Members of SAG-AFTRA voted by a wide margin to give their leaders authority to call a strike even before negotiations have begun with the major studios.
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Who are the people shaping our culture? Amy Kaufman examines the lives of icons, underdogs and rising stars. Within a span of a few months, Elliot Page became the most famous transgender man in the world. Page’s visibility means that he shoulders the weight of a roiling, often very ugly cultural conversation.
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A Times survey tallies the paydays for the heads of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and more. The issue has become a hot topic on picket lines during the writers’ strike.
Artist Jim Melchert, who died earlier this month, was a central figure in the Bay Area arts community, as well as a professor and mentor at UC Berkeley.
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After The Times named It’s a Small World the best ride at Disneyland, we wanted to know what park fanatics thought. Did we get it right?
‘The Flash’ director Andy Muschietti says he’d like Ezra Miller to reprise the title role in a potential sequel: ‘a character that was made for them.’
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Father and son launched “Unstable” after the younger Lowe began trolling his dad on Instagram a few years ago -- to the delight of his followers.
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Determined not to let the ‘Randall Scandal’ define her, the reality TV star was the first person to smell trouble with the show’s now infamous ‘Scandoval.’
Restaurateur Al “Bubba” Baker, who was a contestant on the long-running ABC series, claims that he was mistreated by mogul Daymond John, one of the show’s “sharks.”
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From Brill Building-era classics to ‘80s quiet-storm staples, Weil’s songs, many written with husband Barry Mann, became part of the fabric of American life.
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Working on ‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ has helped the writer-actor-producer get over past hurts with her father.
The actor’s approach to one scene was so different than the writers expected—including her showrunner husband—that they rewrote the course of her character’s story.
First Pedro Pascal began laughing, then her ‘Saturday Night Live’ castmates broke, then it was chaos.
Elliot Page began exploring his gender as a child, but his family shut him down: ‘Homosexuality didn’t exist.’
Britain’s Prince Harry failed to appear on the first day of the trial over his phone-hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.
‘And Just Like That’ and ‘Sex and the City’ star Evan Handler shared his thoughts on Kim Cattrall’s unexpected return as Samantha Jones.
‘The Idol’ star Lily-Rose Depp opened up about working with Abel ‘the Weeknd’ Tesfaye ahead of the premiere of the controversial HBO series.
Brian Cox recently explained why he hasn’t watched the ‘Succession’ series finale after his character, Logan Roy, died earlier in the season.
Naomi Osaka is expecting a baby girl with boyfriend Cordae. The two confirmed the baby’s gender in an Instagram post Friday. Cordae is happy to be a #GirlDad.
‘Booksmart’ star Beanie Feldstein and longtime partner Bonnie-Chance Roberts tied the knot in May, the actor announced Thursday on Instagram.
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