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Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to the late, great Prince on The Tonight Show Monday with a too ridiculous, totally true story about getting crushed by the Purple One in ping-pong.

Fallon detailed a back-and-forth with the musician's management, during which Prince repeatedly changed his mind about wanting to play ping-pong with the host. While Tonight set up a table just in case, Fallon cracked Prince never even looked at it — instead he delivered an outrageous performance and broke Roots guitarist Kirk Franklin's guitar.

Not long after, however, Prince issued another ping-pong challenge to Fallon, »

3 hours ago

After waiting 48 hours following the bombshell arrival of Beyoncé's Lemonade Saturday night, the late-night shows were eager to discuss the singer's new LP on their Monday night programs, especially Late Show's Stephen Colbert. "This album is about so much more than Beyoncé's marriage: It makes powerful statements about women being disrespected, especially black women, and I know you've been waiting for a white man to explain it to you. The waiting is over," Colbert said.

The host then unveiled the segment "Stephen Colbert White-Mansplains: Lemonade." "Now, if you are white, »

3 hours ago

James Corden explored the trials and tribulations of creating a late-night monologue in a parody of Beyoncé's Lemonade on The Late Late Show Monday.

Corden dutifully recreated numerous shots from the pop star's HBO special while recounting in soft, melodramatic voice overs his obsessive attempts to please the audience night after night with appealing, formulaic jokes. "This is in the news, that's in the news, what else is in the news?" he asks. "You guys see this? Do you guys see — me?"

Further capturing Corden's angst were Lemonade-esque title cards for the various monologue conventions, »

21 hours ago

With filming completed on the upcoming revival of Twin Peaks, the show's full 200-plus person cast list has been revealed, and there are dozens are fascinating names joining the cult David Lynch and Mark Frost series: Trent Reznor, Eddie Vedder, Sky Ferreira, Sharon Van Etten are among the musicians who will appear on the Showtime series in some capacity.

Reznor's Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck and wife/How to Destroy Angels bandmate Mariqueen Reznor were also cast, as were the members of Au Revoir Simone, the Cactus Flowers, the Chromatics' Ruth Radelet and more. »

25 April 2016 9:11 AM, PDT

At 15-years-old, Nikki Reed wrote and starred in Thirteen, the controversial film about the debauched lives of young teenagers surrounded by drugs, alcohol and sex. Now 13 years after breaking through, Reed has explored music, starred in the blockbuster Twilight series, become a series regular on the TV show Sleepy Hollow and has now entered the world of fashion with her handbag company, launched in conjunction with Freedom of Animals. Take a look at Reed discussing her new line in the first installment of Momentum: A Day in the Life, our »

25 April 2016 9:00 AM, PDT

With X-Men: Apocalypse storming into theaters in just over a month, the sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past has unveiled its latest two-minute preview. The trailer boasts new footage of the mutants at war against mankind and themselves, a riveting shot of destruction peeling the Sydney Opera House like an onion and Oscar Isaac's god-like supervillain Apocalypse. However, the most scintillating image of the trailer comes in the closing seconds as the bloody claw of Wolverine is seen approaching baddies.

The preview also offers up footage of some »

25 April 2016 7:40 AM, PDT

Florence and the Machine released 'The Odyssey' directed by Vincent Haycock via the band's website on Monday. The 47-minute art film strings together video clips released in 2015 of songs from the band's latest album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, including "What Kind of Man," "St. Jude," "Delilah," "Ship to Wreck," and "Queen of Peace." The latest installment includes the final chapter set to "Third Eye."

"I was talking to [Vince] about the record and the car crash of a relationship breakup I was going through," singer Florence Welch said in a statement. »

25 April 2016 6:40 AM, PDT

One week after winning a Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed hip-hop Broadway musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared on Last Week Tonight to raise awareness about Puerto Rico's debilitating economic crisis with a visceral rap.  

First, host John Oliver spent 19 minutes outlining the intricate – and mostly infuriating – tax and legislative quirks that allowed Puerto Rico to reach $70 billion public debt. The island now faces a poverty rate of 45 percent, with hospitals and schools shutting down at an alarming rate. "Right now, Puerto Rico is like the last Tower Records: Everything's overpriced; everyone's been laid off, »

25 April 2016 5:48 AM, PDT

Since its infectious trailer dropped in January (just try not to watch it on repeat), The Get Down has made every list of the year's hotly anticipated TV releases. The first six episodes premiere on Netflix on August 12th, so they're knee-deep in production right now, but on the closing night of the Tribeca Film Festival, series director Baz Luhrmann sat down with one of the show's writers and executive producers, the journalist and critic Nelson George, at the Sva Theater in Chelsea to talk about the show and his creative process. »

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