Lucy Hale may be best known as the de-facto leader in Pretty Little Liars, but in an alternate reality she might have been enmeshed in a double life as the protagonist in Disney’s Hannah Montana. The actress said the auditioning process for the role, which eventually went to Miley Cyrus, solidified her…

Rumor’s spreadin’ ’round that ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has left the band’s Elevation Tour to focus on an unspecified “health issue.” The Texas trio’s reps said Saturday that its co-founder “has temporarily stepped away from the current tour to attend a health issue requiring his focus in the near…

For more than 40 years, Journey has told us to “Don’t Stop Believin’,” but last night, they stopped playin’. The veteran group was performing its signature track early in its set at NRG Stadium in Houston when its members halted the show abruptly and left the stage, not to return. The cause? A…

The countdown to Will Smith’s first album since the Bush administration is on. The once-and-current rapper has slapped together five previously released singles and added nine other tracks for Based on a True Story, which streets on March 28. It’s his first new disc since 2005’s Lost and Found…

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker’s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia Pére…

UPDATED, Saturday AM: Thank God for Snow White next weekend, right? Who knew with that movie’s controversy we’d be saying that!? However, the industry should be thankful: If Snow White pulls off a $50 million-plus opening, that’s a respectable bump for what is a barren desert of a business right now…

For the Paris Olympics last summer, NBCUniversal aired an astonishing 7,000 hours of coverage over the 19 days of the games. Arguably lost in that barrage of coverage, however, was a sense of the athletes' subjective experience of competition – their inner mental, emotional and physical landscape as…

Piers Morgan presided over a stormy encounter on his chat show, before one guest departed abruptly. Morgan was hosting two boxers – Chris Eubank Jr and Connor Benn – on Piers Morgan Uncensored this week, when the subject of Benn's previous failed drug tests arose. Benn was scheduled to fight…