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Rhonda Fleming, who starred in classic films of the 1940s and 50s opposite leading men like Burt Lancaster, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, and Robert Mitchum has died, according to reports. She was 97 years old. Though her first appearances were in psychological black-and-white thrillers like
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In September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a nearly $221-million investment in Canada’s first Black Entrepreneurship Program (BEP). This program will help thousands of Black entrepreneurs across the country not only recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, but grow their businesses through the years (hopefully) beyond the pandemic. Through the BEP, the federal
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Nearly three weeks after the world took its season 2 trip into the twisted mind of You‘s Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a third season has been confirmed. Variety reports that the show will return with Badgley and Victoria Pedretti some time in 2021. Official renewal comes weeks after Deadline reported that a theoretical third season
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Earlier this week, Republican senator Ben Sasse held a call with his Nebraska constituents and used a good portion of his time to castigate Donald Trump. Attacking the president for alienating allies, disrespecting women, ignoring human rights abuses, kissing “dictators’ butts,” “flirt[ing] with white supremacists,” and approaching the pandemic like a “P.R. crisis,” Sasse predicted
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The Baby-Sitter’s Club‘s own Dawn Schaeffer, the talented young actress Xochitl Gomez, will be making her Marvel debut! News broke that Gomez is going to join Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. According to Deadline, the young star is joining the movie (which begins filming after Cumberbatch films his scenes for the
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In an attempt to not let the excellent catchphrase “but emails!” go to waste this election cycle, the American right this week produced what it surely hoped would be its momentous, much-clamored-for 2020 October surprise. On Wednesday, less than three weeks before Americans go to the polls to either extend Donald Trump’s tenure or kick
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There’s been so much going on lately, from Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to the fast-approaching election to Donald Trump’s hospitalization and subsequent apparent desire to spread COVID-19 to each and every one of his supporters individually. The President again talks about kissing people at the rally pic.twitter.com/HWJj7MPhcU — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October
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For months, Donald Trump has been one of the primary sources of misinformation regarding COVID-19, oftentimes ignoring the advice of even his own coronavirus task force. Now, according to the Daily Beast, members of said task force—namely Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci—along with CDC Director Robert Redfield, are distancing themselves from the president’s viewpoints,
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As the situation in the United States spirals in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country plunges headlong towards a critical election, it’s apt timing for a documentary like Totally Under Control. It acts as both a primer on what’s happened with the Trump administration’s handling of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. as
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On Tuesday, Dominic West and his wife Catherine FitzGerald proved that their marriage is still going “strong” with a staged smooch and public statement for the paparazzi. But despite this passionate display of monogamy, it seems there are still some lingering questions about the actor and Lily James’s very friendly Roman holiday after a “witness”
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Demi Lovato surprise-released a new song last night, “Commander in Chief,” with lyrics targeted directly to the U.S.’s 45th president, Donald Trump and his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the California wildfires, Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, and racial injustice in the U.S. As Lovato put it to CNN, “There’s been so many times
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Following the arrest of 13 far-right extremists for allegedly plotting to kidnap and potentially kill Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s attorney general alerted the country that such domestic terrorism attempts are “not just a Michigan problem.” On Tuesday, less than a week after Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel’s warning, the FBI revealed that some
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Spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 9, “The Beast in the Jungle.” If you’ve already finished bingeing The Haunting of Bly Manor then, first of all, congratulations. You are what everybody’s favorite haunted orphan, Flora, would deem “perfectly splendid.” Second, you’re probably reeling from the finale, which dealt its audience an emotional sucker
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It’s so easy to get caught in the sparkling web singer Heather Fay spins in her new track “Finally Free”. Shimmering with glamour sparkles, peppered with ching-ching-ching percussion, Fay’s flow in the song is just the groove to kiss that no good boyfriend behind and move beyond. Making it easy to hum along, Fay’s self-penned
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Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of the investment company Apollo Global Management, had a business relationship for decades, but the nature of it has remained mostly hazy. Epstein advised Black on various business and philanthropy matters and served on the board of his family foundation, and U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney
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At this year’s virtual NYCC, a comic book called Zaadii: The Legend of Z-Hawk was unveiled. The comic was inspired by 3-year-old Zaadii Tozhon Tso, a young boy who loved superheroes and was tragically killed by a distracted driver in 2015. Renowned comics creatives Gail Simone, Jim Calafiore, and Jeffrey Veregge have created a comic
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Seven months ago, if you told me I would be bumming a cigarette from Sean Penn in a parking lot repurposed from Dodger Stadium for emergency use during a viral pandemic, the two of us surrounded by hundreds of cars full of nervous people afraid their bodies harbored an invisible predator that had attacked over
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