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View gallery Image Credit: BACKGRID Freddie Prinze Jr., 46, proved himself a doting dad by treating his son to a spin in his classic car! The handsome actor was spotted in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 15 gassing up his gorgeous green Datsun with his adorable boy Rocky, 10, in tow. Looking like a billion

Now that we’re into a new year, the recorded music industry is evaluating the last 12 months. Luminate (formerly Nielsen) is the company that monitors all the music Canadians buy and listen to, from streams to CDs to LPs to cassettes. Here are some highlights from 2022. Total consumption of music was up. Read more:

Monday was an important day for Neil Druckmann. The cocreator of the beloved postapocalyptic video game The Last of Us had spent about a decade trying to adapt his story of an unlikely duo who band together to survive a harrowing trek across America. Now, finally, he was preparing to attend the glitzy premiere for the nine-episode

View gallery Image Credit: Benjamin Askinas R’Bonney was the first Filipina-American to win Miss Texas USA and Miss Universe. R’Bonney’s father moved to America from the Philippines with $20 in his pocket. R’Bonney enjoys backpacking and hula-hooping in her free time. R’Bonney Gabriel was the winner of the Miss Universe 2023 Competition, which took place

Prince Harry has said he had enough material for two memoirs, but that he held back because he didn’t think his father and brother would “ever forgive” him. In an interview with British newspaper The Telegraph published Saturday, he also said that releasing his memoir wasn’t an attempt “to collapse the monarchy. This is about

Two opposing but not mutually exclusive stories about our current political scene appear in this issue, an apt way to begin a year that will be the gathering before the storm. Let’s start with one perspective: optimism. As Eric Lutz reports in his column “From the Brink,” in the places where election denial was on

View gallery Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock After Kylie Jenner, 25, and Travis Scott, 31, split yet again, fans are left wondering what happened between the parents of two to make them go their separate ways. Unfortunately, according to a source close to the Kardashians, the reason has to do with commitment. “One of the contributing

Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday at 54 after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday evening.  “She was the most passionate, strong

Holed up at Mar-a-Lago, and hawking NFTs, Trump has yet to hold a rally since announcing his run. “Money is a real issue,” one source said. Rather than freezing the field, the campaign would now like to see it fill up—the recipe for a 2016 repeat. By Gabriel Sherman January 13, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Peter Brooker/Shutterstock Following the tragic passing of Elvis Presley‘s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley on Jan. 12, 2023, the singer’s ex-husband, Nicolas Cage, 59, reacted to his ex’s death. “This is devastating news. Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken. I find

Lisa Marie Presley was taken to hospital Thursday after suffering full cardiac arrest, multiple news outlets are reporting. Presley’s mother, Pricilla Presley, also confirmed she was in the hospital and receiving care. “My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She is now receiving the best care,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement.

For Akela Cooper, the screenwriter behind Universal’s hit horror-comedy M3GAN, horror has always been a family affair. “I was steeped in science fiction because my parents were really into sci-fi, especially my dad,” she tells Vanity Fair over Zoom. “Horror was my older siblings’ thing. I would end up, probably inappropriately, watching a lot of horror because

View gallery Image Credit: G Paul Burnett/AP/Shutterstock Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist widely known for being married to the late Beatle John Lennon. She has two kids. Yoko is not currently married. On Jan. 2, 2023, Yoko took to Twitter to share a present-day self-portrait and discuss New Year’s resolutions. The iconic Yoko Ono, 89,

Canadian “Jeopardy” champion Mattea Roach will face off against other elite players in a new spinoff picked up by ABC. “Jeopardy! Masters” will pit six recent super-champions against each other. A different combination of competitors will play two “high-stakes games” in each hour-long episode. The first class of “masters” will also include Matt Amodio, Sam

View gallery Image Credit: Felipe Ramales / SplashNews.com Prince Harry continued his publicity blitz on Tuesday, January 10th, with a good-natured pre-taped appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! The Duke of Sussex, 38, shared tequila shots with the popular comedian at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in Manhattan a night earlier to discuss his

A viral video posted by Ellen DeGeneres is drawing attention to the extraordinary flooding hitting California amid a storm-related state of emergency. The former talk show host posted a clip of herself standing on the bank of a raging stream on her property in Montecito, where other celebrities like Oprah and Prince Harry also reside.

Fresh off their new book, Myth America, Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer argue that Republicans have radically damaged the country’s ability to discern fact from fiction. As Zelizer tells Vanity Fair, “The former president made American history a central theme”—just not an accurate version of it. By Jon Skolnik January 10, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: Matt Sayles/A.M.P.A.S./Shutterstock Viola Davis is known as a phenomenal actress for her work in How To Get Away With Murder, Fences, and more. She is married to actor Julius Tennon. The starlet is up for a Golden Globe award for her performance in The Woman King at the 2023 awards ceremony. Viola Davis and

Prince Harry’s favourability has fallen to an all-time low amongst Britons just one day ahead of the official release of his autobiography, Spare, new polling has found. Close to two-thirds (64 per cent) of Brits now have a negative view of Harry, and only a quarter (26 per cent) view him in a favourable light,

As the run up to the publication of the prince’s memoir reached its climax, Harry sat down for a series of explosive TV interviews. His largest target continues to be the UK tabloid press and those, he says, who have enabled it. By Erin Vanderhoof January 8, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: TLC Janelle Brown and Kody Brown confirmed that they’ve been separated for “months” during the Jan. 8 episode of Sister Wives, which featured one-on-one interviews with Kody and all four women. “At this point, it’s not love,” Janelle admitted. “It’s duty, it’s commitment, it’s faith that tells you you work it out and

Inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s book, Cinema Speculation, I resolved to spend 2023 going deep into the movies of the late 1960s and through the ’70s. Tubi has been my friend for the D-grade grindhouse and horror films that Tarantino loves (I do, too) while other on-demand channels have filled in some gaps. One of the

Each of Melling’s characters share an intensity that few performers can muster, let alone replicate. “I think that comes from a place of exposing your inside, your inner life to people. And I don’t know if that’s where the haunted quality comes from,” he tells Vanity Fair. “I mean, my head goes to The Devil

View gallery Image Credit: MEGA Olivia Wilde, 38, spent some quality time with her two adorable kids, Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6, just one month after she and Harry Styles called it quits. The actress, who shares her son and daughter with ex Jason Sudeikis, dressed casually in a white Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, jeans, and

Allies of Britain’s royal family pushed back Saturday against claims made by Prince Harry in his new memoir, which paints the monarchy as a cold and callous institution that failed to nurture or support him. Buckingham Palace hasn’t officially commented on the book. But British newspapers and websites brimmed with quotes from unnamed “royal insiders,”

From Girls to Get Out to M3GAN, the actor has built an impressive career at the intersection of the hilarious and the horrific. We trademark this film trope in her honor.  By Chris Murphy January 6, 2023

View gallery Image Credit: EliotPress/MEGA Rita Ora, 32, sizzled in a cream colored bikini as she vacationed in St. Barts! The British-born singer showed off the white triangle top and low rise bottom by designer Stella McCartney as she posed with slicked back hair in the snaps posted to her Instagram page on Friday, Jan.

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 4, 2023 6:17 am Updated January 4, 2023 7:24 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto-based scenic artist Ray Lalonde’s winning streak on Jeopardy! has ended. Lalonde, who was hoping for his 14th victory on the long-running trivia game show, had amassed winnings of US$386,400

It was this time last year that New York Times media columnist Ben Smith announced he’d be giving up one of the most coveted jobs in journalism. The former BuzzFeed editor’s abrupt departure quickly sparked a guessing game among media-watchers and members of the newsroom as to who would take his place. While Smith went on

View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Britney Spears ended 2022 by teaming up with Elton John, and she’s kicking off the new year by joining Elvis Presley. As part of Elvis’s birthday celebration – the late King of Rock N’ Roll would have turned 88 on Jan. 8 – RCA Records have unwrapped Britney Spears x