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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Franceli Chapman knows what Washington Heights looks like. The uptown Manhattan neighborhood where Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “In the Heights” takes place is where Chapman, an Afro-Latina actress with roots in the Dominican Republic, played on street corners as a child and where she hung out on rooftops as a teenager. Chapman

By Nicole Chavez, CNN For decades, Gina Torres has carved out a career in Hollywood feeling like she couldn’t fully express herself. Now, the Afro-Latina actor is using her power to change that. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Torres said there was a time when she had to audition for a role multiple times early

By Chloe Melas, CNN Rita Moreno is standing by her good friend Lin-Manuel Miranda. The actress appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Tuesday night and spoke about the controversy surrounding Miranda’s new movie “In the Heights,” in which he has been criticized for featuring dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in background and dance scenes but not

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Joe Jonas surprised a SoulCycle class that was playing his music while he was in Atlanta. The singer was visiting the city on business and had a free afternoon, so he checked out local exercise classes. He happened to find a “Jonas Brothers vs. One Direction” themed class at a nearby

A SoulCycle in Atlanta class got a celebrity surprise during a “Jonas Brothers vs. One Direction” themed workout.

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After at times feeling like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown in terms of its narrative arc, “The Handmaid’s Tale” delivered a season finale that closed a key chapter while providing the central character, June, with what she has clearly craved from the outset of the latest season:

By Chloe Melas, CNN It’s a tale as old as time and it’s back for more. Disney’s animated classic, “Beauty and the Beast” is being turned into an eight-episode musical series for the Disney+ streaming network. The series is a prequel to the 2017 live-action film and will tell the story before Belle and the

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “The Devil Wears Prada” just wouldn’t be the same without Anne Hathaway. But Hathaway, who played the lead role of Andy Sachs, a wide-eyed assistant to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly at a high-fashion glossy magazine, almost wasn’t cast. In a 15th anniverary oral history of the movie, the cast told Entertainment

By Anna Sturla and Mark Morales, CNN Actress Lisa Banes, who appeared in numerous television series and films like “Gone Girl,” died Monday after suffering injuries sustained from being hit by a scooter in New York City earlier this month, the NYPD and a law enforcement official told CNN Tuesday. She was 65. Banes suffered

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shortly after Chrissy Teigen released a lengthy statement Monday about being a “troll,” one of her alleged targets came forward to talk about the damage he says has been done. “Project Runway” contestant Michael Costello posted a statement on his verified Instagram account saying he “wanted to kill myself and

By Lisa Respers France, CNN We don’t know much about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for a reason. In a rare interview with i-D, Mary-Kate Olsen says she and her twin are “discreet people — that’s how we were raised.” That’s a bit of an understatement. The former child stars of “Full House,” who went on