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Celine Dion, Who Quit Performing Due To A Rare Autoimmune Disease, ‘Trained Like An...
In April, Dion said, "I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it’s...
After Decades Of Pleas And Laws And Lawsuits, The Museum Of Natural History Says...
The museum “said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thousands of tribal funerary objects, which...
A Dublin Wax Museum Is Rebooting Its Newly Unveiled Sinead O’Connor Figure
Just before the anniversary of the Irish singer’s death, the museum revealed the figure to a swift and furious reception. O’Connor’s brother John said...
Factcheck: It’s True That The Olympics Are Set In The Ratatouille Cinematic Universe
Apologies to this excellent post on the site formerly known as Twitter. Point is, a lot of great movies are set in Paris, so...
Did The New York Times Books People Forget The Existence Of An Entire Continent?
Sure seems like it. But “the meteoric rise of African publishing is one of the most remarkable stories of the last 25 years. If...
What The Video Game Strike Means For Big Games Like Fortnite
Unless the strike lasts longer than 60 days, “actors and other union members who are already under contract and working on games in development...
Amazon Buys British Studios Where Rocky Horror Was Filmed
The historic studios hosted The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Bride. And then, "Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award...
The Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies Were, Basically, Opera
“Pull out the checklist: There’s music (and lots of it). There’s a cast of hundreds (or in this case, thousands) of performers. There’s grand...
Alice Munro’s Biographer Knew About Her Second Husband’s Abuse Of Her Daughter
And he wrote nothing about it. He didn’t add it to “the book's 2011 update — even after Munro herself sat down with him,...
The Future Of Film With AI Already Cutting Into Reality
Not great: “Short of regulation or relevant union agreements, it has come down to film-makers – directors, producers, writers, visual effects and VFX artists...
Video Game Actors Are On Strike, And Here’s What That Means
Third verse, same as the first (two strikes last year): "'We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI...
The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, Say New Old Musicals
“One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people...
AI Can’t Truly Make Music, But The Use Of It Still Threatens Musicians
“What is becoming clear now is that the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be...
The People Who Rebuilt Notre Dame
“ The devastation was immense. The spire had gone, its collapse having destroyed part of the vaults at the crossing of the transept. ......
The Memeing And Remixing Of Presidential Candidate Harris
Millennials and Gen Z are taking over now. "The KHive has ditched the bee and gone coconuts now that Joe Biden has dropped out of...
How Does Order Emerge From Chaos In Large Systems?
It’s confusing and not fully theorized, but “over the past few years, a community of physicists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists has been working toward...
Long Before The Trial Was Tossed Out, Jurors Had Doubt About Alec Baldwin’s Guilt
One juror: “'Alec Baldwin is an actor, right?’ she said, adding that she would not have expected him to know a lot about gun...
Portland’s Beloved Actor Sam Mowry Has Died At 64
Mowry, in a 40-year career, was an “actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating...
So What Happened To The Racist, But Very Popular, South African Comedy The Gods...
The movie played until the film broke at cinemas across the world. “Made by a white director with funding from the apartheid government yet...
Esta TerBlanche, Fan Favorite Soap Opera Star, Has Died At 51
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess - who ad-libbed a...
How Doing A Comedic Horror Movie Sent Penelope Wilton’s Fame Sky-High
Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in...
On TikTok, True Crime Survivors Are Owning Their Stories
“True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made...
Los Angeles’s Westwood Is Losing Two Historic Cinemas This Week
One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white...
How Do You Make A Movie About Tornadoes Increasing In Intensity But Never Mention...
Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Tries To Recover From Bloody Russian Destruction Of Printing Plant
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof...