By Radhika Marya, CNN The holiday season is one for time-honored traditions: Baking cookies, decorating, gathering with family and friends — and blasting holiday music. Whether on the radio, over a store’s loudspeaker or via a curated streaming playlist, you’ll likely hear many of the same songs in rotation, from Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” to
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Not even asking Santa is going to get us a Mariah Carey and Beyoncé match-up on Verzuz. The famous franchise brings together music artists to “battle” with their hits. Recently, super producer L.A. Reid shared during an appearance on “The Real” that Carey and Bey would be his “ideal” Verzuz.
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Remember the old days, when “Saturday Night Live” sketches kept becoming movies, with a few hits (“Wayne’s World”) and way more misses (“A Night at the Roxbury,” “Ladies Man,” “It’s Pat,” etc.)? Now one of those, “MacGruber,” makes the trip back to TV, offering an unnecessary reminder that not everything
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Two years after its debut “The Witcher” returns to Netflix, looking every bit as brawny as its maiden flight and less messy structurally. Although the series developed a solid following (unlike some of the streamer’s other recent fantasy efforts that met the executioner’s ax), the show remains uneven and somewhat
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Two years after its debut “The Witcher” returns to Netflix, looking every bit as brawny as its maiden flight and less messy structurally. Although the series developed a solid following (unlike some of the streamer’s other recent fantasy efforts that met the executioner’s ax), the show remains uneven and somewhat
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Mason Disick has apparently learned a big lesson. And the 12-year-old wants to share his knowledge with his 8-year-old cousin, North West. Her mother, Kim Kardashian, shared text messages from her young nephew after North recently went live on TikTok without permission on the joint account she shares with her
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Joseph Ataman and Francesca Street, CNN UK travelers are to be banned from traveling to France for tourism and will instead be required to present a “compelling reason” to enter the country. The new travel restrictions, which will be enforced from midnight on December 17, come in response to the Omicron coronavirus variant, with the
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John Walton, CNN One of the greatest luxuries when we fly is space: the space to stretch out, relax, work and sleep while flying seven miles above the Earth at nearly the speed of sound. These days, that’s international business class, with fully-flat beds longer than most people are tall. But some are roomier than
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By Travis Caldwell and Joe Sutton, CNN “The Boss” may have just made a cool half-billion dollars. Bruce Springsteen has sold the rights to his music catalog to Sony Music Entertainment, according to a statement from Sony. Through two separate agreements, the sale would include Springsteen’s work at Sony-owned Columbia Records as both a singer
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By Laura Ly and Kelly McCleary, CNN Several Broadway shows were forced to cancel performances this week due to positive Covid-19 tests among the cast or crew, a setback for the industry that comes just months after it raised the curtain on an 18-month shutdown due to the pandemic. Since its return, Broadway has required
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By CNN’s Lianne Kolirin and Reuters Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish has spoken about an addiction to watching pornography, starting at age 11, and how it gave her nightmares and messed her up when she started dating. Eilish, who turns 20 on Saturday, was speaking on “The Howard Stern Show” on Sirius XM radio on Monday.
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By Paula Newton, CNN Canada issued a travel advisory to its citizens Wednesday asking that they avoid all nonessential international travel as the Omicron variant spreads throughout the world. “We see the situation abroad, and we’re afraid and concerned with what could happen to Canadians who would choose to go abroad in the next few
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN A 16th century globe depicting the world before Australia had even been “discovered” could be the oldest ever to come to auction. The “priceless” artifact — which features sea monsters, ships and a depiction of Triton, a Greek god of the sea — emerged at a free valuation held by British
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By Sherry Liang, CNN Airport security lines can be a holiday traveler’s nightmare, but this year a handful of airports across the United States have introduced programs that let you reserve a spot in the TSA line for free. You can reserve a spot in a “fast lane” by signing up online for a slot
Continue Reading By Sherry Liang, CNN Airport security lines can be a holiday traveler’s nightmare, but this year a handful of airports across the United States have introduced programs that let you reserve a spot in the TSA line for free. You can reserve a spot in a “fast lane” by signing up online for a slot
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Ben Affleck opened up about his marriage to Jennifer Garner and social media is not happy. “The Last Duel” star talked to Howard Stern about being wed to Garner and said that had they not split in 2015 “I’d probably still be drinking.” “It’s part of why I started drinking,”
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN There are two equally valid reactions to “Shatner in Space,” an Amazon special about William Shatner’s recent flight aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin: A cynical one, with Amazon essentially using the “Star Trek” actor as a living product placement; and a more generous read seeing the 90-year-old Shatner giddily reaching
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Peloton has pulled an ad featuring Chris Noth in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him. “Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement provided to CNN. “We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chris Noth jokes that he’s been wearing black, holding his rosary beads and “saying all my Hail Marys.” The actor talked to Vogue about the death of his character, Mr. Big, on the “Sex and the City” reboot “And Just Like That…” which has caused quite a stir among viewers.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Lianne Kolirin and Reuters Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish has spoken about an addiction to watching pornography, starting at age 11, and how it gave her nightmares and messed her up when she started dating. Eilish, who turns 20 on Saturday, was speaking on “The Howard Stern Show” on Sirius XM radio on Monday.
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