There’s a poignant poetry in the Sisyphean quest of Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote. This born yearner roams the desert, trying to catch and eat the Road Runner, his attempts becoming increasingly more unhinged and self-destructive as the bird evades him at every turn, with a cheerful “beep beep!” Still, Coyote tries and tries again,...Read more

NEW YORK — TikTok influencer Alyshia Rushing, known online as “Mama A,” is dead at 26.

The social media star died in a car crash early Saturday morning, according to a GoFundMe campaign launched by her mother.

“She was an amazing mother of four, a content creator, and one of the strongest women I have ever known,” Crystal Smitherman ...Read more

Jennifer Peedom's Everest epic Tenzing starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe will open the 22nd Zurich Film Festival next month.

Bringing the story of one of mountaineering's greatest achievements to the Swiss event, the Apple Original Films drama will receive its European premiere in Zurich on September 24, with Jennifer, Tom and Willem due...Read more

Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp will swap the rock stage for the film festival spotlight next month as the story behind their star-packed Hollywood Vampires supergroup opens the 42nd Boston Film Festival.

The School's Out rocker will appear alongside actor Johnny, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen for the September 17 opening-night...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kit Harington has returned to the realm of HBO’s fantasy programming.

Harington, popular for portraying reluctant hero Jon Snow in the TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones,” has joined the cast of HBO’s “Harry Potter” series, the network confirmed Monday. HBO teased Harington’s casting on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fans and members of the New York City punk rock movement scene are stepping up to help Television trailblazer Richard Lloyd fight a rare form of cancer.

Along with bandmates including Tom Verlaine, Lloyd, 74, formed one of the more celebrated groups to come from a Bowery rock scene that launched Blondie, the Talking Heads and the ...Read more

Andrew Garfield hopes to have inherited his mother's "nurturing" qualities.

The 43-year-old actor has explained how he admired the capacity his late mother Lynn, a nursery teacher who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019, had for taking care of others.

Andrew told Esquire UK: "I hope I have my mother's capacity for empathy and compassion...Read more

Ronnie Wood refuses to consider retirement.

The Rolling Stones rocker, 79, has enjoyed a career in music spanning over six decades and explained that he takes the approach that age is merely a number.

When the interviewer revealed that they regularly discuss retirement despite being in their late 50s, Ronnie told Loudersound.com: "Oh my god! ...Read more

In the video game world, it's one of the biggest releases of 2026.

For years, fans have been eagerly awaiting the sixth installment to the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise.

But the much-anticipated release of the game has been disrupted by a flurry of leaked scenes — such as a plane flying over a metropolis and the interior of a strip club — ...Read more

Adam Scott has told what it was really like attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, admitting it was a "really lovely event".

The Severance star and his wife Naomi Scott were in attendance to see the pop megastar and NFL player tie the knot on July 3rd at New York City's Madison Square Garden, and the biggest impression he received ...Read more

Mindy Kaling's sitcom Not Suitable For Work has been cancelled after just one season.

The 47-year-old star created the Hulu comedy, which launched in June and ran for nine episodes focused on "five work-obsessed 20-somethings striving for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness".

Now, Variety has reported that Hulu won'...Read more

Brett Goldstein was "depressed" before landing a role in Ted Lasso.

The 46-year-old actor was feeling dejected after a series of career disappointments in the mid-2010s, having landed a number of pilots which failed to get picked up for full runs.

He told Men's Health magazine: "It was all a bit grim.

"Also, I was getting older and I had this...Read more

You author Caroline Kepnes is working on a new "emotional creepy horror" series.

The writer, whose thriller novels about serial killer Joe Goldberg were adapted into a five-season hit for Netflix with Penn Badgley in the lead role, has announced a new series coming to YouTube.

As reported by Variety, her 2022 short story The Attentionist will ...Read more

North West wants to start working in Starbucks.

The 13-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West has already started chasing her music ambitions, but the young teen has revealed she also wants to settle into a "regular job".

Asked what she's be if she wasn't an artist, she told Dazed: "What would I be? I still wanna work.

"I wanna ...Read more

Sandra Bullock has told how her "very astute" children handled her late partner Bryan Randall's battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) "very differently".

The 62-year-old star's longtime love passed away in August 2023, aged 57, after losing his three-year battle with the terminal neurodegenerative disease, and she has admitted her son...Read more

Jimmy Kimmel fears he might regret retiring from his talk show, if he ever pulls the plug on the program.

The 58-year-old star has fronted his late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2003, and he doesn't ever want to retire from the series and then attempt to make a "lesser comeback" afterwards "trying to do the same thing".

Quizzed on ...Read more

CHICAGO — There’s someone Chicago doesn’t talk about anymore, doesn’t mention much these days, rarely brings up in polite company and almost never acknowledges when it’s celebrating its beauty or cheerleading its own greatness, as Chicago is prone to do. And that person is Kanye West. Or rather Ye, as he prefers to be called today.

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