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Vincent Pastore Dies at 80: The Sopranos Actor's Career Beyond Big Pussy
Vincent Pastore, who made friendship and betrayal inseparable as Big Pussy on The Sopranos, has died at 80. His manager confirmed the death to AP.
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Ryan Gosling Will Play Ghost Rider in Marvel's 2028 Film Directed by Shawn Levy
Marvel confirmed Ryan Gosling as its new Ghost Rider at San Diego Comic-Con. Shawn Levy will direct the 2028 film, giving the MCU character his first standalone movie since the rights returned to Marvel.
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King Charles Won't Live at Buckingham Palace. That Makes the Monarchy's Biggest Symbol More Stage Than Home.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla will stay at Clarence House after Buckingham Palace's renovation. The larger cultural shift is that Britain's most famous royal address is being treated less as a private home and more as a public-facing stage set whose value must now be justified in visits, events and visible utility.
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Clive Davis Died at 94. His Real Legacy Was Building Stars Slowly.
Clive Davis died on Monday, June 22, 2026, at 94 in Manhattan. His career mattered not just because of the artists he signed, but because he turned patient artist development into one of the music business's last enduring forms of power.
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Toy Story 5's Huge Opening Is Really a Test of Whether Family Movies Still Beat the Tablet
Toy Story 5 did more than open to a franchise-best $160 million. It showed that families will still turn a sequel into a shared theatrical event when the movie speaks directly to a live parental anxiety about screens, attention and play.
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Utah's Iron Fire Forced Eureka Out Fast. The Harder Test Is Keeping the Warning Ahead of the Wind.
A fast-growing Utah wildfire near Eureka turned into more than an acreage story: it became a real-time test of whether evacuation orders, road access and public updates can move faster than the terrain.
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James Burrows Died at 85. His Real Legacy Was Making Sitcoms Feel Like a Shared American Room.
James Burrows' death on June 19, 2026 closes more than a legendary TV career. It also marks the fading of the broadcast-era craft that made ensemble comedy feel like a common national language.
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Amazon Dropped 'Artificial.' Hollywood Just Learned How Hard It Is to Satirize an AI Partner.
Amazon MGM says Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman film would be better served somewhere else. The sharper entertainment story is what that move says about Hollywood's shrinking room to mock the companies financing its future.
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Ann Patchett's Dayton Honor Treats Literary Citizenship as Part of the Prize
Ann Patchett's June 17, 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize honor lands as literary institutions are rewarding more than finished books. The sharper signal is that bookselling, anti-censorship work and public literary stewardship now count as part of an author's cultural record.
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Mike Collins Won Georgia's Runoff. Now Republicans Have to Decide What Kind of Fight They Want With Ossoff
Mike Collins won Georgia's Republican Senate runoff and will face Jon Ossoff on November 3. The harder question now is whether Republicans want a pure MAGA loyalty race or a broader Georgia persuasion campaign.
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Hollywood's Production Exodus Is Really a Fight Over Whether Los Angeles Still Wants the Work
A fresh Los Angeles production-warning cycle is colliding with better Q1 film data, bigger California tax credits, and a blunt political question: whether Hollywood's hometown can still compete for the jobs behind the glamour.
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The James Beard Winners Turned Prestige Into a Regional Map of American Dining
The June 15, 2026 James Beard Awards crowned big names, but the sharper signal was geographic: from Philadelphia and Providence to Portland, Bozeman and Houston, the winners made American dining prestige look more regional and more civic than a one-city coronation.
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Bill Ritter’s Exit From the Anchor Desk Turned a Local-TV Goodbye Into a Public Health Story.
Bill Ritter’s June 12 on-air announcement was not just a retirement note. It reframed a familiar local-TV goodbye as a public conversation about Alzheimer’s, care and trust.
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Trump's Name Came Off the Kennedy Center. The Harder Problem Is What the Venue Looks Like Next.
Workers removed Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center on June 13, 2026 after courts refused to pause the order. That settles the lettering question, but not the larger credibility crisis hanging over one of Washington's signature cultural venues.
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Gene Shalit Died at 100. His Real Legacy Was Making TV Criticism Feel Like a Public Service.
Gene Shalit, the longtime Today critic who died on June 12 at age 100, helped turn cultural judgment into a mass-audience habit rather than an elite side room.
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DOJ Cleared Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal. Hollywood’s Harder Fight Starts Now.
The Justice Department’s June 12 approval moved Paramount Skydance’s Warner Bros. Discovery takeover out of the antitrust waiting room, but it did not settle the question Hollywood actually cares about: who gets to control the next decade of studios, streamers and newsroom power once the lawyers outside Washington take their turn.
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David Hockney Dies at 88 With His London Show Still Teaching People How to Look
David Hockney died in London on June 11 at age 88, but the timing matters almost as much as the fact itself: his Serpentine North exhibition remains open through August, turning obituary coverage into a live argument for why his way of seeing never stopped feeling current.
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The Kennedy Center's Late Appeal Turned Compliance Into a Power Test
The Kennedy Center's board asked on June 11 to pause a court order stripping Donald Trump's name from the building, turning a branding fight into a sharper test of who really controls a national arts institution.
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What the 2026 Tony Awards Winners Revealed About Broadway's Current Appetite for Risk
The biggest winners at the 2026 Tony Awards suggested Broadway is still willing to reward ambition, but mostly when that ambition arrives inside a familiar frame.
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The 2026 Tonys Have to Sell Broadway Without Sanding It Down
The 79th Tony Awards arrive at Radio City Music Hall with P!NK hosting, CBS broadcasting live, and Broadway trying to turn craft into a national event.
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Anthony Head Made Authority Feel Tender. That Is Why Buffy Fans Are Grieving So Personally
The tributes to Anthony Head are not just nostalgia. They reveal how his performance as Giles made genre television feel protective, adult and emotionally durable.
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James Handy’s death asks Hollywood to remember the character actors who hold scenes together
Police say the veteran actor was killed in Tarzana and a suspect was booked on suspicion of murder. His career deserves to be remembered with care, not reduced to a shocking headline.
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James Handy, the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ character actor, dies after Tarzana stabbing
Los Angeles police say James Handy, 81, was found stabbed in front of a Tarzana home June 3, and a 44-year-old man has been booked on suspicion of murder. The loss reaches beyond one role: Handy was a working actor whose face threaded through decades of film and television.
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Taylor Swift's Toy Story 5 song is Pixar's smartest nostalgia play yet
Taylor Swift released 'I Knew It, I Knew You' for Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5 on June 5, giving the franchise a new emotional hook just as the film asks whether toys can survive the age of screens.