The making of HBO's "Westworld" is a complicated process that star Jeffrey Wright describes as "a game of benevolent chaos." Multiple units are filming on the same day -- sometimes as many as four might be working on different portions of an episode.

"These many threads come together to create one tapestry and fusing together in ways that I ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- President Donald Trump tweeted his full-throated support for Fox News pundit Tomi Lahren early Wednesday in the viral wake of a liquid-launching incident in Minneapolis last weekend.

At 6:22 a.m. Wednesday, Trump's @realdonaldtrump issued the following: "Everybody is with Tomi Lahren, a truly outstanding and respected young woman...Read more

Move over, Emmy. There's a new accolade in town.

The Kennedy Center announced Wednesday that Julia Louis-Dreyfus will receive the 2018 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, just the latest feather in the 11-time Emmy winner's cap.

"Like Mark Twain, Julia has enriched American culture with her iconic, unforgettable, and outright hilarious brand ...Read more

Veteran blues man Buddy Guy will add a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Assn. in September to his long list of awards and honors.

The association will present the award singling out the 81-year-old blues master's prowess as an instrumentalist on Sept. 12 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville at the group's annual award ...Read more

Using a slip of a short story by Neil Gaiman, writer/director John Cameron Mitchell has whipped up "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," a deeply weird gender-queer alien cult environmentalism punk movie that's deeply indebted to the philosophy of yoga. From Mitchell, we wouldn't expect anything less.

Working with co-writer Philippa Goslett, ...Read more

CHICAGO -- After his two attorneys abandoned ship and no one else showed up for a series of court hearings, R. Kelly has lost a lawsuit.

Last April, the embattled Chicago R&B singer filed a federal lawsuit locally against Comcast Spectacor, which runs the Macon Coliseum in Georgia, alleging the venue failed to pay him $100,000 for his concert ...Read more

Much like its protagonist, "Solo: A Star Wars Story" has had a crazy journey. The origin story of a young Han Solo was initially directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, before Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy stepped in to replace the duo with the reliable Ron Howard, who finished shepherding the film to the screen. The result? Well it's a "...Read more

The name "Mary Shelley" conjures up images of a lumbering, disfigured, greenish-skinned monster of a man. That monster, now a cultural icon of horror films for over a century, and his mad scientist creator, Dr. Frankenstein, was dreamed up by the teenage Mary Shelley in her 1818 horror/fantasy novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus."

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Around this time 21 years ago, "Roseanne," the groundbreaking sitcom about the blue-collar Conner family, came to an end after a successful 10-year run. The notion that it'd be pulled out of retirement more than two decades later and become the success story of the 2017-18 television season would have likely elicited a Roseanne-like cackle from ...Read more

As the sly and watchful U.N. deputy undersecretary on SyFy's "The Expanse," Shohreh Aghdashloo manages to convey an intimidating blend of steely will (she based her character on Madeleine Albright and Margaret Thatcher) and glamour. The costumes and jewelry alone are showstoppers.

"I owe everything to Joanne Hansen, our costume designer," ...Read more

Sam Prekop was getting so much enjoyment out of making a solo album built on analog synthesizers a few years ago that he couldn't quite wrap his head around the idea of making another guitar-based album with the band he co-founded 24 years ago, the Sea and Cake.

"Once I got into this modular-synth mindset, I couldn't even fathom picking up a ...Read more