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Empty ticket selling booths are seen as a couple buys discounted Broadway theater tickets at the TKTS kiosk, March 11, 2020, in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
March 13, 2020, 12:27 am
The show does not go on: Coronavirus brings entertainment world to a standstill
Hollywood, Broadway call curtains on shows, TV productions, movie premieres and more as US takes steps to avoid people coming together in hopes of stemming spread of COVID-19
By Jake Coyle
Tom Hanks, left, and Rita Wilson arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
March 12, 2020, 6:36 am
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus
Actor, 63, is most famous person yet to publicly announce a positive test for the virus, which he contracted while in Australia
By AP
In this June 21, 2016 file photo, Steven Spielberg attends the LA Premiere of 'The BFG' in Los Angeles. (John Salangsang/Invision/AP)
March 7, 2017, 11:59 pm
Steven Spielberg to direct movie about Pentagon Papers
Hollywood heavyweight in talks with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks for film on US media’s insistence on publishing a classified Vietnam War study
By Lindsey Bahr
People look at the 'All-Seeing Trump', a fortune-telling fairground attraction resembling Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in New York on October 12, 2016. (AFP/William Edwards)
October 14, 2016, 4:52 pm
Trump fortune-telling Zoltar doll provokes New York
Delivering insults in GOP nominee’s ‘voice,’ dummy vows to pack Mexicans like ‘cattle’ onto trains better than those used by Germans
By Laura BONILLA
An undated picture of American Unitarian minister Rev. Waitstill Sharp and his wife, Martha. (screen capture: YouTube)
May 25, 2016, 7:42 am
PBS to air film of American couple that defied Nazis
Rev. Waitstill Sharp and his wife, Martha, risked imprisonment and death to help save hundreds of people in WWII Europe
By AP
'Bridge of Spies' director Steven Spielberg (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
November 2, 2015, 2:43 pm
Spielberg says he made movies to teach his kids history
Oscar-winning director takes audiences back to the dark days of Cold War espionage with ‘Bridge of Spies’
By Josh Weiss
Justin Bieber captures Tom Hanks dressed 'as a rabbi' at Jewish manager's wedding July 7, 2014. (Instagram screenshot)
July 9, 2014, 3:40 pm
‘Rabbi’ Tom Hanks dances on Instagram
Justin Bieber catches actor on video clowning in yarmulke and tallit at marriage celebration of Jewish manager Scooter Braun
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this Nov. 22, 2009 file photo, crew members work aboard the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama after the ship docked in the harbour of Mombasa, in Kenya. Police in the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 that two American security officers were found dead Tuesday in a cabin on the Maersk Alabama, the ship hijacked by pirates in 2009, an event dramatized in the movie "Captain Phillips" starring Tom Hanks. (photo credit: AP Photo, File)
February 19, 2014, 8:49 pm
2 American security officers found dead on ‘Captain Phillips’ ship
US Coast guard investigating; Seychelles police say post mortem is scheduled
By AP and TOI staff
US President Barack Obama (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin/File)
November 26, 2013, 12:11 pm
Obama touts Iran deal as ‘right move, good for Israel’
‘This is not politics. These are not games, and the stakes are extraordinarily high,’ president tells Democratic leaders
By Spencer Ho
Caplan's stage work has included playing a Holocaust hero, as well as "Seven Jewish Children," accused by some of anti-Semitism. (Courtesy photo)
March 30, 2013, 10:40 pm
Jewish actor’s splash is nun of your business
As a star of the BBC hit ‘Call the Midwife,’ which returns to US screens on Sunday, Ben Caplan has earned a following with a highly ‘convent’-ional role
By Renee Ghert-Zand
October 18, 2012, 6:25 am
Tom Hanks honored at Elie Wiesel Foundation gala
Movie star stunned by award, says, ‘it’s about making the world a better place’
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at right with hand covering mouth, President Barack Obama, second from left, Vice President Joe Biden, left, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, right, and members of the national security team watch an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room on May 1, 2011. The image, released by the White House, was digitally altered by the source to obscure the details of a document in front of Secretary Clinton. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)
April 28, 2012, 2:19 am
For Obama, bin Laden killing becomes campaign tool
One year after Obama ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden, his reelection campaign paints him as a brave leader — and hints that Romney may not have had the ‘guts’ to do the same
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