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Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan is stabbed by an intruder at his home in Mumbai
By Canadian Press on January 16th, 2025
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Indian Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was stabbed in a scuffle with an intruder at his home early Thursday and underwent surgery at a hospital, media reports said. The 54-year-old actor was taken to the hospital from his home in Mumbai, the country’s financial and entertainment capital, where he lives with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Japan YouTuber novelist woos global audience with visual, accessible horror
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his signature mode of art. Uketsu, whose name literally translates to “rain hole,” both words that he loves, is Japan’s latest YouTube star and million-selling mystery writer. And he is about to take ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2 men get prison time for crimes connected to the killing of ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men convicted of lesser crimes connected to the killing of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor were sentenced to state prison on Wednesday. Neither Leonel Gutierrez nor Frank Olano was charged with killing Wactor, who was shot when he interrupted three thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Drake lawsuit includes new details about shooting outside his Toronto home
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
TORONTO — A defamation lawsuit filed by Drake against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” includes new details about a high-profile shooting that seriously injured a security guard outside the Canadian rapper’s Toronto home last year. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in a New York court, which does not name Lamar ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A documentary on wildfires raised tough questions in 2021. People may now be more inclined to listen
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, “Bring Your Own Brigade,” at Sundance in 2021, it was during peak COVID. Not the best time for a film on a wholly different scourge. “It was really hard,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker says now. “I didn’t blame people for not wanting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: A family is torn apart under Brazil’s dictatorship in ‘I’m Still Here’
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
It’s easy to fall in love with the Paiva family. Filmmaker Walter Salles makes sure of that in “I’m Still Here.” He drops the audience into the warm everyday of the beautiful home of Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, where their five kids run freely between the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No cupcakes, no cosmos: ‘Sex and the City’ brownstone in NYC will get a gate to deter tourists
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Thinking about toasting Carrie Bradshaw with a cosmo while posing on the front steps of her iconic Manhattan brownstone from “Sex and the City?” Think again. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved an application for a gate Tuesday after Barbara Lorber, who has owned the building since 1978, lamented “the endless ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘SNL’ show creator Lorne Michaels donates archive to University of Texas
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy television show “Saturday Night Live” has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the center announced Wednesday. The collection includes behind-the-scenes rehearsal notes, scripts and photographs of iconic characters and sketches from a show that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: ‘One of Them Days’ will convince you Keke Palmer is a star
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
Horror, not comedy, has been the go-to movie genre in recent years, but a movie like “One of Them Days,” starring Keke Palmer and, in her big-screen debut, SZA, is a good reminder of what we’ve been missing. Creepy stuff and jump scares, we’ve been told, have proved better suited for channeling our abiding contemporary ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kid Rock, Jason Aldean to perform during Trump’s Inauguration weekend
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
A host of big-name performers including Kid Rock and country singer Jason Aldean will be making their way to Washington D.C. to perform at various presidential inauguration events over the weekend. The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee unveiled most of the lineup Wednesday. Kid Rock, a longtime Trump supporter, and Billy Ray Cyrus will join Lee ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Here’s how to watch Biden’s farewell address from the Oval Office
By Canadian Press on January 15th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his farewell address to the nation on Wednesday night, a speech designed to highlight his administration’s accomplishments over the past four years. It comes as Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal and the return of some hostages, something Biden has been painstakingly working on ... Read More »
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