Entertainment

Tatiana Maslany on the taboo of porn in Apple TV series 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed'

TORONTO — Scam culture takes centre stage in Tatiana Maslany's new series "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed." It's an issue she thinks audiences can relate to, as the trappings of online fraud become harder...

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Rachel Maddow takes on the DOJ’s 150-year saga in a new book, 'Department of Fate'

NEW YORK (AP) — After writing bestsellers about the military, the oil and gas industry and the state of democracy, Rachel Maddow is now working on a history of the Justice Department. Crown,...

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A filmmaking tool or an existential threat: Cannes Film Festival weighs the rise of AI

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties tending to come to the surface at the event. This year, the topic...

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The New York Times sues the Pentagon a second time over Hegseth's media restrictions

The New York Times sued the Defense Department on Monday for the second time in five months, arguing that a requirement that journalists be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment....

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Don’t sleep on ‘Is God Is,’ a primal scream of a movie inspired by Westerns and Greek tragedy

Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage...

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Cannes standout 'Paper Tiger' reveals a new side to Miles Teller

CANNES, France (AP) — James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival enough times to not entirely trust the response his films get here, for better or worse. “You smile and say thank...

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The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie 'Hope' leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored

CANNES, France (AP) — Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or. But Na Hong-jin's “Hope” is not your average science fiction. ...

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 24-30 includes Octavia Spencer and Carey Mulligan

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 24-30: May 24: Jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp is 89. Comedian Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong is 88. Musician Bob Dylan is 85. Actor Gary Burghoff (“MASH”)...

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Will White House correspondents' dinner be rescheduled? Some say: ‘Let’s call the whole thing off’

NEW YORK (AP) — And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Or … maybe not? More than three weeks after the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was...

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Pop star Shakira is acquitted in a Spanish tax fraud case

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court acquitted Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros ($64 million) in wrongly imposed fines, a court document seen Monday...

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