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Turner Classic Movies looks to the future with help from Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Spielberg

Turner Classic Movies looks to the future with help from Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Spielberg

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson are stepping up to help curate programming for Turner Classic Movies, amid a tumultuous week of layoffs and leadership changes that had fans worried about the future of the channel.
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BBC News effort tries to popularize new reporting methods, boost transparency

BBC News effort tries to popularize new reporting methods, boost transparency

NEW YORK (AP) — The BBC is more aggressively bringing “open source” reporting and efforts to expose disinformation to its day-to-day reporting, a move that signals a potential shift in journalism's embrace of new technology.
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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen welcome baby No. 4, a boy, born via surrogate

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen welcome baby No. 4, a boy, born via surrogate

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Welcome Wren Alexander Stephens, the fourth child of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. The baby was born June 19 via surrogate. The couple announced his arrival Wednesday on Instagram.
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Idris Elba uses his brains not brawn in the new Apple TV+ series 'Hijack'

Idris Elba uses his brains not brawn in the new Apple TV+ series 'Hijack'

Standing 6-foot-2-inches, Idris Elba's size helps to sell his characters. As a detective in “ Luther ,” he often averted protocol and went rogue. On “The Wire,” he played a shrewd, intimidating crime boss in the drug world.
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Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with praise and honors - and Beethoven

Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with praise and honors - and Beethoven

CHICAGO (AP) — Riccardo Muti was in total control to the very end. He had signaled the last note of his final Orchestra Hall concert as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director on Sunday when several people started to applaud.
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Singer, TV host Keshia Chanté to host The Black Academy's second Legacy Awards

Singer, TV host Keshia Chanté to host The Black Academy's second Legacy Awards

TORONTO — Singer and TV host Keshia Chanté is set to anchor the second edition of The Black Academy's Legacy Awards this fall. The 90-minute broadcast will air live on CBC and CBC Gem on Sept.
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Movie Review: What does it mean to be intersex? ‘Every Body’ sheds light on little-known subject

Movie Review: What does it mean to be intersex? ‘Every Body’ sheds light on little-known subject

Plumes of pink smoke. Explosions of blue. Expectant parents laughing, screaming, fainting, shooting arrows or even guns. The new documentary “Every Body” opens with footage of the often absurd practice of elaborate “gender reveals.
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Who wants to be a game show host? These days, you already have to be famous

Who wants to be a game show host? These days, you already have to be famous

NEW YORK (AP) — When producers of “Wheel of Fortune” named Ryan Seacrest — probably the most ubiquitous man on entertainment television — as its next host this week, it surprised virtually no one.
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TIFF's first 2023 lineup announcement: Taika Waititi's soccer romp 'Next Goal Wins'

TIFF's first 2023 lineup announcement: Taika Waititi's soccer romp 'Next Goal Wins'

TORONTO — Taika Waititi's long-awaited soccer comedy "Next Goal Wins" will get its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It's the first film TIFF has confirmed will play at this year's festival.
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Deaf-led theatre company to bring reimagined Shakespeare tale to Toronto festival

Deaf-led theatre company to bring reimagined Shakespeare tale to Toronto festival

TORONTO — As a Deaf actor and artist, Dawn Jani Birley has spent much of her career challenging misconceptions and barriers.
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