DETROIT — A jazz legend with a long, storied career and a global fan base, Detroit-born singer Sheila Jordan died on Monday in her home in New York City at the age of 96. Named a National …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:54PMPHILADELPHIA — The fictional documentary team who filmed "The Office" is back. This time, they are spotlighting a different (but still wacky) workplace in the Peacock series "The Paper," p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMDALLAS — A recent Paramount Global earnings call previewed the fall slate for the company’s streamer, Paramount+. Spoiler alert: Fort Worth-raised show maker Taylor Sheridan’s name is …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMRarely does a movie largely concerned with riffing on its past feel as fresh as “Freakier Friday.” The sequel to 2003 Disney fave “Freaky Friday” — the third adaptation of Mary Rod…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:20AMWILLOUGHBY, Ohio — The version of Sandusky that serves as the primary setting of the movie “Tommy Boy” has only so much in common with the actual city in north-central Ohio. While a co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMFor anyone who lived through the tabloid years of the aughts, Lindsay Lohan’s joyful return to the big screen isn’t just cause for celebration, it’s something that once seemed highly i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMLOS ANGELES — An experiment intended to rid "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alum Brandi Glanville of a facial parasite left the former reality TV star with chemical burns. In a shor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PMI will say this: I should be watching more cartoons. It has been harder to indulge this passion for some of the best, most pleasurable work television has to offer with so many ordinary seri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMLOS ANGELES — Shakira Austin didn't realize how important fashion would become when she entered the WNBA in 2022. Her introduction to game-day tunnel fashion began at the University of Mis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMHere are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 26, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powere…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMYou have questions. I have some answers. Q: Many decades ago, I saw a show that began with a close-up of a man putting eye drops in his eyes and then letting out a bloodcurdling scream. I do…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMLOS ANGELES — Greg Saunier already had reasons to be wary of Spotify. The founder of the acclaimed Bay Area band Deerhoof was well acquainted with the service's meager payouts to artists a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThe practice of building a situation comedy around a stand-up comedian is hallowed television practice, going back to Jack Benny and Danny Thomas and running forward through Bob Newhart, Ros…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMLook, the Bad Guys are trying their best. In the new animated romp “The Bad Guys 2,” the gang of anthropomorphic animals led by the Sam Rockwell-voiced Mr. Wolf has served its time in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMEverywhere you look, something reminds you of it. “It,” in this case, is the absurdly funny, ridiculously silly 1988 slapstick comedy “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!”…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMLOS ANGELES — The closing night selection of this year's New York Film Festival will be the world premiere of "Is This Thing On?" the latest film directed by Bradley Cooper. The film will …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:18AMLOS ANGELES — Adam Lambert sits on a rickety wooden chair just outside the main chapel at the Hollywood United Methodist Church on a break from rehearsing the musical "Jesus Christ Superst…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMThe idea of maintaining one's individuality while in a relationship or losing that sense of identity altogether and melding as a couple is taken to a hilarious, grotesque high in "Together,"…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMIn the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of absurdist comedy. The franchise gets revived this week with a ne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMOver the years, Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con has built a reputation — and an expectation — as the room where Hollywood juggernauts in attendance at the annual pop culture extravaganza u…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMSydney Chandler has wanted to attend San Diego Comic-Con as a fan for years. So it's "surreal" that the actor's first experience with the annual pop culture expo is to promote her upcoming F…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMTom Lehrer, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:12AMLOS ANGELES — Since its launch in November 2022, hundreds of millions of people have used ChatGPT to write wedding toasts, college essays, apology texts, bad jokes and even worse poetry. B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMDip a toe into any contemporary cultural anthropology, and it’s clear that the current state of dating (mostly for heterosexual people) is a mess. Men won’t commit, women’s standards a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMMINNEAPOLIS — A lesser-known film that arguably captures Prince at his best musically will be screened next month in the biggest movie theaters nationally. The 1987 concert film “Sign o�…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AM'THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS' Rated PG-13 for action/violence and some language. What it’s about: A quartet of superpowered scientists try to save the world on the retro 1960s Earth-82…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMANCHORAGE, Alaska — The aroma of cedar wood filled the air and shavings fell around Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich as she carved away at one of her wooden sculptures. Working at her carvin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMLOS ANGELES — The creators of Comedy Central's "South Park" reached a breakthrough Monday in the tense negotiations over the streaming rights of the long-running satirical cartoon. Paramou…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:29AMLOS ANGELES — When Bill Cosby revolutionized television during the mid-1980s with "The Cosby Show," the fictional Huxtables, the wealthy Black family at the center of the sitcom, were ofte…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:22AMThe American health care system stands at a crossroads — fragmented, costly and often failing the very people it aims to serve. Yet across hospitals, tech startups, policy labs and patient…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMThe final film in Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe the tops the DVD releases for the week of July 29. "Thunderbolts*": A group of MCU oddballs band together to form a team — one co…
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