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What a cursed fantasy agelessness is, one reiterated and reimagined many times since Bram Stoker introduced modern audiences to florid psychosexual vampirism. To be immortally young is to float above the petty ephemera of most people’s short lives, to consider a bigger picture—one both grand and terrifying. There’s an allure to these stories—wouldn’t it be
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Songbird, a Michael Bay-produced thriller set during the current coronavirus pandemic, has been given a “Do Not Work” notice from the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film’s cast includes Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Peter Stormare, and was set
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It looks like the two-minute warning for the Washington football team’s disparaging name. On Friday, after mounting corporate pressure, the team announced “a thorough review of the team’s controversial nickname,” according to The Washington Post. Team owner Dan Snyder said the review would “take into account not only the proud tradition and history of the
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Had the coronavirus pandemic not wiped out summer moviegoing in 2020, this July Fourth holiday weekend would have seen the release of Minions: The Rise of Gru—the latest entry in the Despicable Me franchise and its spinoffs—as well as Free Guy, a video game action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer. (Maybe next year.) Instead,
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Dean Cain feared that Superman, a role that he once played in the ’90s, could no longer say his patriotic catchphrase amid ‘cancel culture.’ Twitter users pointed out that the Krypton native is ‘not even American.’ Dean Cain was “fired up” over a Time Magazine article that reassessed superheroes amid police brutality protests. But people were firing
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During an appearance on U.S. television, Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots says the Broadway star may need a double lung transplant in his fight against complications from the coronavirus. Kloots shared the latest on the Hamilton-born Cordero during a pre-taped interview on “CBS This Morning” that aired Thursday. The 38-year-old professional fitness instructor told host Gayle
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Beauty YouTuber Tati Westbrook returned to YouTube on Tuesday to release an explosive video detailing the events that lead up to her posting her Bye, Sister video about James Charles last May. Westbrook’s new 40-minute video, titled Breaking my silence, exposed alleged actions from YouTubers Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson and the involvement the two had
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In the midst of the ongoing anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd in May, Canadian-American rock veteran Neil Young has returned to the internet with a politically charged installment of his acoustic Fireside Sessions series called Porch Episode. Young, 74, criticized President Donald Trump‘s leadership of the U.S. in a
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