Barry Blaustein, the former Saturday Night Live writer who helped Eddie Murphy create some of the show’s most memorable characters, has died at the age of 71. Blaustein was diagnosed with Parkinson’s ...

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Barry Blaustein spent decades helping shape some of Hollywood’s most beloved comedies before his death in May 2026. The longtime writer and producer became known for his work on Saturday Night Live ...

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Barry Blaustein, who as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” helped Eddie Murphy with some of his most popular sketches and also teamed with him on hit movies, has died at the age of 71. According to The ...

Ohana Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a lineup led by Pearl Jam, Tyler Childers, and Eddie Vedder & Friends at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point on Sept. 25-27. Vedder & Friends will ...

Barry W. Blaustein, the brilliant comedic mind partly behind some of Eddie Murphy's best SNL sketches and films, has died at 71. The Hollywood Reporter shared that Blaustein died on Tuesday after a ...

For the past decade, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has been bringing his Ohana Festival to Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA once a year. Vedder pretty much always headlines one night of the ...

He and David Sheffield teamed on Buckwheat, Gumby and Mr. Robinson sketches and on scripts for Murphy’s ‘Nutty Professor’ movies as well. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Blaustein’s death at his Los ...

The Reds plan to call up Petty from Triple-A Louisville to start Monday's game against the Cubs in Chicago, Gordon Wittenmyer of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The right-hander will fill the ...