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Disney to provide next streaming gauge after Netflix retreat
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's streaming TV business will face scrutiny on Wednesday from investors who are re-evaluating the media industry's aggressive shift from cable te...
May 09, 2022
Warhol’s famed ‘Marilyn’ silk-screen could fetch $200 million at auction
(Reuters) - Pop artist Andy Warhol's famed 1964 silk-screen of Marilyn Monroe could sell for up to $200 million at auction on Monday, according to pre-sale estimates, a price that would represent a ne...
May 09, 2022
‘Strange Loop,’ ‘MJ’ and ‘Paradise Square’ lead Tony nominations
(Reuters) -Musicals "A Strange Loop," "MJ" and "Paradise Square" led nominations on Monday for the annual Tony awards, the highest honors in theater. Winners will be announced on June 12 at Radio City...
May 09, 2022
Celebrity chef Mario Batali faces trial over woman’s #MeToo-era groping claim
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Celebrity chef Mario Batali goes on trial on Monday over allegations that he forcibly groped and kissed a woman in the only criminal case to result from multiple #Me...
May 09, 2022
Comer, Bean, Macfadyen win at Britain’s BAFTA TV awards
LONDON (Reuters) - Actors Jodie Comer, Sean Bean and Matthew Macfadyen were among the winners at the British Academy Television Awards in London on Sunday night. Bean won the leading actor prize for p...
May 09, 2022
Box Office: ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Debuts to Heroic $185 Million
By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Doctor Strange and his questionably effective book of spells has summoned a blockbuster $185 million at North American movie theaters over the weekend, rea...
May 08, 2022
Dennis Waterman, star of British TV show ‘Minder’, dies aged 74
LONDON (Reuters) - Dennis Waterman, a British actor famous for his roles in TV shows "The Sweeney", "Minder" and "New Tricks", has died, his family said in a statement reported by media on Sunday. Wat...
May 08, 2022
U2’s Bono gives ‘freedom’ concert in Kyiv metro
KYIV (Reuters) - Irish rock group U2's frontman Bono and his bandmate The Edge performed a 40-minute concert in a metro station in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday and praised Ukrainians fighti...
May 08, 2022
‘Sex Education’ actor Ncuti Gatwa to be new ‘Doctor Who’
LONDON (Reuters) - Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black actor to play the lead role in British sci-fi series "Doctor Who", taking over from Jodie Whittaker as the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord next...
May 08, 2022
Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose bar launched ‘Urban Cowboy,’ dies
By Bill Trott (Reuters) - Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas-sized honky-tonk bar was the birthplace of the "Urban Cowboy" music and fashion fads of the 1980s, died at age 86 in Branso...
May 07, 2022
