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Happy 50th ‘SNL!’ Here’s a look back at the show’s very first cast
By Leanne Italie, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis Ian. On Saturday nights, in those early ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Far-right Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules
By The Canadian Press on September 19th, 2024
OTTAWA – A Federal Court judge has upheld the government’s decision that far-right media outlet Rebel News doesn’t qualify for journalism tax credits because it doesn’t produce enough original content. Rebel News applied in May 2021 to be designated as a qualified Canadian journalism organization, but was rejected by the Canada Revenue Agency, which found ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor’s shoes in NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – There’s a great moment in the first episode of the new NBC medical drama “Beautiful Minds” when it becomes very clear that we’re not dealing with a typical TV doctor. Zachary Quinto is behind the wheel of a car barreling down a New York City parkway, packed with hospital interns, abruptly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Keith Urban says ‘High’ is about order and chaos, with songs about love, life and his late father
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Decades into one of the most consistent careers in contemporary country music, and you’d think Keith Urban has this whole album thing worked out. But his 11th studio album, “High,” out Friday, was no walk in the park. It’s been four years since 2020’s “The Speed of Now Part 1,” and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How to recoup costs when you travel to an event that gets cancelled
By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on September 19th, 2024
Ariella Kimmel and Mandi Johnson were grabbing a bite to eat in Vienna, when their August trip to the Austrian capital was upended. The Canadian duo had travelled to the city to see Taylor Swift in concert only to learn her shows would be cancelled because of two men plotting to launch an attack on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pygmy hippo Moo Deng is so adored she may get her own patent
By Jintamas Saksornchai, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) – Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo’s newborn pygmy hippo would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has set aside its longstanding rule that the winner accept the honor in person. The Ohio-based foundation announced Thursday that Carter was this year’s winner ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Shooting ‘My Old Ass’ in Muskoka felt like summer camp, director and star say
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on September 19th, 2024
TORONTO – The cottage country set of “My Old Ass” felt so much like summer camp, the film’s cast and crew even had matching anklets. “We moved into these tiny little bunkies next to each other and we would go for night swims and go on jet skis, and we did all our script prep ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Thai zoo home to baby hippo and internet sensation Moo Deng is patenting the pygmy
By Jintamas Saksornchai, The Associated Press on September 19th, 2024
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) – Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo’s newborn pygmy hippo would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will stay in jail after bail is denied for a second time
By Michael R. Sisak, Larry Neumeister And Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on September 18th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Sean “Diddy” Combs is staying locked up after a judge Wednesday rejected the hip-hop mogul’s proposal that he await his sex trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a grim Brooklyn federal jail. U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter ruled that Combs’ plan – which included a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Harvey Weinstein faces a new sex crime charge. The accuser has never gone public
By Philip Marcelo And Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press on September 18th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Seven years after sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein turbocharged the #MeToo movement, the ex-movie mogul faces a new sex crime charge from an accuser who’s never told her story publicly. While awaiting retrial on other sex charges in a landmark #MeToo case, Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to ... Read More »
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