Entertainment

I know, you're thinking, who cares about The Bachelor on ABC?But the show and its counterpart, The Bachelorette, have become an industry, and staples on the network since 2002. Yes, two thousand two.I wrote yesterday about how totally insipid the alre...

The Golden Globes say they will return next January 7, 2024.But there are two problems. One is, they have no TV partner. NBC only made a one year deal with them, and the ratings were miserable. With just 6.3 million viewers, the Globes did half the number...

Yesterday's bombshell that the surviving Beatles and Rolling Stones would all be on the same album caused a near riot in classic rock circles.But the real story, from what I'm told, is a little less feverish. My source, who is right in the middle ...

The people who watch HBO's...

I'm a huge fan of Angela Davis, the great activist and educator. I was honored to sit at her table at a lunch for a documentary about her a few years ago. We discussed how she became a target for the right back in the 60s. She was never part of the Bl...

It's a mixed bag for Scott Lang aka the Ant Man.On Monday, box office for...

David Soul, original star of...

It's been 19 years since James Blunt hit it big with his song,...

I told you on January 24th that Justin Bieber was selling the rights to his catalog etc to Hipgnosis Songs. It was announced a couple of hours ago. Today, Hipgnosis is over the moon to announce the acquisition of 100% interest in Justin's publishing a...

Alec Baldwin isn't off the hook in the...

One of the great heroes of classic R&B and soul, Chuck Jackson, has died at age 85. He was living in Atlanta.Chuck was a friend, a great guy who really lived in New York and made the Apollo Theater his home in later years.In the early 60s, Chuck had major...

Cannes do!The next Cannes Film Festival, set for mid- May on the Cote d'Azur, will be fairly sensational from what I hear.Sources tell me that Martin Scorsese's...

With the Oscars coming into view, and the end of the 2023 awards season, we turn out attention to the next round of movies.Martin Scorsese's...

All is no longer quiet on the Western front.Edward Berger's...

The weekend's big office bonanza is Marvel's...

Det John Munch, RIP.Actor Richard Belzer, who started out as a comedian but became a highly praised dramatic actor on TV, has died at age 78. He'd been living in the South of France for quite some time.Belzer was beloved as Detective John Munch, first...

The Directors Guild has spoken.Winner of the 2023 DGA Award for Feature Films are Daniel Scheinert and Danuel Kwan, aka...

Last night came the...

The jury has returned a verdict: Warner Discovery is cancelling its two syndicated court shows.I've confirmed that...

Of course, everyone grieves in their own way.Lisa Marie Presley died on January 13th. Today is February 17th. It's basically a month since Priscilla Presley lost her only daughter. She celebrated tonight by posting a plug on Twitter for her new skinca...

I don't understand how movie publicity works, obviously.Last night in Washington, the White House screened the fine movie,...

Taylor Swift has got this game down cold.She didn't sing at the Grammys two weeks ago, but this past week she sold the most albums of anyone in the top 50.According to hitsdailydouble.com, Taylor placed five albums in the top 50. The total came to aro...

Thursday ratings:...

Friday means new music on the pop charts.Pink is back-- with a vengeance. Her wonderful new album is called...

Box office numbers are coming in for previews of Marvel's...

Bruce Willis clearly had dementia several years ago. Either his family was in denial or they didn't want to announce it. Today they did, and I suspect that's because some tabloid was on the verge of exposing it. Poor Bruce. The family allowed him ...

Mornings on ABC are going to be a family affair now. First of all, Ryan Seacrest is leaving...

Julie Benko: she's not a marquee name unless you're a fan of...

Hard to believe, but Raquel Welch is dead, on her 82nd birthday. An international screen siren and sex symbol, Raquel was buxom and beautiful but also had a brain. When she appeared on Broadway in...

Vanity Fair has issued its Emmy issue at the time of the Oscars. Either they couldn't get big movie stars to pose for them, or there just aren't any, anymore. That would seem to the case. On the cover are 12 actors. One of them is probably very ni...

This is pretty funny. ABC's first promo for the Oscars features Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Hamm, Charles Parnell, and Billy Crystal. It's a send up of...

Kevin Costner couldn't get to the Golden Globes last month because of the floods in Southern California.Now his statue has arrived for Best Actor in a Drama. Costner posted a video unpacking the Globe statue for his fans.He thanks the fans, and the Ho...

Considering everything else going on in the world, you wouldn't believe it, but Society lives on. In Palm Beach, the very wealthy meet and mingle, raising money for charity with galas-- aka balls -- and fashion shows.Last weekend, Mitch McConnell'...

First of all, I didn't even realize Interview magazine still existed.But it does, apparently. And somehow they landed two of the world's biggest pop-emo stars, Lana del Rey and Billie Eilish, on the cover.Interscope Records labelmates, del Rey is ...

I told you on January 31st that Jujamcyn Theaters would merge with Britain's Ambassador Theater Group.And it has happened this morning. The St. James, Al Hirschfeld, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, and Walter Kerr Theaters now leave the control of ...

The Super Bowl was a hit.The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles scored the third biggest audience in TV history.A total of 112.1 million people tuned in to watch the game, not to mention Rihanna's half time show.That's...

Where to begin?You may know that Elvis Costello is in the middle of a residency at the Gramercy Theater on East 23rd St. The theme is 100 songs in ten nights although as he said last night, it's really 200 songs. Ten songs per night -- all different -...

If you watch the trailer for...

Who won last night's Super Bowl? Why, Rihanna, of course.The singer who performed the half time show without any special guests scored the equivalent of 5 touchdowns.A whopping total of 27 Rihanna hits are now lodged on the iTunes top 100 singles. On ...

In 2021, ABC's...

Rihanna likes the drama, that's for sure.She revealed the world that she is pregnant again tonight while performing the Super Bowl half time show. Her stomach was like a red yoga ball as she daringly sang from a platform floating over the stadium.Riha...

Have you ever wondered what a Pyrrhic victory is? That's when you win but maybe at a cost so high you shouldn't have started in the first place....

Last week, a short clip on social media got the Beatles world excited. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were filmed joyously dancing at an after party for Paul's daughter Stella McCartney's fashion show. You can hear the 70s hit...

Carole King has written an excellent remembrance of Burt Bacharach for The Washington Post, but it's also on her Facebook page for free. Carole writes: In 1962, the lyricist (and my then-husband) Gerry Goffin and I were driving up the Garden State Par...

James Cameron is the only director in recent memory to have two movies in the box office top 10....

Warren Beatty has been pretty quiet and reclusive the last few years. But the famed Oscar winning director and writer pulled off a surprise move tonight with an impromptu special on TCM.Beatty appeared on the special in character as Dick Tracy and as hims...

Roger Waters is determined to destroy any legacy he had with Pink Floyd.Yesterday he was allowed to address the UN, and declared that the war in Ukraine started by Russia -- with staggering destruction and death -- wasn't unprovoked.A long time proud ...