NEW YORK (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been reimagined and reborn without animals as a high-octane family event with highwire tricks, soaring trapeze artists and bicycles leaping on trampolines. Feld Entertainment, which owns the "Greatest Show on Earth," revealed to The Associated Press what audiences can expect during the show's 2023 North American tour kicking off this fall. The 75 performers from 18 countries […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including "The Wire," "Fringe" and the "John Wick" franchise, has died. He was 60. Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In reimagining 40 of its best-known songs in new recordings, U2 considered how many fans experience the music: through earphones connected to a device in their pockets. Most of the songs were written to be belted out onstage. So in revisiting the material for a project that comes out this week, U2 turns down the volume, reasoning it would be fun to see intimacy as the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The metaphysical multiverse comedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood's top prize Sunday, winning best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Though worlds away from Oscar bait, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's anarchic ballet of everything bagels, googly-eyed rocks and one messy tax audit emerged as an […]

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Tom Sizemore, the "Saving Private Ryan" actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday at age 61. The actor had suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18 at his home in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California, his manager Charles Lago said. Sizemore became a star […]

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd's last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given. "It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today," the band wrote on Facebook. "Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in […]

BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Seuss fans might find their hearts growing three sizes this holiday season with the release of a sequel to the 1957 classic children's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Random House Children's Books are announcing Thursday that the new book picks up one year after the original and teaches another valuable lesson about the true spirit of Christmas. The sequel entitled "How […]

Bruce Willis' family says the actor has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The announcement Thursday came about a year after his family said that Willis would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia - a brain disorder that leads to problems with speaking, reading and writing. There are different types of dementia. The frontotemporal form affects regions in the front and sides of the brain.  This form […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film "One Million Years B.C." would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died She was 82. Welch died early Wednesday, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna. Welch's breakthrough came in 1966's campy prehistoric flick "One Million Years B.C.," despite having a grand total of three […]

LONDON (AP) — Punk icon John Lydon has failed in his attempt to become Ireland's entry for the pop music competition the Eurovision Song Contest. The former Sex Pistols frontman entered the song "Hawaii" with his post-punk band Public Image Ltd. in the national runoff for May's continent-wide contest. Jurors and viewers on Friday chose the song "We Are One" by the band Wild Youth to represent Ireland at the […]