Month: July 2020

Peter Green, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, has died. The family put out a statement that said … “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep.” Green, a blues/rock guitarist, created Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood way back in ’67,
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Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades and helped himself and some fans strike it rich with the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has died at 88. Philbin died of natural causes Friday night, just over a month before his 89th birthday,
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Regis Philbin, a ubiquitous presence on American television since the mid-1960s, has died at age 88, according to PEOPLE. His cheery, unscripted morning chat show Live!, first with co-host Kathie Lee Gifford and then Kelly Ripa, ran nationally from 1988 to 2011. “His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Blue Monday by Nicci French for $1.99 Marcus Off Duty by Marcus Samuelson for $1.99 Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith for $2.99 God Help the Child by Toni Morrison for $1.99 A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton for $1.99
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In addition to releasing a whole bunch of new Trick ‘r Treat goodies this Halloween, Spirit Halloween will also be celebrating Michael Dougherty’s Christmas horror movie Krampus with a new line of collectibles that includes a massive, 7.5-foot tall animatronic Krampus! Based on Legendary Pictures’ Krampus, the animatronic is exclusive to Spirit Halloween, and we’re
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The New York Times’s Maureen Dowd recently chatted with Elon Musk at length, resulting in an out-of-this-world interview published Saturday. The South African-born futurist, whose company Tesla has soared from a stock price of $361 in mid-March to as high as $1,643 last week, didn’t talk much about earnings reports or boardroom strategies. The discussion
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Georgie Stone. (10 Peach) This week, Neighbours fans will see Mackenzie Hargreaves, played by trans actor Georgie Stone, have her gender confirmation surgery and finally feel “like her true self”. Georgie Stone, the first trans actor to ever star on Neighbours, told PinkNews how the storyline is shattering misconceptions, “humanising” trans folk and educating people around
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EXCLUSIVE: According to box office figures we’ve gotten our hands on this morning, IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror feature The Rental is leading at the weekend box office, having logged roughly an estimated $130K yesterday at 251 locations. The movie should rake in north of $400K for the 3-days. The Rental, Franco’s feature directorial debut, is also available in
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The persuadables—the Lean Trump and Mixed Feelings segments—were more inclined to say the protests were “somewhat right,” describing them using hazier terms like “equality” and “change.” But at the same time, they expressed unease with rioting, looting, and property destruction. So when the demonstrations became almost completely nonviolent and penetrated even the smallest American towns,
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Maria Bello is bowing out of NCIS during its upcoming 18th season.  Deadline is reporting that the beloved cast member will depart in the first half of the season.  Bello will be back as Jacqueline “Jack” Sloane for eight episodes of the forthcoming season, meaning that fans will get closure.  Bello first arrived on the
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What with a contentious presidential election, a global pandemic, and the postponed release of the Top Gun sequel, you’d think there’d be just no room for news about U.F.O.s right now. But never count 2020 out! The New York Times is reporting that the Pentagon will soon become more transparent concerning its Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
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The 1980s and ’90s kids books series with the most longevity, The Baby-Sitters Club, is a great example of the form. These long-running series were painfully earnest and well-meaning, introducing kids to concepts like divorce, bullying, and disability. Also, duh, they totally promoted happier concepts too, like friendship, achieving your goals, and saving the earth
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Even as the president obfuscates in public, his own intelligence officials are cognizant of the fact that right-wing extremists represent a more credible threat. An intelligence assessment dated June 15 and obtained by Politico warned law enforcement and public safety officials that the boogaloo movement—which experts say seeks to ignite a civil war—may be zeroing
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