Mel Gibson is denying Winona Ryder's claim that he made anti-gay and anti-Semitic remarks at a party they attended decades earlier. "And Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we're all talking and he said to my friend, who's gay, 'Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?' I was with my friend, who's gay. Gibson's career saw a huge fallout over a decade ago, after a police report from his 2006 DUI arrest revealed he had made a number of anti-Semitic remarks. RELATED CONTENT:Mel Gibson on the Fallout From His 2006 Anti-Semitic Remarks: It 'Is Really Unfair'Mel Gibson Earns First Oscar Nomination in 21 Years While Holding His Newborn SonMel Gibson Reveals Advice He'd Give To His Younger Self: 'Shut the F**k Up'

Nanci Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations who became close to such stars as Rene Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died Thursday of Lou Gehrigs disease in Los Angeles. Zellweger thanked Ryder in her best actress acceptance speech when she won the Academy Award for Judy earlier this year. Stints at Goldberg-Ehrlich Public Relations and Management and Michael Levine Public Relations followed, before she formed Nanci Ryder Public Relations in 1984, with Fox as her first client. In 1987, she co-founded the firm BWR Public Relations with Paul Baker and Larry Winokur. This spring, the firm's parent company, Burson Cohn & Wolfe, shut down BWR Public Relations, moving staffers or laying them off.

Nanci Ryder, longtime publicist to stars like Rene Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died on Thursday, according to multiple reports. She then worked at Goldberg-Ehrlich Public Relations and Management, before landing a position at Michael Levine Public Relations. In 1984, she founded Nanci Ryder Public Relations. A couple years after she merged with Paul Baker and Larry Winokur and established Baker/Winokur/Ryder Public Relations. RELATED CONTENT:Mel Winkler, 'Devil in a Blue Dress' Actor, Dead at 78This Is Us Writer Jas Waters Dead at 39: Mandy Moore and Stars ReactBonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters Dead at 69

The PAW Patrol pups are facing their biggest challenge yet in the wake of the unrest in America cancellation. The call for the shows cancellation is trending on social media and is appearing in numerous Google searches on Thursday, according to Google Trends. Paw Patrol seems harmless enough, and thats the point: The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm, the article reads. However, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, retweeted the New York Times article, saying The absurdity knows no end." PAW Patrol isnt the only show facing backlash amid the protests.