Grammy predictions: AP writers debate who’ll win on Sunday

The Beyhive is all abuzz over the possibility that Beyoncé will have a chance to make Grammy history this yearwhich should make for an exciting awards show as she’s up against heavy hitters Adele, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Styles. She’ll need just four more trophies to ascend to the top decorated artist in the Recording … Read more

How to get away from cruise ship crowds

Canadian Tammy Cecco wasn’t a fan of cruising. “The thought of being on a ship with thousands of other people and not being able to get off,” she said, “was something that I wanted to avoid.” That didn’t change when Cecco, a travel magazine publisher, boarded a surprise cruise booked by her husband to renew … Read more

M. Night Shyamalan on making smaller movies and Dave Bautista

Photo: Phobymo (Universal Pictures) Few directors are as idiosyncratic and successful as M. Night Shyamalan. Dusting off the “twist guy” expectations he received in the wake of 1999’s The Sixth SenseShyamalan has spent the last decade following his whims, taking risks, and challenging himself: he completed an unlikely superhero trilogy, dipped his toe in found … Read more

‘World’s richest dog’ a wild hoax

Gunther III was the stuff of legend. The German Shepherd reportedly inherited somewhere between $400 and $500 million from a wealthy German countess named Karlotta Liebenstein in the early 1990s. The story went that Liebenstein had lost her 26-year-old son to suicide, and having no other human in the world, left her vast fortune to … Read more

Where Ezra Miller and everyone else stand within DC Studios now

L-R: Jason Momoa, Henry Cavill, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, and Ben Affleck Photo: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) The long-promised long-term plan for DC’s cinematic universe is finally upon us, and it means big changes for some of the studio’s beloved characters. Yet some things are also staying very much the same: new boss … Read more

An interview with Shotgun Wedding star Josh Duhamel

Josh DuhamelPhoto: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images (Getty Images) For a film that features Jennifer Lopez dropping a grenade on pirates while zip-lining through a jungle, Shotgun Wedding is a surprisingly great showcase for a lot of what Josh Duhamel excels at. The Transformers star is no stranger to action sequences, and last year’s Bandit proved his … Read more

Heather Gay shares her black eye backstory

Heather Gay finally revealed that she doesn’t remember how she got her infamous black eye because she was too drunk. “I blacked out,” the reality star, 40, said on Part 1 of the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” reunion Wednesday. “I don’t know how it happened.” Gay’s admission came weeks after her co-stars and … Read more

Cassandro, Bad Behavior, Michael J. Fox

(Clockwise from left:) Cassandro, You Hurt My Feelings, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Bad Behavior (Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival)Graphic: The AV Club Temperatures remain frigid here in the shadow of Park City’s mountains, but the 2023 Sundance Film Festival is only heating up. The first weekend saw the … Read more

Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week

PARIS (AP) – The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker – who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s – was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism. With her caressing velvets and silks, embroideries, sequins and tiny silver studs, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri may … Read more

Past Lives, Dreams Magazine, Eileen

(LR:) Dreams Magazine, Eileen, Past Lives, Little Richard: I Am EverythingGraphic: Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The back-and-better-than-ever Sundance Film Festival has featured almost too many indie stars to count in its opening days here in snowy Park City. Brooke Shields and Michael J. Fox were on hand to support their revealing documentaries, Pretty Baby: … Read more