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☆ Celebrity lookalike contests are taking over the internet. But they aren’t new
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It feels all the more fitting then, that amid today’s geopolitical conflicts, increasing climate catastrophes and economic uncertainties, we’re seemingly hooked on celebrity lookalike contests. But the idea of a lookalike contest is in fact a time-honored form of entertainment. Nine girls in a Fox Films and Daily Telegraph Shirley Temple lookalike contest in Sydney, Australia, October 1934. For the last 40 years, a bar in Key West, Florida has been staging an annual Ernest Hemmingway lookalike competition. Humanity isn’t fixed.”Oscar Journeaux won the Harry Styles lookalike competition on November 9 in London.

Persons: Timothée Chalamet, jostle, YouTuber Anthony Po, Oscar, ” Reed Putman, ”, Paul Mescal, Harry Styles lookalikes, Matthew Chattle, Max Braunstein, Glen Powell, Mikala Compton, Harry Styles, Dev Patel’s doppelgänger, Zayn Malik’s, Jeremy Allen White, White, Carmy, —, White’s, Daily Telegraph Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Dolly Parton, Shirley Temple, femme, Myrna Loy, Alice Faye, Katharine Hepburn, Ernest Hemmingway, Ellis Cashmore, “, Oscar Journeaux, Leon Neal, Angie Huntley, Jim Wilkes, Cashmore, ” Andy Harmer, David Beckham, Lookalikes, it’s, ” Harmer, Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Andy Harmer, Camilla Shadbolt, David, Fiona Hanson, Denise Ohnona, Kate Moss, Ohnona, Stephane Cardinale, Corbis, Manel Esteller, Harmer, Vetements, “ She’s, You’re, ” Miles Mitchell, Stefan Jeremiah, lookalikes Organizations: CNN, Washington, “, Gaelic Athletic Association, American, Statesman, USA, Marlboro Reds, Fox Films, Daily Telegraph, Mitchell Library, State Library of New, Cleveland Food, Toronto Star, Argentina, University of Barcelona’s School of Medicine, Cell, Paris Fashion Locations: Ireland, London, Austin , Texas, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, “ The, Oakland , California, Sydney, Australia, State Library of New South Wales, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Cleveland, Key West , Florida, British, Toronto, Canada, Victoria, Lancashire

☆ A look at the behind-the-scenes business of Hollywood studio lot tours
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-31 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Hosted by Universal , Warner Bros. , Sony and Paramount , studio lot tours showcase the movie-making process from set design and sound recording to costumes and props. Building facades at the Warner Bros. studio lot. Floor to ceiling shelves filled with marble and faux marble busts at Warner Bros.' studio tour prop house. Studio Tour Hollywood Grand Re-Opening at Warner Bros. Studios on June 24, 2021 in Burbank, California. For the first six months of their employment with the studio, these pages serve as studio tour guides.

Persons: Tama, Robert Thompson, Adam Burke, Burke, Thompson, Mayer, Sarah Whitten, Tony Tasset, Oz, bauer, Foley, Gilmore, Harry Potter, Matt Winkelmeyer, Paul Dergarabedian, Alfred Hitchcock's, Truman, Benjamin Button, Steven Spielberg, Gabriel Bouys, King Kong, Allen J Organizations: Getty, Hollywood, Syracuse University, Universal, Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount, Los Angeles Tourism Board, Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Sony Pictures, Metro, Goldwyn, CNBC, Social, Sony Pictures Entertainment, CNBC Warner Bros, Warner Bros ., Fantastic, Studios, Turner, Paramount Studios, Bloomberg, Universal Studios, Afp, Universal Studios Hollywood, York, Los Angeles Times Locations: New York City, Los Angeles, Culver City, Central, Burbank , California, Los Angeles , California, York, Hollywood, New York

☆ My teenage daughter and I went on vacation just the two of us. It helped us better connect.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Amy Bizzarri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWhen I reflect on my teenage years, I remember the peer pressure, the pimples, and the sting of social awkwardness. Now, as a parent to a teenage girl, I often worry she feels the same way. I wonder if she feels like we can't connect and that I couldn't possibly relate to what she's going through. Before the trip, I asked my daughter what she thinks is appropriate phone usage while on a family vacation and we set guidelines together. It helped us better connect as mother and daughter.

Persons: —, she's, Here's, Hollywood Roosevelt Organizations: Service, Business, Sony Pictures Studios, Grauman, Hollywood, Hollywood Museum, Universal Studios Hollywood, Sony Pictures Locations: Los Angeles, Tom Sawyer's

☆ What a celebrity photographer does on the Oscars red carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Marie Lodi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Photographer Chelsea Lauren has documented the red carpet scene for the photo agency Shutterstock for nearly a decade. Billed as the celebrity event of the year, with its 900-foot-long red carpet that sweeps down Hollywood Boulevard and into the Dolby Theatre, the Oscars are on another level. There’s a hierarchy to the arrivals — non-famous attendees take a less central route down the red carpet, while the biggest stars arrive last. The next day on the Oscars red carpet, Kaluuya pointed at Lauren and yelled “You’re my G!” “It’s just the little moments like that,” she said. Courtesy Chelsea Lauren/ShutterstockWhile undoubtedly fun, being a red carpet photographer is not all glamour.

Persons: Los Angeles CNN — It’s, Sid Grauman, “ Robin Hood, ”, Chelsea Lauren, Lauren, It’s, ” Lauren, “, Paris Hilton, Janelle Monáe, Colman Domingo, Rustin ”, ” Chelsea Lauren, Janelle Monae, Shutterstock Chelsea Lauren, Paris, bachelorette, Shutterstock, Daniel Kaluuya, Timothée Chalamet, she’ll, that’s, I’d, she’s, Lauren hasn’t, “ I’m, ’ It’s Organizations: Los Angeles CNN, Globes, Dolby Theatre, CNN, Paris, Southwest Locations: South, LA, ”

☆ And the Oscars Carpet Color Goes … Back to Red
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Sarah Bahr | More About Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It will probably get dirty — maybe it wasn’t the best choice,” Ms. Love said at the time. Last year’s champagne carpet — the first time in more than six decades that the academy’s arrival rug was not red — was part of a trend of colorful carpets that have swept premieres, galas and award ceremonies across the country in recent years. See the Emmys (gray) and the world premiere of “Barbie” in Los Angeles in July (pink, obviously). Red carpets have been a staple at premieres and galas since 1922, when the showman Sid Grauman rolled one out for the 1922 premiere of “Robin Hood,” which starred Douglas Fairbanks, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The Oscars adopted it beginning with the 1961 ceremony, and, ever since, the special shade — known as Academy Red — has been instantly recognizable in photos.

Persons: “, ”, Love, Ms, galas, “ Barbie ”, Sid Grauman, “ Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks, — Organizations: Times Locations: Los Angeles, Hollywood

CNN —Demolition of the Los Angeles area home where Marilyn Monroe spent her last months has been put on hold by Los Angeles City Council, following a last-minute motion aimed at designating the house a Historic-Cultural Monument. Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Norma Jeane Mortenson, who later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, was born in 1926 in Los Angeles. Hulton Archive/Getty Images She was in several movies in 1950, including "The Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve." Hulton Archive/Getty Images Monroe wins a trophy at the "Star Of Tomorrow" Awards in Los Angeles in 1952. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Monroe and former Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio leave city hall after their wedding.

Persons: Marilyn Monroe, Traci, Baron, Norma Jeane Mortenson, Gladys Baker, Marilyn, Claudette Colbert, Monroe, Jim Dougherty, Grace McKee, Grace, Michael Ochs, Norma Jeane, Emmeline Snively, Richard C, Miller, Donaldson, they're, Ben Lyons, Lyon, Theisen, he'd, Mira Sorvino, Frank Cronenweth, Peggy Martin, Shutterstock Monroe, Phil Moore, J R, she's, Johnny Hyde, Nancy Lee Andrews, you'll, Earl Leaf, Ray Anthony Band, Shutterstock, David Wayne, Christina Newland ., Kardashian, Amber Tamblyn, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Jane Russell, Joe DiMaggio, Amy Greene, Monroe's, Matty Zimmerman, DiMaggio, Joe, it's, Ella Fitzgerald, that's Ella Fitzgerald, Ed Feingersh, Elizabeth Winder, Ellen Burstyn, Arthur Miller, ullstein, He's, Harold Clements, Queen Elizabeth II, Laurence Olivier, Sugar Kane, Billy Wilder, I'm, Christina Newland, John F, Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, It's, Cecil W, Marilyn Monroe's, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles City Council, Department of Building, Safety, Hulton, Michael Ochs Archives, Model Agency, Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Columbia, West Hollywood, Photoplay, Getty, Gentlemen, Fox, Hollywood, Bettmann, Yankees, US, Tiffany Club, New York, Grand Central, Queen, Royal, Daily Herald, Stoughton, Alamy, Los Angeles City, Historic Resources Locations: Los Angeles, Brentwood, Monroe, West Virginia, Columbia, Warrenburg , New York, American, Hollywood, Korea, York, New York, California, Hollywood , California, New, Grand, London, England, Polyclinic, Madison

☆ Emma Stone is at the center of rumors about a song on Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —As Swifties and others rejoice at the release of Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” a reissue of the star’s third studio album from 2010, one previously unreleased track has some scratching their heads. “When Emma Falls in Love,” one of the “from the vault” songs in the album rerelease, is gaining traction online as being about Oscar-winning actor Emma Stone, a known friend of Swift’s from the time “Speak Now” was initially written, around 2008-2010. Emma Stone (left) and Taylor Swift seen at the premiere of "Easy A" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on September 13, 2010 in Hollywood, California. David Livingston/Getty ImagesOther slightly more vague clues come with a lyric referencing how Emma in the song “calls up her mom” to talk about her love life. Stone notably has taken her mother Krista to various awards shows and public events, per Entertainment Weekly.

Persons: Swifties, Taylor Swift’s, “, Emma Falls, Oscar, Emma Stone, Swift’s, ”, Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield’s “, Swift, Stone, Taylor Swift, David Livingston, Emma, Krista, , John ” Mayer Organizations: CNN, Theatre, Getty, Entertainment Locations: Love, Hollywood , California, New York, L.A, Los Angeles, New York City

☆ A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Mark Vanhoenacker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Head next to Southall Library, home to a noted collection of Martin Ware pottery. Martin Ware is associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, which arose in the late 19th century in opposition to the industrialization of decorative arts. The Southall studio, founded by the Martin brothers in a former soap factory in 1877, remained in operation through the early 20th century. She guided me first to the former Palace Cinema, constructed in a Chinese style and opened in 1929. The cinema became an essential cultural space for London’s growing South Asian population.

☆ 'Scott Pilgrim' cast members will reunite in Netflix anime series
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Danielle Broadway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Cast member Michael Cera poses at the premiere of the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California, July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Danny MoloshokLOS ANGELES, March 30 (Reuters) - Brie Larson, Michael Cera and other cast members from the 2010 film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" will return for an upcoming Netflix (NFLX.O) anime series based on the popular graphic novels about a slacker pursuing love. loadingCera will return to voice the lead role of Pilgrim, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead will speak as romantic interest Ramona Flowers. "Scott Pilgrim" is based on graphic novels by Canadian comic book artist Bryan Lee O'Malley.

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Top Canadian banks are expected to post a decline in fourth-quarter profits as choppy markets hurt wealth management and a slow deal pipeline dents income from investment banking, offsetting expected gains from business loans. On average, profit for the Big Six banks are expected to drop 4% from last year, hurt by lower investment banking activity. Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) and Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO), which have the largest capital markets businesses, are expected to see the biggest hit to profits. "Business lending was particularly strong and aided by strength in balances outside of Canada," KBW analysts Mike Rizvanovic and Abhilash Shashidharan said. National Bank of Canada (NA.TO) and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO), also among the Big Six, will report earnings on Wednesday and Friday, respectively.

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