Like any other building from 1971, or a democracy created in 1776, the Kennedy Center could use some attention and possibly some structural repair. But I was a vice president at that arts center in Washington, and I can tell you that maintenance is almost certainly not why it closed its doors last month.

Officially, it’s closed because a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Danny Trejo’s latest project, “Pawn Shop,” has hit a filming impasse.

The movie, allegedly inspired by the fatal shooting of Renee Good by Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers in Minneapolis, has temporarily stopped production in Livingston, Montana, after locals protested its filming.

The ICE-centered feature is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sass Jordan, the Canadian rock star known for hits such as "Make You a Believer" and "Tell Somebody" who served as a judge on all six season of "Canadian Idol," has died. She was 65.

Jordan died Friday surrounded by her family, according to an announcement posted to Instagram Saturday. No cause of death was provided, but she had...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a year after the death of his wife, Jenisa Garland, "Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington announced the news of her passing.

The actor posted the news on Instagram over the weekend, writing, "Yes … the rumors are true. My dear wife of 29 years collapsed suddenly on May 31, 2025 and passed away on June 9, 2025."

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SAN DIEGO — With a record-setting temperature of 103 degrees, things heated up fast on Saturday in Escondido before a single note was played on the third day of the third annual San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival.

To add to the sizzle, the first and third of the five featured bands — Charlie Chavez y su Afrotruko and Lucia & The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "The Batman Part II" has temporarily paused production as filmmaker Matt Reeves steps away for personal reasons, according to multiple reports.

"Production on 'The Batman Part II' has been temporarily paused while Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter," DC Studios said in a Monday statement to Deadline and other outlets. "Matt ...Read more

Last month's Emmy winner for best limited series tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 13.

"DTF St. Louis": HBO's seven-episode drama stars Jason Bateman as TV weatherman Clark Forrest, whose friendship with financially struggling ASL interpreter Floyd Smernitch (David Harbour) gets complicated when he gets involved with Smernitch’s wife...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A song performed by Grammy winner Olivia Dean "copied in large and significant part" from Bill Withers' hit "Just the Two of Us," a copyright complaint filed recently in California alleges.

Grammy winner Dean's mellow love ballad "I've Seen It" is at the center of a copyright infringement case brought by the music group that ...Read more

Michael Douglas has revealed how everyone "missed" his secret romance with Jeanne Tripplehorn.

The 82-year-old actor has confirmed he had a secret romance while filming Basic Instinct while he was separated from then-wife Diandra Luker, and he recalled that all the speculation about him and Sharon Stone meant no one noticed what was happening ...Read more

The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz "hated" Adam Brody when he auditioned for the hit show.

The 46-year-old actor landed his breakout role as Seth Cohen in the beloved teen drama from 2003 to 2007, but after seeing the star's audition, the show's writer was beyond unimpressed.

Speaking in E!'s Greatest Year in Pop Culture documentary focused on ...Read more

Christy Carlson Romano doesn't want to be a stage parent to her daughters.

The 42-year-old former child star, who rose to fame with Disney Channel roles in the likes of Even Stevens, Kim Possible and Cadet Kelly, has opened up about how she plans to raise her and husband Brendan Rooney's girls, Isabella and Sofia.

She told USA Today: "I do ...Read more

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has reportedly been invited to Ken Urker's funeral.

The Life After Lockup star is mourning the sudden death of her ex-fiancé, who died on Thursday (01.10.26) - his 34th birthday - last week, nine years after he started writing her letters in 2017, when she was in prison for her role in the second-degree murder of her mom, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hayley Williams is not backing down from the anti-ICE comments she made during her Saturday night concert at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, 10 miles south of San Diego.

While performing her sixth song of the show, 2025’s loping “Ice In My OJ,” Williams drew cheers when she shouted: “(expletive) ICE!...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Breaking with more than 70 years of tradition, the Emmy Awards show will move to Amazon Prime Video from broadcast TV beginning next year.

The Television Academy on Tuesday announced a six-year deal with Amazon, which becomes the centerpiece of a push by the North Hollywood-based organization to broaden the reach and relevance ...Read more

Even Fox News, one of President Donald Trump’s preferred media outlets, isn’t exempt from his go-to term for any woman he dislikes.

“She can be so nasty,” was how Trump recently described the conservative-leaning network’s senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.

Never one to hold back, the president has also had harsh words...Read more

Kash Patel is off the market, ladies.

The director of the FBI and his longtime girlfriend, country western singer Alexis Wilkins, announced their looming nuptials on social media over the weekend.

"Went and got the law involved," Wilkins posted on Instagram, alongside a black-and-white photograph of the couple smiling and showing off Wilkins'...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Several years ago, DreamWorks Animation veterans Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado pitched the studio an original story centered on friendship and steeped in Filipino culture.

That draft became the animated film “Forgotten Island,” which opened in late September and counts singer H.E.R., Liza Soberano and Dave Franco among ...Read more

Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves resolved their differences during a song-writing session.

The 42-year-old singer and Kacey, 38, managed to overcome their historic tensions while writing Horses and Divorces, their collaboration that appears on Kacey's Middle of Nowhere album.

Miranda - whose rift with Kacey spanned over a decade - told ...Read more

Martha Stewart used to earn $65 million a year from a brand deal, but she lost $1 billion when she fell into tough times.

The 85-year-old lifestyle guru was previously in partnership with department store chain Kmart - and it made her a fortune in royalties.

Speaking on the trailer for the first episode of Masterclass podcast Other People's ...Read more

Jeremy Strong is determined to "run towards the danger" in his career.

The 47-year-old actor plays Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, in The Social Reckoning, and Jeremy has reflected on the experience of making Aaron Sorkin's legal thriller film, which is a standalone sequel to The Social Network.

The actor told The Hollywood Reporter: "What ...Read more