Elizabeth Wagmeister Departs Variety to Join CNN in Key Entertainment Reporting Role

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Match Factory has announced sales to key territories for Michel Franco’s latest feature “Memory,” which stars Jessica Chastain. The Academy Award winning actor is serving as jury president at this week’s Marrakech Film Festival, where she spoke about the film (see here). “Memory” premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was awarded with the Coppa Volpi for best actor to Peter Saarsgard.

Here are your Manchester United headlines for the morning of Wednesday, November 29, 2023.

A mum has warned others of cheap foreign weight loss surgery after waking up to find her stomach in a bag next to her - which she had to throw in the bin. Rosie Ritchie, 24, flew to Turkey for a £3k gastric sleeve operation with a cosmetic surgery provider.

More details are trickling down about Prince Harry and King Charles III’s estranged relationship.

A mum who was left fighting for her life after undergoing a botched a 'mummy makeover’ in Turkey has spoken out about her traumatising ordeal.

For a Friday that is time for reflection and giving thanks, host Billy Ray and returning original host Todd Garner welcomes WGA president Meredith Stiehm and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher. They talk with the guys about the lessons learned from the long and brutal six month strike that is finally and mercifully over. The guild leaders advise IATSE and Teamsters negotiators what to expect when their deals expire next July. They also review a negotiation that in their minds never had to turn into such a protracted process. The gains made by their guilds could have been achieved if only the signatories had sent in the CEOs earlier to the bargaining table, and stopped trying to work from a contract and negotiating moves that were hopelessly outdated in the streaming age. Coming in for particular criticism here is AMPTP negotiator Carol Lombardini. After Billy Ray recalled watching Lombardini cancel catering and then announce that the WGA walked away from the table in 2017, Stiehm said this time the head negotiator for studios responded to rejection of an offer by the WGA negotiating committee by presenting the contract to membership and releasing the full offer to the media. Ray and Garner will do one more Strike Talk by the way, and to the editors, that is another thing to give thanks for.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Natalie Portman calls Todd Haynes’ new film, “May December,” a “dream role.” “May December” stars Portman as actress Elizabeth Berry (Portman), who is set to portray Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) in a movie. Gracie is a Georgia woman who became a notorious tabloid figure when she engaged in a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy, Joe. (Yes, this is loosely based on the story of teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, who had an affair with and married her teenage student, Vili Fualaau.) Twenty years have passed, and Gracie is trying to move on from the scandal.

Thanksgiving gobbler.“They don’t eat meat, but they do eat fish, and they’re allowed to eat one of my turkeys on Thanksgiving, but only on Thanksgiving do they eat anything related to meat,” Stewart, 82, told Business Insider of her pescatarian grandkids.The “very good kids” — Jude, 12, and Truman, 11 — also offer a helping hand in Stewart’s coveted kitchen, but they’re not the only plant-based foodies in the family.The celebrity chef’s 58-year-old daughter, Alexis, has been a vegetarian for more than four decades after their family served a lamb from their farm on a platter.“I tried to pass it off as a pork chop, but she knew the difference,” Stewart admitted to Business Insider. “It didn’t go over very well in our family.”Despite being surrounded by herbivores, the culinary aficionado swears she’ll never “go vegan.”“I really don’t enjoy vegan food, and I really love my eggs,” she told the outlet.

canceled her Thanksgiving plans this year, Martha Stewart has done a U-turn and revealed just how she plans to celebrate.The lifestyle guru, 82, said she’s gearing up to cook a “stuffed and roasted 20-pound organic, heritage bird” as well as “prepping to bake thirty pies” for the holiday.“My colossal chocolate turkey, crafted using my giant antique turkey mold, did not survive storage since October, crumbling into itself.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Middle East streamer OSN+ is joining forces with Anghami, the Arab world’s rival to Spotify, in what is being touted as a landmark deal. The combination of OSN+ and Anghami will become the first platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to provide customers premium movies, TV series and music.

Roll out the red carpet, The Crown is back and there won’t be a dry eye in the house as this sixth – and final – series airs.The Netflix drama following the lives of our royal family concludes with the events of the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was a period defined by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, an event that shook the world more than a quarter of a century ago, and which many of us still remember clearly today. With the first four episodes airing this week, actress Elizabeth Debicki, who plays Diana, has revealed how it felt to retell one of modern history’s most devastating stories, as she spoke via Zoom at a Netflix press conference.

OK! has put together a comprehensive guide to the shopping event with answers to common questions like when is Black Friday 2023? Elizabeth Arden has long been one of the go-to skincare brands for everyone from celebs to royals, with the late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly a huge fan of the brand’s Eight Hour Cream. She wasn’t the only royal who’s a known fan of the brand, though, as in a now-viral excerpt from his book Spare, £19.99 here (was £28),Prince Harry revealed that when dealing with frostbite he’d applied some of the Eight Hour cream to his “todger”, as he described it, to protect it, as well as sharing that the late Princess Diana used to use it on her dry lips, proving that it really does do, well, everything.

Josie Gibson gave fans a sneak peek of the luxury Turkish holiday she went on, ahead of entering I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. The 38 year old This Morning presenter stayed at the epic Lara Barut hotel in Antalya with her son Reggie, five, and other family members during the October half-term break.

“Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival” — out Nov. 28 — detailed how Harry and William, the heir to the throne, feuded as their late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was taking her final breaths.Palace insiders tore into Scobie’s claims that William “ignored” his brother’s desperate calls as he raced to be at the Queen’s bedside in Balmoral last September.“It appears no matter what happens behind closed doors, even in a time of such pain and grief, that where the royal family are concerned it will one day emerge,” a royal insider told the Mirror.“Nothing is off limits with William and Kate appearing to be this author’s number one target.

Caroline Brew editor Seven veterans who have transitioned into various careers and pursuits that inspire others were honored in “Variety Salute to Service” presented by the History Channel. Marine Corp and Navy veteran Montel Williams hosted this year’s special, which premiered Monday on the History Channel and was produced by A+E Factual Studios. Williams explained that the veterans highlighted are those who, “continued to answer the call of duty long after their act of service was done.” He first introduced Jeremy Locke, Sgt.

The Grierson Trust is “urgently investigating” reports of an antisemitic incident during last week’s documentary awards ceremony in London.

Elizabeth Wagmeister is joining CNN as correspondent covering entertainment, based in Los Angeles.

A mum says a family trip to Turkey turned into a horror holiday after being told she had a potentially life-threatening condition. Rebecca Payne says she was assured by doctors in the UK she was healthy enough to make the trip abroad with her husband and two children.

Former midfielder Paul Scholes believes last month's 3-2 defeat by Galatasaray at Old Trafford is the result that Manchester United could end up ruing as they face an uphill struggle to make it into the Champions League knockout stages.

British women are the world's biggest binge drinkers, a new report says. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) compared alcohol consumption across 33 countries.