Tech scion David Ellison and his leadership team at Paramount sent a message to Hollywood: A new era is underway. Nearly a week after taking the keys to the battered media company, Ellison and his top executives met with reporters at the Paramount Pictures lot Wednesday to show that they mean business. Ellison and his…
Taylor Swift will enter her latest era in a matter of months. The ubiquitous βShake It Offβ pop star announced her upcoming album, βThe Life of a Showgirl,β would drop Oct. 3 as she made her podcasting debut Wednesday on βNew Heights,β co-hosted by her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce and his retired football pro…
Marc Maron is not interested in being just another podcaster in a sea of mediocrity. In a new interview, the comic β who recently announced the end of his popular and long-lived podcast βWTFβ β criticized the current podcast landscape as awash in meh. βThings were better before everyone had a voice,β Maron told the…
Tory Lanezβs attempt to submit new evidence and challenge his 2022 felony conviction has collapsed. Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, brought forward two petitions in his case, which concerns the 2020 shooting of hip-hop artist Megan Thee Stallion. According to Complex, one involved Petersonβs driver not testifying and the other sought to bring…
Puerto Rican pop visionary Rauw Alejandro will be honored at the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. On Wednesday, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation announced that the singer-songwriter will receive the 2025 Hispanic Heritage Award for Vision, a title that honors his groundbreaking contributions to Latin music and his role in shaping its global future. βAs an…
Fifty years ago, L.A. free-jazz titan Bobby Bradford moved into a rambling, verdant house in Altadena. The cornet and trumpet virtuoso, who performed in Ornette Colemanβs band and taught jazz history at Pomona College and Pasadena City College for decades, chose the neighborhood partly because it was bustling with artists. He finally had enough bedrooms…
The bitter legal fued between Priscilla Presley and her former business partner escalated this week. Brigitte Kruse, the founder of Agoura Hills-based GWS Auctions Inc. and her business associate Kevin Fialko, on Monday filed a new fraud and breach of contract suit against Presley in Los Angeles Superior Court. The suit alleges that Elvisβs ex-wife…
Bucking tradition once again, President Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself β a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, glam rock band Kiss, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country music star George Strait and English actor and comedian Michael Crawford made…
Rashida Jones has always been a vocal fan of Netflixβs dystopian anthology series βBlack Mirror,β but she never expected it to secure her an Emmy nomination. βIβm still pretty shocked,β Jones says of her lead actress in a limited series or TV movie nod for the Season 7 episode βCommon People.β βIβve never really been…
When is a kiss not just a kiss? Season 2 of Netflixβs βArcaneβ delivers a long-awaited payoff between two characters with such a deep emotional bond it inspired a βBenniferβ-style portmanteau: CaitVi. Co-executive producer Amanda Overton, who wrote the saga-defining scene, explains that Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) has βlost everyone she loved,β and itβs…