Business
Broadway: Tony Winner “A Strange Loop,” by the Other Michael Jackson, Closing After Less than a Year
There were two Michael Jackson musicals in the last Broadway season. One was a hit, and the other is closing after less than a...
Movies
Review: “The Whale” Spouts a Lot of Cheap Sentiment Despite Brendan Fraser’s Lovely Turn as a Victim
"The Whale" was a short-lived off Broadway play, set in one room, with a six hundred pound elephant at its center.
Now "The Whale" is...
Movies
RIP Angela Lansbury, Beloved, Legendary Actress from “Manchurian Candidate” to “Sweeney Todd” to “Murder She Wrote”
Angela Lansbury was maybe the most popular actress in American history and one of the most gifted. She's passed away today at age 96....
Television
Game of Numbers: “House of the Dragon” Stumbles in Episode 8, Drops 150K Viewers
UPDATED (Listen, kids, I'm hallucinating on flu meds). Maybe fans didn't know the season was done. But for its final installment of Season 1,...
Television
“Saturday Night Live” Ratings Plummet Below 4 Million to New Low With New Cast, and Cecily Strong Still MIA
"Saturday Night Live" ratings plummeted this weekend, which is no surprise.
Total viewers were just 3.7 million. That's down 300,000 from last week. "SNL" rarely...
Celebrity
Nikki Finke, Self-Styled Gunslinger Gossip Columnist Who Ran Wild, Dies at Age 68
Nikki Finke is dead at 68. I'm sorry if she suffered, but she made a lot of other people suffer during her reign of...
Movies
Hamptons Film Festival Shows How Many Local Celebrities Want to See New Films — A Lot– And a Famous German Director Arrives
The 30th Hamptons International Film Festival took off Friday night hasn't looked back. So far the big films, for better or worse, have included...
Business
Box Office Updates: “Bros,” “Amsterdam” Officially Dead, Beaten by a Crocodile Named Lyle
The box office remains a perilous place in this time of streaming and inflation.
As I told you Friday morning, David O. Russell's "Amsterdam" with...