Willie Mays represents so much, for so many.
He brought a certain joy and whimsy to the game of baseball, which during Mays’ heyday in the mid-20th century was the dominant sport in America. He was a true sports superstar, embraced by all swaths of America, at a time when many Black Americans still suffered under the awful indignities of Jim Crow.
And as revealed in Say He…
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As fans gear up for the third season of Emmy Award-winning HBO series The White Lotus, Ukraine’s foreign ministry has criticized the television network over a casting decision.
Earlier this month, 36-year-old Serbian actor Miloš Biković was revealed as part of the cast of Mike White’s hit drama, which will be set in Thailand for its latest installment airing in 2025. …
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In the new Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie Blood and Honey, in theaters Feb. 15, a murderous Pooh and Piglet are nearly unrecognizable from the cute and cuddly animals many know and love. And your other favorite childhood characters might be next to take a terrifying turn on screen.
Blood and Honey sees deranged versions of Pooh (Craig David Dowsett) and Piglet (Chris Corde…
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Masters of the Air, a new World War II drama about bomber pilots, comes to Apple TV+ on Jan. 26. The limited series is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—the duo behind some of the most popular World War II TV and film productions, including Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers—and is based on the story of the real-life American Eighth Air Force…
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It might feel like it’s too soon, but we have to talk about it. After a number of health scares, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) finally died on the third episode of Season 4 of Succession—which means that the jockeying for power at Waystar Royco has begun. Some will flounder. But some will thrive. Logan was a bully who maintained his power by belittling, demoting, and arbitrarily fi…
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In the lexicon of modern dating, it’s widely known that green flags mean a prospective partner passes muster and red flags are to be avoided. But where do “beige flags” fall? In one of TikTok’s latest trends, users are posting videos about their partners’ so-called beige flags, which are attributes that are neither good nor bad, but still give reason for pause.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Witcher: Blood Origin
For anyone looking to ring in the holiday season with some good old-fashioned mayhem and monster-killing, Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin, out Dec. 25, is a must-watch. Blood Origin, a prequel to The Witcher, Netflix’s series about a witcher named Geralt of Rivia, who finds hims…
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Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi was the last person on director Ali Abbasi’s mind when he was casting the lead role in his third feature film Holy Spider, which opens to U.S audiences Friday, and is based on the real-life case of serial killer “Spider Killer” Saeed Hanaei, who strangled 16 sex workers, typically with their headscarves, from 2000 to 2001.
Ebrahim…
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The conventional view of marriage holds that its satisfaction levels are U-shaped. There’s a crazy hyped-up romantic part at the start, and then a decline as people come to terms with the fact that life with another person is only sometimes an escalator to the upper reaches of happiness and often more of an Iditarod to a less hostile locale. And then, slowly, satisfaction returns, either beca…
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Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, and now Taylor Swift. Singapore is eyeing concert economics as its new growth driver, which is set to add hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism receipts.
