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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara’s Delia Deetz in 1988’s “Beetlejuice” is a devilishly delicious pop culture mom in a class all her own – weird, wired and wholly captivating. No one played a mold-breaking mother like O’Hara, who died on Friday after a brief illness, according to her agency. She portrayed many

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — An unemployed Oregonian, a divorced mother of three, a freshman college student, the governor of South Dakota and an 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans all wanted the same thing: to host “Saturday Night Live.” On November 19, 1977, the five finalists of the show’s first — and, ultimately, only

CNN By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died

By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died Friday

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — HBO has announced new cast members for season 4 of its hit drama “The White Lotus,” with Helena Bonham Carter and Chris Messina among the next wave of guests checking in to the luxury — and usually deadly — resort chain. “The next round of bookings has begun in

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actor Paul Dano has broken his silence about Quentin Tarantino’s harsh criticism of him. The “Pulp Fiction” director launched a scathing attack on Dano during an interview with “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” in an episode released last month. During the conversation, Tarantino said his fifth favorite film of

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “America’s Got Talent,” “The Voice,” “American Idol” — would any of them exist without “Star Search?” The iconic staple of ’80s and ’90s television laid the groundwork for today’s ubiquitous talent competition shows, with one big exception: When it came to crowning big stars, it had a tendency to

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Claire Danes has said she went into “meltdown” when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child at age 44. The “Homeland” star revealed that she burst into tears when she found out she and her husband, the actor Hugh Dancy, were expecting their third child. Speaking to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The silence that has largely blanketed Hollywood since the Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis appeared to crack this weekend in the wake of the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Two celebrities known for speaking their values — “The Last of Us” star Pedro

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is to join “The Great British Baking Show” as a judge, replacing the departing Prue Leith. The move was announced Monday in a statement from Channel 4, which airs the TV baking competition in the United Kingdom. It said it was “delighted to announce”

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Days after Brooklyn Peltz Beckham exposed the depth of his rift with his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, in a blistering Instagram post, the DJ who performed at his wedding has offered his account of the now-infamous dance that contributed to the feud. Nicola Peltz Beckham, Brooklyn’s new wife,

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — For a few hours this week, it felt like the world and all its horrors stopped with one subject taking over the internet: Brooklyn Peltz Beckham. People feasted on every morsel after the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham dropped six slides on his Instagram Stories accusing

By Miriam Elder, Dan Heching, Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to Oscar nominations, “Sinners” has already won. The 98th Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday, and Ryan Coogler’s period vampire horror hit broke the record for most nominations for a single feature with 16, overcoming the past title holders “All About

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to celebrate the best of the worst in movies. Two remakes top the list of the 46th Annual Golden Raspberry nominations, known as the Razzies, announced on Wednesday. “War of the Worlds,” which like the 2005 film of the same name starring Tom Cruise is based

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The latest round of legal drama between actress Blake Lively and her “It Ends with Us” director Justin Baldoni offers incredible insight into the support network Lively relied on during and after the movie’s production — including one of her good friends, Taylor Swift. According to unsealed documents

By AJ Willingham and Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Whether you’re gearing up for the newest Westeros-set series, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” waiting desperately for George R.R. Martin to publish the next “A Song of Ice and Fire” installment or rewatching the original series just to feel the pain all over again,

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — For someone who’s played a menacing collection of pretty bad dudes on screen for over three decades, Tony Goldwyn is a really nice guy. When we spoke by video around the holidays, the actor and director was smiling and laid back, excited to talk about a number of things,