NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg was publicly accused of defamation on Friday, two days after “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t want to make her birthday desserts due to her left-leaning political views.

Goldberg celebrated her 69th birthday on “The View” this week, where she told viewers her order for several dozen Charlotte ...Read more

Martha Stewart thinks a second version of the buzzed-about Netflix documentary on her life needs to be made.

The plainspoken lifestyle mogul, who has not held back on her criticism of R.J. Cutler's film, conceded Thursday that the documentary was "fine" overall. But she has still has some issues with it.

"It left out a lot. So I'm going to go ...Read more

Taylor Swift’s unlikely to spend Thanksgiving with boyfriend Travis Kelce’s family, according to his mom, Donna.

Mama Kelce, 72, told the “Today” show Thursday the 34-year-old Grammy winner — who just added six new Grammy nominations to her name — is unlikely to attend the Kelce family’s Turkey Day celebration.

“I don’t think...Read more

Jim Gaffigan is the latest celebrity opening up about his major weight loss with the help of popular prescription medications.

The self-deprecating comedian revealed in a People interview that he shed 50 pounds with the help of Mounjaro, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes. It also helps people lose weight.

“I feel good,” he told the ...Read more

Zayn Malik is pushing back more dates for his European tour because of “unforeseen circumstances.”

“Due to unforeseen circumstances Zayn ‘Stairway to the Sky’ Edinburgh show originally scheduled for the 20th of November has been rescheduled for the 8th of December,” the singer announced on his Instagram story on Thursday. “And the...Read more

ATLANTA — Jason Bateman and David Harbour will be back in Atlanta in 2025 to shoot a limited HBO series “DTF St. Louis.”

The series is set to begin filming in metro Atlanta in February and run through May, according to an email sent to IATSE 479 unionized crew members.

Bateman, who starred in Netflix drama “Ozark” in Georgia from ...Read more

A prophecy dating all the way back to the pre-pandemic world — 2019 — spoke of a coming television show set in the same universe as what proved to be director Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed 2021 film “Dune,” the first half of an adaptation of the influential 1965 science-fiction novel of the same name by Frank Herbert.

The show was to ...Read more

John Stamos has openly pledged his support to Dave Coulier as he battles Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The actor took to social media to share photos with his former “Full House” co-star, who went public with his cancer diagnosis Wednesday on “Today.”

“My brother from day 1,” he captioned the Instagram images. “Love you @dcoulier...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shel Talmy, the American record producer who helped foment the British Invasion by capturing the scabrous guitar riff in the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" and Roger Daltrey's stuttering vocal line in the Who's "My Generation," died Wednesday. He was 87.

His death was announced in a post on his Facebook page, which said he "passed ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Long-time Boyz II Men fans have been on bended knee, hoping for a new project from the iconic R&B group. And with a potential biopic in the works, it appears their wishes have been granted.

According to Variety, Philly’s own four-time Grammy-winning ensemble, consisting of members Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wanyá ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Emmy-winning talk show host and comedian Conan O'Brien has been tapped to emcee the 97th Academy Awards, set for March 2, the academy announced Friday.

This will mark O'Brien's first time hosting the Oscars, with the academy betting on his sharp oddball wit and decades of live TV experience to inject fresh energy into the ...Read more

Kanye West has been slapped with yet another lawsuit from an ex-employee, this time for allegedly subjecting him to “antisemitic tirades” and sex acts during meetings.

Murphy Aficionado says the hip-hop superstar — who legally changed his name to Ye — hired him as a project manager in 2022. Aficionado is now suing Ye for discrimination,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But he was drawn to the subject, thanks in part to the master painter’s similarities to Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin was the focus of a Burns documentary in 2022, for which Burns interviewed an old friend,...Read more

Legendary filmmaker David Lynch said he uses a supplemental oxygen tank now because of emphysema caused by decades of smoking.

The “Blue Velvet” director revealed in August he was suffering from emphysema that was diagnosed in 2020.

“I have to say that I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco — the smell of it, lighting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mike Schur, the creator of "Parks and Recreation" and "The Good Place," is like a kid on a Halloween sugar high. It's the morning after the Dodgers won the World Series, and Schur — a baseball enthusiast with undying loyalty to the Boston Red Sox — is detailing the team's extraordinary comeback in the fifth inning of Game 5 ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mason Ramsey has a soft laugh that breaks through the phone as he talks about the whirlwind journey that began in a Walmart and launched his career.

“Sometimes, I still feel like that kid singing ‘Lovesick Blues’ in Walmart,” he says on a recent phone call, reflecting on the viral video that catapulted him into ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's been 24 years since audiences first saw Ridley Scott's vision of the brutality of Rome's Colosseum. Twenty-eight years since they chased an F5 tornado with Helen Hunt. Thirty-six years since they said a certain bio-exorcist's name three times.

But this year, all three properties have made, or will make, a comeback to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "Gladiator II," the enjoyably dumb sequel to the brawny Ridley Scott epic that won the best picture Oscar nearly a quarter-century ago, has just finished its premiere screening on the Paramount Pictures lot. Paul Mescal, the actor charged with donning a breastplate and replacing Russell Crowe, is mingling with the crowd, who, ...Read more