LOS ANGELES -- Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell has denied allegations that he abused ex-girlfriend Melissa Lingafelt and has questioned whether the singer is embarking on a "misguided quest for more money or attention."

Lingafelt, Bell's ex-girlfriend who performs under the name Jimi Ono, said that the "Drake & Josh" star verbally and ...Read more

In "Boys State," an electrifying documentary about the mock-government program for high schoolers, the act of governance itself sometimes devolves into outright mockery. What else would you expect when, to quote one amused participant, "you put a bunch of 17-year-old boys in a room together"? You get campaign speeches overflowing with ego and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Before the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, Katheryn Hudson and her family gathered in their home, readying for the apocalypse. Her parents, both Pentecostal ministers, had already stocked the garage with canned food. And so, on the eve of Y2K, they turned down the blinds and instructed their three children to join them in ...Read more

GARY, Ind. -- Tim Williams contorted his face to figure out where Phil Collins was going with his mega-popular debut single, "In the Air Tonight."

"This is like a WWE ring entrance or something," Williams said, patting his chest for approval of the song's moody intro.

"It looks like he's staring in my soul," added his twin brother, Fred ...Read more

Rapper Cardi B will soon be talking "WAP," "WAP," "WAP" on OnlyFans.

The "I Like It" hitmaker has created an account on the content subscription service to offer fans a glimpse into her personal life -- including the making of the vibrant, star-studded "WAP" music video featuring Megan Thee Stallion.

"On my OnlyFans, I will be putting the (...Read more

Tim Williams and his twin brother, Fred, have rocketed to internet celebrity over the last few weeks thanks to that most modern of cultural artifacts: the reaction video, in which the comedy or drama of someone's first encounter with a piece of art becomes itself a piece of art available to be encountered by someone else.

In their most talked-...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: "The Orville," the Seth MacFarlane show where he was in front of the camera, was very good and we were sad to not see it come back. Any word on it coming back?

A: It will be back only, as I have mentioned before, in a different place. The next season of the show will be on Hulu. It was expected to ...Read more

When Martha Graham's ballet "Appalachian Spring" had its premiere on Oct. 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Aaron Copland was the voice of America. He had the gift to be simple. He wrote music that served the essential need for wartime American unity.

Among Copland's wartime efforts had been "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Lincoln Portrait," ...Read more

Here are three new songs worth putting in heavy rotation this month:

"Glad In it," Chris Bender

The Stoughton, Massachusetts native is a rising star in the Gospel music world, having won a number of awards, collaborated with several notable talents in the genre and scored the previous top 25 hit "The Blood Song."

Bender's new offering -- "...Read more

The clever and nicely gory "Sputnik" comes from Russia with love, slime, and an impressive lesson in efficient, low-cost pulp filmmaking.

How is the gore "nice," exactly? It's in the eye of the beholder. First-time feature film director Egor Abramenko proves himself an astute judge of when, how much and how many seconds to show his slithering ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The revised fall festival corridor in the age of COVID has continued to take shape with recent announcements of hybrid virtual/physical events from Venice, Toronto and New York, along with the outright cancellation of Telluride. Now, L.A.'s own AFI Fest will officially be a virtual event when it takes place Oct. 15-22.

Continuing...Read more

This Emmy season filled our DVRs and watch queues with so many excellent limited series -- too many to fit into a contracted slate of five nominees. Probably too many for most voters to watch.

You'd think that breadth of quality would be reflected in the nominations, but that didn't really happen. HBO's "Watchmen" earned a leading 26 nods; the ...Read more

Get ready for some #SelPink in your area!

After a week of fevered speculation, pop star Selena Gomez has revealed herself as the mystery artist featured on Blackpink's forthcoming single, arriving Aug. 28. Last week, the K-pop girl group unveiled the cover art for the track and hinted at a new collaboration -- sending prescient fans of Gomez ...Read more

President Trump is coming to Netflix. Sort of.

Sarah Cooper, who has become one of the hottest comedians in the country thanks to her social media posts lip-syncing to Trump's head-scratching public statements, is getting her own Netflix comedy special.

"Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine" is being billed by the streaming platform as a "variety ...Read more

The decisions by the Big Ten and Pac-12 college athletic conferences to postpone their football season endanger a huge chunk of sales for media companies such as Walt Disney Co. and Fox Corp.

College football alone generated almost $1.2 billion in ad revenue for U.S. television networks last year. Its collapse could also hasten the loss of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Sumner Redstone, the pugnacious Hollywood titan who controlled media giants Viacom and CBS Corp., died Tuesday after a lengthy illness, according to National Amusements, the Redstone family's private holding company that controls what is now ViacomCBS. He was 97.

Redstone coined the phrase "content is king," and he firmly ...Read more

In the midst of his battle against President Trump, Neil Young has decided to take on a couple of other sizable entities -- Facebook and Google.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who lived in the Bay Area for decades before departing for Southern California a few years back, has announced he'll be spending thousands of dollars to disconnect his ...Read more