Arts Apr 08 Academy bans Will Smith from Oscars for 10 years after Chris Rock slap The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
Arts Apr 06 Bobby Rydell, pompadoured 1960s teen idol and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star, dies Singer and teen idol of the early 1960s Bobby Rydell has died at age 79.
Arts Apr 01 Oscars producer says LAPD was ready to arrest Will Smith at the award show Chris Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea, Will Packer said.
Arts Mar 26 Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50 Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, has died at 50. There were no immediate details about how Hawkins died. The band said in a statement that his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.”…
Arts Mar 22 Judge ends 9-year conservatorship for actor Amanda Bynes Actor Amanda Bynes has been released from a court conservatorship that put her life and financial decisions in her parents' control for nearly nine years.
Arts Mar 10 Emilio Delgado, Luis on ‘Sesame Street’ for 45 years, dies Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died Thursday.
Arts Feb 15 Alec Baldwin sued by family of cinematographer killed on ‘Rust’ set Attorneys for the family of a cinematographer shot and killed on the set of the film "Rust" say they're suing Alec Baldwin and the movie's producers for wrongful death.
Nation Jan 10 Robert Durst, real estate heir convicted of murder, dead at 78 Durst was convicted of the 2000 killing of Susan Berman in September. Durst was facing trial in New York for the killing his wife, who disappeared in 1982. He was acquitted in 2003 in the death of a Texas man.
Arts Jan 04 Judge tosses lawsuit of man who was nude baby on ‘Nevermind’ cover A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the image of him nude as a baby on the 1991 cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind" is child pornography.
Arts Nov 22 Kevin Spacey ordered to pay studio $31M for ‘House of Cards’ losses "The safety of our employees, sets and work environments is of paramount importance to MRC and why we set out to push for accountability," MRC, the studio, said in a statement Monday.