MINNEAPOLIS — Kyle Mooney specializes in playing dumb. During his nine seasons on “Saturday Night Live” he gave us Chris Fitzpatrick, a high schooler convinced he can make an action movie with little more than a cellphone and a coloring book, and Bruce Chandling, a hammy stand-up who comes across like the Sweathog who got stuffed in a ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Dr. Demento, the cult comedy DJ whose radio show became a landmark for novelty music and underground satire, will retire this fall after more than five decades behind the mic.

His final program will air in October, exactly 55 years after his debut on Pasadena’s KPPC-FM.

Born Barret Hansen, the host first adopted the Dr. ...Read more

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a folksy American athletics star is recruited to the U.K. to help lead a team for a sport that’s much more popular abroad than it is in the United States. It’s not even his specialty, but he just might have the guts and gumption to turn this rag-tag underdog team around, which may be sold if they ...Read more

Brad Pitt is extolling the virtues of Alcoholics Anonymous and how it helped him during his contentious divorce from Angelina Jolie.

The Oscar winner appeared on the June 23 episode of “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” when the two actors opened up about bonding in an AA meeting.

“I just thought it was just incredible men sharing ...Read more

ATLANTA — When Dominique Thorne came to Trilith Studios in Fayetteville in June 2022 to begin shooting Disney+’s new series “Ironheart,” the world of film and TV was far different.

Georgia was a hot spot for big-budget movies and Marvel was pumping out TV shows and films with abandon. But the actors and writers strike in 2023 slowed ...Read more

Be glad you’re not Jeff Bezos or Lauren Sánchez. Sure, being that rich would be awesome, but being rich comes with rich-people problems. With their Italian wedding imminent, they have a host of things to worry about that would never cross the imaginations of other, more average couples who don’t have 12 digits representing their net worth. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mick Ralphs, the guitarist and co-founder of stylish '70s rockers Mott the Hoople and the supergroup Bad Company, has died. He was 81.

Ralphs' death was confirmed in a statement from his representative, though no exact date or cause of death was given.

"Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground," Bad Company singer Paul...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cardi B, entering the newest phase of her rap career, has just one question in mind: "Am I the Drama?"

That's the title for the Grammy winner's long-anticipated sophomore album, which she unveiled Monday on social media. The "Bodak Yellow" artist, 32, announced "Am I the Drama?" will drop Sept. 19, seven years after she made her...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

JUNE

24: A Minecraft Movie

24: Snow White

24: The Monkey

24: Novocaine

24: Doctor Who: Season One

24: Eephus

24: On Swift Horses

24: Sneaks

24: The Featherweight

24: The President's Wife

24: The Way Out

24: Unit 234

24: When We Went MAD!

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DENVER — It’s been 16 years since a Fort Collins man pranked the nation after claiming his son was trapped in a giant, flying-saucer shaped balloon. That balloon turned out to be empty once it landed, but it hadn’t stopped local law enforcement, the National Guard, Homeland Security, and a phalanx of TV reporters and news media from ...Read more

Status comes in many forms, but the quickest shorthand for status on TV is wealth. The clothes. The real estate. The private jets and other markers of affluence. Early in the Amazon series “We Were Liars,” a family convenes at their sprawling beachfront estate on a private island near Martha’s Vineyard and, like numerous wealthaganda shows...Read more

Aliens may have embraced Elio, but earthbound audiences did not, marking the lowest opening weekend ever for a Pixar film and highlighting the challenges for original animated movies.

“Elio” hauled in $21 million at the box office in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, according to studio estimates, falling short of Walt Disney Co.-owned ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — We’re finally going to see what happened on the other side of the "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia' and "Abbott Elementary" crossover.

When the South Philly gang volunteered at the West Philly school for their court-ordered community service in a January episode of "Abbott," viewers only saw the action through the show’...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Scott Olson, the Minnesota native who made a significant contribution to one of the hottest trends of the ’80s, is getting the Hollywood treatment.

The co-founder of Rollerblade, which helped make in-line skating go mainstream, said that a movie about his life is in the works.

A feature biopic is in the development and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The latest round of California’s film and television tax credit program will provide government incentives to 48 upcoming projects, according to the California Film Commission.

The slate, which includes both major studio projects and independent films, is expected to employ more than 6,500 cast and crew members and 32,000 ...Read more

ATLANTA — When Megan Moroney was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia in 2020, she landed an internship focused on music publishing with Brandon and Kristian Bush out of their studio in Decatur.

“She was smart, inquisitive and even taught us a thing or two about digital marketing,” Brandon recalled.

Moroney, who grew up in ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and “pop disruptor” Reneé Rapp announced on Monday her biggest concert tour as a headliner — and it will include a stop in her hometown of Charlotte, at uptown’s Spectrum Center on Oct. 29.

Rapp, 25, is a 2018 graduate of Northwest School of the Arts on Beatties Ford and grew ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dolly Parton has announced she will perform a limited engagement on the Las Vegas Strip.

Dolly: Live in Las Vegas will include six performances running from December 4-13, during National Finals Rodeo, according to a news release.

“Dolly: Live In Las Vegas is a hit-driven concert event bringing...Read more

Johnny Depp has reflected on his protracted legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard.

The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star — whose rocky marriage to the actress was highly publicized following their 2017 divorce he referred to as a “soap opera” that was “literally televised” — opened up about the career-derailing domestic abuse ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — For all of Meghan Markle’s talk about being “authentic” by publicizing her viral pregnancy twerking video or demanding that people “tell the truth” about her, a recent report raises questions about whether she’s being straightforward about what’s going on with her embattled As Ever lifestyle brand and whether ...Read more