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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticSinger-songwriter Joseph Arthur has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Times, saying the newspaper’s use of the term “anti-vax” in a headline a year ago was defamatory, because the artist has strongly crusaded against COVID shots but has not expressed a position opposing all kinds of vaccines.Arthur is represented in the suit by Steven S. Biss.

Anne Heche has had a long and successful career in Hollywood, but her personal life has been full of tragedy.

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It’s time to light the lights.The Jim Henson Company and Shout! Factory have announced a worldwide distribution deal to bring 13 of Henson’s popular series and specials to streaming, broadcast, and home entertainment distribution platforms across all territories, including the global AVOD premiere of Henson’s award-winning “Farscape.” The announcement was made Tuesday by Shout! Factory’s CEO Garson Foos, Jeffrey Peisch, Shout’s Senior Vice Present of Programming & New Business Development, and Kerry Novick, Vice President of Global Distribution at The Jim Henson Company.While “Farscape,” Henson’s original sci-fi series that ran for 88 episodes and mixed human performers with puppet characters, and the miniseires, “Farscape: The Peacemaker Wars,” which served as the series’ conclusion, are the biggest draws of this new arrangement, there are plenty of other titles to get excited about (especially if you’re a longtime Henson-head). Also included as part of the deal are “The Storyteller” and its spin-off series “The Storyteller: Greek Myths,” arguably two of the greatest series Henson ever produced, alongside more obscure titles like “Jim Henson’s World of Puppetry,” a six-part documentary series that goes behind the craft of puppeteering, and the short-lived, visually striking “The Ghost of Faffner Hall,” which ran on HBO in the United States in 1989.Additionally, “Dog City,” “Living with Dinosaurs,” “Lighthouse Island” and “Monster Maker,” all of which appeared on the short-lived, Henson-hosted anthology series “The Jim Henson Hour,” will appear as part of the deal.

Dennis Rodman’s impressive basketball career came with just as remarkable hair. The athlete dyed his hair a variety of colors throughout his career, with symbolic shapes and symbols.

Steven Oxman Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials — the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film — the new musical version of “The Devil Wears Prada,” now trying out in Chicago ahead of a projected Broadway run, provides some serviceable entertainment but needs a hefty dose of guilty, edgy fun to boost its mild pleasures.At this stage in its development — having persevered mightily to reach its opening after enduring over 20 cases of COVID during rehearsals and previews — the show boasts an Elton John score that operates in too limited a register and a production from director Anna D. Shapiro (“August: Osage County”) that never quite decides between authentic glamor or a more theatricalized kind, resting right now in a merely semi-satisfying middle.

Cher and Dawn, Nevada bathwater-sharers Sunhe and Angelica, Chicago self-tanning enthusiasts Kathy and Cristina and Louisiana belles Lisa and Lauren. Three brand-new twosomes are joining the show this time around: a groundbreaking duo featuring the show’s first transgender individual; a could-be-sisters set who likes to take it all off; and a spicy Southern combo with an uncanny knack for attracting the same suitors.

Tomorrow X Together’s (TXT) full set at this year’s Lollapalooza festival has been released in full – watch it below.On August 5, the 34-minute-long clip of the South Korean boyband’s performance at the festival was uploaded to their official YouTube channel. It features footage of all eight songs performed by the five-piece on July 30, including cuts from their most recent mini-album, ‘minisode 2: Thursday’s Child’, such as title track ‘Good Boy Gone Bad’ and ‘Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go’.Accompanied by a live band, TXT also delivered several other hits from their catalogue, including ‘Frost’, ‘Anti-Romantic’, ‘Magic’, ‘LO$ER=LOVER’ as well as ‘0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You)’.During the set, the group also invited singer-rapper iann dior on stage for a joint performance of their recent collaborative single ‘Valley Of Lies’, marking the second time both acts have performed the song together live after dior made an appearance at TXT’s second Los Angeles show on July 24.With their appearance at Lollapalooza, Tomorrow X Together made history by becoming the first K-pop group to perform at the famed Chicago festival.

Imagine Entertainment announced that it has signed a multi-project deal for scripted television with Emmy-winning writer/producer Jason Katims and his True Jack Productions banner. Together, they have three projects in the works.

A young woman is dead after gaining popularity on TikTok by opening her heart about her difficult divorce from a “toxic” man. It turns out that man who she “shouldn’t have been” married to in the first place was so awful, he not only couldn’t let her leave, he couldn’t let her live.

EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Levy Aguilar has been promoted to series regular for Season 10 of NBC’s Chicago P.D. He will reprise the role of Dante Torres who, fresh off patrol, comes to Intelligence as a rookie.

Djo, the solo music moniker of Stranger Things star Joe Keery, has released ‘Gloom’, a new single lifted from his upcoming sophomore album.The track, which sees the actor and musician sing atop pulsating, fuzzy beats, is the second to be shared from Djo’s upcoming solo LP ‘Decide’, following last month’s release of lead single ‘Change’. Listen below:‘Decide’ is set for release on September 16, and was produced by Adam Thein, whom Keery collaborated with on Djo’s debut 2019 album, ‘Twenty Twenty’.