Entertainment - Sunday, March 29, 2026

Before The Office became a rewatch staple and mockumentary classic, it was among the worst-testing pilots in network NBC’s history, Steve Carell recently recalled. In an appearance on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the two comedy powerhouses reminisced on their respective series hits. “There’s really only two people that I’ve been told I am a […]

Alex Duong, a stand-up comedian and TV actor who appeared on the CBS drama “Blue Bloods,” died on Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 42. Duong’s death was announced via a GoFundMe page. The page was set up in February 2025 to help the actor pay for medical expenses as he fought alveolar […]

Alex Duong, a comedian, writer and actor based in Los Angeles, has died at the age of 42. Duong was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma last year, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue. He underwent surgery to remove a malignant growth that was blocking blood flow to his optic nerve and caused vision loss. […]

Donald Glover, who stars in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” as Yoshi, “campaigned for the role,” according to his co-star Jack Black. Black, who reprises his voice role as Bowser in Universal Pictures’ animated sequel, told ExtraTV, “It’s kind of a cool thing. We got lucky that we got Brie [Larson], who crushes it and […]

Trained as a playwright, he got his first TV writing job on “St. Elsewhere,” then worked on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Wire,” “Treme” and “Bosch.”

Chris Pratt is reprising his Brooklynite version of Mario, which means his signature saying had to undergo an update. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie star recently explained why he altered the titular plumber’s catchphrase “mamma mia” in the Universal Pictures sequel, which premieres April 1 in theaters. “I’m not going to say it right now […]

The 29th Sonoma Intl. Film Festival wrapped March 29 with Spanish film “Maspalomas” winning the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature. In a statement, the jury noted that directors Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga’s film was “an authentic and rare depiction of an elder man confronting personal and physical crisis at the onset […]

“Watch what you eat” used to be a commonly heard expression, typically urged in the context of dieting. But the maxim applies in a different way in the documentary Fork in the Road, which made its world premiere Saturday at the Sonoma International Film Festival in California’s wine country. The film directed by Vivian Sorenson […]

BTS has earned its seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with “Arirang,” scoring the biggest sales week for an album by a group in over a decade. “Arirang” opens on the chart with 641,000 equivalent album units, 532,000 of which are pure album sales. It’s the biggest first week for an album by […]

One hundred years after it was banned for its depiction of hedonism, the rhythmic, jazz-soaked poetry of Joseph Moncure March continues to find new life.