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In an effort describe what parenting a toddler is like, comedian and actor John Mulaney compared the undertaking to the experience crew members allegedly had while working on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “You know what having a 3-year-old is like?” Mulaney, a father of two children, asked his “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” viewers on Wednesday night’s show. “Having a 3-year-old is what I imagine working on Ellen DeGeneres’ show was like. Because people come over and they’re like, ‘How is it?’ And you’re, like, ‘Oh, it’s fine. You know, we have fun. There’s games.’” He carried on with the joke: “We have dancing, you know. So if he starts dancing, you dance. But if he stops dancing, you f—king stop dancing right away.” Mulaney, who shares a 3-year-old son and 7-month-old daughter with his wife, actress Olivia Munn, was poking fun at the toxic workplace allegations DeGeneres and her production were hit with back in 2020. Several former employees accused the comedian and host of racism and creating a toxic e

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Patrick Adiarte, the Philippines-born actor and dancer best known for his roles in “The King and I,” “M*A*S*H” and “Flower Drum Song,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles from pneumonia. He was 82. His death was confirmed on social media by friends and family members Wednesday. Born in Manila, Adiarte was imprisoned along with his sister Irene and their mother Purita by the Japanese in 1945 during World War II. Their father was killed that same year while he was working as a captain for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Over a year later, Adiarte and his surviving family members emigrated to New York. In 1952, he joined the Broadway cast of “The King and I” and toured with the show alongside fellow cast members Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. When the Broadway production was adapted a few years later in 1956 into a feature film by 20th Century Fox, Adiarte was cast as Prince Chulalongkorn, the eldest son of Brynner’s King Mongkut of Siam. Adiarte starred five years later in another Hollywood adaptation of a Rodger

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