By AJ Willingham, CNN There are Disney Park regulars, and then there’s Jeff Reitz. The 50-year-old California native visited Disneyland every day for 2,995 days between 2012 and March 2020, earning him a shiny new Guinness World Record for most consecutive trips to the theme park. Reitz adventure started a decade ago when he found
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news: The European Commission will start charging for a new visa waiver scheme next year, plus our pick of Croatian and Italian destinations and new Asian hotels. Europe delays visa waiver scheme till 2024 The long-anticipated ETIAS visa waiver scheme, which will require all non-EU passport holders
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Zoe Sottile, CNN Four Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer James Cook in 1770, thought to be some of the oldest surviving artifacts collected by any European from Australia, will be repatriated to the La Perouse Aboriginal community, Cambridge University announced. The spears were originally part of a group of 40 taken by Cook from
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By Lisa Respers France and Taylor Romine, CNN Tom Sizemore, an actor known for his work in hit films like “Saving Private Ryan,” “Natural Born Killers” and “Heat,” has died, his representative Charles Lago confirmed to CNN on Friday. He was 61. The actor was hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm in mid-February, Lago told
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By Forrest Brown, CNN The folks running TSA security checkpoints at airports have some real humdingers to tell about the things they uncover. Soiled money. Inert grenades. Drugs inside scrunchies. But cats? Live cats? Tucked inside carry-ons? It’s happened before, and now it’s happened again. On Friday morning at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia, a
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By Dan Heching, CNN The 95th Academy Awards are just about a week away, which means there’s still time to watch some of the nominated films and performances. Many of the movies on the Oscars ballot are now available on streaming services. The multiverse-hopping opus “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — leading the pack with
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Paul Mescal had an awkward encounter while meeting Nicole Kidman for the first time. Mescal told the hilarious story during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Thursday night, revealing that he met Kidman while he was wearing nothing but his underwear. The actor told Kimmel that he and two cast mates
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By Matthew Rehbein, CNN When David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur of influential rap group De La Soul died last month, fans who wished to hear their work on music streaming services would have been unable to do so due to legal and copyright issues. But on Friday, De La Soul’s first six albums spanning from
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Angela Bassett had to grapple with loss and grief during her reign as Queen Ramonda in Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “This movie was about grief and loss, family, a remembrance, a legacy and moving on,” Bassett told Deadline in an interview published this week. “That’s something that’s so very human.”
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Hafsa Khalil, CNN A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction house’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on Wednesday, “Murnau mit Kirche II” (“Murnau with Church II”; 1910), was the most expensive
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Chaka Khan is not interested in being ranked. Commenting on Rolling Stone’s “200 Greatest Singers of All Time” list, the singer said the project only serves to divide industry legends — and took a few swipes of her own. In a conversation for Los Angeles magazine’s “The Originals” podcast, Khan said
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Steven Spielberg says he is finding the rise of antisemitism in the world today “kind of daring us to defy it.” The director’s Oscar-nominated film “The Fabelmans” is a semi-autobiographical movie about Sammy Fabelman, played by Gabriel LaBelle, who faces antisemitic abuse by school bullies, which happened to Spielberg in real
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Julia Buckley, CNN A private cocoon up in the sky, with even your own heating system that you can turn up and down at whim? That’s what’s on offer in the latest groundbreaking new first class suite unveiled by an airline. For once, though, it’s not a Middle Eastern airline laying on the glitz. Astonishingly,
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Harrison Ford has said he intends to hang up his whip as Indiana Jones after the new film hits theaters, but famed film composer John Williams isn’t so sure “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” will be his own last film adventure. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace for
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN As soap operas set against the world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll go, “Daisy Jones & the Six” is a by-no-means groundbreaking but still-enjoyable account of the best band that never existed, charting its meteoric rise and just-as-abrupt fall. Credit that in part to the cast, starting with
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Billie Eilish says she has deleted her social media apps from her phone due to her complicated relationship with the internet. The Grammy award-winning singer, who has been less active on digital platforms in recent weeks, explained her decision to distance herself from social media platforms during an appearance on the
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Leah Dolan, CNN This week, Pedro Pascal arrived at the red carpet premiere for the third season of Disney+ series “The Mandalorian” in Los Angeles in a lemon-hued collared Gucci shirt, gray wide-leg slacks and a mustard knit sweater tied across his shoulders. The look — curated by celebrity stylist Julie Ragolia — was topped
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Julia Buckley, CNN Have you ever dreamed of giving it all up, leaving it all behind and hitting the road to escape all your responsibilities? It sounds good, doesn’t it? But it also sounds expensive. Or at least, it did sound expensive until now — because now a cruise company is launching a three-year, 130,000-mile,
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Oscar Holland, CNN A pair of “hot dog hands,” a Bluetooth headset for crossing between universes and a rock decorated with googly eyes were among the standout lots at one of the year’s most unusual auctions. These are, of course, all props from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the surreal genre-defying movie that could sweep
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Oscar Holland, CNN As luxury brands continue to court South Korea’s booming luxury market, Tiffany & Co. has unveiled K-pop star Jimin as its newest brand ambassador. The BTS singer, whose full name is Park Ji-min, will appear in his first campaign for the brand this spring, the jeweler said Thursday. The announcement was accompanied
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