Lil Nas X made history Wednesday night at the 53rd CMA Awards when he became the first openly gay musician to take home a win from the Country Music Assn.

His hit "Old Town Road," a collaboration with veteran country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, was named the musical event of the year. The song similarly made history, ruling at No. 1 on Billboard's ...Read more

The impeachment inquiry was only a few hours old when even the hardiest of political junkies began to tune out. They'd read fervently about the closed-door depositions and scanned reams of released transcripts, only to bail when the House hearings arrived in their living rooms and offices, on their TVs and car radios, when the proceedings kicked...Read more

Kat Dennings was living the dream of many an up-and-coming Hollywood actress. In the hit CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls," Dennings starred as Max, a wisecracking waitress in a downscale Brooklyn diner, a character who showcased her offbeat charisma and sharp comic timing.

While Dennings was grateful, the journey had its share of ups and downs, ...Read more

When nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards are announced Nov. 20, observers will have the first sign of how the music industry's premier awards show is adapting to a new era. In August, Deborah Dugan began her term as the Recording Academy's first female president and chief executive, having taken over for Neil Portnow, who was roundly ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Martin Scorsese's latest mafia epic, "The Irishman," follows the life of Philly mob associate Frank Sheeran, a former union official who claimed to have murdered Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. These claims were detailed in Charles Brandt's 2004 book "I Heard You Paint Houses," on which the movie is based.

Ever since then,...Read more

Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) is a man who paints houses, with blood. Not literally -- it's mafia slang -- but he's a man who does jobs and cleans up after them, tossing telltale guns into an oil-dark river at nighttime, washing his hands and moving on. "I heard you paint houses," says union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), one day. More jobs ...Read more

Nashville's Country Music Assn. used its 53rd CMA Awards ceremony Wednesday to go all in to support the genre's female practitioners, who have practically become an endangered species in recent years on male-dominated mainstream country radio.

The three-hour telecast was hosted by a trio of generation-spanning country superstars -- Carrie ...Read more

Ted, the hero of 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer," played by Dustin Hoffman, ought to grab a couple of beers with Charlie, the hero of Noah Baumbach's new "Marriage Story," played by Adam Driver. Though their respective movies are separated by almost exactly 40 years, these two divorced dads would have a lot to talk about.

In his day, Hoffman's Ted ...Read more

One of the strongest independent movies to emerge from Chicago in recent memory is "Hala," which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, where it was picked up by Apple TV+.

The story centers on a high school senior named Hala Masood, who is navigating the tension between her role as the daughter of traditional-minded Muslim Pakistani ...Read more

A concept in search of a movie, "Charlie's Angels" wants to take the venerable franchise in a new direction. The goal is exemplary, the execution nothing to write home about.

When it came out in 1976 on ABC, there was nothing about the crime-fighting exploits of three women (Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith starred) that ...Read more

If you look up "Ford v Ferrari" on the uber-valuable film site imdb.com, you'll see how the wraparound video ad for "Ford v Ferrari" packages what it's selling in a few quick seconds. Smiling movie stars. Beautiful woman kissing one of the movie stars. Cars, vrooming. Young boy, giving a thumbs-up.

The idea is that "Ford v Ferrari" presents ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "Mixed-ish," which premiered this fall, is the second series spun off from ABC's popular sitcom "black-ish" -- joining Freeform's coming-of-age comedy "grown-ish." And if "Mixed-ish" showrunner Karin Gist has her way, the show will provoke conversation.

The '80s-set prequel follows a teenage Rainbow Johnson -- the character ...Read more