ATLANTA — Billy Gardell, who had bariatric surgery in 2022 that helped him shed 150 pounds, recently told “Live with Kelly and Mark” that he transformed from a “young Jackie Gleason to an old Paul Newman.”

In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in advance of four shows May 10 and 11 at the Punchline Comedy Club, he said...Read more

DETROIT — "Somebody Feed Phil" host Phil Rosenthal is headed to Ann Arbor on Wednesday, and before you ask, yes, he already knows where he's going to eat.

"I've gotta hit Zingerman's, right?" he asks, on the phone from Philadelphia during a day off from his tour last week. "I've ordered from there before, so it's like going to Mecca for me." ...Read more

CHICAGO — Back in 2010, Eddie Izzard sold out the United Center in Chicago. The trailblazing British comedian told me at the time of a burning need to prove comics could fill arenas. I first wrote about Izzard in a solo show called “Dressed to Kill” at the New York’s Westbeth Arts Center in the late 1990s and I’ve reviewed her, to use ...Read more

Billie Eilish is headed to 23 venues in North America on the tour behind her new album "Hit Me Hard and Soft," promoters announced Monday.

The 22-year-old Grammy winning superstar will play 34 dates. Tickets go on sale to the general public at noon on Friday via Ticketmaster, and presales start Tuesday.

"Hit Me Hard and Soft" is due out on May...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — Post Malone, a prominent figure in the rap stratosphere, is reshaping his position in music. During his Saturday night Stagecoach Country Music Festival set, he proved that his star power lies in playing a set of country covers.

“We’re going to be doing a bunch of songs that I love that we picked out, and I hope that’s ...Read more

Just like Zendaya did with the trend of every pair of "Spider-Man" co-stars dating, the actor has fulfilled another franchise prophecy.

The "Challengers" actress is well aware of the alleged "pipeline" through which female "Spider-Man" leads later star in tennis movies. She reacted to the trend last week on "Good Morning America," where she ...Read more

A two-part documentary about the sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey has been acquired by streamer Max, nearly a year after the Oscar winner’s acquittal in London court.

“Spacey Unmasked,” commissioned by Britain’s Channel 4 in 2022, has finally been completed and is set to air in the U.K. on May 6 and 7. According to ...Read more

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s award-winning alchemy returned to Las Vegas this weekend for a Kansas City Chiefs reunion this weekend to party with Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany.

Fresh off the heels of the release of Swift’s latest album, the Grammy Award winner and three-time Super Bowl champ partied with the star quarterback and...Read more

New Jersey native Marla Adams, who starred as Dina Abbott Mergeron in the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless” over the span of nearly 40 years, has died at the age of 85.

Matt Kane, the director of media and talent for the series, announced the news confirming that Adams died in Los Angeles on Thursday. No cause of death was ...Read more

NEW YORK — “The Great Gatsby: A New Musical” still is what many people think of when they ponder a big Broadway night out: A familiar yet glamorous title from the Jazz Age; a star tenor like Jeremy Jordan; lush, string-heavy orchestrations; songs of passion, obsession and resolve, and a massive art deco set from Paul Tate dePoo III ...Read more

ATLANTA — The darkly atmospheric, often comedic Netflix series “Dead Boy Detectives” is, in Atlanta native and co-showrunner Steve Yockey’s words, a bit like “‘The Hardy Boys’ on acid.”

“For anybody who has seen my plays, this is very much up my alley,” Yockey said in a recent Zoom interview with The Atlanta Journal-...Read more

NEW YORK — Sufjan Stevens’ hipper-than-thou music defies easy categorization. It goes by chamber pop, folk pop, electronica and numerous other descriptions inadequate for its lushly orchestrated romanticism, as topped by lyrics at once esoteric and emotionally intense.

Stevens always had a fervent fan base, increased of late by the ...Read more

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Considering that he has devoted much of the past 60 years to his career as the lead singer in the Who, you wouldn't expect to hear Roger Daltrey laughing uproariously over the apparent demise of the band long synonymous with his name. Especially not just a day after Who co-founder Pete Townshend stated in a podcast he...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Eric Slick has spent 15 years drumming for Philadelphia-bred band Dr. Dog and toured with Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby.

Since moving to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018 with musician wife Natalie Prass, he’s also been a busy session musician. He’s played on songs by Courtney Love and Taylor Swift — on the "Fearless (Taylor’...Read more

The summer movie season is upon us.

Bring on Batman! Bring on Spider-Man! Bring on Darth Vader!

Wait, what’s that? No Spidey? No Bats? No visit to a galaxy far, far away?

Come to think of it, Godzilla and Kong have already smashed into theaters, and those shape-shifting robots won’t return until the fall with the animated “Transformers ...Read more

CHICAGO — There’ll be more than one story to write about Sundance Institute x Chicago 2024, coming to town June 28-30. A sort of pop-up import, sponsored by the Chicago Film Office and city tourism bureau Choose Chicago, Sundance Institute x Chicago is the power of branding incarnate. The event will consist of a modest four-screening ...Read more

Zendaya's tennis drama "Challengers" scored the top spot in the domestic box office this weekend, bringing in $15 million, as movie theaters are still struggling to match last year's ticket sales.

"Challengers" outgrossed its closest competitor, faith-based drama "Unsung Hero," which generated $7.75 million, according to Comscore estimates. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Paramount Global Chief Executive Bob Bakish is expected to be ousted from the company, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Bakish’s departure comes as Paramount’s future hangs in the balance.

The company is currently in a 30-day exclusive negotiating period with tech scion David Ellison, whose Skydance Media ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are fighting to dismiss claims raised in a sexual assault lawsuit brought against the music mogul, arguing that he can’t be sued under laws that didn’t exist at the time of the alleged incident.

In a motion filed in a New York court Friday, Combs’ legal team requested that claims made in a ...Read more