LOS ANGELES — Chip Gaines had a few select words after Samaritan’s Purse founder Franklin Graham publicly criticized his and wife Joanna’s new HBO Max show for casting a same-sex couple with twins among the three families who are featured.

Graham, who is the son of evangelist Billy Graham, wrote Saturday on X that he found it “very ...Read more

Men of Steel need love too; but that’s where a film board in India draws the line when it comes to the latest revival of “Superman.”

Two kissing scenes from James Gunn‘s newest blockbuster were cut by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), the official statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dan Rivera, a renowned paranormal investigator, died suddenly during his “haunted” Annabelle doll tour in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.

His exact cause of death is unclear, but TMZ reports that Adams County dispatch logs revealed there was a call for CPR in progress on a man matching Rivera’s age. Firefighters ...Read more

Bono was so poor as a teenager that he lived off instant mashed potato and leftover airline food.

The U2 frontman was just 14 when his mother Iris died and explained that times were so tough that he had to survive on the surplus food his older brother Norman brought back from the airport where he worked.

Speaking on Ruthie's Table 4 podcast, ...Read more

Taylor Swift's father Scott has undergone major heart surgery.

A spokesperson for the Blank Space singer has confirmed that Scott had quintuple bypass surgery last month and is now recovering from the procedure.

Taylor, her brother Austin Swift and their mother Andrea Swift are said to have been by his side following the operation, which came ...Read more

Extremely versatile, super-powerful mini blower/duster: When I first saw the Wolfbox MF50 Electric Air Duster on Amazon I thought it would be useful for removing dust from turntable styluses, but it turns out it can do so much more. The product listing showed it sells over 20,000 units per month with a 4.6/5 rating, and a product video showed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "You can steer yourself in any direction you choose," Dr. Seuss wrote in his beloved 1990 picture book "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

It seems pop star Ariana Grande has taken the advice to heart, landing yet another movie role and her second collaboration with "Wicked" director Jon M. Chu.

Grande is set to star alongside Josh Gad...Read more

This is where we are, as the lawman says in “Eddington”: “We are in the center of it right now. We are in history.”

This summer, in 2025, history can barely contain each new 24-hour blurt. It feels less like we’re in history and more like we’re choking on it. So we remember Shakespeare’s perfect three syllables to describe dark ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "Andor" has been the "seminal creative experience" of Tony Gilroy's life.

The filmmaker spent over five years steeped in the world of the "Star Wars" prequel series, which follows resistance fighter Cassian Andor (portrayed by Diego Luna) during the nascent days of the Rebellion. On Tuesday, "Andor" earned 14 Emmy nominations ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 77th Emmys nominations have been announced and given the state of just about everything, it’s easy not to care.

Our president is dismantling large portions of the federal government and offering new tax breaks to folks like those portrayed behaving badly in “The White Lotus.” Flash floods, a potential measles epidemic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dystopian drama "Severance" captured the imagination of overworked Americans when it depicted an employee revolt against an oppressive corporation. Now the series and its lead, Adam Scott, are being recognized by the Television Academy. On Tuesday, Scott was nominated for lead actor in a drama for his role as Mark Scout in the ...Read more

Lewis Capaldi says his Glastonbury 2023 episode was "probably the best thing that's ever happened" to him, and it is the "most important" day of his life.

The 28-year-old singer had a rest from performing after he broke down on stage at the festival two years ago, when vocal tics plagued his singing - a symptom of the neurological disorder ...Read more

Dax Shepard has posted a nude picture of his wife Kristen Bell performing a yoga pose to celebrate her first-ever Emmy nomination.

The 44-year-old actress is up for the Best Actress in a Comedy Series prize, for her role in romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This, at this year's Emmy Awards.

Kristen celebrated her nod by stripping off ...Read more

Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months.

The Harry Potter star, 35, was disqualified and ordered to pay £1,044 after she was caught driving at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford.

Emma - who shot to fame as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise - was sentenced at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (07.16.25...Read more

Jennifer Aniston's rumoured boyfriend Jim Curtis has found an "abundance" of "joy and love".

The Friends actress is reportedly dating the 49-year-old hypnotist, and they were pictured together earlier this month while on vacation in Mallorca, Spain with her close friend Jason Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka.

In his most recent newsletter, Jim...Read more

Netflix boss Bela Bajaria doesn't regret cancelling The Residence despite its Emmy nominations.

The streaming giant's chief content officer has reflected on her decision to scrap the murder mystery comedy - which starred Uzo Abuda as police consultant Cordelia Cupp - after the show received a number of nominations for this year's Primetime Emmy...Read more

Matteo Bocelli would love to duet with his idol Ed Sheeran.

The son of legendary tenor Andrea Bocelli, 66, has worked with Grammy winner Ed's co-writer Amy Wadge - with whom he penned huge hit Thinking Out Loud - on the balladeer's upcoming second studio album, Falling In Love.

The 27-year-old singer's famous father featured on a 2017 ...Read more

In the sardonic heist novel “The Payback,” out this month, three millennial retail workers — including a former computer hacker — are in dire straits thanks to their enormous student loans and a newly established law enforcement agency called the Debt Police, who operate like loan shark henchmen. Which is why “thousands of us (are) ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For the past 19 years, Danny DeVito has played the deranged con artist Frank Reynolds on "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

The greedy, gun-toting character has tortured and mercilessly exploited his (legal, not biological) kids: waterboarding Dee (Kaitlin Olson), coercing Dennis (Glenn Howerton) into sex work, and let’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Forty years ago — on July 13, 1985 — Scott Martin, Lisa Giangrasso, and 90,000 others at JFK Stadium watched Mick Jagger and Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, Madonna, the Pretenders, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and more, at the South Philadelphia half of the mega charity concert for African famine relief.

But Martin and ...Read more