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Lorraine Ali: The right's answer to the Super Bowl halftime show is here. Bad Bunny has nothing to worry about

LOS ANGELES — When it was announced in the fall that Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny was chosen to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show, some folks took it personally.

Why not an American pop star (he is) who speaks English (he does) and likes the president (good luck, did you watch the Grammy Awards?)?! The right felt slighted, ...Read more

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Everything you need to know about Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show

LOS ANGELES — It's only the first week of February, but Bad Bunny is making history yet again.

The Puerto Rican singer will headline the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, just a week after "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" became the first Spanish-language album to take home a Grammy for album of the year.

Bad Bunny will be the first Latin male artist...Read more

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Meryl Streep to play Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe's upcoming biopic

Meryl Streep may be making another splash in rock & roll music with her upcoming role as Joni Mitchell.

The three-time Oscar winner, who starred as late-in-life rocker in 2015’s “Ricki and the Flash,” will reportedly portray the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer in Cameron Crowe’s biopic.

Legendary music producer Clive Davis revealed the ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Miss Piggy thinks Sabrina Carpenter was 'intimidated' on The Muppet Show

Miss Piggy thinks Sabrina Carpenter was 'intimidated' by her on The Muppet Show

Miss Piggy says Sabrina Carpenter was "very intimidated" by her on The Muppet Show.

The Muppets icon and the Manchild hitmaker share the spotlight on Disney+ and ABC's revival of the classic show, and Piggy insisted she wasn't fazed by her famous castmate.

She told E! News: "Was I intimidated? If anything, I think you should ask Sabrina if she...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Christian Bale wasn't a fan of long make-up sessions on The Bride! set

Christian Bale 'screamed like crazy' to 'release despair'

Christian Bale "screamed like crazy" to release his "despair" during long make-up sessions for The Bride!

The 52-year-old actor plays Frankenstein's monster - known as Frank - in Maggie Gyllenhaal's new take on the Bride of Frankenstein and he spent up to six hours getting ready each day as he transformed into the character but the lengthy make...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Colin Farrell opens up on aging.

Colin Farrell jokes 'hips don't lie' as he nears 50th birthday

Colin Farrell has joked his "hips don't lie" as he approaches his 50th birthday.

The Penguin actor will hit the milestone age in May this year, and he joked while his "spirit doesn't feel" like he's almost 50, his body isn't letting him forget.

He told Extra: "5-0, half a century, man! I mean, my hips feel like it... Hips don't lie. Hips, ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Timothée Chalamet wanted the Paris premiere of Marty Supreme to be free.

Timothée Chalamet wanted Paris premiere of Marty Supreme to be free

Timothée Chalamet wanted the Paris premiere of Marty Supreme to be free.

The 30-year-old actor made the light-hearted statement after audiences were charged up to €50 (£43) to attend the event, telling the crowd ticket prices "had nothing to do with me".

Wearing sunglasses and a brown Givenchy suit, Timothée was greeted by cheering fans ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Christopher Nolan has no idea how Donald Trump's controversial movies tariffs proposal would work

Christopher Nolan admits he has no idea how Donald Trump's controversial movies tariffs plan would work

Christopher Nolan has no idea how Donald Trump's controversial movies tariffs proposal would work.

The Odyssey director, 55, made the remark while setting out priorities for the Directors Guild of America after being named the group's newly elected president.

He told Variety about Trump's plan: "I don't know how a tariff system would work."

...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Harrison Ford would be satisfied if Shrinking was his final role

Harrison Ford would be content if Shrinking was his last acting role

Harrison Ford thinks Shrinking would be a "sufficient" end to his legendary career.

The 83-year-old actor - who stars alongside the likes of Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Jason Segel and Michael J Fox in the hit Apple TV series - described the show as a "very special" project to work on and admitted he wonders what he could ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Channing Tatum is recovering after surgery

Channing Tatum undergoes surgery for brutal shoulder injury

Channing Tatum has undergone surgery for a shoulder injury.

The 45-year-old actor has revealed he's been in hospital for a procedure after separating his shoulder, and he admitted the recovery will be "hard".

He posted x-rays of his separated shoulder and one with a screw in place on his Instagram Story.

Channing also posted a black and white...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Jesy Nelson missed the birth of her twins

Jesy Nelson was devastated to 'miss' twins' birth

Jesy Nelson was devastated to "miss" the birth of her twins after she was "put to sleep" for an emergency caesarean-section.

The former Little Mix star became a first-time mother last year when she welcomed daughters Ocean and Story with her former partner Zion Foster, but she faced a number of complications which she meant she spent three ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Jacob Elordi was warned not to work with Guillermo del Toro.

Jacob Elordi admits own mother warned him to 'never work' with Guillermo del Toro

Jacob Elordi's mother warned him to "never work" with Guillermo del Toro.

The 28-year-old actor has admitted his mother Melissa urged him as a child to not team up with the iconic filmmaker after she saw the DVD cover for Pan's Labyrinth.

Elordi - who ended up starring in del Toro's Frankenstein film last year - was speaking at a BFI IMAX ...Read more

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Column: Who's that new anchorman? He's no Walter Cronkite

Many of you, I have to assume, were watching TV in the late 1960s as images of blood and death in Vietnam and protests against that war were becoming more frequent features of the evening network news.

Viewership of those programs was still on the rise then, and would continue to grow, peaking in around 1980, when the three major networks of ...Read more

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Review: Jason Alexander and Stephen Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' proves to be a bloody good match in SoCal

LOS ANGELES — They don't make musicals like "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" anymore.

The ambition on display is awe-inspiring to an almost alarming degree. Consider the lyrical and orchestral complexity of Stephen Sondheim's score, the way Hugh Wheeler's book (from an adaptation by Christopher Bond) blends horror and comedy ...Read more

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Q&A: Why UK band Shame donated the fee from Minnesota tour stop to charity

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the English post-punk band Shame went into the studio to make its new album “Cutthroat,” the idea was to play faster and louder, singer Charlie Steen says.

“I think when we toured our last album, ‘Food for Worms,’ we were kind of having to borrow from ‘Songs of Praise,’ our first album, to kind of pick up ...Read more

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Review: 'Black and Jewish America' compiles an illuminating history of intersection

You may have read recently how minions of the Trump administration removed an exhibit about slavery from the President's House in Philadelphia (where George Washington lived, with slaves) as part of its ongoing sop to MAGA sensitivities and campaign to erase history in favor of a fairy tale in which the worst thing Washington ever did was chop ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Claire Foy had a parasite infection

Claire Foy battled 'gross' parasite infection for five years

Claire Foy was infected by a "gross" parasite which stayed in her system for five years following a trip to Morocco.

The Crown star has opened up about her health battle revealing she became concerned after losing weight and consulted a doctor who told her she "had parasites" and she believes it all stemmed from a trip abroad.

During an ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Ted Danson is returning for another season of A Man On The Inside

Ted Danson's Netflix hit A Man On The Inside is returning for third season

Ted Danson is returning for a third season of A Man On The Inside.

The 78-year-old actor will be back as retired professor turned uncover detective Charles Nieuwendyk in the Netflix hit, which was created by his The Good Place collaborator Mike Schur.

Ted told Netflix's Tudum: "I'm so excited to see where Charles Nieuwendyk goes next.

"I've ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Nikki Bella opens up John Cena's WWE retirement

Nikki Bella insists she 'wasn't invited' to John Cena's WWE retirement

Nikki Bella wasn't invited to John Cena's WWE retirement match.

The 42-year-old reality star and wrestler - who was previously engaged to the Hollywood actor before their split in 2018 after six years together - had been criticised by some fans for being at a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game instead of her former partner's last ever match at ...Read more

Bang Showbiz / Shirley Manson performing at TRNSMT Festival 2024.

Shirley Manson tips Lana Del Rey for next Bond theme

Garbage bandleader Shirley Manson has called for Lana Del Rey to record the next James Bond theme.

The Born to Die singer previously had her Bond theme rejected for 2015's Spectre, which ultimately went with Sam Smith's Writing's on the Wall.

However, Shirley, whose band recorded The World is Not Enough for the Pierce Brosnan 007 film of the ...Read more