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Longtime country singer-songwriter Mel Tillis dead at 85
Mel Tillis, the affable longtime country star who wrote hits for Kenny Rogers, Ricky Skaggs and many others, and overcame a stutter to sing on dozens of his own singles, has died. Tillis died early Sunday at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla. H
Fats Domino, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at age 89
Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music even as it honoured the grand, good-humoured tradition of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89.
Tragically Hip's Gord Downie dead at 53
Gord Downie, the Tragically Hip frontman who united a diverse array of music lovers with his commanding stage presence and Canadiana-laced lyrics, has died.
Toronto 'Free Speech Comedy Show' cancelled amid backlash
The 'No Fascists In Our City! Free Speech Comedy Show' was cancelled Saturday after backlash to the event's perceived ties to far-right groups, but the organizer says it was really just about poking fun at these very types of controversies
Martin Landau, Oscar-winning actor, dead at 89
Martin Landau, a star of the 1960s television series Mission: Impossible who made a late-career comeback with an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1994 film Ed Wood, died on Saturday at age 89, his publicist says.

George Clooney plans to move Amal and newborn twins Alexander and Ella back to LA following the terror attacks in London.

Trey Parker, a co-creator of the Comedy Central staple �South Park,� says the next season of the not-for-children cartoon is going to be scaling back on political humor, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
It was a gown so tight that Marilyn Monroe needed to be sewn into it before she sang a scandalously breathy rendition of Happy Birthday to U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Gal Gadot's "Wonder Woman" is soaring to a $100 million opening weekend at the North American box office, early estimates showed Friday.
Southern rock legend Gregg Allman dies, age 69
Music legend Gregg Allman, whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern rock, died Saturday.
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