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Independents look solid this weekend with Vertical’s Widow Clicquot nice alternative programming amid summer blockbuster season, IFC Film horror Oddity off to a fine start, and Thelma, one of the year’s biggest specialty hits, passing $8 million. New films and holdovers in limited release did business. Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot is looking at an estimated
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The soap opera world is in mourning. Esta TerBlanche, who starred on All My Children in the late ’90s and early aughts, died July 18, her rep said. The actress was 51. “It’s with a heavy heart that my friend and client Esta TerBlanche passed away Thursday of natural causes,” her rep, Lisa Rodrigo, announced
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Hollywood whines there’s a lost moviegoing audience in the middle and southern part of the U.S. that the industry doesn’t make movies for. Well, then make movies for them. That’s exactly what Universal, Warner Bros and Amblin did in rebooting Twisters to a grand stateside start of $80M, an awesome 60% ahead of its $50M+
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If four full seasons of 9-1-1: Lone Star have taught us anything, it’s that these first responders’ lives are just as fiery off the clock as on, and that’s why we love them. There’s something for fans of all types of romances to enjoy, from the long-term couples (Jim Parrack‘s Judd and Sierra McClain‘s Grace) to
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It was kind of a kid-in-a-candy-shop feel, admitted American javelin thrower Breaux Greer.  During his daily walks to practice fields, “the girls are in skimpy panties and bras, the dudes in underwear, so you see what everybody is working with from the jump,” he observed to ESPN. “Even if their face is a 7, their body is
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Competing on Wheel of Fortune must be a nerve-wracking experience. The lights are bright, the studio audience’s eyes are on you, and thousands of dollars are on the line. So we certainly feel for the following contestants, who made astounding errors on the long-running game show, much to outgoing host Pat Sajak’s delight (and, sometimes,
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The products featured in this article are from brands that are available in the NBCUniversal Checkout Marketplace. If you purchase something through our links, we get a commission. One piece of jewelry I never leave the house without is a pair of earrings. As someone who’s been wearing them since birth, I feel naked without
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Jon Gosselin isn’t holding anything back. The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star got candid about the lack of communication he has with six out of his eight children with Kate Gosselin, expressing how he believes she is responsible for their the estrangement. “I think it’s maybe parent alienation,” Jon said on The Domenick Nati Show July 18. “You’re swaying someone.” As the
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There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids. It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and social media on
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Ashlyn Harris knows sometimes the biggest challenges happen off the field. And navigating her public divorce from ex-wife Ali Krieger has made for one of Ashlyn’s toughest seasons yet. “I’m navigating a divorce that’s been really hard,” Ashlyn said July 16 during a Women’s Health panel. “I’m just riding the waves and realizing I can
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Depending on where you’re tuning into Jeopardy! from, your programming may have been preempted by the ongoing coverage of the Republican National Convention (RNC). In some locations, this was the case for the July 18th match between returning champion Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois, and new players Meredith Miller, a labor
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The Good Will Hunting stars paired off in real life, too, but they didn’t drive off into the sunset together. “Well, I’m single,” Damon said on The Oprah Winfrey Show in January 1998. “I was with Minnie for a while, but we’re not really romantically involved anymore. We’re just really good friends, and I love her dearly….I care about
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