Frank Fritz, the antiques enthusiast and reality TV personality who co-hosted "American Pickers," has died.

Fritz died Monday, the History Channel and "American Pickers" producer Cineflix Productions confirmed in a joint statement to The Times. Additional information, including a cause of death, was not revealed. Fritz was 60.

"We will always ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gavin Creel was always so alive onstage that it's hard to accept the news of his tragic death at age 48. Every time I saw him, I took notice of his blazing talent.

He had a way of blending innocence with irony that made him the most sincere, dashing and lovable Broadway ham of his era. And by "ham," I mean of course musical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — John Amos, the prolific actor known for his work in the sitcoms "Good Times" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the movie "Coming to America" and the miniseries "Roots," has died. He was 84.

Amos' publicist, Belinda Foster, confirmed to The Times on Tuesday that the actor died of natural causes on Aug. 21. Additional details were ...Read more

NEW YORK — Frankie Valli can’t take his eyes off the stage and has no intention of retiring, despite recent performances raising questions of elder abuse.

The 90-year-old “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” singer on Monday told People he wanted to “clear the air” after displaying apparent disorientation during those shows, as seen in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Actor John Amos, known for “Good Times” and “Coming to America,” has died. He was 84 years old.

Amos died Aug. 21 in Los Angeles from natural causes, a spokesperson confirmed to Variety on Tuesday.

“It is with heartfelt sadness that I share with you that my father has transitioned,” son Kelly Christopher Amos said in a...Read more

“American Pickers” star Frank Fritz died over the weekend, two years after he suffered a stroke.

The 60-year-old reality star’s death was confirmed Monday by co-host Mike Wolfe, who also created the History Channel series, which debuted in 2010. Fritz’s cause of death was not disclosed.

“It’s with a broken heart that I share with ...Read more

Britney Spears says she inadvertently burned off her hair, on her head and face, in a heated incident.

Multiple outlets report the 42-year-old “Stronger” singer dished about the blaze Monday on Instagram, though the post in question appears to have been deleted.

Spears said that back in the spring, she tried to light her fireplace — a ...Read more

A man bought a guitar autographed by Taylor Swift for $4,000 at a charity auction in Texas, then gleefully took to it with a hammer as the crowd cheered.

The unidentified snowy-haired buyer buyer sauntered up to the stage after winning his bid, collecting the instrument and hammer from the emcee, then started smashing. His message was unclear ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The American Film Institute announced the full program for this year's AFI Fest on Tuesday, giving local audiences a chance for the first time to catch up with many titles from this year's international festival circuit. The festival runs from Oct. 23–27.

As previously announced, AFI Fest will open with the world premiere of ...Read more

Riley Hawk and Frances Bean Cobain are more than just husband and wife — they're now parents.

Riley, son of skateboard great Tony Hawk, and Frances Bean, the only child of Courtney Love and late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, welcomed a baby boy in September, they announced in matching Instagram posts over the weekend. "Welcome to the world ...Read more

In 2017, the film “Wonder” was a surprise critical and commercial hit for Lionsgate. Adapted from a children’s novel by R.J. Palacio, the film starred Jacob Tremblay as young Auggie, a boy with a facial deformity who teaches his family and peers about the importance of kindness (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson co-starred as his parents). ...Read more

The new culinary horror film “House of Spoils,” starring Ariana DeBose, premieres on Prime Video Thursday, Oct. 3. This spooky, witchy movie follows an ambitious fine-dining chef (DeBose) as she starts a new restaurant venture at a farm in rural upstate New York, and encounters the threatening spirits of the cooks who inhabited the gardens ...Read more

Perhaps it gets you in the door, that the new film “White Bird” can be referred to as both a sequel and prequel to the emotionally nourishing 2017 film “Wonder.”

In theaters this week, “White Bird” is, like its predecessor, based on a work of fiction by R.J. Palacio. However, it has almost nothing to do with the central character of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ken Page, the beloved baritone who starred in Broadway's "Cats" and "The Wiz" and who voiced Oogie Boogie in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," died Monday. He was 70.

Talent agent Todd M. Eskin and Page's close friend and producer Dorian Hannaway confirmed his death Tuesday to The Times. No details about the cause were ...Read more

A movie exploring the origins of humanity's "Quiet Place" future tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 8.

"A Quiet Place: Day One": Lupita Nyong’o runs for her life, quietly, in this prequel set in New York City that details the arrival of the alien creatures with supersonic hearing.

"In Jordan Peele’s 'Us,' a supernatural thriller ...Read more

NEW YORK — A friend texted soon after I arrived in New York to see "McNeal," the new play by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont starring Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut. The message was prompted by the recently published bombshell in the New Yorker about David Adjmi's Tony-winning play "Stereophonic." ...Read more

NEW YORK — What with artificial intelligence on everyone’s lips, deepfake videos messing with an election and the unctuous excellence of ChatGPT coming for you like self-driving vehicles wiping out truckers, it’s getting hard out there for an insecure writer.

Being a member of the liberal elite, it seems, and even being the subject of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The fall box office season is an odd stew, a real gumbo of opportunistically timed horror movies, Hollywood blockbusters and artsy festival darlings hoping to get mainstream attention and Oscar buzz as “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” prepare to take over cinemas ahead of Thanksgiving.

Then there’s “Megalopolis,” which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It feels like few shows this year have hit the way "Nobody Wants This" just did. The rom-com received near-unanimous praise from critics — one even called it "as funny as 'When Harry Met Sally'" — and it secured the No. 1 spot on Netflix's Top 10 list for TV series hours after its debut. (It's also already spawned hundreds of...Read more

With two published sequels ready and waiting, DreamWorks Animation has a franchise in the works with “The Wild Robot,” a big success in its first weekend. It’s good, too. Based on the first of three books by writer-illustrator Peter Brown, the feature runs on the same spirit of well-paced adventure and strategic shifts in mood found in the...Read more