A Turkish film festival has been threatened by accusations of censorship
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been thrown into turmoil after jury members resigned and filmmakers withdrew their work from the competition...
Rising star Jasmine Amy Rogers is tapped to play iconic Betty Boop in new...
NEW YORK (AP) — The actor picked to play the iconic, baby-faced flapper Betty Boop in a new stage musical is a triple threat...
Christian Thielemann chosen to succeed Daniel Barenboim as music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper
BERLIN (AP) — Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of Berlin's Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade...
Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ arrives at Met in Jake Heggie’s operatic version
NEW YORK (AP) — Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.”“I don’t know...
Film academy gifts a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s historic Oscar to Howard University
NEW YORK (AP) —Hattie McDaniel's best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in...
Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo...
NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen years ago, Barkley L. Hendricks, the pioneering portrait artist known for vivid, stylish paintings of Black men and...
Spain charges pop singer Shakira with tax evasion for a second time and demands...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her...
Gary Sinise to receive honorary AARP Purpose Prize Award
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gary Sinise will receive an honorary AARP Award for his work through his foundation that supports military members and first...
New book alleges Trump’s ex-chief of staff’s suits smelled ‘like a bonfire’ from burning...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide in Donald Trump’s White House says chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers so often after the...
David McCallum, star of hit TV series ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dies...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in the 1960s and...