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Comic Elayne Boosler can't talk her way out of handbag at Dodger Stadium. She was handcuffed
LOS ANGELES — Comedian Elayne Boosler says she was arrested and held in handcuffs for two hours Sunday at Dodger Stadium after arguing with an employee who would not let her enter with a purse that violated the stadium's clear bag policy.
In a three-and-a-half-minute video posted to Boosler's YouTube channel later that day, the 71-year-old ...Read more
Review: 'Hell's Kitchen' on Broadway is Alicia Keys' lively New York coming-of-age story
NEW YORK — The music of Alicia Keys is well suited to a jukebox musical: the burst of energy that flows from hits like “Girl on Fire” are dynamic blasts perfectly suited to a show clearly drawing from Keys’ own origin story as a kid growing up in the federally subsidized artist’s haven Manhattan Plaza in Hell’s Kitchen, a ...Read more
Roseanne Barr causes stir with E. Jean Carroll sex abuse parody
NEW YORK — MAGA comedian Roseanne Barr is being labeled a “horrible person” because of a video she posted to X mocking author E. Jean Carroll’s sex abuse claim against Donald Trump. However, some fans of the 71-year-old comic found the 42-second clip funny.
The video shows Barr inside an apparent Bergdorf Goodman department store, which...Read more
Review: 'Patriots' on Broadway is a gripping, juicy drama about Vladimir Putin
NEW YORK — As fans of “The Crown” know well, the British writer Peter Morgan is singularly adept at explaining how the most basic human emotions — pride, pique, greed, sexual need, raging insecurity — impact magnitudinous global events. In “Patriots,” Morgan’s newest Broadway play, he turns his attention to the Kremlin and the ...Read more
Kid Cudi is 'hoping' his Coachella broken ankle will be healed in time for Insano tour
LOS ANGELES — Kid Cudi is just chilling since he busted his ankle on the final night of the Coachella music festival in Indio last weekend. And he’s keeping it positive, even though the injury might affect his upcoming tour.
“Layin n bed w my moms like when I was a kid,” the rapper — born Scott Mescudi — wrote Tuesday morning on ...Read more
Rapper Chris King, fatally shot at 32, mourned by former housemate Justin Bieber
Rapper Chris King is being remembered by former housemate Justin Bieber, and other stars, after he was fatally shot in Nashville, Tennessee, last weekend. He was 32.
The Snotty Nose Records CEO and founder, born Christopher Cheeks, was found in the parking garage of the Hayes Street Hotel and transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center,...Read more
Andra Day to kick off SummerStage 2024 with free Central Park concert
NEW YORK — The 2024 season of the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage will officially kick off with a free concert performed by Andra Day in Central Park on June 1.
The Grammy Award-winning singer is one of the featured headliners for this year’s outdoor performing arts festival, which will include close to 100 free and benefit ...Read more
Anne Hathaway recalls 'gross' chemistry tests from the early 2000s: 'Now we know better'
LOS ANGELES — At the start of her career, Anne Hathaway said she didn't want to be labeled "difficult" so she went along with some of the crazy things the Hollywood audition process threw at her.
One such thing, the "Les Misérables" Oscar winner said, involved chemistry tests that required her to kiss several actors. It was a "normal" ...Read more
As Mandisa death investigation proceeds, police see no signs of foul play
LOS ANGELES — The death of contemporary Christian singer Mandisa, the “American Idol” alum whose body was found in her home last week, is still being investigated by police in Tennessee.
“At this time, there is no indication the death was the result of suspicious or criminal activity,” public information manager Max Winitz of the ...Read more
Video shows Alec Baldwin smacking phone away from woman demanding he says 'Free Palestine'
NEW YORK — Actor Alec Baldwin smacked away a phone belonging to an anti-Israeli protester who cornered him at a Manhattan coffee shop demanding he say “Free Palestine,” a recently surfaced video of the exchange shows.
Unshaven and talking on his cellphone, Baldwin, 66, is minding his own business at the coffee shop when the protester ...Read more
'Challengers' review: Zendaya serves up an ace in steamy love triangle
Is there anyone in cinema right now who has a gaze as coolly assured as Zendaya’s? In Luca Guadagnino’s tennis love triangle “Challengers,” she owns the movie and the camera, eyeing it as if daring it to reveal her thoughts. As Tashi Duncan, a tennis megastar-turned-coach after an injury, she’s utterly believable as a young woman ...Read more
Chris Pratt-Katherine Schwarzenegger could have given the Ellwood teardown 'some honor,' designer's daughter says
LOS ANGELES — Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger demolished a famed midcentury home designed by late architect Craig Ellwood to make room for a new, modern mansion.
That's not how Erin Ellwood, Craig Ellwood's daughter, said she would have gone about it.
"I think it would have been really cool to keep it and do something ... add to it ...Read more
What to stream: Dive into Guadagnino's world of international cinematic intrigue
Italian director Luca Guadagnino has become an art house darling over the past 15 years, making films about desire, longing, relationships and identity that have resonated with audiences and catapulted his actors to superstardom. His latest film, “Challengers” is his biggest yet, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in a steamy ...Read more
Movie review: 'Challengers' sizzles with bubbling ferocity
By the time Luca Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis film “Challengers” reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you’ll be reaching for a cigarette, so to speak. Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematography, editing, score and performance ...Read more
Sydney Sweeney claps back at critics (again), this time in new Hawaiian vacation pictures
Sydney Sweeney isn't letting critics ruin a vacation filled with "good times and tan lines."
That's how the "Madame Web" and "Immaculate" actor captioned a post on Sunday that could be construed as a subtle clapback to producer Carol Baum's disparaging comments about her talent and looks earlier this month.
The "Euphoria" actor posted a series...Read more
Review: Phish's Las Vegas Sphere spectacle was the opposite of rock star self-glorification
LAS VEGAS — The massive LED video screen that forms the interior surface of Sphere can be used to transport audiences to the tops of mountains, to outer space, to beneath the feet of an elephant standing as tall as a 20-story building.
On Friday night, Phish turned the place into a car wash.
Playing the second date in a sold-out four-night ...Read more
'One with the Whale' review: Climate change and animal activists threaten an Indigenous Alaskan community
In the remote Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, students are allowed 10 excused absences a year for subsistence activities, primarily hunting. “If you don’t do subsistence activities, you die,” says the school principal in the documentary “One with the Whale,” airing this week on public television as ...Read more
List of DVD release dates for April 23 and beyond
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:
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23: The Beekeeper
23: Drive-Away Dolls
23: American Star
23: Harley Quinn: The Complete Fourth Season
23: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2
23: Monolith
23: I Am Cuba
30: Mean Girls (2024)
30: Mean Girls (2004)
30: Madame...Read more
Taylor Swift song prompts searches for Patti Smith and a response from the punk poet
Two years ago, Swifties were Googling Joni Mitchell due to “whispers” of Taylor Swift portraying the folk legend in a biopic.
Mitchell responded with “If she’s going to sing and play me, good luck.” But that’s neither here nor there.
The association inspired many among her fan base to dig into one of the greatest singer-songwriters...Read more
'It's the dream.' Celine Dion fighting to return to stage
Celine Dion has objectives as she battles Stiff Person Syndrome.
“I want to be the best I can be, ” Dion says in an interview in the new edition of Vogue France. “My goal is to see the Eiffel Tower again!”
A return to live performance, someday, is also motivating the superstar resident of Lake Las Vegas. But while Dion is steadfast in ...Read more
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