Month: May 2020

You might be wondering how to shave your head for any number of reasons. Maybe you’ve taken inspiration from The Last Dance—Michael Jordan is certainly on the Mount Rushmore of bald dudes. Perhaps quarantine has you looking for the lowest-maintenance hairstyle possible. Or maybe it’s simply time to execute a strategic retreat in the fight
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Discovery, Inc.’s U.S. ad revenue dropped 20% in April as the COVID-19 panic took hold but May and June look sbetter. The highly international company’s board will be looking carefully at acquisition opportunities around the world. And CEO David Zaslav put the blame for subscriber erosion on linear TV squarely at the feet of bundles
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The Sundance U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize winner for Ensemble Acting, Charm City Kings, has been acquired by HBO Max from Sony Pictures Classics. The Angel Manuel Soto-directed movie, which follows a 14-year old who wants to join an infamous group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders, was originally expected to open this spring before SPC moved the movie
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The thing with models is, they’ll mess you up. It doesn’t matter if they’re backstage at Prada or behind you at a New York Pilates class—stare for one second, and the symmetry of their bodies might just stop your brain. The universe expands and contracts all at once in their faces, distilled in a perfect
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The Supreme Court issued a statement late Tuesday revealing that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a non-surgical treatment for a benign gallbladder condition earlier in the day. At the time of the release, Ginsburg was said to be “resting comfortably” at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Ginsburg is a liberal stalwart known for her opinions
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The coronavirus won’t keep New Yorkers from casting their ballot in the presidential primary after all. New York State officially decided in April to cancel their June 23 presidential primary election over public health fears from the coronavirus—and former Vice President Joe Biden’s status as the last candidate standing. But a federal judge officially overturned
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Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel The Midnight Club is becoming a Netflix series, Variety reports tonight, with Mike Flanagan (“Haunting of Hill House,” Doctor Sleep) as co-creator! Flanagan will adapt the book alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon a Time”), and Flanagan will also executive produce via Intrepid Pictures along with Intrepid’s Trevor Macy. Fong will executive
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The first book in a promising new collection, PI Tales, Throwing Off Sparks is also the first book in a new series featuring an East Texas-based female private investigator named Riley Reeves. It doesn’t exactly read like a first-in-a-series, though, and maybe at some future date we’ll get to learn the details of how Reeves
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