Variety

Paul Anthony Kelly and Patrick Ball on Surviving ‘The Pitt’ Panic Attacks, Going Left-Handed to Become JFK Jr. and Playing Emotional TV Heartthrobs

This interview is part of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series. Watch the full video interview now at CNN.com/Watch (or on the CNN app) and on Variety’s YouTube channel starting at 11:59 pm ET. Paul Anthony Kelly plays his first-ever professional acting role in “Love Story,” where he takes on the role of John F. Kennedy Jr. in […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Kaouther Ben Hania on Funding Paradoxes and How “Every Movie Is Political”

The Oscar-nominated Tunisian director behind 'The Voice of Hind Rajab,' during a SXSW London appearance, also discussed the Western thirst for Global South trauma.

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Tribeca Festival Condemns Palestinian ‘Dog Rape’ Joke Made on ‘The Wedding Entertainer’ Red Carpet: ‘Human Suffering Should Never Be Mocked’

The Tribeca Festival has condemned the jokes made on the red carpet of “The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan)” by comedian Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky about the rape of Palestinians, calling them “offensive and unacceptable.” In a clip that was widely shared on social media, drawing outrage, Gold noted that the […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Scott Pelley Presses Paramount to Remove CBS News Chief Bari Weiss: ‘CBS News is On Fire’

Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley suggested in an interview with The New York Times that CBS News parent Paramount Skydance remove Bari Weiss as the leader of the news division, alleging in an emotional exchange that “television’s not her thing” and her inexperience with the medium and her belief that mainstream media is biased […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Far right groups prey on it’: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

A decade after The Lonely City was first published, the writer reflects on what’s changed – and how the feelings that drove them to write their bestseller are key to understanding our turbulent politicsI first had the idea of writing a book about loneliness in 2012. I was 35 and had just moved to New York City when I became lost in a labyrinth of isolation and misery. A love affair had ended abruptly while I was still sky-high with expectation, buoyant with relief that I was finally enterin

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

Our rigid eating habits date to the Industrial Revolution – it’s time to embrace culinary spontaneity‘One of the stupidest things in an earnest but stupid school of culinary thought is that each of the three daily meals should be ‘balanced’.” So argues American food writer MFK Fisher in her 1942 book How to Cook a Wolf. She goes on: “In the first place not all people need or want three meals each day. Many of them feel better with two or one and one-half, or five.”Fisher wrote her book ostensibl

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Marriage of Figaro review – Danielle de Niese’s slick direction weds finery with fun

Wild Arts Summer Opera festival, Layer Marney Tower, Essex A touring show was quite a challenge for the opera star’s first directorial gig, but dynamic singing, charismatic orchestral play and clever stage jokes pull it off brilliantly‘Four boxes, six screens, four chairs and a tree”: the sum total of scenery for Wild Arts’ new English-language production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is modest by operatic standards. This staging needs to travel light, since it’s destined for performances in mo

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hilarious or a nightmare? Exhibition displays the worst album covers ever

Museum hosts the collection of Steve Goldman, who buys records based on the sheer awfulness of the sleeve“It is like the invasion of the bunny body snatchers,” says JT Thompson, the former lead singer of the 1970s US rock band Peter Rabbitt, as he looks at what is regarded as one of the world’s worst record covers.The 1979 album Roadstar shows all five members of the California rock band with their faces morphed on to rabbit bodies, with Thompson emerging, like a terrible dream, smiling from a t

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Dynamo vs Houdini’ Series Coming to Sky as Illusionist Retraces Legendary Magician’s Steps

On Saturday night, Dynamo attempted "the most ambitious and dangerous stunt of his career," escaping a burning car suspended 100 feet against the New York City skyline, while bound in a straitjacket.

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso?The first song I fell in love withWhen I saw Night Boat to Cairo by Madness on Top of the Pops as an 11-year-old, something happened to me on a molecular level. There was something about the way they moved.The first single I boughtI Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats, from Swales Music in Haverfordwest, a 15-mile bus trip from the little fishing village in west

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Variety

Ariana Grande Setlist: Every Song Played at ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Tour’s Opening Night in Oakland

After a six-and-a-half-year layoff between tours, Ariana Grande has made a long-awaited return to the concert stage, with her “Eternal Sunshine” tour kicking off at the Oakland Arena Saturday night. Variety was on hand for the show and has the full setlist, below; a full review will follow on Sunday.. The name of the tour […]

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Kevin Bridges warms up for World Cup fever

The comedian travels the globe to get to the heart of the beautiful game. Plus, a thrilling encounter with tigers. Here’s what to watch this evening10.30pm, BBC One Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hello, goodbye: the Beatles’ chaotic, controversial final tour – as never seen before

Tired, emotional and besieged by fans and enemies alike, by 1966 the Fab Four were ready to quit touring for good. A new collection of images by rock photographer Jim Marshall captures their last gigsThe Beatles played their last official concert on 29 August 1966, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Jim Marshall’s pictures capture the group at a pivotal moment, when they are already feeling nostalgia for what they are leaving behind.Two months earlier, the Beatles had finished preco

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Milo Rau turned tribunals into theatre. Now his own moral judgement is on trial

The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself?Milo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is a little less buoyant these days. The Swiss theatre-maker has done something he says he explicitly hates: he has cancelled a guest. “Yes, we hit a wall,” he says. “But at least it made the wall visibl

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Emotions Spill Over at Town Hall of Industry Workers Opposed to Paramount-WBD Merger: “It’s the Death of a Great American Industry”

Writers, actors, crew members and small business owners expressed their opposition to the $111 billion transaction in Beverly Hills on Saturday: “It may be the final domino that knocks everything down.”

entertainment  Jun 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ Review: An Engrossing if Incohesive Dive Into William Friedkin’s Gay S&M Thriller and Its Surrounding Controversy

Queer culture doc specialist Jeffrey Schwarz looks at the killing that inspired the 1980 film 'Cruising' and the protests triggered by perceptions of internalized homophobia, exploitation and stigmatization.

entertainment  Jun 6, 2026

Variety

Olivia Rodrigo Reveals New Album Has Duet With the Cure’s Robert Smith, ‘What’s Wrong WIth Me,’ by Way of Surprise Live Premiere at Primavera Sound

One of pop’s best-kept secrets of 2026 out, as the news is out that Olivia Rodrigo and the Cure’s Robert Smith have a full-on duet on her forthcoming album, which is less than a week away from release. The reveal came in the form of Rodrigo bringing Smith out at the Primavera Sound festival partway […]

entertainment  Jun 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Scott Pelley Shows Appreciation for Supporters Following ’60 Minutes’ Firing: “Deeply Grateful”

Pelley was fired on Tuesday after an intense meeting with the newsmagazine's new executive producer, Nick Bilton, on Monday.

entertainment  Jun 6, 2026

Variety

Charlie Puth Cancels Show Due to Illness: ‘I’m Heartbroken’

Charlie Puth took to his Instagram Story to announce that he’s sick and must cancel his Saturday show in Orlando, Fla. “I am so devastated to do this, but I have to cancel tonight’s show,” Puth wrote. “I’ve been sick for the last few days and am now being instructed to rest or else risk […]

entertainment  Jun 6, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Victoria Pedretti Went Deep, Dark and “Dangerous” for Her Biggest Film Role to Date

The 'You' breakout is devastating in 'The Last Day,' a Tribeca Festival premiere inspired by 'Mrs Dalloway' that takes an unflinching, tragic look at postpartum depression.

entertainment  Jun 6, 2026