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“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” have debuted in theaters with a combined $270 million in ticket sales

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of 'Wheel of Fortune' and 'Love Connection,' has died at 83

Snoop Dogg strolled in wearing a jacket with JuJu Watkins’ name and number on the front and back

Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce's wife is announcing she's pregnant with the couple's fourth child

With his surprise-dropped “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar roars from zero to 60 faster than a turbocharged ’87 Buick

A judge says he’ll rule next week on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ third request to be released from jail on bail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial

Alice Brock has died at age 83

Attorneys for Fox Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold current and former company officials personally liable for the financial fallout from Fox News reports regarding alleged vote rigging in the 2020 election

A Tennessee man who helped two hired killers after they gunned down rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery three years ago has been sentenced to six years probation

Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present with a new album

In his sixth season as chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko is leading the Berlin Philharmonic on its 25th U.S. tour and second in three years

Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend has dropped her assault and defamation lawsuit against the once-rising Hollywood star after reaching a settlement

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A rugby player called Harry Potter is set to make his debut for Australia on Sunday

Buckingham Palace says Queen Camilla will miss another engagement as she recovers from a chest infection

The microbudget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into lo-fi legend

DirecTV is calling off its planned acquisition of rival Dish after the offer was rejected by bond holders at that company

Two of the new holiday movies coming to TV this season have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding

The low-budget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into a lo-fi legend

A special tribunal has rejected a legal claim against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying Western artwork including pieces not seen by the public in at least a decade

Jason Kelce will try his hand at late-night television early next year

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Snoop Dogg and Simone Biles turned their Olympic bond from this summer’s Paris Games into a new challenge: The superstar tandem will team up on NBC’s “The Voice.”

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted

“Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture

In “Wicked,” Elphaba and Glinda travel from Shiz University to the Emerald City on a glistening green train to meet the wizard. In real life, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have traveled much farther and wider and longer — and on airplanes — to promote their hotly anticipated film. The Oscars. The Met Gala. CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Premieres on both U.S. coasts and around the globe in London, Mexico City and Sydney. The two stars even appeared at the Paris Olympics, where they should really have won a gold medal for fashion. At the Oscars in March, Erivo channeled her green-skinned character with a Louis Vuitton gown in shiny green leather. Grande evoked spritely Glinda in a bubble-gum pink concoction. Onstage, the duo presented the awards for best song and score, and Erivo managed to get in some lines from “The Wizard of Oz.” Replied Grande: “How wickedly subtle of you.” At the Met Gala in May, the duo switched colors during a performance for the lucky dinner guests, with Grande...

Lil Wayne, GloRilla and Camila Cabello are gearing up to make their presence felt in a festive concert series leading up to college football’s national championship game

The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied to Chicago police

It turns out British pop star Ed Sheeran is also good at recruiting soccer players

Two television networks with “NBC” in their names — MSNBC and CNBC — will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News once a spinoff formally takes effect in about a year

A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York City

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction

The longtime voice actor behind Milhouse Van Houten — Bart Simpson’s very uncool friend — is stepping away after 35 years of whining

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann canceled his appearance in the new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” opening the season at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on Dec. 7

The holiday season really kicks off when the massive helium balloons start floating through New York

It’s holiday season, but that doesn’t have to mean waiting in long lines for big sales to buy the hottest toy or newest game system for the kids in your life

Hollywood to fashion, dogs to sports

The Associated Press has gathered up some of the best items out there to keep any movie lover stylish and informed

Music fans should be easy to shop for this holiday season, right

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Joy,” the muffled cry of a newborn baby prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace

The former members of One Direction have reunited for the funeral of bandmate Liam Payne, who died in a fall from a hotel window in Argentina on Oct. 16

Viola Davis became one of Hollywood’s most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from “Fences” to “The Woman King,” and now, her decorated career has earned one of the Golden Globes' highest honors

Comcast is spinning off into a new company many of its cable television networks that were once at the heart of the entertainment giant, as consumers increasingly swap out their cable TV subscriptions for streaming platforms

Comcast will spin off its cable networks, once star performers at the entertainment giant

Alec Baldwin’s Western “Rust” had its world premiere Wednesday at a film festival in Poland, three years after the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set

It was mostly Chris Stapleton’s night at the Country Music Association Awards

President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing experience on television as he chooses people to serve in his new administration