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ADELE: One Night Only With Netflix?

Netflix watched Adele’s CBS concert special, One Night Only. Then saw the large audience it attracted -- more than 10 million against Sunday Night Football. So Netflix approached Adele and offered her several million dollars to document next summer’s concerts in London. Adele sold-out two shows at the 2022 Hyde Park Summer Festival. An industry exec explain how Netflix and Adele would benefit (quote) “Adele’s plans for a world tour are on ice because of Covid. This film could bring Adele live closer to fans who […]

November 24, 2021 281

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JANET JACKSON: Blame Moonves and Timberlake

The New York Times documentary Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson found blame in Justin Timberlake and CBS executive Les Moonves for her downward career spiral. Malfunction debuted Friday night on FX and is available to stream at FX on Hulu. The documentary highlighted the divergent paths of Timberlake and Janet Jackson, who was blacklisted for a so-called “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Janet’s stylist purchased the sunburst nipple shield the night before. Justin Timberlake arrived only 20-minutes before the halftime show. Then immediately met with Janet and her stylist. An MTV said […]

November 22, 2021 188 1

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TECH TIP

Do you remember when…? o Your entire house had just one telephone and the entire family took turns using it. o When the phone rang, the person closest to it answered it. o It was located on a “telephone stand” which was probably sitting against an outside wall. o It was hard-wired to a terminal block, which meant you couldn’t just pick it up and carry it around the house. If you wanted to talk on the phone, you more or less had to […]

November 22, 2021 94

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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Difficult Weekend Ahead

This Friday on Hulu, The New York Times releases the Super Bowl documentary Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. That may not be the worst news for Justin Timberlake, who expects to take a drubbing in this documentary. A rumor emerged this week from Atlanta where Justin is making a movie. He might be cheating – again – on Jessica Biel. He supposedly got drunk last weekend and hooked up with a random woman. (Remnants of his New Orleans infidelity with his co-star. Almost two years ago, exactly to the day.) The Hulu […]

November 18, 2021 233

Romance / Relationship News

WEIRD NEWS: Bizarre Love Triangle

An Arizona woman who helped deliver her best friend's baby is now living a real-life Jerry Springer episode. 28-year-old Hailey Custer was with her best friend every step of the way through her pregnancy right up to the baby's birth in the hospital. Three days later she noticed a strange birth defect on the baby's neck which matches the one her husband and son have. It didn't take long for her to figure out that her own husband was the father […]

November 18, 2021 49

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CAMILA CABELLO, SHAWN MENDES: Splitsville for Shawmila

Rumors of Shawn Mendes breaking up with Camila Cabello are true. The pair released a joint statement via Instagram Stories that the “Shawmila” romance is over. Yet, their friendship endures. The message to their followers concluded, (quote) “We so appreciate your support from the beginning and moving forward.” (People) In the summer of 2019, Camila tagged along with Shawn's world tour. They publicly hooked up for the first time in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July. Earlier this week, the Instagram gossip account @DeuxMoi posted the rumor of a split. […]

November 18, 2021 78

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Jab For A Jab: Vienna brothel offers customers 30 minutes with ‘lady of their choice’ in exchange for coronavirus jab

Vaccination uptake levels in Austria are among the worst in western Europe. Roughly 64% of Austria's population is fully vaccinated and those who are unjabbed are now banned from visiting cafes, restaurants and hairdressers. Fun Palast is hoping to increase vaccination rates, as well as client numbers which have dropped because of the pandemic, according to Mail Online. In exchange for a jab, visitors get a free 30-minute session in a "sauna club" with the "lady of their choice". The […]

November 10, 2021 465

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TRAVIS SCOTT: The Eight Victims

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that eight people died during the Astroworld Festival. He added that another 13 remain hospitalized. Five of them are high school aged. Kylie Jenner responded to criticism at Instagram that Travis Scott continued to perform despite the chaos in the crowd (quote) “I want to make it clear we weren't aware of any fatalities until the news came out after the show.” (Houston Chronicle) An expert in the insurance industry told Rolling Stone magazine (quote) “This will make it much harder to get insurance […]

November 8, 2021 48

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ALEC BALDWIN: Rust Movie Set “Sabotaged”?

Investigators in the tragic shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins are focused on the assistant director and the person responsible for prop weapons called the “armorer.” The armorer on Alec Baldwin’s movie Rust was Hannah Gutierrez Reed. Her attorneys floated a wild theory of how a bullet found its way into the gun handed to Baldwin. They called it sabotage. Lawyer Jason Bowles believes a person on the movie set secretly placed live ammunition into the container of dummy rounds. He added, (quote) “There can be very few explanations for […]

November 4, 2021 224

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WILL SMITH: Thoughts of Murdering His Father

Will Smith had an Oedipus complex – he wanted to kill his father. In his upcoming autobiography, due next week, Smith confesses to hating his dad so much that he had murder on the mind. Five years ago, Will Senior died of cancer – or that’s the official story. Will Smith wrote in the book, (quote) “One night, as I delicately wheeled him from his bedroom toward the bathroom, a darkness arose within me. The path between the two rooms goes past the top of the […]

November 4, 2021 69

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