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Since Donald Trump announced he wouldn’t take part in Thursday’s GOP debate over his dislike of Megyn Kelly, Trump’s fans reacted just as expected: by unleashing a vile torrent of sexist rage against the Fox News anchor. Looking at 80,000 tweets directed at Kelly’s official Twitter handle from Tuesday to Wednesday morning—as well as close…
For Season 2 of Amazon Prime’s Bosch, expect tough LAPD detective Harry Bosch to come out his shell. The series will kick off with Bosch heading to Las Vegas after discovering a body in a car trunk on Mulholland Drive. Essentially, the mob did it. “In the first season, we were consumed with an interior guy, but…
Disney’s early princess movies offer heroines that are strikingly similar: soft-spoken, ethereally beautiful, and willing to endure hardship and humiliation without a peep of complaint. Today, Disney’s princesses are a sassier, pluckier bunch. But research has found a surprising trend: Even when they have the starring role, women speak only a minority of the dialogue—and…
There’s a white brick building that squats on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and it houses a J.Crew which opened at the tail-end of 2014—not long after the area welcomed Urban Outfitters and Madewell just a few blocks to the north. The building used to be a rehearsal/recording space for TV on the Radio, and…
Let’s talk about (former?) Agent Dana Katherine Scully, the “X-Files” character who by all rights should be considered the real protagonist of the “X-Files,” even though the series often seems to want to believe it is Fox Mulder. Scully is the skeptic who must learn over the course of years to reconcile scientific rigor with the unexplained; Mulder loves…
THE amount of time people spend consuming media every day is remarkable. Americans spend over 12 hours a day, in total, watching television, browsing the internet, reading newspapers and the like—although some of it is done concurrently. Lazing about and watching the telly is a particularly popular pastime. However, this year will mark the first…
The Lord of the Knights of Ren got swindled. It turns out the semi-melted helmet he opens his heart to in The Force Awakens isn’t Vader’s real helmet from his pyre on Endor in Return of the Jedi—and here’s the proof. Darth Vader actor David Prowse just shared this picture of the actual helmet that…
Published on Mar 11, 2014 Amazing song from The Sunday Times commercial by composer Tom Player. Website: http://www.lostrack.co.uk/tomplayer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tom_player via Tom Player – Elaina’s Theme – YouTube. Source: Elaina’s Theme – YouTube
Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
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