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'BLACKkKLANSMAN,' the KKK, and white supremacy during Black History Month

Via: john-russell • Entertainment • 24 Comments • 5 years ago

'BLACKkKLANSMAN,' the KKK, and white supremacy during Black History Month Black History Month in the United States is not simply a month-long exposition of historical tales highlighting the...

Peter Tork, endearingly offbeat bassist and singer in the Monkees, dies at 77

Via: john-russell • Entertainment • 17 Comments • 5 years ago

Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died...

'Downfall' Actor Bruno Ganz Dies at 77

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

Swiss actor Bruno Ganz died at his home in Zurich on Friday at age 77, according to Variety. Ganz, who won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Adolph Hitler in "Downfall," reportedly died from...

For The Baby Boomers - On Drums : Hal Blaine

By: johnrussell • Entertainment • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

60's pop music, and to a lesser extent 70's pop music , on the West coast ws dominated by a group of studio musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew". The main drummer for The Wrecking Crew was Hal...

Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney has died at age 82.

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

Albert Finney, photographed in August 1966, died Friday following a short illness. Photo by Mondadori Publishers/Wikimedia Commons Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Five-time Oscar nominee Albert...

Donald Trump Thinks There Are Countries Called ‘Nipple’ And ‘Button’

Via: don-overton • Entertainment • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Time magazine’s national security correspondent John Walcott wrote over the weekend about how members of the U.S. intelligence community are worried the President himself is a...

The Day the Music Died: 60 years since that fateful plane crash, Buddy Holly’s rock’n’roll legacy lives on

Via: jasper2529 • Entertainment • 11 Comments • 5 years ago

Sixty years ago today, on 3 February 1959, Buddy Holly ’s bass player Waylon Jennings uttered seven words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. His band, led by rock’n’roll...

Take the What State Do You Live In quiz

By: badfish-hd-h-u • Entertainment • 89 Comments • 5 years ago

About This Quiz Are you a Texan or are you from Joisey? How about the state known for its potatoes or one where people can go to get lei'd? People live in different states for different...

The Power Of Great Music

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 4 Comments • 5 years ago

In 1991, the 1980's r&b/adult contemporary singer James Ingram released a greatest hits album which he titled , rather self-confidently, "The Power Of Great Music". I bought it on the basis of...

'The Windmills Of Your Mind' composer dies at age 86

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Michel Legrand, a French composer with more than 200 screen credits, notably the jazzy movie operas “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” and whose tunefully...

'Leaving Neverland,' Michael Jackson documentary, opens old wounds before premiere

Via: perrie-halpern • Entertainment • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

By Daniel Arkin The lineup at this year’s Sundance Film Festival includes buzzy documentaries about some polarizing names: ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein , former Trump strategist...

"Inappropriate" Song Time

By: jeremy-in-nc • Entertainment • 12 Comments • 5 years ago

We all know of (and at times enjoy) that song that some think is "inappropriate". A song that, unless you understand the artist, you won't see the humor or miss that they are making fun of...

Favorite Country Music

By: johnrussell • Entertainment • 109 Comments • 5 years ago

As Good As I Once Was - Toby Keith Live Like You Were Dying - Tim McGraw You Don't Know Me - Asleep At The Wheel

Old Dog - A Short Story.

By: kavika • Entertainment • 50 Comments • 5 years ago

The sun shone brightly in the north country, belying the bitter cold that surrounded her. Old Dog pushed on through the snow, deep, cold and seeping the remaining strength from her body. Yet she...

Robbie Williams 'torments' Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in home row

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

Robbie Williams 'torments' Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in home row Robbie Williams is "blasting Black Sabbath music" to torment his rock star neighbour Jimmy Page over their bitter home...

Downwind From Evil - A Short Story

By: kavika • Entertainment • 55 Comments • 5 years ago

East Grand Forks, Minnesota. August, 2001. Duncan Brown shuffled along the street looking for discarded cigarette butts. He had reached the bottom of a long hard road. His life, while never...

Margot Robbie to play Barbie in live-action movie

Via: johnrussell • Entertainment • 17 Comments • 5 years ago

Margot Robbie to play Barbie in live-action movie ANNIE MARTIN JANUARY 08, 2019 Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Margot Robbie will bring Barbie to life in a new movie. E! News confirmed Tuesday...

Always Hoon Responsibly

Via: dave-2693993 • Entertainment • 33 Comments • 5 years ago

Closing out the year Hoon style. P.S. I wonder if young Oliver will get grounded? I am pretty sure Petter would never put up with such nonsense behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Let's not...

What Are Your Favorite Motown Songs?

By: johnrussell • Entertainment • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

BEECHWOOD - 4 -5789 - The Marvelettes WHEN THE LOVELIGHT STARTS SHINING - The Supremes ABC - The Jackson 5

NBC's New Year's Eve show with Carson Daly, Chrissy Teigen, Leslie Jones has viewers crying 'complete disaster' and 'trainwreck'

Via: jasper2529 • Entertainment • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

NBC's New Year's Eve show left many viewers appalled by a co-host and baffled by its last-second omission of the countdown clock. During and after the broadcast, negative comments poured in on...

The Comical Incompetence of President Trump

Via: don-overton • Entertainment • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

President Trump is spending the last few days of 2018 in signature fashion, with a series of unforced errors and comical pratfalls around the world, any one of which would have been a multi-week...

The Hunting Wind - A Short Story

By: kavika • Entertainment • 34 Comments • 6 years ago

In the farthest reaches of the lower 48 lies an area named the Northwest Angle. A mistake that was corrected after the boundary between the United States and Canada was laid, creating this notch...

Stupid Funny

By: hal-a-lujah • Entertainment • 4 Comments • 6 years ago

This kind of reminded me of Trump’s revisionist history crusade. Trump supporters, please be advised: the following is not a true depiction of history.

Top media banker on why 2019 could be tough on Netflix and other big players

Via: perrie-halpern • Entertainment • 9 Comments • 6 years ago

By Claire Atkinson Aryeh Bourkoff is a banker at the nexus of dealmaking in the media, tech and telecoms businesses on a global scale, and he’s got a message for companies headed into 2019:...

What's Your Favourite "A Christmas Carol" Movie?

By: buzz-of-the-orient • Entertainment • 48 Comments • 6 years ago

What's Your Favourite "A Christmas Carol" Movie ? This being a fitting time to post this article, I took note that there are actually 33 fantasy or animated movie versions, or...

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