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Watch live coverage of New Year's Eve in New York's Times Square
For the year 2000, the New Years Ball was redesigned by Waterford Crystal and Philips Lighting in a merger of traditional materials with the latest in lighting technology. But a lot of the city's New Year's traditions - the ball, the noise, and those unbelievable crowds - haven't changed much at all. Three men were arrested near Toulouse on Wednesday on suspicion of planning New Year's Eve terror attacks.
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These Mariah Carey New Year's Eve Memes Are Too Perfect For Words
Mariah Carey was open about her frustration at the New Year's Eve performance , telling the crowd she was 'trying to be a good sport here" and that "it is what it is. As the pre-recorded music continued to play without her, she went on: "We can't hear". " It just doesn't get any better ", she said as she left the stage.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Chats About Sherlock's Season 4 Evolution
Stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are more popular than ever, but many are anxious that their thriving careers won't help the show. Read the interview here. Given that we just lost Mary and we're left with a John Watson who may be filled with inconsolable grief, it's fair to say that we are kicking things off on a pretty emotional note so far.
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Star Wars fans weep as they come together to remember Carrie Fisher
Thursday's screening of The Force Awakens - the Christmas 2015 blockbuster - marked the first time the Sarnia library has been able to secure the licensing to show one of the live-action Star Wars films. Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all- whether she liked it or not. "I was devastated when I heard she passed". "Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and incredible daughter".
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Donald Trump Praises Vladimir Putin: 'I Always Knew He Was Very Smart!'
Russian Federation said on Friday it planned to expel 35 USA diplomats and ban United States diplomatic staff from using two facilities in Moscow in retaliation for expulsions and sanctions imposed by Washington . The Kremlin also banned USA diplomatic staff from using a dacha in Moscow's prestigious waterfront park area, Serebryany Bor, and a warehouse in an industrial southern area of the city.
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Mariah Carey's NYE Performance Prompts Last Twitter Draggin of 2016
But as she started singing Auld Lang Syne , it became clear that things weren't going to plan. Mariah Carey turned her disastrous New Year's Eve performance into a win with a single tweet . Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! To add to the awkwardness, while Carey was floundering on stage, the ABC countdown clock to midnight began to count upwards.
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Alshon Jeffery guarantees Bears will win Super Bowl next year
Interestingly, this year has seen Jeffery become a much more vocal presence in the locker room and with the media, voicing his frustration on matters such as the Bears offensive ineffectiveness and the team's inability to close games. He is also headed for free agency this offseason, coming off a very disappointing season (52 receptions for 821 yards and two touchdowns) that included a four-game performance-enhancing drug suspension.
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Mariah Carey's New Year's Meltdown Performance
A rep for Carey confirmed to the Associated Press that there were technical difficulties with the singer's performance. "We can't hear, but I'll just get through the moment", the visibly frustrated star said - pleading with the production crew to "put these monitors on, please".
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Serena Williams ends year with surprise news
Serena Williams is a badass tennis player and couldn't be bothered with a boring engagement story. Ohanian co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, which helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story biggest United Kingdom film of 2016
It pipped Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them in the final hours and achieved the feat in just 17 days of release. The worldwide total for " Rogue One " is already the 10th highest of 2016 and the 91st highest of all time, topping the entire run of Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation".
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Benedict Cumberbatch distantly related to Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
At the episode's end, Sherlock confesses to John and Mary (Amanda Abbington): "I never said he was alive". There is more of a bromance - if an inarticulate, kind of embarrassed one - between the partners than in other versions. Amid laughs, Cumberbatch at that point jumped in, imitating Moffat's voice and saying: "He's having a good time!" But most of the credit, they said, goes to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the first of which appeared in print in 1887.
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Carrie Fisher was proud of her Irish roots
Soon, the outpouring of grief spilled onto social media, where celebrities, family members and fans mourned the tragic passing of daughter, and then mother . "In those precise words, and within 15 minutes from that conversation she faded out and within 30 minutes, she technically was gone". Carrie's relationship with her mother was the focus of Carrie's semi-autobiographical book, " Postcards from the Edge ", which was later adapted for the big screen, starring Meryl Streep and ...
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Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds HBO Doc 'Bright Lights' Gets Airdate Moved Up
Wednesday when someone at the Beverly Hills home of her son, Todd , called 911 to report a possible stroke. While it's believed she died following a massive cardiac arrest, the L.A. A date for the service, which will be private, has not yet been set, Fisher said. "She said, 'I want to be with Carrie , '" Todd Fisher said (via The Associated Press ).
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Proof Debbie Reynolds Was Made To Be A Screen Queen
Sources close to the family told TMZ it's what the mother and daughter "would have wanted". "She has been more than a mother to me, not much, but definitely more". By now, basically everyone has heard about the tragic passing of the legendary Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. "They not only lost Carrie , but lost Debbie Reynolds (her mother ) too".
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CNN's Lemon Gets Ear Pierced to Ring in New Year
Luckily, someone around here has common sense and Lemon settled for just getting his ear pierced on national television instead. However, certain experts claim that imbibing alcohol may not be the smartest path to boring pain before such procedures, because of how alcohol affects the blood system.
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Steph Curry's sneakers raise $US43,000
The other pair of kicks, which Curry wore in warmups December 15, were sold for $9,300. "Hopefully through this auction we can help further assist with those efforts". A pair of game-worn Stephen Curry shoes recently sold on eBay for $30,101, a record for an active National Basketball Association player, reports ESPN .
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'Will & Grace' Revival Ordered for 10 Episodes, Actor Leslie Jordan Says
And now, finally, "Will & Grace" is set to receive the revival treatment. Will & Grace is now not available to stream online, so presumably if the show will be coming back streaming rights for the classic episodes have been or will be negotiated.
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Mariah Carey shakes off New Year's Eve debacle in Times Square
Instead the pop superstar seemed to dismiss the technical mess-up and her somewhat freaky actions on the big stage by issuing a tweet saying: "S- - t happens" and wishing her fans a happy New Year . Thankfully, she didn't see the stage past midnight, which means that we got to leave that in 2016. After Carey left the stage, host Ryan Seacrest said, "Mariah Carey there, on our stage".
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Lauren Conrad's pregnant with her first child!
This will be the first child for the former reality star-turned-fashion designer, 30, and her husband William Tell. But they actually crossed paths much earlier than that. Whatever she decides to go with, it looks like Conrad's 2017 is going to be a banner year. "It's been wonderful so far", she gushed. "I sent them all the different shapes and let them pick from two colours", the blushing bride told Martha Stewart Weddings.
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Rodgers: Celtic prepared for derby by training with 10 men
He said: "It's Celtic's best league start since 2004 so all credit to them". "We did an exercise on this the other day because in these games you need to stay calm", the Northern Irishman said after the win at Ibrox. The 24-year-old Canberra product was considered a chance to return on New Year's Eve after missing Celtic's Wednesday night clash with Ross County, as he recovers from the injury sustained against Dundee on December 20.
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Someone Changed Hollywood Sign to "Hollyweed"
Social media users quickly noticed the howler, and took to Twitter to express their surprise and bemusement. Some Angelenos joked that the modification could be a reference to Californians voting on November 8 to legalize recreational marijuana.
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VIP 2 : Here Is The First Look of Dhanush & Kajol Starrer Film!
The first posters of Dhanush and Kajol's Velaiyilla Pattathari 2 (VIP 2 ) was released on Saturday by director Soundarya Rajinikanth on social media. Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 also stars Saranya, Amala Paul and Samuthirakani. Soundarya also thanked the superstar for his kind gesture saying, "Thank you so much for this dearest sir and here's wishing you a very happy new year.we all love and adore you tons".
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Post-mortem into cause of George Michael's death baffles authorities
Officers will prepare a file for the Oxfordshire Coroner. Law enforcement says there will be further tests performed to pinpoint why Michael died on Christmas day , in his sleep. However, law enforcement calls the singer's death, "unexplained but not suspicious", as reported by the site. Hmm... Even though George Michael is known for being a famous pop star, his taste in homes is surprisingly traditional.
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Players Of Star Wars: The Old Republic Pay Tribute To Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds's life came crashing down as her beloved daughter Carrie Fisher passed away on Tuesday following a heart attack. The Globe's top picks for what to see and do each weekend, in Boston and beyond. Then in 1964 she received an Oscar nomination for " The Unsinkable Molly Brown ". The actor-cum-director also said that the stress and depression after his sister's death were too much for his mother to handle.
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'Many wounded' in Istanbul nightclub attack
A police officer was also killed in the attack . TV images showed the scene cordoned off by police officers. Dogan said there were at least 700 visitors gathered in the high-end club. "This is a malicious and treacherous attack against Turkey, our liberty, our unity, our brotherliness and against us all", Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag wrote on Twitter.
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Detroit Historical Museum to host Noon Year's Eve event
Sara Greenwald and her 3-year-old daughter, Myka, of Algonquin, sat at a table and decorated a New Year's Eve hat. This is the fourth year the museum has done the event and Cardillo says it's one of the biggest days of the year. "So it's just a really fun event for us too." said Rachel Cardillo, the event manager. Afterward, the "noon year" was toasted with cups of sparkling apple cider.
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Star Wars' actress Carrie Fisher dead at 60: report says
Air dates for the episodes have not yet been announced . "She fought the dark side in the movies, and she faced the dark side with her bipolar disorder and everything", he said . Fisher suffered a heart attack Friday while boarding a plane from London to Los Angeles. Her writing was/is sharp as a tack, and she looked out for the women , and men, who followed in her footsteps.
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Apopka pastor to participate in Trump inauguration
Many conservative Christians are angry over Donald Trump's selection of a "prosperity gospel" televangelist to pray at his inauguration . "You've got millions of people who will see them perform", Rice University religion professor Anthony Pinn said to the AP.
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William Christopher, 'M*A*S*H' Star, Dies at 84
His family confirmed the news to KABC-TV in Los Angeles . He made his Broadway debut in the British revue Beyond the Fringe. Christopher began his career on the stage, then transitioned into guest-starring parts on television. After the program went off the air, Christopher reprised the role for two more seasons in the spin-off AfterMASH. He also had roles in several feature films, including "The Fortune Cookie" and "With Six You Get Eggroll".
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A look back at the music of George Michael
In 2010, Michael was sentenced to eight weeks in jail and lost his license for five years for driving under the influence of drugs when he crashed his auto into a London photo shop. Michael also had few brushes with the law, once arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in Beverly Hills. "I have not been in a relationship with a woman for nearly 10 years".
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Todd Fisher discusses Carrie Fisher's daughter amid funeral plans
In her autobiographies, including 1987's best-selling novels Postcards from the Edge and 2016's The Princess Diarist , Fisher has been candid about her troubled past with mental health problems and substance abuse. Princess Leia didn't wait to be saved by someone else. "I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital", Fisher said to Sawyer.
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The true story of Carrie Fisher's dog's Twitter account
After he found out that Fisher's daughter, Scream Queens star Billie Lourd , would now be taking care of him, Gary tweeted, "Dear Billie, I like a bacon flavor everything". Gary Fisher-a French bulldog, registered therapy canine, and Carrie's constant shadow-quickly became a fixture on the Star Wars scene. According to the U.S.
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Disney Legend Tyrus Wong Passes Away at 106
While an indifferent student, he loved sketching and won a scholarship to nearby Otis Art Institute. Born in Guangzhou, China, Wong emigrated to the United States as a boy and in 1938 landed a job at Walt Disney Studios as an inbetweener - one of the artists on an animated project who fills in the many intermediate drawings between key frames.
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A Fortress Of Garbage Trucks Will Protect Times Square On NYE
USA Today reports about 7,000 NYPD officers will also be deployed to guard Times Square festivities, roughly 1,000 more than past year. Police say there are no credible threats to the city and the extra security is just a precaution.
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Dalvin Cook announces entrance to National Football League draft
The Year of the Running Back didn't go as expected during the 2016 college football season, but it should still dominate much of the conversation in the 2017 NFL draft. "I'm just blessed to be up here and proud to be a part of this group", he said. "But I know one thing, if we get him, we'll be the luckiest team in the world".