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Janet Jackson to play 2024 Essence Fest instead of the Smoothie King Center this summer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans. Jackson was originally scheduled to headline the Smoothie King Center on July 23 as part of her Together Again Summer 2024 tour, but her plans have...
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Video shows Robert De Niro rehearsing...
Review: 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed' announces an exciting new voice
In writer-director-star Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Ann (Arnow), a 30-something New Yorker, lies naked in bed with an older man, Allen (Scott Cohen), with whom she has a yearslong BDSM relationship. She tells him she's grateful he only cares...
Margot Robbie making ‘Monopoly’ movie and Blumhouse reviving ‘Blair Witch’
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy. The “ Barbie ” producer and star is making a Monopoly movie, with Hasbro and Lionsgate behind it, the companies announced Wednesday at the CinemaCon conference in Las Vegas. Robbie, and her production company...
'Oppenheimer' crew keeps it low key, other winners revel at Vanity Fair's Oscar after-party
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Christopher Nolan stood as staid and nonchalant as ever as crowds surrounded him and music pulsed. His celebration was limited to casually holding a best directing Oscar, his first, and one of seven on the night for his film. The...
Vanity Fair and Saint Laurent toast ‘Oppenheimer’ at a historic home before Oscars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los Feliz. That’s where the cast and crew of “Oppenheimer” had gathered, after all. Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy and Emma Thomas convened for...
Rupert Murdoch, 92, plans to marry for 5th time
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his representative said Saturday. He plans to marry Elena Zhukova, 67, a Russian-born retired scientist he met last year. Her ex-husband Alexander Zhukov is a...
Movie Review: 'Love Lies Bleeding' is peak Kristen Stewart
Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in “Love Lies Bleeding,” a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug guts. If that last one seems a touch less expected, that moment, courtesy of a beetle-chomping Ed Harris, is far from the only...
Poland investigates 3 unidentified balloons found near the border with Russia's Kaliningrad
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish media reported on Tuesday that three unidentified objects looking like weather balloons have been found in the country's northeast, and some of them had Cyrillic inscriptions. The objects were found in Poland’s Mazury lake district, between 20...
Movie Review: Writer-director Julio Torres proves a storyteller to cheer with awesome 'Problemista'
The hero of “Problemista” sees the world differently. He's an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today's toys are too fun. He proposes a toy truck with a deflating tire to teach kids they’re running out of time. Alejandro is the creation of Julio Torres, who...
