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Seven weeks after firing Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Lakers landed on their next head coach on Thursday: JJ Redick, the 15-year NBA veteran turned podcaster and broadcaster, league sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Athletic. Redick is signing a four-year deal worth in the neighborhood of $8 million per season with…
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About Disney, Burton said to the Times that, “You’re strapped to a table all day and you have to draw. I just flipped out.” Luckily, Burton often drew his own pictures and even wrote a short film that Disney was kind enough to fund. That film was “Vincent,” a stop-motion animated film about a lanky,…
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Travis Scott was arrested and booked by cops for causing a drunken disturbance on a Miami yacht on Thursday, but this was not the American rapper’s first brush with the law. The Sicko Mode rapper, 33, who has two young children, Stormi and Aire, with Kylie Jenner – was arrested by police at the Miami…
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Follow live coverage of England vs Denmark, Spain vs Italy and Slovenia vs Serbia at Euro 2024 today Efficiency. Reliability. Functionality. That’s what many people most associate with Germany, but so far at the 2024 European Championship, none of those cliches have been proven true. Tournament organisers have struggled with crowd control outside stadiums. Fans…
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In Paula Finn’s 2018 book “Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy,” Finn interviewed producer and writer Dava Savel, who worked on shows like “Will & Grace” and “That’s So Raven,” and Savel recounted a story about how “Gilligan’s Island” came to be: Here’s a funny story for…
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Two Just Stop Oil activists have broken into a VIP private airfield at Stansted airport and spray painted aircraft ‘hours after Taylor Swift‘s own jet arrived.’ It follows the group’s desecration of Stonehenge yesterday after two activists were arrested after orange paint was sprayed on the stones sparking widespread condemnation across the world. The action…
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“How to Train Your Dragon 2,” which saw DeBlois writing and directing on his own, debuted in 2014 to tremendous fanfare. Speaking with Collider at the time of the film’s release, Butler declared its predecessor “one of my favorite movies ever,” stating that he’d been “blown away with it” when he saw the finished product.…
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One of my favorite assignments as a sports media writer came in 2013 when I rode the C train in New York City with Charles Barkley. The TNT NBA analyst had never ridden on the New York subway before, and some smart Turner Sports PR person came up with the idea to have Barkley take…
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The first entry in the MonsterVerse, 2014’s “Godzilla,” was ultra-serious and dour. Don’t get me wrong: it’s a pretty good movie, but it’s not exactly “fun.” Several movies later, we now have “Godzilla x Kong,” which is super fun. It’s a sharp contrast to what came before, and it shows how a franchise can evolve and…
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QUESTION: When did black become de rigueur for funerals? Black was the colour for mourning dress dating back to the Roman Empire, when the toga pulla, made of dark-coloured wool, was worn. However, in Britain, white or brown was worn by commoners. Black or purple was reserved for the nobility. There were two factors that…