Month: December 2019

Carly Pope and Kristoffer Polaha star in tonight’s Double Holiday on Hallmark Channel. Written by Nina Weinman, who has almost two dozen successful television movies on her resume, Double Holiday follows Rebecca, a successful Jewish woman working on her company’s Christmas party with Chris in the hope that it leads to a promotion. Carly and
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When “Old Town Road” went viral on TikTok in December 2018, an unlikely star was born in 20-year-old Lil Nas X. Arguably even more rare than breaking the record for most weeks spent in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100? Making bedazzled western wear look so chic. But, armored with a pair
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Yew Fook Sam. (Change.org) A 67-year-old man who the Home Office said wasn’t “gay enough” to stay in the UK has received an early Christmas present – asylum status from the government. Yew Fook Sam, known as Sam, lives in Kirkby, Liverpool, and has lived in fear of being deported to Malaysia, where homosexuality is
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EXCLUSIVE: The dark force from critics isn’t keeping Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker down with the Lucasfilm finale to the George Lucas-created saga seeing between $44M-$48M per Deadline sources tonight. At that level, Rise of Skywalker will wind up being either the third or fourth best preview night ever with the current top three being last
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Anthony Stewart-Head with a young trans fan, Jay Hulme. (Jay Hulme/Twitter) Tired: J.K. Rowling pledging her support for a woman with “absolutist” anti-trans views. Wired: Buffy actor Anthony Stewart-Head quietly going above and beyond for his trans fans. Stewart-Head, who played Buffy’s watcher Giles in the cult series, reportedly reached out a young fan after he
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50 minutes ago It’s tough not to be jealous, I’m sure, but they can’t help stealing the Star Wars spotlight! The alien creatures in the franchise have always been especially delightful elements of the movies, and it certainly helps on with merchandising. As you can imagine, since Star Wars has been around for over 40
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Written by Nigel Bird — It’s Christmas time and snow is blanketing the city bringing everything to a halt. Everything, of course, except crime. There is no movement anywhere. The trains and cars have all stopped, drinkers are stranded in bars and the police can’t get in for their shifts. This is British crime fiction,
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