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Snoopy is the superstar of the “Peanuts” world, but Ben Folds is loyal to Charlie Brown. “I’m going to have to go with Chuck because he’s so emotionally compressed,” the singer-songwriter said when asked for a favorite. Folds didn’t grow up poring over the Charles M. Schulz comics or memorizing the TV specials — “I…

Dan Ziskie, the veteran TV actor best known for his work on the Netflix political drama series “House of Cards” and HBO’s “Treme,” has died. He was 80. Ziskie died July 21 in New York, his family announced in an obituary for the actor published on Legacy.com. Though his life “was cut short by arteriosclerotic…

Any western worth its dusty boots and big-sky openness should know what’s breathtaking about freedom, at the same time grasping how being tamed is an uneasy, clarifying rite of passage. That men have typically led these stories means there’s a lot still to be mined when women tackle this genre — both in front of…

“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan and Paramount are going big in Texas, joining forces to open a 450,000-square-foot production campus in Fort Worth, in a boost to the Lone Star State’s growing entertainment economy. The venture, announced Wednesday, comes on the heels of Skydance’s $8.4-billion takeover of Paramount and just as Texas has taken major initiatives…

Let’s unpack our need to unpack the whole “woman on TikTok who fell in love with her psychiatrist” saga. First the facts: Kendra Hilty recently posted 25 videos on TikTok in which she discussed her decision to end four years of 30-minute monthly sessions (most of them on Zoom) with a male psychiatrist who prescribed…

Much like a rainmaker is a person adept at bringing in new business and revenue to a company, USA is placing its bet on “The Rainmaker,” a new drama series premiering Friday and based on John Grisham’s 1995 bestselling novel, to bring viewers hungry for scripted content back to the network. Once a beacon of…

Book Review Sweetener By Marissa HigginsCatapult: 272 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In 1984, at age 33, I fell in love with a woman for the first time. Her name was Cathy. Her previous girlfriend’s name was also…

Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, appears in new documentary ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,’ and reflects on raising the singer-songwriter in a Panamanian household. Mamá … you got some f—ing cojones, baby. These were some of the last words that legendary singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley left for his mother on an answering machine — not long before…

In a Burbank rehearsal studio, loaded almost wall-to-wall with electronics and travel cases, the three musicians of Rüfüs Du Sol are in the final hours of rehearsal for the biggest tour of their lives. As they run through a variety of songs on synthesizers and acoustic drums, the main question still to be answered is…

He’s one of the biggest name in show business — and it’s possible you’ve never heard of him. At 54, Swedish songwriter and record producer Max Martin has written more No. 1 singles than any artist, aside from Paul McCartney. He counts Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and the Weeknd among his…