Entertainment

By Raja Razek and Dakin Andone, CNN Award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, according to her daughter Julie Bergman. She was 93. Along with her husband and collaborator Alan, Bergman was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of her career and won three, including for the

By Duarte Mendonça, CNN Sinéad O’Connor’s 17-year-old son has died, the singer’s management company confirmed to CNN on Saturday. On Friday, a Garda spokesman told the Irish Mirror that a body had been recovered and that police were standing down on a missing-person report for Shane O’Connor. The “Nothing compares 2U” musician shared a sequence

By Marianne Garvey A mother’s love knows no bounds, even if that means creating a billboard in the middle of Times Square in order for your daughter to find love. When Boston native Beth Davis was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, she treated it with chemotherapy and she was doing well. But in

By Marianne Garvey Jim Gaffigan is driving for the first time in 30 years. He’s also bought a home in the country and has started gardening. Indeed, the pandemic has changed us all. Gaffigan, his wife Jeannie and their five children, Marre, Jack, Katie, Michael and Patrick, spent the spring of 2020 in the early

By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Beautiful,” “brilliant,” “grace” and “elegance” are just a few of the words used by those who paid tribute Friday to the late Sidney Poitier, one of the greatest actors of the past century. Poitier, who died Thursday at the age of 94, blazed trails as a Black actor who rose

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Rooney Mara, the Oscar-nominated actress, is reportedly set to play an iconic star from the Golden Age of Hollywood. According to both Deadline and Variety, Mara will star as Audrey Hepburn in a forthcoming Apple Studios biopic. Hepburn, who died in 1993 at the age of 63 from cancer, appeared

By Sara Spary, CNN Nicolas Cage and wife Riko Shibata are expecting their first child together, a spokesperson for the American actor confirmed to CNN Friday. The couple married at a ceremony in Las Vegas in February 2021. Aged 26, Shibata is 32 years younger than Cage, who turned 58 on Friday. Little is known

By Brandon Griggs, CNN Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.

By Marianne Garvey The Weeknd has released a new album and it features a bunch of surprise guest appearances. Titled “Dawn FM,” the album features contributions from Jim Carrey (yes, that Jim Carrey) Calvin Harris, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Point Never, Swedish House Mafia, Max Martin, and “Uncut Gems” co-director Josh