A maestro has passed, at the age of 91.

For someone who lived a happily long and abundantly creative, improbably productive life, the composer Ennio Morricone has been preparing for his final bow for decades now, through his music. He was both a chameleon and a paradox -- an exuberant spirit who had a unique dramatic understanding of the ...Read more

The new Netflix sci-fi action film "The Old Guard," starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne, is a slick actioner with a supernatural twist. It has a great concept, cast and script, and it's executed crisply by Gina Prince-Bythewood, the director of "Love & Basketball" and "Beyond the Lights." This film makes her the first Black woman to direct a...Read more

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who appeared in the Broadway productions "Rock of Ages," "Waitress," "Bullets Over Broadway" and "A Bronx Tale: The Musical," died Sunday morning after a long and difficult battle with COVID-19. He was 41.

His wife, Amanda Kloots, confirmed the news on her Instagram account. "God has another angel in heaven now," ...Read more

Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who came to prominence with the Italian western "A Fistful of Dollars" and went on to write some of the most celebrated movie scores of all time, has died. He was 91.

Morricone's longtime lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, told the Associated Press that the composer died early Monday in a Rome hospital of ...Read more

"Rewind, rewind, rewind," interrupts the ensemble. The lights warp, the tables turn, the dancers seem to go backwards. Didn't we just see these moves in the previous song "Helpless," about how Eliza Schuyler fell in love with Alexander Hamilton?

Yes, you did. And now you're watching it all over again -- this time, from the perspective of her ...Read more

John Lewis has led a life arguably too large for a movie. Yet the new documentary "John Lewis: Good Trouble," which is available now via video-on-demand, tries to capture not only the scope but also the spirit of this longtime activist and legislator. The film travels from the fateful day when a young Lewis was beaten by police on the Edmund ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Stuart Cornfeld, who produced "Zoolander," "Dodgeball" and "Tropic Thunder" with Ben Stiller, died on June 26 of cancer. He was 67.

The news was confirmed by his friend, actress Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, and others on social media. "He was the funniest person on the planet," she wrote. "I will miss him terribly."

The Los ...Read more

If you were a child in the '80s or '90s -- and maybe even if you were an adult -- you probably lost a few nights' sleep to "Unsolved Mysteries."

Hosted by the leathery-voiced Robert Stack and featuring one of the eeriest theme songs in TV history, the long-running reality show scared the bejeezus out of a generation with stories about brutal ...Read more

Quick -- who won at this year's Grammy Awards?

If 2020 has broken your brain like it's broken ours, you might have trouble remembering that the Grammys even happened this year.

But music's premier awards show really did go down in late January, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was about to banish artists from stages -- and make everything that ...Read more

June was Pride month, commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots that birthed the gay liberation movement. As in other journeys toward recognition, equality and freedom to be, the world has come far, and not far enough. And as always, there are arguments about which way to go.

June may be over. But television goes on, and we would like to propose ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- CBS News national correspondent Michelle Miller can clearly recall what the publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune told her and other Black editorial interns on their first day at the newspaper 32 years ago.

"He said, 'You've got to put your blackness aside -- you can't be a journalist and a Black journalist," Miller, 52, said...Read more