National Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — The “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special will include guest appearances by Tom Hanks, Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle and numerous other stars who've been associated with the show over the years.

Conductor Daniel Barenboim says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The 82-year-old issued a statement Thursday on Instagram.

ROME (AP) — With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis threw a wrench Thursday in some of the speculation about a future Sistine Chapel vote by deciding to extend the term of the current dean

Ke Huy Quan plays a happy-go-lucky real estate agent named Marvin Gable whose past life as a hitman comes back to haunt him in “Love Hurts.” The action-comedy goes hard on elaborately choreographed fight sequences and violent, bloody deaths.

NEW YORK (AP) — Irv Gotti, a music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists such as Ashanti and Ja Rule, has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, which was the parent company of Murder Inc.

TORONTO — Montreal-based filmmaker Miryam Charles is the inaugural recipient of the $25,000 Charles Officer Legacy Award.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Screaming fans lined the streets in frigid conditions Wednesday to catch a glimpse of Cynthia Erivo, the “Wicked” star who is being celebrated as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year.

ROME (AP) — With interest in a papal elections high thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Conclave, ” Pope Francis threw a wrench Thursday in some of the speculation about a future Sistine Chapel vote by deciding to extend the term of the current dean

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.

MILAN (AP) — Gucci announced on Thursday that its creative director of under two years, Sabato De Sarno , has left the position just two and a half weeks before the next runway show, and that the new collection would be created by the design team.