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Regina King’s feature directorial debut and two projects from Metis/Algonquin director Michelle Latimer are bound for the Toronto International Film Festival. Organizers have announced all 50 titles for September’s pandemic-tailored event, which will include online public screenings geoblocked for Canada and drive-ins. In-theatre screenings are still up in the air. On the list is King’s
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The first-pitch fiasco was hardly the first time Donald Trump’s ego has dominated his dealings with Dr. Anthony Fauci. For weeks now the president, angered by the doctor’s good press and by his reliance on actual science to battle COVID-19, has been trying to undermine Fauci’s credibility. The relationship reached a farcical low point last
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It seems Nicola Peltz is already part of the Beckham family! She was recently spotted hitting up Victoria Beckham’s London store with her future sis-in-law Harper. Nicola Peltz, 25, is bonding with her fiance Brooklyn Beckham‘s family! The blonde beauty was spotted shopping up a storm with her future sister-in-law Harper Beckham, 9, on July 29,
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Kylie Jenner and Stassie Karanikolaou were making fans see double in their latest social media pic! Can you spot the difference? Kylie Jenner and her longtime BFF Stassie Karanikolaou reunited for one heck of a sexy Instagram photo on Thursday, July 30. The 22 and 23-year-old (respectively) looked identical to one another while rocking matching
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One early morning in mid-May, biotech company Moderna announced preliminary results from its Phase I test of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, and its stock value soared. A relatively young company focused on developing technology to use genetic material to cure or prevent disease, Moderna hasn’t yet brought any of its products to market. Nevertheless, it
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The July 29 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills left off on a cliffhanger. Brandi Glanville, 47, boldly claimed that she hooked up with Denise Richards, 48, earlier this season, but in a preview that aired after Wednesday’s episode, Denise alleged that Brandi said she actually had sex with someone else on the cast! Denise
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Has Larry Kudlow, Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, finally lost it? That’s a question many people on and off Wall Street have after his seemingly inane, overly optimistic predictions, on national television, about the direction of the U.S. economy. For instance, on Sunday, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the economy is getting
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Madelaine Petsch revealed to HL that she’s missing her real-life BFF and ‘Riverdale’ co-star Vanessa Morgan since they’ve been separated due to quarantine! Whether they’re playing Cheryl Blossom and Toni Topaz or they’re hanging out off-set, Madelaine Petsch and Vanessa Morgan are BFF goals. The Riverdale co-stars always have each other’s backs and in an EXCLUSIVE interview
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Corus specialty channels Showcase and W Network announced their primetime 2020 fall schedules and premiere dates on Wednesday. “Building off successful fall seasons in 2019, we are proud to put forward strong schedules this fall for both networks,” said Daniel Eves, Senior Vice President, Broadcast Networks, Corus Entertainment. “With an impressive slate of 10 new
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In a separate conversation, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen—Natasha’s longtime friend, who has known Richardson his entire life—also brought up the role. “You watch her in The Parent Trap, and she’s kind of playing the perfect mother…That’s reminiscent of how she was as a mom,” he explained. “She was not a checked-out superstar. She
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But a filter only takes you so far. Months into quarantine, my not-even-vain friends have asked me about maintenance—the blanket term for the tool kit of noninvasive procedures that can be subtly deployed to forestall the inevitable. Squinting into the screen at the ever-deepening web of crow’s-feet (intensified further by said squinting) has a way
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“CONGRATULATIONS, OCTAVIA, I loved your project!” Emmy nomination host Leslie Jones screamed after the announcement of Octavia Spencer’s nod for Self Made, her Netflix series about the life of Black entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker. Can the Emmys rise to the moment? With nominations landing after a two-month-long national reckoning over race, that was a major
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