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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN For her powerful and moving performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Till,” Danielle Deadwyler was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and several other industry prizes. But despite garnering critical acclaim for her turn as Emmett Till’s grieving mother, there was one notable

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Zach Roloff’s wife Tori has shared about the reality star undergoing emergency surgery. The pair star on TLC’s “Little People, Big World.” On Thursday, she posted some photos of Roloff in the hospital on her verified Instagram account. “Not exactly how we saw our week going…,” the caption read. “Zachary

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Linkin Park has released a song called “Lost,” which features the band’s late frontman, Chester Bennington. Remaining members Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, Joe Hahn and Dave “Phoenix” Farrell had teased that a song was coming. “Lost,” released Friday, will feature on Linkin Park’s 20th anniversary edition of “Meteora,” debuting

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Burt Bacharach has one of the most impressive songbooks in the history of the music industry. And while he is incredibly well known for hits like “Walk on By” by Dionne Warwick and “I Say A Little Prayer,” which was first recorded by Warwick and then covered by Aretha Franklin

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Add “Your Place or Mine” to the list of split-screen rom-coms, where the stars (in this case Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher) essentially operate on parallel tracks. While that has worked out before (think “Sleepless in Seattle”), it doesn’t here, in a Netflix movie that proves roughly as generic as

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN “Luther” star Idris Elba says he no longer refers to himself as a “Black actor” because the label put him in a “box” and an “obsession” with race can hinder aspirations and growth. Speaking to Esquire UK, in an interview published Wednesday, the Golden Globe winner said that while he is

By Dan Heching, CNN Some classics never go out of style, especially when it comes to John Travolta and “Grease.” The actor and singer appears in a new Super Bowl ad for T-Mobile, which dropped Thursday, in which he performs a new rendition of hit song “Summer Nights,” alongside Zach Braff and Donald Faison of

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Vanessa Hudgens is officially a fiancée and offered a glimpse of her engagement ring from Major League Baseball outfielder Cole Tucker for the first time on Instagram on Thursday. News that Hudgens and Tucker were reportedly engaged began circulating last week, but the couple confirmed the news via the joint social

By Dan Heching, CNN Rock band Depeche Mode is back with its first new song since the death of founding member Andy Fletcher last year. Remaining band members Dave Gahan and Martin Gore dropped new song “Ghosts Again” — the lead single off their new album “Memento Mori” — on Thursday, along with a haunting

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Jon Hamm puts his last name to good use in a new campaign. When Hamm got a call from his commercial agent about a Hellmann’s Super Bowl ad, the actor agreed to appear in the spot, he said, because the company’s message was to encourage “viewers to get creative in the

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The trailer for Ben Affleck’s latest film “Air” has finally flown into our orbit. Director and star Affleck is featured in the trailer sporting a retro look for his portrayal of Phil Knight, former Nike Inc. CEO who oversaw the 1984 deal that changed the sneaker industry — and athletic endorsement

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “The Last of Us” star Melanie Lynskey is responding to criticism over her casting in the hit HBO series. Earlier this week, former reality star Adrianne Curry tweeted that she didn’t think Lynskey was a good fit the role, writing, “Her body says life of luxury…not post apocolyptic warlord.” Lynskey had

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Joining a genre of docuseries best described as “The Weirder the better,” “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” details how a group of college students allowed their lives to taken over by a friend’s father, who coached, bullied and ultimately controlled them. Luckily for the producers, Larry Ray

By Lisa Respers France and David Close, CNN Instead of having “Love On The Brain,” Rihanna has had Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII halftime show on her mind. The superstar singer said Thursday that all her attention is going toward preparing for her performance. “I’ve been so focused on the Super Bowl that I totally forgot

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Evangeline Lilly has offered an update on her Marvel colleague Jeremy Renner’s recovery. The “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” actress told “Access Hollywood” she had recently visited with Renner, who was crushed by his snow-removal tractor during an accident on New Year’s Day. The pair starred together in the 2008