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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 17-23

Nov. 11, 2024 09:52 AM EST

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 17-23: Nov. 17: Singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons is 83. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 82. Actor Lauren Hutton is 81. Actor-director Danny DeVito is 80. “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 80. Actor Stephen...

What to stream: 'Yellowstone' starts its end, Eddie Redmayne as a sniper and Aubrey Plaza gets high

Nov. 04, 2024 00:12 AM EST

Eddie Redmayne starring as a sniper for hire in the new limited series “The Day of the Jackal" and “Yellowstone” riding off into the sunset with the launch of its final episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the...

Samuel L. Jackson lauded at MoMA film benefit by close family and friends

Oct. 24, 2024 11:05 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Museum of Modern Art was filled with expletives and laughter Wednesday evening as Samuel L. Jackson’s family and friends celebrated the actor and director’s storied career of box office hits, larger-than-life characters and explosive one-liners at the annual film benefit....

Daniel Day-Lewis ends acting retirement for a movie directed by his son

Oct. 01, 2024 17:56 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis'...

Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Martin Scorsese and more stars pay tribute to Kris Kristofferson

Sep. 30, 2024 17:40 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Reaction to the death of Kris Kristofferson. The singer-songwriter and actor died Saturday at his home in Hawaii surrounded by family at age 88. ___ “The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something...

Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88

Sep. 30, 2024 09:32 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in...

Peter Sellars' staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler' is Salzburg Festival's latest offbeat success

Aug. 16, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars. Starring soprano Asmik Grigorian as Polina and...