WWII veteran, 96, receives COVID-19 vaccine, becomes first VA patient nationwide to get shot

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday turned away a request from Pennsylvania prosecutors to review a state supreme court decision that overturned Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault conviction, leaving the ruling from Pennsylvania’s high court that freed him from prison intact.

She may be the star of the new Batman movie, but once upon a time, Zoë Kravitz was denied a role in the franchise because of her skin colour.

Shania Twain is a huge Céline Dion fan.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s almost become a model in recent years: If a song’s a hit, the copyright-infringement lawsuits follow, and Dua Lipa was clobbered with two of them in four days last week. Her global hit “Levitating,” which has spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, has drawn two lawsuits from songwriters claiming the song infringes on their compositions, according to multiple media reports.The first was filed March 1 by a Florida reggae group called Artikal Sound System, claiming that Lipa’s song lifts from their relatively obscure 2017 track, “Live Your Life.” That complaint includes little specific detail beyond claiming that the two tracks are so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.” In the second, more-detailed legal complaint, filed on March 4 in New York, songwriters L.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Walking Dead” continues to live on at AMC, with the network greenlighting a spinoff centered on Maggie and Negan.Both Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will return for the spinoff, which is currently titled “Isle of the Dead.” The six-episode series will see the two characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Naman Ramachandran The newly reestablished Hammer Studios has acquired U.K. rights for B Good Picture Company’s “Doctor Jekyll.” In Nov. 2021, the U.K.’s Network Distributing sealed a deal with iconic British horror label Hammer Films to form Hammer Studios Ltd.

It was a tough weekend for Ireland Baldwin.

Tony Dokoupil left viewers in tears on Monday's CBS Mornings as he shared harrowing details of the current refugee crisis in Poland.DONATE NOW: What can you do to help Ukraine?Half of the one million Ukrainian refugees in Poland are children, and the TV journalist reported live from the Poland-Ukraine border.Talking to his co-stars Gayle King and Nate Burleson, Tony said: "What you are seeing in the shot behind me are the latest arrivals here in the early afternoon, in freezing temperatures, locally.VIDEO: Tony Dokoupil shared harrowing footage from the Poland-Ukraine border"Some come wrapped in blankets, some come with children in their arms, the kids carrying only one favorite stuffed toy or animal, and this relief camp that you're looking at here in Medyka, Poland, it did not exist like this a week ago.MORE: Tony Dokoupil opens up about working with CBS Mornings co-starsMORE: Gayle King looks incredible in iconic yellow dress as she marks anniversary on CBS Mornings"This is new. It now helps thousands of people a day, many from outside of Kyiv, where a family of four died over the weekend, suitcases in hand, possibly headed right here.A post shared by Tony Dokoupil (@tonydokoupil)The CBS Mornings star also shared heartbreaking photos from the relief camp"You can see devastation in these pictures outside the capital of Kyiv, as Russian gunfire and shells send people running for their lives.

Katy Perry has had some pretty memorable moments during her time as a judge on American Idol, but a recent one allowed her to finally clear some things up regarding one of her biggest hits.MORE: Katy Perry taken aback by very surprising audition during American Idol premiereThe singer had a conversation with fellow judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan as they talked about artists often adding too many unnecessary flairs to their singing.WATCH: Katy Perry's Chocotopia adventureLuke then started singing to Katy's hit Firework by performing the lines in the chorus as "up, up, up," and then "ah, ah, ah," to her annoyance."It's not 'up, up, up' and it's not 'ah, ah, ah'," she said, to which Luke retorted: "Well what is it then, because I've been dying to know all these years?"MORE: Katy Perry looks unreal in all-leather outfit"It's 'awe, awe, awe' everybody, get it right!" she said. Luke even questioned: "Is that a word in the dictionary?" to which Katy responded: "It is!"She even added on to the career-long debate about her song, saying: "It's not Fireworks, it's Firework."A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)Katy cleared up what the lyrics for Firework really were for LukeKaty posted the clip on her Instagram with the caption: "FOR THE OFFICIAL RECORD • it is AWE not UP • it is FIREWORK not FIREWORKSSS.

Daniel Radcliffe will tackle Stephen Sondheim next season in a new revival of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along at the Off Broadway New York Theatre Workshop.

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Zimmer has been named Head of Television for Temple Hill, the production company behind the Twilight franchise, which was co-founded in 2006 by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.

EXCLUSIVE: Grant Gustin, the actor best known for his starring role as Barry Allen (aka The Flash) on The CW’s The Flash, has signed with ICM for theatrical representation.

The Walking Dead universe is getting even bigger.

EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked Daryl McCormack, the star of critically acclaimed Good Luck to You, Leo Grande which made its world premiere at Sundance in January and was scooped up by Searchlight for $7.5M.

Documentary+, the free streaming service launched by non-fiction studio XTR, is getting into the original programming and has ordered its first project.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise), Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Sharlto Copley (District 9), Quinn Copeland (Peacock’s Punky Brewster) and twins Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti (Big Little Lies) have joined the cast of Boy Kills World, an upcoming action-thriller produced by Sam Raimi and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Voicing his concern and disappointment over the Motion Picture Academy’s controversial decision to move the presentation of eight categories to the hour before the actual ABC Oscar telecast begins at 5 p.m. PT on March 27, Steven Spielberg has become the most powerful voice yet to express his opposition to the idea.

EXCLUSIVE: Shanon Smith, who was part of the launch team of the Oxygen network, has joined Shaq Life producer The Content Group.

Facing rising outcry, Disney CEO Bob Chapek has decided to play a political and cultural version of a church mouse when it comes to Florida’s new ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

A 94-year-old World War II veteran and prisoner of war rolled up his sleeves on Tuesday and became the first person in Birmingham, Ala., to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Lee Elm Creel told AL.com that the jab “felt about like a flu shot.” Creel wasn’t the first in the state to receive the shot, but Birmingham’s VA Medical Center was the first in the county to administer the vaccine, according to the news outlet.