CNN Examines the Lasting Legacy of Iconic Fashion Designer Halston
He was a contemporary of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and paved the way for other illustrious fashion designers who created global empires including Donna Karan, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors. Yet the name of Halston has largely faded into the sands of time. Born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines, Iowa, Halston was an influential and larger-than-life American designer whose cutting-edge fashion concepts are still...
‘One Giant Leap for Mankind:’ Networks Mark the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
July 16, 1969 dawned bright, hot and sunny on Florida’s Atlantic coast. It was the perfect weather on Earth to send its very first three inhabitants to the moon. As the clock ticked down to the moment Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins would blast off atop a Saturn V rocket, hundreds of millions of people the world over tuned into television coverage of what would become one of the defining events in mankind’s history on...
CNN Takes Us to ‘The Movies’ This Weekend
The legacy of movies released in the 1980s runs deep and wide, from Oscar-winning pictures like “Ordinary People,” “Amadeus” and “Terms of Endearment” to blockbusters including “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Back to the Future,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Flashdance” and “Risky Business” to teen-centric titles like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Say Anything,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles.” Perhaps that’s...
CNN’s History of Comedy Explores What Tickles our Funnybones
There are many time-honored traditions when it comes to making people laugh and a host of them were explored in the first season of “The History of Comedy,” a nine-part docuseries that wrapped in August 2017. With an almost limitless amount of material to explore, CNN Originals is set to debut a second season with an episode all about sex in comedy and how it continues to push the boundaries of both personal comfort and political...
CNN Explores an Infamous Kidnap Case in ‘The Radical Story of Patty Hearst’
“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.” If those wack-o words sound the least bit familiar, then you were probably around in 1974 and following every detail during the wall-to-wall media coverage of the kidnapping saga of Patricia Campbell Hearst, which ended with her capture in September 1975. That slogan was the calling card of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a self-styled Bay Area- based terrorist...
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