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UPDATED with statement from property owners: Some like it not … torn down. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to designate Marilyn Monroe’s former Westside home as a historic cultural monument, thwarting the current owners’ attempt to demolish it. The move comes five months…

Game show host and comedian Drew Carey has added some new context for the famous phrase “Come on down” used on his show, The Price Is Right. In an interview with TV Insider, he revealed that some contestants fortify themselves before heeding the call to the stage. Related…

Blue Starlite, an independent drive-in theater in Austin, Texas, has announced its first national cinema event series, Silents Synced, where classic silent movies will be paired with rock music from Radiohead, R.E.M., They Might Be Giants, Pearl Jam, Pixies, and Amon Tobin.   Silents Synced series 1…

Romance author Emily Henry now has four of five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation…

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from Netflix’s Bridgerton and the book series as well as speculation about the Bridgertonverse. Bridgerton author Julia Quinn has commented on the reaction to that twist involving Hannah Dodd’s Francesca at the end of Season 3 of the Netflix…

As The Bikeriders rolls into theaters, viewers will be transported back into the 1960s and 1970s, particularly via biker culture and the fictional club, the Chicago Vandals. The film's ensemble includes Austin Butler as Benny, a lover of motorcycles who joins up with Tom Hardy's Johnny, who starts the…

Jeff Nichols' newest film, The Bikeriders, has some true elements to it. Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Norman Reedus, Boyd Holbrook, Toby Wallace and more have finally hit the big screen after a new distribution deal and release date postponed the movie's release in 2023. Butler stars in the film…

Surrendering to pressure from several music acts and an ad-hoc movement, Barclays has suspended its sponsorship of all 2024 music festivals organized by Live Nation in the UK. The festivals now without Barclays backing include such popular events such as Download, Latitude, and the Isle of Wight…

Ariana DeBose, tonight’s host for the Tony Awards for the third time, wants to be in the audience next time. “I am really craving being back on stage, in a larger way than simply hosting the Tonys,” she said to People. “And for that reason, this will probably be one of the last times I host for a…

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, called one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation, has posted a reply today to a New York Times opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg that ran Friday. The Times story lamented that the rights to The Apprentice, a powerful film with…

Serena Williams thinks Caitlin Clark is handling the WNBA tumult well. Williams spoke to reporters at the Tribeca Festival about her docuseries In the Arena: Serena Williams, which premiered earlier this week. During her session, the New York Post reports she was asked about Clark. "I just love…

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God told Bill Maher on Friday’s Real Time that his appeal is that his audience thinks he’s sincere in his beliefs. Among his beliefs: that Caitlin Clark’s immediate impact on the WNBA is because – in a league where the majority of women are Black and there’s a large number…