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A legendary rock band’s guitarist has announced he will be leaving the group’s current tour as he battles cancer. Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, co-founder and guitarist of Oasis, told fans in an Instagram post Friday that he will be stepping away from the Oasis Live ‘25 Tour to receive treatment for prostate cancer. Arthurs, 60, said he was diagnosed with cancer …

SITTING IN A Beverly Hills hotel room during one of multiple media junkets, Dwayne Johnson spent nearly three minutes explaining how he morphed his mind and body into Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” when he turned to the MMA pioneer and asked: “How did I do, by the way?” Kerr opted for an anecdote. His son, Bryce, saw the …

Turning a documentary into a fiction film allows for deeper psychological probing into its subjects, for scenes that only previously played out in the audience’s off-screen imagination to be given a version of flesh-and-blood reality, and for an artist to apply their own interpretation to a particular sequence of real events. But if a biopic simply mimics its non-fiction inspiration …

In The Smashing Machine, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is battered and defeated — in bloody fights by his opponents in the ring, and in quiet moments by the world. In the movie he plays real-life UFC fighter and mixed martial artist Mark Kerr, whose dominance at the sport in the late 1990s begins to fall apart as his dependence on …

After two teams debuted their Rivalry uniforms in Week 4, it’s the Buffalo Bills‘ turn in Week 5. Editor’s Picks 2 Related The Bills will rock their all-white “Cold Front” threads against the New England Patriots on “Sunday Night Football.” There are no traces of red on the design that showcases the cold winters of Buffalo. A chrome, iridescent charging …

Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Eric Zachanowich/A24 hide caption toggle caption Eric Zachanowich/A24 Movie star Dwayne Johnson has a laundry list of injuries he’s sustained over the course of his career as a profession wrestler and a college football player. There was a ruptured Achilles tendon, a complete shoulder reconstruction and either four or …

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 7, Rolling Stone is breaking down 10 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.  The Grammys won’t have an easy time this year picking the nominees for Best Rock Album since longtime favorites like Foo Fighters, U2, Pearl Jam, Metallica, …

WASHINGTON — The moon is sometimes called “two-faced” because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper than that, as shown by an analysis of rock and soil retrieved in 2024 by China’s Chang’e-6 robotic lunar spacecraft. Scientists said the chemical makeup of …

Playing Bruce Springsteen in the new biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” Jeremy Allen White joins a list of A-list actors who have recently taken on the roles of rock music icons, from Timothée Chalamet portraying Bob Dylan to Austin Butler embodying Elvis Presley to Rami Malek rocking out as Freddie Mercury. Speaking to Variety at the film’s New York premiere, …

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 10-foot statue of rock n’ roll queen Tina Turner was unveiled Saturday in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up — before becoming a Grammy-winning singer, an electrifying stage performer, and one the world’s most recognizable and popular entertainers. The statue was revealed during a ceremony at a park in Brownsville, located about an …