Tag: Arts and entertainment
Baseball’s sweetest song: Willie Mays, forever young, is 90
Willie Mays is turning 90, and no mistaking that number. It strikes with the clarity of a line drive. Mays played in a sport...
EU’s Brexit chief eyes a role in French presidential vote
<p>PARIS — He’s well known in the U.K., and his photo was regularly splashed across the front pages of European newspapers. But as presidential...
Broadway readies ticket sales for a fall reopening
NEW YORK — Many Broadway productions are scrambling to resume ticket sales in the coming days to welcome theater-goers this fall after city and...
Meghan wins remainder of copyright claim against UK tabloid
<p>LONDON — </p>
<p>Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, on Wednesday won...
Review: Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in ‘Here Today’
A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly “feel-good," “Here Today" is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia,...
Documentary series revisits 2002 Washington sniper case
<p>NEW YORK — The voice on the phone is steady and clear. “It is unnatural to kill anything,” the man says. “But once you've...
After years, court hands tax win to Michael Jackson heirs
LOS ANGELES — A U.S. tax court has handed a major victory to the estate of Michael Jackson in a years-long battle, finding that...
To filmmaker Gibney, opioid crisis is ‘Crime of the Century’
NEW YORK — Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary “The Crime of the Century” opens with a body bag.
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‘Anxious to see you:’ JFK letters to Swedish lover auctioned
<p>BOSTON — Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up...
Actor indicted in $227M Ponzi scheme involving film rights
LOS ANGELES — An aspiring actor was indicted Tuesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of running a massive Ponzi scheme that solicited hundreds of...