Vanessa Bryant Takes Her Daughters Tubing, Swimming More On Fun-Filled Jamaican Vacation: Photos

Jane Campion is sitting up in bed at her home in Sydney, about to go for her morning swim and reeling from the news that her film The Power of the Dog has received 12 Oscar nominations, two shy of the record 14 garnered by just three films in Academy history: All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. “I didn’t have a very good sleep, but I’ve had a very good day,” she says cheerily. “At about 2am I could hear the beeps coming in on my phone, and then my partner came in and… Well, he took his time. He was really spinning it out, cruelly. From the look on his face I thought, ‘Oh no, we didn’t get any.’”

PBS was the top winner in the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards on Tuesday, with four honors for outstanding broadcast and digital reporting in the public interest.

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the virtual EFM buyers are circling rights to Tom Hanks comedy A Man Called Otto, which is among the most sought-after packages in the market.

Peacock’s adaptation of NBC’s iconic sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”That series (1990-96) launched then-rap star Will Smith into superstardom, and his onscreen character, also named Will Smith, into TV lore when he’s sent to Bel Air, Calif. to live with his rich relatives after getting into trouble in his West Philadelphia neighborhood.

assure you.”The possibility of his and hers nominations – his for playing Desi Arnaz in “Being the Ricardos,” hers for starring in Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” – made for an eventful morning in the Bardem/Cruz household. “It’s been a beautiful day at home,” he said with a big grin.

In a move that came on the same day that Oscar nominations were announced, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed plans to resume in-person screenings for members in Los Angeles. The screenings, in the past a central part of every awards season for L.A.-based Oscar voters, were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they will start up again on Monday, Feb.

Memphis rapper Key Glock has had a hand in some of his city's most successful rap releases of the past few years. Projects like the Dum and Dummer series with his mentor, the dearly missed Young Dolph, were standouts in the years they were dropped.

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.

killed Kobe Bryant, moved the audience to a standing ovation with his cover of Phil Collins’ 1984 single “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now).”“I’m a singer, and I’m here because my wife and we’re both schoolteachers and we retired from teaching so that I could do the music full-time and she got the opportunity to coach girls basketball with Kobe Bryant. But on January 26 of 2020, I lost my wife in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant,” Mauser, of Huntington Beach CA, told judges ahead of his performance.

Antonio Ferme editorMatt Mauser, the singer who lost his wife in the same helicopter crash as Kobe Bryant, gave an emotional performance of “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” by Phil Collins on “America’s Got Talent.”“You know if I had it my way, I would have my wife and I’d be supporting her, but that’s not what happened,” Mauser told the judges on Tuesday night. “It’s been a rough year, but here I am.”Mauser is the lead singer of the rock band Tijuana Dogs and has also performed in a Frank Sinatra tribute band.

Matt Mauser, the heartbroken husband of Christina Mauser, who tragically passed away in the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, has opened up about his late wife during an audition on America’s Got Talent.

An emotional show. Matt Mauser opened up about his wife Christina Mauser’s untimely death while auditioning for America’s Got Talent. Christina died in January 2020 in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna Bryant and multiple others.

RuPaul is surprised by some of his celebrity fans. During Wednesday's episode of the 60-year-oldhost of   tells guest host Loni Love about one of the most unexpected fans of his long-running competition series.«I was walking into a hotel in New York... and Kobe and his wife were in the lobby,» RuPaul recalls bumping into the late NBA pro Kobe Bryant and his wife, Vanessa. «They said that they watch the show.

Matt Mauser isn't letting tragedy or grief define him. The singer — who lost his wife, Christina Mauser, in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and six others last year — wowed the judges on Tuesday's new .Matt, 51, took the stage during the show, and quietly introduced himself, before revealing to the surprised judges the heartbreaking details of his painful personal life over the past year and half.«On January 26, 2020, I lost my wife, in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant,» Matt shared with the judges, who were overwhelmed with sympathy.In a pre-taped package, Matt reflected on his relationship with Christina, and explained how they shared «a dreamy kind of life» together.

Matt Mauser isn't letting tragedy or grief define him. The singer — who lost his wife, Christina Mauser, in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and six others last year — wowed the judges on Tuesday's new .Matt, 51, took the stage during the show, and quietly introduced himself, before revealing to the surprised judges the heartbreaking details of his painful personal life over the past year and half.«On January 26, 2020, I lost my wife, in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant,» Matt shared with the judges, who were overwhelmed with sympathy.In a pre-taped package, Matt reflected on his relationship with Christina, and explained how they shared «a dreamy kind of life» together.

Matt Mauser isn’t letting tragedy or grief define him. The singer — who lost his wife, Christina Mauser, in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and six others last year — wowed the judges on Tuesday’s new “America’s Got Talent”.

Tropical trip! Vanessa Bryant has been vacationing in Jamaica with her three children and her late husband Kobe Bryant’s family.

Vanessa Bryant is enjoying some family time! The 39-year-old widow of Kobe Bryant took to Instagram this week to share pics from her vacation to Jamaica, which she took with her kids and her late husband's family.In one photo, Vanessa and her daughters, Natalia, 18, Bianka, 4, and Capri, 2, posed with Kobe's sister and brother-in-law, Sharia and Jerrod Washington, along with their kids, Tayah, Sydney and Jett.«Family,» Vanessa captioned her post.A post shared by Vanessa Bryant

“Family,” wrote Vanessa Bryant, captioning a photo she posted to Instagram on Tuesday (June 29.) In the pic, the widow of Kobe Bryant posed with their three daughters — Natalia, 18, Bianka, 4, and Capri, 2 – and other members of the family, including Kobe’s sister Sharia Washington, Sharia’s husband Jerrod, and their kids. In two additional photos, Vanessa posed first with Jerrod, and then with her nephew, Jett.

Vanessa Bryant and her daughters headed to Jamaica for a family trip and it looks like they are having a blast despite the hilarious video she shared of all the vacationers saying who they thought would “ruin” the trip. In the video posted Sunday Natalie Bryant joked, “Hi I’m Natalia and I think my mom‘s gonna ruin the trip because she gets really irritated really fast.” Kobe Bryant’s sister Sharia Washington joked that she would ruin the trip if she had too many Piña Coladas.