Jolie and Pitt’s idyllic vineyard life in Provence gave way to legal battles, renovations, and a bitter divorce.
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Modern times and capitalism have given the words failure and success an emotive charge and excessively personal connotations, turning mechanical, humdrum notions into engines of angst.
The canceled rapper who’s praised Hitler and Putin’s Russia are a perfect match, writes music critic Nikolay Ovchinnikov
Updated February 26, 2025 at 05:00 p.m. It’s been 11 years since the iconic Oscars selfie posted March 3, 2014 during the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, featuring several high-profile celebrities. It captured the selfie craze, and the obsession with celebrity culture. Who took the 2014 Oscars selfie? The selfie was taken by Bradley Cooper, with […]
Aspen, a former mining town in Colorado, is arguably the most fashionable winter sport destination in the U.S. That is largely thanks to one man: Klaus Obermeyer, originally from southern Germany, the inventor of the down jacket and one of the best-known pioneers of the skiing world. He is now 104 years old – and still on the slopes, where German daily Die Welt reached him.
Russian pop starts, artists and athletes are speaking out against the war in Ukraine, with some already suffering the consequences.
NEW DELHI — India is a cricket-crazy nation. We love our cricketers and some of us even worship them. Also, we love our cinema. We look up to the reel life heroes and admire them with the expectation that they are real life heroes. But what happens when these influencers do something unexpected? When we keep someone on a pedestal we, unknowingly, keep them in the position of authority and give them the power to influence us, our decisions. From their fashion sense to their political ideologies, we believe everything they do could be correct, since they’ve achieved something we […]
He’s the mastermind behind has most famous deepfakes of the web. Donald Trump, Bruce Lee or even Elon Musk have been integrated into his videos, which are as fascinating and problematic as they are funny.
PARIS — How do we decide what is the world’s top museum? Its size, prestige, collection, the number of visitors — and the way it showcases its brand. The Louvre remains champion. The latest music video from the world’s most famous musical couple, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, is shot amid the museum’s timeless masterpieces and along […]
-OpEd- BEIJING — There has been a recent spate of Chinese celebrities, including Jaycee Chan, son of the Hong Kong martial arts film star Jackie Chan, detained on drug charges. Others in the entertainment business have been accused or frequenting prostitutes. Last week, China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) issued a formal […]
A first-of-its-kind study last year found that one in 15 pregnant women is anorexic. Gaunt women are even posting cringe-worthy photos of their baby bumps on pro-anorexia forums.
LE MONDE (France), XINHUA (China) Worldcrunch BEIJING – According to Le Monde, the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on March 3, was more like a star-studded film premiere than a political event. The CPPCC is a 2,200-member body that meets annually to debate policy and advise government. It includes politicians, but […]
How the intersection of show biz and state power looks from China.