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Jerry Butler, who found R&B stardom in the late 1950s as the first lead singer of the Impressions before moving on to a solo career and a second life in Chicago politics, died Thursday. He was 85. His death was reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, which cited a family friend and said that Butler (who […]

Can a horror movie itself suffer from nervous fright? That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count. Maybe it’s a

Daniel Bisogno, a TV presenter who long co-hosted Mexico’s TV Azteca talk show “Ventaneando,” has died. He was 51. Bisogno died Thursday because of complications he suffered after a September liver transplant, the TV program said Thursday on Instagram. “ ‘Ventaneando’ is mourning. Gone is one of our most outstanding members. Rest in peace. We

Kate Hudson is sitting on a folding chair in a crowded storage closet when suddenly the voice of Kate Hudson comes booming through the wall. The 45-year-old singer and actor is in a Fashion District studio on a recent morning to shoot a music video for “Right on Time,” a recently released bonus track from

As a British expat living in Los Angeles, Paul Martin found the thing he missed most about home was soccer. “If I’m walking across a park and I see two people playing, I’ll stop and watch it,” the documentary film producer said. So the idea of making a documentary about a soccer league wasn’t a

The name Hazel Scott should probably be as well known as Billie Holiday or Lena Horne. A jazz virtuoso and classical pianist, the one-time child prodigy became one of the most well-known entertainment figures of the 1930s and ‘40s, playing in some of New York City’s most iconic venues, including Café Society, the Cotton Club

“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” is more than a novelty song for Victor Quiñonez. Marking his art fair debut at Frieze, the Brooklyn-based artist examines Indigeneity and the treatment of immigrants with “I.C.E. Scream,” a series of acrylic ice-cream-shaped sculptures. He draws on personal experiences about emigrating from Mexico and

Russell Peters has done the requisite Netflix stand-up specials (and a Prime Video one to boot), but he was making a point in 2016 when he called his second one “Almost Famous.” The Canadian-born comic, 54, was setting records in Canada, the U.K. and Australia with his arena show sales nearly 20 years ago, but

Forty years ago, the Reagan administration told PBS to find ways to increase funding for public television outside of taxpayer dollars. It did. PBS’ response to the challenge was to enhance the way it acknowledged sponsors. Instead of merely running a company logo before its programming, PBS let corporate underwriters place messages that looked more

Harry Potter has at long last arrived in Los Angeles, and he’s brought his wife and son along for the ride. A family man with a high-level ministerial job, he largely cedes the stage to the younger generation in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the award-winning stage play by Jack Thorne based on an