ENTERTAINMENT

Audra McDonald will serve as grand marshal of the 135th Rose Parade next year.

An appeals court has upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police.

Britain's King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.

Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera.

President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the entertainment industry.

Fifty years ago, four young New Yorkers dragged their guitars, amps and drums to a loft on 23rd Street in New York, dreaming of becoming the biggest band in the world.

The Russian government has named the renowned director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to also lead Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.

It took eight years and the #MeToo movement to spur Sam Schultz to tell police they were sexually assaulted by an opera star and his husband.

A lawsuit against Alec Baldwin filed by relatives of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan has been resolved in the actor's favor.

Prosecutors say a high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who had been stalking one of his friends, a film director, before she fatally shot him inside his Los Angeles home.

Eddie Murphy fondly remembers watching classic Christmas movies as a child with his family during the holidays.

MSNBC is shuffling its weekend schedule early next year with an eye toward juicing ratings heading into an election year.

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named the best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.

A judge has sided with Daryl Hall in his request to keep temporarily blocking John Oates from selling his potentially lucrative share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without his longtime partner’s permission.

Academy Awards enthusiasts won’t have to stay up quite as late to hear the best picture winner in March.

Actor-singer Cynthia Erivo lent searing and soulful vocals to an evening marking Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 65th anniversary, and celebrating the talents of dance legend Judith Jamison its former star dancer and longtime company leader.

An Iranian news website says a popular rapper has been sent back to jail less that two weeks after his release from prison on bail.

Four decades into his career, which includes 20 studio albums, a Grammy, and the Guinness World Record for bestselling jazz artist, saxophonist Kenny G is nowhere near done.

The first of 40 movies premiered on Oct. 20, with new movies premiering every Thursday on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel, and every Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the Hallmark channel through Dec. 26.

Something is different on the comics pages this week.

Shane MacGowan, the boozy, rabble-rousing singer and chief songwriter of The Pogues, who infused traditional Irish music with the energy and spirit of punk, has died, his family said.

Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS.

Daryl Hall has filed a court declaration that accuses his longtime music partner John Oates of committing the “ultimate partnership betrayal” by planning to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission.

NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season.

Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor who won two Tony Awards and became a familiar maternal face to TV viewers later in life in such shows as “Cheers,” “ER,” “Sex and the City” and “The Closer,” has died.

The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down.

The actor Jonathan Majors has appeared in court in New York for the start of jury selection in a trial in which he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring.

Elton John is to address Britain’s Parliament on his work fighting HIV at an event to mark World AIDS Day.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has escalated his war of words with the leader of Greece.

It’s her, hi — Taylor Swift is Spotify’s 2023 most-played artist.

Larry Fink, an acclaimed and adventurous photographer whose subjects ranged from family portraits and political satire to working class lives and the elite of show business and Manhattan society, has died.

Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter-turned novelist, has died at age 62.

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age.

Get in the holiday spirit with the Brookwood Handbell Ensemble.

A pop singer’s use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn for parts of a music video has led to its pastor being penalized.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of his television network Revolt amid multiple sexual abuse allegations against the music mogul.

Matteo Garrone's migration odyssey “Io Capitano” played at the Marrakech International Film Festival this weekend, returning to the country where pivotal scenes were shot.

A judge overseeing the estate of Aretha Franklin has assigned real estate to the late star’s sons.

Britain and Greece were able to differ for decades over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute.

Veteran Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas was honored with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th International Film Festival of India.

Eddie Izzard is returning to a New York stage this winter for an ambitious version of “Hamlet.”.

The small group of Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military tends to the souls and spirits of troops of all faiths and no faith.

Celine Song’s wistful romance “Past Lives” has earned top honors at the Gotham Awards at an award-season kickoff where the night’s biggest drama came in a political speech by Robert De Niro that the actor claimed had been edited.

Country singer Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” tops Apple Music’s global song chart in 2023.

For a year, New York’s Adult Survivors Act gave adults claiming they had been sexually assaulted a chance to file civil lawsuits, no matter how long ago the assaults occurred.

First this fall, a new round with COVID-19 shuttered Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show.”.

A documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass that depicts how four generations of women in her family were shaped by exile has premiered before an emotional audience in Marrakech.

More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”.

Sunday’s airing of the late afternoon games on the NFL RedZone Channel literally went code red.

The Walt Disney Co.’s “Wish” had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but moviegoers instead feasted on leftovers, as “The Hunger Games: Songbirds and Snakes” led ticket sales for the second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his dystopian novel “Prophet Song.”.

News reports in India say that at least four students have died and 60 others have been injured in a stampede during a music festival at a university in southern India.

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias is planning to bring the laughs to several Texas cities next year.

Police say Tiffany Haddish has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence.

Daryl Hall has sued his longtime music partner John Oates, arguing that his plan to sell off his share of a joint venture would violate a business agreement the duo had.

Two more women have come forward to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting them in the early 1990s.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Dove Cameron and Peter Gabriel, Harrison Ford’s last hurrah as Indiana Jones swings onto Disney+ and Elvis will be honored with a starry special “Christmas at Graceland” featuring Post Malone, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown.

Paris Hilton had a Thanksgiving surprise to share in the form of a daughter named London.

Opening statements are expected next week in Atlanta in the trial of rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of co-founding a violent criminal street gang and using his music to promote it.

Ringo Starr’s latest project is for fans of music and of fashion.

The Marrakech International Film Festival began on Friday, bringing American and international movie stars to the Arab world as war in the Middle East has led to the cancellation of other film festivals.

A woman alleges in a new lawsuit that Jamie Foxx sexually assaulted her at a New York bar in 2015.

Eddie Merrins was known as “The Little Pro” because of his 5-foot-7 stature.

It is not a stretch to say that the Black Friday game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets is Amazon’s Super Bowl.

Beloved cartoon characters like Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants are taking to the skies above New York City in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

A former Penthouse magazine model has sued Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose, saying he raped her in a 1989 attack at a New York City hotel that left her with anxiety and depression.

The Student Academy Awards may not be as glitzy or high profile as the Oscars, but in its 50 years it has proven to be a vital launching ground for emerging filmmakers.

Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israel-Hamas war that some deemed antisemitic.

Less than two years after nearly being killed by a Russian bomb while reporting, Fox News' Benjamin Hall returned to Ukraine this week.

There are so many details we couldn’t fit into that episode, so we’ve decided to bring you this bonus chapter about what we learned.

Impossible is often just a starting point on a Christopher Nolan film and “Oppenheimer,” about the father of the atomic bomb, was no exception.

King Charles III honored the K-pop band Blackpink.

The first of 40 movies premiered on Oct. 20, with new movies premiering every Thursday on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel, and every Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the Hallmark channel through Dec. 26.

A Malaysian minister said organizers of a Coldplay concert are able to stop Wednesday's show if the British rock band misbehaves.

The financial crisis of 2008 hit Mary Kathryn Nagle differently.

What is a holiday season without festive music.

Prince Harry plans to appeal to the British government to release evidence that is key to his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail.

Thanksgiving may be a time for Americans to come together, but opinion is divided over what’s on the crowded dinner table.

Everything from rap to yacht rock, country and alt-rock are represented among the nominees for the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame, with nods for Public Enemy, Steely Dan, Bryan Adams, George Clinton, Tracy Chapman, R.

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year.

Last month, The Rolling Stones released “Hackney Diamonds,” their first album of original material in 18 years, following 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.”.

Nothing ramps up speculation in golf like an opening in the broadcast booth.

The deaths of two people, heat-related illnesses and other misfortunes have left legions of Taylor Swift fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour.

Colman Domingo has a commanding physical presence, an expressive face and soulful eyes.

“Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham returned home to London to tape her first holiday special for Apple TV+.

Actress and activist Marlo Thomas is proud that this year St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's Thanks and Giving campaign celebrates its 20th anniversary and passes the fundraising milestone of $1 billion to support the hospital’s efforts to provide free medical care to children with cancer.

It’s been a wonderful year at the movies for cinephiles, but what do you get for the film lover who has seen everything already.

From the obsessive record collector to the casual listener.

Jordan Fisher is going to hell this winter and he’s very happy about it.

A good book packs power.

Staring down a hefty holiday gift list.

The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma known for rejecting the idea of hell and supporting gay rights has died.

While most Mexican politicians refrain from clarifying where they stand on religion, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, former telenovela actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verástegui prays on TikTok and claims that getting closer to God changed the course of his life.

Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list.

Hong Kong Disneyland has opened its first Frozen-themed attraction, with thousands of eager visitors turning up to experience the new rides.

Pop star Shakira has agreed to a deal with Spanish authorities on the first day of a tax fraud trial in Barcelona, avoiding the risk of a prison sentence.

A Los Angeles judge says there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021.

French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have led thousands of people on a silent march through Paris to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France.

Comedian Russell Brand has been interviewed by British police over three alleged sexual offenses.