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William Blinn, the Emmy-winning screenwriter of Brian’s Song, the Roots miniseries and Prince’s Purple Rain film, has died at the age of 83. Blinn’s family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the screenwriter died Thursday of natural causesat an assisted living community in Burbank, California. After starting his career as …

One Monday in April 2016, Tyka Nelson received a call from her brother, Prince. Tyka worked for Prince in the last four or five years of his life, and he would routinely bounce ideas off her for projects he wanted to get off the ground. That day, he was in …