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'Emotional' Elton John closes out Glastonbury festival
Elton John gave the final concert at Britain's legendary Glastonbury Festival on June 25, bringing down the curtain on the annual spectacular with what could be his final U.K. performance.
"I never thought I'd ever play Glastonbury," he told the crowd.
BET Awards honor hip-hop's 50 years
The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre's earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a show packed with spectacular performances that consistently felt like a party.
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Celebrities to urge climate action at Hollywood gathering
Stars including Jane Fonda and the Oscar-winning directors of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" will urge the entertainment industry to tackle climate change head-on at a summit in Los Angeles this week.
New details of Squid Game revealed
Netflix shared exclusive new details for the second season of its runaway hit South Korean thriller series "Squid Game" on June 17, as part of its Tudum Global Fan Event in Brazil.
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Tina Turner musical gains meaning in the wake of the icon's death
The national tour of Broadway's "Tina — The Tina Turner Musical" makes its California debut this week, arriving as a poignant, posthumous celebration following the rock music icon's death last month.
New Grammy categories include Africa-specific music
The 2024 Grammy Awards will feature new honors including for Best African Music Performance, the Recording Academy announced on June 13.
Along with the prize honoring a recording that uses "unique local expressions from across the African continent," the 66th edition of the prestigious music awards will present a trophy to Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.
Golden Globes journalist group to be dissolved
The scandal-hit association of foreign journalists that created the Golden Globes will be wound down as the Hollywood award show is formally purchased by private investors including US billionaire Todd Boehly, it was announced on June 11.
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Pixar returns with immigrant fable 'Elemental'
Pixar is seeking to rediscover its box office fortunes with timely immigrant fable "Elemental," the animation studio's first totally original new film to hit theaters since the start of the pandemic.
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France's ballet star on giving up the American dream
He conquered the New York stage, married a Hollywood star and directed a daring new film version of "Carmen." But Benjamin Millepied says he had to give up the American dream to return to France.
Millepied is best-known to tabloid gossip fans as the husband of actress Natalie Portman, whom he met while working as choreographer on the Oscar-winning film "Black Swan."
In Jerusalem’s contested Old City, shrinking Armenian community fears displacement after land deal
A real estate deal in Jerusalem's Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has sent the historic Armenian community there into a panic as residents search for answers about the feared loss of their homes to a mysterious investor.