Month: February 2021

Recently I was at an Emergency Room (luckily nothing too serious) and got to talking with the doctors. One mentioned how he had seen some really interesting stuff during his work at home in South Africa. Not being medically trained, I am glad he didn’t offer descriptions of the “really interesting stuff” he was thinking
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Breaking News Donald Trump doesn’t want SAG-AFTRA, and they just made it perfectly clear they want nothing to do with him either … forever and never again. The former President was permanently banned from ever rejoining the actors’ union this weekend after the board passed a resolution that gave him the boot for good. He’d
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Following French-Tunisian designer Azzedine Alaïa’s death in 2017, the Alaïa ship has sailed on as best as it could to keep the legendary name alive. Now, Pieter Mulier is signing on as captain. Announced today, February 5, Alaïa has officially named Mulier as its newest designer. Mulier cut his teeth as an intern for Raf
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Evan Spiegel, CEO of SNAP Inc. Stephen Desaulniers | CNBC Snap’s stock fell more than 5% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings despite beating Wall Street’s expectations on earnings, revenue and user growth. But the company provided a first-quarter adjusted EBITDA forecast that was much lower than analysts’ consensus
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Cathy Yan, whose Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) was one of the final pre-pandemic films of 2020, will write and direct the science fiction project The Freshening, according to a report in Variety. Ali Wong is one of the producers. The Freshening will adapt a Rachel Khong short story
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Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen will make his feature directorial debut with Falling which makes its premiere in theaters, digital and on demand today. Mortensen went all-in with his feature debut because also wrote, starred in and composed the score for Falling to show us that he’s not just a one-trick pony (but was there any doubt?) Falling follows
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Before he co-founded Twitter and became a billionaire, Jack Dorsey thought about quitting the tech industry altogether for an entirely different line of work: fashion designer. Today, 44-year-old Dorsey is the CEO of both Twitter and mobile payment company Square and has an estimated personal net worth of $12.9 billion, according to Forbes. But, before
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