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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Maya Rudolph, you are up. If it’s election season, it’s also the time when “Saturday Night Live” writers come together for plenty of satire surrounding politics. The late-night show may already have an incumbent when it comes to portraying Vice President Kamala Harris: Maya Rudolph. The former “SNL”

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Life may sometimes imitate art, but Vice President Kamala Harris is not the fictional politician Selina Meyer in “Veep.” However, given the number of memes and videos in circulation comparing the HBO comedy series and Harris, the show’s creator felt compelled to state the obvious. “Don’t forget we

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves is aging like the rest of us. And for that reason, “The Matrix” has shared, mortality has been on his mind. “I’m 59, so I’m thinking about death all the time,” Reeves told BBC News. “I’m young old.” Reeves is promoting his first novel, “The Book

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris made a big entrance during her first official visit to her campaign headquarters on Monday evening, walking out to Beyoncé’s song “Freedom.” A source close to Harris told CNN that her team got approval from Beyoncé’s representatives to use the song throughout her presidential campaign.

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, a founding member of the Motown group the Four Tops, has died, according to his family. He was 88. Fakir died of heart failure in Detroit on Monday, surrounded by his wife Piper and loved ones, according to a statement provided by a spokesperson for the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Chadwick Boseman’s final tweet before his death in 2020 was both personal and political. On August 11, 2020, Boseman’s then-verified Twitter account featured a photo of “The Black Panther” star embracing then-Senator Kamala Harris. It was the same day President Joe Biden announced Harris would be his running

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Sam Smith may be staying off the ski slopes for a while. The Grammy-winner, who uses they/them pronouns, opened up on a recent episode of BBC’s “Sidetracked with Annie and Nick” about sustaining an ACL injury while skiing down a dangerous ski run. “I went on the black slope

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Could “The Simpsons” please start sharing some lottery numbers? TV’s longest running series is once again is being hailed as a modern day Nostradamus. In episode titled “Bart to the Future,” which released in 2000, Lisa Simpson is shown growing up to become the first female president of

CNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While the Swifties and Bey Hive dream of a world where Taylor Swift and Beyoncé come together to jointly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, one singer is already getting the party started. British pop singer Charli XCX has entered the virtual chat,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — One little note from Steven Spielberg changed “Twisters.” Stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones were asked in a recent interview with Collider why their characters don’t kiss in the movie, despite their apparent romantic attraction. Edgar-Jones said that was the result of a note from famed director Spielberg.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While the Swifties and Bey Hive dream of a world where Taylor Swift and Beyoncé come together to jointly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, one singer is already getting the party started. British pop singer Charli XCX has entered the virtual chat, posting

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — No need to wonder what you’ve seen when it comes to the new “Deadpool” movie and Madonna. Ryan Reynolds shared the story of how he and costar Hugh Jackman got the pop icon to agree to use her hit 1989 single “Like A Prayer” in “Deadpool & Wolverine.”