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By Lisa Respers France, CNN One of Molly Shannon’s most famous “Saturday Night Live” characters was awkward, clumsy, Catholic school student Mary Katherine Gallagher. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Shannon explained how the character came to be after a tragic car accident resulted in the death of her mother, sister and cousin when

By Rob Picheta, CNN Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards and Liverpool footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have announced the birth of their first child. The pair, both 28, wrote on Instagram that the child had been born on Saturday. They shared black and white images of the child’s head and feet, but did not reveal a name

By Ally Hill, CNN Jennifer Hudson and Andrea Bocelli wowed the crowd with their vocals, and classics from Earth, Wind & Fire and Santana brought high energy to “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert” before weather halted it. These are the best moments of the night, and the aftermath of the interruption. Andrea Bocelli delivers

By Chloe Melas, CNN It’s a concert to mark the resilience of a city. Some of music’s biggest names will descend on the Great Lawn at New York City’s iconic Central Park for the “We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert” on Saturday to perform for a vaccinated crowd of 60,000. The concert is meant to

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN I’ve spent the last week listening to people talk about fall TV during the summer edition of the Television Critics Association virtual press tour, my sun-averse skin is dreaming of whatever “winter” means in Los Angeles and today, my campaign to get “Blursday” officially recognized as a day of the week

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Country music singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall died Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, at the age of 85, according to his son. “Our family asks for privacy during this difficult time,” Dean Hall said in a tweet, Hall, who was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, was inducted into the Country

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Just when we thought live music was coming back, there’s been a pause. With the Delta variant stretching the pandemic out even further around the world, concert tours and festivals have once again been postponed or canceled — the latest being the planned world tour of K-pop superstar group, BTS.

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Angelina Jolie, a notoriously private celebrity with no public social media presence, has joined Instagram, using the platform to draw attention to the situation in Afghanistan. Jolie joined the platform on Friday, posting a letter she says she received from a teenage Afghan girl, whose name and location has been blurred.

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Actress Melissa Joan Hart has revealed she’s quite sick with Covid, despite being fully vaccinated and wants to encourage others to “stay safe.” The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star took to Instagram (from bed) to tell followers “it’s bad” and that she thinks she may have caught it from one of

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Protégé” brings a few novel little touches to what’s otherwise a generic action vehicle for Maggie Q, in part by flanking her with Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson. The result is a sporadically stylish, mildly unpredictable and thoroughly violent thriller where the principals seemingly endure at least as

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Ed Sheeran has announced his fourth studio album, saying it is the “best bit of work that I’ve done.” The British singer-songwriter confirmed on Thursday that “=” (pronounced “equals”) will be unveiled on October 29 — four years after he began recording it. Sharing the cover art on Instagram, Sheeran told

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular. It also reminds us that what happened in those columns didn’t stay there, with examples ranging

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Sean Penn directs his own daughter Dyan Penn in his latest film, “Flag Day,” but the joint effort didn’t come without a little family tension. The Oscar-winner stars as con artist John Vogel, who is estranged from his children, played by Dylan Penn and Hopper Penn, whom Penn shares with actress