LOS ANGELES -- Pop Smoke, a rising New York rapper, was fatally shot in a home in the Hollywood Hills early Wednesday, a law enforcement source confirmed.

Officers responded after someone calling from the East Coast reported that several suspects had entered their friend's home in Los Angeles shortly before 5 a.m. The person reported that at ...Read more

Bayside High alumni Zack Morris, A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano will all reunite on the small screen for a reboot of "Saved by the Bell." But what about gossip queen and fashionista Lisa Turtle?

Lark Voorhies, who played Lisa on the hit '90s sitcom, was not invited back to participate in the highly anticipated revival, arriving on NBC's ...Read more

There's a scene about two-thirds of the way through Rashaad Ernesto Green and Zora Howard's "Premature" that is the key but subtle thesis statement of the film. As young New York City music producer Isaiah (Joshua Boone) chops it up with a few fellow musicians and his girlfriend, Ayanna (Howard), a debate erupts about what it means to be a "...Read more

There's a scene in "Sonic the Hedgehog" in which the blue hero rushes to the Pacific Ocean and returns in an instant, bringing with him pollutants and a flopping fish. The fish is left on the beach by Sonic, presumably to die, this despite the hyper-fast creature having the ability to return it to water in the blink of an eye.

The moment makes ...Read more

Morgan Kolkmeyer, a meteorologist for Chicago TV station WGN, has fond childhood memories of curling up next to her parents on a couch as they all watched episodes of "Friends."

Two decades later, Kolkmeyer, 28, found herself perched on a replica of the signature orange sofa from Central Perk, the coffee house hangout of the six 20-something ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Feb. 10:

1. Ford v Ferrari -- Fox

2. Playing with Fire -- Paramount

3. Doctor Sleep -- Warner

4. Joker -- Warner

5. Terminator: Dark Fate -- Paramount

6. Gemini Man -- Paramount

7. Zombieland: Double Tap -- Sony

8. Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood -- Sony

9. Harriet -- Universal

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LOS ANGELES -- CBS has canceled tapings of "The Price Is Right" this week following the violent death of Amie Harwick, who was previously engaged to host Drew Carey.

Harwick, a well-known family therapist and author, was killed at age 38, allegedly by her former boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, on Saturday.

Episodes of "The Price Is Right" that ...Read more

A mystery and a Disney sequel both cleverly address issues of class and race in the top DVD releases for Feb. 25.

"Knives Out": In this kooky subverted whodunit ("who had something to do with it" might be a tad clunky), deeply Southern private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) grills a wealthy family after its patriarch, beloved mystery ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- Scottish actor Richard Rankin was on the primrose path to IT work when something terrible happened. He decided to become an actor.

Rankin was working in a bank and was being groomed for a coveted position in computer technology. "If I was in IT, if I was in computers, you'd have stability in that," he says.

"You'd know ...Read more

Late one night in 2012, James Lee Hernandez was scrolling through a subgroup on Reddit where users share curious factoids and bizarre trivia, when a headline caught his eye: "Today I Learned Nobody Really Won the McDonald's Monopoly Game."

His interest piqued, Hernandez clicked on the post, which linked to a story in a Jacksonville, Fla., ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- When Low Cut Connie singer Adam Weiner was coming up with video ideas for his new song "Look What They Did," he suggested he and photographer Alex Wroblewski head to the Jersey Shore boardwalk town where Weiner spent his summers growing up.

"I told him I wanted to spend a couple of days in Atlantic City," the Philadelphia band ...Read more

Wisconsin's reigning indie-rock unit Bon Iver has announced three October concerts to try to vote out America's sitting president.

Eau Claire native Justin Vernon and his Grammy-winning band will perform in La Crosse on Oct. 5, Wausau on Oct. 7 and Appleton on Oct. 8 as part of the 46 for 46 campaign, a series of concerts in battleground states...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Jane Levy, the San Anselmo native who stars in "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist," doesn't have a musical theater background. Nor is she a trained singer or dancer.

She's not even a big Broadway nerd.

No matter. Levy is the leading lady of NBC's offbeat new musical drama series and she's having an absolute blast.

"Sometimes ...Read more