Tag Archives: Entertainment

LONDON - When digital artist Beeple put an NFT digital artwork up for auction this month, he became instantly famous when it sold for almost $70 million. The record sale also sparked huge interest in ...

LOS ANGELES - Jessica Walter, whose roles as a scheming matriarch in TV's "Arrested Development" and a stalker in "Play Misty for Me" were in line with a career that drew on her astringent screen pres...

PARIS - A rare painting by Vincent Van Gogh was sold at auction Thursday by Sotheby's Paris for 13.1 million euros ($15.4 million). The sale of "Street Scene in Montmartre" was highly anticipated as i...

NEW YORK - Morris Dickstein, an influential educator, critic and cultural historian who wrote often about the intersection between art and society, has died at age 81. Dickstein, a professor emeritus ...

New York City is taking steps toward the reopening of the city's theatres, creating vaccination and testing sites for stage workers in a bid to restore a key part of New York's draw. "It's time to rai...

LOS ANGELES - The original 1950s Godzilla movies stomped into theatres carrying a metaphor about nuclear destruction. Two years ago, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" sounded alarms about climate chang...

PARIS - French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such "A Sunday in the Country," "Captain Conan" and "The Judge and the Assassin," has died, according to his family. He was 7...

NEW YORK - Steven Spielberg said Thursday that he will donate his $1 million Genesis Prize to 10 nonprofits that are working for racial and economic justice. The film director and his wife, actress Ka...

LOS ANGELES - Chrissy Teigen has deleted her popular Twitter account, saying the site no longer plays a positive role in her life. "For over 10 years you guys have been my world," Teigen wrote to her ...

NEW YORK - An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it was publis...