Met Opera cuts season by 3 1/2 months, to shorten some shows

NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterFor the Power of Women issue, Variety talked to some of the female frontline workers in New York who are caring for the communities in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Also Read: Scenes From Black Lives Matter Protests in LA With Michael B Jordan and MoreNoah followed this with a truly disturbing supercut of some of the more brazen displays of ugly violence directed by police at lawful protests.

It was in 2009 when Abhishek Bachchan and ; equivalent to Hollywood's Brangelina, gave their first-ever joint interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, two years after their grand wedding. Oprah welcomed the couple with open arms as it was Aishwarya's 2nd interview with the legendary talk show host.

Gabrielle Union has filed a complaint against NBCUniversal, Fremantle U.S., Simon Cowell and Syco over how she was treated on “America’s Got Talent”, it’s been reported.

Gabrielle Union has filed a complaint against NBCUniversal, Fremantle U.S., Simon Cowell and Syco over how she was treated on “America’s Got Talent”, it’s been reported.

Gabrielle Union has filed a complaint against NBC Universal, Fremantle U.S., Simon Cowell and Syco over how she was treated on “America’s Got Talent”, it’s been reported.

It was a real war of words between Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani this week.

The New York Times newsroom is in open rebellion over an op-ed the newspaper's opinion section published Wednesday that called for the army to be deployed into American cities to crush nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism. In reaction to the op-ed, written by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and titled "Send in the Troops," dozens of Timesstaffers began tweeting out the same message on Twitter Wednesday evening in an open show of anger and solidarity.

By Variety Staff

NEW YORK -- Four of the country's biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favorites as Toni Morrison's “Song of Solomon,” Malcolm Gladwell's “Blink” and Cormac McCarthy's “The Road."

Some people simply fail to understand what ‘Black Lives Matter’ truly means and that it does not suggest people of other races’ lives don’t matter! That being said, Real Housewives of New York star Ramona Singer is apparently one of those! When the reality TV celeb wrote ‘All Lives Matter’ on her IG account amid national outrage over another killing of a black man by the police, her enemy, Leah McSweeney, was quick to clap back! The back and forth started with Ramona getting some backlash over

NEW YORK -- Four of the country's biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favorites as Toni Morrison's “Song of Solomon,” Malcolm Gladwell's “Blink” and Cormac McCarthy's “The Road."

As nationwide protests spurred by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer continue, entertainment companies like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO are weighing in to voice their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Kicked off on Saturday, May 30 — as protests were taking place across cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami — with a social media post from Netflix, other streaming services and cable networks quickly followed suit with their own statements.

A court in New York has thrown out a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Netflix, Apple and Amazon over the use of an unlicensed children’s song in a documentary about a group of burlesque dancers. The case was dismissed on the basis that the inclusion of the song was ‘fair use’.

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Jennifer Hudson has been hit by a lawsuit by a New York photographer who claims she posted his paparazzi picture on Instagram without his permission.