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
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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
Continue Reading 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
Continue Reading 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
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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
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN Toni Morrison spoke often about the incoherence of race. “When you know somebody’s race, what do you know? Virtually nothing,” Morrison mused in one such instance during a “60 Minutes” interview in 1998. “You add to it all the stereotypical information and all the baggage that goes with race. But you don’t
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Morgan Wallen’s performance at the Grand Ole Opry this past weekend has caused a backlash. The singer, who was suspended by his label and dropped by several radio stations last year after video of him using a racial slur surfaced, appeared with his Big Loud label mate ERNEST at the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Gigli” may have bombed at the box office and the film became the punchline for many a joke, but Ben Affleck is choosing to look at the bright side. In an Entertainment Weekly interview with his BFF Matt Damon, Affleck talked about the 2003 film which put him in the
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Lennie James is calling for more debate when it comes to casting in film and TV, as Hollywood looks to employ more actors with lived experience in certain roles. The British actor and screenwriter, who is best known for playing devoted father Morgan Jones in the hit AMC zombie series “The
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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.
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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,
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By Michelle Watson and Gregory Wallace, CNN A flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles was diverted to New Mexico overnight after a passenger made a “threatening statement” to a crew member, a spokesperson for American Airlines said. “American Airlines flight 482 from Charlotte (CLT) to Los Angeles (LAX) diverted to Albuquerque (ABQ) following a
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Oscar Holland, CNN At the largest exhibition of his watercolors to date, painting enthusiast Prince Charles has described the restorative benefits of art, saying it “transports me to another dimension.” The heir to the British throne went on to say that painting is “one of the most relaxing and therapeutic exercises I know,” adding that
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By Marianne Garvey Crystal Hefner has gone through a health transformation, saying she has “removed everything fake from my body and deleted all my old photos.” The widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner took to Instagram with the news, saying, “I am more authentic, vulnerable and feel that I belong more to myself. I am
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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
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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.
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN A Key West, Florida, bartender who had worked a busy New Year’s Eve shift helped police track down two men suspected of defacing the famous “Southernmost Point” buoy landmark. The anchored 20-ton concrete buoy in Key West sustained “extensive damage” after a Christmas tree was placed near it and lit on
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By Pete Muntean and Christina Maxouris, CNN A man entered the cockpit of an American Airlines plane in Honduras and caused damage while the aircraft was at the gate, the airline said in a statement. After doing damage, the passenger attempted to jump out of a window, American Airlines spokesperson Sarah Jantz told CNN. The
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jenna Jameson is still struggling with her health, but it turns out she does not have Guillain-Barré Syndrome as previously thought. Her partner, Lior Bitton, posted a video on Jameson’s verified Instagram account Tuesday in which he said Jameson is still in the hospital and does not have the disease.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Zendaya is speaking out about the new season of “Euphoria.” “It’s a very different season, to be honest. I mean, tonally, it’s different,” she told NBC’s “Today” on Tuesday. “I think it’s far more emotional than the first season. Much like the film stock that we use this season, which is
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