When Ashley Graham walked onstage in December to interview Serena Williams for the season finale of her podcast, Pretty Big Deal, she felt intimidated. As the crowd erupted into deafening cheers for the tennis icon, Graham gave herself a pep talk: “Own this shit, girl. You got it.” It’s a …
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No matter how sharp Annie Clark’s tongue, early criticism often focused on her femininity. In 2007, a review praised her “big-girl voice“; in 2009, another mentioned her “small and fragile” vocals; in 2011, she was called “waifishly stunning,” her singing “coquettish.” (Guess the writers’ gender!) And yes, she is stunning, …
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Fresh off dropping “Please Me” with Bruno Mars, Cardi B has hopped on a new remix for Blueface‘s “Thotiana.” The Best Rap Album winner and Los Angeles rapper also shared the Cole Bennett-directed video for the track that premiered Saturday. Cardi B adds a raunchy verse to the hit single, …
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Rap ignored the 2019 Grammys. Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino were nominated across the board, but opted not to attend, along with Jay-Z and Kanye West. In a surprise move, though, Drake decided to cross the picket line. As he hit the stage to accept his Best Rap Song award …
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“I was fairly terrified just reading the script,” says Lupita Nyong’o, who stars in two roles in Jordan Peele‘s Get Out follow-up, Us, due March 22nd. Playing both a loving mom and a creepy, scissor-toting, probably murderous doppelgänger of said mom (her fellow Black Panther actor Winston Duke plays the …
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Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she joined other followers of Charles Manson on a 1969 murder spree, is asking the state of California to release her on parole. Over the past five decades, the convict, now 69, has made nearly two dozen attempts to be freed from the …
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The rise and downfall of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker is the focus of a new 20/20 special titled “Unfaithfully Yours,” and in this exclusive clip from the episode, Ted Koppel recounts an interview with the Bakkers in the aftermath of their sex and financial fraud scandals. The Bakkers’ …
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Happy 20th birthday to Britney Spears’ debut album …Baby One More Time, released on January 12th, 1999 — a truly avant-garde full-length that permanently changed how music sounded. The Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync were having hits already, but they were doing straight-up mainstream pop compared to the alien apocalyptic robot-disco …
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Cyntoia Brown was only 16 when she was sentenced to life in prison, and the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled this past week that she will have to serve 51 years before she could be eligible for release. Brown was convicted of murder and robbery for killing 43-year-old Johnny Mitchell Allen …
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Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz has been indicted for capital murder for the killings of four women in and around Laredo, Texas. Ortiz confessed to the four murders when he was arrested in September, after one woman escaped and informed authorities that he had pointed a gun at her. …
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