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What a Messi! Argentine Star Fails to Play, Fans Boo Beckham as Inter Miami’s Match in Hong Kong Ends in Disaster
There’s a David Beckham meme, taken from the recent Netflix Beckham documentary, that’s popular on social media at the moment. You know the one, you’ve seen it a thousand times or more, the one where Beckham harangues Victoria Beckham to “be honest” several times before she finally relents and tells the truth about her privileged […]
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Drake Blasts Grammy Awards Again, Says “Show Doesn’t Dictate S***” in Hip Hop
Drake reignited his long-running feud with The Recording Academy, the organizers of the Grammy Awards, by slamming the ceremony Sunday night. The rapper took to social media before the telecast, posting a message on his Instagram Stories that used a brief clip of his 2019 Grammy acceptance speech. In the caption, he wrote “All you […]
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The Graffiti High-Rise Towering Over Grammys Ceremony
Guests walking the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena will have noticed the spectacular graffiti adorning an unfinished high-rise development looming large across the street. At least 27 floors of the $1 billion Oceanwide Plaza three-tower development have been tagged after the LAPD revealed last Thursday that more than a […]
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Netflix’s New Releases Coming in February 2024
A big-budget live-action adaptation of a cult Nickelodeon animated fantasy series, the return of a sports docuseries that transformed the global appeal of Formula 1, a new animated feature written by the incomparable Charlie Kaufman, and another season of a reality dating show that inspires equal parts love and hate on social media are among […]
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ComplexCon Goes Global With Hong Kong Event, 21 Savage to Headline
ComplexCon, the culture, music and street fashion festival and expo, is expanding outside North America for the first time with the inaugural ComplexCon Hong Kong, and rapper 21 Savage is on board as a headliner. Organized by Complex China, ComplexCon Hong Kong is set to take place March 22-24 at the city’s massive AsiaWorld-Expo venue […]
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Disney+ Picks Up Korean Drama Series ‘Wonderful World’
Disney+ is continuing to bolster its library of Korean series by picking up the revenge drama Wonderful World. Debuting on the streamer on March 1, Wonderful World tells the story of Eun Soo-hyun, a successful female professor of psychology and writer whose life unravels after her son is murdered. Driven to despair, Soo-hyun becomes consumed […]
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Laurence Fox Loses “Pedophiles” Libel Case in Latest Setback for British Actor: “I Feel Utterly Bereft and Totally Hopeless”
British actor Laurence Fox has lost a libel case with two men he called pedophiles on social media after they had called the My Son Hunter star a racist. On Monday, the High Court in the U.K. deemed that Fox had defamed Simon Blake, a former LGBT charity trustee, and Crystal, a drag artist and […]
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Benedict Fitzgerald, Co-writer of ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ Dies at 74
Benedict Fitzgerald, the co-writer of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has died. He was 74. Fitzgerald died Jan. 17 after a long illness at his home in Marsala, Sicily, his cousin Nancy Morgan Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter. Best known for his work on Gibson’s 2004 Biblical epic, the highest-grossing Christian film, as […]
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Disney+ Lands New Series From ‘Moving’ Creator Kang Full
The next television series from Moving writer Kang Full has landed at Disney+. Light Shop, a mystery drama “that explores life, death, and what makes us human,” is set to debut on the streamer in the second half of 2024. The series is an adaptation of Kang’s popular webtoon of the same name, and tells […]
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Emmys: Ryan O’Neal, Ray Stevenson Omitted From In Memoriam Segment
The In Memoriam segment of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday paid a moving tribute to several television stars, creators and producers who have died over the last year — but social media was quick to point out the omissions. Users on X, formerly Twitter, were upset that missing from the video montage of […]
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People’s Choice Awards Nominations: ‘Barbie’ Leads Film Nods With Nine
Barbie leads the film nominations for the 2024 People’s Choice Awards. The Greta Gerwig-directed summer movie phenomenon is up for nine awards, followed in the film nominees by its “Barbenheimer” counterpart Oppenheimer, which scored six nods. Other top film nominees include The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Guardians of the Galaxy […]
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Kelly Carlin Slams AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius”
Kelly Carlin, the screenwriter, producer and daughter of legendary comedian George Carlin, has sharply criticized the release of a comedy special that uses an artificial intelligence-generated version of her late father. On Tuesday, an hourlong special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, appeared on the YouTube channel of Dudesy, a podcast hosted by Will […]
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