LOS ANGELES – For more than a year and a half, leaders of Hollywood’s actors union have been negotiating with video game companies over a new contract that covers the performers who bring their titles to life. But while negotiators with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have made gains in … Read more
BETHEL, N.Y. – Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent. Fifty-five years later, the two longtime friends finally got back to the garden, but this time in high style. Recommended Videos The … Read more
LAS VEGAS – An ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader has been denied release from a Las Vegas jail ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur, despite a bid by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite his $750,000 bond. A Nevada judge rejected house arrest with electronic monitoring for … Read more
The event will have activities that kids and adults can enjoy all day long, ending with a fireworks extravaganza. SAN ANTONIO — The annual Fourth of July Celebration, hosted by the San Antonio Parks Foundation (SAPF) and the City of San Antonio, is returning to Woodlawn Lake Park for a day of barbecue far, family … Read more
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov have separated. The couple had been together since 2014, when they appeared together in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera. They married in 2015. Recommended Videos “After 10 happy years together, we have made the difficult but amicable decision to separate,” Netrebko and Eyvazov said in a … Read more
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Sean Penn says he hadn’t felt joy making a movie in 15 years. At the time, the actor couldn’t quite put his finger on why, but he at one point became so disillusioned that he resigned himself to the reality that his love for the craft may never return. Recommended Videos … Read more
The union that represents most behind-the-scenes film and television crews has reached a tentative deal with studios for about 50,000 of its members, making another major, production-stopping strike unlikely after a year of labor turmoil in Hollywood. The two sides announced the three-year deal in a joint statement Tuesday night. Recommended Videos The union, the … Read more