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Eddie Cheeba, a New York-area DJ who is regarded as a founding father of hip-hop, has died. He was 67. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons announced Cheeba’s death Tuesday on …

Supporting actress Oscar nominee America Ferrera delivered a memorable speech in “Barbie” about impossible expectations put on women. But Ferrera, 39, might have inadvertently perpetuated the myth of the woman …

This ain’t Texas. A country music radio station in Oklahoma will indeed be playing Beyoncé’s two new country songs, “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages,” after the station cleared up …

A New Mexico judge ruled Wednesday that alleged drug use by “Rust” movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed during off-hours could be introduced as evidence during her upcoming trial on involuntary manslaughter …

And just like that, it’s the 1980s again! Lionel Richie and Diana Ross will co-headline the inaugural Fool in Love Festival at Hollywood Park in August. The legendary hitmakers will …

Two plays by writers who work extensively in television call attention to crucial differences between stage and screen. Perhaps the biggest of all has to do with the centrality of …

Disgraced music mogul Russell Simmons is at the center of a new lawsuit that alleges he raped a former Def Jam Recordings employee in his Manhattan apartment during the 1990s. …

Landing roles in Matteo Garrone’s “Io Capitano” was a life-changing experience for Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall. The young Senegalese actors were cast to play African migrants Seydou and Moussa, …

Once upon a time, comic-book movies used to be camp, riding the line between silliness and sincerity that would suit the cinematic adaptation of a slim, illustrated story about superheroes …

What memory serves is often open to debate in “Four Daughters,” a meta-documentary from Tunisia that explores the lives of a shattered family whose two eldest teenage daughters ran away …