Entertainment

Editor’s note: Wide Shot will be off next week, with Hollywood Inc. senior editor Ryan Faughnder taking vacation. Last year, Hollywood braved the summer of strikes. This year, a cruel …

Comedian Eric André is speaking out once again about his experiences with racial profiling, this time alleging he was detained in an Australia airport over the weekend. “It’s one of …

Retired NFL player Michael Oher, whose life story inspired the Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” has spoken out for the first time following his lawsuit against the Tuohy family. Oher …

Actor Danielle Fishel is meeting a health challenge head-on, predicting she will be “fine.” “I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a …

Phil Donahue, the groundbreaking daytime talk show host of “The Phil Donahue Show,” has died. He was 88. He died Sunday “peacefully after a long illness,” his family said in …

A dilapidated barn where trapped kids once scrawled messages like “73 days more.” An elderly survivor of a priest’s abuse pinpointing the day during her youth when she first turned …

Director Austin Peters makes his narrative feature debut with “Skincare,” a slice of nasty L.A. noir set within the beauty industry, starring Elizabeth Banks as a celebrity aesthetician whose reputation …

Statistics about the social mobility of Black lives don’t always do justice to what it looks like up close for one person. That’s where movies come in handy as vessels …

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Sunday, Aug. 18. I’m your host, Andrew J. Campa. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Newsletter …

BeatKing, the Houston rapper also known as Club Godzilla, has died. He was 39. The recording artist died Thursday in a Houston hospital, his manager Tasha Felder confirmed to The …