Nicole Kidman, who ‘makes movies better,’ gets AFI Life Achievement Award
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life...
California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers. Hollywood plays a role
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has...
Pope visits Venice to speak to the artists and inmates behind the Biennale’s must-see...
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature...
News anchor Poppy Harlow announces departure from CNN
ATLANTA (AP) — Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN, according to the network.Harlow, who joined CNN in 2008 and most recently co-hosted “CNN This...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs files motion to dismiss some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs pushed back against a woman's lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, filing a motion...
PEN America cancels World Voices Festival amid criticism of its response to Israel-Hamas war
NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread...
Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly ‘s challenge of 20-year sentence
CHICAGO (AP) — The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals...
John Oates’ new album is called ‘Reunion.’ But don’t think Hall & Oates are...
NEW YORK (AP) — For many music fans, John Oates is most recognizable as one-half of the Grammy-nominated Hall & Oates, the multiplatinum soul-pop...
Chasing ‘Twisters’ and collaborating with ‘tornado fanatic’ Steven Spielberg
Growing up in the Midwest, filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung developed both a healthy fear of tornadoes and a reverence for Jan de Bont’s 1996...
Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit
NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld has been responsible for more movies than you think.Yes, he co-wrote and lent his voice to 2007's “Bee...
