Arts Jan 21 ‘Encanto’ composer Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about Bruno and the movie’s enchanted earworms The film's most popular song, "We Don't Talk About Bruno," became the highest-charting song from a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, ranking higher than even "Let It Go."…
Arts Jan 06 Peter Bogdanovich, director of ‘Paper Moon,’ dead at 82 Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” has died. He was 82.
Nation Jan 06 WATCH: Ongoing coverage of Jan. 6 attack anniversary events In remarks at the Capitol, President Joe Biden vowed he will “allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.” And he assailed the attackers even as some Republicans portray the Trump supporters who swarmed the Capitol…
Arts Jan 06 Sundance cancels in-person film festival due to virus surge The cancellation of an in-person Sundance is a huge blow to an independent film industry that has struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic.
Arts Dec 13 Golden Globes announces nominations to a skeptical Hollywood After nine months of widespread criticism forced the Hollywood Press Association to reform, the group tried its best Monday to keep its perch in awards season, spreading nominations around to the likes of Will Smith, Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel…
Arts Dec 12 Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80 Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With a Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.
Arts Nov 28 Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41 Abloh was the artistic director for Louis Vuitton's menswear, but his ubiquitous, consumer-friendly presence in culture was wide-ranging and dynamic. Some compared him to Jeff Koons. Others hailed him as his generation's Karl Lagerfeld.
Arts Nov 09 Dean Stockwell, of ‘Quantum Leap and’ ‘Blue Velvet’ fame, dies at 85 In a career that spanned seven decades, Stockwell was a supreme character actor whose performances didn’t have to be lengthy to be mesmerizing.
Arts Oct 29 ‘Rust’ armorer attorneys blame producers for ‘unsafe’ set Attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of weapons on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, say she doesn’t know where the live rounds found there came from, and blamed producers for unsafe…
Arts Oct 26 ‘Dune’ to get sequel, with theater-only release set for 2023 Legendary Entertainment announced Tuesday that Denis Villeneuve's “Dune," which adapts the first half of Frank Herbert's 1965 science-fiction epic, will get a sequel.