Ladies and gentlemen, it appears Aaron Rodgers, who’s taken a grand total of four snaps as quarterback of the New York Jets, has lost his mind. This week, during his weekly appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show (or if a WWE wrestler on bath salts hosted a sports program), …
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After four long months marching on Hollywood picket lines, bargaining inside hostile negotiating rooms, and giving Buddhist sermons, Fran Drescher can finally exhale. Through the 118-day actors’ strike, The Nanny star turned SAG-AFTRA national president, joined by SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, has served as the face of the 160,000-strong …
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Emma Stone‘s fifth stint as host of Saturday Night Live saw the Oscar-winning actress be presented with a jacket to mark the occasion by two other “five-timers”: former SNL cast member Tina Fey and Candice Bergen of Murphy Brown. Fey noted that the 35-year-old Stone is now the youngest member …
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T his report was produced in partnership with Important Context, the news outlet of the OptOut Media Foundation. In April 2020, as the first wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic was breaking across the U.S., the largest charitable fund in the country, Fidelity Charitable, announced a plan to help mitigate …
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It’s been nearly five months since Jimmy Kimmel hosted his late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! owing to the writers’ strike. In the meantime, Kimmel co-hosted the all-star podcast Strike Force Five alongside Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers to raise funds for their out-of-work writers, and recently …
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Metallica were forced to postpone the second night of their M72 Weekend Takeover in Glendale, Arizona after James Hetfield came down with Covid. The band were set to return to the stadium Sunday night after playing Friday. “We’re very sorry to report that tomorrow’s scheduled M72 date at State Farm …
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Rage against Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates accelerated Ron DeSantis’ rise to the top of the Republican Party. It was supposed to be a key part of the governor’s plan to outflank Donald Trump in the 2024 primary. But here’s the problem: Republican voters, at this point, largely just don’t …
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I n late March 2020, Haywood Talcove, a CEO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, was packing up his office, having sent his employees home. He was worrying about laying off his staff, his family’s health, and how he was going to manage two young kids at home during the pandemic. But …
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Part one of Donald Trump’s two-night interview with Fox Host Bret Baier likely left the lawyers trying to keep him out of prison reeling, and part two may have put his campaign staff in similar straits. When asked by Baier if he would appear during the first Republican primary debate, …
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On the morning of April 25, Netflix gave us two big offerings: John Mulaney: Baby J, a stand-up comedy special of the comic chronicling his journey to sobriety in hilarious fashion, and The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, an interview special featuring the two iconic Black women. …
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