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2023 was the year Barbie busted out of her box and Taylor triumphed again (and again). Actors abandoned red carpets and grabbed picket signs even as, around the world, the entertainment industry shook off the last remnants of the pandemic. Fashion houses resumed large-scale, eye-popping shows. The Oscars returned to full capacity and moved past The Slap. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” took the top prize, bringing Oscar glory to Michelle Yeoh and reviving the once-dormant career of the infectiously optimistic Ke Huy Quan. Fun was back. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and newcomer Ethann Isidore playfully posed in Cannes at the premiere of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks and other “Asteroid City” stars looked overjoyed to be together at the glitzy French Riviera festival, which feted Michael Douglas and gave Johnny Depp his biggest comeback platform yet. Jared Leto left Met Gala guests puzzled with a realistic full cat costume based on late designer Karl...

Max Strus didn’t win a Larry O’Brien Trophy during his time in Miami

Fox News is pushing back against a former reporter’s lawsuit saying he was targeted and fired for challenging false claims about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

Actor Ryan O’Neal, who was nominated for an Oscar for the tear-jerker “Love Story” and played opposite his precocious daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” has died

Ryan O'Neal, one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1970s with 'Love Story,' 'Paper Moon' roles, dies at 82, son says

Coach Dan Campbell and quarterback Jared Goff aren’t the only popular Detroit Lions these days

The actor Jonathan Majors once begged his former girlfriend not to seek medical attention following an incident that left her with a head injury, according to messages read in court on Friday

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar Week of 12/11/2023

French actor Gerard Depardieu’s behavior toward women has come under scrutiny in France after a documentary showed him repeatedly making obscene remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea

Spotify’s chief financial officer, Paul Vogel, is leaving next year, the music streaming service said — just days after the company announced its third round of layoffs for 2023

It’s been a terrific year for video games

Fourteen years ago, Tony Shalhoub said goodbye to one of his most beloved creations — the obsessive-compulsive private detective Adrian Monk

The publishing world made plenty of news in 2023, but not only because of the books themselves

Taylor Swift's incomparable year has reached another milestone — the concert trade publication Pollstar says Swift’s Eras Tour has earned more than $1 billion

The funeral of The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has taken place in Ireland, attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave

Nintendo has canceled an upcoming video game event and postponed several others because of persistent threats to the company, its workers and players

Prince Harry lost a preliminary round in his libel case against against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over an article that said he tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the U.K. after walking away from his role as ...

Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Pink Friday 2,” is here

Country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery in Nashville to offer dignity to low-income people when shopping for food

Adele paid homage to the many women — including her mother, grandmother and aunts -- who helped shape her world and personality since was a child

Martin Scorsese will be honored with the prestigious David O

The woman who accused Jonathan Majors of assaulting her in the backseat of a car broke down multiple times on the witness stand as the actor’s attorney repeatedly played a surveillance video that showed Majors lifting her up and thrusting her into the ...

Rapper Kodak Black was arrested in South Florida on cocaine possession and other charges

Both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are among the 10 films that will receive an AFI Award in January, the American Film Institute said Thursday

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” will get a theatrical release in Japan after all

Publishers Weekly Best Selling Books for the week ending December 2nd

Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle have named their best movies of 2023

The stage musical “How to Dance in Ohio” opens on Broadway on Sunday, celebrating those on the autism spectrum and opening a window about autism’s highs and lows for the neurotypical

After more than a half-century of making music together, Daryl Hall is suing John Oates over a proposed sale of his share of a Hall & Oates business partnership that Hall says he hasn’t approved

Ryan Seacrest will usher in 2024 on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” from Times Square, with satellite locations in Los Angeles and San Juan, Puerto Rico

Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

British poet, political activist, musician and actor Benjamin Zephaniah has died at age 65

Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101, changed American life with the candor and comedy of his creations

Some of the words tied to this year’s hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud

J Balvin has released his latest single, “Amigos.”

Jonathan Majors’ former girlfriend testified Wednesday about the injuries that she suffered after the actor allegedly attacked her in the backseat of a cab this spring

Emma Stone plays a re-animated Victorian woman in “Poor Things,” the latest demented confection from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos

“Killers of the Flower Moon” was named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review, adding to the early awards-season haul of Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic

A woman has sued the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs claiming he and two other men raped her 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17

Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun play a satellite and a buoy in love, and Will Ferrell takes a road trip with his best friend who is transitioning in films heading to Sundance this year

She was an admired pop star with a voice like butter

New productions of Mieczysław’ Weinberg’s “Der Idiot” and Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” will highlight next summer’s Salzburg Festival

At the multiplex, “Barbenheimer” ruled

Michael Urie has a very hard job this winter: Not cracking up when he’s not supposed to on Broadway

Dallas philanthropist Lyda Hill has devoted much of her giving to tackling social problems through science

Tributes have been pouring in on social media following the death of TV pioneer Norman Lear, including from Rob Reiner and Quinta Brunson

Virginia’s state-run fine arts museum is returning 44 ancient pieces of art to their countries of origin after law enforcement officials presented the institution with what it called “irrefutable evidence” that the works had been stolen or looted

Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ appointees to Walt Disney World’s governing district have released a series of reports justifying their takeover of the government and accusing their Disney-controlled predecessors of being a part of “the most egregious exhibition of...

Chanel Miller’s next book after her prize-winning memoir “Know My Name” will help fulfill a longtime dream to write and illustrate children’s stories

Norman Lear has died