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I remember Star Wars. I had no idea what I’d be seeing that 1977 day in that common theater of the time. Popcorn and pop were affordable, as was admission, which was fortunate, because I saw the movie four times in quick succession with a variety of friends.From the moment the Star Wars logo filled the screen, accompanied by John Williams’ main title fanfare, I, and countless others, were enthralled. We’d never seen anything like it, and while the special effects now seem a bit dated in comparison with contemporary computer-generated imagery, they still hold up well.Like all epic literature,...

The 25th and most recent entry in the James Bond franchise, No Time to Die, premiered over four years ago. Since then, there has nonetheless been Bond drama. In 2022, Amazon acquired MGM, and with it the rights to 007. But it took several more years to wrest producer control from Eon productions, run by the Broccoli family’s Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson, scions of the filmic spy empire created by their father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. (The family claims that the vegetable is named after them, their fortune having been founded by crossing rabe with cauliflower.) Most...

As much as we hate to promote the infamously gay Dallas Cowboys football franchise, we had to share this incredible play with you. Meet Alijah Clark, a 22-year-old rookie from Syracuse. Dallas Cowboys Just last year, he was playing college ball; now he's a safety for the Cowboys. With just a few minutes to go in the 4th quarter and the score tied, the Cowboys were forced to punt the ball. After the kick went off, Alijah Clark got absolutely blasted by Eagles safety Sydney Brown: But this dude was just getting started. Watch as Clark gets up not once,...

New Mexico has rapidly become a national hub for out-of-state abortions. This trend is not driven by local demand, but by an expanding network of wealthy donors, Hollywood celebrities, and billionaire-backed foundations that are actively financing travel, lodging, and abortion procedures for women—primarily from Texas and other states with protective pro-life laws. Through large charitable gifts, public fundraising campaigns, and entertainment-driven activism, these high-profile figures are fueling a pipeline that moves women across state lines into New Mexico abortion facilities. Their financial support empowers national abortion funds that specialize in arranging flights, hotels, rideshares, meals, childcare, and multi-state logistics for...

Disgraced ex-TV anchor Stephanie Hockridge will spend the next ten years behind bars for her role in a multi-million-dollar COVID fraud scheme – serving her time in the same cushy lockup as notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The 42-year-old, a former Phoenix TV anchor turned entrepreneur, was sentenced in Texas federal court Friday and ordered to cough up nearly $64 million in restitution for the bogus Paycheck Protection Program loans she helped secure during the height of the pandemic, the Justice Department announced. Hockridge, found guilty in June of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, will report to prison on Dec....

As The World Turns" was airing on CBS the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite broke in to tell the nation that President Kennedy had been shot. Coverage then went back to the soap opera, but not for long. Charles Osgood reports on how America learned of the shooting of a president.

The 1975 drama, one of the only films to ever receive the big five Oscars, remains a touchstone of American cinema with a resonant message of resisting conformity. Amovie winning the big five Academy Awards – best picture along with honoring the lead actor and actress, writing and directing – happens so rarely that there’s not much use in examining the three movies that have pulled it off for common ground. But among It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs, it may be Cuckoo’s Nest, released 50 years ago on Wednesday,...

Fool's Ball, Week Pigskin Pickem Thread, Week 12 Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki opens up about uncovering secrets, working with Pamela Anderson, and the global power struggle that turned the WikiLeaks founder into a political target. For filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, the story of The Six Billion Dollar Man began with a leak — one that shook even a seasoned documentarian known for tackling political corruption and moral collapse. “It started about five years ago,” Jarecki says. “My producing partner Kathleen Fournier and I came into possession of absolutely groundbreaking and shattering information on the Assange case that had never been seen by the public before.” That information, he adds, revealed...

Key Points * Google announced the latest model of its AI image generation and editing tool, Nano Banana Pro. * The Nano Banana Pro is built on Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, which launched two days prior. * The original Nano Banana rolled out in August and went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into 3D figurines. ================================================================= Google on Thursday rolled out Nano Banana Pro, its latest image editing and generation tool, continuing the company’s momentum after launching its new Gemini artificial intelligence model earlier this week. The product is built on Gemini 3 Pro, which was...

The Gateway Pundit reported that Tish Hyman says she was kicked out of a Gold’s Gym after confronting a biological male who entered the women’s locker room while she was naked. Surprisingly, far-left Joy Reid confessed that if she saw a naked man in a woman’s locker room, she would ‘freak out.” Hyman, who identifies as a lesbian and outspoken advocate for women’s spaces, detailed the horrifying encounter on Facebook, where she described being naked and vulnerable when she turned around to find a man, dressed in “boy clothes” and lip gloss, staring at her. “This person told me he...

---SNIP--- “Cuckoo’s Nest” was first released in the U.S. on Nov. 19, 1975, and won all five major Academy Awards the following year. Based on the 1962 novel by Oregon writer Ken Kesey, it tells the story of a struggle against authoritarian control, embodied in the clash between free-spirited patient Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, the tyrannical head nurse of an Oregon psychiatric hospital.

There is nothing finer than to sit back on Thanksgiving morning and turn on the TV to watch a huge heaping of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the turkey sits in the oven. This is a tradition that started back in 1991 on Comedy Central. Now the celebration of cheesy movies and celluloid turkeys will be available on various digital platforms including the MST3K FAST channel that’s free on various services including PlutoTV and Tubi. This year is special since movies from The Return and The Gauntlet that ran on Netflix will be part of the FAST Channel. There’s enjoy...

A federal judge ruled against one of the Trump administration’s efforts to defund NPR.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) had slashed a $36 million contract with NPR after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting funding to the news outlet. After a judge’s ruling, the CPB is renewing the contract after a judge ruled in NPR’s favor, according to the network.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (left), President Donald Trump (right) ******************************************************************** President Trump on Tuesday ended the career of a leftist reporter who attacked him and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, and attempted to tie him to the Epstein sex trafficking ring. ABC’s Mary Bruce started early in the press conference, accusing Trump of a “conflict of interest” with his family business in Saudi Arabia, then took aim at the Crown Prince, stating that Americans “are furious that you are here in the Oval Office” over the killing of a journalist under his rule. Per...

Melissa Gilbert has a new perspective about her “Little House on the Prairie” experience. While clapping back at Megyn Kelly’s recent comments about late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the actress, now 61, reflected on the 8-year age difference between herself and Dean Butler, who played her on-screen love interest in the NBC series. “So, I debated posting this but, I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women’s posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to google search myself at that age and see what came up,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram on Saturday, alongside photos of her...

Rep. Brad Sherman blamed Elon Musk’s X algorithm for serving him saucy pictures amid a potential scandal involving him scrolling through softcore pornography in public. The 71-year-old California Democrat was photographed looking at pictures of lingerie-clad girls on his tablet while on a flight. The pictures of Sherman were posted to X by the Dear White Staffers account, an account made of a “group of Capitol Hill staffers working to expose poor working conditions.” The images were later reposted by Donald Trump Jr.

Megyn Kelly faced backlash during the cold open of Saturday Night Live, as she appeared to defend late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's behavior by implying that he preferred the “barely legal type” and was not a pedophile. After the Trump impersonator addressed another inquiry concerning his association with Epstein, he justified his stance and referenced Kelly's comments: “I thought Megyn Kelly made a terrific point this week, she said Epstein's not a pedophile.” “Terrific thing to just say out of nowhere. Great Job Megyn, we love Megyn, they should put her back on TV. Legalize Megyn!” The audience present in...

Trump’s lawsuit over the BBC’s doctored Jan. 6 clip now threatens to turn the broadcaster’s license-fee crisis into a full-blown reckoning over trust, bias, and billions.It costs £174.50 a year to obtain a BBC license for a color TV. Technological atavists who are bargain-hunting can snag a license for a black and white TV for only £58.50 per year. For the year ending March 2025, the license fee raised £3.8 billion, 65 percent of the Beeb’s total income.There is growing resentment about the fee. “Some people ask,” said one news report, “why they should be forced to pay for the...

"The Lost Bus" is a film directed by Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93, most of the Jason Bourne films) and tells the true story of school bus driver Kevin McKay (played by Matthew McConaughey) who rogered up to go pick up a load of kids to be evacuated from a local school during the devastating 2018 Paradise Fire, the worst in California's history.One of those films that definitely deserved a better reception than a quick, limited theatrical release only to get dumped on Apple TV.Seriously, one of the best, most gripping movies I've seen in a long time and...