Savannah Guthrie to return to 'Today' show on April 6 after mother's disappearance
Savannah Guthrie soon will return to NBC's “Today” show. The longtime morning show co-anchor has been absent since her mother's disappearance nearly two months ago. Guthrie says in an interview that aired Friday that experiencing joy will be her protest. Guthrie talked with Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for her in emotional interviews released this week. Kotb says Guthrie will return April 6. Guthrie says she's not sure she's up for it but wants to try because NBC, too, is her family. Authorities believe Guthrie's mother, Nancy, was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will from her Arizona home.
Music Review: Charlie Puth shows off his bag of musical tricks on 'Whatever's Clever!'
A choir and an orchestra back up Charlie Puth on his fourth album, “Whatever's Clever!” It sees the artist consider change. Puth and his co-producer BloodPop pull from a Mary Poppins bag of musical tricks to create complex tracks, writes The Associated Press' Elise Ryan. A number of features add intrigue to the tracks. Musically, the outcome is fun. The influences, ranging from yacht rock to jazz and R&B, divert from Puth’s previous pop. But Puth and BloodPop play it safe lyrically. “Whatever's Clever!” releases Friday.
Fetty Wap has a lot to say on 'Zavier.’ It’s his first album since being released from prison
NEW YORK (AP) — Melodic rapper Fetty Wap was released from federal prison to home confinement in January after serving just over half a six-year sentence for his role in a drug trafficking scheme. On Friday, he releases a new album titled “Zavier.” The artist born Willie Maxwell II tells The Associated Press that the album features a lot of different sounds. Collaborators include Tink, Wiz Khalifa, Max B and Fetty Wap's sisters. Fetty Wap says he didn't want to make an album about his incarceration, but he didn't want to avoid it either. He hopes “Zavier” gives his audience a feeling of “good energy” and “positivity.”
Musician who canceled Kennedy Center holiday performance asks for suit to be dismissed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Musician Chuck Redd is asking a judge to throw out the Kennedy Center’s lawsuit over his canceled Christmas Eve show, saying he never had to perform. In a motion filed Friday in D.C. Superior Court, his lawyers argue he was under no contractual obligation to perform. They also call the case an effort to intimidate artists who speak out. Redd has led the venue’s holiday Jazz Jams since 2006. He canceled last year after the board voted to add President Donald Trump’s name to the facility.
‘Stand by Me’ stars reflect on the movie, Rob Reiner and its return to theaters 40 years later
Rob Reiner's beloved coming-of-age film “Stand by Me” is coming back to theaters for one week. The 40th anniversary has reunited stars Jerry O’Connell, Corey Feldman and Wil Wheaton who are eager to remember and honor their director, who died in December. They say the timing of the anniversary has given them a shared place to grieve and remember. It also makes them think about their late co-star River Phoenix. They say the film still connects across generation for its simplicity and authenticity. Audiences at screenings range in age from kids to grandparents. The return to theaters starts Friday.
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The Oscars are leaving Hollywood
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Bill Maher will win the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain humor prize following White House denial
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center says Bill Maher will win the prestigious Mark Twain humor prize. The center made the announcement Thursday, less than a week after the White House forcefully denied the award would go to the comedian, who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with President Donald Trump. A Trump administration official says the situation changed after further conversations between the Kennedy Center and event organizers. Maher says he just had the award explained to him and it’s like an Emmy, except he wins. The Kennedy Center has presented the award since 1998 to recognize those who've made significant contributions to humor and commentary. Conan O’Brien won last year.
Lobsters and red carpet gowns: A new show celebrates Schiaparelli's surrealist fashion
LONDON (AP) — The Victoria and Albert Museum is opening a new exhibition celebrating how the fashion house Schiaparelli turns fashion into surreal art. The exhibition spans a century of design, from Elsa Schiaparelli's collaborations with Salvador Dalí in the 1930s to show-stopping red carpet gowns worn by Ariana Grande. The show includes about 400 objects. It pairs Dalí’s Lobster Telephone with the Lobster Dress by Schiaparelli and Dalí, as well as a coat made with Jean Cocteau. The final rooms spotlight modern looks worn by Hollywood stars, including Ariana Grande’s jeweled gown with a protruding ruby slipper at the back.
Movie Review: 'Two Prosecutors' is a perfect nightmare of state corruption
Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Prosecutors” is a nightmare of government corruption so perfectly composed that, by the time it reaches its chilling conclusion, you feel nearly as entrapped as its young protagonist, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review. The film is set at the height of Stalin's Great Purge, in 1937. A young prosecutor just three months into the job attempts to visit a prisoner. It was not exactly an opportune time for a young lawyer hardly out of college to stroll into the belly of Stalin’s bureaucratic beast and start asking questions. What follows has the neatness of a dark parable of political persecution.
US book critics honor Nobel laureate and South Korean novelist Han Kang
The National Book Critics Circle honored a novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang and Karen Hao’s examination of artificial intelligence and OpenAI at its annual awards on Thursday. Han’s novel “We Do Not Part” addresses a 1948-1949 uprising on Jeju, an island south of the Korean mainland, in which thousands of people were killed. Hao won the nonfiction award for "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI,” an inside look at the company behind ChatGPT. NPR and PBS were presented with the Toni Morrison Achievement Award honoring institutions that make made significant contributions to book culture.
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