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☆ Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are bringing back this vintage travel accessory
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Romance was in the air at London’s St. Pancras station on Tuesday, and not just because burgeoning power couple Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner were spotted returning from a trip to Paris. Beyond their similar leather jackets, there was something nostalgic, even sentimental about their looks. Turner wheeled a silver Rimowa cabin case decked out with a smorgasbord of luggage stickers. The fashion for luggage patches began around the 1900s — they were typically offered by grand, palatial hotels. “In this age of nostalgia… I say bring back the travel sticker,” wrote the New York Times in 1971, insisting that the colorful decorations are key to evoking pleasant memories and standing out from the crowd.

Persons: Dua Lipa, Callum Turner, Jane Birkin, Turner, Neil Mockford, ”, Birkin, “, it’s, Taylor, Lipa — Organizations: CNN, Dua, Puma, New York Times, Vogue Locations: London’s St, Pancras, Paris, Lipa, Palermo, Italy, Costa Rica, Greece, Israel, Palestine

☆ From Wall Street to Chicago, why stock exchanges ring bells
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —The New York Stock Exchange opens every workday morning at 9:30 am ET with the fast-paced bang-clang of a gleaming brass bell. The stock exchange, the largest in the world by market capitalization, has opened with sonic fanfare for more than 150 years. From Wall Street to the Nasdaq Exchange in Times Square to the Chicago Board Options Exchange, loud, ringing bells bookend each trading session. Stock exchanges say that the bell ringing remains both a critical guide and a ceremony that celebrates the market’s resilience through devastating lows and exuberant highs. The stock exchange had been closed since two hijacked commercial airliners were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11.

Persons: there’s, ”, Peter Asch, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Serena Williams, Nelson Mandela, Richard Grasso, Henny Ray Abrams, David Howson, Scott Olson, Howson, Mark McCooey, Morgan Stanley, ” McCooey, Karen Snow, Brendan McDermid, Barbie, Barbie ”, “, Chris Hondros, Trudi Wagner, Wagner, Ronald Moser, Wagner That’s, Goldman Sachs, ” Wagner Organizations: New, New York CNN, The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Exchange, Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, Jersey Shore, NYSE, Former South African, Getty, Cboe, yanks, Nasdaq, Microsoft, UN, United Nations, Bell, Warner Bros, Warner Bros ., World Trade Center, Trade Center, United, New York Stock, Trade, Dow Jones Locations: New York, Chicago, Jersey, Asch, AFP, York, Chicago , Illinois, New York City, America, United States, New Jersey, Manhattan, Charleston , South Carolina

But Greta Gerwig not being among the five best director nominees for this year’s Oscars is one of the biggest shocks in recent memory. Here are some other major “snubs” and “surprises” from Oscar nomination morning. Gerwig was previously nominated for best director for “Lady Bird,” and missing out for “Little Woman” was even a snub. “The Super Mario Bros.” movie, the second highest grossing film of the year was completely shut out from nominations including animation. ‘SALTBURN’ GOES DOWN THE DRAINListen, we didn’t really think that Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” would make a big splash nominations morning, but it had been trending that way based on its popularity on Prime Video over the holidays.

Persons: Barbie, Greta Gerwig, ”, Oscar, GRETA GERWIG, Gerwig, “ Barbie, Lady Bird, Justine Triet, James Cameron, Joseph Kosinski, Ava DuVernay, Aunjanue Ellis, Isabel Wilkerson, It’s, —, Gina Prince, Bythewood’s, DuVernay’s, Selma ”, Halle Berry, Barrino, CHARLES MELTON, Charles Melton’s, Sterling K, Brown, ” “, Samy Burch, MARGOT ROBBIE OUT, Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Robbie, DIANE WARREN, BARBIE, Diane Warren, Warren, Barbie ”, “, Ken ”, ” Oscar, Aki Kaurismäki’s, ’, Celine, Greta Lee's, Mario, Princess Peach, Anderson, Pedro Almodóvar, Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke, Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl, Henry Sugar, ‘, Sophie Ellis Organizations: “, ACADEMY, Sterling, AMERICA, MARIO Locations: LIPA, France, Cannes, U.S

“Barbie World” by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice will compete for best rap song. Tracks from the soundtrack also hog up four of the five available slots in best song written for visual media. Peso Pluma’s 2023 album, “Génesis,” is just tucked among the nominees for música mexicana. But música urbana — encompassing reggaeton, Latin hip-hop, dembow, Latin trap and more — is a crowded, competitive, hugely popular format. His 2023 album, “Seven Psalms,” plays as a thoughtful, complex, tuneful farewell, anticipating his death.

Persons: Greta Gerwig, ”, Billie Eilish’s, “, Nicki Minaj, Edgar Barrera, Eslabon, Natanael Cano —, Tainy, Rauw Alejandro, Karol G, JON PARELES Olivia Rodrigo, Olivia Rodrigo’s “, Rodrigo, Daniel Nigro, Mick Jagger, CARYN GANZ, Paul Simon, it’s Paul Simon, It’s, Simon, Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, PARELES Organizations: Spice, Pluma, música, Grupo Frontera, Grupo Firme, Foo Fighters, Queens Locations: Mexican American, Americas, Mexican, música mexicana, urbana, Colombian, Será, Spanish, Newport

Pop, like all genres of creative expression, is more commercialized than ever. Rihanna, who hasn’t released an album since 2016, has her multibillion-dollar Fenty Beauty line; Ariana Grande will soon star as Glinda in Universal’s “Wicked” juggernaut. Service95 represents who Lipa is “behind closed doors,” she says, a space where discussions around trans liberation are as common as those about jewelry and yoga. “My intention is never to be political … but there’s a political bent to my existence,” Lipa says. “I’ve found being in the media this way very encouraging.”

Persons: Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, —, Lipa, don’t, Rihanna, hasn’t, Ariana Grande, ”, ’, Sinéad Burke —, she’s, ” Lipa, Tavi Gevinson, “, Drew Barrymore, Kelly Clarkson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lipa won’t, Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, Tracy Flick, “ I’ve Organizations: “, ” Locations: Lipa, London, ” Lipa, Tokyo, Lipa’s, “

☆ Greta Gerwig got a ‘Barbie’ flash mob from Ryan Gosling for her birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Ryan Gosling knew just what to get his “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig for her birthday. According to the movie’s verified Instagram account, the actor, who portrayed Ken in the hit film, sent Gerwig a flash mob in honor of her special day. “Ken Ryan sent these special Barbies and Kens to start Greta’s birthday with all the feelings! !”Greta Gerwig and Ryan Gosling at the premiere of "Barbie" held at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on July 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. At the end the group yelled, “Happy birthday, Greta!”Gerwig, appeared to get emotional, called it “beautiful” and gave out hugs to the flash mob members.

Persons: CNN — Ryan Gosling, Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Ken, “ Ken Ryan, Kens, Ryan Gosling, Michael Buckner, “ I’m, Ken ”, Greta, ” Organizations: CNN, Auditorium, Variety Locations: Los Angeles , California

☆ Dua Lipa sued in copyright lawsuit over 'Levitating'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Dua Lipa’s hit song ‘Levitating’ is back in court. The star and Warner Music Group are facing a multi-million dollar federal lawsuit in Los Angeles from musician Bosko Kante over copyright claims for the song, which spent 77 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The lawsuit claims Kante is entitled to more than $20 million. Earlier this year, Bad Bunny and some of the music industry’s biggest stars wanted a lawsuit that alleges copyright infringement of a 1989 song thrown out of court. In May, a Manhattan jury found Ed Sheeran did not infringe upon the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” in his hit “Thinking Out Loud.”CNN has reached out to Warner Music Group and representatives for Dua Lipa for comment.

Persons: Dua, Bosko Kante, Kante, ”, Russell Brown, Sandy Linzer, Stephen Kozmeniuk, DaBaby, Taylor Swift, Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Marvin Gaye’s “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, Warner Music Group, Spotify, ” CNN, Dua Locations: New York, Los Angeles, British, Lipa, Manhattan, Dua Lipa

☆ Opinion: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Kenergy’ is all I need
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Everything changed when Ryan Gosling, the twice-Oscar-nominated star of “Half Nelson,” “La La Land,” “The Notebook,” “Blade Runner 2049” and “Drive” was sent the script for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie. The film depicts Ken as pure superficiality, the acme beta man who exists only under the glow of Margot Robbie’s Barbie gaze. His platinum, almost white-bleached hair has lit up every interview, radiating the “Kenergy” he references like punctuation. Asked by one reporter how we might “find our Kenergy,” Gosling replied without missing a beat: “It’s there the whole time… Look no further. In becoming Ken, Gosling dashed one of Hollywood’s most tedious clichés, proving that it is possible to transform into a marshmallow-for-brains “himbo” without turning into an egomaniacal nightmare.

Persons: Holly Thomas, Katie Couric, CNN — Robert Pattinson, “, they’re, ” Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, Jared Leto’s, Viola Davis, ”, Daniel, Lewis, Oscar, Christy Brown, Ryan Gosling, Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie, Ken, Margot Robbie’s Barbie, Gosling, Jimmy Fallon, “ Barbie, ” Gosling, ” Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Barbie, Kenergy, husbanding, Hi, “ You’ll, Robbie, Gosling’s Barbie, —, that’s, it’s, Ken ”, It’s Barbie, “ Barbie ”, “ I’m Organizations: Katie Couric Media, CNN, acme, Warner Brothers Discovery, Warner Bros ., Alpha, Twitter Locations: London, La, Leicester, “

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