After his wife dies in a sudden car crash, Jimmy Laird numbs his pain for a year. He stays up all night, drinking and doing coke and paying for some kind of company with women. He’s not healing, but he is coping. He tries to stifle his grief, which is so much easier than actually feeling it. Understandable, except he is a therapist, and a father. He knows better. He should be present for his daughter, not partying in his backyard while his teenager is in the house. Shrinking, an Apple TV show created by Bill Lawrence, the same person…
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MGM’s raunchy high school comedy Bottoms by Emma Seligman, a surprising teen girl version of Fight Club, is punching into a lot more theaters this week, expanding from ten to 715 nationwide. The numbers so far look solid and MGM might be hoping for anything in the $2.5+ million range over the three days. It had an good start with last weekend’s limited 10-theater opening in NYC, LA, San Francisco and Austin bringing in more than $500k, one of the best per-theater openings of that size post Covid (even with $4 tickets Sunday). Cume to date tops $724k for the Rachel Sennott…
SAN FRANCISCO – Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global won contracts, announced Aug. 31, to design microwave sounders for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the contracts awarded by NASA on behalf of NOAA, the four companies will conduct studies and design sounders for the Near-Earth Orbit Network, or NEON, NOAA’s next generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites, Colorado-based Ball and OMS, and Virginia-based Northrop Grumman each claimed $5 million firm-fixed-price contracts to design NOAA’s Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications (SMBA). The value of Virginia-based Spire’s contract was approximately $4.7 million. After the firms complete the 12-month…
Canada on Friday unveiled draft rules for a law designed to compel Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms pay news outlets, saying Ottawa was addressing the companies’ concerns that they may be facing an uncapped liability.Canada’s Online News Act, part of a global trend to make Internet giants pay for news, became law in June and is expected to come into effect in December.Facebook and Google will need to voluntarily negotiate deals with news publishers in Canada and pay a portion of their global revenues, based on a set calculation, according to the draft regulations.Both companies have said that the law is…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023.Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he will soon meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine drags on.”Soon enough we will have some events and there will be a meeting with the Chinese President [Xi Jinping],” Putin said during a conference with students in Russia.”He [Xi] calls me his friend, and I am happy to call him my friend, because this is a man who personally does a…
NewsLil Peep and iLoveMakonnen’s Diamonds Album Set for Release: Listen to “November”The late rapper’s estate calls the album Lil Peep’s “last cohesive previously unreleased full body of work”By Evan MinskerSeptember 1, 2023FacebookXiLoveMakonnen and Lil Peep, photo by Richard StilwellFacebookXPrior to his death in 2017, Lil Peep made an album with iLoveMakonnen. Today, the late rapper’s estate has announced that Diamonds will be released September 8 via AWAL. Before it arrives, Lil Peep and iLoveMakonnen’s “November” has been officially released on streaming platforms. Listen to it below. Also below, find a documentary on Diamonds.A statement from Lil Peep’s estate refers to…
In this articleBMYMRKMRNAAZN-GBJNJFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTOhio Governor Mike DeWine, right, shakes hands with Judge Thomas Rose of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio after taking his oath of office, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio.John Minchillo | APA federal judge on Friday withdrew from a case that could block Medicare from negotiating over drug prices, just hours after a watchdog group revealed his ownership of stock in two pharmaceutical companies that would be directly impacted by the new program.Judge Thomas M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio withdrew from…
Change is the only constant might sound like a cliché, but it is worth repeating because it is as true today as it was one hundred years ago. It comes in many ways, and one of those ways is growth, whether physical or mental. As people grow, they move on to other things in their lives, and that transition is never always easy. Some sacrifice their futures for comfort, while others blow up their lives when they leave their comfort zones. We will discuss events from The Chi Season 6 Episode 5, so if you’re yet to get caught up…
Perfect cables: superconducting wires destined for the LHC at CERN (Courtesy: Berkeley Lab) Quiz question: how many kilometres of new superconducting cables are being made in California for the next generation of focussing magnets at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva? If your answer is “more than 2220 kmâ€, you are correct – according to Lauren Biron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. That is where 111 cables are being made for the high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC. The upgrade is expected to be completed in 2029, when the magnets will be used to focus high-energy protons…
In this articleAMCFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTTaylor Swift performs in Denver during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” on July 14.Tom Cooper/tas23 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images…Ready for it?In less than 24 hours on the market, ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s Era Tour concert film have already broken records.Fandango reported Friday that the singer’s film ranks in the top-10 all-time best first-day pre-sellers, joining the likes of “Avengers: Endgame,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.””Taylor Swift is giving moviegoing fans and the entire industry the ultimate gift by bringing Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert…
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of the body, of addiction, of history. Brilliant, gutting, and funny, she writes with such range about growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Atlantic City as their reach for the American Dream slips away. Wong recounts not only what it was like for her immigrant parents to have had a restaurant, but also the importance of appetite, and the long painful shadows of family surviving and not surviving Mao Zedong’s Great Famine. Wong’s love of food, her father’s love of…
The film festivals can always be counted on to deliver surprise hits at this time of year, but meanwhile Hollywood must deal with another issue: Its Barbitude hangover. Barbie’s billions will importantly impact upon how decision-makers frame future strategies on budget, content and promotion. The megahit could also cast a pink cloud over awards season: Will message-minded Academy voters levitate Barbie to the same somber stratum as Nomadland? Further, will Greta Gerwig, its auteur, become a victim of the Tom Cruise syndrome – a filmmaker-star whose work we are encouraged to admire but not honor? Complicating matters, the bizarre lure…
WASHINGTON — A pension fund has filed suit against the board of directors of Amazon, claiming they “acted in bad faith” in approving launch contracts for the Project Kuiper broadband constellation that awarded billions of dollars to Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The suit, a public version of which was filed with Delaware’s Court of Chancery Aug. 28, alleges that Amazon’s board and one of its committees spent “barely an hour” reviewing contracts with Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance, whose Vulcan Centaur rocket uses engines from Blue Origin, before approving them in March 2022. Delaware…
Advocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tracking company of violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy regime.Vienna-based Noyb (None Of Your Business), the digital rights group founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, has already filed hundreds of complaints against big tech companies ranging from Alphabet’s Google to Meta over privacy violations, some leading to big fines.Fitbit forces its users to consent to data transfers outside the EU and does not provide the possibility to withdraw their consent, violating GDPR’s requirements, Noyb said.Fitbit sells watches…
The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16, 2023.Kevin Wurm | ReutersWASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday asked Congress to pass a short-term measure to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown at the end of September.A spokesperson with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget said a short-term continuing resolution will be needed in the next month, keeping government funding at its current levels while negotiations continue over longer-term appropriations bills.Funding for the federal government is set to run out on Sept. 30 unless action is taken by Congress. With a month to go…
Britney Spears isn’t looking to cash in on OnlyFans — despite the fact she’s now a single lady who’s really into showing off her naked body these days … TMZ has learned. There’ve been A LOT of people chirping these past few weeks about the prospect of Britney joining the exclusive, member-paying service — which tends to host users’ raunchy content, oftentimes with big bucks to follow — but we’re hearing that just ain’t gonna happen for her. Play video content 8/19/23 Sources close to Britney tell us … an OF account isn’t going to materialize in Britney’s future anytime…
In this articleFSTLASTLAM-ITGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTUAW President Shawn Fain addresses union members during a Solidarity Sunday rally in Warren, Michigan, Aug. 20, 2023Michael Wayland / CNBCDETROIT — United Auto Workers has filed unfair labor practice charges against automakers General Motors and Stellantis to the National Labor Relations Board for not bargaining with the union in good faith or a timely manner, UAW President Shawn Fain said Thursday night.The Thursday filings followed the companies not responding to the union’s demands in a timely matter, Fain said. The union did not file a complaint against Ford Motor, as Fain said…
Harlan Coben’s Shelter has been firing from all cylinders since its impressive launch on Prime Video earlier this month. On Harlan Coben’s Shelter Season 1 Episode 5, the mystery intensifies, and some more secrets are revealed. TV Fanatic scored an exclusive first look at the episode, and it sets the tone for a thrilling hour of this new drama. In the clip, Mickey and Spoon follow Ema and get more than they bargained for. Ema notices they’ve been doing some investigating of their own and finds the pair outside her house, which is far more luxurious than they anticipated. Irate…