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Gerard Depardieu’s trial on sexual assault charges is starting in France
By Canadian Press on March 24th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — French actor Gérard Depardieu is standing trial on Monday in Paris accused of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of a movie in 2021. Depardieu, 76, is facing charges that he groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during production of the film “Les Volets Verts” (“The Green ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conan O’Brien accepts Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note. O’Brien accepted the award for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night while acknowledging ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gerard Depardieu sexual assault trial marks a cultural reckoning for post-#MeToo France
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Gérard Depardieu won’t just be facing two women who accuse him of sexual assault when he walks into a Paris courtroom on Monday. France’s most famous male actor will also be confronting a nation long criticized for failing to address sexual violence — particularly when committed by its most powerful figures. Depardieu, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conan O’Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conan O’Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where the backstage drama of the host institution may hang over the celebration. O’Brien, 61, was named the latest recipient of the award for lifetime achievement in comedy in mid-January, about ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Snow White’ opens with a sleepy $43 million at box office
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. With a budget above $250 million, “Snow White” had set out with higher ambitions, particularly since it returns Disney to its very origins. The 1937 original “Snow ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2 months into Trump’s second administration, the news industry faces challenges from all directions
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — During the first Trump administration, the biggest concern for many journalists was labels. Would they, or their news outlet, be called “fake news” or an “enemy of the people” by a president and his supporters? They now face a more assertive President Donald Trump. In two months, a blitz of action ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conan O’Brien is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conan O’Brien is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where the backstage drama of the host institution may hang over the celebration. O’Brien, 61, was named the latest recipient of the award for lifetime achievement in comedy in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conan O’Brien is set to receive the Mark Twain award as politics roils the Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on March 23rd, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conan O’Brien is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where the backstage drama of the host institution may hang over the celebration. O’Brien, 61, was named the latest recipient of the award for lifetime achievement in comedy in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Netflix documentary about Missouri tornado revisits one of the deadliest twisters in the US
By Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2025
The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing,” Kerry Sachetta, then the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Filiz Akin, a celebrated Turkish screen actress, dies at 82
By Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2025
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Filiz Akin, a screen actress and iconic figure of Turkish cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, the Health Ministry said. She was 82. Akin died Saturday in a hospital in Istanbul. The cause of death was not specified. “Filiz Akin, one of the rare gems of Turkish cinema has ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A new museum in Texas tells the life stories of Medal of Honor recipients
By Canadian Press on March 21st, 2025
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A new museum devoted to telling the stories of those who have received the nation’s highest military honor is opening this coming week in Texas. The National Medal of Honor Museum is set to open Tuesday in Arlington, just west of Dallas. It highlights the lives and service of Medal of ... Read More »
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