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Oscar Villanueva holds a sign outside El Capitan Entertainment Centre, where the late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is staged, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hundreds of stars sign letter defending free speech after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension

September 22, 2025 at 12:00 p.m.

Hundreds of Hollywood and Broadway stars — including Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — are urging Americans “fight to...

Howard Stern speaks at the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies in Cleveland, on April 14, 2018. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)

Howard Stern returns to SiriusXM radio show after trolling listeners

September 8, 2025 at 8:25 p.m.

Howard Stern returned to SiriusXM's airwaves Monday after trolling listeners into thinking he had departed his long-running show.

The entrance to the Arizona PBS offices in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, May 2, 2025. (Katie Oyan/AP)

The defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting will get one of TV’s biggest prizes

September 2, 2025 at 1:10 p.m.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be honored with one of the television’s top prizes even as it winds down its nearly 60-year work after the U.S. government withdrew funding.

Singer Bobby Sherman in Los Angeles on Dec. 21, 1972. (George Brich/AP)

Bobby Sherman, teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s, and later a CPR teacher, dies at 81

June 24, 2025 at 7:42 p.m.

Bobby Sherman, whose winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop hits like “Little Woman” and...

Audra McDonald attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibition on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

What to watch for at the Tony Awards, Broadway’s biggest night

June 1, 2025 at 9:12 a.m.

Twenty-nine shows on Broadway got Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy — and the box office attention they usually bring.

FILE – Actress Loretta Swit arrives at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 3rd Annual Television Academy Honors in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Loretta Swit, Emmy-winner who played Maj. Houlihan on pioneering series ‘M.A.S.H.,’ has died at 87

May 30, 2025 at 4:34 p.m.

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series...

Composer Charles Strouse in 2008 in New York. (Richard Drew, AP)

Charles Strouse, the Broadway composer of the musical ‘Annie,’ dies at 96

May 15, 2025 at 5:37 p.m.

In an interview with the Tribune in 2011, Strouse was asked if he had any idea that the Broadway show would be such a hit. “No,” he said. “This was...

This combination of photos shows Cubby Checker at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York on June 12, 2014, left, British singer Joe Cocker performing in Monaco on Aug. 5, 2011, center, and Cyndi Lauper at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo)

Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Bad Company, Cyndi Lauper and Outkast get into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

April 27, 2025 at 7:47 p.m.

First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the...

FILE – Val Kilmer poses for a portrait, Jan. 9, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Val Kilmer, ‘Top Gun’ and Batman star with an intense approach, dies at 65

April 2, 2025 at 8:08 a.m.

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,”...

IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson

Michelle Obama and her brother to launch a podcast

March 10, 2025 at 6:17 p.m.

“IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson” will address “everyday questions shaping our lives, relationships and the world around us,” according to a press release. IMO is slang for “in...

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