Life & Style | ‘When They See Us’ star wept at Emmy nomination

Actor Jharrel Jerome of “When They See Us” says he cried so much when he learned of his Emmy nomination that you would have thought he had lost a family member.

Jerome told The Associated Press that it “was just pure joy and pure happiness and pride” that drove him to tears when he learned he was nominated for best actor in a limited series or movie.

His was one of 16 nominations for the Netflix show about the false accusations against the so-called Central Park Five.

The 21-year-old Jerome says he was in a restaurant with friends from high school when he learned he was nominated, which led to broken glasses and stunned customers amid the wild celebration.

25 years later, ‘The Lion King’ roars again (with Beyoncé)

It was just a few months ago that director Jon Favreau was sitting in a scoring session with composer Hans Zimmer for “The Lion King,” his ambitious and technology-driven reimagining of the 1994 animated classic, and he and everyone else in the room were getting a little emotional.

It’s no wonder: They were recording the music for the stampede (yes, THAT stampede).

“Working on it doesn’t make it any less emotional,” Favreau said in an interview earlier this year.

And don’t even get him started on what it was like to listen to James Earl Jones record his lines as Mufasa.

“The Lion King” is three years in the making with some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Beyoncé, and the expectations couldn’t be higher. None of the other major studios have even dared to go up against it in theaters this weekend. Early tracking suggest that it could make as much as $150 million in its first weekend in North America, and it’s already grossed over $55 million in China.

Venezuela frees musician jailed after blasting Maduro online

Karen Palacios’ Yamaha clarinet still rests where she left it atop sheet music of a Mozart concerto that she practiced diligently the night before two strangers dressed in black lured her away in a luxury SUV.

The 25-year-old musician’s captors duped her into believing she was needed for an interview with a victims’ unit at the presidential palace.

Instead, they drove her to Venezuela’s most-notorious military prison, locking her up alongside the socialist government’s top opponents for violating Venezuela’s highly subjective hate law. Her crime: posting a message on social media venting frustration at President Nicolás Maduro’s government over having been cut from the state-funded National Philharmonic.

“This is the first time I’ve started a thread,” she wrote May 26 in a string of hard-edged messages that quickly went viral on Twitter.