When Ezra Miller hit up music producer Oliver Ignatius to help them work on a new musical project in February, Ignatius wasn’t immediately enticed. After all, he had a bunch of sessions booked for the next few months at his Holy Fang Studios in New York.But he knew Miller since …
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Carly Simon has faced her fear of flying before. In 1971, she forced herself to board a plane to Los Angeles for her first-ever show at the Troubadour, where she opened for Cat Stevens. In 1989, she made another momentous trip there, this time to attend the Academy Awards, where …
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Of all the surprise crowd-pleasing cameos packed into Marvel‘s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, only one will provoke a nostalgic, involuntary “groovy” from certain members of the audience. That would be the scene where Bruce Campbell, cult horror’s most gifted physical comedian, wanders in to play an obnoxious …
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There’s only one person who knows exactly what happened shortly before 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, to leave Christian “Toby” Obumseli dead from a stab wound— and according to her lawyer, that person is back home in Texas with her parents, grieving the loss of her boyfriend, and recovering …
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Back in 2005, a red-headed, cocky frat boy got on The Real World: Austin by showing up to his audition drunk. It was a spontaneous decision for Wes Bergmann, who had met a girl at his Arizona State University fraternity house the night before. “She was very pretty, and for …
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On Jan. 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man showed up at an urgent-care clinic in Washington State, complaining of a cough and fever — symptoms that would soon worsen into what presented like a serious case of pneumonia. He’d just returned from Wuhan, China, where he had family. This man was …
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W hen former Disney star Bella Thorne joined OnlyFans, she reportedly pocketed $1 million her first day and crashed the site. By the end of the 24-year-old’s second week on the subscription-based platform, Thorne had earned another million, signaling to other celebrities and influencers the site was a legitimate place …
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On April 11, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard reported to a Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom for a long-awaited defamation trial that would air all the dirty laundry of their tumultuous marriage. The first three weeks of testimony have offered a cascade of eye-popping revelations, with Heard, through her attorneys, accusing Depp …
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L et’s start at journey’s end. Some adventures exact a terrible cost. It’s the last Sunday in January. More than 300 guests walk single file into the Arcata Community Center in far North California. Some wear blazers with sneakers, and some wear gingham dresses with muddy hiking boots. They patiently …
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There’s a sequence in Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary, Get Back, when, on the fourth day of the tense writing-and-rehearsal marathon for a high-stakes live show and what would become the Fab Four’s final album, Let It Be, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are sitting around griping that …
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