En Vogue Reveal How They Got Their Unique Band Name: ‘We Put Names In a Pot’

En Vogue Reveal How They Got Their Unique Band Name: 'We Put Names In a Pot'

Chris Haston/WBTV via Getty En Vogue celebrated their 35th anniversary together on the Thursday, May 15 edition of 'The Jennifer Hudson Show' The bandmates told Hudson they chose their distinctive name from a pot of possible options they'd pooled together Maxine Jones rejoined the group in March 2025 En Voguenever goes out of style. The girl group, currently composed of members Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones and Rhona Bennett, is celebrating their35th anniversary.In honor of the occasion, the girl group, which rose to fame in the 1990s, shared the story of how they chose their name onThe Jennifer Hudson Showon Thursday, May 15. Ellis, 61, said, "We put names in a pot and we settled on the name Vogue. And then of course we couldn't use Vogue because of the Vogue magazine, right, so our producers..." The PEOPLE Appis now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Jones, 63, jumped in and added, "and there was a group Vogue, called the Vogues." Ellis continued, "So our producers came up with the idea to add the E-n, and we loved it." Hudson, 43, responded, "Baby, ain't nothing like you, that is for sure." Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The host then followed up with a question, "I'm curious to know from you guys, because you influenced so many girl groups to come, who were some of your girl group musical influences?" The group then took turns answering. They cited the Pointer Sisters, The Emotions, The Supremes, The Shirelles, The Jones Girls, Patti LaBelle and more. Scott Gries/Getty When reflecting on their own legacy, Ellis said, "We're just grateful that we were put in a position and had the level of success that we had, to inspire others." Jones recently returned to the group after a 13-year hiatus. When asked why she decided to return, she said, "We had been in talks for a couple of years, and then we were just waiting for the right opportunity. And then it just felt right for the NBA All-Star run reunion," she said. Jones rejoined the group during a half-time show performance at the NBA All-Star event in March 2025. En Vogue took home a Grammy award for Top R&B single in 1990 for their hit song "Hold On," and went on to receive three more nominations from the Recording Academy. The group rose to prominence for their 1990s hits "Don't Let Go (Love)," their duet with Salt-N-Peppa "Whatta Man," "Free Your Mind," "Give It Up, Turn It Loose" and more. Read the original article onPeople

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May 16, 2025

En Vogue Reveal How They Got Their Unique Band Name: ‘We Put Names In a Pot’

En Vogue Reveal How They Got Their Unique Band Name: 'We Put Names In a Pot' Chris Haston/WBTV via Getty En Vogue celebrated their 3...

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Individual Says Their Mom Is Treating Their Wedding 'Like a Funeral'

Individual Says Their Mom Is Treating Their Wedding 'Like a Funeral'

Getty A person feels like their wedding is spiraling out of control after their mother — who has stage 4 cancer — began making requests On Reddit, they said that they shifted away from their plan for an intimate ceremony in favor of a nearly 300-person guest list because the mother wanted to invite people host a big wedding The wedding seems to be becoming "cancer themed get together" for the mother, not a celebration of love, the person wrote An individual is struggling with their wedding morphing into what feels like a "cancer themed get together" for their mother. In aposton Reddit's r/weddingdrama forum, the soon-to-be newlywed was looking for advice on how to reclaim their wedding, saying that it no longer reflected on them or their fiancée's desire for a private, intimate ceremony. They said that their special day has been transformed into a nearly 300-person celebration due to their mother's wish for a big wedding. In their post, they said that their mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, which has been a huge shock for the family. The revelation came as the couple was planning their wedding. Their mom was overjoyed about the upcoming wedding and has been talking about the day on a Facebook page that her friends and family are following. The poster said that she was seemingly "using it as a distraction in her cancer posts," which they understood. Getty "My mom has been making posts about how excited she is for my wedding, how it's bringing her so much joy, and how everyone should follow along with her cancer/wedding journey," the individual wrote. While the wedding was initially going to be a small affair with just their immediate family and closest friends, it took on a new life when the poster's mother offered to pay for a big wedding. At its largest, the guest list reached 290 people, the post read, and was full of people the couple didn't talk to or had grown apart from. All of those guests were invited by the mother. Neither the poster or their fiancée were thrilled about entertaining so many guests, "but the show must go on," they wrote. "I think the first problem is it feels like a show, actually," the person wrote. The couple discussed the possibility of marrying in private. The individual's response was "of course .. but cancer," they wrote. They added that their mom had poured so much time and effort into this wedding, and she would be hurt if they opted out of it. Recently, the individual's friend brought up the Facebook page and said it is giving the wedding "the feeling of a cancer themed get together." They added that their friend said "a lot of the attention [was] being dragged away" from the couple. Getty "I have the strongest feeling no one is coming to my wedding for me and my love except for my wedding party ... I am trying to find a way to bring the positivity and focus back into it being our wedding, but I think everyone feels like my wedding is a going-away party," they wrote. Other Redditors rallied behind the option of having a secret wedding — saying vows in private, even if it's not legally binding, then treating the big wedding as a "free party for you to attend and get gifts from." That way, both the couple and the excited mom could get what they wanted from the big day. Some stated that the mother's cancer diagnosis doesn't mean she should make the wedding "all about her." In an update on the original post, the individual shared their gratitude for the advice. However, they also defended their mom, saying that she "is not a narcissist." "She is having a narcissistic moment like all of us do," they wrote, adding, "she DOES love me, I pinky promise. she is proud of me and I am proud of her too, emotions just get complicated and muddled. We are dealing with loss before it happened, and I have painted this picture with angry feelings. She's still my mom." Read the original article onPeople

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May 16, 2025

Individual Says Their Mom Is Treating Their Wedding 'Like a Funeral'

Individual Says Their Mom Is Treating Their Wedding 'Like a Funeral' Getty A person feels like their wedding is spiraling out of con...

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ to Be the First Movie Shot Entirely With Imax Cameras

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' to Be the First Movie Shot Entirely With Imax Cameras

Christopher Nolan always makes supersized blockbusters, but his upcoming "The Odyssey" will be his most supersized effort yet. The Odyssey" will be the first movie shot entirely with Imax cameras. Nolan is currently in production on the epic, which stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and more. Nolan has been building toward making a movie entirely with Imax cameras since 2008, when "The Dark Knight" became the first Hollywood movie to utilize Imax cameras to shoot select action scenes. Since then, Nolan has used Imax cameras for increasingly more scenes with every new release. His 2023 Oscar winner "Oppenheimer" was the first movie to use Imax black-and-white 65mm film. More from Variety 'Sinners' Sets Imax 70mm Re-Release for May Imax Beat Wall Street Expectations in Q1, Thanks to Smash Success of China's 'Ne Zha 2' Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' "The Odyssey" is being shot by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, who has collaborated with Nolan on "Interstellar," "Dunkirk," "Tenet" and "Oppenheimer." He won the best cinematography Oscar for the latter film andspoke toVarietyat the time about working with Nolan and Kodak to create the first stock of Imax 65mm black-and-white film. "Black and white film doesn't exist for 65 millimeters, so our first challenge was starting to talk to Kodak about if they could provide us with the necessary film stock that we needed for this film," Hoytema said. "We needed to re-engineer the cameras as well because those cameras have these pressure plates behind the film gates that are made out of metal and the backing is much thinner than color stock. The light would bleed back into the films creating all these artifacts." Nolan adapted Homer for "The Odyssey" and is re-teaming with "Oppenheimer" studio Universal Pictures for the movie's release. AtCinema Conearlier this year, Jim Orr, the studio's distribution chief, predicted that "The Odyssey" will be "a visionary, once-in-a-generation cinematic masterpiece that Homer himself would quite likely be proud of." "The Odyssey" is set for release in theaters on July 27, 2026. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ to Be the First Movie Shot Entirely With Imax Cameras

Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' to Be the First Movie Shot Entirely With Imax Cameras Christopher Nolan always makes supersize...

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California's homeless crisis could be Newsom's political albatross

California's homeless crisis could be Newsom's political albatross

Gov. Gavin Newsom told California cities this week that there "were no more excuses" for homeless encampments, a message he has repeated often over the years with little success. Visible signs of homelessness still line sidewalks and freeway underpasses from Sacramento to Los Angeles, an entrenched crisis rooted in a tight and unaffordable housing market that grew worse in January when more than 12,000 homes burned to the ground in Los Angeles County. Newsom, widely considered a Democratic contender for the 2028 presidential race, appears to be toughening his stance on issues likely to follow him on the campaign trail. His "no more excuses" message included the suggestion that municipalities ban camping on public property for more than three nights in a row, one of several perceived moves to the center the former San Francisco mayor has taken recently. On Wednesday, Newsom unveiled a revised budget that makes significant cuts to reproductive health services and walks back his signature policy to provide free healthcare for low-income undocumented immigrants. The rollbacks were meant to help balance California's budget and turn around the "Trump slump," Newsom told reporters, referring to economic fallout from the president's trade war. Asked if his apparent move to the center is related to a possible 2028 run, he said, "I've been, always, a hardheaded pragmatist." Yet the guidelines on homelessness that he announced this week do not carry enforcement power. Local leaders can ignore them and continue to pursue their own policies. But if the situation doesn't improve before the primaries in 2028, Newsom may be forced to explain to a national audience why his state, with the fourth-largest economy in the world, has the largest homeless population in the U.S., with about 187,000 people living on the streets, in cars and in decrepit RVs on any given night. "It's pure triangulation," said Democratic strategist Max Burns, referring to Newsom's attempt to appeal to both the right and the left. "This is Gavin Newsom trying to enact this theory that the reason we lost last year was because we were just too progressive." Newsom's call to clear encampments and roll back services for undocumented immigrants and reproductive health care have left many voters wondering where his priorities lie. Carolyn Coleman, CEO of the League of California Cities, said the housing crisis has deep roots that "won't be resolved without a partnership between state and local governments." "California cities are not the obstacle to reducing and preventing homelessness," she said. Newsom, 57, has attempted to tackle the homelessness crisis since entering politics more than two decades ago. In 2002, as a San Francisco supervisor, he pushed a measure to cut the budgets of general assistance programs and redirect the money toward providing more shelters and other services for unhoused people. Fast forward to 2024 when the U.S Supreme Court ruled that banning encampments on public property does not violate the U.S. Constitution. Newsom reacted by telling cities and counties to start getting people off their streets, but to do it "with compassion." He suggested local leaders establish programs and systems to help unhoused residents find shelter, mental health services and drug treatment centers. Some complied, some didn't. In Los Angeles, which has a homeless population of 45,252, Mayor Karen Bass said she would continue to focus on pairing unhoused people with temporary or transitional housing and would not clear encampments if shelter was unavailable. Several cities, including some in nearby Orange County, have cracked down on encampments and strengthened anti-camping laws. Other local leaders, like the mayor of San Diego, have commended Newsom for continuing to address the crisis but said they have successfully implemented their own policies without his direction. "It's tempting to look at every single thing that Gavin Newsom does as part of his presidential aspirations," said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego. "But this is absolutely in line with the direction that he's been moving in on homelessness throughout his governorship, and also fits longterm parts of his political career." If Newsom faces voters in 2028, which coincides with the L.A. Olympics, he opens himself up to attacks from both the right and left, Burns said. "The problem is voters aren't sure what to believe," he said. "They've seen him toss so many of these values overboard that no one can quite tell you what Gavin Newsom stands for, and that is going to be a bigger problem for him than anything."

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May 16, 2025

California's homeless crisis could be Newsom's political albatross

California's homeless crisis could be Newsom's political albatross Gov. Gavin Newsom told California cities this week that there ...

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South Korea minister asks for exemption from US tariffs at Greer meeting

South Korea minister asks for exemption from US tariffs at Greer meeting

By Jihoon Lee SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea's minister of trade and industry Ahn Deuk-geun said on Friday that he met U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and asked again for a waiver from Washington's tariff measures. Ahn also said the South Korean delegation would visit the United States next week for technical talks as part of tariff negotiations, which are due to focus on balanced trade and non-tariff barriers among other issues. The bilateral meeting between Ahn and Greer was held on the sidelines of a two-day gathering of trade ministers from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping in South Korea's resort island of Jeju. It was the second senior-level trade talks between South Korea and the United Sates, after the opening round of negotiations held in late April jointly with then South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, where they agreed to craft a trade package by July. The package is expected to encompass four main areas: tariffs and non-tariff measures, economic security, investment cooperation, and currency policy. While touting cooperation in shipbuilding as an important card for negotiations, South Korea has denied that defence costs for some 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the country will be included. Just a week after the April meeting, however, South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who had been leading negotiations, resigned, followed by Choi stepping down, raising questions over the progress in trade talks. Currently, South Korea's interim leader is the education minister until a new president is elected on June 3. After U.S. President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on South Korea in April, Seoul was one of the first countries to hold face-to-face talks with Washington, soon after Japan. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, however, in an interview with Bloomberg News last week that trade deals with the two Asian allies would not be "fast deals". "Washington is prepared to move forward in the interim talks, given the range of interests that could be addressed in a potential negotiated agreement," said Jay Truesdale, a former U.S. diplomat and CEO of TD International, a risk intelligence firm. "The braking mechanism might be more on the South Korean side, given pre-election jockeying and the need for consultation between Korean business and political stakeholders," Truesdale said, noting Trump's desire for quick wins reflected in recent trade talks with Britain and China. South Korea's central bank said last month downside risks to this year's economic growth forecast of 1.5% had increased significantly due to U.S. tariffs. (Reporting by Jihoon Lee, Ju-min Park; Editing by Ed Davies)

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May 16, 2025

South Korea minister asks for exemption from US tariffs at Greer meeting

South Korea minister asks for exemption from US tariffs at Greer meeting By Jihoon Lee SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea's m...

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