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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jesse Plemons has a plea: Pause Netflix and go see “Bugonia” in the theater. The film, in which he plays a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps and tortures Emma Stone’s pharma CEO, believing her to be an alien, is the kind that might seem small in scope. On a certain

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Author Jodi Picoult has the dubious honor of being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.” “I’m pretty sure I’m the first author who has now had censorship occur in two different

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame class, an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, folk and rock innovators. Also on the ballot are

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing Broadway’s musicians reached a tentative labor agreement with commercial producers on Thursday, averting a potentially crippling strike that would have silenced nearly two dozen musicals. The American Federation of Musicians Local 802 — which represents 1,200 musicians — had threatened to strike

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — If you listen carefully, you can hear the noise of chocolate frogs flying through the air on the Hogwarts Express. Hermione Granger gasps with delight as Ron Weasley catches the sweet treat thrown his way by Harry Potter, as all three travel home after an eventful first

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Several conservative news outlets said Wednesday they had agreed to a new press policy rejected by virtually all legacy media organizations and will take their place in the Pentagon to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. military. The new Pentagon press corps will include the Gateway Pundit,

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The plot of the new Colleen Hoover adaptation “Regretting You” is a little wild. There’s romance, an affair, unrequited love, death and even a baby with questionable paternity. Dave Franco, whose character has long pined for Allison Williams’ character but ends up having a child with her sister who

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Decades into his career and the unthinkable happened. It was 2022, and Jon Bon Jovi began struggling through his songs. He saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying. He needed major surgery. Bon Jovi had the procedure, and in the

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is not considering dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime headline performer, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday, reaffirming a decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league’s biggest stage that led to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and

MADRID (AP) — Madrid’s mayor on Wednesday rebuked Spanish pop star Rosalia for briefly unleashing pandemonium earlier this week by convening a flash mob that prompted riot police to control the rowdy, impromptu gathering. The Barcelona-born singer and songwriter gave about an hour’s notice to her social media followers that she would be downtown Monday

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, showered with golden glitter and bouquets as she retired from American Ballet Theatre after a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in an overwhelmingly white art form. Copeland, who a

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A major German private art collection accumulated over four generations is going on large-scale show for the first time in Berlin, with a who’s who of French art of the 19th and 20th centuries at its core. The Scharf Collection has its roots in a collection started

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos. She manipulates. She cuts people to the bone with a quip. She pours more drinks. Hedda Gabler, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play, has long been one of theater’s most tragic figures, a woman hemmed

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Sometimes the best films are the ones that are most difficult to describe, the ones that can’t be boiled down to a pithy tagline or plot summary. This is almost certainly the case with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” one of most audacious films of the year,

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” premiered last year, the series exploded in popularity in ways its creator and stars could never have imagined. It spent six weeks on Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and was viewed 57 million times in

By THOMAS ADAMSON and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Louvre’s director on Wednesday acknowledged a “terrible failure” at the Paris tourist attraction after a daylight crown jewel heist over the weekend, and said that she offered to resign but it was refused. The world’s most-visited museum reopened earlier in the day to

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Michael Jordan made his debut as a special contributor to NBC Sports’ return to NBA broadcasting on Tuesday night, saying he’s doing so as a way to give back to basketball. Jordan, speaking to NBC play-by-play voice Mike Tirico in the first installment of a series the network is

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An auction house plans to sell off a variety of actor Gene Hackman’s possessions in November, including Golden Globe statues, a wristwatch and paintings he collected and created himself. Hackman died at age 95 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after transitioning from

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of people on Tuesday attended a Mass in Havana to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Celia Cruz’s birth just days after Cuban authorities canceled a theater performance in honor of the revered singer without explanation, drawing criticism over what some say was an act of censorship.

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — MusiCares, an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal or medical assistance, will honor Mariah Carey as its 2026 Person of the Year. The organization announced Tuesday that it will honor the five-time Grammy Award winning artist for providing support to many different

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation, said about

NEW YORK (AP) — Kenny Loggins is objecting to the use of his music in a social media post showing an artificial intelligence-generated video of President Donald Trump dumping excrement from a fighter jet on last weekend’s “No Kings” protests. The video, posted Saturday night on the Republican president’s Truth Social platform, was accompanied by

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Robert Redford’s legacy and mission was always going to be a key component of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, which will be the last of its kind in Park City, Utah. But in the wake of his death in Septemberat age 89, those ideas took on a new significance.

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a book coming out in January, touching upon everything from his swift political rise to the trauma of his home being set on fire. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Tuesday that “Where We Keep the Light: Stories From

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British royal family is once again under intense scrutiny as a memoir by Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, hits bookstores Tuesday. “Nobody’s Girl” is being published posthumously after Giuffre died by suicide in April. Giuffre had for

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — He won’t call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew’s critics. Buckingham Palace and the British government were under pressure Monday to formally strip Prince Andrew of his princely title and sumptuous home after new revelations about his relationship with

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Props, mementos and photographs adorn Adam Driver ’s Brooklyn office. There’s an artwork Jim Jarmusch gave him for his 40th birthday, the doll from Leos Carax’s “Annette” and dozens of on-set photographs, including one of Driver and his son in the Millennium Falcon. “A friend