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Sam Neill, Star of ‘Jurassic Park,’ Dead at 78
Sam Neill, best known for starring in the Jurassic Park franchise, died on July 13 at 78. The actor’s family shared the news on his official Instagram page early Monday…
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Lindsey Graham, Longtime South Carolina Senator, Dead at 71
Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, has died at the age of 71. Graham’s office announced in a statement, “On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S.…
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PBS ‘The Open Mind’ Host Alexander Heffner on Show’s 70th Anniversary
When The Open Mind premiered on PBS in 1956, host Richard D. Heffner wanted to do something that had never been done on television before: each Sunday for an hour,…
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Comic Escapes $27 Million Lawsuit Over ‘Lion King’ Chant Joke
A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a $27 million defamation lawsuit brought against the comedian Learnmore Jonasi by Lebohang Morake, the South African singer and composer professionally known…
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‘Love Island’ Takes the Gamification of Modern Dating to the Extreme
For the past five weeks, a large portion of America’s TV-viewing public has been held hostage nightly by the reality-television dating show Love Island USA. Yes, you heard that right.…
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Ariana Grande Drops ‘American Horror Story’ Season 13 Due to Touring
Singer was expected to have a "very tiny" role in what would have been her reunion with Scream Queens producer Ryan Murphy Ariana Grande’s reunion with Ryan Murphy has been…
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Trump Doubles Down on Refusal to Sign Bipartisan Housing Bill
Donald Trump doubled down on his refusal to sign a popular bipartisan housing-affordability bill “in protest” of Congress’ inability to force through his desired voter disenfranchisement legislation. The bill is…
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Please Stop Making ‘Evil Dead’ Movies
We are fans of the Evil Dead movies. We’ve always loved director Sam Raimi‘s go-for-broke brio, his proof-of-concept examples of how Three Stooges-style slapstick could pair nicely with Grand Guignol…
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Trump Is Building Monuments to Himself in D.C. While Ruining Democracy
W hen he first campaigned for president a decade ago, Donald Trump pointed to his singular achievement in public service: a skating rink. A primetime video at Trump’s nominating convention…
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J.K. Simmons Never Met Tom Holland Despite Co-Starring in ‘Spider-Man’
The actors both appeared in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home and 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home J.K. Simmons and Tom Holland apparently never crossed paths on the sets of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From…