UPDATE: An attorney for Woodstock 50 has confirmed that the festival will continue as planned. “This confirms that Woodstock 50 is proceeding with the planning and production of the festival,”Marc Kasowitz, legal counsel for Woodstock 50, said in a statement. “Dentsu has no legal right or ability to cancel it. …
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Film director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro have had one of the longest-lasting and critically renowned creative partnerships in all of American cinema. On Sunday, as part of the programming for the Tribeca Film Festival (which De Niro cofounded in 2002), the two of them sat down for …
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WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report drove a dagger through the heart of one of the most notorious conspiracy theories of the Trump era: that a murdered DNC staffer named Seth Rich — not Russia — stole tens of thousands of Democratic Party emails and gave them …
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z accepted the Vanguard Award from GLAAD on Thursday night, at the advocacy group’s 30th annual Media Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. Approaching the stage to the couple’s 2003 hit “Crazy in Love,” the duo gave short, but heartfelt, speeches. Jay-Z spoke for …
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No lawmaker has been more critical of President Trump’s relationship with Russia than Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). The House Intelligence Committee chairman has long claimed that plenty of evidence of collusion exists in plain sight, making him a frequent target of Trump’s Twitter tirades. So when Attorney General William Barr …
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Before the release of The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails‘ 1994 industrial-metal masterpiece, which came out 25 years ago today — Trent Reznor felt the need to apologize to his label. “I said to the label, ‘Look — sorry, but I don’t think there’s a fucking single in here. …
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Amid all the other things she has to view — some 1,500 shows and counting to feed 130 million TV-hungry members — Cindy Holland still fields the occasional video from water-skiers, asking her to evaluate their form. Now Netflix’s Vice President of Original Content, Holland was once, incredibly, a high-level, …
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President Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong-un didn’t go very well. After months of touting the “friendship,” “love” and “special bond” he shares with the dictator, Trump “walked” from negotiations in Hanoi last week without any sort of agreement. Two days later, satellite imagery revealed that North Korea has been …
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Mark Hollis, a synth-pop hitmaker and pioneering art-rock innovator as the frontman of Talk Talk, has died at the age of 64. Hollis’ manager, Keith Aspden, confirmed the musician’s death to Pitchfork. “I’m still trying to accept this, but sadly it’s true,” Aspden said in a statement. “Mark has died …
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The morning after Spike Lee delivered an uplifting Academy Award acceptance speech in which he praised his ancestors who helped build the country and called for the triumph of love over hate in the 2020 election, President Trump logged onto Twitter to call him racist. “Be nice if Spike Lee …
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