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June Blair, a film actress who later appeared on the popular Ozzie & Harriet television show after marrying actor David Nelson, died December 4 at age 89. Her death was conirmed by her niece, actress Tracy Nelson, on Facebook, but no cause of death was given. Blair was born in San Francisco, and first came to […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/tMIwUFg

Deadline’s signature Contenders event hits downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for a hybrid in-person/virtual edition, partnering with the inaugural LA3C, the cultural festival developed by Deadline parent company PMC. Contenders Film LA3C: Conversations with Contenders, taking place at the JW Marriott at L.A. Live, begins with a brunch at 10 a.m. PT, followed by 12 […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/TKHZDBr

For the second time in a week, Broadway is losing a worthy production that attempted to find an audience that encompassed but reached beyond the usual white, middle-aged demographic: Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’, the often visionary, relentlessly brilliant and forever fearless take by its Black creators and performers on the stubborn subject of […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/7mp6Uyn

What happens when there’s no wide theatrical releases and it’s the holiday season as we emerge from the pandemic? Why you get the second lowest box office weekend of the year at $37.2M. We’ll see if Saturday night business is so bad that that this weekend becomes the lowest of 2022, unseating that of Jan. […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/1wgNtpv

Longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl died today while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Details surrounding Wahl’s death are unclear, but NPR reports he collapsed after leaving the stadium shortly before the end of the Netherlands-Argentina match today. Wahl wrote for Sports Illustrated before starting his own substack. He regularly appeared on CNN, Fox Sports […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/lvPKG6D

Ronnie Turner, the youngest son of Tina and Ike Turner who appeared in the 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do With it, died on Thursday according to social media posts from his mother and wife. He was 62. “Ronnie, you left the world far too early,” the 83-year-old R&B legend wrote Friday on her […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/fpXZN1H

SAG-AFTRA has condemned the arrest of two Iranian actors and other demonstrators during recent protests that have swept the Islamic Republic. “Recently, two prominent Iranian actors, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, were arrested for publicly removing their headscarves in a show of solidarity with protesters,” the guild said in a statement on Friday. “They were […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/HpDLYF1