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Garrison Keillor, former host of "A Prairie Home Companion," back in February.

A year after #MeToo upended the status quo, the accused are attempting comebacks — but not offering apologies

August 25, 2019 at 12:31 a.m.

Louis C.K. has performed sets at the Comedy Cellar. Matt Lauer is taking meetings. Charlie Rose reportedly pitched a show in which he’d interview other men brought down by the...

"Black Panther" cast members Lupita Nyong'o, left, Winston Duke and Danai Gurira at the 2018 Oscars.

‘Black Panther’ is on the hunt for a best picture Oscar, no matter what happens with the ‘popular film’ prize

December 12, 2018 at 7:55 p.m.

When the Academy Awards were held the first weekend of March, “Black Panther” was dominating both the box office and cultural conversation in its third week in theaters. The Marvel...

Glenn Close plays a woman examining her marriage in "The Wife."

Glenn Close has never done things the easy way, and ‘The Wife’ is just the latest example

December 12, 2018 at 6:53 p.m.

Five years ago, Glenn Close loaded her two old terrier mutts, Bill and Jake, into her car and drove to the coastal Massachusetts set of the HBO limited series “Olive...

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star in "The Americans."

Emmys 2018: Five races we’ll be watching when nominations are announced Thursday

July 10, 2018 at 1:50 a.m.

Five first-year TV shows earned Emmy nominations last year for best drama series, offering a rare, almost revolutionary jolt of change to a set of awards that, over the years,...

James Franco has been accused of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior by five women; he has denied the allegations.

Some Oscar voters are having a case of James Franco remorse

December 17, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

“Can I change my vote?” That was the question several motion picture academy members were asking after five women accused actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior in...

Time's Up, an initiative designed to combat sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace, was announced Monday.

395 women — some angry, some afraid, all relieved to finally take control of the narrative

December 17, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Last week, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office announced that it was reviewing five investigations into accusations of sexual misconduct against filmmaker James Toback. Coincidentally, it was the first...

"Big Little Lies" cast members, from left, Laura Dern, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz and Shailene Woodley.

‘mother!’ may I?: Five story lines to watch for in this year’s Golden Globe nominations

December 17, 2018 at 5:42 p.m.

Are you longing to see the “Big Little Lies” women reunite and don’t want to wait until the (now official) second season? Can you never have too much James Franco...

After the Los Angeles Times ran a story in which 38 women accused director James Toback of sexual harassment, almost 200 women responded with similar stories.

After 38 women accuse filmmaker James Toback of sexual harassment, 200 more reach out to share their stories

August 22, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.

Filmmaker James Toback has long had a bad reputation with women. Stories about the writer-director often referred to him as a womanizer, but what that actually meant did not become...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Kate Winslet didn’t thank Harvey Weinstein when she won the Oscar. Here’s why.

December 17, 2018 at 4:44 p.m.

When Kate Winslet won the lead actress Oscar for "The Reader" in 2009, she thanked 19 people by name along with many others in general. She did not mention Harvey...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Heads up haters: ‘La La Land’ might be making history on Oscar nominations morning

December 17, 2018 at 5:20 p.m.

If you were one of the relatively few people bewitched, bothered and bewildered when Damien Chazelle's musical "La La Land" won a record seven Golden Globes a couple of weeks...

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