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By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 Black actors are denouncing backlash aimed at actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who was cast to play Juliet opposite Tom Holland in an upcoming stage production of “Romeo & Juliet” in London’s West End. After Amewudah-Rivers’ casting announcement, online backlash was fierce, even prompting the Jamie Lloyd Company

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Nearly seven months after Aerosmith was forced to postpone their “Peace Out” farewell tour, the band is heading back out on the road this fall. The rockers wrote that they’re “thrilled” to announce the rescheduled dates for the tour in an Instagram post on the band’s official page on

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Madonna is honoring the survivors and victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida. The music icon paused her “Celebration” tour concert in Miami on Tuesday night to call attention to the over 100 survivors and victims’ family members that she invited to the show, making a powerful

CNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, and said it’s been a long time since his days hosting NBC’s “Late Night” in the same building. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien told host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been in this building for such a long time,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Vick Hope says she waits for her husband Calvin Harris to leave before she cranks Taylor Swift’s music. “As soon as my husband goes away, I listen to Taylor Swift,” Hope recently said during an episode of BBC Radio 1 show “Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie.”

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday night, and said it’s been a long time since his days hosting NBC’s “Late Night” in the same building. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien told host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been in this building for such a long time, and

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Fallout” surfaces in such arresting fashion – at a kid’s birthday party, of all places – that the Amazon series appears destined to join “The Last of Us” in mastering the journey from game to screen. As the first season progresses, though, this post-apocalyptic concept feels closer to

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Paramount is looking into claims Sylvester Stallone allegedly used disparaging language about background actors on the set of “Tulsa King,” which streams on Paramount+, sources told CNN. The studio is investigating claims that first surfaced on social media in which Stallone was accused of referring to some performers working as extras on the set

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Talk about a “bad romance.” Lady Gaga is making her long-awaited debut as Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix’s reprisal of his Oscar-winning Joker in the first trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux” released on Tuesday. The teaser trailer begins with Phoenix’s cuffed and plain-faced Joker – whose name is

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Jay Leno’s request for a conservatorship of his wife Mavis Leno’s estate was granted on Tuesday during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom. According to documents filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court after today’s hearing, the judge determined Jay Leno was “suitable and qualified” to be appointed

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Rihanna is opening up about her romance with the father of her two sons, A$AP Rocky. In a new cover story for Interview magazine, the music superstar and Fenty founder said their romantic relationship began as a friendship after they collaborated on a remix of her 2011 single

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Renée Zellweger is set to reprise her beloved role of Bridget Jones in an upcoming fourth installment of the popular film franchise. The two-time Oscar-winner will star in “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” according to a news release. The film is based on author Helen Fielding’s best-selling novel

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Zendaya has offered up some rare remarks about boyfriend Tom Holland. In a joint interview with Vogue and British Vogue, the “Challengers” star praised her “Spider-Man: Homecoming” co-star for how he handled things after the film was released in 2017. “We were both very, very young, but my

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Robert Downey Jr. was unfazed by Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about his past drug use at this year’s Oscars. The “Oppenheimer” actor won an Academy Award for his performance in the film. As Kimmel hosted, he made a joke about Downey Jr. being at “one of the highest points” of

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The Academy of Country Music (ACM) on Tuesday announced the nominations for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards. Luke Combs led the nominations with eight, followed by Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen with six nods each. Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson all have five nominations.

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Actor Billy Dee Williams has said there is nothing wrong with performers wearing blackface, because “if you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.” Speaking to Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast, published Sunday, conversation on the issue began with 87-year-old Williams discussing White actor

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Special prosecutors in New Mexico claim in a new legal filing that actor Alec Baldwin’s behavior on the “Rust” movie set contributed to “safety compromises” that led to the fatal shooting of the film’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. Prosecutors sought to defend their case in a filing Friday after

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Billie Eilish has new music debuting this spring. The “Bad Guy” singer announced on her Instagram page on Monday that her third studio album, titled “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” will release on May 17. Eilish shared a photo of herself underwater, appearing to fall out of an open

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé may have proclaimed that her latest project “ain’t a country album,” but someone forgot to tell the charts that. The superstar has made history as the first Black woman to come in at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with her “Act II: Cowboy Carter,”

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Country music star Jelly Roll has recovered from a flight scare over the weekend. He and his wife Bunnie XO were on their way from California to Austin, Texas for the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, when their private jet was forced to make an emergency landing after experiencing