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CELEBRITY NEWS

Why Online Celebrity Gossip?
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CELEBRITY NEWS, LIFESTYLE

Why Online Celebrity Gossip?

Celebrity gossip sites are probably the most popular online destinations after pornography. The reason could be various, ranging from the profane to the profound. Celeb Hollywood gossip touches upon the lives of the rich and the famous. They hold up slices of their existence for us to gaze upon with a sense of longing. This sense of wish fulfillment is the driving force that propels entertainment news sites. People like to know more about their favorite icons and they would be willing to go to any lengths to grab the inside scoop, much like the paparazzi themselves. The spurt of online celebrity gossip is testimony to the fact that people have taken to the online version of celeb gossip in a very enthusiastic way. The online avatar of entertainment news scores well in a few areas. The fir...
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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Picks Up 19 Years After The Deathly Hallows Book Left Off
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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Picks Up 19 Years After The Deathly Hallows Book Left Off

About Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Arriving on Broadway via London’s West End, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth installment of the beloved J.K. Rowling story series. Unlike its predecessors which were churned out by the author in the form of massive tomes, The Cursed Child was instead written collaboratively as a play by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. But in keeping with Rowling’s lengthy story style, the five-hour production is split into two parts, intended on being viewed back-to-back in the same day, or over the course of two consecutive days. Following its West End premier in July 2016, much of the original London cast packed up and brought the play to New York for its 2018 American debut. Synopsis Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up 19 years aft...
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The History Of That Jerry Springer [Bleeping] Bleep Sound
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The History Of That Jerry Springer [Bleeping] Bleep Sound

Jerry Springer and the history of that [bleeping] bleep sound. Since Jerry Springer’s death on April 27, 2023, writers have been working through the cultural significance of his eponymous daytime talk show. For 27 years, Springer’s circus of sensationalism was a remarkably durable and bankable commodity. Helping to normalize outrageousness in culture, it taught content creators that shamelessness is a lucrative industry. It’s been framed as a harbinger of “‘anything goes’ reality television” or “trash TV” and decried for setting a “new standard for tawdriness” and for providing audiences with the “guilty pleasure” of “chair-throwing.” But as a media historian interested in the ways that sound structures our experience of TV shows and films, when I think of “The Jerry Springer Show,” I t...
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Harry Belafonte — His Powerful Voice Always Singing A Song For Justice
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Harry Belafonte — His Powerful Voice Always Singing A Song For Justice

Harry Belafonte leveraged stardom for social change, his powerful voice always singing a song for justice. In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry Belafonte was at a cocktail party in Manhattan, scolding the then-attorney general of the United States. “You may think you’re doing enough,” he recalled telling Robert F. Kennedy, “but you don’t live with us, you don’t even visit our pain.” Belafonte had many frank and heated conversations with Kennedy. In fact, the singer, actor and activist was on intimate terms with many pivotal figures of the civil rights era. He was a confidant and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr and allied with Ahmed Sékou Touré, the president of Guinea. He funded the grassroots activists of the Student Nonviolent Coor...
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By Responding To Viewers Emotions Films Could Alter Plotlines In Real Time
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By Responding To Viewers Emotions Films Could Alter Plotlines In Real Time

Interactive cinema: how films could alter plotlines in real time by responding to viewers’ emotions. Most films offer exactly the same viewing experience. You sit down, the film starts, the plot unfolds and you follow what’s happening on screen until the story concludes. It’s a linear experience. My new film, Before We Disappear – about a pair of climate activists who seek revenge on corporate perpetrators of global warming – seeks to alter that viewing experience. What makes my film different is that it adapts the story to fit the viewer’s emotional response. Through the use of a computer camera and software, the film effectively watches the audience as they view footage of climate disasters. Viewers are implicitly asked to choose a side. I chose to use this technology to make a film ab...
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5 Experts On Winning Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Big Moments At The 2023 Oscars
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5 Experts On Winning Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Big Moments At The 2023 Oscars

Winning everything everywhere all at once: 5 experts on the big moments at the Oscars 2023. The Academy Awards in 2023 were a less scandalous affair than last year – although host Jimmy Kimmel never let us forget “the slap”, with so many jokes it was verging on a dead-horse-beating situation. In fact it was a relatively wholesome ceremony, defined by great sweeps for films All Quiet On The Western Front and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Perhaps the only “shock” was Angela Bassett losing Best Supporting Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis, and thereby being denied the chance to “do the thing”. Here, we summarise the most important moments from the 2023 Oscars. All the looks of the champagne carpet Deborah Fisher, Lecturer in Design and Fashion Studies, School of Business and Creative Indus...
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A Law Professor Explains The Charge Involuntary Manslaughter Facing Alec Baldwin For ‘Rust’ Shooting Death
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A Law Professor Explains The Charge Involuntary Manslaughter Facing Alec Baldwin For ‘Rust’ Shooting Death

A prosecutor in New Mexico intends to charge Alec Baldwin with two counts of involuntary manslaughter it was announced on Jan. 19, 2023, over the deadly shooting on the set of the film “Rust” in 2021. The shooting occurred while Baldwin was rehearsing a scene with a gun that had been loaded with live ammunition instead of blanks. The prosecutor also intends to charge Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer responsible for overseeing the safety of firearms on the set, with two counts of involuntary manslaughter as well. As a professor of law, my job is to understand the nuance of the U.S. legal system. Involuntary manslaughter occurs when a person unintentionally, but still unlawfully, kills another person. And a prosecutor will need to show the unlawful nature of either Baldwin’s or Gutierrez-...
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The Death Of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Should Spark Real Conversations About The Cost Of Black Celebrity
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The Death Of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Should Spark Real Conversations About The Cost Of Black Celebrity

Dancer and DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss died from suicide at age 40. Like many, I was incredibly shocked and saddened by the news. As a scholar of Black entertainment history, I also reflected on the longer history of Black male entertainers dancing or telling jokes to their deaths despite cultivating a public image as “pure love and light,” which is how tWitch’s former co-producer, Ellen DeGeneres described him on her Instagram upon hearing of his death. There have been so many tragic and unexpected deaths of young Black men in the entertainment industry that websites, such as BestOfDate, and Ranker have formed to document them. While these sites are primarily documenting the deaths of rappers, they are also creating a narrative around Black men that values their personas more than the liv...
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Mixed Verdict Brings Complicated Feelings And Hope For Accountability, For Weinstein Survivors
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Mixed Verdict Brings Complicated Feelings And Hope For Accountability, For Weinstein Survivors

Survivors of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual violence have complicated feelings about the mixed verdict issued Monday in his Los Angeles trial. Weinstein was found guilty on three of the seven counts he faced for assaulting women in Los Angeles County: forcible rape, sexual penetration by a foreign object and forcible oral copulation. All of those convictions related to the allegations of one woman, known as Jane Doe #1 during the trial, as part of the wave of allegations that first broke against the producer five years ago. He was found guilty on two felony sexual assault charges in a separate criminal trial in New York in 2020; at this same trial, he was also acquitted on two counts of predatory sexual assault. In Los Angeles, Weinstein was acquitted on one count of s...
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For US Negotiators Brittney Griner’s Case Was Difficult For One Key Reason: She Was Guilty
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CELEBRITY NEWS, LGBTQ, SPORTS, TOP FOUR

For US Negotiators Brittney Griner’s Case Was Difficult For One Key Reason: She Was Guilty

The release from Russian prison of WNBA star Britney Griner has been greeted with general delight in the United States. Announcing the deal that saw her freed on Dec. 8, 2022, President Joe Biden lauded the “painstaking and intense negotiations” that made it happen. Others may have legitimate concerns over the equivalence of the exchange, which saw convicted arms merchant Viktor Bout returned to Russia. As a longtime scholar of Russian law, I believe the episode prompts a reflection on the application of Russian law in Griner’s case, and more broadly consideration about such exchanges in general. The problem American negotiators face in such situations is that it matters whether the U.S. citizen is guilty of committing the crime alleged under foreign law or whether there has been a misc...
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