The motion picture academy is facing backlash over major changes meant to boost TV ratings on Hollywood’s biggest night. The academy said Wednesday it will hold the show earlier in the year to shorten the awards season and shorten the telecast of the ceremony to three hours.  But it’s the …

Comedian and director Bo Burnham was one of YouTube’s first viral stars. In 2006, when he was 16, Burnham began posting videos of his satirical songs from his bedroom. He went on to perform standup comedy around the country, star in his own TV show and film four comedy specials, …

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: June 3rd, 1968, 50 years ago today … the day pop artist Andy Warhol was confronted by a radical feminist named Valerie Solanas. Just the year before, Solanas had published the “S.C.U.M. Manifesto,” which called, among other things, for “thrill-seeking women” to …

NEW YORK — Liz Garbus’ first day shooting inside The New York Times newsroom was President Trump‘s inauguration day. Her final day was April 16, when the Pulitzer Prizes announced the Times had won three of the coveted awards. In between, she spent more than a year documenting one of …

NEW YORK — Shania Twain has apologized for saying if she were American she would have voted for Donald Trump for president, even though he’s offensive. Twain made the comments in an interview with The Guardian that was published over the weekend. She told the British newspaper: “I would have voted …

The marquee lights on the iconic Las Vegas strip have not always been so bright. Decades ago, they glowed with the names of famous headliners like Tony Bennett and Wayne Newton, but the lights faded and the Strip came to be known as a place for performers to play their …

Colin Trevorrow is returning to the “Jurassic World” franchise to direct its third installment. Executive producer Steven Spielberg told Entertainment Weekly that Trevorrow will direct the next “Jurassic World” film; it was previously announced that he was writing the script. Spielberg will also serve as executive producer on “Jurassic Park …

LOS ANGELES — One current and one former attorney for rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight have been indicted on charges including conspiring to bribe potential witnesses in his upcoming murder trial, authorities said Monday. Matthew Fletcher and Thaddeus Culpepper were also charged with conspiracy to commit subornation of perjury, conspiracy …

A California couple living in a Los Angeles mansion featured in the first season of the hit TV show “American Horror Story” is suing the former owner and the real estate company because they say they were never told that crowds of obsessive fans travel to see it. The couple …