Pulling double duty this year as an Emmy contender for two equally powerful and entirely different documentaries—including NatGeo’s climate change doc Before the Flood—Fisher Stevens teamed with his partner Alexis Bloom on HBO’s Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a look at the unique and…

UPDATE: Carrie Fisher had cocaine, heroin and ecstasy in her system when she died last December, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press. But investigators could not determine what impact those drugs had on her death. A coroner’s report Friday said Fisher died from sleep apnea along with other…

Dan Aykroyd, one of the speakers honoring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds during the public memorial for the famed mother-daughter pair, was describing his friend Carrie but could just as easily been speaking of Debbie with these two words: beloved showboat. The former Saturday Night Live funnyman recalled a…

UPDATE The livestreamed memorial service has closed. UPDATE with livestream, below Fans of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher can say goodbye today, with a public memorial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park set to be livestreamed and featuring the music of James Blunt and Star Wars composer John Williams. Organized by Todd Fi…

A public memorial has been scheduled for Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds in Los Angeles. The joint memorial will be held on Saturday, March 25 at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. Reynolds’ son and Fisher’s brother, Todd Fisher, made the announcement on his website. The post reads: "We will be celebrating…

Two weeks after the shocking – and tragic – passing of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds within a day of one another, the Golden Globes tonight paid tribute to the mother and daughter with a brief, but touching career retrospective. Comprised of juxtaposed clips from each woman’s most famous or noteworthy film and…

The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute tomorrow at 7:45 P.M.in memory of Carrie Fisher, who died December 27 at age 60, and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who died the next day, at age 84. Mother and daughter both made their Broadway debuts in 1973 in a “revisal” of the 1919 musical Irene, for…

It’s especially poignant to view the trailer for HBO’s upcoming documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds, which reveals the strong, emotional bond between mother and daughter. HBO announced last week it was moving up the debut of the documentary following their deaths one day apart last…

Billie Lourd has shared a touching family photo of herself with her mom, Carrie Fisher, and her grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, and has spoken out for the first time since their deaths last week. The 24-year-old actress posted the photo this morning on Instagram, with a caption reading, “Receiving all of your prayers…

We started hearing it in the spring: "Man, 2016, you stink." And that was just the beginning of a cruel year that saw the passings of so many big names across film, TV, music and the larger entertainment industry. Along with this week's horrible news about Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, the year saw the…

UPDATE with OWN and TCM plans: Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a 24-hour film tribute to the late Debbie Reynolds for Friday, January 27, starting at 6 AM ET. Reynolds, who died Wednesday, one day after the death of daughter Carrie Fisher, became a sensation starring with Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in the MGM…

HBO announced this morning it will move up the debut of Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds to Saturday, January 7 at 8 PM, in light of this week’s deaths of Fisher and Reynolds. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the mother and daughter who lived in the same Beverly Hills compound. In…