By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Hollywood star Michael Fassbender made a surprise visit to his old high school in Ireland, to teach an acting class to students. St. Brendan’s College, Killarney posted pictures on social media of students enjoying the workshop with the Oscar-nominated actor. “Transition year students today received a drama workshop from past pupil
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By Chloe Melas, CNN The fight over Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship returns to court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Judge Brenda Penny is expected to consider several petitions filed since the last hearing in the case on July 14. Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, has served as her conservator since 2008. Earlier this month, he
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Netflix’s latest hit really kills. “Squid Game” is a South Korean fictional drama in which contestants who are deeply in debt play children’s games in order to win a ton of cash. The downside is that losers will be killed. Seriously, if a person can’t nail “Red Light, Green Light,”
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN As fascination with Netflix’s “Squid Game” grips the world, doctors have a word of advice for parents: Don’t let your kids watch. “Squid Game,” which debuted on Netflix in September, is a South Korean fictional drama following contestants, who are deeply in debt, as they play a series of children’s games
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Alan Jackson has gone public with an illness he says has been affecting him for years. In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager of “Today,” the country star shared that he has suffered for years with a degenerative nerve condition known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. The singer said it is a
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Francesca Street, CNN Ignacio Nieto Carvajal and Miguel Piñas RodrÃguez met by chance in a gay bar in Madrid, not long after Nieto Carvajal moved to the Spanish capital for work. Nieto Carvajal almost didn’t go out that night, but he says he’s so glad he did. “With Miguel, it was love at first sight,
Continue Reading By John Walton, CNN After a long, golden sunset of being installed on fewer and fewer aircraft, the retirement of older aircraft caused by the Covid-19 pandemic means that when air travel resumes, international first class will be very nearly a thing of the past. Its replacement is a new generation of superbusiness minisuites, more
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Finally, it’s Fat Bear Week — a most welcome week of healthy competition among brown bears. Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve calls it “a celebration of success,” a March Madness style tournament, complete with a bracket, where you can vote on the heftiest brown bear in the bunch. The bears
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN Finally, it’s Fat Bear Week — a most welcome week of healthy competition among brown bears. Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve calls it “a celebration of success,” a March Madness style tournament, complete with a bracket, where you can vote on the heftiest brown bear in the bunch. The bears
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN | Oscar Holland, CNN When an exhibition about the future of labor opened at a Danish art museum on Friday, visitors should have seen two large picture frames filled with banknotes worth a combined $84,000. The pieces were meant to be reproductions of two works by artist Jens Haaning, who previously used
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN How much would you pay for an Oreo cookie? For some, the answer could be thousands of dollars — as one hard-to-find Oreo cookie featuring a rare Pokémon is fetching a hefty price tag on eBay. The new Oreo collaboration with Pokemon debuted earlier this month, with cookies featuring various Pokémon
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN When Covid-19 restrictions made it difficult for a Canadian bride to have her family at her US wedding, she did the next best thing — she brought her wedding to the border. Karen Mahoney and her new husband, Brian Ray, told CNN they met 35 years ago over a love
Continue Reading By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN When Covid-19 restrictions made it difficult for a Canadian bride to have her family at her US wedding, she did the next best thing — she brought her wedding to the border. Karen Mahoney and her new husband, Brian Ray, told CNN they met 35 years ago over a love
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN After 25 movies over 60 years, billing a James Bond adventure as the end of something requires a certain leap of faith. Still, Daniel Craig’s yeoman service comes to its conclusion with “No Time to Die,” a big and length-wise bloated epic that includes the desired bells and whistles, which,
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Lori Loughlin will soon be back on the small screen. The “Full House” alum will guest star in Season 2 of “When Hope Calls,” GAC Family announced in a statement to CNN. It will mark Loughlin’s first on-screen performance since her conviction and prison sentence for her role in the college
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Billy Bob Thornton is going to miss “just about everything” about playing Billy McBride on “Goliath.” “I loved playing that character, which is very similar to me,” Thornton told CNN in a recent interview. “I kind of just rolled out of bed everyday and went out and did it as
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By Stephanie Elam, CNN Artifacts from icons like Spike Lee and Pedro Almodóvar, the iconic Dorothy ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz,” Okoye’s costume from “Black Panther, you’ll find them within the seven story, 300,000 square-foot Academy Museum of Motion Pictures which is finally ready for its closeup. But on this day, the icons
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By Andrew Zimmern as told to CNN’s Sandra Gonzalez Andrew Zimmern is an Emmy- and four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef and author. Thirty years sober, he’s also an advocate for those recovering from and struggling with addiction. Here, he writes to a friend, who he refers to by a pseudonym out of respect
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” pro Cheryl Burke was still able to compete in the second episode of the competition series, despite having tested positive for Covid the day before the taping. Instead of appearing on the show live, the judges evaluated Burke’s rehearsal with Cody Rigsby, which had already been been
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Rob Picheta and Hada Messia, CNN A bronze statue depicting a scantily-clad female character from a 19th century poem has sparked debate in Italy, with some politicians calling the figure “an offense to women” and demanding it be removed. The likeness portrays a woman from the poem “The Gleaner of Sapri” by Luigi Mercantini. It
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