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(Reuters) – The actor known for playing the character “Screech” in the 1990s U.S.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge ordered Bill Cosby to stand trial for sexual assault, ruling today  that there was enough evidence for the entertainer to be criminally tried on charges that he attacked a woman in 2004 after giving her drugs.

CANNES, France, (Reuters) – British veteran director Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival when “I, Daniel Blake”, his latest social-realist drama, took the Best Picture award yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “The Angry Birds Movie” has flown to victory at the U.S.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Films about Hollywood often harken the glamour, glitz and golden age of cinema, but “The Nice Guys,” gives a very different sheen to Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Pop star Kesha is not allowed to perform at the Billboard Music Awards after her record label rescinded its approval, the show’s organizers said, following the singer’s failed legal bid to scrap her recording contract with Sony Music and producer Dr.

LOS ANGELES,  (Variety.com) – Disney-Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” remains dominant at U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – When Jodie Foster wanted to explore the human relationship with technology and virtual intimacy in her latest directorial effort “Money Monster,” she opted to use Wall Street as her setting and raise the dramatic stakes by holding George Clooney hostage.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Comedian Arsenio Hall has filed a defamation lawsuit against the singer Sinead O’Connor, who accused him of supplying drugs to music legend Prince, whose death on April 21 has prompted speculation about an overdose.

(Reuters) – Music superstar Prince left no known will when he died last week, his sister said in court documents yesterday listing his six siblings or half-siblings as heirs to a legacy estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Courts on both U.S. coasts dealt setbacks to Bill Cosby’s legal team today, as the comedian kept trying to fight off lawsuits over allegations that he has sexually abused women for decades.

CHANHASSEN, Minn.,  (Reuters) – Prince’s remains have been cremated and his family and friends attended a private ceremony on Saturday to pay their respects to the late pop superstar at the studio complex where he died in a suburb of Minneapolis, a Prince spokeswoman said.

(Reuters) – Prince, the innovative pop superstar whose songwriting and eccentric stage presence electrified fans around the world with hits including “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry,” died yesterday in Minnesota.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Oprah Winfrey is returning to scripted television more than two decades after her last regular small screen acting gig in a show that is close to her heart – a family drama centered around a black mega-church in Memphis.

(Reuters) – Prince, the innovative U.S. music superstar whose songwriting and eccentric stage presence electrified fans around the world with hits including “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry,” died today in Minnesota.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Indian film industry is changing and films no longer have to have a song and dance sequence to be successful, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Melissa McCarthy’s star power lifted “The Boss” to an estimated $23.5 million opening weekend despite bad reviews and rough word-of-mouth for the R-rated comedy.

(Reuters) – The 17-year-old daughter of late actor Paul Walker has reached a $10.1 million settlement with the estate of the man driving the car that crashed and killed them both in 2013, her attorney said on Friday.

(Reuters) – Rock star Bruce Springsteen today canceled a weekend concert in North Carolina to protest a new state law barring transgender people from choosing bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, as country music stars decried similar legislation proposed in Tennessee.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s “threat management” squad have opened a criminal investigation of actor Charlie Sheen, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.