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‘Don’t Look Up’ director McKay gives to climate activists

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In director Adam McKay's "Don't Look Up," a 2021 satire about two scientists who try in vain to warn the world about a planet-destroying comet, the scientists' desperate plea for action ultimately doesn't work. But don't take that as McKay's view on the power of ...

Review: Dick Ebersol recalls his outsized TV role in memoir

"From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears and Touchdowns in TV," by Dick Ebersol (Simon & Schuster) Anyone who's followed the TV industry since broadcasts went color will know the name Dick Ebersol. And while those insiders and diehards are the most likely ...

Post Malone is ‘sorry’ for on-stage accident in St. Louis

Post Malone apologized to his St. Louis fans Sunday for an on-stage accident that sent him to the hospital and shortened his set the night before at the Enterprise Center. In the middle of a song Saturday, Malone fell into a hole on stage that moments before was opened to lower an instrument ...

Architect Vlado Milunić dies at 81; linked to Prague icon

PRAGUE (AP) — Vlado Milunić, a Czech architect of Croatian ancestry who co-designed Prague's iconic Dancing House building together with his colleague Frank Gehry, has died at 81. Czech public radio announced his death on Sunday and said it was confirmed by his family. No details were ...

Henry Silva, known for many tough-guy roles, dies at 95

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in "The Manchurian Candidate," "Ocean's Eleven" and other films, has died at age 95. Silva's son Scott Silva told Variety that his father died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion ...

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Phantom of the Opera" — Broadway's longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war ...