The 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…
Look, 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 the sl…
Everywhere 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!" " which…
LOS 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 be…
LOS 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 Superstar…
The 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,"…
In 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 new instal…
Over 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 unvei…
Sydney 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…
Tom 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 …
LOS 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. Bil…
Dip 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 are too…
MINNEAPOLIS " 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' the…
'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-828 …
ANCHORAGE, 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 carving …
LOS 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. Paramount…
LOS 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 often …
The 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 a…
The 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 coul…
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JULY 22: Final Destination Bloodlines 22: Fight or Flight 22: All We Imagine as Light 22: Ash 22…
SEATTLE " Nothing says summer more than a camping trip with friends or enjoying an outdoor concert. At the storied Gorge Amphitheatre, thousands of people do both each year. Located about tw…
A lot has changed in Southport, North Carolina, since 1997. After that year's string of bloody murders, the sleepy fishing burgh cleaned up its act and swept its gruesome history under the r…
LOS ANGELES " Mexican superstar Belinda knew she wouldn't generate much revenue from her viral song "HeterocomÃa." She did it anyway. In an interview with CNN en Español, the singer re…
LOS ANGELES " In 2018, Paul Simon walked onto the Hollywood Bowl stage for what most in the crowd believed to be his last tour stop in Los Angeles, ever. Simon expected that too " he'd bille…
DALLAS " The Texas Theatre has screened countless films, but for Swiss-Ecuadorian guitarists Hermanos Gutiérrez's new single with Fort Worth singer Leon Bridges, they turned the camera on t…