Meet Tori Petry, Emmy-winning ESPN reporter who balanced Florida beauty pageants with football aspirations

Tori Petry is an Emmy-award winning reporter

TORI Petry combined her passions of modeling and football to forge a successful journalism career. The Emmy award-winning reporter worked for the Detroit Lions after playing the sport and competing for Miss Florida Teen USA. […]

For Emerald Fennell, ‘Saltburn’s’ class issues were kept off set

"Saltburn" director Emerald Fennell

“Saltburn” director Emerald Fennell had one directive for her cinematographer: “It needs to feel like a vampire movie.” (Tracy Nguyen / For The Times) “Saltburn,” writer-director Emerald Fennell’s second feature, is about a lot of […]

‘I’ve been sacked for asking for time off to tour’: the perils of being a musician with a second job | Music

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The first Musicians’ Census recently found that almost half of working UK musicians earn less than £14K a year from music. It’s fine for the lucky handful making millions, such as Ed Sheehan or Adele, […]

Meet The Cast Of Saltburn And Where You Know Them

Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick in Saltburn (2023)

Emerald Fennell‘s psychological thriller Saltburn (2023) was released theatrically in November 2023. Saltburn is Emerald Fennell‘s sophomore directorial feature film, following her debut with Promising Young Woman (2020). Since its world premiere at the 50th […]

Hunger Games review: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a winning return

Snow handing Lucy a rose outside the train station

In 2012, the first Hunger Games movie sparked a revolution. Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books were already bestsellers at that point, but the success of the movie adaptation cemented their cultural impact, ushering in an […]

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, dies at 80 : NPR

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, dies at 80 : NPR

Leny Andrade performs at Birdland in New York in 2008. Andrade died on July 24, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images Leny Andrade performs at […]

Oscar winner Alan Arkin dies

Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke in the 1968 film "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."

Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation and knack for comic drama were cornerstones of his extensive genre-hopping career that yielded enduring characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are […]

8 Sitcom Spin-offs That Are Every Bit As Good As the Shows That Spun Them Off

8 Sitcom Spin-offs That Are Every Bit As Good As the Shows That Spun Them Off

Launching a successful sitcom is an imperfect science. It might seem like you’ve brought together the perfect creator, stars and premise, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to find the audience it deserves. So when […]