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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Talks bitterly broke off between Hollywood actors and studios late Wednesday, killing any hopes that the three-month strike by performers would come to an end anytime soon. The studios announced that they had suspended contract negotiations, saying the gap between the two sides was too great to make …

It opens with a clock counting down until show time — the dropped stomach, rollercoaster slowly encroaching its apex sensation — and then, a gentle fake out. Taylor Swift is heard before she is seen. “It’s been a long time…” her voice carries. Then the drop hits: an abridged performance of “Miss …

PHOENIX — Guns N’ Roses is giving way to the Arizona Diamondbacks so the team can host Game 3 of the National League Division Series next week. The rock band said Friday it is moving its Oct. 11 show at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix to the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre to …

Will Smith doesn’t play about his wife, and once allegedly rolled up on comedian Tommy Davidson over an unplanned kiss he shared with Jada Pinkett Smith on screen. The comedian stopped by Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast for a new episode that was published on Wednesday (October 11). While discussing his time making the …

LONDON (AP) — Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities, announced Tuesday that she is stepping down from her presenting role on the ITV network’s flagship daytime program “This Morning,” days after a man was charged in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and murder her. Willoughby, who has …

Greg Marcus has been in the movie business for years but he never expected to be urging moviegoers to take out their phones during a film — let alone to be crafting friendship bracelets in preparation for an opening weekend. But there the chief executive and chair of the Marcus …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country superstar Keith Urban and Kix Brooks of powerhouse duo Brooks & Dunn will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Wednesday night at Nashville’s Music City Center. Urban, a four-time Grammy Award winning musician, is being celebrated at the 53rd anniversary gala for hits such as “But for …

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” will be published April 16. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge …

Cal Wilson is being remembered for her enormous generosity, sheer talent and the immense impact she had on the lives of all those she met. The Melbourne-based New Zealand comedian died suddenly at the age of 53, from a short illness. She was born in 1970 in Christchurch, New Zealand, where …

This Morning stand-in host Rochelle Humes has paid tribute to Holly Willoughby following her exit, saying she was right to put family first. Willoughy announced on Tuesday she was quitting the ITV daytime programme after 14 years “for me and my family”. The presenter had been absent from the show …