Entertainment category, Page 207
Tony Award-winning ‘Band’s Visit’ returns to Benedum Center
The band visited once before, and now it’s coming back again. “The Band’s Visit,” a Tony Award-winning musical, was in the midst of a PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh run when the pandemic shut down the entertainment industry in March 2020. “We had done three performances when we left on March...
’60 Minutes’ Michael Keaton interview covers his love of PittsburghVideo
The CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” known for its ticking stopwatch, devoted a good portion of its program Sunday night to discovering what makes Michael Keaton tick. Keaton, a Robinson Township native, has achieved enormous success as an A-List actor in Hollywood for the past three decades. He has sustained his...
First steps made in Congress to honor pop superstar Prince
NEW YORK — Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince, citing his “indelible mark on Minnesota and American culture,” the Associated Press has learned. The medal is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors and past recipients...
Despite hybrid release, ‘Dune’ draws well on the big screenVideo
NEW YORK — Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America, drawing a large number of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen despite it also being available to stream in homes. Warner Bros. launched the Legendary...
Ed Sheeran has covid, will do performances from home
British pop star Ed Sheeran said Sunday he has tested positive for covid-19 and will do interviews and performances from his house while he self-isolates. Sheeran, 30, broke the news on social media days before his new studio album is due out. “Quick note to tell you that I’ve sadly...
After slamming covid-19 rules, Travis Tritt sings anthem at NLCS
ATLANTA (AP) — Country musician Travis Tritt, who canceled shows at venues that required a covid-19 vaccine or mask-wearing, sang the national anthem before Game 6 of the NL Championship Series on Saturday night. Wearing a Braves jersey, Tritt received a smattering of applause when he was announced as a...
Baldwin was told gun was ‘cold’ before movie set shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. — As a film crew and actors in Western garb prepared to rehearse a scene inside a wooden, chapel-like building on a desert movie ranch outside Santa Fe, assistant director Dave Halls stepped outside and grabbed a prop gun off a cart. He walked back in and...
Mike Holden cleared by doctors to return to WPXI-TV
WPXI-TV reporter Mike Holden, who’s been out on medical leave since early September, says doctors have cleared him to return to work at Channel 11 next week. In September, Holden posted to social media that he was suffering from a potential case of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome that didn’t allow...
ABC bans live weapons from ‘The Rookie’ after Alec Baldwin accident
LOS ANGELES — ABC’s popular procedural “The Rookie” has banned the firing of real guns on the show after a fatal accident Thursday on a movie set in New Mexico. Shaken up by the events, Alexi Hawley, the showrunner on the cop drama starring Nathan Fillion as a Los Angeles...
Warrant: Baldwin didn’t know weapon contained live round
SANTA FE, N.M. — Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, court records released Friday show. The assistant director did not know the prop gun was loaded with live...
Peter Scolari of ‘Newhart,’ ‘Bosom Buddies,’ dies at 66
LOS ANGELES — Peter Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on “Newhart” and a closeted dad on “Girls” and who was on Broadway with longtime friend Tom Hanks in “Lucky Guy,” has died. He was 66. Scolari died Friday morning in New York after...
Experts weigh in on ‘Rust’ tragedy: How can a prop gun be deadly?
Mt. Lebanon native and actor Joe Manganiello’s reaction probably mirrored that of many inside and outside the entertainment industry when hearing the news that actor Alec Baldwin “discharged” a prop gun Thursday on the set of his Western “Rust” in New Mexico. It killed the film’s director of photography, Halyna...
Pittsburgh Roller Derby Undead team ready to lace up skates and get rolling
Roller Derby is back rolling again. After more than a year outside the rink because of the pandemic, the Pittsburgh Roller Derby Undead team will have an intra-league bout at 5 p.m. Saturday at Neville Roller Drome on Neville Island. The name “Undead” is a nod to the zombies from...
Sewickley’s Tull Family Theater part of Film Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Film Festival
In the film “My Fiona,” Jane finds herself overwhelmed by the loss by suicide of her best friend, Fiona. The movie is one of 32 films that are part of Film Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Film Festival Nov. 10-17 being shown at various theaters across the city. According to Film Pittsburgh,...
‘Eternals’ has the MCU’s first deaf superhero. Her deafness is one of her superpowersVideo
LOS ANGELES — Lauren Ridloff is eager for audiences to meet her groundbreaking “Eternals” character, Makkari. In the comics, Makkari is known primarily for her superhuman speed, which allows her to spin cyclones, run on water and defy gravity. In Marvel Studios’ forthcoming adaptation, Makkari is also deaf — a...
Bernini’s dazzling chapel even brighter after restoration
ROME — A chapel in a Rome church that is home to a Baroque sculptural masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been made even more dazzling after restoration. Art and restoration specialists presented the result in the Cornaro Chapel in St. Mary of the Victory Church on Thursday. The chapel’s...
Lower Burrell writer’s book spotlights 30 Alle-Kiski communities past and present
From Aluminum City Terrace to Yellow Dog Village, there’s a story behind every little town in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Writer George Guido of Lower Burrell has collected many of them in his new book, “Neighborhoods of the Alle-Kiski Valley: 30 Communities Full of Unique History.” He’ll be selling copies from...
Review: ‘The French Dispatch’ is a film of 4 quirky stories
There’s a line that Bill Murray’s Harold Ross-like character Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, says a few times in Wes Anderson’s new movie that I can’t stop thinking about. “Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that...
Christian supergroup Newsboys ‘Step Into the Light’ with Pittsburgh dateVideo
Christian music supergroup Newsboys will “Step Into the Light” on Oct. 28 in Pittsburgh, as its 17-city tour by that name comes to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center. The show begins at 7 p.m. and also features special guests Mandisa, We Are Messengers, Cade Thompson and Adam Agee....
Greensburg Civic Theatre’s ‘Over the Tavern’ digs deep into family, faith
During the idealized Eisenhower era of the 1950s, 12-year-old Rudy Pazinski starts to question his family’s values and the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church to which they belong. That’s the set-up for “Over the Tavern,” the Tom Dudzick play that opens Greensburg Civic Theatre’s 70th season. The production will...
A Flock of Seagulls bringing its space age sound back to PittsburghVideo
Once upon a time there was a rock and roll band from Liverpool, England, that had really cool hair and a fresh, electrifying signature sound. And that band was known as — A Flock of Seagulls. Led by a talented young singer/songwriter named Mike Score, A Flock of Seagulls dropkicked...
Kourtney Kardashian, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker engaged
LOS ANGELES — A day at the beach turned into a proposal for Kourtney Kardashian, who is now engaged to Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Kardashian posted two photos on Instagram of the proposal with the caption “forever.” A representative for the reality star and businesswoman confirmed Sunday that the couple...
Disney delays ‘Indiana Jones 5,’ ‘Black Panther 2’ releases
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back the release dates of many of its upcoming titles, including the untitled Indiana Jones movie and the Black Panther sequel “Wakanda Forever.” The company said Monday that the fifth Indiana Jones, a James Mangold-directed and Steven Spielberg-produced installment which sees...
Betty Lynn, Thelma Lou on ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ has died
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife’s sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. She was 95. Lynn died peacefully Saturday after a brief illness, The Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, North...
British Museum to display the world’s oldest map of stars
The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old “Nebra Sky Disc,” first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations of the cosmos in the...
