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‘Avatar’ and ‘Marty Supreme’ propel strong ticket sales to wrap a turbulent 2025 for Hollywood
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and a box-office hit for Timothée Chalamet with “Marty Supreme” over a busy holiday weekend in movie theaters. As expected, James Cameron’s latest trip to Pandora dominated ticket sales, collecting $88 million over the four-day Christmas-to-Sunday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A muse for musicians: 11 songs inspired by Brigitte Bardot
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — In addition to being a 1960s French sex symbol, actor, singer and animal welfare activist, Brigitte Bardot was a muse to many — in particular, musicians. Her name, with its alliterative cadence, became synonymous with a kind of classic beauty. In songs, Bardot is often not Bardot the woman, but a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist, dies at 91
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91. Bardot died Sunday at her home in southern France, according to Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Debate over surfing in German park gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a surfable wave in the river that runs through the park. For years, the site had been a hot spot for surfers and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hounded by photographers for years, Bardot identified with the animals she later set out to save
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman idolized as a sultry sex kitten into a militant animal rights crusader. Bardot, who died Sunday at age ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photos remembering Brigitte Bardot, iconic French actor and activist
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. The Associated Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Brigitte Bardot, 1960s sultry sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist dies at 91
By Canadian Press on December 28th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the protection of animals, told The Associated Press that she died at her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How TV shows like ‘Mo’ and ‘Muslim Matchmaker’ allow Arab and Muslim Americans to tell their stories
By Canadian Press on December 27th, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Whether it’s stand-up comedy specials or a dramedy series, when Muslim American Mo Amer sets out to create, he writes what he knows. The comedian, writer and actor of Palestinian descent has received critical acclaim for it, too. The second season of Amer’s “Mo” documents Mo Najjar and his family’s tumultuous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sure, the newspaper informed. But as it fades, those who used it for other things must adjust, too
By Canadian Press on December 26th, 2025
The sun would rise over the Rockies, and Robin Gammons would run to the front porch to grab the morning paper before school. She wanted the comics and her dad wanted sports, but the Montana Standard meant more than their daily race to grab “Calvin and Hobbes” or baseball scores. When one of the three ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man accused of 1996 Tupac Shakur killing seeks to suppress evidence
By Canadian Press on December 26th, 2025
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an “unlawful nighttime search.” Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on behalf of their client, Duane “Keffe ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tyler Perry sued for sexual assault by ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ actor seeking $77 million
By Canadian Press on December 26th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry was sued for sexual assault by an actor who appeared in “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” marking the second lawsuit in recent months accusing the filmmaker and studio mogul of leveraging his power in Hollywood to make sexual advances. Mario Rodriguez filed the lawsuit Thursday in California, alleging Perry subjected ... Read More »
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