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HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets mixed reviews from disaster's survivors
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Critics and viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have lined up to acclaim 'Chernobyl', a dramatization of events surrounding the world's worst nuclear accident — but the reactions of some of the survivors are less rose-tinted.Sergii Parashyn, the then chairman of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Communist Party Committee, said the HBO mini-series, screened this spring in the United States and Britain, depicted the initial disbelief at the scale of the disaster well."I did not understand what was happening until dawn, until I saw with my own eyes that everything was destroyed," he told journalists in the command bunker that was used as a crisis center after the explosion on April 26, 1986.The fourth reactor in the Soviet plant north of...
June 19, 2019

HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets mixed reviews from disaster's survivors

A model presents a creation for Palomo Spain, during the Men's Spring-Summer 2020 collection fashion show in Paris. — AFP
Up Pompeii! Paris men's fashion goes Roman back in time
Paris — It was not quite the return of the toga, but Spanish wunderkind Alejandro Gomez Palomo turned the fashion clock back 2,000 years at his Paris men's show Tuesday.The flamboyant Andalusian conjured up Rome at its most decadent with a procession of beautiful boys who he claimed had just stepped from the frescos and mosaics of the lost city of Pompeii."Buried under the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius lies a distant civilization of Palomo boys who for centuries have been subject to a deep lethargy," he declared.Now they have come back to shake fashion from its long conformist sleep, he added, and to "become the man of the future".Palomo believes pretty dresses are not just for girls and his clothes can be worn by men, women and everyone in between in.And you...
June 19, 2019

Up Pompeii! Paris men's fashion goes Roman back in time

Rihanna
Rihanna opens New York pop-up shop for her Fenty label
New York — Rolling out her concept of fashion that is not a slave to the seasons or the shackles of Fashion Week, Rihanna opened the second pop-up shop of her Fenty brand in New York Tuesday, a month after the launch of the new fashion house in Paris.Fenty, which the Barbados-born diva launched with French luxury powerhouse LVMH, has set up shop in fashionable Soho store The Webster and officially opens to the public from Wednesday until June 30.It provided an occasion for the young fashion house to unveil a new mini-collection, called "6-19" after its launch date, following on from the inaugural "5-19" collection in Paris last month.Some pieces from the first collection are back, alongside some new items, including a series of dresses and skirts in bold colors like...
June 19, 2019

Rihanna opens New York pop-up shop for her Fenty label

Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge at Ascot. — Reuters
Prince William and Kate's convoy escort injuries elderly woman in crash
LONDON — An elderly woman is in hospital with serious injuries after she was struck by a police motorbike escort for Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's convoy was traveling from London to Windsor on Monday afternoon when the accident occurred.The woman, Irene Mayor, who is in her 80s, is in a serious but stable condition, police said.The Sun newspaper, citing witnesses, said the escort was on the wrong side of the road clearing traffic for the couple's convoy when the incident happened.Britain's police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, said it was investigating.The royal couple were "deeply concerned and saddened" to hear of the accident, according to a spokeswoman, and a member of their staff...
June 19, 2019

Prince William and Kate's convoy escort injuries elderly woman in crash

A revolver believed to be the gun Dutch 19th century painter Vincent Van Gogh used to kill himself on 27 July 1890 is on public display at Paris' Drouot auction house. — AFP
Gun 'Van Gogh killed himself with' sells for 162,000 euros
Paris — The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself sold for 162,500 euros ($182,000) at a Paris auction on Wednesday -- nearly three times the estimate.A private collector bought the gun, billed as the "the most famous weapon in the history of art", with a telephone bid, Art Auction told AFP.Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in a field near Auvers-sur-Oise, a village north of Paris where the troubled Dutch painter spent the last few months of his life, the gun had previously been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. — AFP
June 19, 2019

Gun 'Van Gogh killed himself with' sells for 162,000 euros

A throwable fire extinguisher that looks like a flower vase is seen in Seoul, South Korea. — Reuters
Grab and throw: S. Korea makes flower vase fire extinguisher
SEOUL — In a panic after a fire has broken out and can't remember where the fire extinguisher is, let alone how to use it?Worry no more. Now you can simply pick up a vase and throw it to douse the flames.Developed by South Korean ad agency Cheil Worldwide, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, the innovative "firevase" contains liquid potassium carbonate, which can block oxygen, effectively suppressing a fire.When the vase is hurled at a blaze and shatters, 770ml of the liquid is released to put out the fire.The vase itself is made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to reduce the danger of the fragments causing harm.And, yes, it can also be used for a small bunch of flowers."At the early stage of fire-fighting, a fire extinguisher is equivalent to one fire engine," said Hwang...
June 19, 2019

Grab and throw: S. Korea makes flower vase fire extinguisher

Elton John
Elton John to receive France's top honour
Paris — Rock legend Elton John is to be awarded France's highest civilian honor this week as he passes through Paris as part of his farewell tour, the French presidency said.The Legion d'Honneur award will be presented to the 72-year-old megastar by President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in the French capital on Friday.The singer, whose life was captured in the searingly honest "Rocketman" biopic that wowed critics at Cannes film festival last month, is not expected to perform although he was expected to use the occasion to promote his charity work.The British performer has used his stardom to promote AIDS causes and was expected to launch an appeal on behalf of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.His own charity, the Elton...
June 18, 2019

Elton John to receive France's top honour

In this file photo taken on November 18, 2013 Author Suzanne Collins attends premiere of Lionsgate's
'Hunger Games' prequel book and film planned
Los Angeles — A new "Hunger Games" novel set decades before the original best-selling trilogy will be published next year, its publisher said Monday, with plans for an accompanying film already under way.The book will revisit the macabre post-apocalyptic world of Panem created by Suzanne Collins' young adult novels, which were adapted into one of Hollywood's biggest movie franchises starring Jennifer Lawrence.The original books, which sold more than 100 million copies, told the story of Katniss Everdeen, a teenage heroine forced by the realm's totalitarian leaders to participate in a reality TV-style fight to the death.The new book will revisit Panem 64 years before the events of the trilogy during a period known as the "Dark Days," in which the nation...
June 18, 2019

'Hunger Games' prequel book and film planned

Noah Centineo accepts the Best Breakthrough Performance award for 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' onstage during the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. — AFP
Empowerment rules at MTV awards, with win for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
LOS ANGELES — Superhero blockbuster "Avengers: Endgame" was the top winner at the MTV Movie and TV awards on Monday in a show marked by messages of empowerment and self-esteem.The Marvel movie, the second biggest box office hit of all time, took wins for best movie, villain (Josh Brolin's Thanos) and hero (Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man.)But U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the diminutive, 86-year-old liberal judge, was voted best real-life hero, cementing her status as an unexpected pop culture icon, especially among women. She did not attend the MTV ceremony in the California beach city of Santa Monica.The MTV Movie and TV awards usually focus on crowd-pleasers and is an irreverent antidote to the more serious winter Hollywood awards season. Winners get...
June 18, 2019

Empowerment rules at MTV awards, with win for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Gloria Vanderbilt
US fashion icon, socialite Gloria Vanderbilt dead at 95
Los Angeles — Gloria Vanderbilt, the "poor little rich girl" who lived a life at the highest levels of fashion, society and wealth as an heir to one of the greatest family fortunes in US history, died on Monday at the age of 95, her son CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper said.Vanderbilt became a fashion icon in the 1970s with an eponymous line of tight-fitting blue jeans that bore her signature and trademark swan logo. They were a must-have for any woman with aspirations to style.Vanderbilt wrote that as a girl she had considered becoming a nun, which would have been an incredible loss to the chroniclers of high society, celebrity and tumult. Instead of a nunnery, she went on to a life that could have provided storylines for dozens of soap operas, romance novels, Broadway...
June 17, 2019

US fashion icon, socialite Gloria Vanderbilt dead at 95

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