National Entertainment

ROME (AP) — Sophia Loren is expressing gratitude for all the affection she received following surgery needed after the film star fractured a hip and thigh bone in a bathroom fall, her agent said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.” “I don’t know boo-scat about opera,” she told him. “I just got two requests.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hattie McDaniel's best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind” is one of the most important moments in Academy Award history.

TORONTO — The creator of a revamped version of the Robin Hood tale has little time for critics who object to its focus on a young Black woman.

Top New Shows (US): 1. Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University , Wondery 2. Strike Force Five 3. Hot Mess with Alix Earle , Unwell Network 4. Murder in Apartment 12 , Dateline NBC 5.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Code Red by Kyle Mills & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) 4.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Barbie 2. No Hard Feelings 3. Talk To Me 4. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 6. Asteroid City 7. Past Lives 8. Bottoms 9. Insidious: The Red Door 10.

Musicians at the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony are "shocked" at the sudden decision by its leadership to file for bankruptcy last week.

NEW YORK (AP) — PBS was looking forward to a relatively free lane to offer fresh television to viewers downtrodden by the Hollywood strikes this fall, but that advantage may only last a couple of months now.

NEW YORK (AP) — The saga of how cult sci-fi novel “Dune” slowly permeated the mainstream over decades is a tale with almost as many twists and turns as “Dune” itself, and author Ryan Britt recounts it in the lively and entertaining “The Spice Must Fl