Justin Timberlake Pleads Guilty To Impaired Driving In New York

Justin Timberlake Pleads Guilty To Impaired Driving In New York

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake urged drivers not to get behind the wheel of a car after even a single alcoholic drink on Friday, shortly after pleading guilty to driving while impaired in New York’s Hamptons earlier this year. The public safety announcement in front of the Sag Harbor police department was part … Read more

Taylor Swift Harris post drives 338,000 users government voting site

Taylor Swift Harris post drives 338,000 users government voting site

Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” at Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany, July 27, 2024. Thomas Niedermueller | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in a Tuesday night Instagram post drove at least 337,826 visitors to Vote.gov, a government website that directs users to … Read more

‘Anora’ Wins Palme D’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s Top Honor

‘Anora’ Wins Palme D’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s Top Honor

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the Cannes closing ceremony Saturday. The win … Read more

Skydance could drop bid after Sony Apollo offer

Skydance could drop bid after Sony Apollo offer

Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, attends the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Skydance Media is prepared to walk away from its offer for Paramount Global unless it receives a firm commitment from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, following the … Read more

NBC could buy back ‘Roundball Rock’ rights if it gets NBA games, John Tesh says

NBC could buy back ‘Roundball Rock’ rights if it gets NBA games, John Tesh says

Michael Jordan #23 and Scottie Pippen #33 Nathaniel S. Butler In the pantheon of theme songs for TV sports, “Roundball Rock,” John Tesh’s anthem that accompanied National Basketball Association games on NBC until 2002, is arguably the greatest. If NBCUniversal wins the rights to air the NBA again, it would have a chance to bring … Read more

Paramount, Skydance inch closer to a merger agreement: Sources

Paramount, Skydance inch closer to a merger agreement: Sources

Paramount Global and Skydance Media are making progress on a deal that would merge the media companies and buy out controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, according to people familiar with the matter. Paramount Global’s special committee, in charge of accepting or rejecting transactions, and David Ellison’s Skydance Media, backed by private equity firms KKR and RedBird … Read more

Former Bowlero exec says company threatened to report him to FBI

Former Bowlero exec says company threatened to report him to FBI

The Bowlero location at Chelsea Piers in New York City. CNBC A former executive at Bowlero, the world’s largest owner and operator of bowling centers, has asked a court’s permission to countersue his former employer for extortion and retaliation, after an executive on a recorded call threatened to report him to the FBI if he … Read more

Louis Gossett Jr., First Black Man To Win Supporting Actor Oscar, Dies At 87

Louis Gossett Jr., First Black Man To Win Supporting Actor Oscar, Dies At 87

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death … Read more

Film Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Says It Felt Like Being Hit By A Baseball Bat

Film Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Says It Felt Like Being Hit By A Baseball Bat

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie director who was shot by Alec Baldwin during a movie rehearsal — and survived — testified Friday at trial that he was approaching the cinematographer when he heard a loud bang and felt the bullet’s impact. “It felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to my shoulder,” … Read more

Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin In Fatal Shooting Of ‘Rust’ Movie Cinematographer

Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin In Fatal Shooting Of ‘Rust’ Movie Cinematographer

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this week, … Read more