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☆ Paul Reiser on His Movie & TV Roles: 'Mad About You,' 'Stranger Things,' 'the Boys'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

AdvertisementStill, not every project Reiser has ever done has been a slam dunk like "Aliens," "Mad About You," or "Stranger Things." On why playing Dr. Owens in 'Stranger Things' was an 'acting challenge'Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Paul Reiser as Dr. Owens on "Stranger Things." I don't know. No, but they've indicated that I will be part of it somehow, so you'll know as soon as I know. I have this really nice trip planned and I'm really looking forward to it.

Persons: Paul Reiser, Reiser, Angelo Powers, Yassir, Isaiah Lester, Shameik Moore, Angelo, It's, Owens, Millie Bobby Brown, Netflix Burke, I'm, David, Ryder, it'd, you'll, What's, You've, Helen Hunt, Jamie, Paul Buchman, Gary Null, Helen, you've, I've, Burke, Sigourney Weaver, Ripley, Colm Meaney, nobody's Organizations: New, Hills, Netflix, Getty, USC Locations: New York, David Harbour, Winona, Italy

☆ Battle of the billionaires: Harris deploys Mark Cuban as Elon Musk stumps for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The Grinch is the one that's going to be putting these small business out of business." Unlike Musk, who has donated nearly $75 million and counting to Trump-aligned groups, Cuban is not a political donor. Ben Wikler, Wisconsin's Democratic Party Chair, praised Cuban's "talents" and said he has credibility to reach voters on business and economic issues. But I trust her.”None of this, however, is unfamiliar territory for Cuban, who played a similar role in 2016 for Clinton’s ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Trump. Before that campaign, Trump and Cuban had a hot-and-cold relationship.

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☆ James Earl Jones, iconic voice of Darth Vader in ‘Star Wars’ and Mufasa in ‘The Lion King,’ dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Brandon Griggs | Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“I lucked out.”Back then nobody imagined “Star Wars” would become a blockbuster, let alone an enduring franchise and cultural phenomenon. James Earl Jones and Darth Vader during "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" premiere event. Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post/Getty Images Jones, seen here in 1960, was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, in 1931. Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images Jones appears with Alec Baldwin in a scene from "The Hunt for Red October" (1990). The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Jones appears next to Darth Vader, who he famously voiced in the "Star Wars" movies.

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☆ The Republican Party’s Problem With the Elite Begins With Its Own - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I’m, like, a smart person,” he boasted on one occasion. “I went to an Ivy League college, I was a nice student,” he said on another. On the left, people think emphasizing intellect and elite schools betrays unfair advantage in a multiple-intelligences, equitable-outcome world. On the right, your average MAGA Joe bristles at anyone who comes across as a coastal elite or too smart for his own good. In MAGA world, glorified ignorance actually serves as a qualification for higher office (see: Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene), empowering more effective rage against “the liberal elite” and “the ruling class.”

Persons: Donald Trump, “, ”, “ liddle ’, ” Trump, MAGA Joe, MAGA, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene Organizations: Ivy League

☆ I used to judge my daughter for not folding the laundry. Then I realized there was a heartwarming reason why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Margery Berger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I think my kids should do their dishes immediately after eating, fold their laundry, and make their beds — because that's what I do. I don't make it for them, but I do often empty their overflowing bathroom wastebasket when I visit them. When my daughter Ali brought my future son-in-law Chrix home to meet me for the first time, he learned just how helpful I am. I love visiting my daughter's familyThey married five years ago and have two daughters, now 3-years-old and 18 months. A few weeks ago, when I was staying with them, my daughter said, "Mommy, stop folding the clothes."

Persons: I've, Ali, Chrix, Noa vacuuming, Noa, it's Organizations: Service, Florida Power Locations: Seattle, Miami, United States

☆ Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham rang the alarm on stocks and recession, warned about the housing market, and hailed Elon Musk's Tesla. Here are his 10 best quotes from a recent event.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jeremy Grantham issued grim warnings about the US stock market and economy this week. Grantham touched on meme stocks, banking risks, real estate, commodities, and Elon Musk's Tesla. GMO's cofounder and long-term investment strategist also reflected on his inadvertent investment in a meme stock, advised against buying real estate or commodities, and touted Elon Musk's Tesla and other companies fighting climate change. "I would be very careful with real estate. So I wouldn't touch real estate."

Persons: Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, Elon Musk's Tesla, There's, it's, dopey VWs, they've Organizations: Service, Livewire Markets, General Motors, Panasonic, dopey, Grantham Locations: Wall, Silicon, Sydney, craziness, Grantham

☆ How Hip-Hop Changed the English Language Forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Miles Marshall Lewis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

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☆ ‘Futurama’ Review: Latest Go-Round Mines the Past
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Mike Hale | More About Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If “Futurama” were a person, you could imagine it saying “Doh” when it returns after 10 years and “The Simpsons,” the show in whose shadow it has always resided, is still around. The new season picks up in the next moment, with both fictional time and the actual show rebooted. If you haven’t watched the show before, you won’t know what you’re missing, but you probably will be aware that you’re missing something and that this is a problem. A greater concern is that a little of the zip has gone out of the writing and the overall comic conceptualism. Episodes aimed at big, easy targets like Bitcoin and Amazon feel routine, no matter how many opportunities they provide for making connections to the show’s past.

Persons: Matt Groening, David X, Cohen, Philip J, Fry, Billy West, ”, Homer Simpson, Leela, Katey, Farnsworth, Bender, John DiMaggio, it’ll, you’re Organizations: Hulu Locations: Hulu

☆ Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the early 1980s, Nicolas Cage got his first big breaks in Martha Coolidge’s “Valley Girl” and Amy Heckerling’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” films that zeroed in on the peculiar allure of his dopey bad boy persona. Watching him was like eating a banana split: You tasted something nutty, sweet, indulgent, all-American. Since then, few actors have been able to match how nimble a polymorph Cage is in genre, how easily he power-bounces between action (“National Treasure”), comedy (“Moonstruck”) and horror (“Pay the Ghost”). He’s done the same for a who’s who of boundary-pushing directors, including the Coen brothers (“Raising Arizona”), David Lynch (“Wild at Heart”) and Spike Jonze (“Adaptation”). Each is rated on a scale of bees — one for sleepy, five for loony — in honor of the insects that tortured him in the 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man.”

☆ 'Reality' recreates fateful day for U.S. whistleblower in Berlinale premiere
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Cast members Marchant Davis, Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton and Director Tina Satter attend a photo call to promote the movie 'Reality' at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 18, 2023. Director Tina Satter aims to change that with the movie "Reality," a 85-minute re-enactment of the day FBI agents came to Winner's house based off the transcript of the audio they recorded which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday. Winner's sister and mother also attended the premiere, prompting a burst of applause from the crowded theatre. "After spending time speaking with her, I wanted to make sure that I captured her as much as possible," said Sweeney. "I hope that they see this moment in a woman's life, that it was a really hard decision to make, and to not reduce Reality to just a headline," she added.

☆ Stormy Daniels thanks Trump for accidentally appearing to admit that an affair with her 'happened a long time ago'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stormy Daniels tweeted a rebuttal to Trump on Tuesday. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the "'Stormy' nonsense" was "VERY OLD & happened a long time ago." Daniels' tweet included a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social post from Tuesday, where he appeared to let slip that an affair with Daniels had happened in the past. Additionally, Donald is so angry he can't even get his spelling correct," Cohen tweeted on Tuesday. Cohen, Daniels, and representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

☆ Great Fraud Reckoning Will Expose Scam Companies, Cause Stock Market Chaos
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Get ready for what will feel like an inescapable wave of corporate fraud. And as interest rates have risen, the stock market has fallen off — which makes it harder to get dollars by whipping up new investors or offering stock. Despite Scheck's assertion that the risk of a wave of corporate fraud has heightened, he didn't want to speak in historical analogies. Kreuger had managed to hide that he had stretched the company's finances beyond solvency by raising money on the US stock market while it was raging. That may have been enough when the stock market was on a heater and investors were winning, but it's not enough when the stock market is falling, the economy is slowing, and everyone from regulators to lawmakers to kids on TikTok want answers.

☆ Fraud Economy: How Current Economic Trends Lead to More Corporate Scams
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Get ready for what will feel like an inescapable wave of corporate fraud. And as interest rates have risen, the stock market has fallen off — which makes it harder to get dollars by whipping up new investors or offering stock. Despite Scheck's assertion that the risk of a wave of corporate fraud has heightened, he didn't want to speak in historical analogies. There be icebergsOf course, there's also fraud that goes undetected in times of easy money — companies where the very act of existing means stretching the truth. Kreuger had managed to hide that he had stretched the company's finances beyond solvency by raising money on the US stock market while it was raging.

☆ Microsoft could bring back Clippy, but make him smart
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —This week, Microsoft confirmed it’s planning to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind the viral new chatbot tool ChatGPT. The prospect of Microsoft, maker of software that people mostly hate, getting involved with ChatGPT, a product people generally like, is raising a lot of eyebrows. Almost immediately, people began joking on social media that ChatGPT could be used to revive the broadly maligned, big-eyed goon known as Clippy. “There is a kernel of truth to the Clippy comparison,” David Lobina, an artificial intelligence analyst at ABI Research, told Sam. All of the above suggestions were generated by asking ChatGPT various forms of the question, “How could Microsoft integrate ChatGPT into its products?”Argh, Samantha, you scamp!

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