With her place as a hit-making force cemented decades ago, music industry greats stepped up to remember Aretha Franklin on Thursday after her death.

Some, such as Clive Davis, said their relationship went beyond business -- to friendship.

"She was truly one of a kind. She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be ...Read more

The Grammy Awards ceremony has never suffered a shortage of drama during the annual telecast.

But there probably was never a more heart-stopping turn of events than on the night of Feb. 25, 1998, when the 40th Grammys were put on at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

The show's longtime executive producer Ken Ehrlich often cites that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Aretha Franklin's visits to Los Angeles were relatively few and far between throughout her career, a function of her aversion to flying. Typically, she would travel to gigs the old-school way, by tour bus, which consequently required a good three- or four-day trek from her home in Detroit to the West Coast.

It wasn't unusual for ...Read more

Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer, a pioneering arranger and producer and, not least, an important figure in the fight for civil rights.

She was also -- stay with me here -- a master of the modern viral video.

Think about this: In the last few years of her life, which ended Thursday when she died of advanced pancreatic cancer at age 76, ...Read more

DETROIT -- Aretha Franklin, whose impassioned, riveting voice made her a titan of American music, has died after a battle with advanced pancreatic cancer, her publicist told the Associated Press. She was 76.

Franklin was the loftiest name in the rich history of Detroit music and one of the transcendent cultural figures of the 20th century. ...Read more

Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was a once-in-a-generation singer. She was the Queen of Soul, but she also ventured into -- and mastered -- virtually every style of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and blues. Here were her essential recordings:

"You Grow Closer" (1998): The teenage Aretha cuts loose in the '50s, revving up a ...Read more

Magician Penn Jillette believes "The Apprentice" producer Mark Burnett has tapes of Donald Trump saying damaging things during the president's time judging the NBC reality competition.

As an alum of "The Celebrity Apprentice," Jillette "was in the room" when they were said, he told Vulture in an interview published on Tuesday.

However, ...Read more

So what's Dane Cook's advice for those dating way out of their age group?

"The only thing you have to do is plan that your deaths will be somewhat far apart," the comedian and actor said Monday night during an Instagram Stories Q&A.

Pardon us a moment while we do the math as to what that might mean for the check-out dates for the 46-year-old ...Read more

"The Little Mermaid" is swimming against a massive cinematic tide. This live-action romance/drama is a sweet film about love and lore that would have done a lot better in the fall or spring when the box office battles aren't so brutal. Arguments can be made for alternative summer movie options, but in this case the lack of a major star in either...Read more

You know Sheila the She-Wolf from "Glow" on Netflix? "Alpha" would be her favorite movie. She'd watch it every day on a VHS tape, memorizing each line of Cro-Magnon dialogue, fashioning her costumes in tribute to the fur-trimmed Hot Topic looks sported by the characters, adopting a Czech wolf dog like the one in the movie. It's sweet, really, to...Read more

Whatever their manifold differences may be, ultra-orthodox Muslims and ultra-orthodox Jews do share a zealous determination to keep women away from motorized vehicles.

While Saudi Arabia until quite recently kept women from driving at all, a similar dynamic played out in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, as revealed in the intimate...Read more