By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears reveals a personal experience she has kept private for two decades in her upcoming memoir. During her relationship with Justin Timberlake, Spears became pregnant by the singer and had an abortion, she writes in a book excerpt published by People. “It was a surprise, but for
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Nate Bargatze is set to take the “Saturday Night Live” stage on October 28 in his hosting debut, the long-running sketch show announced on Tuesday. The Foo Fighters will serve as the episode’s musical guest. “A dream come true,” Bargatze wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. Bargatze is known
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A New Mexico grand jury will soon decide whether Alec Baldwin should once again face criminal charges over the 2021 death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — Barcelona has retained its grip on the World’s 50 Best Bars list as intimate cocktail joint Sips claimed the top spot at 2023’s awards. With the coveted title long-dominated by London and New York establishments, Tuesday’s announcement marked the second consecutive victory for the cosmopolitan city in Spain.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Millie Bobby Brown sounds grateful for her time on “Stranger Things” while also not mourning its ending. During an interview with Glamour magazine (which named her Woman of the Year) conducted prior to the actors’ strike, Brown compared her hit Netflix series ending to graduating from high school.
Continue Reading 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
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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
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