Month: August 2020

Yesterday, the United States–based human rights advocacy nonprofit Human Rights Foundation published an open letter to Tyga, asking the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance in the Belarusian capital of Minsk over concerns that the concert was “an excuse to cancel the opposition’s final electoral rally” on the eve of a potentially historic presidential election.
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On Friday a Federal Judge in Manhattan reversed a decision held since 1948 concerning the exhibition of motion pictures. The “Paramount Decrees” stemmed from a Supreme Court ruling that disallowed movie studios from owning their own theaters to. It also ended (or at least curtailed) the practice of “block booking,” in which a studio could
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What Are The Paramount Consent Decrees? In 1948, the Supreme Court Decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ended three key practices when it came to theatrical exhibition. The decision agreed with the accusations that major studios, like Paramount and Warner Bros, had an unfair advantage when it came to releasing films to the general
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A sex workers’ rights group in Ireland has been denied government funding unless it admits that “prostitution is inherently exploitative of vulnerable people”. Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) was given the stark message by the country’s Department of Justice when it inquired about emergency funding for sex workers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Irish Examiner reports.
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The tension between Andrei, Chuck, Charlie is at an all-time high. Andrei’s brother, Radu, tries to settle Andrei down in this EXCLUSIVE preview of ’90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?’ Elizabeth’s father and brother, Chuck and Charlie, have come to Moldova, and things are not going very well. Andrei and Elizabeth tried to bring both
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After the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers on Thursday, their bench coach, Ryan Christenson, raised his arm to form what he later said was an attempt at a properly socially distanced high five. What it really looked like, as at least one player immediately realized, was a Nazi salute. Closer Liam Hendriks pushed Christenson’s
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K-Pop idol Hongbin has left the popular Korean boy band VIXX after he made controversial comments on the streaming platform Twitch. K-Pop star Hongbin has left the boy band VIXX after making controversial comments about fellow Korean pop idols on the streaming platform Twitch. The 26-year-old South Korea-born singer and actor departed from the group
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On today’s earnings call for the No. 1 financially challenged exhibitor AMC, CEO Adam Aron took the high road in not damning Disney for their recent seisimic-shifting choice to take Mulan to Disney+ instead of theaters where the streaming service is available. “You might thing I’m disappointed that Mulan is moving, but AMC has no bigger friend
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Howard Ashman was the queer songwriting genius behind the most well-known Disney classics. (Disney) Howard, a new Disney Plus documentary, celebrates the queer songwriting genius behind many of its most iconic songs, marking a leap forward for the studio’s LGBT+ inclusivity, Howard Ashman. Disney has seen baby steps of progress when it comes to LGBT+
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Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. In the early evenings, Esther Povitsky heads outside to begin her meditation. This being Los Angeles, you might think that involves crystals or ashwaganda, but, she says, “‘Sit down, hold your back up, close your eyes and think about nothing’—that’s
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She said that she wasn’t quite expecting the cruelty in the blowback, but she’s since gotten used to it. Risen above it. Is better for it. Etcetera. Now, everyone is consciously uncoupling, she says.  Paltrow, journalist-blogger, also interviewed her friend Cameron Diaz for her In Goop Health series. They discussed why Diaz quit acting, but
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Tom Schwartz confessed that he still hasn’t ‘processed’ the firings of his close friends Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni from ‘Vanderpump Rules.’ Nonetheless, the Bravo star revealed why he’s staying positive. Although the cast of Vanderpump Rules just lost much of its main players, Tom Schwartz is still excited for Season 9.
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