Month: July 2020

Don’t erase Hamilton from the Oscar narrative just yet. While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Monday that the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic Broadway musical, which recently premiered on Disney+, is ineligible for the 2021 ceremony, a source close to the film told Vanity Fair this week that Disney
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Meek Mill makes his acting debut in the Sundance fave ‘Charm City Kings.’ HL spoke with Jahi Winston about working with the rapper, how the film brings ‘light’ to a ‘marginalized and vilified city,’ and more. Charm City Kings follows Mouse, played by Jahi Winston, a young man who desperately wants to join The Midnight
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Only one day after its long-awaited return, Unsolved Mysteries, the American mystery/documentary series, has already received more than 20 potentially credible “tips” to help solve some of the different crime cases explored in the first six episodes of its recent Netflix reboot. “We have received tips,” series co-creator and executive producer Terry Dunn Meurer confirmed
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Bestselling children’s author Gillian Philip was dropped by her publisher for tweeting her support for JK Rowling. (Twitter/Gilian_Philip) Bestselling Scottish author Gillian Philip has been let go by her publisher after putting “I stand with JK Rowling” in her Twitter handle. Philip, from Glasgow, backed Harry Potter author JK Rowling – who’s been labelled “transphobic”
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The drama is REAL between TikTok stars, Charli D’Amelio and Chase Hudson, after Charli took to Twitter to accuse Chase of not taking responsibility for their split earlier this year. Nearly three months after Charli D’Amelio, 16, and Chase Hudson’s split, the truth is coming out. On July 6, several TikTok stars began unfollowing Chase — who goes
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Bottles of antiretroviral drug Truvada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) Seventy-three countries fear they could run out of antiretroviral (ARV) medications, which prevent the transmission of HIV, because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A new WHO survey released ahead of the biannual International AIDS Society’s conference found that 24 countries currently had
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Dave Chappelle threw a socially-distanced music festival in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio during the July 4 weekend, as Spin and Cincinnati’s CityBeat point out. Guest performers included Erykah Badu, Common, Questlove, Talib Kweli, Michelle Wolf, Tiffany Haddish, Michael Che, Jon Hamm, and Chappelle himself. According to Spin, Chappelle covered Radiohead’s “Creep,” Badu did
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Prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a Friday court appearance in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and longtime associate of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was arrested on Thursday on U.S. charges of luring underage girls so that Epstein could sexually abuse them. Read more: Ghislaine Maxwell may be legally covered by
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Though she never really left the spotlight after making transphobic remarks via Twitter last month, J.K. Rowling has, yet again, become the subject of widespread criticism after calling transgender hormone therapy a “new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people.” The Harry Potter author took to Twitter on July 5, saying “health professionals are concerned”
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Buddy-cop movies can probably never get greenlit again, and they probably shouldn’t, but some officers are writing the story themselves: A two-cop (plus a fire marshal) team set out to issue citations to businesses in Montauk over July Fourth weekend, according to Page Six. They called themselves the “enforcement and compliance detail,” which sounds like
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