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Ingraham may have erred terribly in assailing a Parkland survivor, but she has the support of the man in charge of Fox News. ‘’Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives,’’ says one person close to the mogul. react-text: 222 /react-text By Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. When…
On Friday night, Roseanne Barr tweeted a bizarre message that no one seemed to understand. “President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” she wrote, adding he gets the benefit of the doubt from…
Add another name to the list of publishers that is shutting down and blaming FacebookFB 0.53% : Render Media. The digital media company behind recipe video publisher Cooking Panda and news and politics site Opposing Views says it is planning to close shop, pointing to a combination of factors, including recent changes by Facebook to improve the quality…
In 2012, I wrote a piece for this website breaking down the payments my first band, Galaxie 500, was receiving from streaming services, which were just starting to become a dominant force in the music industry. Spotify had sent songwriting royalties of $1.05 for the 5,960 times our single “Tugboat” was played that quarter—split between the group’s three…
The Gay Male Comic Accusing SNL of Homophobia Matt Wilstein 03.16.18 4:00 AM ET Photo Ilustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast TODO Render with a pug filter instead of unescaped html AUSTIN, Texas—James Adomian is perhaps the greatest political impressionist working in comedy today. Just this week at South by Southwest, he performed as Bernie…
With Avengers: Infinity War quickly approaching, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 end game becoming clearer and clearer, set photos, interviews, and promotional material provide a steady stream of tidbits of information regarding the plot of the third Avengers movie. The latest trailer, seen below, gave us our clearest picture yet… while raising even…
Oh hai, Batman. Last month, Variety reported that Hangover director Todd Phillips was in talks with Joaquin Phoenix to star in the stand-alone Joker origin film—a compelling choice to play the Batman villain who could probably give the character a depth we haven’t seen since Heath Ledger. But following Variety‘s announcement, another actor unexpectedly threw…
One officer involved in the city’s massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.” Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore’s elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore…
I was washing my face with bar soap before I watched the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reboot on Netflix, because I didn’t know any better and didn’t think to ask. The show features five very confident and attractive gay men, who help sort out the lives of hopeless straight guys in exactly one…
Sunday AM: Disney dominated this weekend’s box office, commanding the top two spots with Marvel’s mighty Black Panther and Ava Duvernay’s’ A Wrinkle in Time. With an 84% from Friday to Saturday, Black Panther will gross $41.1M for the weekend as it pushes to almost $562M. A Wrinkle In Time will end its debut weekend with $33.3M….