David Lander, 'Laverne & Shirley' Actor, Dead at 73

Authorities were holding a U.S. soldier in custody as of Monday under suspicion that he killed a 20-year-old Army infantryman found in a wooded area last week.

David Byrne has shared his hopes for a post-Donald Trump America, though admits it is “too early to celebrate”.Byrne was speaking as part of last week’s Big Read cover feature, around the release of his new Spike Lee-directed concert film American Utopia.“For me Trump was not so much a shock; we knew who he is,” Byrne told NME.

Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox has teamed up with Shonda Rhimes to produce a weekly podcast series.

Paul McCartney has reflected on the death of his Beatles bandmate John Lennon, 40 years on from his killing.Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building in New York on December 8, 1980 by Mark Chapman.During a new interview with CBS, McCartney was asked how he was processing Lennon’s murder 40 years on. “I’m not sure I am,” he replied.

NEW YORK -- Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 years.Jackson was just 48 when she died, in 1965, and left behind an extensive backlog of unreleased material. Her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, made little effort to organize her papers beyond giving them to the Library of Congress, so Hyman and his sister, Sarah Hyman DeWitt, took on the job.

liiiving for it. Who dreamt up this perfect sketch idea? Idk, but they have my unending gratitude.

Pop Smoke will make his posthumous film debut in the upcoming film Boogie, set to arrive next year.The film, which will be released on March 5, follows high-school student Alfred “Boogie” Chin – played by Taylor Takahashi – who has dreams of becoming a basketball star. Pop Smoke takes on the role of Chin’s on-court rival, Monk.Boogie will also feature unreleased music from the late rapper, as well as a cameo from fellow New York MC, Dave East.“He gave me a thousand percent,” Eddie Huang, the

Timothée Chalamet made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut and shared memories of his New York childhood.

The Democratic Party’s progressive flank is calling to “abolish the death penalty” after Brandon Bernard was executed for his role in the 1999 kidnapping and killing of two ministers.  “Abolish the death penalty,” tweeted both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

The Kills have released a new video for deep-cut ‘Weed Killer’. See it first on NME below, as the band tell us about their new rarities compilation and work on new material.‘Weed Killer’ is a B-side from 2009 and comes with electrifying footage from a New York club show in 2012.

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono are leading tributes to John Lennon on the 40th anniversary of his death.The late Beatles star was shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside his Dakota apartment building home in New York on December 8, 1980, and his wife and former bandmates were among those marking the sad date in music history on Tuesday.Paying tribute to his old pal on Twitter, McCartney shared a photo of the pair sitting together in a recording studio prior to Lennon’s death, and

Previously, close insiders recalled John Lennon’s last days in New York City — filled with ifs and buts that, they say, might have prevented his death. One of the chilling moments was meeting the fan who, hours later, would murder him.Mark David Chapman was no stranger to mad missions.

James Taylor has revealed how John Lennon‘s killer gave him an unsettling message about the late Beatles icon only a day before he shot him dead.Today (December 8) marks 40 years since Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman outside the entrance to New York’s Dakota apartment building, where he was living with wife Yoko Ono.Speaking to The Telegraph, Taylor explained how he encountered Chapman a day before the murder took place.Chapman, who was 25 at the time, was said to be “glistening with

rock ’n’ roll photographer Bob Gruen, and invited him to the Record Plant studio in Midtown Manhattan. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, were working on a new song there, called “Walking on Thin Ice.”Gruen had shot the iconic photo of Lennon wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “New York City,” and they had established a friendship where the singer would regularly ask  Gruen to photograph him.It was Friday afternoon, Dec.

David Lander, the actor best known as “Squiggy” on the long-running Laverne & Shirley television show, has died. He was 73 and passed Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications related to multiple sclerosis, which he battled for 37 years.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods Season 11 premiere “Triumph Over Trauma.”

first celebrity to win the US edition of the quizshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – and he has donated the million-dollar top prize to restaurant workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.For his final question, Chang was asked to name the first US president to have electricity in the White House.

Republican Sen. David Perdue on Tuesday invited New York Rep.