By Andy Rose, CNN Director, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is Oscar nominated for best original song for his work on the film “Encanto,” said he will skip Sunday’s Academy Awards because his wife has tested positive for Covid. Vanessa Nadal, Miranda’s wife, is “doing fine” since testing positive, according to the Oscar nominee.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Machine Gun Kelly has shared his experience hanging out with Taylor Hawkins days before the Foo Fighters drummer tragically passed. Hawkins died while on tour in South America with the band. He was 50. Kelly told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that he and his band were on the
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By Jason Hanna, CNN Roger Taylor, the Queen percussionist who Taylor Hawkins had said inspired him to get into drumming, says he feels like he’s “losing a younger favourite brother.” And Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker remembers Hawkins as a man who helped persuade him he had potential. They and scores of others in rock
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By Brian Lowry, CNN Like any awards show, the Oscars are built on the inherently self-absorbed notion that what happens in the room and who takes home the trophies matters, in what should be a welcome distraction from the outside world. Occasionally, though, world events have cast such a large shadow that they can’t be
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN It’s almost Oscar Sunday, which means the 42nd annual Golden Raspberry Awards — the Razzies, to its fans and many detractors — are here to remind us how offensively bad cinema can be. This year, it’s raspberries all around for “Diana: The Musical,” the universally despised Netflix flop that also had
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By Brian Lowry, CNN While some Oscar-nominated movies are still playing in theaters, odds are if you want to catch up on the nominees, you’ll be going to Streaming Land. Streaming services backed a number of movies that secured key nominations on Feb. 8, in advance of the 94th annual Oscars, which will be televised
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN To watch “Writing With Fire” is to get a crash course in journalism fundamentals. The documentary from Indian filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, up for best documentary feature at the 94th Academy Awards, points the camera at Khabar Lahariya, an independent newsroom in rural northern India run by women from
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Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN The Academy Awards are all about who takes home the golden statuette, but also who looks best doing so. Celebrities come at Oscar fashion culture from a variety of angles, whether they arrive at the ceremony dressed to the nines or blaze past traditional decorum. But for every outfit that made
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Julia Buckley, CNN On 24 February, as she watched the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Desislava Tosheva was staring at her couch. “I was in my living room, thinking about all the people about to flee their country, and how the ones with financial opportunities would be at a bigger advantage,” she says. “I
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Stephy Chung, CNN Korean culture has spread across the world like wildfire in recent years, with the hugely successful K-pop, K-film and K-beauty sectors attracting insatiable interest. Now, South Korea is looking to take its fashion industry to the next level, too. The drive is being led by the biannual Seoul Fashion Week (SFW), which,
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Barry Neild, CNN A huge new subterranean railway whisked fare-paying passengers deep beneath the streets of London for the first time on Tuesday as the UK capital opened a $25 billion new metro line that will transform travel across the city. Large crowds of rail enthusiasts, commuters and excited locals turned out to catch the
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN This week at CNN Travel, we’re eating our dinner out of the world’s coolest toothpaste tube, dreaming about sunny Indonesian beaches and admiring the latest developments in British mass transit. Come along for the ride, won’t you? Asia opening up Traveling to Asia just got easier as Hong Kong will allow
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Aya Elamroussi, CNN | Seán Federico-O’Murchú, CNN When Vladimir Putin’s forces last approached a capital city, they leveled it. As the invasion of Ukraine enters its second month, Russian forces are digging in on the outskirts of Kyiv — and there are fears they could be preparing for the same indiscriminate scorched-earth tactic used in
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By Aya Elamroussi, Michelle Watson and Jason Hanna, CNN Taylor Hawkins, the golden-locked musician who for more than two decades drummed for the Foo Fighters on their way to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died, the band said Friday — an announcement made shortly before the group was to play in Colombia.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Singer and rapper Doja Cat signaled she may be taking a break from music following an online exchange on Thursday. Doja was scheduled to perform as part of the Asunciónico festival in Paraguay earlier this week, which was canceled due to flooding. Some on Twitter expressed disappointment that the artist
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By Marianne Garvey Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will host an upcoming Spotify podcast, called “Archetypes.” Her conversations will “investigate the labels that try to hold women back,” according to a press release for the show. Meghan will center the podcast to “uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN “The Bachelor” — maybe you’ve heard of it? — is part-pageant, part-extended first date in which love reigns supreme and a contestant’s fate is determined by a man (or woman, in “The Bachelorette”) with a rose. You don’t need to have seen every episode to know the drill: Hot young singles
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN According to Sally Field, her grand love affair with Burt Reynolds wasn’t so grand after all. In a recently published interview with Variety, Field talked about her relationship with Reynolds, who she met on the set of their 1977 film “Smokey and the Bandit” and dated off and on for
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Kudos to the Paramount marketing department, because every good scene in “The Lost City” can be found in the preview trailer, and it’s pretty slim pickings beyond that. A romantic-comedy/action vehicle for Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, the movie’s throwback feel is breezy but barely enough to justify “Lost” being
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Kudos to the Paramount marketing department, because every good scene in “The Lost City” can be found in the preview trailer, and it’s pretty slim pickings beyond that. A romantic-comedy/action vehicle for Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, the movie’s throwback feel is breezy but barely enough to justify “Lost” being
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