Hollywood
Explainer: What’s behind looming Hollywood writers’ strike? By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing 11,500 writers of film, television and other entertainment forms could go on strike as soon as Tuesday. It would be the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in…
Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife’s killing, dies at 89 By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89. A statement released…
House Bill 92 would have incentivized film and T.V. productions by giving them rebates rather than “free money,” but – once again – the Wyoming Legislature gave it a thumbs down. As of Wednesday, Feb. 8, House Bill 92 has not been sent to the floor of the Wyoming House of Representatives for a vote.…
By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99. People and the Washington…
After more than a year of uncertainty and ever-fluctuating release schedules, there will be a summer movie season. The blockbusters are back. The smell of popcorn is in the air. Summer movies have always been stuffed with calamity and cataclysm, but this year, the existential threat is also off-screen. The pandemic has brought extensive changes…
NEW YORK (AP) — George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late back home just to tune in. Though he’s now in the right time zone, he’s just not interested, and that’s due primarily to the pandemic. “The rising dominance of the…
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