In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast. They discuss how Mike Bloomberg or Bernie Sanders would square up in a general election against Trump, Wall …
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British Americana singer Yola will play Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming musical film Elvis, her team has confirmed to Rolling Stone. Most recently a nominee for Best New Artist at the 62nd Grammy Awards, Yola broke through in 2019 for her critically acclaimed debut “Walk Through Fire,” produced …
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Gayle King has accepted Snoop Dogg’s apology after the rapper lashed out at the CBS host when she brought up the rape allegations against the lateKobe Bryantin an interview. “I accept the apology and understand the raw emotions caused by this tragic loss,” King said Friday in a statement (via …
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Do you know that romantic-comedy cliché in which the mousy young woman whips off her glasses — and suddenly the brainiac “ugly duckling” blossoms into a beautiful swan that turns heads and gets the guy? That’s not what happens to the title character of Horse Girl, though for the first …
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Everyone flush with cash in the music industry is looking for the next Spotify; Techstars Music wants to help build it. The mentorship-based, music-focused startup program — which spawned out of general technology startup accelerator Techstars four years ago, has since raised $75 million in follow-on capital, and now boasts …
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Towards the end of the new season of Netflix‘s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman, the teenage witch of Archie Comics fame, finds herself hypnotized by a vampire. “You’re going to let me drink your blood and feast on your flesh, aren’t you?” he whispers. He bites into her …
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Most people would be thrilled if Hedwig and the Angry Inch co-writer and star John Cameron Mitchell performed an intimate Bowie cover just inches from their faces. But on Hulu’s Shrill, Mitchell is an alt newsweekly boss trying to recapture his “cool factor,” not a musical theater god, so the …
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HBO is telling the tale of one of the most super-sized scams of all time: the McDonald’s Monopoly game. McMillions is a six-part docuseries about ex-cop Jerry Jacobson, nicknamed Uncle Jerry, who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game for a decade — effectively stealing millions of dollars and building a network …
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Tom Cruise guides a behind-the-scenes look at how the fighter jet theatrics came together for his new film, Top Gun: Maverick, out June 26th, 2020. The film finds Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the ace pilot from 1986’s Top Gun, although a lot has changed in both …
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The trustee overseeing the Fyre Festival bankruptcy has filed 14 lawsuits against several major talent agencies repping artists that were set to perform at the disastrous event, as well as some influencers who helped promote it on social media, Billboard reports. The lawsuits seek to get back $14.4 million that …
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