By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Ghost stories are getting new life in the upcoming Hulu series “Living for the Dead.” Executive produced by Kristen Stewart and the creators of “Queer Eye,” the show features five LGBTQ+ ghost hunters, each with their own unique talent, traveling the country to investigate the paranormal. According to the
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — An easyJet flight was canceled and its passengers made to disembark after someone onboard the aircraft apparently defecated on the airplane bathroom floor. The flight on Sunday evening from the Spanish island of Tenerife to London Gatwick had already been delayed by several hours. Aaran Gedhu, a passenger on
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears is owning her narrative. In an exclusive interview with People magazine to promote her forthcoming memoir “The Woman in Me,” Spears talked about feeling ready to open up about her life story. “Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Alicia Keys has responded to backlash over a recent social media post that some deemed insensitive in light of the war between Israel and Hamas. In a since-deleted post, the singer and former coach on “The Voice” shared a photo of herself in a green jacket and wrote
Continue Reading By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Jack Fisk had an audacious request. The production designer behind “The Revenant” and “There Will Be Blood,” whose collaborations with Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson and David Lynch have made him the stuff of industry legend, was about to recreate a crime scene. Fisk was on location in Oklahoma
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Sam Neill is in remission and back to doing what he loves. The 76-year-old actor shared a health update with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation regarding his non-Hodgkin blood cancer, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. “I know I’ve got it, but I’m not really interested in it,” Neill said. ‘It’s out
Continue Reading By Cathaleen Chen, CNN (CNN) — The radical transformation of Victoria’s Secret is over. The American lingerie chain has spent the last two years overhauling its hyper-sexualized image in a bid to regain cultural relevance and win back young consumers who preferred more on-trend upstarts like Savage X Fenty and Parade. There were some successes,
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo and Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — No matter what era of Madonna you first got to know her in — the fingerless gloves and crucifixes in the 1980s, the dominatrix alter ego of the ’90s or the Americana leather chaps and disco of the 2000s — the Queen of Pop’s latest tour
Continue Reading By Mayumi Maruyama and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not from baggage, but from a group of passengers who just so happened to be sumo wrestlers. Japan Airlines (JAL) realized that two of its planes were at risk of exceeding
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — An artsy quarter of Madrid, a sustainable pocket of Melbourne, and an up-and-coming zone in Medellin – what do these places have in common? They’re among the coolest neighborhoods in the world, according to global publisher Time Out. Every year, Time Out polls its staffers and contributors from around
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor and anatomist, to name just a few of his talents — and now, you can add innovative chemist to the polymath’s many gifts. It turns out the master artist was more experimental with his renowned “Mona Lisa” than previously thought — and
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — As Disney celebrates its 100 year anniversary on Monday, the walls of the company’s animation studio come alive in the new short film, “Once Upon a Studio.” In the 12-minute short, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, with the help of Tinker Bell, lead the charge in bringing 543 Disney characters
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Anyone with an interest in history should be quite familiar with the Ken Burns playbook, which he puts to characteristically impressive use in “American Buffalo,” a documentary weaving together the near-extinction of these majestic beasts, dispossession of Native-Americans and exploitation of the American West under one sweeping umbrella
Continue Reading By Helen Stoilas, CNN Greenwich, Connecticut (CNN) — Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. For years, her chosen medium was performance, but since the Academy Award-nominated actor picked up a paintbrush in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, she hasn’t put it down. “I just get in this kind of trance,” Stone said
Continue Reading Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — There’s an island off the coast of Rome where locals have been living in cozy grottoes since the dawn of time. The shores and fishermen village of Ponza – the largest island of the Pontine archipelago, which sits offshore between Rome and Naples – are dotted with cave dwellings cut
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Somers’ longtime publicist wants to clear up false reports that the star was in hospice for the final weeks of her life, saying that while she was “weak,” her family and medical team did not expect her to die. “There are a lot of reports and rumors about
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has announced a small 2024 tour called the “Definitely Maybe 30 Years Tour,” in which he will play the former band’s debut album, “Definitely Maybe.” Gallagher took to Instagram with the announcement, calling the album “the most important album of the ’90s,” adding that he
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Will Smith has shared his thoughts on Jada Pinkett Smith’s new memoir. The pair have been the subject of multiple headlines since Pinkett Smith revealed last week that the pair have been separated since 2016. It’s just one of the revelations in her new memoir, “Worthy.” The New
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Venice may be known as La Serenissima, but for those who have encountered her resident seagulls, the experience can be anything but serene. The gulls are infamous for stealing food from anyone naïve enough to be eating outside, swooping down onto café terraces, breaking crockery, grabbing sandwiches out of walkers’
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — The new season of “Rick and Morty,” which premiered Sunday night, was comfortingly bizarre to fans who’ve come to expect hijinks, meta in-jokes and exceedingly freaky alien species. It was more of the same, save for two major changes: the voices of Rick and Morty themselves. Ian Cardoni and
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