Restaurant Staff Dressed As Power Rangers Come To Woman’s Rescue Amid Attack

As he suggested he may do, James Corden on Monday’s The Late Late Show addressed the recent controversy over alleged behavior that saw him banned from ritzy NYC eatery Balthazar.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Opening statements began on Wednesday in a civil trial against Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, who has been accused of raping a publicist nearly a decade ago.  Haleigh Breest, who filed a lawsuit against Haggis in 2017, alleges that the screenwriter and director forced her to perform oral sex and then raped her after she reluctantly agreed to have a drink at his Soho apartment following a movie premiere. Her attorneys asserted to jurors that the director used his fame and position in Hollywood to pressure Breest, who was 26 at the time. “The defendant, Paul Haggis, is a famous movie director and screenwriter. He’s won two Oscars. He’s talented. He’s powerful. He’s also manipulative,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Zoe Salzman told the jurors in a Lower Manhattan courtroom. “The evidence in this case will show Mr. Haggis used his storytelling skills and fame to prey on, manipulate and attack vulnerable young women in the film industry.”

The brothers who founded a group of high-end Chinese restaurants have revealed plans to expand overseas and open two new Manchester sites under different brands over the next 12 months.

Lise Pedersen Film writer and director Lee Chang-dong (“Burning,” “Oasis,” “Peppermint Candy”), one of Korea’s best-known auteur filmmakers who has contributed to putting Korean cinema firmly on the global stage, is guest of honor at the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, where he was welcomed with a standing ovation.  The Cannes veteran – four out of his six feature films have been screened at the festival and its sidebars – engaged with the audience with characteristic humility on questions of identity, human nature, violence and love, which are central themes to all of his films.  “People sometimes ask me why I always tell stories centered on characters who are suffering. Trust me, I am not sadistic,” he smiled. “But it takes us back to the notion of family [which is central to all my films]: I grew up in a poor family, and I’m familiar with suffering,” he said. 

Thomas Hartley got chins wagging during Monday night's Married At First Sight reunion as he rocked up in a pink fitted dress and matching pink hair.Thomas, who had been married to Adrian Sanderson throughout the explosive experiment, turned up with his partner despite the pair not making it to the show’s final vows. Usually one to make a scene with his iconic one-liners, this time the Liverpudlian made a statement with his bold outfit instead – with some viewers comparing him to a Power Ranger. “I wasn’t ready for Thomas’ outfit,” quipped one viewer, as someone else wrote: “Ok I like Thomas but that outfit is erm… loud.” “Has Thomas joined the Power Rangers?” questioned another, as a fourth fan compared him to a Flamingo.

A messianic ruler, already considered the world’s most influential figure, is about to get absolute power over the planet’s most-populous state.  What happens next will be remembered for generations. Chances are, Chinese President Xi Jinping will lead China into war.   The drama begins at the Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, which starts Sunday.

When we created this list six years ago, we were determined to recognize the new faces of storytellers, executives and entrepreneurs who were reinventing New York. A lot has changed since then, but the city’s can-do spirit is as potent as ever.

A diverse bipartisan coalition of Californians is leading the charge against a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, including some pro-choice voters who find the proposed amendment "too extreme." "Our diverse coalition and the coalition itself does not take a stance when it comes to the morality of abortion," said Catherine Hadro, a spokesperson for California Together, No on Proposition 1, which held a press conference last Thursday at the California state Capitol in Sacramento. "Proposition 1 is extreme, it is expensive, and it is unnecessary," Hadro said, adding that the measure would mean the state constitution would effectively guarantee "late-term abortion up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are perfectly healthy." Hadro maintained that the text of Proposition 1 is more vaguely worded than existing state law.

Paris Hilton said this week that she was sexually abused as a teenager at a boarding school in Utah by staff members performing cervical exams. She alleged "very late at night" staff members would take her and other girls at the Provo Canyon School in Utah into a room.  "They would have us lay on a table and put their fingers inside of us," she told the New York Times in an emotional video interview.

Heo Chan is leaving VICTON.