Entertainment

ABC(NEW JERSEY) -- Miss America will unveil a number of changes during Sunday night's broadcast of the 97-year-old competition.Good Morning America had an inside look behind Wednesday's preliminaries.  Besides the controversial swimsuit ban, it's safe to say we're in for a new kind of pageant -- one that gets to know the ladies on a more personal level by celebrating their talents and accomplishments. "We want to pay tribute to tradition and we believe […]

Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In his song "Cadillac Ranch," Bruce Springsteen name-checked "Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am," because the late actor made the car popular in his hit Smokey and the Bandit films. Now, that car will be part of a tribute to Reynolds later this month. A group of car enthusiasts in Westbury, New York have announced plans to stage a 100-car parade of […]

Photo by Monica Morgan/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Dawn Wells, best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the 1960s series Gilligan's Island, has come upon hard times, but fans of the show are coming to her rescue. Dugg Kirkpatrick, a friend of Wells, has created a GoFundMe for the 79-year-old actress, who is nearly $200,000 in debt as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as an "unexpected […]

Barbara Nitke/Lifetime(LOS ANGELES) -- "After 16 incredible seasons," supermodel and entrepreneur Heidi Klum is bidding farewell to Project Runway. In a tweet, the German-born star said "Auf Wiedersehen" to the series she called "a show I was honored to host and help create." Both she and her co-host of 14 years, Tim Gunn, are stepping away from Project Runway. Klum added, "I'm incredibly proud of the show & it'll always […]

Photo: Tony Rivetti; © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- Here are the films opening nationwide on Friday: * Peppermint -- Jennifer Garner plays a young mother, out for revenge against a cartel that killed her husband and daughter. Also starring Kong: Skull Island's John Ortiz, The Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr., Narcos' Juan Pablo Raba and Tyson Ritter. Rated R.   * The Nun -- This spinoff […]

(L-R) Jessica Henwick, Finn Jones, Clayton Barber / ABC Radio(NEW YORK) -- Season two of Marvel's Iron Fist is now live on Netflix. On the heels of last year's original season -- which was drubbed by some critics for fight scenes that were called "lackluster" -- actor Finn Jones' super-powered martial artist, aka Danny Rand, is back in action. The character was better received when the subsequent superhero team-up series […]

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens, who was famously "job shamed" after being photographed working at a Trader Joe's, has a new gig, TMZ is reporting. The gossip site reports that Owenshas accepted Tyler Perry's tweeted-out offer to join the cast of the media mogul's highly-rated OWN show The Haves and Have Nots. There's no official word yet, but Owens will reportedly star in a recurring, 10-episode […]

Lifetime(NEW YORK) -- Rob Lowe is no stranger to being the star on the TV screen, but the award-winning actor put on his director's hat to pull double duty and top billing for his latest project, a remake of the 1950's cult classic The Bad Seed."Directing it was a dream," Lowe said Thursday on Good Morning America. He enthused over his young lead actress, 12-year-old McKenna Grace, saying she "gives […]

Michael Tullberg/Getty Images(JUPITER, FL)-- Burt Reynolds, the iconic star of movies like Smokey & the Bandit, The Cannonball Run, Deliverance, Boogie Nights and Semi-Tough, has died at the age of 82, ABC News has confirmed. Reynolds got his start in television and the theater, and also had some minor film roles.  However, after he appeared in a 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan as the mag's first celebrity male nude centerfold, he […]