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American cable giant Spectrum is raising its TV, internet and phone plan prices in July. Spectrum's internet base price will increase by $3 a month for all plans beginning in July, CNET reported. The provider's home phone plans and TV Select service will also increase by $3 in some states. It is the second time Spectrum - one of America's main cable providers along with Comcast Xfinity, DirecTV and Dish - has hiked it rates this year alone. In January, Spectrum raised its low-income plan from $20 to $25 a month. At the same time in January it also raised...

What will be the blockbuster movies of Summer 2024? Entertainment Weekly published a list at the beginning of May, which was helpful provided you eliminate mere summer releases (I Saw the TV Glow, Babes, Firebrand, Inside Out 2, The Watchers, Janet Planet, Despicable Me 4, The Instigators, Kinds of Kindness, Fly Me to the Moon, It Ends With Us, The Bikeriders, Blink Twice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) and everything being released on streaming (Atlas, Hit Man, Ultraman: Rising, Trigger Warning, The Union, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The Instigators, Jackpot, Appollo 13: Survival). Which leaves a much smaller group of big budget...

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans. from IMDB

It's fair to say that Cody Wilson, the creator of the first 3D-printed gun, is an accommodating documentary subject. The company Wilson founded, Defense Distributed, has always taken a build-in-public approach, both as a practical matter of fundraising and to frame its project — the free distribution of blueprints for personal, at-home gun manufacturing — as a fundamentally political one. Wilson is an articulate and charismatic spokesperson for this project. While he can fluently cite post-Marxist theorists to justify his anti-state provocations, there's a certain mischievous swagger behind the Baudrillard quotes. He doesn't mind playing the villain a bit. Early...

Martin Mull, the droll comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and painter who found fame on the soap opera satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spinoff Fernwood 2 Night, has died. He was 80. Mull died Thursday at home after a “valiant fight against a long illness,” his daughter, Maggie Mull, shared on her Instagram. “He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers,...

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Adult film star Austin Wolf has been arrested in New York City for child abuse materials, according to the Justice Department. Wolf, real name Justin Heath Smith, is charged with sending and receiving hundreds of videos of child pornography via the Telegram messaging application between March 24 and March 28. The gay porn star, 43, allegedly sent and received images that 'depicted children as young as infants, including a video showing a 10-year-old child bound and raped.' He is also accused of possessing hundreds of additional videos containing child pornography in his Manhattan apartment. One of Wolf's last social media...

The View cohosts have changed course — and are urging President Joe Biden to do the same — when it comes to the 2024 presidential election. After Biden's performance in Thursday night's debate against Donald Trump was universally derided by both sides of the political divide, the ladies of the morning talk show brought to the Hot Topics table an impassioned call for the 81-year-old to step down and let another Democrat take his place in facing off against Trump in November. "Most of us are in mourning," Sunny Hostin said at the top of Friday morning's episode, and while...

The veteran performer appeared in countless TV shows and movies during his career Bill Cobbs, the prolific and versatile actor known for performances in films such as The Brother From Another Planet, Night at the Museum, and The Bodyguard, has died. He was 90. A member of Cobbs’ family confirmed his death on Facebook, saying the actor died “peacefully” at his home in California on Tuesday, June 25. “A beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather and friend, Bill recently and happily celebrated his 90th birthday surrounded by cherished loved ones,” the statement read. “As a family we are...

Joy Behar stunned the audience of “The View” by casually stating she would be interested in pursuing a same-sex relationship in the future. The television talk show host made it clear that she hadn’t pursued a lesbian encounter yet, but at this stage of her life, she seems to be keeping her options quite open. The discussion unfolded on Thursday’s episode of “The View,” when Behar was put on the spot by Sandra Bernhard and Judy Gold. Both Berhnard and Gold are openly part of the LGBTQ+ community and they wasted no time asking her if she has ever “gotten...

Star Trek Ha-ha of the day… Why did Captain Jean-Luc Picard throw out his cup of Eau Grey tea? …….. Because there was a Borg in it. 😁

Hear Harrison Ford say: "I met her in the street and she was mine for the price of a drink."

Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, was joined by abortion activists Shannon Brewer and NARAL president Mini Timmaraju to discuss the second anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. While the three lamented the decision and its effects throughout the country, Timmaraju outrageously claimed that the U.S. had consequently become a “segregated society.” To open the segment, Reid played a video of Vice President Kamala Harris audaciously proclaiming, “In the case of the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of America, Donald Trump is guilty.” She then cited...

A law enforcement investigative source tells PEOPLE its investigation into Matthew Perry's ketamine death is "nearing its conclusion" and police believe "multiple people" should be charged. The source says the U.S. Attorney's Office will make the ultimate decision on whether or not to press charges. The U.S. Attorney's office responded "no comment" on Tuesday, June 25.

The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling source material by Peter Benchley are getting the documentary treatment. Timed to the 50th anniversary of the 1975 film, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc feature that will focus on both the Spielberg film and the writing of the horror best-seller by Benchley. A summer 2025 release is planned on National Geographic and for streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. Laurent Bouzereau is set to direct. The filmmaker just completed the nonfiction project Faye, centering on the career and legacy...

There is a new documentary called “Taylor Swift Vs. Scooter Braun: Bad Blood” which covers the infamous feud between Taylor Swift and super-manager Scooter Braun. Braun owns Ithaca Holdings, the company that bought the record label Taylor Swift first signed with, including her albums. The documentary spans events from June of 2019, when Braun’s company acquired Big Machine Label Group, the record label Swift was signed to for the first 13 years of her career. That acquisition included the rights to her first six albums, from her self-titled debut to “Reputation,” which was released in 2017. The documentary is divided...

Because of course there’s this kind of drama in Big D … Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is reportedly not happy with the organization’s hierarchy, in particular with owner Jerry Jones for not respecting his leadership. According to a report from Go Long’s Tyler Dunne: “He’s doing it the best he can,” said a former Dallas personnel member recently. “Some of the people I’ve talked to have said that he’s getting fed up with it a little bit. It’s hard. I feel bad for [quarterback] Dak [Prescott]. I think Dak’s a really good quarterback who is capable of taking...

A legendary surfer and actor known for his role in “Pirates Of The Caribbean” was killed in a shark attack in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday. Honolulu’s emergency services were unable to save Tamayo Perry, 49, after he was attacked by a shark while surfing off the island of Oahu at around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to the BBC. Shayne Enright, spokeswoman for Honolulu Ocean Safety and for The Honolulu Medical Services Office, confirmed Perry’s death in a press statement after paramedics used jet skis to bring him back to shore. Kurt Lager, acting Chief of the Ocean Safety Department, said...

speaking of asian navies... The Great War of Archimedes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcNrKxqIYW0&pp=ygUbdGhlIGdyZWF0IHdhciBvZiBhcmNoaW1lZGVz 2 h 9 m possibly the best historical themed movie I've ever seen. lots of Japanese actors also seen in the recent version of Midway. totally changed my understanding of why what happened in japan regarding ww2. if we go to war with china, I'm glad japan is on our side.

After five seasons and 155 episodes of macabre twists and turns, the original run of the CBS anthology The Twilight Zone concluded with an uncharacteristically happy ending. First screened 60 years ago, “The Bewitchin’ Pool” centers on Sport (Mary Badham) and Jeb (Jeffrey Byron) Sharewood, two affluent young siblings seemingly unperturbed when a straw-hatted boy suddenly emerges from their swimming pool, the latter poetically described by creator and narrator Rod Serling as “a structure built of tile and cement and money, a backyard toy for the affluent, wet entertainment for the well-to-do.” The pair subsequently accept his invitation to follow...