Kirthana Dewi

By : Kirthana Dewi R ichard Gere may play a politician in his new movie "The Dinner," but he tells CNN he has "zero" interest in running for office. "I have no interest, none, zero, there's not even a speck of me that goes 'boy, 'I'd really want to be a politician,'" Gere said. The actor, a longtime advocate for Tibetan independence and human rights, said he prefers promoting change as a private citizen. "It's really easy speaking," Gere explained. "I don't have to compromise with anything. The realm of politics is everyday, every moment, compromising somehow. I don't have the patience for it." Gere has starred in more than 50 films over the past four decades, motivated by "love." "The only way you can work is if [the project] touches you some way and some kind of creativity opens up," he said. "I call it a falling in love. I don't know why exactly, you c

By : Kirthana Dewi Jimmy Kimmel used his monologue Monday night to get both personal and political. The late night host got emotional as he revealed that his son William John Kimmel was born on April 21 with a serious heart issue. Those emotions then spilled into thoughts he offered about the importance of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and his feelings on health care policy. During the 13-minute long monologue, Kimmel said his wife, Molly McNearney, had an easy delivery with their second child, whom they call "Billy." "Six pushes, he was out," Kimmel said. "He appeared to be a healthy normal baby until about three hours after he was born." Kimmel said his family was there in recovery at Cedars-Sinai Hospital as little Billy met his two-year-old sister, Jane. Then "a very attentive nurse" discovered the baby had a heart murmur and appeared to be a bit purple in color. Tests showed the baby wasn'

By : Kirthana Dewi  Lesley Murphy says she decided to kick "cancer's a** before it could kick mine." The former "Bachelor" contestant is healing after recently undergoing a preventive double mastectomy. Murphy, a travel blogger who appeared on on Season 17 of "The Bachelor," said she decided to have the surgery after she tested positive for the BRCA 2 gene mutation, which increases the risk of developing breast cancer. In a posting before her surgery, Murphy shared on her Instagram account that her mother is a breast cancer survivor. "It's because of her diagnosis that I underwent genetic testing and can now do something about it," Murphy wrote. "Knowledge is power." Murphy documented her surgery and its aftermath on social media. In one photo, Murphy poses topless with her hair cascading over where her breasts used to be. "I think my upper half is healing nicely," she wrote. "Sure, it&

By : Kirthana Dewi With a budget of $155 million, India is set to make the longest poem ever written into its most expensive film ever. The figure may seem paltry by Hollywood standards, but it is new territory in India, where costs for its highest-budget movies barely skim $25 million. Based on the Sanskrit epic the "Mahabharata," "Randamoozham" has surpassed previous record-breaking budgets like that of the upcoming Tamil-language sci-fi thriller " 2.0 ," which cost $62 million to make and stars 65-year-old action superstar  Rajinikanth . It has even beat the combined $65 million budget of the two-part blockbuster epic " Baahubali ." The film will be financed by B.R. Shetty, an entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates, who has high hopes for the film. "The 'Mahabharata' is an epic of all epics," Shetty said in a statement. "I believe that this film will not only set global benchmarks, but a

By : Kirthana Dewi  Aspen, Colorado:  Go to Cloud Nine around 3:30 p.m.," a friendly local said. "That place really goes off." He wasn't kidding. On a recent March afternoon, music was pumping on Cloud Nine's deck while partiers in T-shirts danced, hooted and sprayed Veuve Clicquot into the sun. "One more!" they shouted at the DJ. Last call in the middle of the day? Well, people had to go home -- by ski or snowboard. A ski-patrol hut turned restaurant, the Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro sits mid-mountain at Aspen Highlands, one of the four resorts that make up  Aspen Snowmass  in Colorado. It's become a must on the party circuit, and boldfaced names have been known to drop by. But don't worry, there's plenty to do in Aspen if you don't feel like (or can't afford) guzzling bubbly at 11,000 feet. A testimony to the Colorado town's sporty ethos is its hosting of the  2017 alpine skiing World Cup finals  from March 15-

By: Kirthana Dewi It's getting harder to remember what a slow news day looked like. But 87 years ago, on 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed. How different 18 April 2017 has looked. It has been packed with news. As people up and down the UK went back to their jobs following the Easter long weekend, speculation built around an announcement that the Prime Minister, Theresa May, would be making just after 11:00. The press and broadcasters, unusually, had been kept in the dark about the subject - so there was plenty of speculation all over Twitter and other social networks. Image copyright @ROB_SCAR Image caption BBC producer Rob Jones remembe