Entertainment

Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 10
NEW YORK -- Fifty years after "Jaws" sunk its teeth into theaters, few films have been more perfectly suited to their time and place than Steven...
Published on June 18, 2025 - Page 18
Thirty-five years after Tom Cruise received his first Oscar nomination, he's finally getting a trophy. It's not for his death-defying stunts, either...
Published on June 18, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten emerging writers, from an author of speculative fiction to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have received $...
Published on June 15, 2025 - Page 14
Police in Jacksonville, Florida, are looking for a suspect who "fondled" a $650 ferret for some time at a Petland store, then shoved the animal down...
Published on June 15, 2025 - Page 14
SWaggoner, LTE 6/6. So you were a 40-year government employee. Were you good at your job? Did you really serve the taxpayers or just yourself? Local...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 16
It didn't occur to Ben Wang right away in taking on "Karate Kid: Legends," he'd be the franchise's first Asian American "Kid." And that gives him a...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 16
NEW YORK -- Years before Ana de Armas was using an ice skate to slice a neck in "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina," she co-starred with Keanu...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 16
NEW YORK -- By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now...
Published on June 12, 2025 - Page 9
NEW YORK (AP) -- For her next book club pick, Oprah Winfrey announced Tuesday she has chosen Wally Lamb's new novel, "The River Is Waiting." It's the...
Published on June 12, 2025 - Page 18
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES — Renee Elise Goldsberry is most inspired by artists bold enough to take a career leap....
Published on June 10, 2025 - Page 16
CANNES, France -- Actor Michael Cera and director Wes Anderson make for an actor-director pairing as destined as Scorsese and De Niro -- even if "The...
Published on June 10, 2025 - Page 18
The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, "The Twister: Caught in the Storm." It's being released nearly 14 years...
Published on June 8, 2025 - Page 6
NEW YORK (AP) -- An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a $100,000...
Published on June 8, 2025 - Page 7
Twenty-nine-year-old Oliver Widger arrived on May 24 in Waikiki, Hawaii, with his cat in tow, the Associated Press reported. But he didn't fly there...
Published on June 8, 2025 - Page 7
LONDON -- Being a leading man? Matthew Goode quite likes it. He's the star of "Dept. Q," based on the books by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen and...
Published on June 8, 2025 - Page 20
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera and the union for its soloists and chorus announced a one-year agreement for a contract. The agreement calls...
Published on June 7, 2025 - Page 16
NEW YORK -- Kimberly Belflower knew "John Proctor is the Villain" needed its final cathartic scene to work -- and, for that, it needed Lorde's "Green...
Published on June 7, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK -- Last year, Broadway actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein handed director Jack O'Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in...
Published on June 7, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Felton -- the original Draco Malfoy from the "Harry Potter" movies -- will slip into his old role on Broadway this winter in "...
Published on June 7, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life, a story not of politics but of fashion....
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
NEW YORK -- So vividly drawn is Stephen King's fiction it's offered the basis for some 50 feature films. Every now and then, King is such a fan of an...
Published on June 5, 2025 - Page 6
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a book out this fall that promises a close look at President Biden's...
Published on June 3, 2025 - Page 7
When CBS' soap opera "Beyond the Gates" premiered in February, soap opera fans and veterans alike hailed it as a win for Black history and culture....
Published on June 2, 2025 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty-nine shows on Broadway got Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy -- and the box office...
Published on June 1, 2025 - Page 12
Olivia Jaquith co-anchors the WRGB-TV morning news in Albany, New York, with Julia Dunn, United Press International reported. On May 21, the pair...
Published on June 1, 2025 - Page 14
USA TODAY Network On paper, a fragile-voiced mollusk and a calamitous blue alien have very little in common. But the parallels are obvious to...
Published on June 1, 2025 - Page 14
NEW YORK -- Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a bookstore -- a lifelong reader who felt angered "to the core"...
Published on June 1, 2025 - Page 14
USA TODAY There's an art to transforming the worst days of your life into laughter. Sarah Silverman's latest standup special turns an unimaginable...
Published on May 29, 2025 - Page 14
NEW YORK -- The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were actually fictional. The content...
Published on May 29, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK -- The cartoon duo Phineas and Ferb are returning for new episodes this summer after a decade away and pretty much nothing has changed....