Here's Why An 18-Year-Old Is Going to Space with Jeff Bezos Tomorrow

Ariana DeBose, at first, didn’t have any words to say about her Oscar nomination because she was so shocked.

Setting the record straight. Armie Hammer and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, have not reconciled their romance despite rumors to the contrary.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorVisionary visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died Monday, contributed his groundbreaking inventions and techniques to classics including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner.”Among his many honors were three visual effects Oscar nominations (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner”); the Academy’s Scientific and Engineering Award for creating the Showscan Camera System; and the Visual Effects Society’s Georges Méliès Award, honoring those who have made significant, pioneering contributions to the effects business, in 2012.A generation of visual effects artists and filmmakers were influenced by his work, including Weta FX senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri, who said, “Doug stands out as an iconic figure in visual effects, one of the early pioneers who blended a deep knowledge of cinematography and mechanics to develop techniques that we still use today. An early evangelist of high frame rate processes, Doug’s vision for where we can take cinema is just now coming to fruition.” Here’s a look at a five iconic moments Trumbull helped create.Trumbull was Oscar nominated for visual effects for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters,” and one of his significant contributions was the motion control photography used in the scenes featuring the alien’s massive mother ship.

Mark Sutherland If last year’s Brit Awards went out with something of a COVID-restricted whimper, this year’s ceremony came in with a bang.Several bangs in fact, as an unexpected mash-up between emo-metal hybrid Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran on the latter’s “Bad Habits” launched the show to, no doubt, the bewilderment of mums and dads tuning in at home and expecting the nice, ginger-next-door they usually see at events like this. The arena, however, was ablaze — quite literally, as the unlikely collaborators became the first of several performers to torch the stage.Held at The O2 Arena in south London, this year’s Brits — unlike last year’s event — took place in a country that is largely free of COVID restrictions.

Everyone needs a good cry every now and then. For Will Arnett, it happened on the side of the road. To be fair, the BoJack Horseman actor had recently split with Amy Poehler after nine years of marriage. This made his experience filming the Arrested Development revival “almost excruciating,” as he told The Guardian. “Just brutal, brutal, brutal,” he continued. “I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.”

MAYA Jama awkwardly shut down Mo Gilligan's questions about her love life during the Brit Awards 2022. As the presenters chatted in between awards Mo, 33, drew attention to the sparkler on 27-year-old Maya's ring finger.

ED Sheeran and his wife Cherry melted fans' hearts as they shared a sweet kiss on camera at the Brit Awards. The musician, 30, and Cherry enjoyed the rare PDA moments after learning he had won the gong for Songwriter Of The Year.

Garth Brooks is finally getting a tattoo after all these years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJoe Rogan weighed in again on the controversy over his repeated use of the N-word on his podcast — and Spotify’s removal of 70 past episodes because of “racially insensitive language” — and played the victim card.Last Friday, Spotify pulled 70 past episodes “The Joe Rogan Experience” from its platform, which the streamer said it did at the request of Rogan and his team. That came after singer India Arie last week said she was pulling her music and podcasts off Spotify, citing Rogan’s “language around race”; she reposted a video on Instagram compiling 24 times Rogan used the N-word on his podcast, and the clip soon went viral.Rogan addressed the situation in Tuesday’s episode of his podcast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the drama series “Early Edition,” Variety has learned.The original series starred Kyle Chandler as a man who magically received tomorrow’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times today, delivered to his door each morning by a mysterious ginger tabby cat. His knowledge of the future then gave him the chance to change it for the better.In the rebooted version, an ambitious but uncompromising journalist starts receiving tomorrow’s newspaper today.

Wendy Williams won’t be returning to her eponymous talk show anytime soon.

Gwen Stefani has a busy 2022 planned based on her recent social media posts. The pop star took to Twitter recently to tease fans with an exciting new update, writing: "Can’t wait to show you what I have planned for this year."MORE: Gwen Stefani stuns in waist-cinching dress as she celebrates exciting news with fans"I hope its a new album," commented one fan as others called for more duets with husband Blake Shelton.

Nelly, 47, is speaking out about the shocking leaked video that showed him receiving oral sex. The rapper spoke to TMZ shortly after the clip made its way on his social media page before quickly getting deleted and issued an apology as well as an explanation.

Joe Rogan is opening up about backlash for his commentary on his podcast, which is hosted on Spotify.

Will Arnett is opening up about his break up from Amy Poehler.

Florida Georgia Line is looking to their next chapter.

The world will have to do with one less software engineer now that Amy Schneider has announced she’s quit her day job.

Jeff Bezos had his loved ones, including girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, waiting on the ground when he landed from his space flight!

Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk may physically be back on Earth, but mentally she’s still on clould nine. The 82-year-old iconic space aviator was onboard Jeff Bezos‘ 6-foot-tall New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin that jetted off into space (and back!) on Tuesday, July 20. Wally became the oldest person to ever travel into space thanks to the adventure, and was joined by Jeff, 57, his brother Mark Bezos, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. The foursome lifted off from the West Texas launch site at 9 a.m. EST and shot straight up to the edge of space, before making a perfectly safe return landing.

Jeff Bezos streaked into space Tuesday on a thrilling 10-minute up-and-down flight, a high-tech joyride that sets the stage for the start of commercial passenger service later this year.Competing head to head with fellow billionaire Richard Branson, who flew into space aboard his Virgin Galactic rocketplane July 11, Bezos blasted off with his brother Mark and two history-making passengers: 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, the oldest person to fly in space, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch student who is the youngest ever to fly in space.Funk, who was barred from NASA's initially all-male astronaut corps in the 1960s, finally got her chance to prove the naysayers wrong, realizing a lifelong dream. The crew lifted off from the

Amazon founder strapped himself into Blue Origin’s sub-orbital New Shepard rocket from a space station in Texas today. Alongside him was brother Mark, astronaut Wally Funk and Blue Origin’s first customer Oliver Daemon - who has become the youngest person in space.

UPDATE 06:22AM PT: Bezos is back. The billionaire’s craft has successfully touched down in the Texas desert after what appeared to be a seamless 10-minute journey. A cowboy hat-sporting Bezos was seen giving a thumbs up to Blue Origin workers who drove out to retrieve him and his fellow passengers, who were his brother Mark, 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.

Jeff Bezos, 57, officially jetted off into space, and he has a few lucky companions with him. In addition to his brother, Mark Bezos, and 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, the former Amazon CEO was joined by 18-year-old Oliver Daemen on Blue Origins’ New Shepard flight, which launched into space on Tuesday, July 20. Oliver’s inclusion on the flight is historic due to both his age and how he snagged a seat on the flight.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAmazon founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers successfully reached the lower regions of space in New Shepard, a re-usable craft developed by the entrepreneur’s Blue Origin aerospace company, a new step in efforts to commercialize space flight and open potential trips to the cosmos to a broader array of visitors.Bezos was joined in his quest by his brother, Mark Bezos; Wally Funk, an 82-year-old who previously took part in NASA’s Mercury program, but was unable to get into space herself; and Oliver Daemen, a Dutch student just 18 years old.The event was broadcast by Blue Origin itself, and U.S. TV networks had to use the private footage.

Jeff Bezos went to space!

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