Long Island Entertainment & Celebrity News
From Billy Joel to Lindsay Lohan, the latest on Long Island celebrities, entertainment, theater, movies and television.
'Anaconda': Toothless, but passably entertaining
The movie has a clever premise that chuckles at its inherent cheesiness.
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21 notable celebrity deaths of 2025
'Marty Supreme': Timothée Chalamet's career-best performance
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Test your knowledge of these pop culture anniversaries in 2026 with our quiz
Barry Manilow has early-stage lung cancer and will undergo surgery
King Charles III calls for kindness and unity in Christmas message amid global conflicts
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Martha Stewart joins Snoop Dogg as minority owner of Swansea soccer club
Sean 'Diddy' Combs seeks immediate release from prison in appeals argument
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Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
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Mohammad Bakri, renowned and controversial Palestinian actor and filmmaker, dies at 72
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College Football Playoff ratings drop 7% as NFL competition impacts viewership
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Movie Review: In 'Testament of Ann Lee,' a blazing Amanda Seyfried can make you believe anything
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What music and television to stream: A New Year's Eve tradition
'60 Minutes' correspondent says CBS editor-in-chief pulled story on El Salvadoran prison
Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS is bowing to political pressure.
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MeTV sets marathon of Rob Reiner's top 'All in the Family' episodes
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Top 10 streaming movies of 2025
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LIer wins Hallmark Channel's 'Finding Mr. Christmas'
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LI teen Ava Nat doesn't make 'The Voice' finals
Billy Joel tribute concert set for Carnegie Hall
A host of musical stars will perform the Piano Man's hits at the show in March.
From 'Fire Island' to Farmingdale': 8 songs that name-check LI
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For Zohran Mamdani: Our crash course playlist of Billy Joel songs
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Zohran Mamdani couldn't recognize Billy Joel's iconic NYC anthem
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Fans have chance to take home Billy Joel exhibit items
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As Billy Joel's motorcycle shop prepares to close, fans turn out to say farewell
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Wrestling icon Mick Foley leaving WWE over its ties to Trump
Foley, an East Setauket native, announced the news on social media.
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Looking back at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time on LI, 45 years after his death
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Alec Baldwin's Hamptons house back on market for $21M
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LI's Lori Loughlin returning to Hallmark Channel's 'When Calls the Heart'
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Got $25 million? Billy Joel cuts price of Centre Island estate.
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Judd Apatow gets serious about comedy in a new book
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Verne Gay
The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home of ABC
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a major change for the Oscars.
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TV 2025: What our critic liked (and what he didn't)
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'Starring Dick Van Dyke': Generous portrait of a legend about to turn 100
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Theater
Movie Review: The Korean satire 'No Other Choice' is a masterful thriller from Park Chan-wook
Leaves and bodies fall in "No Other Choice," Park Chan-wook's masterfully devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it.
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Movie Review: In Jim Jarmusch's starry 'Father Mother Sister Brother' families struggle to connect
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Timothée Chalamet wants to be great. 'Marty Supreme' might get him there
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Movie Review: Ralph Fiennes shines in 'The Choral,' a heartfelt WWI drama about the power of music
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Pop culture in 2025: A ring for Taylor, an ill-timed KissCam ... and whatever '6-7' means
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'Many people didn't know that it was recorded at C.W. Post'
Bruce Springsteen's rendition of "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" was recorded during a concert at C.W. Post in 1975. NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano reports.
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Hall of Fame wants Billy Joel fans to submit papers for symposium
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LI blues singer Kelli Baker to do signing, performance at Plainview music store
'Empowered to use our voice'
Garden City teen awaits 'Voice' fate for finale
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Fans honor John Lennon in Central Park 45 years after his murder
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Radio
Howard Stern not going anywhere: He signs for 3 more years at SiriusXM
Stern ended speculation that had been swirling since last summer about his status.
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Howard Stern postpones his SiriusXM return to Sept. 8
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Remember when Howard Stern first hit the New York airwaves?
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7 questions about Howard Stern's future at SiriusXM
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More Entertainment
'Avatar' and more December movie releases
Steven Spielberg movie, partially shot in Huntington, will be called 'Disclosure Day'
'The Housemaid': Great Neck-set thriller is relatively entertaining
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An appreciation: Rob Reiner was a comedy giant in TV and film
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Rob Reiner's LI connections: Summers on Fire Island, more
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8 Christmas songs with Long Island connections (Billy Joel, Twisted Sister included)
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LI's Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who has MS, will play doctor with MS on 'Grey's Anatomy'
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Mary Jo Buttafuoco to narrate Lifetime biopic
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'Wake Up Dead Man' review: 'Knives Out' is still sharp
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Holiday movie preview: 24 great flicks you'll want to see
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'Wicked: For Good,' 'Zootopia 2' and more
Catching up with Chuck Scarborough, a year after retiring from Ch. 4
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