Movies

Actor Robert Morse pictured at the Emmy Awards in 2014.

Arts

Tony award winner and 'Mad Men' star Robert Morse dies at 90

6:35pm April 21, 2022

by Miranda Mazariegos

Robert Morse, who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as a young actor and, decades later, returned to the corporate world with TV's Mad Men, has died at 90.

National

Review: Robert Eggers' 'The Northman' is 2+ hours of art-house savagery

4:28pm April 21, 2022

by Bob Mondello

The legend that Shakespeare based Hamlet on has inspired another work: Robert Eggers' violent new film, The Northman.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards on March 27, in Hollywood, Calif.

Arts

Jada Pinkett Smith says her family is focused on 'deep healing' after Oscars slap

1:30pm April 21, 2022

by Dustin Jones

She briefly referenced her husband's Academy Awards outburst, telling viewers of her talk show that the family is "focused on deep healing."

Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco in 2011. Murdoch's media empire has included News Corp, Fox News, Fox Sports, 21st Century Fox, HarperCollins, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.

In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance

1:12pm April 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

The new CNN+ docuseries The Murdochs looks inside the Fox media empire and the family's behind-the-scenes in-fighting. Journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama rivals HBO's Succession.

'Navalny' documentary spotlights the Russian who dared to take on Putin

9:41am April 21, 2022

by John Powers

Daniel Roher's film about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery — and human cost — of opposing a despot.

National

Hollywood has found a favorite new subject — the failed CEOs of tech companies

6:04pm April 20, 2022

by Linda Holmes

All of a sudden it seems like Hollywood has found a favorite new subject — the failed CEOs of tech companies with bio-pics depicting the rise and fall of the heads of Uber, WeWork and Theranos.

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The Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., is seen on Oct. 23, 2021. On Wednesday, New Mexico workplace safety regulators issued the maximum possible fine against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of "Rust," where a cinemat

National

New Mexico fines 'Rust' movie producers $139,793 for firearms safety failures

1:09pm April 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

State regulators said Rust Movie Productions must pay the maximum possible fine for safety failures on the set where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October by actor and producer Alec Baldwin.

Raider of the lost hearth: Alexander Skarsgård rages for revenge, and his erstwhile homeland, in The Northman.

Arts

In Viking epic 'The Northman,' life is nasty, brutish and short-tempered

5:00am April 20, 2022

by Glen Weldon

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

Parade magazine has offered an apology to comedian Ali Wong; her soon-to-be ex-husband, Justin Hakuta; and actor Randall Park for incorrectly posting a picture of Park (seen here) in its story about Wong and Hakuta's divorce.

Arts

Ali Wong's divorce news causes another case of #wrongasian

6:39pm April 13, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The comedian's husband has been a primary source of her popular specials. But when writing about the Asian American couple's split, some news outlets used photos of Asian American actor Randall Park.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in a New York courtroom in 2020. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of forcible touching.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr pleads guilty to forcibly touching a woman

5:52pm April 13, 2022

She accused him of touching her at a Manhattan night spot. The court had ruled prosecutors could bring in testimony by two other women who allegedly would accuse him of sexual groping.