Alec Baldwin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a violation of harassment in connection with a dispute last year over a parking spot, according to a Manhattan district attorney's office spokeswoman.
The Academy Awards were asked for more diversity and this year's set of nominations made up as variegated a mosaic as this proud old competition has ever tried to assemble, writes Gene Seymour. That's significant when framed against America's ongoing social and political stress testes.
Eight movies were nominated for best picture on Tuesday, but there are two that couldn't be more different -- "Black Panther," the Marvel blockbuster; and "Roma," Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white Netflix film -- might be the most significant in terms of leading the Oscars into new frontiers.
More than 30 years after the release of his first feature film, legendary director Spike Lee has earned his first Oscar nomination for best director and his first nomination for best picture.
The appetite for true-crime programming has created a bit of a logjam, to the point where coverage of notorious murderers and serial killers is beginning to recycle. The question is whether the sheer volume of coverage risks somehow romanticizing these infamous figures.
The recent release of two documentaries about 2017's failed Fyre Festival have brought the entertainment disaster back into public view, and one jilted business owner in particular is getting a lot of love.
From "American Horror Story" and "Bird Box" to most recently "Glass," Sarah Paulson has become the reigning queen of the thriller genre -- kind of by accident.
