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‘Top Gun Maverick’ postponed to December due to coronavirus

NEW YORK — Hollywood’s summer movie season is all but finished. “Top Gun Maverick” became the latest would-be blockbuster to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Paramount Pictures on Thursday announced that sequel to the 1986 original will now open Dec. 23 instead of June ...

TV viewership climbing with people stuck at home by virus

NEW YORK — A fixture on television, actress Julie Bowen of “Modern Family” is doing the same thing as millions of other people during the widespread coronavirus shutdown. She’s sitting at home, watching more television than she normally would. In a world turned upside down by ...

The show must go on

MARQUETTE — Tuning up guitars, warming up vocal chords and shedding off those stage nerves used to be a normal routine for two Upper Peninsula musicians. The trickle of the audience filing into their seats as the lights would fade has now retreated as gatherings and concerts of more than 10 ...

Englund ready to see someone up the ante with Freddy Krueger

NEW YORK — Robert Englund, the actor who turned Freddy Krueger into a fearsome household name, say he’s looking forward to someone else taking a stab at reviving the “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise. Englund said it’s time for Krueger’s razor-fingered glove to permanently pass ...

Pearl Jam come roaring back with superb new album

Trust Pearl Jam to still surprise us in 2020. The Seattle rock gods have made an album we didn’t know we needed. “Gigaton” is a fascinating and ambitious 12-track collection with a cleaner, crisper sound that is studded with interesting textures, topped by Eddie Vedder’s ...