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A great audiobook like “Dune” or “You” grabs your attention with an intriguing story, fascinating characters, and compelling themes. But perhaps most importantly (after all, there’s a ...

Mikey Madison’s rescue dog, Jam, has the zoomies. The sweet 9-month-old mutt can hardly contain his excitement after the actor’s long day away in December doing press. As Jam settles down next ...

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“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today!” proclaims Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in “Groundhog Day.” This moment of existential crisis marks Phil’s turning point as ...

Emmy-winning casting director Victoria Thomas has worked with auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and put together the ensembles of acclaimed TV dramas like HBO’s “The Last of Us” and “Watchmen.” ...

“ER” star Noah Wyle is back in his scrubs for “The Pitt.” The new medical drama, which debuted on Max on Jan. 9, focuses each of its 15 episodes on a grueling 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh ...

As Tom Donahue’s 2012 documentary “Casting By” brought to wider attention, “casting director” is the only main title credit that the Oscars have never recognized. But that’s about to ...

The beginning of a new year always finds me looking back on the start of my career, when I was working as an assistant at one of those big agencies that you’d know by its initials alone.