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David Handelman, a prolific writer whose body of work spanned journalism, fiction, and television, died Thursday at the age of 63.

Sheila Rogers, a friend of Handelman, confirmed the writer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was Waldenström macroglobulinemia, a rare form of blood cancer.

Handelman joined Rolling Stone in the 1980s and often captured artists and Hollywood figures as they ascended to household names, including memorable profiles on Beastie Boys, the Coen Brothers, and Jane’s Addiction. He also wrote the publication’s first cover story on Talking Heads,...

The second night of the Creative Arts Emmys Awards kicked off Tuesday.

Among the big winners for the night were “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” which won three Emmys. That includes a win for best writing for a variety series. In addition, “Saturday Night Live” walked away with yet another win in the best variety sketch series category, marking one of three wins it scored throughout the night.

The second installment of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” picked up the award for best live variety special, which it also won last year. The win also made executive producer Norman Lear the oldest Emmy winner ever at 98, beating his own record when he won at 97.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” also picked up two more awards, bringing its total to four so far. Tonight, the show won for best contemporary makeup for a variety, nonfiction or reality program (Non-Prosthetic) as...

The second round of Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out on Tuesday, honoring 16 winners in the variety categories, including for outstanding variety sketch series and live variety special.

“Saturday Night Live,” “Last Week Tonight,” ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience,” the 92th Academy Awards broadcast and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” were among the night’s big winners, taking home multiple awards each. Apple’s “Carpool Karaoke” series also took home the Emmy for short-form variety series for the third year in a row.

Other winners included Fox’s “The Masked Singer,” the Super Bowl Liv half time show and The Kennedy Center Honors.

Hosted by “Nailed It’s” Nicole Byer, Tuesday’s ceremony was the second of four online Creative Arts Emmys ceremonies this week, which will be followed by a fifth live broadcast on Fxx on Saturday. The week will culminate in the Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast on ABC this Sunday,...

Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of eccentric all-star tribute albums — died Monday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling Stone. While a cause of death has yet to be announced, a source close to Willner tells Rolling Stone he was suffering from symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.

“Absolutely devastated to get this news about my weird and lovely pal, Hal,” tweeted Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Exclusive: The Late Late Show With James Corden producer Fulwell 73 has hired Tracie Fiss, a twenty-year veteran of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as one of its Heads of Talent and has scored an eight-part series for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi.

Fiss, who was a co-producer on Leno’s late night NBC talkshow, was most recently Head of Talent for Lip Sync Battle and was previously Casting Director for Emmy Award-winning Netflix children’s show Ask The StoryBots. She will work closely with Sheila Rogers, who will continue in her executive role as supervising producer and Head of Talent for Fulwell shows including Carpool Karaoke for Apple and CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Based in La, she will oversee a slate of Fulwell 73 projects including its new Quibi commission starring Israeli mentalist Lior Suchard (left). In the short-form series, Suchard will meet and stun a range of celebrity guests.

David Letterman’s “Late Show” went off the air on May 20, 2015, and since then, all the lip-sync battles and carpool karaokes haven’t quite filled that perfect quota of weird that Letterman once provided.

But as author Scott Ryan argues in his new book “The Last Days of Letterman: The Final 6 Weeks,” Letterman hit a stride of old-fashioned, genuine late night talk that rose to the level of Johnny Carson in his final shows.

“Dave and his guests actually talked to each other. Very few of the guests were appearing on the show to promote their latest movies. They were actually coming on the show to talk to their friend,” Ryan writes in the opening to his book. “This time they brought it back to the days of Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. For six weeks of time, conversation was the true king of late night.”

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