Tag Archives: Entertainment

NEW YORK - Chlo Zhao's "Nomadland" cemented its Oscar front-runner status Wednesday, winning the top award at the 32nd annual Producers Guild of America Awards. "Nomadland," Zhao's recession-era portr...

LOS ANGELES - Amanda Gorman revisits her inauguration day poetry reading that wowed observers, among them Oprah Winfrey, in the Apple TV+ series "The Oprah Conversation." The 23-year-old Gorman "stepp...

LONDON - A British court on Thursday refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal a judge's ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard, saying his attempt to overturn the decision had "no real prospect ...

LOS ANGELES - Canadian actors Patrick J. Adams and Karine Vanasse are among the stars who've teamed up with U2 lead singer Bono for a new online animated series about the critical need for global acce...

NEW YORK - The new PBS documentary on dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is called "Twyla Moves." In retrospect, that sounds a bit weak. It really should be called "Twyla Moves And Won't Stop As Long As...

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Tindall and her husband, the former rugby player, Mike Tindall, are celebrating the birth of their third child, who was born at home on the bathroom fl...

NEW YORK - Books about slavery, immigration and drug treatment are among this year's winners of awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Project. Jessica Goudeau's "After the Last Border: Two Families...

NEW YORK - A literary prize that had provided vital support to Tracy K. Smith, Eula Biss and more than 100 other women early in their writing careers has been discontinued. Administrators of the Rona ...

NEW YORK - Prince Harry has joined the corporate world as employee coaching and mental health firm BetterUp Inc.'s Chief Impact Officer. Financial terms of his employment were undisclosed. BetterUp, b...

NEW YORK - Canadian writers Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell Prizes, which provide US$165,000 for each recipient to focus on work "independent of finan...