Isabel Allende on Feminism, Her New Memoir and HBO Miniseries ‘Isabel’

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is officially ready to open her New York-based Indian restaurant doors after holding a traditional prayer ceremony. The actress, her team, and Restaurateur Maneesh Goyal reunited at Sona to perform a worship ritual known as Puja and offer devotional homage and prayer to the Almighty.

CNN reports that India currently allows women six weeks of leave after a miscarriage.) Following the ruling, Andersen tweeted that she's “proud to have made a change for good.”She told the New York Times, "I felt that it would give women the confidence to be able to request that leave if it was required, as opposed to just being stoic and getting on with life, when they knew that they needed time, physically or psychologically, to get over the grief." While the estimates that roughly two out of

NEW YORK -- New York City is taking steps toward the reopening of the city's theaters, creating vaccination and testing sites for stage workers in a bid to restore a key part of New York's draw.“It’s time to raise the curtain and bring Broadway back,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a virtual press conference Thursday.

Wellington Paranormal, a New Zealand horror mockumentary based on Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows film, is coming to the U.S.

Kicking off a partnership with the YES Network, Amazon Prime Video has announced a schedule of 21 New York Yankees games to stream during the 2021 season.

While it’s not really a time to take a victory lap at the box office with only 3,1k movie theaters opened out of U.S. and Canada’s 5,8K, five out of the eight Oscar nominated best pictures this past weekend in theatrical release reaped the halo effect of Monday’s noms.

Sharon Stone is speaking out about her experience in Hollywood.

Anna Marie de la Fuente WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has launched a new initiative aimed at the fast-growing Latinx audience, HBO Max Pa’lante!, which Jackie Gagne, senior VP, multicultural marketing, WarnerMedia, describes as an “evolution” of HBO’s promotional efforts.“For more than a decade, we’ve been developing creative, audience-first campaigns that strategically engage Latinx, Black, Asian American and LGBTQ Plus audiences,” said Gagne.“With the launch of HBO Max Pa’lante! (Onward!), we are

NEW YORK -- Isabel Allende is not only the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist.

It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.Now, the many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very different governor, one accused of underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, sexually harassing female staffers and bullying colleagues.To New Yorkers who have watched

Mariah Carey is being sued by her older brother Morgan following the release of her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

This Country star Daisy May Cooper is set to release a memoir later this year.Don’t Laugh.

Haley Bosselman editorMorgan Carey, the older brother of Mariah Carey, is suing the pop star for defamation and the intentional infliction of emotional distress as a result of the publication of “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.”The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court on March 3, alleges the memoir contains passages that are false and defamatory.

EXCLUSIVE: Charly Evon Simpson is getting into business with HBO. The prolific playwright is expanding her reach in television, signing an overall deal with the premium cabler. Under the pact, Simpson will serve as a consulting producer on the second season of Industry. She is also currently a member of the writing staff for the second season of Perry Mason, which recently earned three Critics Choice nominations.

parenting, aging, love and more.This short, but mighty memoir opens with a proud declaration that Allende has been a feminist since kindergarten, and from there launches readers into an enchanting examination of the life she has lived ever since.Now in her late 70s, Allende reflects on her life, from her childhood and parents to her experience becoming a mother and grandmother.The memoir is a chronicle of her fierce advocacy for herself and for the power of women, and it is also an ode to the

New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears when it drops locally on Channel Nine.WATCH: Mike Munro interviews Britney Spears on A Current Affair in 2001The eye-opening documentary caused a stir overseas last month when it shined a light on the controversial questions some media has asked over the years as well as some of the seemingly unfair criticism she’s been subjected to over the years.It wasn’t just the US press who were notorious for prying into her personal life, and among the

HBO, marking 20 years since the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.Production is currently underway on NYC Epicenters 9/11→ 2021½, which is set to be released later this year on HBO and the HBO Max streaming service.A synopsis for the documentary promises an “unprecedented, sweeping portrait of New Yorkers as they rebuild and rebound, from a devastating terrorist attack through the ongoing global pandemic”.Speaking about the project in a statement, Lee said: “As a New Yawker who bleeds orange