Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news, but he also had a lively sense of humor, revealed late in his career when he became the judge and scorekeeper for Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Harry Anderson, the amiable actor who presided over the NBC comedy “Night Court” for nine seasons, has died at his home in Asheville, N.C., according to a local media report. He was 65.…

The news was announced via his official Twitter account by his longtime manager. R. Lee Ermey, a Golden Globe-nominated actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, has died. Ermey, whose nickname was "The Gunny," died Sunday morning from complications of pneumonia. He was 74.

R. Lee Ermey, the actor known for his Golden Globe-nominated role as an intimidating drill sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday at the age of 74, according to a statement from his manager.

A masked man has been arrested on suspicion of stalking Taylor Swift at her home in Los Angeles and was found to have ammunition, a knife, rope and gloves in his car at the time of his arrest. Julius Sandrock, 38, was apprehended by police after travelling over 1,000 miles from his home town of Broomfield, Colorado, to Swift’s home in Beverly Hills to, he said, “visit” her. Police filed a temporary restraining order against Sandrock and jailed him for three days. He told police he owned three handguns, and is reportedly on probation in Colorado for “disorderly conduct and discharging a firearm”.

As you may have noticed over the last decade or so, reboots and remakes are all the rage these days. Though often complained about by audiences, many of them do quite well — hence why Hollywood keeps churning them out. Following the news that “High Fidelity” is set to be adapted as a TV series, John Cusack chimed in on the new project, saying “it’ll suck” if original author Nick Hornby isn’t involved.

DMX has been in and out of jail throughout his career. Only two months after being sent behind bars for violating bail conditions related to failed drug tests, X has just been sentenced to 1 year in prison.

The 70-year-old Terminator star developed complications after undergoing a scheduled catheter valve replacement on Thursday, leading to the emergency surgery.

UTA has released a statement on behalf of Will Ferrell following Thursday night’s freeway crash in Orange County. Ferrell was returning from Funny or Die and Billy Eichner’s “Glam Up the Midterms” event in San Diego when the crash occurred. Ferrell was not hurt. You can read the statement in full below:

Few entertainers so closely mirror their trademark characters as well as esteemed Terminator and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. In fact, Schwarzenegger's role in the 1984 sci/fi classic has become so interwoven with who he is IRL, that he apparently quoted it after pulling through a major heart surgery. According to the Washington Post, after waking up in an anesthetic haze, Schwarzenegger's first words were: "I'm back." You can't make this stuff up.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has been knighted for his services to music. The Duke of Cambridge bestowed the honour on the Liverpool-born star at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. "It means a lot actually," the musician told the BBC. "It means recognition for the things we've done. I was really pleased to accept this."

Oh our amazing plutocracy. I noticed this trend a while ago when all of a sudden Kurt Cobain’s daughter was suddenly everywhere in [a] Google ad buy for some huge campaign... By Thad McKraken.

The R&B singer R Kelly has been accused of training a girl as a sex slave since she was 14 years old. The allegation – the latest in a string of allegations of the sexual abuse of young women by Kelly – was made, referring to another woman, by former girlfriend Kitti Jones, in a BBC3 documentary to be aired on 28 March. During two years of dating Kelly from 2011 onwards, Jones, 34, says she was groomed by him, and forced to have sex with him and others at least 10 times in a “sex dungeon”.

The former child star says he's "OK" after a stranger attacked him. Actor Corey Feldman is in the hospital after a stranger apparently stabbed him in the stomach and then fled the scene. The Stand By Me and Goonies star tweeted about the incident early Wednesday morning (March 28), explaining that three men approached him and his security guard while they were sitting in his car in Los Angeles. According to Feldman, three men approached the vehicle, distracting his security guard.

Comedian Will Ferrell has joined the small chorus of public figures signing off of Facebook for good. "I know I am not alone when I say that I was very disturbed to hear about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of millions of Facebook users' information in order to undermine our democracy and infringe on our citizens' privacy," Ferrell wrote in a Facebook post.

Mr. Graham spread the Gospel around the world through a combination of religious conviction, commanding stage presence and shrewd use of advanced communication technologies.

Speaking to Ralph Garman's 'The Ralph Report' in his first interview since his health scare, the filmmaker says he was ready to die if it was his time.

David Ogden Stiers, the actor best known for playing Major Charles Emerson Winchester III in "M*A*S*H*" and Cogsworth in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" has died. He was 75. Stiers died peacefully at his home in Newport. He had been battling bladder cancer, his agent, Mitchell Stubbs, told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

News - StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of actor David Ogden Stiers.

Stan Lee needed a real-life superhero to find and return his lost dog. Enter the immortal football legend, Jim Brown, who proved not all heroes wear capes. Sources close to Stan tell TMZ ... the comic book legend's Mini Pomeranian, Charlotte, went missing last week, though it's unclear how she got loose. In any case, Stan's peeps canvassed the Hollywood Hills neighborhood where he lives and his business partner Keya Morgan posted "Lost Dog" flyers everywhere.

A woman on Monday said she was a 17-year-old model and aspiring actress when Steven Seagal sexually assaulted her at a supposed casting session at a Beverly Hills hotel room in 2002. Faviola Dadis was emotional but composed as she spoke at a news conference in Los Angeles, becoming the latest of several women to accuse the action star of sexual misconduct.

Ryan Reynolds just bought himself a gin company. Looks like Ryan Reynolds is taking a page out of George Clooney's business plan. The Deadpool actor announced via social media Wednesday that he is the proud new owner of Aviation Gin, an American spirit company based in Portland, Ore.

The actor talks about being sexually harassed over a decade ago, and the result of speaking up: “The silence was deafening.”

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Hello, I'm Brian Brushwood, creator of The Modern Rogue and co-host of the videos. I've logged over 2,000 performances of an award-winning stage magic show nationwide, hosted TV Specials and had my own National Geographic series, released four Billboard chart-topping comedy albums, and taught a quarter-billion people a few cool magic tricks. Oh, and I'm Teller's bastard son.

The network’s news president, Andrew Lack, said in a memo, “We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.”

HARVEY WEINSTEIN WAS a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster. This fall, I was approached by reporters, through different sources, including my dear friend Ashley Judd, to speak about an episode in my life that, although painful, I thought I had made peace with.

Responding on Twitter to revelations made by director Peter Jackson that Harvey Weinstein and Miramax allegedly called actress Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd “a nightmare” and prevented their casting in Lord of the Rings, another filmmaker says he experienced the same thing when trying to make his movie. Bad Santa director Terry Zwigoff says Weinstein and his brother Bob would hang up the phone whenever he mentioned the Oscar-winning actress for his 2003 film.

Diversity and inclusion on the screen — and behind the scenes — wasn't a hot topic when, on Sept. 8, 1966, "Star Trek" premiered. Yet when Gene Roddenberry's little show introduced Nichelle Nichols to the world as Lt. Nyota Uhura of the Starship Enterprise, she unknowingly inspired millions of young girls and boys, African American and otherwise.

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb have been knighted in the Queen's New Year's honours list.

Gillian Anderson has had her fill of the truth. The X-Files icon is confirming that the series’ forthcoming 11th season will indeed mark her swan song as Dana Scully. “I’ve said from the beginning this is it for me,” Anderson maintains in a new interview with TV Guide magazine.

Age comes to all of us, even royalty, so it’s no wonder that Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby and Matt Smith — however talented — have to be recast for the next series of The Crown. Olivia Colman has already been announced as taking over from Foy as the middle-aged Elizabeth II, and now we hear a new Princess Margaret has been found: arise, Helena Bonham Carter. 

BY LAURA PRUDOM Chris Hemsworth has only been playing Marvel's mighty Thor for seven years, but in that short span, he's reprised the character just as many times (or more, if you count director Taika Waititi's hilarious Team Thor short films) -- having just wrapped filming on Joe and Anthony Russo's Avengers: Infinity War and its untitled follow-up, Avengers 4.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have formally declined to charge fugitive director Roman Polanski in connection with an allegation he molested a woman when she was a minor in 1975, saying the statute of limitations has expired. Deputy Dist. Atty. Michele Hanisee formally declined the LAPD case on Dec. 19 after she was proved the details by Los Angeles Police Det. Greg Stearns.

"The things I heard are not accurate, but I completely support people coming out because they didn’t have a voice for so long," the actor and director said on the 'Late Show' Tuesday night. Just hours after The New York Times canceled a scheduled TimesTalk with James Franco, Late Show host Stephen Colbert pressed the Disaster Artist star and director on sexual harassment allegations that emerged on Twitter Sunday following his Golden Globe win.