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

The 2024 Latin Grammys proved to be a night full of heartfelt tributes and moments of camaraderie. From the sincere exchange between Carlos Vives and Jon Bon Jovi to the emotional tribute from Alejandro Fernandez to his father, Vicente, the 25th anniversary award show stands as a quarter-century of celebrating Latin music.

Live from the Kaseya ...Read more

Angry Donald Trump supporters are calling for outspoken actress Rachel Zegler to be fired from the upcoming live action remake of “Snow White” — or at the very least, for people to boycott the film.

Screenshots of the 23-year-old star’s anti-Trump Instagram rant have been making the rounds on social media this week, prompting critics to...Read more

BALTIMORE — After weeks of dining, dancing and dating her way through 24 potential life partners on ABC’s “The Golden Bachelorette,” Maryland grandmother Joan Vassos has found her Prince Charming.

The first season of the first spinoff of “The Bachelorette” featuring a single woman of a certain age came to an end Wednesday night in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — There’s a star-studded lineup ahead for the 2025 Festival La Onda, which is set to return to downtown Napa on May 31 and June 1.

Marco Antonio Solis, Banda MS, Pepe Aguilar, Carin León and Grupo Firme are the headliners for the second annual two-day Latin music celebration, which will be presented at Napa Valley Expo by ...Read more

From the late '60s until 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement wound down hostilities between the Catholic nationalist Irish Republican Army and the U.K.-supported loyalist protestant militias, Northern Ireland was afflicted with the conflict known as the Troubles. One could read and watch a lifetime of reporting on this subject and still not ...Read more

Denzel Washington says he had a same-sex kiss in Ridley Scott’s hotly anticipated “Gladiator” sequel, but it won’t see the light of day.

The two-time Oscar winner, 69, recently told LGBTQ+ outlet Gayety about the kiss, which didn’t make the final cut in “Gladiator II,” which opens next week.

“I actually kissed a man in the film...Read more

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the dismissiveness when it came to Jesse Eisenberg.

The actor he grew into, with his Oscar-nominated turn in “The Social Network,” has so little regard for artifice that it’s an affront to many viewers’ needs in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Staten Island baker is feeling the heat after allegedly refusing an order for Whoopi Goldberg due to her political views.

Jill Holtermann, the owner of New York state’s oldest bakery in Great Kills, identified herself as the unnamed person who Goldberg called out Wednesday during her live birthday celebration on “The View.”...Read more

NEW YORK — ABC morning show “The View” wants President-elect Donald Trump to visit the program — despite its hosts having been very critical of him and vice versa.

Bookers plan to “beg” the 78-year-old politician to return to the “Hot Topics” table, a show insider told The Daily Beast.

The thinking behind inviting Trump on the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Linkin Park is expanding its comeback tour, taking their From Zero road show across the globe.

The Agoura Hills rap-rock group, which relaunched in September with singer Emily Armstrong replacing late frontman Chester Bennington, will roll their tour into 2025, announcing stadium and arena stops across North America, Asia, ...Read more

Eva Longoria was desperate to get out of the U.S. and she did — having “escaped” her “dystopian” homeland even before President-elect Donald Trump was reelected last week.

The “Desperate Housewives” alum, 49, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August and campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential ...Read more

NEW YORK — It was probably inevitable that Patrick Radden Keefe's gripping 2019 bestseller "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" would be adapted by Hollywood.

Part thriller, part true crime investigation, the nonfiction book uses one of the most heinous unsolved crimes of the Troubles — the 1972 disappearance...Read more