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Who was John F. Kennedy Jr.?
Who was John F. Kennedy Jr.?

CNN

time09-08-2025

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  • CNN

Who was John F. Kennedy Jr.?

MediaFacebookTweetLink Follow EDITOR'S NOTE: Watch the three-part CNN Original Series 'American Prince: JFK Jr.' premiering August 9 at 9 p.m, ET/PT and running the following two Saturday nights. John F. Kennedy Jr. was born into the Kennedy political dynasty in the early 1960's just after his father was elected president of the United States of America. Now 26 years after his death, his life is embedded into politics and culture. 'JFK Jr. was harnessing his celebrity into something meaningful, and most people don't bother to do that,' Tabitha Soren, a former MTV News correspondent, said. Here are five things you should know about him from the upcoming CNN Original Series 'American Prince: JFK Jr.' Kennedy was the first son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, born in 1960. His birth, just a few weeks after his father was elected as the 35th president of the United States, made the front page of every major newspaper. Kennedy grew up in the spotlight, and everything from his professional choices to his dating life was the focus of tabloid fodder – including public relationships with actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Daryl Hannah. Kennedy went on to marry Carolyn Bessette, an American fashion publicist, in the fall of 1996. The couple quietly wed in a ceremony off the coast of Georgia before settling into an apartment in Manhattan – but the couple remained under intense media scrutiny up through, and after, their deaths in 1999. 'You kind of grew up being this public figure even before you knew you were a public figure,' said Oprah Winfrey, during a broadcast with Kennedy. Steve Gillon, a friend of Kennedy, said, 'You have to realize that JFK came to power just as television was becoming the primary source for people getting their news.' Even though the media affectionately referred to JFK Jr. as 'John-John,' the nickname was exclusively used by the public and rarely, if ever, by his own family. The nickname, which was mistakenly given to him by a reporter who misheard his father repeating his name in succession, remains in the political zeitgeist. 'I promise you, his sister didn't call him John-John, his mother, no one in his family, even like the extended cousin ever called him John-John,' said Carole Radziwill, a Kennedy family member. Kennedy studied American history at Brown University and graduated in 1983. Even though he tried to cast his celebrity aside, people flocked to his 'JK factor,' a term Kennedy himself coined. 'There was always that kind of special, he got a little bit special treatment that the rest of us didn't get,' recalled former Brown classmate and friend of Kennedy Gary Ginsberg. During his undergraduate studies, Kennedy balanced his familial obligations with his professional, including his campaign work for his uncle, Ted Kennedy, who was running for president. Freshly graduated from Brown, a 23-year-old Kennedy went to India where he studied at the University of Delhi. 'He always said, you know, I don't want to do what people expect me to do. He needed to do something that stood out,' said Gillon. Gillon said Kennedy often sent letters in which he alluded to the future, and while in India, Kennedy thought about law school as a possible career step. Kennedy earned his law degree from New York University Law in 1989, but he couldn't escape the press during his time in law school or after. 'There is an intense amount of scrutiny around what is John F. Kennedy Jr.'s thing going to be,' said CNN contributor and political historian Leah Wright Rigueur. While fielding incessant questions about his political aspirations, Kennedy continued down the legal path and took the New York bar exam, which he failed twice. Front pages ran wild with headlines like 'The Hunk Flunks,' but by the third try, he passed. Perhaps Kennedy's crowning professional legacy was the George, a glossy monthly magazine covering the intersection of politics, television, art and culture. Kennedy and his business partner, Michael J. Berman, worked with publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media US to launch the magazine in the fall of 1995. With magazines as powerful in driving conversation as social media is today, the George worked to turn people on to politics: 'Politics is much too important to be left only to the politicians,' Kennedy said. The provocative debut cover featured supermodel Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington. 'George was a huge risk for John. Look, George was a risk for any person wanting to start a magazine,' said Lisa Depaulo, a journalist at George. Even with the popularity of magazines, the emergence of figures like Rush Limbaugh and Bill Clinton created a space for political entertainment not yet seen. Kennedy's fierce competitiveness and innate popularity worked in his favor. On its launch day, the magazine sold half a million copies, making it the most successful debut in magazine history.

Iconic '90s Rock Band Hated Their Biggest Hit — 'Every Time I Sing It, I Want to Gag'
Iconic '90s Rock Band Hated Their Biggest Hit — 'Every Time I Sing It, I Want to Gag'

Yahoo

time06-07-2025

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Iconic '90s Rock Band Hated Their Biggest Hit — 'Every Time I Sing It, I Want to Gag'

Iconic '90s Rock Band Hated Their Biggest Hit — 'Every Time I Sing It, I Want to Gag' originally appeared on Parade. Oasis released a song in 1995 that became one of the most iconic tracks of the decade — and one of the most dreaded in guitar stores. 'Wonderwall' is famously banned in many guitar shops, not by official policy, but as an inside joke among guitarists and employees. The song's simple chords and massive popularity have made it a go-to for beginners, which means it's been played badly, countless times. For store workers, hearing it on loop for years has made it almost unbearable. But no one seems to hate the song more than Liam Gallagher himself. 'Every time I have to sing it, I want to gag,' he reportedly told MTV News. 'Problem is, it was a big, big tune for us. You go to America and they're like: 'Are you Mr. Wonderwall?' You want to chin someone.' Liam's scorn for the song wasn't lost on the rest of the band — especially his brother and bandmate Noel Gallagher, who remembered how strongly Liam pushed back against it. 'He hated 'Wonderwall'. He said it was trip-hop,' Noel told Mojo. 'There speaks a man who's never heard trip-hop.' While Liam had little interest in the track, Noel knew it had the potential to become something big. 'I was so f--ked off with him walking off stage and me having to take over and do the gig,' Noel recalled. 'I remember thinking, if I'm going to do this, I want a big f--king song to sing.' That song ended up being "Wonderwall." According to Noel, Liam had his heart set on singing 'Don't Look Back in Anger,' but it quickly became clear that 'Wonderwall' would be the breakout hit. The Gallagher brothers' rocky relationship has long been part of the band's story. While Oasis found huge success after their album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, tension behind the scenes only grew. By 2009, the band had officially split — and the brothers reportedly weren't even on speaking terms. 'The legacy of the band is set in stone,' Noel later told The Project TV show. 'If people have seen us, they'll understand what all the fuss is about. If you didn't see us, then that's tough cos I've never seen The Beatles or the Sex Pistols.' However, after more than 15 years apart, things have changed. 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised,' the band wrote in a surprise announcement. Oasis is officially reuniting on Friday, July 4, with their first stop in the Welsh capital. The tour will continue across the UK throughout the summer. Iconic '90s Rock Band Hated Their Biggest Hit — 'Every Time I Sing It, I Want to Gag' first appeared on Parade on Jul 4, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 4, 2025, where it first appeared.

In ‘The Electric State,' Jolting a Robot to Life
In ‘The Electric State,' Jolting a Robot to Life

New York Times

time05-03-2025

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  • New York Times

In ‘The Electric State,' Jolting a Robot to Life

Kid Cosmo's head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film 'The Electric State' (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and shape of an exercise ball, propped atop an incongruously spindly frame. Cute? Yes. Mechanically feasible? Not really. Cosmo's character was inspired by Skip, the similarly bigheaded hero of Simon Stalenhag's graphic novel. A cult hit when it was first published in 2018, the book 'The Electric State' is set in an alternate 1990s universe after a mysterious war has ravaged the California landscape, leaving the husks of enormous drones and robots in its wake. 'Simon Stalenhag's work is what attracted me to this movie to begin with,' said Matthew E. Butler, the film's visual effects supervisor. 'But his designs are often aesthetically cool and engineeringly impossible.' In the film, Cosmo and his young companion, Michelle, played by Millie Bobby Brown, embark on a journey across the American West to find Michelle's brother. Along the way, they meet up with scores of other robots, many just as improbably designed as Cosmo. Of course, Cosmo doesn't really need to make mechanical sense in either the graphic novel or the feature film, given the flights of physics fancy regularly found in both mediums. But Anthony and Joe Russo, the film's directors, wanted to ground their movie in reality, even more so given the story's 1990s setting (think Orange Julius and MTV News with sci-fi enhancements), and the film's fanciful robots, which include a midcentury postal carrier (voiced by Jenny Slate) and an urbane Mr. Peanut (Woody Harrelson). Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

Lady Gaga Confirms She Wrote 'Born This Way' in '10 F---ing Minutes'
Lady Gaga Confirms She Wrote 'Born This Way' in '10 F---ing Minutes'

Yahoo

time13-02-2025

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  • Yahoo

Lady Gaga Confirms She Wrote 'Born This Way' in '10 F---ing Minutes'

Lady Gaga was born this way. During an appearance on Hot Ones with Sean Evans on Thursday, Feb. 13, the "Abracadabra" singer confirmed that she did write her 2011 song "Born This Way" pretty quickly. Discussing her music, Evans, tkage, brought up that Gaga, 38, once likened writing "Born This Way" to "immaculate conception," saying she wrote it in "10 f---ing minutes." Gaga was aghast, "Oh my God, I said that?" she said before confirming that she did in fact pen it that fast. "For 'Born This Way' and a lot of my songs, I hear it pretty quickly and then I just have to follow it." Related: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Team Up for 'Die with a Smile' Video — Watch! "To me when I'm making music, I say that I'm listening, so it's a feeling of receiving, which is probably why I made that really dumb comment about myself." The 14-time Grammy winner's song "Born This Way" would go on to be certified platinum six times, immediately reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was iTunes' fastest-selling single of all time, as per MTV News with over one million downloads in five days. She also explained how she finds and develops a good hook, reflecting on another quote of hers: "without a good chorus, who really gives a f---?" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "Sometimes I know something's done because that image feels whole to me, but you really don't know if something is good until the people tell you — and they will tell you." Gaga, who just took home a Grammy Award on Feb. 2 for best pop duo/group performance with Bruno Mars for "Die with a Smile," is releasing her album Mayhem next month. "The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved," Gaga said, as per a press release shared with PEOPLE. Related: Lady Gaga Thanks Fans After 14th Grammy Win: 'All I Want to Do Is Tell Stories That Touch People's Hearts' She described her upcoming music as different than her previous work, and this album is akin to "reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can't put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.' Rather, Mayhem is about "chaos and transformation, celebrating music's power to unite, provoke, and heal." Mayhem drops on Friday, March 7. Read the original article on People

Jennifer Lopez's Surprise Sundance Performance Shows Where She Is at in the Healing Process of Her Ben Affleck Breakup
Jennifer Lopez's Surprise Sundance Performance Shows Where She Is at in the Healing Process of Her Ben Affleck Breakup

Yahoo

time26-01-2025

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  • Yahoo

Jennifer Lopez's Surprise Sundance Performance Shows Where She Is at in the Healing Process of Her Ben Affleck Breakup

Let's be real, Jennifer Lopez knows how to command a moment, whether it's on the big screen, a red carpet, or, as Park City partygoers learned this weekend, behind a DJ booth. So when Lopez gave a surprise performance at Tao for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, you know it wasn't just an 'out of the blue' type of decision. Her impromptu choice? The 2002 hit 'All I Have,' which, coincidentally (or not), is a breakup anthem that cuts deeper given her recent split from Ben Affleck. For those who don't recall the ballad, 'All I Have' is a duet with LL Cool J about navigating life post-breakup. At the time, Dave Meyers, the music video director, told MTV News of the video: 'They keep seeing visions of each other, and you get the feeling that they are still very much in love, yet they don't get back together because they feel that this is the best thing for them. It will have a very happy winter wonderland-type feel, but a sad vibe.' With Lopez having emphasized a desire for her and Affleck's families to stay close following the breakup — namely for the holidays — the choice feels somewhat pointed. (Watch the performance HERE.) More from SheKnows Eagle-Eyed Fans Believe Ben Affleck May Have Called Jennifer Lopez & Kevin Costner's Romance Years Prior Of course, Lopez isn't exactly mired in heartbreak. The multi-hyphenate has been linked to Kevin Costner since last December, and even when Lopez and Affleck were still together, Affleck joked about his then-wife's fondness for the Costner-led series Yellowstone. Still, Lopez's next steps feel a bit complex. She's reportedly eyeing a $20 million mansion in Brentwood, an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood bordering the Pacific Palisades neighborhood recently devastated by the wildfires — and where Affleck's ex Jennifer Garner and their three children live. And as for that performance? Whether Lopez meant to craft a double entendre-filled breakup declaration or simply felt like revisiting a classic, one thing's for sure — knows how to keep us of SheKnows 15 Books to Read ASAP If You're Obsessed With Grey's Anatomy 34 Times Dolly Parton's Fabulous Red Carpet & Onstage Fashion Stole the Show 14 Rare Times Dolly Parton Revealed Details About Her Ultra-Private Relationship

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