Entertainment

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Google honored barrier-breaking comedian Charlie Hill, the first Native American comic to appear on national TV, with a Doodle on what would’ve been his 71st birthday. When Hill was a young comic in the 1970s, he refused to deign to racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Rather, his material addressed bigotry toward

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Your bad, Taika Waititi. The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director told Rolling Stone he forgot about his film’s star, Natalie Portman, being part of the “Star Wars” franchise. According to Waititi, his initial conversation with Portman went like this: “Natalie said to me, what do you do next? And I

By Chloe Melas, CNN Noah Cyrus is opening up about her addiction to prescription medication. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the singer, 22, says that when she turned 18, she began taking Xanax. “My boyfriend at the time, when I was 18, was the first person that gave me a Xanax, and it

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bette Midler and Macy Gray have each responded to criticism some recent comments they made were transphobic. Midler was slammed for tweeting, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!” “They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they

By Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette, CNN Legendary musician Carlos Santana suffered a medical emergency Tuesday night during a performance in Michigan, according to his management team. Santana was “over-taken by heat exhaustion and dehydration,” according to a statement by his management team posted on his official Facebook page. He was performing at Pine Knob

By Marianne Garvey Kris Jenner is a busy lady to say the least. She wakes up in her silk pajamas sometime around 4 a.m. every day. (5 a.m. would be on the late side, she says). She does Pilates, showers, answers emails and then starts putting out the fires that come with managing multiple moguls

By Kristina Sgueglia and Mirna Alsharif, CNN Attorneys for Amber Heard have asked the court to throw out the verdict in the defamation trial with her ex husband Johnny Depp and either dismiss the case or order a new trial. In court documents dated July 1 in the circuit court of Fairfax County, Virginia, attorneys

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Both Macy Gray and Better Midler are being accused of being transphobic. Gray, best known for her 1999 hit song “I Try,” seemed to anticipate the backlash during an appearance that aired Monday on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored.“ “I will say this and everyone’s gonna hate me but as

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Tom Hanks doesn’t get to battle Tim Allen at the box office and he has feelings about that. In a clip from an interview with CinemaBlend, which was posted on the publication’s Instagram account, Hanks was asked bout his new film “Elvis” being in theaters the same time as “Lightyear.”

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The impressive mix of tones and styles that director Taika Waititi pulled off in “Thor: Ragnarok” largely fizzles in “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which isn’t as funny as it wants to be, as stirring as it needs to be or romantic as it ought to be. Although well paced at