Chuck Close, photographer known for photorealist portraits, dead at 81

Linda Kahn, a children’s TV executive for more than 40 years who also was a former board president of New York Women in Film & Television, has died. She was 72. NYWIFT said she died August 30 but did not provide details.

LOS ANGELES -- Robert Durst's marathon testimony over three weeks — in which the ailing millionaire denied killing his wife and best friend but also said he'd lied if he had done so — concluded Wednesday and lawyers rested their cases in the murder trial.The New York real estate heir tried to counter or explain incriminating evidence in three killings that have shadowed him for decades, but was crippled by a cross-examination that the judge said was “devastating” to Durst's believability.It will

The Girls On The Bus, Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s drama series adaptation of Amy Chozick’s best-seller Chasing Hilary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, is now in the works at The CW after being dropped by Netflix, Deadline confirmed.

New York Times profile that she turned down the role of Rogue in the beloved Marvel series.

Rachael Leigh Cook could’ve been Rogue in the “X-Men” films, but she turned it down.

You may know Tom Coughlin as the former head coach of the New York Giants, who won two Super Bowls with the team.

New York Times interview that the organization is dealing with “a broken-trust moment,” with one survivor saying she was “manipulate, bullied and smeared” by Time’s Up.Among those speaking out is Drew Dixon, who was one of the first to come forward with sexual abuse allegations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons in 2017.

NEW YORK -- A tech entrepreneur who invested in the film studio that made the “Twilight” movies was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his fraud conviction.Omar Amanat, 48, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Paul G.

Bill Clinton, composer Philip Glass and the artist himself.His works have been displayed in museums, galleries and even the New York City subway.In 2017, Close faced accusations of sexual harassment from some women who said he made inappropriate sexual comments when they had gone to his studio to potentially be models for him in prior years.He told The New York Times that he had spoken to the women about their bodies as part of evaluating them as models, and apologized for causing any

Chuck Close has died.

The first of R Kelly’s trials in which he faces charges of sexual abuse began in a New York court yesterday. The prosecution told the jury that this was a case “not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot” but “about a predator”.

While a lot of celebs were waiters while trying to make it in show business, a lot also turned to real estate as well – and Elizabeth Olsen did just that.

Joe Walton was the head coach of the New York Jets in the 1980s and went on to build a football program at Robert Morris College.Morris played college football at the University of Pittsburgh, making appearances with the Panthers in the 1956 Sugar Bowl and Gator Bowl. He was named an All-American in 1955 and ’56.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterMovie theaters in a handful of cities around the country will soon be checking for proof of vaccination — creating one more obstacle to the full return of moviegoing.In New York, the requirement goes into effect on Tuesday.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- As the bus carried the New York Yankees through the cornfields blanketing this serene, rolling farmland of northeast Iowa, Aaron Judge noticed a difference from the usual arrival in the next city.The ride to the Field of Dreams site to play the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night had everyone's attention, like a bunch of kids who couldn't believe what they were getting to do.“It was the first time people had their headphones out, and they were just glued to the windows,