By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Dancing with the Stars” featured a Taylor Swift night on Tuesday, where the dancers paid tribute to the superstar singer and her music. The show opened with the pros dancing to “Love Story” and an introduction to guest judge, choreographer Mandy Moore, who is also a friend of Swift’s.
Continue Reading By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these events can be traced back to Vienna – the city’s first recorded December market was in 1298 – the tradition has spread across the world over the centuries. From Germany and Switzerland
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Matt Rife is doubling down on his humor. The comic, who gained popularity on TikTok and has appeared on shows like “Wild N’Out” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” has stirred controversy with a bit about domestic violence in his recent Netflix special, “Matt Rife: Natural Selection.” The set includes
Continue Reading By Faye Bradley, CNN (CNN) — Remember when Angelina Jolie’s right leg became a viral sensation? It was 2012, and the actress arrived at the 84th Academy Awards in a strapless black velvet dress by Atelier Versace. But this was no ordinary gown: It bore a daring thigh slit — one so high that it
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Not to worry. Martha Stewart, hostess extraordinaire, is still participating in the holiday most associated with food and entertaining this year. Stewart on Tuesday took to social media to clear up recent reports that she had cancelled Thanksgiving after being “turkeyed out,” as she said on Kelly Clarkson’s
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An animatronic head of E.T., the beloved alien left behind on Earth in Steven Spielberg’s classic movie, is expected to sell for as much as $1 million at an auction held on December 14-17 in Beverly Hills, California and online. The animatronic model from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” is part
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Sven have a new home on a subtropical island in Asia. World of Frozen, Disney’s first-ever themed land dedicated to the “Frozen” media franchise, opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on November 20. The new land at the park on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — More than 70 years after Disney had a cricket sing about wishing upon a star, “Wish” picks up that theme, in an animated movie that desperately wants to thaw out some of the studio’s “Frozen” magic. Hailing from members of that movie’s creative team, “Wish” doesn’t quite reach
Continue Reading By Cath Pound, CNN (CNN) — Soheila Sokhanvari’s retrospective “We Could Be Heroes…” takes its name from David Bowie’s 1977 classic “Heroes,” a song which has particular resonance for the Iranian born, UK-based artist. Like the two lovers separated by the Berlin Wall in Bowie’s song, Sokhanvari was separated from everything she knew and loved
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Just producing a reality-competition show based on “Squid Game” is a pretty good way of signaling to the world that you didn’t really get “Squid Game.” Setting that aside, Netflix’s massive version of the South Korean series, dubbed “Squid Game: The Challenge,” logically morphs the concept into a
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Four more members of South Korean boy band BTS are set to start their compulsory military service as the group’s hiatus continues. This means all seven members of BTS are now either serving in the South Korean military or in the process of enlisting. “We would like to inform
Continue Reading CNN By Steve Almasy, Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — American Airlines said it is reviewing a video posted on TikTok that shows a baggage handler releasing a passenger’s wheelchair to slide down a jet bridge chute, where it crashed into a metal barrier, flipped over and tumbled onto an airport tarmac. The post, which has millions of views, has
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — American Airlines said it is reviewing a video posted on TikTok that shows a baggage handler releasing a passenger’s wheelchair to slide down a jet bridge chute, where it crashed into a metal barrier, flipped over and tumbled onto an airport tarmac. The post, which has millions of views, has brought
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — United Talent Agency, one of Hollywood’s premiere talent agencies, is “no longer representing Susan Sarandon” in light of recent comments she made at a pro-Palestinian rally, a spokesperson for the company told CNN on Tuesday. Sarandon, an Oscar-winning actor, has attended at least two pro-Palestinian rallies in recent weeks in New York City. At one that took
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — After 60 years, The Rolling Stones are still going strong and gearing up for another concert tour. The legendary rock band – featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – will embark on the “Hackney Diamonds” tour in support of their recent album of the same name, a
Continue Reading By Todd Leopold, CNN (CNN) — As far as holiday traditions go, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is about as essential to the cozy November holiday as turkey and stuffing. While it’s had some interruptions and mishaps along the way, the show has still managed to go on almost every year for nearly a century.
Continue Reading By Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — Displayed in a room overlooking the Seine that was filled with the smell of warm butter and baked flour, an opéra pastry in the form of a diving platform perched in a shiny, blue pool was awarded the best pastry of Paris title on Tuesday. A panel of
Continue Reading By Tiffany Ap (CNN) — Back in February, Nattawin Wattanagitiphat’s fans spared no expense in marking the Thai actor’s 29th birthday. Videos that made their way onto social media showed ‘Apo,’ as he is affectionately known, wading through a sea of flower bouquet stands, multiple cakes towering over six feet tall, gold bars, cash and
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Get ready to wax on, wax off, yet again. Perennial favorite film franchise “The Karate Kid” will return next year with a new movie scheduled to go into production soon, Sony Pictures announced on Tuesday. The film will feature Ralph Macchio – who was the titular “Kid” in the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — What is Thanksgiving without “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”? Fortunately, thanks to streaming, that question doesn’t have to be answered. The beloved holiday special turned 50 this year and families can still enjoy Charlie Brown and the gang feasting on popcorn, jelly beans and toast and the like. Apple
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