By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The TCL Theater in Hollywood was impressively full — just as packed, in fact, as the no-frills, suburban Chicago movie theater was when I first saw “Titanic” with my parents in the ’90s as a pop culture-obsessed 9-year-old. Seeing the movie for the first time is a core memory. I’d never
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN In spite of the fact that “Batgirl” won’t be seen by audiences, titular star Leslie Grace says she is proud of the movie and cautiously optimistic about the character’s future. When the news broke last summer that the DC comic book film for HBO Max was being indefinitely shelved, shocking moviegoers
Continue Reading By Alli Rosebloom, CNN Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are hitting the road together for a comedy tour starting this spring. The “Tina Fey & Amy Poehler: Restless Leg Tour” includes a limited run of four shows and kicks off on April 28 in Washington, DC. The tour will stop in Chicago and Boston before
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN Rihanna wasn’t the only one shining bright like a diamond during the Super Bowl. Videos of Justina Miles, a deaf American Sign Language performer, are racking up views online as admirers praise her energetic signing during the telecast of Sunday’s game. Miles signed lyrics for hard of hearing TV viewers as
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN Fashion is all about the silhouette. And no one took that sartorial maxim more literally than Sam Smith at the 2023 Brit Awards in London on Saturday. Dressed in a custom look by HARRI — the emerging label helmed by British Indian designer Harikrishnan Keezhathil Surendran Pillai — Smith’s supersized curves resembled
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Yes, the seven floating stages during Rihanna’s Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show were theatrical and cool, but they also had a very practical purpose. And it had everything to do with the grass on the field. That’s according to Bruce Rodgers, the halftime show production designer, who spoke
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey U2 announced during a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday that they will soon play a residency in Las Vegas. This fall the band will help launch the MSG Sphere at The Venetian with a show called “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere.” The globe-shaped performance center holds 17,500 people and
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, David Williams and Gabe Cohen, CNN A United Airlines 777 leaving Hawaii in December plunged toward the Pacific Ocean for 21 seconds shortly after takeoff and came within about 800 feet of sea level, flight tracking data show. Neither United nor the Federal Aviation Administration indicated anyone was injured on Flight 1722
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Leave it to Blake Lively to give us a baby unannouncement. While the world has been chatting about Rihanna’s pregnancy reveal during her Super Bowl halftime performance, Lively just very casually posted a photo of her post-baby body. “Puppy Bowl Sunday 2023,” she wrote in the caption on a series
Continue Reading By Kelly McCleary, CNN Rihanna didn’t introduce a new song during her Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show performance Sunday night but she did introduce a new pregnancy. The entertainer sang a medley of her biggest hits while visibly pregnant with her second child, her representative has confirmed to CNN. Online speculation about the
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Alex Rees, CNN Fashion Week landed in New York City once again with six days of Fall-Winter 2023 shows from brands including Rodarte, Thom Browne, Coach, Prabal Gurung and Eckhaus Latta. Last season marked the return of nearly all in-person shows, and A-List celebrities descended on the city for a packed schedule
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Anyone expecting the multiple costume changes of Super Bowls past might have been disappointed. But Rihanna nonetheless wowed at her halftime show in an all-red ensemble custom-made for her by luxury labels Loewe and Alaïa. News that the star is expecting her second child may explain why she kept things simple —
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN It’s time to face the music — Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise is coming to an end. A new trailer for the third and final film in the series debuted during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and dropped some clues as to how Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill/Star-Lord is dealing with
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The newest trailer for the highly anticipated DC superhero film “The Flash” is finally here. The trailer made its grand debut during the 2023 Super Bowl featuring some major characters — and one big character reveal. (CNN and DC are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.) Titular
Continue Reading Reuters Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD. Archaeologist Francisco Perez Ruiz said there were no known residential groups
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN How about that Rihanna concert sandwiched by a football game? At least that’s what the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show felt like with her as the featured performer. Dressed all in red, including red lipstick, she kicked off the performance flying high over the field on a floating
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN From returning to the sky in new livery to fly for another airline, to being recycled for parts or moving an aircraft boneyard, the possibilities for retired aircraft are seemingly endless. Some have been converted into restaurants, museums, cafes and even party venues. But this private jet turned luxury villa, located on
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN David Jude Jolicoeur, better known under stage name Trugoy the Dove as one third of iconic rap trio De La Soul, has died. The news was confirmed to CNN via Tony Ferguson, the music group’s publicist. Jolicoeur was 54 years old. Ferguson said Jolicoeur’s passing was “a huge loss” in a
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s the purrfect way to get back at your crappy ex. This Valentine’s Day, an Ohio animal shelter is offering to write your ex’s name in a litterbox — and let its adoptable cats go to town. The Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio, is offering the unique tribute for
Continue Reading Leah Asmelash, CNN By any standard, Shirley Hailstock is a romance-writing star. Not only has she penned more than three dozen novels and novellas, she’s won dozens of awards, written best sellers, and previously presided over the romance industry’s leading professional organization, the Romance Writers of America. So, naturally, she gets fan mail. And there’s
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