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Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a mid-life crisis

Jan. 21, 2025 12:09 PM EST

Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that. Mona Zahid, a celebrated stage actor, has a lot on...

Movie Review: Cameron Diaz is ‘Back in Action’ with Jamie Foxx as glam spies turned dorky parents

Jan. 16, 2025 21:07 PM EST

But, we do Wordle!! Er, OK. That’s how former secret agent Matt (Jamie Foxx) explains that he and wife Emily are now living a boring, mundane, glamour-free life and nobody would ever be looking for them. To which the rest of us Wordle players say: Whoa, speak for...

'SNL' show creator Lorne Michaels donates archive to University of Texas

Jan. 15, 2025 15:47 PM EST

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the center announced Wednesday. The collection includes...

'Conclave' leads race for British BAFTA film awards as thoughts focus on fires in LA

Jan. 15, 2025 14:06 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Papal thriller “ Conclave,” which stars Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, leads the race — just — for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 12 categories, one more than the genre-busting musical “ Emilia Perez.” ...

Jon Hamm of 'Mad Men' fame is named Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year

Jan. 14, 2025 18:48 PM EST

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Actor Jon Hamm, who came to fame starring as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men," was named Tuesday as the 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be...

What to stream: 'Severance' returns, a Mac Miller album and Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx pair up

Jan. 13, 2025 00:07 AM EST

Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg playing mismatched cousins in the acclaimed “A Real Pain” and Mac Miller’s second posthumous full-length album “Balloonerism” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming...

Otto Schenk, director known for traditional opera productions, dies at 94

Jan. 09, 2025 19:00 PM EST

Otto Schenk, an actor who became a noted director praised for traditional opera productions and criticized by advocates of contemporary approaches, died Thursday at age 94. Schenk lived in Austria, and his death was announced by the Vienna State Opera. He created 31...

'Wicked' tops SAG Awards nominations as many big names are snubbed

Jan. 08, 2025 15:44 PM EST

“Wicked” topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, landing a leading five nominations including best ensemble, and individual nods for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey. Out-of-control wildfires that swept across Los Angeles and...

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actor who starred in the landmark sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87

Dec. 30, 2024 12:36 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her...

Movie Review: Nicole Kidman commands the erotic office drama 'Babygirl'

Dec. 24, 2024 09:58 AM EST

The demands of achieving both one-day shipping and a satisfying orgasm collide in Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl,” a kinky and darkly comic erotic thriller about sex in the Amazon era. Nicole Kidman stars as Romy Mathis, the chief executive of Tensile, a robotics business that...