Christopher Polk/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Bob Einstein, the gravelly-voiced comic, actor and writer who had a recurring role on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and as the bumbling daredevil Super Dave Osborne, died Wednesday in Indian Wells, California...
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‘Stranger Things’ season three returns July 4, 2019
Netflix(NEW YORK) -- July 4, 2019 is going to get pretty strange. That's the date Netflix has set for the Stranger Things season three premiere. Just as people on the East Coast were ringing in the new year, Netflix released a teaser-trailer for the sh...
Read More »‘Black Panther,’ ‘Roma’ and ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ among Barack Obama’s favorite films of 2018
Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House theater in 2009; Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Barack Obama’s apparently spent a lot of time in movie theaters this year -- or at least, watching flicks at home. The former...
Read More »‘Sesame Street’ scandal: Did Grover drop the F-bomb?
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It's the new yanny vs. laurel...except this debate is sponsored by the letter R -- as in "R-rated." Earlier this year, the Internet was fiercely divided over whether a certain audio clip of a male voice sounded ...
Read More »Required watching: The best (and worst) movies of 2018
Image from "Roma"; Alfonso Cuarón/Netflix(NEW YORK) -- The end of the year is the best time to catch up on your movie watching. But so you don't have to waste your time with disappointing choices, film critic Peter Travers has screened mor...
Read More »Forest Whitaker files for divorce after 22 years of marriage
Forest and Keisha Whitaker; Kevin Mazur/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Forest Whitaker is reportedly divorcing his wife, Keisha, after 22 years of marriage. The Black Panther star filed court documents Thursday in Los Angeles, citing “irreconcilable ...
Read More »TV in 2018: The hits, misses, scandals and farewells
Image from "Game of Thrones"; courtesy HBO(NEW YORK) -- 2018 was a year of change for television, as the #MeToo movement continued to rock the entertainment industry, a once-beloved TV dad was imprisoned for sexual assault, Roseanne Barr made waves for...
Read More »‘Stan & Ollie’ joins ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Vice’ at the box office to close out 2018
Sony Pictures Classics(NEW YORK) -- On the last Friday of 2018, here's a look at what opened in theaters this week, and what's opening today. Opening in limited release Friday: * Stan & Ollie -- This biographical dramedy follows legendary comedy ...
Read More »Cosby, Roseanne & more — 2018’s biggest entertainment scandals
William Thomas Cain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- 2018 might become known as the year Twitter became a career killer. Every year has its share of old-fashioned, off-line scandals -- like when years-old sex crime accusations against formerly beloved TV dad ...
Read More »Billie Lourd remembers mom Carrie Fisher, two years after her death
Araya Diaz/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- Hard to believe perhaps, but it's been two years since we lost Carrie Fisher. And Fisher's daughter, actress Billie Lourd, marked the anniversary with a sweet, musical post on Instagram to honor her late mother a...
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