Barbara Billingsley, Mother On 'leave It To Beaver,' Dies At 94

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday.

The musical “Kimberly Akimbo” wastes no time in staking a claim to both exuberance and the weight of the world — as well as about a thousand other feelings that its titular lead, her teenage friends and, arguably, the rest of us are awash in. That David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s musical about a teenager with an extremely rare disease and her dysfunctional parents (less rare but oh-so challenging), can be soul-affirming without losing its edge and ouchy-ness is an achievement, one that speaks to the elasticity of the musical genre.

When Kate Winslet set out to try and make a film about the photographer Lee Miller, she knew it couldn’t show everything. “She lived such a vast life, it would have been impossible to make a film about all of it,” Winslet told TIME when speaking for a recent profile.

From bitter feud to all love. Machine Gun Kelly took a moment to honor the evolution of his relationship with Jelly Roll at the People's Choice Country Awards on Sept. 26. “We went from 10 years

Forget being a Brooklyn baby—Lana Del Rey is a bayou bride. The "Summertime Sadness" singer tied the knot with wildlife tour guide Jeremy Dufrene on Sept. 26, according to photos obtained by the

SAN SEBASTIAN — Projects exploring the ethical dilemmas of an AP photojournalist, the transformation of a Spanish-Chinese gangster into a monk and a personal journey by Eric Cantona stood out at the 20th Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum, part of the San Sebastián Festival. The pitches were presented to a stellar lineup of commissioning and […]