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CNN — At a star-studded fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles last month, George Clooney wasn’t the only one who came away concerned about the president. Even before Biden made remarks that night, whispers of concern rippled through the audience at the Peacock Theater about the president who had just arrived from a long flight from Italy. Some of the biggest donors at the $30 million fundraising event, who had waited in line to take pictures with Biden, expressed unease at how the president looked and carried himself. “He was less cogent than usual,” said one attendee, who was surprised that during a smaller meeting with donors before…
Ben Simmons/Peacock Love Island USA Season 6 is nearing its end, with Peacock setting the finale for Sunday, July 21st. The show, hosted by Ariana Madix, is also set to feature some “bloodbaths” that could cause chaos inside the villa. “Well, the Villa is very fully booked at the moment, that’s all I’ll say,” Maddix said. Love Island USA Aftersun On Saturday’s episode, after presenter Maura Higgins asked her about the bloodshed she was alluding to, she replied: Maddix continued: “People have to go. We only have a limited number of beds.” The show’s host also Love Island USA Viewers…
President Joe Biden mistakenly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” at a NATO meeting on Thursday, an embarrassing verbal gaffe at a time when Biden is facing tough questions about his mental competency.Biden’s conflation of Zelensky with the name of the Russian leader who has been waging a war with Ukraine for more than two years came less than an hour before he was scheduled to face reporters in Washington, D.C., for his first news conference since a staccato debate with former President Donald Trump in late June. There are also growing calls among Democrats for Biden to…
Redbox is no longer around.The DVD kiosk rental business will be closed after the parent company changed its bankruptcy filing to liquidation under Chapter 7 bankruptcy.Redbox has grown to about 34,000 kiosks across the U.S., many of them in grocery and drug stores. Since its launch in 2002, Redbox has rented 1 billion discs for less than the cost of cable TV, according to the company’s website.Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which owns Redbox, is about $1 billion in debt and owes millions more to multiple entertainment companies.Variety reported that 1,000 of the company’s employees will lose their jobs…
Major League Baseball front offices are on the clock. With the 2024 MLB trade deadline just a few weeks away, time is running out for clubs hoping to make a final trade addition to their roster with a postseason ambitions. Two aces moved teams before last year’s deadline, with Justin Verlander returning to the Houston Astros and Max Scherzer going to the eventual champion Texas Rangers. Could even more big names be on the way this year? From the date to the top trade candidates, here’s what you need to know about the 2024 MLB trade deadline. When is the…
How many actors are trending on social media decades after they’ve retired from film? Shelley Duvall in 2002 Manna from HeavenBut she still managed to accomplish such a feat. Shelley Duvall at Fairy Tale Theatre. showtime Video and Audio Popeye The star, who died on Thursday aged 75, began a second life on TikTok last year, after his soft, upbeat introduction on the TV show became the background music for a plethora of fashion videos on the platform. The original video for this trend is Fairy Tale Theateris a children’s anthology television series that Duvall created and hosted from 1982…
Duval became the unwitting background music for hundreds of thousands of fashion videos on social media last year.How many actors are trending on social media decades after they’ve retired from film?Shelley Duvall in 2002 Manna from HeavenBut she still managed to accomplish such a feat.showtime Shelley Duvall at Fairy Tale Theatre” src=”https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/dsdF8mferPzRpaKNGeJ.Pw–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTYxNA–/https://media.zenfs.com/en/entertainment_weekly_785/9eaba443636e2ac44c633e17966569e0″ class=”caas-img”/>showtime Shelley Duvall at Fairy Tale TheatreVideo and Audio Popeye The star, who died on Thursday aged 75, began a second life on TikTok last year, after his soft, upbeat introduction on the TV show became the background music for a plethora of fashion videos on the platform.The…
new york – Most U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as the latest inflation figures strengthened Wall Street’s view that interest rate cuts could come as early as September.Four of the five stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose, but their resilience was masked by declines in Nvidia, Microsoft and several other big names. The giants have been the market’s biggest winners amid a frenzy around artificial intelligence technology, prompting critics to say their shares are too expensive and helping to drag the S&P 500 down 0.9% from an all-time high it hit a day earlier. The decline in…
Jacksonville, Florida – Downtown Jacksonville is a key component of the city’s growth, and Jake Gordon is one of the leaders working to improve and promote our downtown as a place to live, work and play, and he’s our guest on this week’s Jacksonville: Business Edition. Broadly speaking, Downtown Vision, Inc. (DVI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to “make downtown better” by working with property owners within a three-mile radius.”I moved to Jacksonville about 10 years ago, and downtown wasn’t as talked about as it is now,” Gordon said, “and it’s incredible to think how much downtown has…
Hurricane Beryl was named on June 28, and meteorologists have been tracking its path for more than two weeks. This unusually long-lived storm has traveled more than 6,000 miles through the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Bay of Campeche, and the Gulf of Mexico, breaking records for its destructive hurricane status by making landfall three times.But now Beryl is finally dissipating. The storm has turned into a “subtropical depression,” or the remnants of a mid-latitude low-pressure system, and is moving through Canada. In its wake, more than a million customers in the Houston area are still without power, and…