Long Island Entertainment & Celebrity News
From Billy Joel to Lindsay Lohan, the latest on Long Island celebrities, entertainment, theater, movies and television.
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'Marty Supreme': Timothée Chalamet's career-best performance
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Barry Manilow has early-stage lung cancer and will undergo surgery
Man accused of 1996 Tupac Shakur killing seeks to suppress evidence
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Tyler Perry sued for sexual assault by 'Boo! A Madea Halloween' actor seeking $77 million
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Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building
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Soprano Asmik Grigorian to lead 'Carmen' and sing mezzo-soprano role this summer
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Escape the holidays: Tribute concerts to catch on LI
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Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for The Cure, dies at 65
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From Broadway understudy to star: John Skelley's magical journey with Harry Potter comes full circle
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Timothée Chalamet wants to be great. 'Marty Supreme' might get him there
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'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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Mariah Carey to receive $92G over dismissed 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' lawsuit
The lawsuit alleged that "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was a rip-off of a song by Vince Vance & the Valiants.
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Wrestling icon Mick Foley leaving WWE over its ties to Trump
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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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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
Afghanistan's historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center
Through the decades, downtown Kabul's Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action flicks.
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Mohammad Bakri, renowned and controversial Palestinian actor and filmmaker, dies at 72
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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
Movie Review: The Korean satire 'No Other Choice' is a masterful thriller from Park Chan-wook
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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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7 questions about Howard Stern's future at SiriusXM
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More Entertainment
'Anaconda': Toothless, but passably entertaining
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'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
