CBC - Arts (14 hours ago)
Cynthia Erivo came to the rescue of The Wicked: For Good co-star Ariana Grande when a man rushed Grande, forcibly putting an arm around her, while on the yellow carpet for the Singapore premiere of the film, prompting security to take him away and a Singapore court to fine him $2,000.
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Bad Bunny won album of the year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos, a tour de force mixing styles from Afro-Caribbean to salsa that netted him 12 nominations. The artist, who'll take centre field at the Super Bowl in New Orleans in February, also won for best urban/urban fusion performance, reggaeton performance, urban music album and urban song.
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The film is currently in pre-production with aims for a fall 2026 release, with fashion mogul Tom Ford at the helm. Ford also tapped Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper and Hunter Schafer for roles in the adaptation.
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Veteran reporter and current Metro Morning radio host David Common will replace Heather Hiscox as host of CBC Morning Live, the Crown corporation announced Thursday. The announcement comes on the same day as Hiscox's final broadcast as host and 20 years after she first took over the position.
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The Assembly — a global hit where celebrities are interviewed by people on the autism spectrum — is getting a Canadian version. As the latest show putting neurodivergence in the spotlight, it has received mixed reviews. Some call it heartwarming, others say it's condescending.
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Cineplex is hoping an element of surprise will get people into seats at a time when movie theatres are short on blockbusters. The theatre chain's Monday Surprise Premieres, launching Nov. 10, promise an advanced screening of an unreleased movie at a discounted price.
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Actor-director Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist will not be moving forward, after a judge formally ended the suit, saying Baldoni did not refile any amended claims by the deadline.
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A Canadian's plan to bring his late celebrity wife back to life in AI form has raised a host of ethical questions about prolonging human existence in the digital universe. Alan Hamel, a Canadian entertainer and longtime TV personality, recently said he's created an "AI twin” of Hollywood star Suzanne Somers, his wife and partner of 55 years who...
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Bugonia refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees spontaneously formed from rotting ox carcasses — and it's hard to avoid making connections to the plot and characters in Yorgos Lanthimos's new comedy: that while we want to believe something good, beautiful and ordered can spring from the depths of something dirty, polluted and diseased, it's...
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Ticketmaster, the world's largest online box office, is promising for the first time to crack down on industrial-scale scalpers to bar them from using hundreds — sometimes thousands — of fake Ticketmaster accounts to buy up and resell tickets for concerts, theatre and sporting events.
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Instead of planning a caper for yourself, a good heist movie may be the best way to feel that vicarious thrill. In that spirit, we've put together some of the best heist movies and where you can watch them — focusing on Louvre-adjacent heists of things, instead of simply money.
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American media personality Kim Kardashian said she had been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, U.S. media outlets reported on Thursday. Kardashian revealed her diagnosis during a teaser for the seventh season of her reality show, The Kardashians, which recently premiered on Hulu.
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The NFL is not considering replacing Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime performer, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday, reaffirming the decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league's biggest stage — a decision that's led to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.
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A group of London, Ont., teens have created a board game called American Dictator, which pokes fun at U.S. President Donald Trump's activities since he began his second term in office. They hope other young people playing the game will learn more about the political climate.
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Hundreds of additional visitors came to the Hessische Landesmuseum in the central German city of Wiesbaden over the weekend to admire a painting that bears a striking resemblance to the opening scene of Taylor Swift's current No. 1 hit music video, The Fate of Ophelia. It depicts the Shakespeare character clad in white and surrounded by white water...
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Rush is putting more Canadian dates on the calendar for the band's anticipated reunion tour, including new stops in Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver. The band is adding more than a dozen cities to the Fifty Something concert tour, which begins in June next year.
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Kevin Chen, 20, has finished in second place at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The prestigious contest takes place every five year and comes with a cash prize of about $98,000 Cdn for the gold medal winner, American Eric Lu, and roughly $65,000 for Chen.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a mostly self-contained effort that meticulously catalogues the artist's change in outlook during the creation of Nebraska. But Bruce Springsteen being a talented artist, sufferer of depression and all-around good guy is not enough to make it an interesting film.
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The Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first American League East Division title since 2015 with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, but a screenshot shared online of a supposed Truth Social post from Donald Trump suggested the U.S. president wasn't on board with the Jays' playoff run.
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