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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The late gospel artist Mandisa was honored by the show that helped launch her career. “American Idol” on Monday paid tribute to the singer, who died earlier this month in Nashville. Mandisa was 47. “We ask for your prayers for her family and close knit circle of friends

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While Billy Joel may not have written his 1983 hit “Uptown Girl” about his ex-wife Christie Brinkley, she’s the woman most associated with the tune. Which is why the internet has gone wild for a video showing Brinkley dancing to the song at the piano man’s recent concert.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Music naturally scored with this year’s Tony Award nominations. Alicia Keys’ ambitious musical “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Stereophonic,” a play set in the ’70s about fictional band, led with 13 nods each. “The Outsiders,” a musical based on the popular S.E. Hinton novel, which also inspired a 1983 movie

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Despite her commitment to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Elisabeth Moss has kept busy in movies and limited series, including “Shining Girls” and now “The Veil,” a disjointed spy thriller for Hulu. Adopting a British accent, Moss sinks her teeth into the role of an MI6 agent, but her cat-and-mouse

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Gosling stars of the new film “The Fall Guy” and recently made a surprise appearance at Universal Studios Hollywood for the opening of “The Fall Guy Stuntacular Pre-Show.” A video of the “Barbie” star surprising the audience circulated on social media on Monday. The film’s director David

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The teaser trailer for “Mufasa: The Lion King” dropped Monday, and who is in it is as exciting for many as what it is. The photorealistic-animated prequel to the hit 1994 film “The Lion King” brings back several of the stars of the 2019 Jon Favreau-directed remake of

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Billie Eilish is returning to the stage. The singer announced an upcoming tour on Monday, pegged to her third studio album “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” which is set to release on May 17. The tour of the same name will kick off in September in North American and

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — “Survivor” fans have spoken and CBS listened. Host Jeff Probst posted a video from a “For Your Consideration” (FYC) event in Los Angeles over the weekend to make an announcement about the forthcoming fiftieth (yes, you read that correctly) season of the reality competition series. “About 10 seconds

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Anne Hathaway first shared she lost interest in drinking after a bad hangover in 2018. She’s now five years sober. Hathaway first shared her decision to skip alcohol during an appearance on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” explaining at the time she wanted to be fully available and present to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Meryl Streep made the most of her AFI Life Achievement Award presentation to Nicole Kidman over the weekend. The two actors costarred together in the 2002 film “The Hours” and Season 2 of “Big Little Lies.” Streep had the audience laughing as she joked about “the very, very

By Dalal Mawad, CNN Paris (CNN) — French actor Gerard Depardieu will face trial in October over allegations of sexual assault, the Paris prosecutor’s office told CNN Monday. The assaults were allegedly committed against two people in September 2021 during the shooting of the film “Les Volets Verts”, the prosecutor’s office added without identifying them.

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift’s latest album “The Tortured Poets Department” is indeed the blockbuster that many expected it to become. On Sunday, the 31-song double album debuted at No. 1 on the all-encompassing Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 2.61 million so-called equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April

By Rochelle Beighton, CNN (CNN) — You know how it goes – you borrow a book from the library, get through the first three chapters, but then life intervenes, forcing you to return it unfinished. That’s exactly what happened to Hoa Xuande when he borrowed the 2016 Pulitzer-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Sympathizer.”

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for embattled musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a New York court to throw out portions of a civil suit accusing the rapper and mogul of sexual assault and revenge porn. In a motion filed Friday in the State of New York courts, Combs’ attorneys raised

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears has reached a settlement with her estranged father more than two years after the court-ordered termination of a conservatorship that had given him control of her life, their attorneys said. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the attorneys for the pop star and her

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The star witness in Harvey Weinstein’s historic rape trial says she would consider testifying in a new trial, after the former Hollywood producer’s New York conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals this week. Mimi Haley, a former production assistant on The Weinstein

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mary J. Blige just might be the most famous native of Yonkers, New York, and yet she’s not forgotten her roots there. The newly announced Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is giving back to the community that helped launch her start. Blige’s “Strength of a Woman

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Ellen DeGeneres is reflecting on how her talk show came to an end. The comedian began performing potential preview material from her “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour” this week. The tour will be her first major project since “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” finished its run in 2022. “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer, a year after announcing that her short-lived marriage had ended. The 41-year-old star of “One Tree Hill” has opened up about her love life in an intimate feature-length magazine article. Writing in Glamour, she described the cold feet she experienced before tying