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Da'Vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture for ''The Holdovers'' at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Oppenheimer’ dominates Golden Globes, ‘Poor Things’ upsets ‘Barbie’ in comedy

Philly native Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Paul Giamatti both won for Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers.”

2 years ago

Actress Glynis Johns is shown, Sept. 11, 1982. Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie ''Mary Poppins'' and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be ''Send in the Clowns'' by Stephen Sondheim, has died, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2023. She was 100.(AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)
Arts & Entertainment

Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ star who first sang Sondheim’s ‘Send in the Clowns,’ dies at 100

Johns’ greatest triumph was playing Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music,” for which she won a Tony in 1973.

2 years ago

English actor Tom Wilkinson poses for photographers on the red carpet ahead of the Royal and World Premiere of the film The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in London on Feb. 17, 2015. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for ‘The Full Monty’ and ‘Michael Clayton,’ dies at 75

Wilkinson died suddenly at home on Saturday, his family confirmed. His wife and family were with him, they said in a statement.

2 years ago

Actor Pierce Brosnan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's The Out-Laws on June 26. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
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Courts & Law

Pierce Brosnan faces charges after allegedly walking in Yellowstone’s thermal areas

Brosnan, who is best known for his stint as James Bond in the 1990s, was charged in Wyoming with failing to keep to the trails. He's due in federal court on Jan. 23.

2 years ago

Jonathan Majors enters a courtroom at the Manhattan criminal courts in New York on Dec. 18, 2023. Seth Wenig/AP
NPR
Courts & Law

Jonathan Majors convicted in split verdict, dropped from Marvel

Majors was found guilty on two out of four charges in a domestic violence criminal case in New York on Monday afternoon.

2 years ago

Andre Braugher holds the award for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or a movie for his work on
Arts & Entertainment

Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in ‘Homicide’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ dies at 61

Braugher won two career Emmys from 11 nominations.

2 years ago

Ryan Gosling (left) and Margot Robbie pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ''Barbie'' on July 12, 2023, in London.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Barbie’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 9, followed closely by ‘Oppenheimer’

The show airs Jan. 7 from Beverly Hills.

2 years ago

The iconic Rocky Statue was originally created for the series' third installment in 1982. (Cory Sharber/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia declares Dec. 3 ‘Rocky Day’ in honor of the film’s 47th anniversary

“Standing at the top of these steps you're reminded that all things are possible,” Stallone said. “Keep punching.”

2 years ago

20th Century Fox/Home Alone
Studio 2

Best and Worst Holiday Movies, Connor Barwin on Eagles’ Christmas Album, COP28 Climate Summit

We'll debate our favorite holiday films and what makes them truly great. Plus, Eagles' Connor Barwin on 'A Philly Special Christmas Special' album, and eyes on COP28 in Dubai.

Air Date: November 30, 2023 12:00 pm

Listen 49:59
The famous precursor to moving images
Arts & Entertainment

Inventor Henry Heyl and Philly’s role in early moving picture technology

When the phasmatrope was first demonstrated at the Academy of Music, local papers hailed it as the first of its kind.

2 years ago

File photo: Kevin Hart appears at the premiere of ''Me Time'' in Los Angeles on Aug. 23, 2022.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s Kevin Hart will receive the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy

The honor caps a three-decade career that has seen the comic rise from the open mics of Philadelphia to become one of his generation’s most successful performers.

2 years ago

2802 Kensington Ave., a 1930s building that for over a half-century has been home to Phil's Appliances on the ground floor, with apartments above. (Google Street View)
Community
Billy Penn

Repair shop that starred in ‘12 Monkeys’ devastated by fire that exemplifies Kensington problems

Phil’s Appliances, which opened in the late 1960s, was recently boarded up, and people are thought to have been living inside.

2 years ago

SAG-AFTRA strike signs are seen upside down
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Actors and studios make a deal to end Hollywood strikes

SAG-AFTRA workers have been on strike since July, when they joined screenwriters on strike. If the performers approve their new deal, Hollywood may soon come back to life.

2 years ago

(Buena Vista Pictures Distribution/Tak Fujimoto/The Sixth Sense)
Studio 2

Haunted Local History, Composer James Newton Howard, New Tubman Statue

It's Studio 2 spooky season. Author Jennifer Green talks about 'Dark History of Penn's Woods II' and music and film composer James Newton Howard spills his creative guts.

Air Date: October 31, 2023 12:00 pm

Listen 50:16
Matthew Perry died on Saturday at age 54 at his Los Angeles home, multiple outlets report. The actor is pictured in 2009 at the L.A. premiere of The Invention of Lying.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry dies at age 54

Perry, who won an Emmy nod and enormous fame for his starring role as Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, was found dead at his Los Angeles home, multiple outlets reported.

2 years ago

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