Once dominant at CBS News before a bitter departure, Dan Rather makes his first return in 18 years
Dan Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on ''CBS Sunday Morning'' days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman's life.
Chants of 'shame on you' greet guests at White House correspondents' dinner shadowed by war in Gaza
An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents' dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with protests outside the event condemning both Biden's handling of the conflict and the Western news' media coverage of it.
Nicole Kidman, who 'makes movies better,' gets AFI Life Achievement Award
Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: '' Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.''
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Broadway actor quits CTC's 'A Year With Frog and Toad' 2 days before opening night
Jay Goede originated the role of Frog at the theater in 2002, and played it on Broadway the following year.
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Today in History: April 27, Magellan killed in the Philippines
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What to stream this weekend: A Bon Jovi documentary, Idris Elba in 'Knuckles' and 'Anyone But You'
The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell romantic comedy ''Anyone But You'' hitting Netflix and an album by Brazil superstar Anitta are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo to become general director of Opera Philadelphia
Anthony Roth Costanzo was hired Thursday as general director and president of Opera Philadelphia and will continue his career as a leading countertenor while taking over an ambitious company dealing with post-pandemic economic challenges.
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Caitlin Clark helps KARE 11 and Fox 9 reporters bond with their daughters
Lou Raguse and Paul Blume teamed up to coach a winning basketball team.
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Review: Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' needed an editor
Despite high points, the 31-song double album is verbose, suffering from sonic sameness.
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John Lithgow takes on the role of the new kid in school for a PBS special celebrating arts education
At 78, John Lithgow's acting career is not slowing down. He appeared in the best picture nominee ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' and starred with Jeff Bridges in the FX series ''The Old Man." Recently, the two-time Academy Award nominee and multiple Emmy, Tony and Golden Globes-winning actor played the new kid in school. He learned dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing and vocal jazz ensemble with Los Angeles-area high school students. It was filmed for ''Art Happens Here with John Lithgow,'' airing Friday on PBS with the goal of promoting arts education.
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Music Review: Pet Shop Boys have done it yet again with catchy and bittersweet 'Nonetheless'
Once upon a time, on Pet Shop Boys ' first single, ''West End Girls,'' vocalist Neil Tennant sang the lines, ''We've got no future / We've got no past / Here today, built to last."
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Rom-com author Emily Henry knows the secret to having a healthy relationship with love
''Nothing forces you to face your demons like falling in love.''
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Video shows Alec Baldwin smacking phone away from woman demanding he say 'Free Palestine'
A protester confronted the actor at a New York City coffee shop.
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Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian makes belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Madame Butterfly
Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the ''best young female singer'' of 2016.
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Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes
His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura.
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Today in History: April 23, first YouTube clip is uploaded
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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more.
Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer.
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Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds talks new album 'Loom' — 'Heavy concepts but playful at the same time'
The ambiguity of Imagine Dragons' next album starts from the cover.
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 28-May 4
Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 28-May 4:
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Yoko Ono to receive Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement
One of the country's leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono. The groundbreaking artist, filmmaker and musician is this year's recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal, an honor previously given to Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison among others.
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Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall
Mary J. Blige,Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton.
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Kevin Bacon dances back to 'Footloose' high school
Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie ''Footloose'' was filmed more than 40 years.
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