Director Ali Abbasi had Sebastian Stan undergo an ominous transformation for his forthcoming film The Apprentice, in which the actor will star a young Donald Trump. As proven by the first-look photos from the movie, set to premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the process was a success — …
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Back in the early ’90s, a guy named David Guest conceptualized a “T-shaped” person, someone whose skills and knowledge were both broad and deep, general and specialized. Back in the early 2010s, I claimed my own letter-shaped concept in a blog about the skills of the future by coining the …
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Taylor Swift‘s catalog is once again available on TikTok, even as her record label, Universal Music Group, is still in the middle of a heated dispute with the influential short-form video platform. Back in February, Swift’s tracks were among the thousands pulled off TikTok after UMG announced that it hadn’t …
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Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson, the football star turned actor who became the center of one of the highest-profile trials in U.S. history when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and another man, died Wednesday at the age of 76. Simpson’s children announced his death Thursday, saying that their father …
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After filling out a new questionnaire, Eminem‘s most ardent stans will stand a chance to make it into the upcoming documentary, Stans. The rapper posted a link to social media on Wednesday that leads to a form to fill out in order to prove your devotion to the artist. Here …
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Last month, a judge tossed a lawsuit from Elon Musk‘s X (formerly Twitter) against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an anti-extremism watchdog, that alleged the group had financially harmed the company by reporting on violent and hateful speech proliferating across its platform. The ruling stated in no uncertain terms …
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Omar Apollo is looking at himself through Zoom as he tries on the beige Sherpa jacket he just bought. “You fuck with it?” he asks. It’s hard not to fuck with everything the Mexican American alt-R&B star does. Apollo dropped his debut album, Ivory, in April 2022, then blew up …
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Lil Nas X launched his grand comeback earlier this year with “J Christ,” an inherently divisive single that sparked a conversation about his consistent use of controversy as a framing device for his music. The song itself quietly fizzled out, but behind the scenes, the rapper was plotting his pivot. …
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Nearly a decade after The Jinx became a true-crime sensation, HBO will once again delve into the crimes of Robert Durst with The Jinx – Part Two, premiering Sunday, April 21. Ahead of Part Two, HBO has shared a new trailer for the six-part continuation of the shocking 2015 docuseries: …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appalled— appalled! — to learn in 2008 that Sarah Palin, then-GOP nominee John McCain’s running mate, once had ties to the Alaskan Independence Party. In a HuffPost op-ed titled “Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel,” Kennedy excoriated Palin for continuing to “‘pal …
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