106.7 WTLC Entertainment News with Kim Wells

March Madness and the Final Four in Indianapolis promises to be BIG with the world’s largest brackets here in town, five of Indiana’s men’s teams in the tourney; a superstar performer participating in a free concert and our eyes on a former beloved local college basketball coach and his family. Take a listen to get caught […]

QUEEN LATIFAH said she wanted to play iconic Blues singer, Bessie Smith, and her dream is now more than reality. Latifah’s dream and acting/singing chops are heading to a television set powered by HBO Films on Saturday, May 16 at 8 p.m. Eastern. “Bessie” was written by Rees and Horton Foote, focusing on Smith’s transformation from a young […]

Will Smith’s Focus has topped the weekend box office, dethroning Fifty Shades of Grey to close the month of February and start March. The con caper, also starring Australian actress Margot Robbie, opened to just over $19 million to top a slow-going movie weekend and end the two-week box office reign of the steamy romance Fifty Shades of Grey.  “Grey” […]

            In entertainment buzz for this Hump Day, a highly anticipated trial has gotten underway that pits the family of a legendary late-musical artist against some current musical artists who want to become legend. Click the media player below to hear the latest in the blurry tale of copying someone […]

Performing against a backdrop of the streets of Selma as well as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Grammy winners Common and John Legend were joined on the 87th Academy Awards stage by a group of marchers chanting “glory.” It was arguably the most moving moment of the telecast Sunday night in Los Angeles. The duo picked up […]

Jussie Smollett is being frank about the impact his role as a gay musician on Fox’s “Empire” has already positively had others. Smollett spoke with E! Online and told them that after the second episode, he got a letter from a fan who told him how his character, Jamal, “gave him the courage to come out to […]

NBC’s iconic late night weekend sketch comedy show “Saturday Night LIVE” is good and grown. It celebrated it’s 40th Anniversary with a three-hour special show Sunday night. Click the media player to hear some of the highlights. Peyton Manning, of course, dropped by and once again Maya Rudolph was dead-on with her Beyonce impersonation. Check out […]

It was Sam Smith’s night at the music industry’s biggest event, the Grammy Awards on Sunday.  Click the media player below to hear how this new celebrated “soul” singer handled his moment to shine. Smith performed the song live during the broadcast with Mary J. Blige. ### (@1067wtlc ) ### kimwellsmedia 020915 Follow me on Twitter […]

Singer Bobby Brown has offered a brief update on the condition of his daughter Bobbi Kristina. The 21-year-old, who is also the daughter of the late-Whitney Houston, remains in a coma at a hospital in Atlanta fighting for her life after she was found unresponsive and face down in a bathtub on Saturday. Brown was […]

Entertainer Bobby Brown is pleading for privacy after his daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was found unresponsive in her bathtub Saturday. The New Edition singer, in a statement to E! Online is asking that everyone allow his family to privately deal with the matter so they can give Bobbi Kris “the love and support she needs […]

“Deflate-Gate” has gone to a whole new level thanks to the NFL thinking it’s a good idea to put team mascots in the same space with inflatables for a nice game of Musical Chairs. Sounds innocent and entertaining enough, right? However, among the invited mascots were the Indianapolis Colts’ “Blue” and the New England Patriots’ […]

A “Jazz Celebration of Life” for Indianapolis R&B, neo-soul and jazz vocalist Cynthia Layne will be held on Saturday at Crown Hill Funeral Home from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.   Layne, was one of the most popular and beloved singers in the city. Performing regularly at venues around town like the Jazz Kitchen, the Indy Arts Garden […]