BATON ROUGE, La. — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became a household name amassing an enormous following and multimillion-dollar ministry only to be undone by his penchant for prostitutes, has died. Swaggart died decades after his once vast audience dwindled and his name became a ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s sons William and Ryan confirmed his death to trade outlets. The Associated Press’ messages to ...

Barbra Streisand was worried. She had just spent six days a week for six weeks recording the audiobook version of her 2023 memoir “My Name is Barbra” — which became more than 48 hours of discussing her storied, EGOT-winning career and the unexpected life that came with it. But now, it ...

NEW YORK — TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of “Worst Cooks in America,” died Tuesday at her New York home. She was 55. The Food Network, where Burrell began her two-decade television career on “Iron Chef America” and went on to other ...

Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday celebration at the Hollywood Bowl could have been mistaken for a retirement party. But two years later at 92, he’s working as much as ever. Not that retirement would look much different. The life he loves is making music with his friends, even after outliving ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at ...