The not-so-well-kept secret to Dolly Parton’s success wasn’t just that she was a first-rate singer, songwriter, philanthropist, entrepreneur, pop-culture dynamo and champion of literacy and education. Rather, it was that while this country music queen took her music very seriously, she never hesitated to make fun of herself — on and off ...Read more

Martin Scorsese is set to become honorary president of Italy's David di Donatello Academy - with the legendary filmmaker saying Italian cinema has been a "constant source of inspiration" throughout his life.

The 83-year-old Goodfellas and Taxi Driver director has accepted the position at the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, which oversees the ...Read more

Rumer Willis is cherishing every moment with her father Bruce Willis as he lives with frontotemporal dementia.

Revealing seeing his granddaughter Louetta can still bring a smile to the Die Hard star's face, the 38-year-old actress - the eldest daughter of Bruce, 71, and Demi Moore, 63 - spoke to People about how she is dealing with her dad's ...Read more

The crowd rose to greet a legend — some 13,000 fans cheering in approval at the mere sight of a woman who had given them so much over the years.

“What a nice welcome,” Dolly Parton replied to the fans who just keep right applauding at Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View. “Aww, listen to you. I ain’t all that.”

That scene ...Read more

CHICAGO — In the middle of Dollywood — a theme park in the Smoky Mountains that I have visited 50 times or more — there’s a replica of the one-bedroom house in which Dolly Parton grew up in Sevier County, Tennessee, as one of 12 children.

It’s not the actual house, although some visitors tend to think so. But it’s the same size. And...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dolly Parton was the last star in music everyone in America could agree on. Her brilliant career as a carefully-sculpted backwoods icon (one with unmatched insight into the human heart) told the nation stories it craved to hear about itself — songs about resilience and dignity under poverty and labor, how to hold conflicting ...Read more

Country music icon Dolly Parton will be entombed next to her husband Carl Thomas Dean in Tennessee.

The 80-year-old singer will spend eternity wearing high heels and a comfortable cotton dress, according to TMZ. Dean, who died in March 2025, was laid to rest in a mausoleum at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville.

The pair spent 60 years ...Read more

Dolly Parton's celebrity friends, fellow musicians and famous fans have paid emotional tribute to the country music legend following her death aged 80 - with Sir Elton John describing the star as "unique and irreplaceable" as messages poured in from around the world.

Dolly died in Nashville on Tuesday (25.08.26) after a period of health ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dolly Parton’s death has left the music, film and television worlds reeling, with stars and luminaries across those industries and more paying tribute to the beloved entertainer’s life and legacy.

Parton, the accomplished country music star who became a national treasure and pop culture icon, died Tuesday at age 80, her ...Read more

The iconic filmmaker Ridley Scott has been making movies like he’s running out of time. At 88, he’s more prolific than he’s ever been. He currently has eight films in pre-production or that he’s attached to on his IMDB profile, and his latest, the apocalyptic drama “The Dog Stars,” hits theaters this Friday.

Scott was a legend by ...Read more

Dolly Parton, the country music superstar whose songs including Jolene, 9 to 5 and I Will Always Love You made her one of the most recognisable performers in American music, has died aged 80.

The singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist died on Tuesday (25.08.26) after experiencing a series of health problems that had forced her to cancel ...Read more

Sacha Baron Cohen's new Ali G movie will feature Morgana Robinson as the character's pregnant girlfriend Julie.

The 54-year-old actor and comedian is returning as Ali G in Ali G: Who Iz I?, which will be released in cinemas on October 23 by Amazon MGM Studios, with the mockumentary - which is Sacha's feature directorial debut - following Ali as...Read more

James Blunt has responded to online speculation attempting to identify him as the unnamed British singer-songwriter described by Hayden Panettiere in a distressing yacht encounter in her memoir.

The 52-year-old You're Beautiful singer shared former showbiz journalist Dean Piper's Substack article on X - which argued he had nothing to do with ...Read more

Billie Piper's stalker has been jailed for 12 months after repeatedly breaching an order designed to protect the Doctor Who star.

Philip Jerome, 49, from Winchester, Hampshire, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (25.08.26) after pleading guilty to four breaches of a stalking prevention order concerning Billie, 43.

The ...Read more

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