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By Megan Thomas and Brandon Griggs, CNN Ronnie Spector, the swaggering 1960s pop icon with the sky-high beehive whose sultry, quavering voice powered numerous hits for The Ronettes, including “Be My Baby,” has died, her family announced in a statement Wednesday. She was 78. “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after

By Chloe Melas Bob Saget’s family is waiting for the results of his autopsy report and not speculating on his cause of death, two sources close to the late actor and comedian tell CNN. Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando hotel room on Sunday, hours after a two-hour stand-up performance, had Covid-19 in

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Julianna Margulies is on the mend from Covid and passing the time with some awards season prep. On Tuesday, “The Morning Show” actress revealed she has Covid in a post on Instagram, adding “I’m fine because I am vaccinated so it just feels like the flu.” “How lucky we are to

By Scottie Andrew, CNN As a seemingly gruff, disarmingly loving deaf fisherman, Troy Kotsur nearly runs away with the coming-of-age film “CODA.” And with his latest nomination for his performance — this one from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards — he’s made history. Kotsur, who Wednesday morning was nominated for best supporting actor at

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Always meta in its nods to the genre’s quirks, the latest “Scream” is so self-referential as to risk swallowing its own tail. Yet this quarter-century-later “requel” (a term specifically explained in the movie) turns out to be a great deal of fun, cleverly wedding familiar faces with new stars in

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nominations for the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards, highlighting acting work in film in television, were announced Wednesday. A compilation of reactions from some of the nominees follows below. Will Smith, nominated for outstanding performance by male actor in a leading role for “King Richard” “I am humbled and honored

By Lisa Respers France, CNN The nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which honor some of the year’s best television and film performances by actors, were announced on Wednesday. “Ted Lasso” and “Succession” led TV nominees with five nods each. The drama “The Power of the Dog” led film nominees with three nods.

By Chloe Melas, CNN Jamie Lynn Spears is opening up about what led to her strained relationship with her pop star older sister Britney Spears. There’s been a misconception, the younger Spears said, about her role in Britney Spears’ 13-year court-ordered conservatorship, which ended last year after a judge removed the pair’s father, Jamie Spears,

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Simon Cowell and his longtime partner, Lauren Silverman, are getting married, a representative for the “America’s Got Talent” judge confirmed to CNN on Wednesday. The representative gave no further details, but the Sun reported that the pair got engaged during a recent break to Barbados. Cowell, aged 62, and Silverman, now

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN TV host and fashion stylist Jeannie Mai Jenkins has announced the birth of her first child with rapper husband Jeezy. “I asked God for a life of love and happiness,” Mai Jenkins wrote on Instagram Tuesday evening, accompanied by a picture of her child’s hospital cot. “He sent me my family.