Entertainment
NBC News sets goal of a workforce that is half minority
NEW YORK — NBC News leader Cesar Conde, in one of his first public acts in the job, has committed to building a workforce at the news organizati...
July 10th, 2020 |
With a satirical fictional memoir, Jim Carrey gets real
NEW YORK — When Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon handed in the book they had toiled on for eight years — a satirical “anti-memoir” a...
July 8th, 2020 |
Posthumous memoir by Sargent Shriver scheduled for January
NEW YORK (AP) — The late Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps’ founding director and an architect of President Lyndon Johnson’s “W...
July 7th, 2020 |
Comedy icon Carl Reiner dies
NEW YORK — Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar ...
June 30th, 2020 updated: June 30th, 2020. |
Rolling Stones threaten to sue Trump over using their songs
LONDON — The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desi...
June 28th, 2020 |
The Dixie Chicks officially drop the Dixie
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Grammy-winning country group The Dixie Chicks have dropped the word Dixie from their name, now going by The Chicks. The band&...
June 26th, 2020 |
Disney changing Splash Mountain, ride tied to Jim Crow film
ORLANDO, Fla. — Amid calls to change the Splash Mountain theme park ride over its ties to “Song of the South,” the 1946 movie many v...
June 25th, 2020 |
Jimmy Kimmel apologizes for use of blackface in sketches
NEW YORK — Jimmy Kimmel apologized Tuesday for his 1990s blackface impressions of NBA player Karl Malone and other Black celebrities but said hi...
June 24th, 2020 |
AMC Theaters reverses course on masks after backlash
LOS ANGELES — The nation’s largest movie theater chain changed its position on mask-wearing less than a day after the company became a tar...
June 19th, 2020 updated: June 19th, 2020. |
2 Garrison Keillor books set for release this fall
NEW YORK — Garrison Keillor will have two books out this fall — a novel and a memoir — marking his first releases since sexual haras...
June 18th, 2020 |
