By AJ Willingham, CNN Rumeysa Gelgi, the world’s tallest living woman, recently boarded an airplane from her home country of Turkey to San Francisco. However, it wasn’t just any flight. It was Gelgi’s first, and one that highlighted a growing attention to accessibility. Gelgi, 25, stands at 7 feet, 0.7 inches tall. Her proportions are
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chris Rock is coming live to a screen near you. Netflix announced Thursday that the legendary comedian will make history as the headliner of the streaming giant’s first-ever live, global streaming event. “Chris Rock is one of the most iconic and important comedic voices of our generation,” Robbie Praw, Netflix’s
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN A beloved teen novel is getting a Netflix adaptation. The streaming giant announced Thursday that Judy Blume’s popular 1975 novel “Forever” is being “reimagined” by writer/producer Mara Brock Akil for “a new generation.” “It’s an epic love story of two Black teens exploring romance and their identities through the awkward
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN It’s a streaming jungle out there, which might explain why Amazon offers up a couple of odd series featuring the stars of “Into the Woods” this weekend: “Mammals,” in which James Corden prepares for life beyond latenight, and “The English,” with Emily Blunt, which gives a lot of prestige British
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Jason Momoa’s real-life pet pig didn’t end up making it to the premiere of “Slumberland.” The actor attended the premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where he told Entertainment Tonight that though he had hoped to bring the pig to the event, his little pig stayed home. “Oh, he’s in Hawaii! He’s
Continue Reading Christian Edwards, CNN Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist at the University of Santo Domingo, has been searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years. Now she believes she’s made a pivotal breakthrough. Martinez and her team uncovered a 1,305-meter (4,281-foot) tunnel, located 13 meters (43 feet) underground, the Egyptian Ministry for Tourism and
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Maddie Baillio is feeling really good these days. The actress who starred as Tracy Turnblad in 2016’s “Hairspray Live!” has revealed her 150 pound weight loss. “I’m in a lovely, healthy relationship with myself and my body and my family and my partner, [boyfriend Solomon Reynolds],” Baillio recently told People.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Alan Jackson was presented with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 56th Annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday. In his acceptance speech, the country music legend told the crowd at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, that “Country music has been real good to me and I fell in
Continue Reading Amarachi Orie, CNN King Charles III has unveiled the first statue of his late mother Queen Elizabeth II since her death in September. The new sculpture in the English city of York was revealed on Wednesday outside York Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in Britain, and pays tribute to the late monarch’s life of service
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN For Belgian photographer David De Vleeschauwer, the best travel destinations are often the hardest to get to. De Vleeschauwer is fascinated by the concept of “remote” travel — it’s a subjective concept of course, one traveler’s remote location is another traveler’s local hotspot — but De Vleeschauwer reckons that subjectivity is what
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN “The Crown” has been criticized by some for making fiction appear to be fact. Netflix’s incredibly popular retelling of the lives of the modern day British royal family is rife with drama – too much for some people’s liking. Season 5 debuted Wednesday and it was controversial even before it
Continue Reading By Terry Ward, CNN With “work to live” rather than “live to work” as the unofficial lifestyle mantra, more than 1,100 miles of coastline to explore and delicious pastéis de nata all over the place, putting down roots in Portugal sounds pretty appealing. And for anyone who dreams of packing up their life (or putting
Continue Reading Amarachi Orie, CNN A Tyrannosaurus rex skull is expected to fetch up to $20 million at auction next month, according to Sotheby’s. The skull, which has been named Maximus, is one of the most complete of its kind ever found, the auction house said in a press release Tuesday, adding that it represents a “rare
Continue Reading Amarachi Orie, CNN A Tyrannosaurus rex skull is expected to fetch up to $20 million at auction next month, according to Sotheby’s. The skull, which has been named Maximus, is one of the most complete of its kind ever found, the auction house said in a press release Tuesday, adding that it represents a “rare
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN and Oscar Holland, CNN Art from the private collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen fetched over $1.6 billion this week to become the largest single-owner sale in auction history. Works by Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Gustav Klimt all sold for over $100 million across
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Country music threw a party on Wednesday night as the CMA Awards were presented. First-time nominee Lainey Wilson topped the list of nominees going into the show and ended the night with major wins, including new artist of the year and female vocalist of the year. The emotional Wilson declared in one
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Bruce Springsteen is about to take the stage at a place where he’s often been talked about. The legendary entertainer is set to take over “The Tonight Show” for four nights of performances, also participating as a guest of host Jimmy Fallon — who has done a killer Springsteen impersonation over
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Before his death last month, beloved actor Leslie Jordan gifted his best friends a complete home renovation. In one of his final TV appearances set to air on HGTV, Jordan surprises two friends who he credited with helping him break into Hollywood and get sober. With star with renovators Drew and
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Handmaid’s Tale” certainly doesn’t suffer from a lack of media exposure or cultural capital, with recent turns in the battle over abortion rights generating regular references in progressive circles to the threat of America becoming Gilead, the repressive patriarchal society featured in Margaret Atwood’s novel. The fifth season that
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Hosts Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning will present the 56th Annual Country Music Association Awards, known as the CMA’s, live from Nashville, Tennessee on ABC on Wednesday night. Here’s what we know about the star-studded country music event: Performers The broadcast will kick off with an opening tribute to the late
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