Brooke Shields’ Hollywood journey speaks volumes about the ways young girls have been sexualized and exploited in Tinseltown and beyond. In Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, a two-part documentary premiering April 3 on Hulu, the actress and activist opens up about her deeply unsettling modeling and acting career, from a family …
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Donald Trump hasn’t surrendered to authorities yet. But his lawyers are already fighting —with themselves. Days after the former president’s indictment at the hands of Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, some of Trump’s lawyers are taking aim at Joe Tacopina, his co-lead defense attorney in the Bragg case. A source familiar …
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After a two-hour-plus main set that slammed home themes of mortality and impermanence and the way of all flesh, Bruce Springsteen reemerged on Madison Square Garden’s stage Saturday night, April 1, for his usual lengthy encore, and announced “something special for New York City.” He pointed over at Soozie Tyrell, …
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For starters, they’re called the Tobacco Force, and these intergalactic “avengers” battle extraterrestrial monsters by giving them cancer via chemicals like nicotine, mercury and ammonia… but let’s assume that any similarities to other groups of helmeted, high-kicking heroes, living or dead, are not coincidental. This quintet — technically a sextet …
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The man who fatally shot 58 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1, 2017, was into Hitler and other mass killers, according to new documents released by the FBI. The records paint a picture of 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as a recluse who became increasingly interested in guns …
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Another stop on the Eras Tour, another ceremonial civic gesture honoring Taylor Swift: Arlington, Texas, has temporarily renamed a street near the AT&T Stadium — where Swift will perform this weekend — “Taylor Swift Way.” The city (located outside Dallas) announced the news Thursday with a characteristically goofy statement stuffed …
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Lewis Capaldi has always wanted to sing. Ballads like “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go,” which show off his powerful voice and heart-wrenching lyrics, made the Scottish artist a household name over the last few years — but fame and success haven’t been easy for him. His new documentary …
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A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 election. The decision comes after more than four days of deliberations. During the two-week trial, the prosecution presented testimony by MicroChip, …
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Ever since the Yellowjackets pilot premiered, bookended by nightmarish sequences of its central characters ritualistically hunting and eating one of their own soccer teammates, a central question has hung over the show: when and why the hell did these seemingly ordinary teenage girls descend into gruesome cannibalism? It’s one of …
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At this point in his career, after almost 30 years of cranking out hits and a recent Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Adam Sandler makes two kinds of movies. He can fully commit himself to projects of originality and depth, includingHustle, one of the few truly great basketball films …
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