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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs News: Explaining The Multiple Lawsuits
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said they would be “unable to charge” Sean “Diddy” Combs after surveillance video obtained by CNN appeared to show the rapper assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, at a hotel. “We are aware of the video that has been circulating online allegedly depicting Sean Combs assaulting a young…
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‘SNL’ Parodies Spate Of Random Attacks On Actors In NYC
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The recent assault on Steve Buscemi on the streets of New York City spawned a skit for SNL that featured Jake Gyllenhaal as an NYPD sergeant urging bad guys to “stop punching character actors in the face.” Speaking at a press conference for reporters, Gyllenhaal called character actors “the life blood of the entertainment industry”…
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How to Live Forever | The New Yorker
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A friend of mine knew a wealthy man who had decided to live forever. That made him hard to be around, my friend told me, in an e-mail, because he was “always dropping to the floor to do ab crunches or running out for bottles of water or falling asleep or outgassing Chinese herbs.” Immortality…
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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Standing Ovation-Meter
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Kinds of Kindness. Photo: Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images To fully experience the Cannes Film Festival, you can’t merely read about it. You have to watch Mr. Bean’s Holiday, too. Seriously, folks, the media maelstrom of Cannes is wild, and this fest is particularly known for wildin’ out in one particular way: weirdly long standing…
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Disneyland Resort costumed character employees vote to unionize
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Disneyland Resort employees who portray costumed characters such as Mickey Mouse or Cinderella have voted to unionize under the Actors’ Equity Assn. The unit, which consists of 1,700 people, voted 953 in favor of unionization and 258 against, Actors’ Equity said Saturday night on the social media platform X. Of the votes tallied, 79% were…
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What Was Same, What Was Different
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About 18,000 more faces were stolen Friday night at Sphere in Las Vegas, as Dead & Company played the second of 24 shows scheduled for the technologically ground-breaking venue. As is customary with any outfit associated with the Grateful Dead, it’s assumed that no two shows will be the same, and many fans have naturally…
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Inside a Gaza hospital: A Los Angeles doctor’s story
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Mohamad Abdelfattah was supposed to land at LAX on Tuesday at 11:45 a.m., where his wife, their baby and young son would be waiting for him, and they would celebrate his safe return from Gaza. But Tuesday came and went, and Abdelfattah, a critical-care doctor, was still in the southern city of Rafah, with no…
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‘I’ve been harassed.’ Broward police chief vows to sue town for discrimination
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The former police chief of a small Broward town who was terminated earlier this year over mismanagement allegations defended her actions on Thursday in front of the commission that fired her. Despite testimony from her and her legal counsel, it did little to dissuade them. In early April, former Pembroke Park Police Chief Ra Shana…
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Thousands are expected to rally in Washington in support of Palestinian rights
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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters rallied within sight of the U.S. Capitol, chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and voicing criticism of the Israeli and American governments as they marked a painful present — the war in Gaza — and past — the exodus of some 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from what is now Israel…
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See this spectacular contemporary home in Belgium surrounded by nature
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This home is nestled on an expansive woodsy property in the Flanders region of Belgium, providing SAOTA Architects with a unique opportunity to design a distinctive contemporary architectural object in the landscape. This would simultaneously serve as a warm, outward-looking living environment and engage meaningfully with its surroundings. This house on a large, wooded lot in the…
