VICTORIA - Andrew Loog Oldham was 19 years old when he joined the vanguard of rock and roll history known as the British Invasion, becoming the first manager and producer of the Rolling Stones in 1963 and co-founding Immediate Records, an influential label with a roster of music superstars i…
TORONTO - Adam Sandler was waiting to be thrown into a midtown fountain on Sixth Avenue for a scene in Josh and Benny Safdie’s “Uncut Gems” when he noticed a familiar face on the sidewalk.
NEW YORK - Danny Aiello, the blue-collar character actor whose long career playing tough guys included roles in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” "Moonstruck" and “Once Upon a Time in America” and his Oscar-nominated performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing," has died. He was 86.
WINNIPEG - APTN and Rogers Sportsnet agreed a three-year deal on Friday to broadcast NHL games in Plains Cree.
The last 10 years will probably go down as the decade of Marvel’s domination and Netflix’s ascension. But despite all the tumult and the perpetual rumours of cinema’s supposed demise, good stuff — no, great stuff — kept getting made.
NEW YORK - For a few moments, most of the talking ceased, replaced by simple recitations of “aye" or “no.”
LOS ANGELES - “Mad Men” actress Christina Hendricks filed for divorce Friday from her husband of 10 years, actor Geoffrey Arend.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The 2020 lineup for the Something in the Water music festival in Virginia includes Post Malone, Chance the Rapper, Pharrell and Friends, A$AP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, and more.
LOS ANGELES - Taylor Swift used the Billboard Women in Music stage to address a series of issues including her ongoing beef with Scooter Braun.
HOUSTON - As a member of Houston’s pioneering rap group The Geto Boyz, Brad Jordan co-wrote the early 1990s hip-hop anthem “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.”
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump has signed resolutions renaming two post offices in the Los Angeles area in honour of Marilyn Monroe and rock ’n’ roll legend Ritchie Valens.
NEW YORK - Olivia Wilde said Thursday she does not believe the real-life journalist she plays in the new film “Richard Jewel” “traded sex for tips" despite that insinuation in the movie.
NEW YORK - The top 15 albums of the decade by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu:
NEW YORK - It's been true for some time that Republicans are generally more hostile to the news media than Democrats, but a study released Thursday found that's much more the case for supporters of President Donald Trump.
TORONTO - Ontario has created a new poet laureate position for the province and named it after the late Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie.
The Hollywood Critics Association has declared Quebec director Denis Villeneuve the filmmaker of the decade.
NEW YORK - The top 25 songs of the decade, as determined by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu:
NEW YORK - The first movie Greta Gerwig saw in a theatre was “Muppets Take Manhattan.” When it was over, her parents momentarily couldn’t find her. She had run to the front of the theatre to put her hands on the screen.
NEW YORK - Ninety-eight per cent of The Weinstein Co.'s creditors are joining a tentative settlement that plaintiffs say includes $25 million for over two dozen actresses and former employees who claim Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed them, a lawyer said Thursday.
MIAMI - A Miami couple who bought a headline-grabbing banana duct-taped to a wall have acknowledged the absurdity of the artwork, but say they believe it will become an icon and plan to gift it to a museum.
NEW YORK - The first movie Greta Gerwig saw in a theatre was “Muppets Take Manhattan.” When it was over, her parents momentarily couldn’t find her. She had run to the front of the theatre to put her hands on the screen.
Growing up in Halifax, Amy Jones didn't recognize the pastoral paradise of "Anne of Green Gables," or the fiddles and folklore of Maritime historical fiction. But when she read Christy Ann Conlin's "Heave," Jones says it was the first time she saw the gothic beauty and brutality of the Nova …
VENTURA, Calif. - Rapper and singer Anderson .Paak is lending his support to an arts centre facing closure in his Southern California hometown of Oxnard.
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga wore meat and Rihanna went naked, practically. Kate Middleton delivered royal wedding opulence and Billy Porter went viral in a tuxedo gown. There was the much-coveted Olivia Pope white coat, Lupita Nyong'o's perfect powder blue Oscar gown and Karl Lagerfield's embrace o…
HALIFAX - A dispute over access to a strip of Nova Scotia sand has concluded in favour of an heiress to the McCain business dynasty, with local residents facing payment of legal costs.
TORONTO - Gerry Dee remembers watching "Family Feud" as a kid, wishing he could test his wits in the intense Fast Money bonus round, in which a contestant answers rapid-fire survey questions with the risk of blurting out something odd on national TV.
NEW YORK - A day after Fox News' Tucker Carlson aired a segment describing her congressional district as “filled with garbage,” U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the network on Wednesday for airing “unmitigated racism" with no accountability.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian West is suing an Alabama doctor over claims he wrongly used her image to promote a medical procedure called a “Vampire Facial."
NEW YORK - Ryan Reynolds says he relates to the social media criticism heaped on the Peloton ad actress. In fact, that feeling led him to hire her for a commercial promoting his gin company.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's culture minister will mediate a dispute over an effeminate painting of Mexican Revolution hero Emiliano Zapata, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday.
MIAMI - The rapper known as Saucy Santana said he was one of three people shot and wounded during a drive-by shooting near Miami early Wednesday morning.
NEW YORK - A judge Wednesday hiked Harvey Weinstein’s bail over allegations he mishandled or disabled his electronic ankle monitor dozens of times in recent months.
LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon remembered when she met with several film production studios in 2011 to ask them how many movies were being developed for women.
TORONTO - Filmmakers Millefiore Clarkes and Anne Pick were the big winners at the Documentary Organization of Canada's sixth annual awards event in Toronto.
TORONTO - Brent Butt is trepidatious about the streaming era.
STOCKHOLM - A$AP Rocky is back in Sweden. The American rapper is set to perform late Wednesday in Stockholm, where he was convicted of assault in August over a street brawl.
MADRID - Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and honoured Wednesday to be named Time’s youngest Person of the Year, while adding that others in the global movement she helped inspire deserve to share the accolade.
NEW YORK - Scarlett Johansson received two individual nominations, “Parasite” scored a best ensemble nod and both “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" solidified their Oscar favourite status in nominations announced Wednesday for the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Berlin is opening the first of three Raphael exhibitions this week as the art world celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance master's death next year.
LOS ANGELES - It was two weeks before cameras were to start rolling on a film about the sexual misconduct scandals at Fox News that ended the reign of Roger Ailes and things were rolling along smoothly.
DALLAS - Philip McKeon, who as a child actor was featured as the son of Linda Lavin's Alice Hyatt in the 1980s CBS situation comedy “Alice,” has died in Texas at age 55, a family spokesman said.
TORONTO - The organization behind the Toronto International Film Festival has released its annual top 10 list of the year's best Canadian features and shorts, half of which are directed or co-directed by women.
WASHINGTON - More films directed or co-directed by women than ever before have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A judge should grant attorney fees to lawyers who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against Ohio's capital city before competing claims on Daniels' $450,000 settlement are dealt with, including a claim by President Donald Trump, Daniels' lawyers argued in …
NEW YORK - Cardi B turned up for a court appearance Tuesday in an attempted assault case, staying mum — except for fashion statements — as it proceeds.
ROME - A Gustav Klimt painting, stolen almost 23 years ago, might have been hidden all this time inside an Italian gallery's walls.
ATLANTA - After a bomb exploded in a downtown Atlanta park midway through the 1996 Olympics, a security guard initially cast as a hero was recast as a villain virtually overnight. More than 20 years later, a movie to be released later this week, “Richard Jewell,” explores the roles played by…
NEW YORK - A second publisher plans to release the Impeachment Report in book form, and this edition will feature a defence of President Donald Trump.
NEW YORK - Netflix says that 26.4 million households worldwide watched “The Irishman” in its first week of streaming.
NEW YORK - Many have noticed how fragmented our TV viewing is, with multiple competing streaming services and dozens of channels pulling us in different directions. But the year also saw some jaw-dropping moments that found huge audiences, whether it was a royal interview or a viral alien. T…
LONDON - Barrie Keeffe, screenwriter of classic British gangster movie “The Long Good Friday,” has died. He was 74.
Only moments after Scheer announced his resignation as party leader, speculation began as to who party delegates will nominate. Which of these proposed front-runners do you believe would be the best leader, with the best chance of forming government in the next election? (Note: nobody has declared. The names provided by Canadian Press are speculative.)
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