Lifestyle

Nov
22
2021
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By Troy Warren
Lifestyle: How Gina Lollobrigida Inspired Lady Gaga’s ‘House of Gucci’ Look

Lifestyle: How Gina Lollobrigida Inspired Lady Gaga’s ‘House of Gucci’ Look

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BY CATHY WHITLOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle For Gaga’s costumes, designer Janty Yates and director Ridley  Scott took style cues from the late Italian screen icon. One of the major influences behind Lady Gaga’s look in House of Gucci was Italian actress and international siren Gina Lollobrigida, who inspired style choices for the character of Patrizia Reggiani Gucci, including a white lace coat, jacket and dress worn at the Lake Como birthday party of Aldo Gucci (played by Al Pacino). As British costume designer Janty Yates details, “Ridley [Scott] wanted Lady Gaga to look more like Gina Lollobrigida than Joan Collins of Dynasty, so…
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Nov
21
2021
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By Troy Warren
Checkup finds Biden ‘vigorous’; Harris briefly held presidential power

Checkup finds Biden ‘vigorous’; Harris briefly held presidential power

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By Zeke Miller, The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks  #Lifestyle BETHESDA, Md. — President Joe Biden remains “healthy” and “vigorous” and fit for duty, but is showing some signs of aging, his doctor said Friday after the oldest president in American history underwent his first routine physical in office and — in a history-making moment — briefly transferred power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he underwent a colonoscopy. Harris, the first woman, first Black person and first person of South Asian descent to be vice president, was — for one hour and 25 minutes — acting president while…
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Nov
19
2021
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By Troy Warren
FBI searches old New Jersey landfill for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains

FBI searches old New Jersey landfill for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains

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By Ed White, The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle Years after Teamsters boss vanished, a man who worked at the site in 1975 told his son that mobsters buried body in a steel drum The decades-long odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished without a trace in 1975, has turned to a former New Jersey landfill that sits below an elevated highway. The FBI obtained a search warrant to “conduct a site survey underneath the Pulaski Skyway,” said Mara Schneider, a spokeswoman for the Detroit field office. “On October 25th & 26th, FBI personnel from…
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Nov
19
2021
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Travis Scott, others hit with $2 billion lawsuit in wake of Astroworld disaster

Travis Scott, others hit with $2 billion lawsuit in wake of Astroworld disaster

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By Yaron Steinbuch | NYPost.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle #EditorsPicks   A Texas attorney on Thursday filed a $2 billion lawsuit on behalf of 282 victims of the deadly Astroworld Festival — adding to the legal woes faced by Travis Scott and other parties involved in the ill-fated concert in Houston. “The defendants stood to make an exorbitant amount of money off this event, and they still chose to cut corners, cut costs, and put attendees at risk,” San Antonio-based attorney Thomas Henry in a news release. “My clients want to ensure the defendants are held responsible for their actions,…
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Nov
18
2021
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By Troy Warren
Black man stomped by South Carolina officer gets $650K settlement

Black man stomped by South Carolina officer gets $650K settlement

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By Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle Cop fired 2 days after July 26 incident and charged with felony first-degree assault and battery A South Carolina city is paying $650,000 to a Black man who was stomped in the head by a white police officer upset that the man could not quickly lie flat on his stomach because of rods and pins in his leg. Orangeburg officials also have apologized to Clarence Gailyard and are reviewing the police department’s use of force policies, City Administrator Sidney Evering said in a statement released by Gailyard’s lawyer Justin Bamberg.…
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Nov
15
2021
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By Troy Warren
Will Smith Engages in Emotional Conversation With Ava DuVernay On L.A. Book Tour Stop

Will Smith Engages in Emotional Conversation With Ava DuVernay On L.A. Book Tour Stop

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BY EVAN NICOLE BROWN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle The actor is currently traveling the country in support of his upcoming memoir 'Will,' and spoke to DuVernay on Thursday about his life on and offscreen. In support of his new memoir Will, Will Smith embarked on a vulnerable and wide-ranging conversation on the stage of the Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre in a sit down with Ava DuVernay on Thursday. Smith’s nationwide book tour began in his native Philadelphia, then traveled to Brooklyn, Chicago, and Los Angeles before it heads to London, and was a night of storytelling, laughter, performance, and even tears — Smith’s myriad…
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Nov
13
2021
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By Troy Warren
Black high school principal forced to resign amid critical race theory controversy

Black high school principal forced to resign amid critical race theory controversy

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle A Black high school principal in Fort Worth, Texas, has been forced out of his job following months of racial controversies, including a social media photo that showed him kissing his white wife and accusations that he endorsed critical race theory to students. James Whitfield was on suspension from his administrative post at Colleyville Heritage High School since September when the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday to terminate his contract, according to NBC News. “This is beyond me,” he told the network in an interview since the…
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Nov
12
2021
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Los Angeles: Britney freed: Judge dissolves Spears’ conservatorship

Los Angeles: Britney freed: Judge dissolves Spears’ conservatorship

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By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Troy Warren for LosAngelesNewsAndTalk.Com #Entertainment #EditorsPicks #Lifestyle LOS ANGELES — Britney is free. A Los Angeles judge on Friday ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’ life and money for nearly 14 years. The decision capped a stunning five-month odyssey that saw Spears publicly demand the end of the conservatorship, hire her own attorney, have her father removed from power and finally win the freedom to make her own medical, financial and personal decisions for the first time since 2008. “As of today, the conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is hereby…
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Nov
12
2021
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U.S. consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990

U.S. consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990

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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Business  #Lifestyle WASHINGTON — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, gas and housing left Americans grappling with the highest inflation rate since 1990. The year-over-year increase in the consumer price index exceeded the 5.4% rise in September, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. From September to October, prices jumped 0.9%, the highest month-over-month increase since June. Inflation is eroding the strong gains in wages and salaries that have flowed to America’s workers in recent months, creating political headaches for the Biden administration and…
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Nov
12
2021
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Beloved ‘Dolphin Tale’ star Winter dies at Florida aquarium

Beloved ‘Dolphin Tale’ star Winter dies at Florida aquarium

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By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Lifestyle CLEARWATER, Fla. — A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts to treat a gastrointestinal abnormality, aquarium officials said. The 16-year-old female bottlenose dolphin died while being held by animal care experts who were preparing Winter for a procedure at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where the famous marine mammal has long resided. “While we are heartbroken by Winter’s death, we are comforted knowing that our team did everything possible to give her the best chance at survival,”…
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