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Christmas TV movies are in their Taylor Swift era, with two Swift-inspired films airing this year
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2024
Two new Christmas TV movies have a Taylor Swift connection that her fans would have no problem decoding. “Christmas in the Spotlight” debuts Saturday on Lifetime. It stars Jessica Lord as the world’s biggest pop star and Laith Wallschleger as a pro football player, who meet and fall in love – not unlike Swift and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What do hundreds of beavers have to do with the future of movies?
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Hard as it may be to believe, changing the future of cinema was not on Mike Cheslik’s mind when he was making “Hundreds of Beavers.” Cheslik was in the Northwoods of Wisconsin with a crew of four, sometimes six, standing in snow and making his friend, Ryland Tews, fall down funny. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lawsuit against UK security agency by survivors of Ariana Grande concert bombing is rejected
By The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2024
LONDON (AP) – A legal claim by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency was rejected Friday by a special tribunal. Judges on the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal said the claimants waited too long to bring their case, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nova Scotia’s main party leaders spar in final televised debate of election campaign
By Keith Doucette, The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2024
HALIFAX – Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston asked Nova Scotians on Thursday to be patient, saying his government’s plan for health care, housing, and affordability is working – and that he needs a second term in office to see his vision through. But during the final televised leaders debate of the election campaign, Houston’s opponents ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted. Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.S. Liberals say if elected next week they would move fast to cut taxes, build homes
By The Canadian Press on November 21st, 2024
HALIFAX – If Nova Scotia’s Liberal Party is elected to govern on Tuesday, leader Zach Churchill says that within the first 100 days he would call for a meeting of the Atlantic premiers to discuss replacing the federal carbon tax. Speaking at a news conference Thursday at Liberal campaign headquarters in Halifax, Churchill said he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Is ‘Glicked’ the new ‘Barbenheimer’? ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ collide in theaters
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
“Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make “Glicked” – or even “Babyratu” – happen. The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lil Wayne, GloRilla and Camila Cabello to headline college football concert series in Atlanta
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lil Wayne, GloRilla and Camila Cabello are gearing up to make their presence felt in a festive concert series leading up to college football’s national championship game. The College Football Playoff announced Thursday that the hitmakers will headline the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! starting Jan. 18 at the State Farm Arena ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Was it all a joke? How stand-up comedy helped reelect Trump
By Joseph Krauss, The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
Did stand-up comedians help reelect Donald Trump? Not a joke, as outgoing President Joe Biden might say. Trump has been the butt of countless late-night monologues and “Saturday Night Live” sketches for the better part of a decade, as much of Hollywood tracked the highs and lows of his political career with revulsion and ridicule. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jussie Smollett’s conviction in 2019 attack on himself is overturned
By The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police. Smollett’s appeal argued that a special prosecutor should not have been allowed to intervene after the Cook County state’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!When others ran from the musical, Jon M. Chu and ‘Wicked’ embraced it
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on November 21st, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – “Musical” has been a dirty word lately in Hollywood marketing, but “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu isn’t having it. Of course, there’s no running from the term when you’re bringing to the screen one of the most popular Broadway shows of the 21st century, or telling a story so connected to ... Read More »
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