Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “This is Us” took the idea of a “final season” to heart, which made its series finale somewhat less significant, given all that had happened in the multi-episode run-up to formally saying goodbye. Yet the show delivered on its core values and formula, playing with time while depicting the “circle
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By Chloe Melas, CNN “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will air its final episode this week and the talk show is wrapping up its 19 seasons with some major star power. Oprah Winfrey paid DeGeneres a visit on Tuesday. Winfrey said it made her emotional to think about the final days of her own daytime talk
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN A week before the start of Pride Month, comedian Ricky Gervais is being criticized for his new stand-up special, in which he mocks transgender women and the debate around bathroom access. The special, called “SuperNature,” debuted Tuesday on Netflix. A few minutes into the set, Gervais describes reading a comment from
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN After hearing more than 100 hours of testimony over six weeks, jurors have finished hearing evidence in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial, with both sides resting. As a final witness, Heard returned to the stand for a second time Thursday, where she was grilled about witnesses who testified
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Aerosmith has canceled some of the band’s residency dates in Las Vegas as frontman Steven Tyler seeks rehabilitation treatment. A statement posted on Aerosmith’s verified Instagram account Tuesday explained that Tyler, 74, recently relapsed following surgery. “As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Get your tickets because Bruce Springsteen is hitting the road next year. “The Boss” and the E Street Band will kick off their next tour in 2023, their first together since 2017. The first stop is April 28 in Barcelona. Springsteen posted the European leg of the tour to his Instagram
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By Marianne Garvey A new “Thor: Love and Thunder” trailer debuted Monday. Airing during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Chris Hemsworth is back as Thor, who runs into his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman, and is a bit thrown off by the encounter. Director Taika Waititi narrates the trailer. The new “Thor” is
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey A new “Thor: Love and Thunder” trailer debuted Monday. Airing during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Chris Hemsworth is back as Thor, who runs into his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman, and is a bit thrown off by the encounter. Director Taika Waititi narrates the trailer. The new “Thor” is
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN John Driskell Hopkins doesn’t know what the future holds, but for now he plans to keep rocking. The Zac Brown Band member recently revealed via social media that he was been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. According to the ALS Association, it is “a progressive neurodegenerative
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Queen Latifah is ready for some real talk about weight and wellness. “The Equalizer” star, who first entered the spotlight as a rapper in the 1980s, has experienced working in entertainment – and the public scrutiny that comes with it – in a range of sizes. She told CNN she’s
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN There’s chocolate, and then there’s gianduiotto chocolate. An ancestor of Nutella, the melt-in-the-mouth treat is as rare as it is delicious. Like most renowned Italian artisan chocolate, gianduiotto originates from Piedmont, Italy, where it’s considered the “king of Italian chocolate.” Made of a rich paste consisting of fine cocoa mixed with the
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN The head of DC Films, which produced “Aquaman,” testified that the creative team had concerns about Amber Heard’s role in the film’s sequel over a lack of chemistry with co-star Jason Momoa. On Tuesday, a March recorded deposition of Walter Hamada, President of DC Films, which is a division of Warner
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN After a whopping 17 years away from the “Star Wars” universe, Ewan McGregor returns this week as our beloved bearded Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi. “Patience, you must have,” INDEED. But what was Master Kenobi up to when we saw him last? Does one need to watch several animated series to know what’s
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN After a whopping 17 years away from the “Star Wars” universe, Ewan McGregor returns this week as our beloved bearded Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi. “Patience, you must have,” INDEED. But what was Master Kenobi up to when we saw him last? Does one need to watch several animated series to know what’s
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Ice T and Coco’s parenting decisions are theirs to make, but that isn’t stopping people from weighing in online. Coco recently shared some vacation photos of the family on her verified social media accounts. In one of the photos, her 6-year-old daughter, Chanel is sitting in a stroller, looking a
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Birdwatcher Christian Cooper was thrust into the spotlight in 2020 when he filmed a racially charged encounter with a White woman in New York’s Central Park. Next year he’ll be back on television on his own terms: To showcase his passion for birdwatching on National Geographic. Cooper will host a series,
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Barry Neild, CNN A huge new subterranean railway whisked fare-paying passengers deep beneath the streets of London for the first time on Tuesday as the UK capital opened a $25 billion new metro line that will transform travel across the city. Large crowds of rail enthusiasts, commuters and excited locals turned out to catch the
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN It was nutritious, easy to prepare and great as a snack, especially when sprinkled with poppy flower seeds and served in cubes. The ancient Romans feasted on a delicious honey-crusted cheesecake called Savillum, which is believed to be the real ancestor of modern US-style cheesecake. Instead of Philadelphia soft cheese, there was
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Kate Moss, who dated Johnny Depp in the 1990s, is expected to be called to testify as a rebuttal witness by his legal team in the ongoing trial between Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, a source close to Depp tells CNN. A source close to Depp confirmed that Moss and
Continue Reading Ann Binlot, CNN In much of Western art, Asian women have often appeared as one-dimensional characters — sometimes seen as meek and docile, and at other times hypersexualized and exoticized. But such portrayals fail to show individuals coming from a myriad of cultural backgrounds, their identities rooted in distinctly different countries and histories. “Wonder Women,”
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