Review by Brian Lowry, CNN There are many examples of young girls being sexualized by media, but Brooke Shields became a poster child for the practice, literally and figuratively, while inviting questions about stage mothers. “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” pulls back the curtain on that period, in a two-part Hulu documentary that perhaps inevitably frontloads
Continue Reading Moeri Karasawa, CNN In Japan’s ramen restaurants, there’s an unspoken rule: eat quickly and leave. One noodle shop owner takes this custom so seriously that he began timing how long his customers would take to start to eat. He found that those who waited the longest amount of time to dig into their piping hot
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN It has taken Neil Diamond some time to process having Parkinson’s. The legendary singer, who went public with his diagnosis in 2018, talked to “CBS Sunday Morning” in an episode this weekend about learning to live with the disorder, which affects the central nervous system. “This is what I have
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sunday was a big night for first-time nominees at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. They dominated the event with singer Jelly Roll taking home three awards, followed by Lainey Wilson with two, and Hardy, Megan Moroney and Katelyn Brown tying with one each. The live show was held at the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Kaley Cuoco and her partner, fellow actor Tom Pelphrey, are “overjoyed and grateful” for their new “little miracle.” “The Flight Attendant” and “The Big Bang Theory” star posted a series photos over the weekend of their newborn daughter on her verified Instagram account. “Introducing, Matilda Carmine Richie Pelphrey, the new
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shania Twain is standing up for others in country music. The legendary star in the genre used her acceptance speech for the Equal Play Award at Sunday’s CMT Awards to call for more equity and diversity in the country music industry. “When I wrote the phrase ‘Man I feel like
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, has celebrated their elder daughter’s birthday with a trip down memory lane. Mabel Willis turned 11 on Sunday, and her proud mom marked the occasion by sharing a montage of family photos and videos taken over the years, set to the song “Pictures Of You”
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN You’ll no doubt be hungry after watching “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.” Every episode is full of mouthwatering regional specialties prepared by chefs all over the country. For those wanting to follow in Eva Longoria’s footsteps, below is a guide to the restaurants and locations she visited. Oaxaca: A gastronomic capital
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN You’ll no doubt be hungry after watching “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.” Every episode is full of mouthwatering regional specialties prepared by chefs all over the country. For those wanting to follow in Eva Longoria’s footsteps, below is a guide to the restaurants she visited. Yucatán: Defined by the Maya Mayan
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards ceremony on Sunday with a moving tribute to the victims of last week’s shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School in Tennessee. “On March 27, 2023, three nine-year-olds — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak and
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards took place on Sunday at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The celebratory event, voted on by the fans, was hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, who were both nominees this year and performed during the broadcast. Kane, along with his spouse Katelyn
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN “Women Talking” filmmaker Sarah Polley was pranked by her child on April Fools’ Day and the stunt is as good as Oscar gold. Polley won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for her film “Women Talking” last month, and posted a photo on Saturday of a hilarious letter she received notifying
Continue Reading Radina Gigova, CNN and Amarachi Orie, CNN | Oscar Holland, CNN The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto — who wrote the haunting score to “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and won an Oscar for 1987’s “The Last Emperor” — has died aged 71. His management team announced that he died on March 28. He had been treated
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. “Well folks it happened. I got indicted,” Johnson said, later poking at rhetoric from the former president, saying, “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN No one is ever safe on April Fools’ Day, and this year that included hapless Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost. The “Saturday Night Live” castmember was doing his usual Weekend Update segment with co-anchor Michael Che this weekend, on the episode hosted by Quinta Brunson, and from the top of the
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Loni James boarded a flight from Washington state to London last year with a duffel bag, a day pack and an unconventional itinerary. It was late March, and her plan was simple: To travel the world and go on a date with a local in every country she visited. Days after
Continue Reading By Carole Rosenblat, CNN The Covid pandemic caused the Hotel Leopolis in Lviv, Ukraine, to close for two months in 2020. Yet, since then, and a little more than a year after Russia invaded, the Leopolis has continued to be open for business without a pause. The hotel’s management even decided to continue a renovation
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. “Well folks it happened. I got indicted,” Johnson said, later poking at rhetoric from the former president, saying, “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN. Recipe from Regina Escalante, Merci Eva Longoria can’t get enough of this salty dish. While visiting the sun-soaked city of Mérida on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, she met Regina Escalante, who runs the wildly popular restaurant Merci, and sampled the chef’s grilled fish with sour orange, prepared beachside for flavorful tacos. In
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Melissa Gilbert’s message for women over 50 is you’re just getting started. The actress turned entrepreneur was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic to create a community to connect and empower women. Gilbert wanted to change the narrative around aging, so she launched Modern Prairie, an online platform with virtual crafting classes,
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