Whoopi Goldberg has slammed critics for branding Anne Hathaway’s character “disgusting” for dating a younger man in her upcoming film ‘The Idea of You’. ‘The Color Purple’ actress, 68, hit out after a trailer for the film revealed Anne is playing a 41-year-old mom who dates a 29-year-old pop star (played by Nicholas Galitzine) in … Read more
Left: Nicholas Braun (Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images), Right: Jim Henson (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Among the various pop culture gods who hover benevolently over our modern society, few are more sacred than Jim Henson. We’d go so far as to argue that much of our enduring affection for Henson’s most … Read more
NEW YORK – Paul Simon’s latest honor places him among public figures well outside the music industry. He is this year’s winner of PEN America’s PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, which previously has been given to former President Barack Obama, the late Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and Stephen King among others. The 82-year-old Simon is known … Read more
Singapore defends a deal that ensured Taylor Swift wouldn’t perform in neighboring countries. Ashok Kumar/tas24 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday that a closed-door deal for Taylor Swift to perform in the city-state ensured she would not perform in other Southeast Asian countries during her Eras … Read more
PARIS — For the Paris Olympics, it could almost be a new sport: Score points by hunting down mosaics that a mystery artist who calls himself “Invader” has cemented to walls across France’s capital, the world and even had carried aloft to the International Space Station. Vincent Giraud, one of the artist’s Parisian fans, is … Read more
Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely respected as an industry pioneer and … Read more
Whoopi Goldberg landed her latest film role after storming out of her house to complain about noisy on-set activity on her street. ‘The Color Purple’ star, who has taken the part of Stagecoach Mary in director Mario Van Peebles’ Western ‘Outlaw Posse’, is said to have yelled at the crew before she ended up chatting … Read more
LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane arrived on Friday in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is in hospital and being treated for an infection. King Harald V, Europe’s oldest monarch at 87, was hospitalized after he fell ill during a vacation, the royal palace in Oslo … Read more
Mobile World Congress 2024, the world’s biggest mobile trade show, had a lot of future-looking tech on display. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Artificial intelligence took center stage, but there was also plenty of experimentation with different types of screens and first looks at some devices from some of the world’s biggest tech firms. Motorola showed … Read more
Baseball star Shohei Ohtani announced on his Instagram account that he is married. The two-way player joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in December on a $700 million, 10-year contract. He wrote on Instagram in Japanese: “The season is approaching but I would like to announce to everyone that I have gotten married.” He said his … Read more