Sergei Rakhlin Dies: Longtime HFPA Member & Screenwriter Was 78

Jan DeWitt, who produced over 500 hours of television and features, including many episodes of Bones and Judging Amy, died as a result of Covid on the morning of January 29 at his home in Santa Barbara. His friend and partner, Charlene, was by his side and his daughter, Anika, was on the phone from Colorado when he passed. He was 75.

Love expert Fred Sirieix is best known for giving dating advice and setting couples up on E4's First Dates, but now, the French romantic has opened up on his own love story with his fiancee he nicknames "Fruitcake". In an exclusive chat with OK!, Fred, 50, revealed he met the love of his life when he was strolling down the street. "I was walking down the street, and we just started talking and went for a drink together – and that was that," he shared.

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Sydney Sweeney and longtime boyfriend Jonathan Davino are doing some shopping together!

EXCLUSIVE: Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter’s Two for the Road Entertainment has signed a deal with Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The pact is strictly for producing as the husband-and-wife duo both are series regulars on ongoing shows, ABC’s The Rookie and Fox’s Fantasy Island, respectively.

Robert Blalack, a towering figure in the world of visual effects, died on Wednesday. His wife Caroline Charron-Blalack confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 73.

Top talent manager and former magazine editor and PR executive Chris Huvane died last night in apparent suicide. Huvane, who was known as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood and was beloved by colleagues, clients and friends, was 47. He had been battling depression for a long time.

J. Kim Murphy Morgan Stevens, an actor best known for his role as the teacher David Reardon in the television series “Fame” and his recurring role on popular 1990s series “Melrose Place,” died Jan.

Terrified women and children are looking for places to hide from bombs. Suitcases are being filled with belongings for a quick getaway as men take up arms to defend Ukraine.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs we enter the final countdown to the Feb. 8 Oscar nominations announcement, Isabella Rossellini is clearly rooting for Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” which is Italy’s candidate for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and among the shortlisted titles.To help promote the pic with Academy voters, Rossellini engaged in an online chat with the director and young Italian actor Filippo Scotti, who plays Sorrentino’s alter-ego Fabietto in the pic. She also wore a gold horn amulet that belonged to her father, the late great Italian master Roberto Rossellini, for good luck.Here are edited excerpts of the conversation, to which Variety has been given exclusive access.

BOSTON -- David Mugar, the businessman and philanthropist who transformed the Boston Pops July Fourth concert and fireworks show from a small local event into a nationally televised extravaganza, has died according to his family.He died Tuesday night, his three children said in a statement. He was 82.

Jordan Moreau Peter Robbins, who was the first person to voice Charlie Brown in several “Peanuts” TV specials in the 1960s, has died. He was 65.His family told Fox 5 San Diego on Tuesday that he died by suicide last week.At 9 years old, Robbins first voiced Charlie Brown in “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” which was a television documentary about “Peanuts” creator Charles M.

Vachik Mangassarian has died at the age of 78, his representatives have confirmed.The Agents of SHIELD actor passed away on Saturday 22 January in Burbank, Los Angeles, in the US from Covid-19 related complications, according to his manager Valerie McCaffrey of McCaffrey Talent Management. Vachik was born in Iran of Armenian descent in 1943 and moved to the US in the mid-1960s at the age of 23. During his early 20s, he worked in a theatre and returned to Iran from time to time, where he bagged roles in Iranian director Samuel Khachikian's films.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorJournalist Sergei Rakhlin, a longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association died Jan. 21.

obituary on Sunday. “Sergei was a strong advocate for international filmmakers and long pressed for their recognition and inclusion in Hollywood.

the Associated Press. Born in Berlin to ardent Nazis, he turned against Hitler’s regime while a teenage soldier.