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Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Barbara Rush, who won a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer in “It Came From Outer Space” and went on to appear in “Peyton Place” and many other movies and TV shows, died Sunday. Her daughter, Fox News Channel correspondent Claudia Cowan, confirmed her death to Fox News Digital.

The city of Oakland plans to present MLB‘s Athletics ownership with an offer to extend the team’s lease for five years, with an opt-out after three.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Just 48 hours after show in San Diego at the Pechanga Arena and less than 24-hours before he is set to perform with the E Street Band at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan‘s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.@springsteen on stage with Zach Bryan @barclayscenter tonight! Love that Zach is wearing a Springsteen tour shirt as he performs! Video by @AdamZagoria #springsteen #Zachbryan pic.twitter.com/ktgzwRaGLAZach Bryan, Bruce Springsteen and Maggie Rogers on Revival in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/S27jytJ4r8 Bryan, wearing a Springsteen shirt, welcomed the 74-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to the stage for a performance of his new, unreleased song, “Sandpaper” as well as Bryan’s song “Revival.” Springsteen traded lyrics with Bryan on the former and took a solo on his famed, battered Fender guitar for “Revival.” Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, who is featured on Bryan’s “Dawns,” performed that song with the headliner earlier in the evening and joined him for the encores with Springsteen.Someone revive me….Zach Bryan, @springsteen, @maggierogers in Brooklyn!!! pic.twitter.com/mV2ooDWwrf While the concert presumably wasn’t the only reason Springsteen flew cross-country, his history has shown he’ll pick up a guitar and join a friend onstage whenever he has time. Earlier this month, Bryan broke an attendance record in Springsteen’s home state of New Jersey at the Prudential Center in Newark on March 15.

Thania Garcia A collection of letters, photos and more from the late Tony Bennett will go up for sale via Julien’s Auctions on April 18. The trove of items includes rarities addressed to Bennett from stars like Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Madonna, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Quincy Jones and Barbra Streisand, among others.

her , , her office is filing trademark applications that give us a sense of what direction the site might go in. And to no one's surprise, makeup is one of the areas it'll cover.As celeb after celeb launches a and/or line, it seems Markle wants in on the game.

Netflix has confirmed that You season five is in production, giving fans a first-look of the show's final instalment.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music R&B ace Maxwell has announced “The Serenade 2024” North American Tour, which will see him joined by two special guests: two-time Grammy winner Jazmine Sullivan and rising singer-songwriter October London. Full dates appear below.

There’s an immense amount of ground covered in “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor,” ironic for a documentary revolving largely around a pioneer who established a reputation in the 1960s as a frequently uncovered, immensely popular topless dancer at San Francisco’s legendary Condor Night Club. Directors Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker unquestionably make efforts to ensure that the late Carol Doda receives a fair amount of the film’s spotlight, but aren’t shy about weaving in an assortment of additional subjects, both related and seemingly otherwise, mixed with a pile of vintage clips and footage of the era so as to create a portrait of a time as much as the woman after which the film carries its name.

Q&A’s are a staple of indie opening weekends since they tend to sell tickets but Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse has raised that bar, offering audiences seven-minute live burlesque revues before selected screenings of documentary Carol Doda Topless At The Condor. The ode to the woman, and to 1960s San Francisco where she broke out topless, opens in limited release in New York, LA, San Francisco and San Rafael. Dancers in what Bob Berney called a “Doda-esqe burlesque” will not be topless,” he said — “but pretty close.”

Larian Studios CEO says fans should be “very excited” about the future of the company, despite no sequel to Baldur’s Gate 3.Last night, Larian confirmed the studio would not be working on an expansion for Baldur’s Gate 3, nor would they be creating a Baldur’s Gate 4 despite the huge success of the trilogy.The news was announced by Larian CEO Swen Vinke at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. “We’ll forever be proud of it but we’re going to move on,” he said.Following up the announcement on social media, Vinke wrote: “Counter expectations but I’ve never been more sure about a strategy shift.

Jack Dunn “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” dominated the Game Audio Network Guild Awards, taking home seven wins including sound design of the year. On Thursday night, the Game Audio Network Guild bestowed 30 awards to the industry’s top professionals at their 22nd annual ceremony, honoring the dialogue, music, and sound design of the year’s most popular titles. The event was held at The Moscone Center in San Francisco and was co-hosted by former IGN vice president of video Fran Mirabella and voice actor Morla Gorrondona.

Todd Gilchrist editor With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to identify moments that precipitated significant social or cultural changes. But that doesn’t mean that the people involved in those moments knew, or were actively working to achieve them, as they were happening.

Larian Studios, the developer behind Baldur’s Gate 3, has confirmed that it will not be making a highly requested expansion or Baldur’s Gate 4.Speaking at this month’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Larian Studios founder and CEO Swen Vincke shared that the studio will not be following up the massive success of Baldur’s Gate 3 with another game in the Dungeons & Dragons series it’s set in.“Baldur’s Gate will always have a warm spot in our heart,” shared Vincke. “We’ll forever be proud of it but we’re not going to continue in it. We’re not going to make new expansions which everybody is expecting.

Sharon Stone has made a critical comment about Johnny Depp’s artwork in a recent interview.The Basic Instinct star, who switched her focus from acting to art during the COVID lockdown, has just opened her own exhibition in Berlin, and is due to open another in San Francisco in April.In explaining her road to success to The Guardian, she made comments referring to an art collection created by Depp, which sold for more than $3.6million within hours.The collection, titled Friends And Heroes, featured portraits of individuals who inspired the actor: Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Al Pacino and Elizabeth Taylor.According to Business Insider, Depp sold all 780 pieces within hours of his announcement that the art would be on sale at Castle Fine Art’s 37 gallery in Birmingham, England.Stone however, didn’t seem to be quite so enamoured with the portraits, saying: “Johnny Depp is printing pictures of people, putting some paint over it and signing it, and making a fortune.”Depp followed up the original collection with some more prints in 2023, which featured other famous faces including Bob Marley, Heath Ledger and River Phoenix.Seemingly referring to Depp’s recent sale of his self-portrait, in which he donated $200 from every sale to Mental Health America, Stone shared that she had received similar requests from galleries.“I had galleries approach me and say, ‘Could you please make prints of your face?’ I think it’s my duty not to do that,” she said.

Pulp have announced the addition of new dates to their upcoming North American tour, marking their first shows in the US in over a decade.The band previously announced a handful of live dates set to take place in the US starting on September 8. Today (March 20), the Britpop group shared that they have added additional shows in Toronto, New York City and Los Angeles.The new dates are September 11 at HISTORY in Toronto, September 14 at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, and September 19 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the Max debut of The Girls on the Bus, on which he serves as story editor, Tawal Panyacosit has signed with M88 for representation.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer A Marvel video game, “1943: Rise of Hydra,” is set for 2025 release. The title, which hails from Skydance New Media and Marvel Games, will focus on characters Captain America and Black Panther (who at that time was King T’Chanda, also known as Azzuri) in World War II.

Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori are stepping out for the day.

EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse is spicing up the opening weekend of their documentary Carol Doda Topless at the Condor on March 22-24 with a live revue of top burlesque dancers before the movie screens.

Pulp have announced a run of North American tour dates later this year.The Britpop legends will be hitting the road in Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York this September, for their first dates stateside since 2012.“So, the encore continues,” said frontman Jarvis Cocker of the shows. “The songs came back to life and they want to be heard. They need to be heard.

Jeff Miller There’s no question that South by Southwest’s music portion is going through something of an existential crisis. The long-running Austin-based conference/festival — which wrapped up Sunday after a 10-day run that encompassed not just music but film, tech, education and more — has become more of a financial challenge from up-and-coming artists, and this year’s controversy about the U.S.

bad blood between them. Reba McEntire denied allegations that she called Taylor Swift an “entitled brat” at the 2024 Super Bowl after the country singer’s performance of the National Anthem. “Please don’t believe everything you see on the Internet,” McEntire, 68, wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday.

Lisa Vanderpump wears a colorful blazer while arriving at a studio to film the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion on Saturday (March 16) in Burbank, Calif.

star responded to a post from a Facebook page called “America Loves Liberty,” which claimed she confronted for “laughing and drinking” during her performance of the National Anthem at the . “I let her have it afterward,” the post alleged McEntire said. “She's an entitled brat.”Now, does this sound like something Reba McEntire would say? Of course not.

Kim Kardashian is stepping out once again to support her ex-husband Kanye West.

Naman Ramachandran Ken Kwek’s acclaimed Singaporean film “#LookAtMe” has secured North American distribution with Buffalo 8. The deal is exclusive for the North American territory and non-exclusive for the rest of the world. The film is a tragicomedy following the family of a teenage YouTuber who posts an irreverent video lampooning a megachurch pastor in defense of his gay twin brother.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Memento International has closed a raft of deals on “Fremont,” a critically acclaimed film starring Anaita Wali Zada, an Afghan refugee and first-time actor, and featuring “The Bear” actor Jeremy Allen White. Directed by BAFTA-nominated Iranian-born director Babak Jalali, the black-and-white movie tells the story of Donya, a young woman working at a Chinese fortune cookie factory in the San Francisco bay. Formerly a translator for the U.S.

Kim Kardashian was in attendance at Kanye West’s album listening party on Tuesday night — and she was kept company by none other than his new wife!

Although Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix have steered clear of each other so far this season of Vanderpump Rules, the former couple are about to come face to face for the first time in the upcoming episodes! And things appear to be still extremely nasty between them months after Scandoval broke, y’all!