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He played the villainous Jack Slater on the ABC soap opera and, later, Bill Clinton on the stage.

Randall England, who played the memorable General Hospital villain Jack Slater during the mid-1980s, died September 25 of esophageal cancer in Los Angeles. He was 75. His death was announced by his family. An Oklahoma native, England began modeling in the early 1970s, working in New York, London, Zurich, Milan, and Los Angeles. He studied […]

Antonin Baudry’s two-part World War II epic “De Gaulle” took home the top audience prize at the American French Film Festival in Los Angeles, capping a 30th anniversary edition. The two-part historical saga, starring Simon Abkarian as the French general and Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill, screened back-to-back on Saturday to packed theaters and […]

The official collab reimagines members of Peach Riot -- POP MART's fictional, female punk band -- as characters from the hit film

Arriving a bit late to ride the fizzled momentum of the nation’s semiquincentennial, and a bit early for Christmas, patriotic musical “Drummer Boy” nonetheless should strike a chord with Christian audiences. It’s the first feature for several collaborators since 2024’s “Unsung Hero,” one of the bigger “faith-based entertainment” hits in recent years, though this tale […]

The label's artist roster includes American Aquarium and Amos Lee.

Salon, one of the internet’s earliest publications, is shutting down nearly 31 years after its launch. The site announced Thursday in a farewell post that it would go dark later today. Salon was founded in the wake of a strike at the San Francisco Examiner when one of the newspaper’s editors, David Talbot, started exploring […]

Johnson composed the musical scores for 67 episodes and five movies.

Nathan Johnson was just elected as Attorney General of Texas, but long before that, he was a composer who scored the anime series “Dragon Ball Z.” “If you grew up watching ‘Dragon Ball Z,’ you might know me better than you think: I composed the musical scores for 67 episodes and five movies and had […]

The former attorney general cruised to victory. But now he has his work cut out for him.

Speaking about an editing error that triggered a $10 billion defamation lawsuit pursued by President Donald Trump against the BBC, the broadcaster’s deputy director-general Rhodri Talfan-Davies said Tuesday that “a lot has changed since then.” Talfan-Davies said there were two issues about the BBC’s handling of the controversial episode of investigative show “Panorama.” “One was […]

The BBC’s top brass is in the process of “looking at options for the next stage of savings,” according to the Deputy Director General, which will total another £300M ($400M). Rhodri Talfan Davies said it is very unlikely another big savings announcement will come before Christmas but stressed that the “lion’s share” of the cash […]

James Longley’s “Mohabat” won the Opus Bonum section at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Saturday. Produced by Mohammad Sharif Hotak, Longley and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, it follows a 12-year-old boy Mohabat, whose father dies in a drone strike. Left without parental care, he’s taken to a city orphanage. “By patiently observing the boy’s interactions […]

James Longley’s “Mohabat” won the Opus Bonum section at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Saturday. Produced by Mohammad Sharif Hotak, Longley and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, it follows a 12-year-old boy Mohabat, whose father dies in a drone strike. Left without parental care, he’s taken to a city orphanage. “By patiently observing the boy’s interactions […]

The awards were presented at the Hollywood Palladium on Friday night.