Rosemary Lane’s boss summoned her to his office. It was important, the doctor told her, and the young nurse followed without question. There, a small group of hospital staff gathered around a radio to listen to President Truman address the nation. There was a remarkable new development in the ongoing …
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After over 20 years on the air and 60 seasons of its main series and myriad spin-offs, the Bachelor franchise is finally ready to acknowledge something it’s shamefully refused to acknowledge for over two decades: Yes, old people can be horny, too. Today, the ABC dating stalwart announced the lead …
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The show must go on apparently for Disney’s Haunted Mansion, as the premiere at Disneyland continued to take place on Saturday, despite SAG-AFTRA voting to strike on Thursday morning. As Variety reported earlier in the week, the film’s debut was going to happen regardless of how the strike vote landed. …
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The Righteous Gemstones wouldn’t gel without Judy. The middle sibling and only sister among three adult heirs to a televangelist empire in the brash, ungodly HBO series — played by the comedic wonder Edi Patterson, also a writer on the show — Judy Gemstone is a chaotic hinge for her …
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“I can’t believe what my life is,” says Tom Segura. Segura has good reason to be proud. The 44-year-old comic has grinded away for decades to become one of the most successful (and prolific) comedians around. He co-hosts a pair of popular podcasts — Two Bears One Cave with pal …
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There are movie stars and then there is Tom Cruise. Forty years a star, enough classics to make listing even a few here pointless, and, now, someone who can stake a legitimate claim to saving Hollywood (or at least jolting some life into that lazy, bloated monstrosity). Last year’s Top …
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When it was reported that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards and her husband of 27 years, Buying Beverly Hills boss Mauricio Umansky, were separating after 27 years, my social media feed was filled with sheer devastation. Not since Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow “consciously uncoupled” have I …
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After his junior year at Kansas, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain was ready to leave college to make some money. The NBA didn’t take players who left school early, so instead of playing competitively, Wilt joined the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters on a lengthy tour of Europe. Seeing Wilt, one of the …
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James Cameron has strongly denied a report that he is “in talks” to direct a streaming series about the Titan submersible tragedy. On Saturday, tabloid The Sun claimed that Cameron was discussing the series — which would form a bizarro thematic triptych with his Titanic and The Abyss — with …
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Pop quiz: You’re a filmmaker. You’re making a zombie movie. The crew is … let’s be charitable and say “adequate.” The budget is somewhere in the high three-figure range at best. Your main actor is a pompous diva. Even worse, your lead actress isn’t giving you the amount of bone-chilling …
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