The Razzie Awards have given a clean sweep to Netflix’s filmed version of Diana the Musical, a critically panned Broadway show about Princess Diana’s life story. These awards which are announced the day before the Oscars honour Hollywood’s best, name and shame the year’s worst films.
Five awards were given to Diana the Musical, including worst picture and worst actress for Jeanna de Waal, who played the late princess. Great basketball player For Space Jam: A New Legacy, LeBron James took home the award for worst actor. James and “any Warner cartoon character (or WarnerMedia product) he dribbles on” won the award for worst screen couple, while the film was also named worst remake, rip-off, or sequel.
The Guardian called Diana the Musical “a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate,” Vanity Fair called it “a shellacked lump of product born solely of cold, money-minded cynicism,” and the Financial Times called it “a wildly crass patty of pure schlock” when it was released last year. The Broadway show only lasted 33 performances before it was shut down. Because its theatres were closed and the entertainment industry was dealing with coronavirus restrictions, Netflix streamed a film of the musical before it hit Broadway, without a live audience.
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Thousands of people descended on a small town in central South Sudan to witness Christian Carlassare’s ordination as bishop of Rumbek, capping off a tumultuous year for the Italian cleric.
Since Pope Francis appointed him a year ago, he has overcome a shooting and subsequent operations. The 44-year-old cleric was shot four times in the leg by assailants who broke into his home in Rumbek just weeks after arriving in South Sudan last April. Six people are on trial in connection with the shooting, including a senior member of the Catholic clergy, in a case that prosecutors are pursuing despite the church’s request that it be dropped.
Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, the retired archbishop of Khartoum, presided over Friday’s mass in Rumbek, which was also attended by many other clergy and the new bishop’s parents. In South Sudan, the Italian is the first European to be ordained a bishop by an African cardinal. Cardinal Wako said in his sermon that the work of a bishop is frequently misunderstood.
He urged people to support Bishop Carlassare, saying, “They think when someone becomes a bishop, he becomes a rich man.” “Don’t take anything from him; instead, encourage him to keep going.”
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According to his family, a four-year-old Ukrainian refugee was denied entry to the UK because his passport had recently expired.
Inesse Gwynne, Platan’s great-aunt who wants to bring him to Stockport, said his visa application was denied. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the youngster and his mother Ruslana fled to Italy, but only made it that far.
The Home Office stated that it is “moving as quickly as possible” to ensure that Ukrainians can find safe haven in the United Kingdom. Ms Gwynne wanted to bring her relatives to her Greater Manchester home, but they “don’t know what to do” after being told “they can’t come.”
“We’d like to have them as part of our family. We want to take care of them “she stated “We’d like to send Platan to nursery, but we won’t be able to.” Ruslana, who graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in art in 2009, still has friends and connections in the city, according to Ms Gwynne.
“Surely, this minor detail in a child’s passport can be overlooked,” she added.
“It had only been a few weeks since it had expired. What difference does it make?” The government launched the Ukraine family scheme earlier this month, allowing Ukrainians to join family members in the UK or extend their stay. The application process is free, and those who are accepted will be able to live, work, and study in the United Kingdom while also having access to government funds.
“We are moving as quickly as possible to ensure that those fleeing horrific persecution in Ukraine can find safety in the UK, setting up both the Ukraine family scheme and now the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which allows those without family connections to come here,” a spokesperson for the Home Office said.
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In the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, a Russian journalist was killed during shelling by Russian forces.
Oksana Baulina had been reporting for investigative website The Insider from Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, the outlet said in a statement. It added that she died while filming damage in the city’s Podil district. Baulina had previously worked for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation before leaving the country.
The foundation was declared illegal and extremist by the authorities last year, forcing many of its employees to flee to other countries. Another person was killed and two others were injured in the shelling, according to reports. Baulina had previously sent several reports from Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine.
To the reporter’s family and friends, the publication expressed its “heartfelt condolences.” In a month of war, Baulina is one of five journalists known to have been killed. During shelling of the TV transmission tower in Kyiv in early March, Yevhenii Sakun, a camera operator for Ukrainian TV channel LIVE who also worked for the Spanish news agency EFE, was killed.
Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old American journalist and filmmaker, was shot and killed while filming in the town of Irpin outside of Kyiv two weeks later. Two days later, on the outskirts of Kyiv, two Fox News journalists, cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Oleksandra Kuvshinova, 24, were killed when their vehicle was hit by incoming fire.
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A California judge has ordered Amanda Bynes to be released from her nine-year conservatorship. In 2013, the former child star was placed under legal guardianship, similar to Britney Spears, while undergoing psychiatric treatment.
Bynes, now 35, was best known for her role in The Amanda Show and films such as What a Girl Wants, She’s the Man, and Easy A, but she struggled with drug and mental health issues. Judge Roger L Lund announced on Tuesday that the conservatorship was no longer necessary.
According to the New York Times, he said, “She’s done everything the court has asked over a long period of time.” A court can appoint a conservator for someone who is unable to make their own decisions. Bynes’ mother was in charge of her daughter’s financial and personal affairs, as well as her medical decisions, under the terms of the agreement. Bynes thanked fans “for their love and well wishes during this time” in a statement to People.
“I’d also like to express my gratitude to my lawyer and my parents for their unwavering support over the last nine years,” she added. “I’ve been working hard for several years to improve my health so that I can live and work independently, and I’ll continue to put my health first in this next chapter.”
At the age of 16, Bynes began using marijuana, but her problems worsened when she began taking Adderall, a prescription medication used to treat people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
After being taken to the hospital for a mental health assessment after allegedly starting a small fire in the driveway of a home in California, Bynes was placed under conservatorship. There had also been erratic behaviour and run-ins with the law, including charges of drunk driving, hit-and-run, and driving while licence was suspended. She was eventually given a three-year probationary sentence.
Bynes’ Twitter rants also made headlines, leaving her “ashamed and embarrassed,” as she later admitted. “She’s done everything the court has asked of her.”She has recently cleaned up her act, moved into a “structured community for women,” graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, and is engaged to her partner, Paul Michael.
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During a Russian attack on the eastern city of Kharkiv, a Ukrainian man who survived the Nazi Holocaust during WWII was killed. Boris Romantschenko, 96, died on Friday as a result of Russian shelling of his apartment block, according to relatives.
For more than three weeks, Russian forces have been shelling Kharkiv, which is only 30 miles (50 kilometres) from the Russian border. According to Ukrainian officials, at least 500 civilians have been killed there. One of the victims has been identified as a nine-year-old boy, according to police. Mr Romantschenko’s death has left the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation “deeply disturbed.”
After being informed by his family, the organisation, of which Mr Romantschenko was vice-president, announced the news, saying he had “worked intensely on the memory of Nazi crimes.” “We are saddened by the death of a close friend. We send our heartfelt condolences to his son and granddaughter, who broke the sad news to us “The statement of the foundation has been added. Mr. Romantschenko’s death comes more than three weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted to justify his invasion by telling the Russian people that his goal was to “de-Nazify Ukraine.” These claims have been condemned by Western leaders, who have pointed out that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Mr. Romantschenko was born on January 20, 1926, in the north-eastern city of Bondari. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union, he was apprehended by Nazi troops and deported to Germany in 1942, where he was forced to work as a slave, according to the foundation. Following a failed escape attempt in 1943, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where 56,545 people were murdered before the allies liberated the camp in 1945.
He was also stationed in the Mittelbau-Dora subcamp, as well as the notorious Bergen Belsen and Peenemünde camps.
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According to Russia’s defence ministry in Moscow, a hypersonic ballistic missile was fired and destroyed a large underground arms depot in western Ukraine. If confirmed, it would be Russia’s first use of the Kinzhal, or Dagger, ballistic missile from the air, most likely by a MiG-31 warplane, in this war.
Russia’s investment in hypersonic missiles, which can travel at more than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5, has been emphasised by President Vladimir Putin on several occasions. According to Russian officials, the Kinzhal can hit a target up to 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) away and travel at speeds of over 6,000 kilometres per hour. But does this make them any more dangerous than other missiles or even artillery, both of which can kill and destroy just as many people?
“I don’t think it’s that significant,” says James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nuclear policy expert. “I’m not sure how much of a competitive advantage Russia gets from hypersonic missiles.”
Last December, President Putin boasted that Russia was the world leader in hypersonic missiles, which are difficult to track because they can change direction in mid-flight. Russia released a video of a missile strike on an arms depot in Deliatyn, a village in south-western Ukraine only 100 kilometres from Romania’s border. “It’s a sign of dexterity. Even if it is used, we should regard it as a one-off event because Russia has a limited number of these missiles “Dominika Kunertova of the Zurich-based Center for Security Studies agreed.
The Kinzhal was unveiled four years ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of a series of “invincible” weapons that he claimed could evade enemy defences. The Zirkon and the Avangard are the other hypersonic missiles, with the Avangard being faster and having a much longer range. The Kinzhal can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads, and recent reports claim that MiG-31 fighters have been dispatched to Kaliningrad, putting a number of European capitals within striking distance. The attack on the arms depot was launched from an unknown location.
Despite the fact that the Iskander-M has a much shorter range than the air-launched missile, Ukraine’s defence ministry claimed this week that Russia had fired nearly all of its Iskander missiles in the first 20 days of the conflict. Russian forces have fired over 1,080 missiles since February 24, according to a US defence official quoted on Friday.
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Three Russian cosmonauts allegedly boarded the International Space Station wearing Ukrainian flags as a possible statement against the war, according to Russia’s space agency.
The first arrivals were dressed in bright yellow suits with blue trimmings, as has been the case since Russia’s war began. They were greeted with hugs and greetings from their fellow American, Russian, and German crew members. The Roscosmos space agency stated, “Sometimes yellow is just yellow.”
The International Space Station (ISS) is a joint project involving Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and several European countries. It is led by a US-Russian partnership that has lasted two decades despite tensions between the two world powers fluctuating. After a three-hour flight from a Russian-owned facility in Kazakhstan, Russian cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev, and Sergey Korsakov docked at the International Space Station.
A voice from Russia’s mission control said, “Congratulations on the successful docking.” Two sets of hatches were opened a few hours later, and the three smiling men in their yellow suits floated into the space station one by one. Before takeoff, at least one of the men was seen wearing the standard-issue Russian uniform, which is plain blue. Roscosmos and Nasa, the American space agency, both broadcast the event live.
People all over the world have used the colours of Ukraine’s national flag to show solidarity and support since the invasion. The reports were dismissed by Roscosmos’ press service as a “funny invention” by foreign bloggers and media.
“The new crew’s flight suits are designed in the colours of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University emblem, from which all three cosmonauts graduated… It’s insane to see the Ukrainian flag everywhere and in everything.”
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, is a strong supporter of the invasion, and he claimed that the claims that the cosmonauts were wearing Ukrainian flags were made by Ukrainian nationalists.
Later, Roscosmos published another photo of Oleg Artemyev dressed in a clearly Russian suit.
The three Russians will embark on a six-month science mission aboard the International Space Station.
They will take the place of three current crew members who will return to Earth on March 30.
The colours are certainly trendy, but what is the real reason for wearing them? Is it a show of support for Ukraine or a show of opposition? After all, the suits have Russian flags on them.
Maybe neither point of view is correct.The colours are said to be a reflection of the fact that all three cosmonauts attended Bauman Moscow State Technical University, which has a similar colour scheme. The university has been touting the fact that it is a “Bauman crew.”
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Pegasus Event Production Company marks another milestone by organizing the 11th edition of Miss Queen of India. Manappuram Finance Ltd and DQUE present Miss Queen of India 2022 title was won by Vaishnavi Sharma from Rajasthan. Meharmeet Kaur from Maharashtra earned the Miss Queen of India First Runner-up title and Abinaya Subramanian from Tamil Nadu won the Miss Queen of India 2nd Runner-up title. Miss Queen of India 2022 was conducted on March 19th at Le Meridian Kochi. Dr. Ajit Ravi Pegasus, Chairman of Pegasus and Mrs. Jebitha Ajit, Managing Director of Pegasus Global Pvt Ltd were also present. Lakshmi Menon, actress and model crowned the title winner.
Subtitle Winners
Miss Congeniality – Shanmughapriya N
Miss Ramp Walk – Deeksha Narang
Miss Talent – Chandralekha Nath
Miss Photogenic – Gouri Gothankar
Miss Popular – Abinaya Subramanian
Miss Social Media – Shanmughapriya N
Miss Pretty Hair – Kashish Arora
Miss Glowing Skin – Meharmeet Kaur
Miss Dazzling Smile – Dachani Santha Soruban
Miss Personality – Afrin Sayeda
Chavara Matrimony.com Best Bride to be India – Vaishnavi Sharma
Regional Title Winners
Miss Queen North – Shrutika Sharma
Miss Queen South – Shwetha Jayaram
Miss Queen West – Aqsa Varghese
The winners were crowned with a gold crown designed by Parakkat Jewelers. Model and actress Lakshmi Menon crowned the winner. Hari Anand (Fashion Designer), Lakshmi Menon (Model and Actress), Alesia Raut (Model and Grommer), and Siddhant Vir Suryavanshi (Actor and Model) was on the judging panel. The competition was organized according to the protocol set by the government in the context of the Covid spread.
The event is presented by Manappuram Finance Limited and DQUE. SAJ Earth Resorts, DQUE 78 TFM Grade One Soap, Naturals School of Makeup & VPS Lakeshore Hospital are the Powered by Partners. Co-partners are Kalpana International, Zipfit Windows, Federal International Chamber Forum, Aiswaria Outdoor Media, UT TV, Unique Times, Times New, Europe Times, UT World, Fashion Konnect, Naturals School of Makeup, Photogenic Fashion & Weddings, Udaya Sound, Juzt shine Family Fitness, Million Dots, JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Parakkat Jewels and Green Media. The competition is organized to showcase the diverse and rich cultural values of the country and to promote tourism.
Abinaya Subramaniam from Tamilnadu, Afrin Syeda from Karnataka, Aishwarya from Rajasthan, Aqsa Varghese from Maharashtra, Chandralekha Nath from Kerala, Deeksha Narang from Maharashtra, Deepthi Srirangam from Andhrapradesh, Dhachani Santha Soruban from Tamilnadu, Gauri Gothankar from Maharashtra, Kajal Bhardwaj from Rajasthan, Kashish Arora from Delhi, Komal Singh from Rajasthan, Meharmeet Kaur from Maharashtra, Reema Ravishankar from Kerala, Shanmugha Priya N from Tamilnadu, Shruti Raul from Maharashtra, Shrutika Sharma from Uttarakhand, Swetha Jayaram from Kerala and Vaishnavi Sharma from Rajasthan were the contestants.
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Eight years after Russian troops seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the event is being commemorated in Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium with flag-waving crowds and special lessons in schools. In front of the crowd, President Vladimir Putin made a special appearance.
Workers for the state claimed they had been ordered to participate. Teachers held lessons in schools to commemorate the “Crimean spring.” The Russian army has seized towns and cities along Ukraine’s south coast from its bases in Crimea. Mr. Putin has used the anniversary to emphasize his love for the motherland on several occasions.
Officials claimed that over 200,000 people had gathered at the stadium, but the figures could not be confirmed. The stadium holds an official capacity of 81,000 people, but there were large crowds outside as well. President Putin praised the military for demonstrating Russian unity, saying: “When necessary, they act as brothers, shielding each other from bullets with their bodies. We haven’t seen such unity in a long time.” He also repeated the lie that Russian troops were preventing genocide in eastern Ukraine.
In what the Kremlin later described as a technical glitch, his address on almost every major state TV channel abruptly cut to singer Oleg Gazmanov belting out the words “Forward, Russia” as he spoke on stage. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, spoke at the event, as did Margarita Simonyan, a top state television journalist, and Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry.
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