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  • Norman Lear went from producing hit TV shows like All in the Family to political activism, including efforts to get young people to vote. The 85-year-old Lear says both involve a lifelong passion.
  • Lupita Tovar was just a teenager when a Hollywood scout discovered her in Mexico City. Nearly seven decades and one postage stamp later, the star of the Spanish-language version of Dracula has no regrets.
  • Writers in New York and Los Angeles voted to lift a strike order, clearing the way for them to report to work on Wednesday. They will formally approve their new three-year deal over the next couple of weeks. With one fight resolved, the studios will next face the unions representing actors.
  • Police in Switzerland recover two Impressionist paintings stolen from a Zurich, Switzerland, art museum. The paintings were found inside an abandoned car near the museum.
  • The new play Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons chronicles the mental struggles of Spike Milligan, the comic genius behind The Goon Show, a 1950s BBC radio comedy. He suffered a nervous breakdown during the run of the groundbreaking show.
  • Those records should have been transferred to officials from the White House at the end of the Trump administration, according to federal law.
  • A new creative space dedicated to experimental collaboration between artists and scientists opens in Paris. Le Laboratoire is the brainchild of Harvard bio-medical technology professor David Edwards. Besides teaching, Edwards writes fiction and works in theater.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court edged toward a further erosion of the Voting Right act Monday, blocking for now a second majority-Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election.
  • How to begin a musical about a barber who slashes his customers' throats and a baker who grinds up their corpses to fill her meat pies? If you're director Tim Burton, you start by raining blood from the skies.
  • The Holmes story appeared in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual. Holmes traces a sordid London murder to the heart of the American West.
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