Month: February 2021

All hail Regina King! The Oscar winner brought the laughs during her ‘SNL’ debut — which included a sketch spoofing the viral gorilla glue girl. Regina King, 50, was hilarious during her Saturday Night Live debut on Feb. 13 — but her “Gorilla Glue” sketch took the cake! The actress spoofed the actual woman — Tessica
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Parents at Horizon Elementary School in Murray, Utah, were upset last month when a teacher read the book Call Me Max to her third-grade class. The book, written by transgender author Kyle Lukoff, is about a transgender boy who teaches his classmates and teacher about his identity. The book was brought to class by a
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IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Gia Coppola’s sophomore feature Mainstream which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. IFC will open the movie on May 7 in select theaters and on demand. In Mainstream, a young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube
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Breaking News Chris Harrison is stepping away from ‘Bachelor’ duties — including moderating the ‘After the Final Rose’ ceremony — and is once again apologizing for defending a contestant’s alleged racist past. The longtime ‘Bachelor’ host issued a new, lengthier apology Saturday … this after he posted a quick one on Instagram a couple days
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The disqualification proceedings brought against Camila Batmanghelidjh and a group of former trustees of the collapsed charity Kids Company have been dismissed. The High Court judgment today rejected the case brought by the Official Receiver against Batmanghelidjh, founder and former chief executive of the charity, and seven other trustees of the charity at the time
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Justin Timberlake has apologized to former girlfriend Britney Spears and Super Bowl halftime co-star Janet Jackson in a statement issued following the release of a high-profile documentary about Spears’ life. Timberlake issued the apology on Friday after the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears sparked calls for him to do so earlier in the week.
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An employee cleans the grounds behind the closed gates of Disneyland Park on the first day of the closure of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks, in Anaheim, California, on March 14, 2020. DAVID MCNEW | AFP | Getty Images Disney took another financial hit during its fiscal first-quarter, as restrictions on attendance at its
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Chris Harrison is taking a leave of absence from The Bachelor franchise. The news comes following growing controversy following an interview about a contestant on the current season.  “This historic season of The Bachelor should not be marred or overshadowed by my mistakes or diminished by my actions,” Harrison wrote on Instagram. “To that end,
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This week, features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney and editor Emily Burt recap the news about the NCVO equality, diversity and inclusion report, which found evidence of “bullying and harassment” on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation and disability happening “with impunity” at all levels of the organisation.  The story sparked a Twitter campaign #NotJustNCVO,
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Source: AppHarvest Company: AppHarvest Inc. (APPH) The agriculture technology company focuses on building an indoor farm in Appalachia. The company combines agricultural techniques with cutting-edge technology and including access for all to nutritious food, farming and building a homegrown food supply. The company operates a 60-acre controlled environment, agriculture facility in Morehead, Kentucky, which grows
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When I was growing up, I was the only kid in my class who knew what Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, was. In fact, when the holiday came around during my fifth-grade year, my teacher asked me to teach the class about Chinese New Year traditions! I told them all about
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Talk about pent-up demand. Detective Chinatown 3, which was originally scheduled to hit Chinese cinemas during the Lunar New Year period in 2020, has sprung out of the gate today with an astonishing Maoyan-estimated RMB 1.05B ($163M) to score the biggest opening-day gross ever of any movie in a single market. The debut overtakes Avengers:
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Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban says new innovations and companies will come out of the pandemic, creating an “America 2.0,” as he calls it. “At the beginning of the pandemic, as awful as it’s been, I talked about companies that we’re going to look back [on] in 10 or 15 years that were created” during this
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Lawyers have criticised the “flimsy” case brought against the former leaders of Kids Company and said dedicated service by charity trustees “must never again be repaid by such gross injustice”. The High Court rejected the disqualification case brought by the Official Receiver against Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and former chief executive of Kids Company, and seven
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Dana Trippe (@TrippyDana) For musician and artist Jesse Jo Stark, 2020 was supposed to be the year. She’d been touring like crazy to promote her music, which sounds—in truly the best way—like a Creamsicle doused in whiskey and set aflame with a Zippo in a dive bar. She’d created a tiny line of merch called
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