Tag Archives: Entertainment

Actor and director Regina King acknowledged the hardships of the past year during an opening straight out of the movies for the 2021 Oscars. "It has been quite a year and we are still smack dab in the...

PARIS - Israeli designer Alber Elbaz, best known for spending 14 years at the helm of France's Lanvin fashion house, has died at 59, the luxury conglomerate Richemont said Sunday. A spokesperson for R...

TORONTO - Hate crime complaints and arrests in the country's largest city jumped sharply last year, with Jewish and Black people the most common targets, according to an annual police report released ...

In 93 years of existence, the Oscars have been postponed by shootings - the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the attempted killing of Ronald Reagan - and by a flood, when 1938 rainstorms ov...

OTTAWA - International graduates and essential workers eligible to apply for permanent residency under a new program say requiring them to retake language proficiency tests is unreasonable, especially...

TORONTO - "Mortal Kombat" may be based on a hit video-game franchise, but Vancouver-raised star Ludi Lin says it serves as an "apt metaphor" for divisions in the world. The action film about an ancien...

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her thanks for all the "support and kindness" shown following the death of her husband, Prince Philip. In a statement Wednesday posted on social media on her ...

LOS ANGELES - A former president of the organization that hosts the Golden Globes has been dropped from the group's board after sending an email that called Black Lives Matter a "hate movement." The H...

NEW YORK - Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf's bestselling "Bat Out Of Hell" debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, his brother...

NEW YORK - Scott Rudin says he's "stepping back" from film and streaming projects, along with his Broadway productions, as the fallout continued for one of the entertainment industry's most powerful a...