By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” had a double elimination on Tuesday night. Brian Austin Green and Matt James were sent home during the Disney-themed week, with Green and his pro partner Sharna Burgess coming in last place for their routines on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
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By Jack Guy, CNN in the latest installment of a friendly rivalry between two of the world’s biggest music groups, Beatles legend Paul McCartney has dubbed the Rolling Stones “a blues cover band.” McCartney, who is currently promoting a new book, made the comment in an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, published Monday.
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN The Rolling Stones have retired their classic song “Brown Sugar,” which begins with a slave narrative and sexualizes young Black women. Mick Jagger told the Los Angeles Times that the band had phased the song out of their concert lineups. “We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970, so sometimes you
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Another salvage project by Netflix, “You” went from a Lifetime also-ran to a social-media sensation, with its twisted lead becoming a sort of latter-day “Dexter,” heavily narrating his bizarre story. The third season continues to balance that delicate juggling act, with a wife, baby and life in suburbia merely adding
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dean Cain, one of the actors who has portrayed Superman, has spoken out about the latest DC comic book character version being bisexual. Cain, who played the superhero in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” appeared on “Fox & Friends First” Tuesday and talked
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Robin Williams’ fans are very excited by actor Jamie Costa’s impersonation of the late star. Costa posted a five-minute clip to his YouTube channel, titled “ROBIN Test Footage Scene,” on Tuesday, showing a scene featuring himself as Williams and Sarah Murphree as Pam Dawber on the set of “Mork & Mindy.”
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Robin Williams’ fans are very excited by actor Jamie Costa’s impersonation of the late star. Costa posted a five-minute clip to his YouTube channel, titled “ROBIN Test Footage Scene,” on Tuesday, showing a scene featuring himself as Williams and Sarah Murphree as Pam Dawber on the set of “Mork & Mindy.”
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Julia Buckley, CNN Over a decade ago, when Francesco Galietti had to travel from his native Rome to Milan for work, he used to fly the nearly 400-mile route. Today, he takes the train. Galietti — CEO of Rome-based political risk consultancy Policy Sonar — is not alone. Figures released in 2019 by Italy state
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Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Residents of Kabul can read the writing on the wall. “Don’t trust the propaganda of the enemy” says one freshly painted sign. The message replaced a mural of US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shaking hands, marking the signing of the 2020 agreement to withdraw American troops
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Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Residents of Kabul can read the writing on the wall. “Don’t trust the propaganda of the enemy” says one freshly painted sign. The message replaced a mural of US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shaking hands, marking the signing of the 2020 agreement to withdraw American troops
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Leah Dolan, CNN Canadian artist Cassils has been set alight on stage, wrestled a 2,000-pound block of clay in the pitch dark and trained as a bodybuilder on a cocktail of steroids, raw eggs and protein. If art exists to hold a mirror up to humanity, then Cassils’ performances speak to the extremes we can
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By Simran Vaswani, CNN From Hollywood blockbusters to Wong Kar-wai movies, neon signs have been an iconic representation of Hong Kong. First introduced in the 1920s, these signs flourished in the later half of the 20th century amid the city’s economization. Restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, pawn shops and even mah jong parlors hung up neon lights
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The winning images in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been released after a record-breaking number of entries were submitted, with a riveting underwater shot taking home the top prize. Organized by the Natural History Museum in London, the 57th edition of the contest saw 50,000 entries from
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania and Belarus were deemed “very high” risk travel destinations on Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean also moved into the “Level 4: Very high level of Covid-19” category on the agency’s regularly updated list of
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Amy Woodyatt and Andrew Carey, CNN Author Sally Rooney said she has chosen not to sell the translation rights for her latest novel to an Israeli-based publishing house, citing concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Publishing house Modan has previously published Hebrew versions of Rooney’s two other novels, “Normal People” and “Conversations with Friends.” In a
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Marianne Garvey, CNN Will Poulter is set to play Adam Warlock in the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.” The movie’s director James Gunn took to Twitter to announce the news. “As you guys know I often strike down false rumors, so… um…Welcome to the Guardians family, Will Poulter,” Gunn wrote. “He’s an amazing
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By Chloe Melas, CNN What better way to get in the spooky spirit than curl up and watch some scary flicks. From the creepy crawly to family classics, we’ve got you covered this Halloween. “Hocus Pocus” The Sanderson Sisters are the perfect witches to get you ready for Halloween. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The world’s largest wine factory from the Byzantine period has been uncovered by archaeologists in the Israeli town of Yavne, after a two-year excavation process. The 1,500-year-old complex was used to produce wine in huge commercial quantities, with the directors of the excavation calculating that around two million liters were marketed
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Kelly McCleary, CNN I’ll take broken winning streaks for $1,000, Mayim. “Jeopardy!” contestant Matt Amodio saw his 38-game winning run come to an end Monday, putting him behind only “Jeopardy!” superstar Ken Jennings on the list of most consecutive wins. Jennings had a 74-game streak. During his time on top of the leaderboard, Amodio racked
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Monday night was a sad one for fans of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on “NCIS.” After more than 18 seasons Mark Harmon has left the show. Monday’s episode, titled “Great Wide Open,” served as his exit. In it, Harmon as Gibbs is in Alaska with Special Agent Timothy McGee
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