Celebrities
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A happy circumstance: Bob Ross paintings sell for more than $600K to help public TV stations
Nov 12, 2025 6:42 am - Three paintings from famously chill public television legend Bob Ross sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction. The paintings were the first of 30 Ross works being sold to benefit public TV stations hurt by cuts in federal funding.
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Founding Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley died from injuries suffered in fall, autopsy shows
Nov 11, 2025 12:20 pm - Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, died from blunt force injuries to the head that he suffered in a fall earlier this year, an autopsy has determined.
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Sally Kirkland, stage and screen star who earned an Oscar nomination for ‘Anna,’ dies at age 84
Nov 11, 2025 12:05 pm - Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and her Oscar-nominated title role in the 1987 movie “Anna,” has died. She was 84.
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Anthony Hopkins’ memoir is a page-turnerNov 04, 2025 10:44 am - On one level, “We Did OK, Kid” by Anthony Hopkins charts a conventional path, from obscurity in regional theater to the heights of Hollywood celebrity. Yet this story is more concerned with the inner journey than the outer one.
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You can thank Elvis for Elvira, Cassandra Peterson says
Oct 30, 2025 3:02 pm - Cassandra Peterson has entertained Halloween lovers as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for more than four decades. And now she’s released a cookbook featuring spooky recipes, creepy craft ideas and photos of herself dressed as Elvira.
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Prunella Scales, who played Sybil in British sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 93
Oct 28, 2025 10:56 am - Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom “Fawlty Towers,” has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93 and had lived with dementia for many years.
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Kelsey Grammer, 70, announces the birth of his 8th child: ‘Isn’t that lovely?’
Oct 28, 2025 10:47 am - It’s a boy — named Christopher — for 70-year-old actor Kelsey Grammer and his wife, Kayte Walsh.
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Judd Apatow welcomes us into his comedic life with the illuminating scrapbook memoir ‘Comedy Nerd’
Oct 27, 2025 2:20 pm - Judd Apatow likes to keep stuff. Fans of Apatow — and fans of comedy in general — get the benefit of this personality quirk with the Tuesday publication of “Comedy Nerd,” a bulging, 570-page, photo-filled memoir from every chapter of his storied career.
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June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from ‘Lassie’ and ‘Lost In Space,’ dies at 100
Oct 25, 2025 3:40 pm - LOS ANGELES — June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in “Lassie” or out among the stars in “Lost In Space,” has ...
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Taylor Swift, LL Cool J, Kenny Loggins and David Byrne are among Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees
Oct 23, 2025 9:40 am - Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame class, an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, folk and rock innovators.