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After repeatedly downplaying the coronavirus outbreak and breaking with the CDC to claim it’s just “going to go away” on its own, President Donald Trump gave his strongest response yet to the potential pandemic Wednesday—and it still left much to be desired. Speaking from the White House Briefing Room about COVID-19, Trump continued to play
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Disney CEO Bob Iger, who steered the company’s absorption of Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel and Fox’s entertainment businesses and the launch of a Netflix challenger, is stepping down immediately, the company said in a surprise announcement Tuesday. The Walt Disney Co. named as his replacement Bob Chapek, most recently chairman of Disney’s parks, experiences and
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As the major Hollywood studios, entrenched perhaps too much in the old ways, look to combat disruption caused by streaming services in the entertainment marketplace, there proves to be one thing that’s reliable: computer-generated animals. As The Lion King proved last summer, creatures doing exactly what filmmakers want without needing to be fed are a
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the historic best-picture Oscar win for South Korean film “Parasite,” telling a campaign rally he wished for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.” “Parasite,” a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, earlier this month became the
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Among the many takeaways from Wednesday night’s Democratic debate in Nevada is that Mike Bloomberg’s nationally televised, teleprompter-less debut as a presidential candidate was an unmitigated disaster. Forced to confront, in real time, his history of using labels like “horse-faced lesbian” and smearing black and brown men as unemployable thugs, Bloomberg looked flustered and frustrated,
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Nicki Minaj paid tribute on Instagram to her collaborator Pop Smoke, the young rapper who was murdered in Los Angeles after being attacked by masked gunmen. Nicki Minaj is mourning the loss of rising star rapper, and one-time collaborator Pop Smoke, who was reportedly murdered in Hollywood Hills on February 19. “The Bible tells us that
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Less than a month after releasing their first single in two years, Dance of the Clairvoyants, grunge rock outfit Pearl Jam has already put out another new song. It’s called Superblood Wolfmoon. The three-minute, 50-second track dropped on Tuesday morning, following a week of teasing by the band, in which a quick snippet of the
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