LOS ANGELES — Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.

His publicist Carri McClure announced the news Tuesday.

In a screenwriting career launched in 1960 as a writer for low-budget producer-director Roger Corman, Towne earned ...Read more

Angela Simmons is apologizing for her accessory at the 2024 BET Awards, where she sported a bedazzled gun-shaped purse.

Following the backlash on social media, the 36-year-old entrepreneur and TV personality, took to Instagram to address the controversy sparked by her fashion statement.

"I want to address the recent incident involving the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The legendary rock band Heart has given the reason it has been forced to cancel its current tour, including “An Evening with Heart” on Dec. 15 at Fontainebleau’s BleauLive Theater.

The “Royal Flush Tour” shows were pulled from the schedule after co-founder and iconic vocalist Ann Wilson announced Tuesday she had recently...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rapper Killer Mike is moving past his arrest at the Grammy Awards earlier this year seemingly scot-free and fired up.

The Run the Jewels musician will not face criminal charges for his alleged battery incident at the awards show at Crypto.com Arena in February, the Los Angeles city attorney's office confirmed.

The rapper "...Read more

Ye is facing yet another lawsuit — this time from eight former Yeezy employees, including minors, who accuse the rapper and his company of fostering a “hostile” work environment that included discrimination, unpaid wages and subjecting minors to pornographic imagery.

The complainants in the suit, who range in age from 14 to 25 and hail ...Read more

Nick Cannon, television host and father of 12, said he intended to draw attention with the recent news of a $10 million insurance policy on his testicles. Plus, he's preparing for the worst.

"We know how to make out noise out here, and that's exactly what we did," Cannon, who notably welcomed five children with five different women in 2022, ...Read more

It’s all happened so fast.

“Despicable Me” — a romp about an awkward supervillain-turned-hero voiced by Steve Carell and supported by these goofy, little, yellow Minions from a new animation studio then called Illumination Entertainment — arrived less than 15 years ago.

Today, “Despicable Me” is a huge franchise, in fact the most...Read more

Red Lobster announced Monday that it has partnered with hip-hop superstar Flavor Flav, known as the co-founder of Public Enemy and the star of VH1’s influential reality show “Flavor of Love,” for its new Crabfest campaign.

In mid-June, the “Crab Your Way” promo dropped on TikTok featuring Flavor Flav’s signature “Yeah Boyeeeee!”...Read more

SAN DIEGO — There were no visible acts of magic performed during Blink-182’s sold-out, often triumphant homecoming concert Sunday night at Petco Park in downtown San Diego. No rabbits were pulled from hats. No one was sawed in half. No one was lowered upside down into a tank of water that was then padlocked and draped in black.

Even so, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former employees have accused "The Umbrella Academy" showrunner Steve Blackman of fostering a toxic work environment, exacting retaliation, taking credit for other people's work and making offensive remarks, including a comment about Elliot Page, according to an investigation by Rolling Stone.

Blackman has denied the accusations...Read more

A dystopian thriller tops the DVD releases for the week of July 9.

"Civil War": A team of photojournalists capture the front lines of a war raging in the United States while traveling from New York to Washington, D.C.

"Much like America itself, writer-director Alex Garland’s 'Civil War' is a precarious sort of success almost in spite of ...Read more

Not that the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were flawless people, produced perfect documents or uniformly followed their own best propositions, yet I have no doubt that they would look with alarm upon what's come of their hopeful handiwork, a politics where rules are for suckers and freedom's just another word ...Read more

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

JULY

2: Housekeeping for Beginners

2: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

9: Civil War

9: Challengers

9: The Boy and the Heron

9: Abigail

9: Unsung Hero

9: Tarot

9: Boy Kills World

9: Arena Wars

9: Fast ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Nancy Nemhauser painted her Mount Dora home to resemble Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in 2017, it set off a legal battle that captured people’s attention worldwide. A new documentary centers on the Central Florida home and the local controversy it sparked, but also tells the story of a mother’s love for her ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — About an hour after the War and Treaty burned down April's Stagecoach Festival with a scorching rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the married country duo's Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter are cooling down in an air-conditioned trailer as they ponder a question: Who sang the greatest national anthem of all time?

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LOS ANGELES — Riding down the 101 Freeway in the back seat of his manager's SUV on a recent rainy evening, Sam Beam is talking about his kids' lunches — specifically about how annoying it is when they don't eat what he gets up early to pack for them.

"Same thing with dinner," he says in his soft Southern drawl. Beam, who's 49 and makes ...Read more

ATLANTA — There are several famous bands named after the places they came from such as Boston, Kansas and Chicago. That is not at all the case with the celebrated quirky indie pop band called of Montreal. Rather, Kevin Barnes started the group in Athens in 1996.

Now, 28 years later, the Ohio native remains the one consistent link in the group...Read more

DETROIT — Mike Konja never set out to be one of the last video store owners in Michigan, but that's how things worked out.

Konja has owned and operated Video Exclusive, a video rental establishment that houses 20,000 titles and sits along a busy stretch of Telegraph Road in Dearborn Heights, since the mid-1990s. Back then, the new release ...Read more