fighting the request for the photos - which were taken by Terry Richardson for the 'Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson' book - calling them 'private and personal' in court papers, prompting her former employee to argue against her 'ludicrous' claim to privacy because of Gaga's outlandish behaviour. Ms. O'Neill's lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday...

Lady Gaga is being sued by toy manufacturer Mga Entertainment for $10 million for an alleged breach of contact after the singer licensed the company to make a doll in her image.

Mga Entertainment claims the singer requested the removal of a voice chip from their Lady Gaga doll, which then jeopardised their ability to meet retail deadlines, reports the New York Daily News. The toymakers allege that Gaga and her team "engaged in intentional and deliberate delays" to postpone its launch until 2013, to coincide with her new album and perfume.

The company claims it sent prototypes to Gaga in March and the singer asked that the doll’s facial structure “be more supermodel-like.”

“Think a prettier version of Gaga,” Mga officials say they were instructed via emails. “Thin out the cheeks and sharpen the jawline. Give her more of a cat-eye and sexier, poutier lips." After meeting Gaga's demands, which...

Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer, Cosmopolis Robert Pattinson's multibillionaire Eric Packer doesn't go on and on about wanting a haircut in this new Cosmopolis trailer — yes, another new Cosmopolis trailer. (Please scroll down.) This a more philosophical trailer, with cosmic statements such as "I smell sex all over you." Pattinson's reaction to that is priceless. And are they watching snuff films (minus the sex) at one point? [Check out another Cosmopolis trailer.] Now, this latest Cosmopolis trailer also offers a better look at the various supporting actors in the film. The English Patient / Hidden's Juliette Binoche looks particularly impressive. Cronenberg co-wrote the Cosmopolis screenplay with Don DeLillo, the author of the novel on which the film is based. In addition to Pattinson and Binoche, Cosmopolis features A Dangerous Method's Sarah Gadon, Sideways / Cinderella Man's Paul Giamatti, Sweet and Lowdown / In America's Samantha Morton, Resident Evil: Retribution / I Am Number Four's Kevin Durand,...

Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis "I wanna a haircut," says Robert Pattinson's multibillionaire Eric Packer — sounding like a petulant, spoiled brat with too much power and all-too-mundane needs — at the beginning of the newly released Cosmopolis trailer. (Please scroll down.) But mere human power has its limits. What will Packer become when there's "no more money" and "no more sex" and "no more power"? What would any of us become, especially if we can't get the haircut we want? [Check out another Cosmopolis trailer.] As expected, considering that this is a David Cronenberg movie, the Cosmopolis trailer looks great, Pattinson looks and sounds flawless in the role of the billionaire whose universe is about to be radically rearranged, and the (audible) dialogue sounds as weird as what one gets to hear in real life, e.g., "The logical extension of business is murder" or, again, "I wanna a haircut." No wonder the Cannes Film Festival...

Cosmopolis poster: brooding Robert Pattinson The classy Cosmopolis teaser trailer was posted online last night. Now comes the classy Cosmopolis poster. Both center on star Robert Pattinson in the role of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire having a really difficult day. [Watch Cosmopolis teaser trailer. See Robert Pattinson covered in pie cream.] Veteran director David Cronenberg helmed Cosmopolis, in addition to co-writing the screenplay with Don DeLillo, author of the original novel. A highly likely Cannes Film Festival entry (Cosmopolis opens in France on May 23, a week after the festival opens), Cronenberg's latest also features A Dangerous Method's Sarah Gadon, The English Patient / Chocolat's Juliette Binoche, Rock of Ages / Win Win's Paul Giamatti, Minority Report / In America's Samantha Morton, I Am Number Four / Real Steel's Kevin Durand, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Quantum of Solace's Mathieu Amalric, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice / She's Out of My League's Jay Baruchel, Good Neighbors / The Trotsky's Emily Hampshire,...

Lady Gaga's former personal assistant is claiming the popstar was a nightmare to work for and regularily made diva-like demands -- how shocking.

The New York Post reports that Jennifer O'Neill worked for the 25-year-old popstar for 13 months and now claims she is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime.

O'Neill alleges that for $75,000-a-year she had to cater to Gaga's every whim at any hour of the day or night. According to court papers, O'Neill was responsible for "ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower and serving as a personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule."

That sounds like fairly standard expectations for a celebrity's personal assistant, but O'Neill, 41, also claims in the lawsuit that there was no breaks for meals "or, at times even sleep," claiming that she had to be on hand for "spontaneous, random matters in the middle of the night.

A former personal assistant to Lady Gaga claims the singer has lived up to her album title of Fame Monster. Jennifer O'Neill has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $380,000 from Gaga's touring company for 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime racked up while being at the entertainer's beck-and-call in late 2009 and most of 2010. Describing Gaga as a nightmare boss, O'Neill claims her duties required everything from acting as a "personal alarm clock" to "ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower." The lawsuit was filed Dec. 14 in Manhattan federal court. Reps for Gaga say the action is "completely without merit," CNN reports.