Television
This week’s cold open mocked president-elect Donald Trump by having the cast pretend to support him, and guest host Bill Burr’s monologue could be viewed from different lenses.
Entertainment & Arts
Playwright and director Richard Foreman, one of the pillars of New York’s downtown theater scene, dies at 87.
Obituaries
Richard Simmons, the colorful fitness guru who turned aerobic dancing and positive energy into decades of fame, died Saturday, law enforcement sources told The Times.
Hollywood Inc.
Parsons was named chief executive officer of AOL Time Warner in 2002 after the $124-billion merger of the dial-up internet provider and the largest entertainment and media company started to fall apart.
Richard Cohen, the journalist husband of broadcaster Meredith Vieira, has died at 76, more than 50 years after an MS diagnosis. He also beat colon cancer twice.
REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of the Wooster Group’s production of Richard Foreman’s ‘Symphony of Rats.’
Music
Richard Perry, who produced Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain,’ Rod Stewart’s ‘Great American Songbook’ and Barbra Streisand’s genre switch, dies at 82.
The pair of ’80s pop rock heartthrobs dish about their decades-old friendship before taking the stage together for three nights of acoustic concerts in SoCal.
Opinion
‘Lazarus Man,’ the ‘Clockers’ author’s first novel in nearly a decade, examines New York through a tenement collapse and its aftermath for a cast of characters.