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The movie “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” appeared in cinemas Friday and mostly features real footage of the beloved celebrity chef and globe-trotting television host before he died in 2018. Angry and uncomfortable reactions to the voice cloning in the Bourdain case reflect expectations and issues of disclosure and consent, said Sam Gregory, program […]

He’ll start playing a Keith Urban or a Lionel Ritchie song and look out to see the reaction. He reveals beefs with Brad Paisley, Clive Davis and Night Ranger and a crush on Olivia Newton-John. And then I put out a record that I joked went double plywood instead of double platinum,” he says. He […]

NEW YORK — It’s not easy to put a finger on Janicza Bravo’s cinema. It’s very possibly the first feature film adapted from a Twitter thread — an infamous, mostly true 148-tweet tale from 2015 in which A’Ziah “Zola” King unloaded about a Florida road trip to a strip club that goes harrowingly south. In […]

Taraji P. Swizz Beatz is curating the tribute to DMX, who died in April at age 50. The “Savage” rapper, who won three Grammys this year, is up for best female hip-hop artist, album of the year for “Good News” and video of the year for “WAP,” her No. Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby were […]

“They are artists and technicians at the same time, and that is not easy,’’ Trespidi said. Friday’s season-opening premiere was a double-bill of Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” a production planned for the 2020 season that was never staged due to restrictions that limited performances to concerts. Instead, a Sicilian village was […]

And now in “The Ice Road,” this durable action hero improbably pushing 70 is at the wheel of a big ol’ truck — not your normal truck, but a 65,000-pound rig. Luckily, Neeson has a way of lending his rough-hewn dignity to even the most perfunctory of plots — because this one, it must be […]

The hour-long “Conan” finale Thursday was largely a trip down memory lane with clips of guests including Steve Martin, Tom Hanks and Sarah Silverman, and highlights of specials taped outside the United States. The host, whose gravity-defying, trademark swoop of red hair has remained virtually unchanged through the years, wrapped up the show with heartfelt […]

The pandemic scuttled those plans but by early fall, after he helped create return-to-set safety protocols, Soderbergh remounted it — albeit without one star, George Clooney, who withdrew out of health concerns for his asthmatic son. Still, “No Sudden Move,” which debuts July 1 on HBO Max, doesn’t lack for stars. Twenty-three years later, “No […]

During quarantine she did a full tour of drive-in stand-up shows, refined a new hour of material, launched an online cooking show with her husband and secured a book deal. In 2008, she became the youngest person ever to win NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” Since then she’s written a book, hosted five Netflix stand-up specials, […]

It has the power to take out restraining orders in her name, which it has used more than once to keep away interlopers deemed shady. From 2008 until 2019, he had power over her life choices, and he and attorney Andrew Wallet controlled her money. Fans who dote on Britney Spears’ social media posts and […]

After the screening, Chappelle dramatically took the stage to a thumping beat from DJ Clark Kent and a raucous standing ovation. “But, man, let’s get up,” said Chappelle. It opened last week with the New York premiere of “In the Heights,” the acclaimed adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical and an ode to the north […]

The sheer misery and joy of being around a lot of like-minded, really wonderful people. Britain has recorded almost128,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest toll in Europe. All mass events in Britain were canceled in March 2020 when the country entered the first of three lockdowns. A Euro 2020 soccer semi-final and the tournament final at […]