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When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Mansions were reduced to ash in Pacific Palisades, a West Los Angeles celebrity enclave. Credit... Philip Cheung for The New York TimesImage The toll of the fires was only beginning to take shape on Wednesday. Credit... Isadora Kosofsky for The New York TimesImage Southern California is critically dry, and its landscape is parched. “There’s a kind of mantra that when the wind blows, Los Angeles burns,” said D.J.

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☆ Mike Tyson returns to professional boxing 19 years after his last bout. There are neurological concerns for the 58-year-old
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It is 1985 and the heavyweight is about to make his professional boxing debut. His last professional fight came in a loss to Kevin McBride more than 19 years ago, and his last exhibition fight was four years ago when, coincidentally, Paul was fighting in just his second professional fight on the undercard of that very event. “The second thing I worry about is, this is a fighter who was had many, many years of professional boxing under his or her belt. Tyson will return to professional boxing 19 years after his last bout. Tyson's (right) last professional fight came in 2005 when he lost to Ireland's Kevin McBride (left).

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Former UFC champion Francis Ngannou shockingly went the distance in his boxing debut early Sunday morning, even knocking down reigning WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury at one point, but Fury remained undefeated after winning a split decision. Two judges gave Fury the fight by scores of 96-93 and 95-94, and the other judge favored Ngannou 95-94. Good thing for Fury, because Ngannou showed early in the scheduled 10-round fight that he wasn't going anywhere. Ngannou staggered Fury early in the fourth, but Fury stayed on his feet and the rest of the round was fairly even after that. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who also made the trip to Saudi Arabia, helped Ngannou get ready for his boxing debut.

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And when Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, sang his 1990 hit “Ice Ice Baby,” flanked by 10-foot sparklers, he pulled the Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath onstage. This was Cameopalooza 2021, a company retreat celebrating the meteoric rise of Cameo, an app and website where regular people could buy personalized videos from minor celebrities for as little as $1. Three hundred Cameo employees danced, took videos and basked in their good fortune to be a part of the Cameo “Fameo” — the company’s nickname for its employees and community of celebrities. A former collegiate party promoter, he shared the lifestyle of Cameo’s celebrity talent, jet setting between parties, sporting events and luxury homes in Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Cameo had just raised $100 million on the audacious ambition to pioneer the “connection economy,” landing a $1 billion “unicorn” valuation just a few years into its existence.

Persons: Kenny G, Paula Abdul, Hamilton, Lance Bass, Robert Van Winkle, Ray, Mark McGrath, Jack Harlow, Steven Galanis, Cameo Organizations: Chicago, Hilton Locations: American, partied, Miami , Los Angeles, Chicago

☆ Inside the Wild World of Celebrity Keynote Speakers: Drugs, Alcohol
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

"I never saw myself as a speaker, let alone a motivational speaker," Leonard tells me while his assistant irons his jeans. 'When I ramble," Hunter told me, "hit me in the leg!" Every plane had been grounded, including the one stuck on the tarmac with an increasingly inebriated Hunter Thompson trapped inside. But by far the most all-consuming task was booking gigs for Hunter Thompson. Just before a debate with G. Gordon Liddy at Brown University, Hunter demanded that Betsy Berg, whom I now worked alongside at GTN, score him some crystal meth.

☆ New York art auction fall highlights include Paul Allen collection and a rare Warhol
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Eduardo MunozNov 4 (Reuters) - The fall art auction season kicks off in New York City next week, with auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's both expecting to bring in record-breaking sales. Among the highlights is Christie's Paul G. Allen Collection, which includes more than 150 pieces spanning 500 years. The collection, from the estate of the late Microsoft co-founder, includes works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne and Lucien Freud. Sotheby's Modern Art Evening Auction will be held on Nov. 14, followed by a Contemporary Evening Auction on Nov. 16. "There are so many amazing works on offer," Sotheby's head of impressionist and modern art for the Americas, Julian Dawes, said.

☆ Anthony Joshua, pregătit de două legende înaintea luptei cu Fury! La cine a apelat campionul de categorie grea
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-19 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

La cine a apelat campionul de categorie greaAnthony Joshua (31 de ani) se va lupta în această vară cu Tyson Fury (32 de ani), într-un duel care va unifica toate centurile categoriei grea. Se pare că Anthony Joshua a apelat la doi foști campioni mondiali pentru a-l ajuta să se pregătească pentru întâlnirea cu compatriotul său. Anthony Joshua a enumerat și câțiva pugiliști pe care i-ar dori alături de el pentru a-l ajuta să pregătească lupta cu Tyson. Britanicul a pierdut în fața lui Andy Ruiz, însă, la cea de-a doua întâlnire dintre cei doi, Joshua a revenit și a recâștigat centurile. De cealaltă parte, Tyson Fury are un record impecabil, cu 30 de victorii, nicio înfrângere și o singură remiză.

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