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Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who writer and script editor, dead at 84
The former Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks has died aged 84. Dicks had a long association with the BBC’s longest-running sci-fi show, writing episodes from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. MORE
Cobra Kai: Season 1 is Now Streaming – Free!
In news that will overly excite Muethos, the first season of YouTube Original series Cobra Kai is now streaming free until September 11, when Season 2 will take its place, also free for that day MORE
Yiddish, With Faces This Time
In support of the use of more colorful speech, here’s a handy guide to useful terms from one of America’s favorite dialects. To make it easy to remember, each word is keyed to a representative public figure. You can even make up your own! MORE
Valerie Harper, Emmy Winner and Tony Nominee, Dead at 80
One of TV’s most beloved sidekicks has died. Valerie Harper, best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 80. As the blunt, self-deprecating Rhoda, MORE
Ed Sheeran Gives Emotional Goodbye As He Announces 18 Month Break From Music
After more than 250 performances on the road, Ed Sheeran may be headed back to the castle on the hill. On the final stop of his Divide tour earlier this week, the Grammy winner began thinking out loud and announced his break from music. “As MORE
Sister Aimee
Based on the life of an actual person, Aimee Semple McPherson, this film is, and I quote, “Based on true events. Mostly made up.”
Child Musicians
North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is directed and written by, as well as starring Edward Norton, adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name. Also starring Bruce Willis, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee, MORE
Lady and the Tramp
In their attempt to make us all sick of “live action” remakes, Disney+ brings us a straight to streaming version of Lady and the Tramp, featuring the voices of Justin Theroux as Tramp, Tessa Thompson MORE
Sarah Sanders lands a job on Fox ‘News’
After leaving the White House nearly two months ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders “will provide political commentary and analysis across all of FOX News Media, including FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, MORE
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: Meet The Queens
The first UK Drag Race season is coming up, squirrel friends! I’m so excited! For you philistines who know nothing of such things: “I’m like Tina Turner meets Lizzo meets Kat Slater,” says Vinegar Strokes. MORE
Denmark Offers to Buy U.S.
COPENHAGEN (The Borowitz Report)—After rebuffing Donald J. Trump’s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead. MORE
Neo & Trinity: The 4th Time’s The Charm
Warner Bros. has just announced a fourth film in the Matrix series, with original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their iconic roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. Lana Wachowski is set MORE