By Lisa Respers France, CNN Remember when Issa Rae was presenting the Oscar nominations for best director in 2020 and quipped “Congratulations to those men”? It’s déjà vu. In a year that saw many critically acclaimed films helmed by female directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is again taking heat for failing
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN The Dallas Zoo is working with the Dallas Police Department to increase security on the zoo campus following a string of incidents involving several animals and enclosures, zoo officials said. “On Saturday morning, the animal care team discovered one of our lappet-faced vultures dead in its habitat,” zoo President and CEO
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shailene Woodley says she had a tough time filming last year because of what she was going through personally. In a recently published interview with “Porter,” the actress talked about her experience working on “Three Women,” the Showtime adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestselling study of the sex
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The strange and sentimental film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led among the films nominated for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday, scoring 11 nominations. “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” followed with nine nominations each. Blockbusters “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Zoe Saldaña is officially other worldly when it comes to picking profitable projects. With her latest, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” crossed the $2 billion mark at the box office, making Saldaña the first actor to appear in four films that have achieved that distinction. The other three films are
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The family of missing British actor Julian Sands have thanked “heroic” search teams in California for their efforts to locate him as crews continue to scour the Mt. Baldy area. The 65-year-old, best known for his roles in films “A Room with a View” and “Arachnophobia,” was first reported missing on
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN The phrase “queen of the skies” has just taken on another meaning. While the now-discontinued Boeing 747 bore the moniker in the past, Virgin Atlantic is repurposing the phrase as it names a plane after the late Queen Elizabeth II. The airline has occasionally named its planes after notable women in
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Late last August, a solar-powered drone called Zephyr almost beat one of aviation’s most enduring records. The unmanned aircraft, operated by the US Army and produced by Airbus, flew for 64 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes before unexpectedly crashing down in Arizona — just four hours shy of breaking the
Continue Reading Nick Remsen, CNN A few weeks ago, Mick Jagger posted a holiday message to his Instagram feed while wearing a deep red paisley shirt, its pattern whirling with canary yellow and inky black details. The piece had something nostalgically glamourous about it: Decadent yet comfortable, it was as befitting of Jagger’s bohemian rockstar aesthetic as
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Doja Cat wowed onlookers on Monday as she arrived at Schiaparelli’s latest runway show in a dramatic head-to-toe look adorned with red body paint and 30,000 Swarovski crystals. The eye-catching outfit, which was custom-designed by the fashion house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry, was brought to life by makeup artist Pat McGrath, whose
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN At a time when roughly half of crime-movie ideas seemingly get stretched out to seven or eight episodes, “Accused” smartly goes in the opposite direction, presenting crisp little yarns in a single hour. While there’s a hit-miss element to that, the best entries in this Fox anthology series sustain suspense
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN In case you were wondering, Rita Moreno very much has still got her groove. The Oscar winner, 91, appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Monday with her “80 for Brady” co-stars Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin, where Moreno told a story from the set that had everyone howling.
Continue Reading Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Italy celebrated the return of 60 ancient artifacts worth more than $20 million from the United States with a display in Rome’s Spadolini Hall on Monday. Most of the items — which include a fresco of Hercules as a child fighting a serpent, which was stolen from Herculaneum, and a bronze
Continue Reading Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Italy celebrated the return of 60 ancient artifacts worth more than $20 million from the United States with a display in Rome’s Spadolini Hall on Monday. Most of the items — which include a fresco of Hercules as a child fighting a serpent, which was stolen from Herculaneum, and a bronze
Continue Reading By Fidel Gutierrez and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Mexican comedian Leopoldo Roberto Garcia Pelaez Benitez, who performed as “Polo Polo,” died on Monday, his family announced. He was 78. His son, Paul Garcia, told Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca that his father had vascular dementia and died of natural causes at his home. Born in Leon, Guanajuato,
Continue Reading Issy Ronald, CNN They are among the most popular exhibits in museums worldwide, with a name so resonant, blockbuster films have been built on it. But some museums in Britain are now using words other than “mummy” to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian human remains. Instead, they are starting to adopt terms such as
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN In her new memoir shared with Variety prior to publication, Pamela Anderson is alleging a disturbing incident she says happened on the set of “Home Improvement” with her former costar Tim Allen. According to Variety, which received an excerpt of Anderson’s forthcoming tell-all memoir “Love, Pamela,” the actress writes that
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Kylie Jenner finally revealed her son’s name over the weekend, just before his first birthday. Jenner and Travis Scott named their litte boy “Aire,” Jenner revealed. “It’s pronounced “air” like billionaires,” Scott wrote to a fan who asked how to say it. Last February, Jenner announced that she and Scott had
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nominations for the 43rd Annual Razzie Awards were announced Monday and it was a good (or bad) day for “Blonde,” Disney’s “Pinocchio” and “Morbius.” The Netflix movie “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, received the most nods with eight, including worst picture, director and screenplay. “Good Mourning” with
Continue Reading Anabel Dean, CNN On a hot summer day in the Cornish seaside village of Mousehole. In the kitchen of The Old Coastguard hotel, chef Jamie Porter is bent low over a bench, unfolding a marvelous fish fantasy that’s all heads, no tails. He’s shoving mackerel noggins into slits in a pastry lid, tweaking bulging eyeballs
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