LOS ANGELES — Since Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA started chopping up samples and making hip-hop beats on a drum machine nearly 40 years ago, he's been pulling inspiration from a variety of musical genres and mediums, ranging from 1970s soul and orchestral tracks to kung fu films.

But it wasn't until the legendary producer and artist challenged ...Read more

Cecily Strong revealed she is pregnant with a personal message ahead of Tuesday’s general election.

Wearing a “pregnant, pro-choice and proud” shirt, the “Saturday Night Live” alum shared in an Instagram post that she is “very happily pregnant from IVF at 40” and “really hopeful” to meet her “little miss thing” next spring...Read more

Ben Affleck is giving credit to where credit is due when it comes to his ex Jennifer Lopez.

Amid their divorce proceedings after less than two years of marriage, the Oscar winner unexpectedly gave props to the “Monster-in-Law” star in a new interview promoting a new project.

During the promotion rounds for “Small Things Like These,” he...Read more

NEW YORK — “Pretty Woman” actor Richard Gere has sold his $11 million mansion in New Canaan, Connecticut, and plans to move to Europe.

Gere, 75, bought the home for $10.8 million from singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Edie Brickell in 2022, according to the New Canaan Advertiser.

Gere lived on the 32-acre property with his wife, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Last month marked two years that I’ve covered culture and music for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The move from St. Louis to Atlanta was a mix of excitement and anxiety — as any move to a big city would be. But I was determined to cover a music scene that shaped my adolescence.

Migos, Young Thug, Trinidad James, Future and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Although it hasn't always been pop-u-lar with the public, Ariana Grande's relationship with her "Wicked" co-star Ethan Slater is now Instagram-official.

The "Eternal Sunshine" singer on Monday celebrated the Jon M. Chu-directed movie musical's upcoming release with a carousel of photos from its Australian premiere. Among them is...Read more

ATLANTA — An independent biopic about a former Prince protege and lover known in the 1980s as Vanity is going to shoot in Atlanta and Chicago in early 2025.

Dubbed “Nasty Girl: The Denise Matthews Story,” the movie is produced by Chicago-based Kingpix Network and will star newcomer Briana Cortesiano as Matthews.

Canadian-born singer ...Read more

ATLANTA — David Duchovny, who shot the film “The Joneses” in metro Atlanta in 2009, is back in town in a comedic family drama, “See You When I See You.”

“The X-Files” star is joined by actors Kaitlyn Dever (“Justified,” “Last Man Standing,” “Dopesick”), Lucy Boynton (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), Hope Davis (“Succession�...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Quincy Jones was understandably dubious when — near the start of our 1996 interview in Los Angeles — I said I wanted to ask him a question he’d never been asked before.

“I’ve done lots of interviews,” said the legendary music producer, composer and arranger, who died Sunday at the age of 91 from undisclosed causes at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "The Streetcar Project," a bare-bones production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," passed through town last week. First stop was an airplane hangar in East L.A., followed by a warehouse in Venice.

I caught the show in Venice on Friday, after a traffic nightmare prevented me from seeing it earlier in the week in ...Read more

An AMC crime drama tops the DVD releases for the week of Nov. 12.

"Parish": Giancarlo Esposito stars in this series, canceled after its first season, as a man coping with the death of a son and struggling to keep his luxury car service in New Orleans afloat, when his criminal past resurfaces, entangling him with a local Zimbabwean mob family.

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LOS ANGELES — The late Quincy Jones' life spanned the entirety of modern American pop music — a tradition he absorbed, influenced and reinvented for generations. It's remarkable to look back on the composer, arranger and producer's life and hear him speak on his friendships and work with Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie ...Read more

If “A Quiet Place” — the screenplay that put writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on the map — was a rather tight-lipped, high-concept monster movie where the characters could rarely speak, “Heretic,” their latest film, which they wrote and directed, is the opposite. This is a talky chamber piece of philosophical face-offs, debate ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

NOVEMBER

5: It Ends with Us

5: Trap

5: Blink Twice

5: The Crow

5: Afraid

5: Someone Like You

5: Strange Darling

5: 1992

5: You Gotta Believe

5: Apartment 7A

5: Christmas Island

5: Christmas on Cherry Lane

5: Frankie Freako

5: Genie

5: ...Read more

"Not all songs have a story," David Foster says. "But these five do."

He would know: In a career that stretches across more than half a century — and which took him from his native Canada to his longtime home of Los Angeles — Foster has written, produced, arranged, played on, executive-ized or reality-TV-coached the performance of an ...Read more

Denver comic Adam Cayton-Holland’s acclaimed 2018 book, “Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir,” has been adapted into a movie that will feature some recognizable Hollywood stars.

The announcement, first reported by Deadline, named actor and filmmaker Jay Duplass (“Search Party”) as director. He’s helming the production that’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Everyone has a movie or show they've watched so much, that the characters begin to feel like family, and their homes feel like, well, home.

It might be Elliott's bedroom in E.T., the Tanner family's Victorian Full House in San Francisco, or Winona Ryder's living room in Stranger Things, bedecked in Christmas lights.

Tommy ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "The Streetcar Project," a bare-bones production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," passed through town last week. First stop was an airplane hangar in East L.A., followed by a warehouse in Venice.

I caught the show in Venice on Friday, after a traffic nightmare prevented me from seeing it earlier in the week in ...Read more

NEW YORK — NBC honored a request by former President Donald Trump's campaign for equal time on the network following Vice President Kamala Harris' appearance on "Saturday Night Live" just days before Tuesday's election.

Harris performed in the opening sketch Saturday with Maya Rudolph, who has frequently played the Democratic presidential ...Read more

Which celebs are supporting Kamala Harris and Donald Trump?

With the 2024 U.S. presidential election just hours away, both candidates are flaunting their rosters of celebrity endorsements ahead of the polls.

While some stars intentionally stay out of the political mix, several have publicly taken a stand, announcing their pick for the 47th ...Read more