The editors of The New York Times Book Review have named their top ten books of 2020. The first five titles on the list showcase the best in fiction — all which might be categorized under the broad label “literary” (though arguably, Deacon King Kong lies closely within mystery and crime fiction) — while the
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Congratulations to Jordan Fisher and Ellie Woods! The longtime couple, who met as children, have tied the knot four months after being forced to postpone their dream wedding. Congratulations are in order for Jordan Fisher and Ellie Woods! The longtime couple married in an intimate ceremony on November 21, four months after they were forced
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Illinois-born actor Chris Klein was 20 years old when he landed the life-changing role of hunky high schooler Chris “Oz” Ostreicher — who leaves his lacrosse team hanging to join the choir for the cute girl — in the OG teen film “American Pie” … and the follow-up films “American Pie 2” and “American Reunion.”
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Sunday night’s episode of The Reagans, Showtime’s absorbing docuseries, ends with the idle chatter of journalists surveying the landscape after Ronald Reagan’s resounding 1980 defeat of President Jimmy Carter. “Who leads the social counterrevolution? Teddy Kennedy?” CBS anchor Walter Cronkite asks in the clip. “How about Senator [Joe] Biden from Delaware for openers?” commentator Jeff
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As one of the presenters at the 2020 American Music Awards, Kristin Cavallari dressed to impress! The ‘Very Cavallari’ star channeled sultriness on the stage in a form-fitting gown with a high slit. The queen of reality TV, Kristin Cavallari, still turned heads on a night celebrating music! The former Very Cavallari star wowed in a mauve
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Jessica Butcher, freshly appointed EHRC commissioner. (Screen capture via YouTube) The British government appointed last week an official with a troubling track record of attacking fundamental human rights to its independent official watchdog group that monitors and seeks to “protect” LGBT+ rights, among others. According to The Obsever, Jessica Butcher, a digital investor, was installed
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Stormi Webster was a bundle of energy when she happily posed for some videos while spending time with her mom Kylie Jenner in the makeup mogul’s private jet on Nov. 22. Kylie Jenner, 23, and her two-year-old daughter Stormi Webster were taking in a memorable mother-daughter moment while aboard Kylie’s private jet, and it was
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As Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election he lost to Joe Biden seem increasingly unlikely to succeed, the president and those in his orbit are apparently looking ahead—possibly to 2024. Trump, contemplating what his future will look like upon exiting the White House, reportedly sees running again as a way to preserve his hold
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Donald Trump-appointed judges reverved a vital ban on therapists offering conversion therapy – a denounced and debunked pseudosicenfitic practise – Friday (November 20), branding the ban “unconstititional”. Also called reparative therapy, medical organisations across the world have widely rejected the treatment as traumatising and psychologically scarring, especially to minors. In fact, the American Academy of
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Guitar Center has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as The New York Times reports. The company filed on Saturday night (November 21) in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, according to the Times. Guitar Center will continue to pay employees amid bankruptcy. Read the full report here. The looming possibility
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SUNDAY AM UPDATE, refresh for chart and more analysis: The weekend before Thanksgiving is one of the most lucrative ones on the calendar, last year bringing in $204.9M off the opening of Disney’s Frozen II which posted November’s fifth best domestic opening of all-time at $130.3M. Who would ever think that the domestic box office would sink
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