LOS ANGELES — Ringo Starr moseys up to the restaurant at the Sunset Marquis in a spotless white cowboy hat and matching white denim jacket.

The former Beatles drummer, 84, is at the hotel in West Hollywood shooting photos for a country record he's finishing up with producer T Bone Burnett — a kind of sequel, half a century later, to 1970's...Read more

It was a mere 25 years ago that "The Sopranos" debuted on HBO and set the clocks to zero on what some like to call television's Platinum Age.

Alex Gibney's two-part scrapbook documentary "Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos," which premiered Sept. 7, again on HBO, is, among other things, a sort of a triple profile of creator Chase, star ...Read more

One of the few scenes involving the Penguin in Matt Reeves' 2022 superhero crime thriller "The Batman" ended up on the cutting-room floor.

After a brief exchange with Selina Kyle at his nightclub, Oz Cobb, also known as the Penguin, can't help but lash out that his attempts at kindness were rejected.

"I know you don't see it yet. … Nobody ...Read more

I was watching some episodes of a television show, which shall remain nameless if only because I can't remember the name, and was more than usually struck by the thought that if it were only half as long it would have been twice as good. The plot and the performers drowned in what someone had deemed the necessity of filling 10 hours of streaming...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — With the world acting like Gov. Tim Walz, whose star had been rising for years, dropped out of the sky a fully formed statesman, there’s an appetite for all things Minnesota.

Since being named Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, Walzmania has taken the country by storm. So, it’s ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — There aren’t a lot of choices for preshow dining near Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View, the Bay Area’s largest concert-only venue. That’s because its closest neighbors tend to be high-tech companies (most notably, Google).

But you will find some good options for food in the area if you know where to look. Here ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheatre is arguably the top concert venue in the Bay Area.

First off, it’s the region’s biggest dedicated concert venue, with the ability to hold some 22,000 fans.

Also, since opening in 1986, the open-air theater has hosted some of the world’s top acts. In 2024 alone, Shoreline has ...Read more

Looking for Old Florida charm? You’ll find it — and much more — among the rolling hills of Dade City.

The Pasco County spot is home to the state’s annual kumquat festival in January, but it’s also worth a visit any time of the year.

While the city has a tradition of vintage activities like antiquing and drive-in movies, it’s also ...Read more

The late-night TV audience is shrinking, and so is the number of weekly episodes for the format’s signature program.

NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” will have four fresh editions a week instead of five when the fall TV season begins this month.

Fallon’s show aired four nights a week throughout the summer, the same ...Read more

Rich Homie Quan’s father has spoken out about the Atlanta’s rapper’s death, writing about his grief on social media.

Corey Lamar said in an Instagram story Friday morning that he’s in “unbearable pain,” less than a day after the Fulton County medical examiner confirmed the rapper (real name Dequantes Devontay Lamar) died at age 33. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Oasis is back. And it’s the same old Oasis, as evidenced by singer Liam Gallagher, who went a few online rounds with fans Friday.

“OASIS are back your welcome and I hear there ATTITUDE STINKS good to know something’s never change,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter) after days of personality-free posts on his feed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died.

The recording artist died “peacefully” Thursday in Los Angeles, with his wife Gracinha Leporace Mendes and their children by his side, his family confirmed in ...Read more

DETROIT — Macaulay Culkin will be on hand at the Masonic Temple in Detroit in December for a screening of his 1990 holiday classic, "Home Alone," venue officials announced Friday.

Tickets for the Dec. 8 event go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 13 via axs.com. Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday.

Culkin will participate in a moderated interview and...Read more

Should you be in need of a satisfying Rich People Show, the sort where you get happily distracted from the plot due to swooning over the wallpaper, look no further than “The Perfect Couple,” newly arriving on Netflix this week. This limited series, based on Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel, is a murder mystery that unfolds over a wedding ...Read more

The “Beetlejuice” sequel, now haunting theaters is taunting critics with the ghost of better films’ past.

Tim Burton’s hotly anticipated follow-up to his 1988 horror comedy reunites Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton as Lydia and Delia Deetz and the titular “trickster demon.”

After circumstances force the Deetz ...Read more

Norman Spencer, the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who regularly collaborated with director David Lean in the 1940s and '50s, has died. He was 110.

The "Vanishing Point" producer died Aug. 16 in Wimbledon three days after his birthday, the European Supercentenarian Organisation reported.

Spencer worked with Lean on films...Read more

Among the more anticipated world premieres at this year's Toronto International Film Festival is an adaptation of Françoise Sagan's 1954 novel "Bonjour Tristesse," which marks the filmmaking debut of author Durga Chew-Bose.

The film played Thursday as part of the festival's Discovery section, where filmmakers such as Alfonso Cuarón, Maren Ade...Read more

Never getting married and practicing abstinence has worked out mighty fine for 50 Cent.

The hip-hop mogul, who revealed his vow of celibacy in January, opened up on how the lifestyle change, along with his decision never to tie the knot, has allowed him to achieve the maximum level of success.

“Listen, when you calm down you can focus,” he...Read more

Whoopi Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts of “The View” are not cutting a rug over Anna Delvey joining the latest cast of “Dancing with the Stars.”

On Thursday’s episode of the Emmy-winning talk show, the show’s casting of the convicted con artist served as the hot topic.

Nearly two years after Delvey was released from immigration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s pipeline may be slowed due to the aftereffects of strikes we’re still dealing with, but our snapshot of the best films of the season is as packed as ever. Big-budget musicals, dark supervillain sequels, big-budget musicals that are dark supervillain sequels, international charmers and sharp indie standouts all ...Read more