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They’re not exactly the Moonpersons that anybody wanted to land at the VMAs. But when the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards go down on Sunday, there will be two new, COVID-era categories: best quarantine performance and best music video from home. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and Post Malone are among the music …

At the beginning of March, Lady Gaga announced the initial dates of her “Chromatica Ball” tour promoting her new album, which would have seen her playing a half dozen dates in Europe and the US, concluding at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 19. Well, we all know what happened next, and while a canceled tour is …

A California judge denied Roman Polanski’s bid to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars. The controversial director sued the Academy in April 2019 after it expelled him in May 2018, alleging he had been thrown out without any warning or fair process. The director behind “Rosemary’s …

The iHeartRadio Music Awards telecast, which had originally been set to air on Fox March 29, has finally been officially canceled for this year, with the winners instead now slated to be unveiled on radio stations and social media over the four-day Labor Day weekend. The new plan was announced by iHeartMedia Monday morning. The …

Viola Davis was among the honorees at the second African American Film Critics Association TV Honors on Saturday. Davis was awarded best actress at the virtual celebration for her role in “How to Get Away with Murder.” “I am truly grateful for the experience … to create a character that meant so much to so …

The summer movie season is a pandemic-afflicted bust. But Hollywood is overcompensating with a real-life blockbuster: Starring a savvy young actress who takes down two powerful studio heads, it reads like a reboot of “Basic Instinct” meets “Fatal Attraction.” Despite a lackluster career, 28-year-old Charlotte Kirk snagged marquee headlines this week after toppling the four-decade …

Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to President Trump pardoning former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, a move Trump suggested over the weekend that he was mulling. “He was a traitor and the information he provided our adversaries greatly hurt the safety of the American people,” Barr told the Associated Press. …

An awards show is a tough thing to pull off in a pandemic, and although the VMAs set forth with an admirably ambitious agenda and a power-packed artist lineup, Roddy Ricch and J Balvin have both pulled out, Variety has confirmed. “Unfortunately, J Balvin and Roddy Ricch are no longer performing,” a source close to …

Bella Hadid is bringing fashion to the farm. The model, 23, has been social distancing at mom Yolanda Hadid’s Pennsylvania farm — and using everything around her to create stunning at-home photoshoots. On Thursday, Bella shared an outtake from a recent i-D Magazine feature photographed by her sister Gigi, in which she wears a $2,890 Bottega …

With the way that BTS is blowing up, the K-popsters are more than living up to the title of their new single “Dynamite.” Indeed, the boy band is already crushing records with the “Dynamite” video, which premiered along with the song on Friday. It racked up the highest numbers ever for a YouTube video premiere, …