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☆ Robert Downey Jr. will reunite with Marvel in new movie
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Robert Downey Jr. is making his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – but it’s not what you think. I like playing complicated characters.”“Avengers: Doomsday” is set to hit theaters May 2026, according to a press release. Anthony and Joe Russo, who have previously directed four Marvel movies, will direct. (See: One big Marvel actor’s clever return to the MCU in “Deadpool & Wolverine.) “Avengers: Doomsday” will replace the previously announced “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” in the MCU release calendar.

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☆ Robert Downey Jr. Set to Return to Marvel as Dr. Doom
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Johnny Diaz | More About Johnny Diaz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Robert Downey Jr. is going from superhero to supervillain. The actor, who entertained audiences as Iron Man for more than a decade in several Hollywood blockbusters, is returning to the Marvel cinematic universe as the villain Victor von Doom in two upcoming movies. “New mask, same task,” Downey announced at a Comic-Con event in San Diego on Saturday, after he unveiled the character’s signature silver mask and green cloak to the roar of a cheering crowd. “I like playing complicated characters.”Downey is set to appear as the character, simply known as Dr. Doom, in “Avengers: Doomsday,” which is expected to be released in May 2026, and “Avengers: Secret Wars” a year later. Downey, 59, has been a prolific actor since the 1980s, portraying characters both serious and comedic.

Persons: Robert Downey Jr, Victor von Doom, ” Downey, ”, “, Doom, Downey Organizations: Marvel, Saturday Locations: San Diego

☆ 'Deadpool and Wolverine' snares $205 million domestic opening, highest R-rated debut ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Deadpool & Wolverine" shattered box office records this weekend, tallying $205 million in domestic ticket sales during its opening, the highest debut of 2024 and of an R-rated film ever. The film outpaced analysts' expectations, which called for an opening haul between $160 million and $180 million. The previous two Deadpool films, both rated R, were produced and released through 20th Century Fox. Similar to previous entries in the MCU, "Deadpool & Wolverine" benefitted from fan fervor. The strong opening of "Deadpool & Wolverine" comes after a post-pandemic box office slump for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Persons: Marvel, resiliency, Paul Dergarabedian, Audiences, Shawn Robbins, Sam Wilson, Thanos, Doctor Doom, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr, Robbins Organizations: Comscore, Disney, Motion, Association, Century Fox, Marvel, San Diego Comic Con, Iron

☆ How ‘cat lady’ became an insult for women of a certain age
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —The stereotypical “cat lady” is one of pop culture’s most bizarre characters — and easiest punching bags. And though Vance’s description of “cat lady” didn’t include “crazy,” madness has been associated with “cat ladies” for over a century. “There is something about the independence of cats, something I like about them, which can be linked with a suspicion of independent women,” said Alice Madicott, whose book “Cat Women” prods the “crazy cat lady” stereotype. Many women proudly reclaim ‘cat lady’So-called cat ladies have been reclaiming the term for more than a century. And since Vance’s comments resurfaced this week, “childless cat lady” is now appearing on new merchandise including bumper stickers and yard signs.

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☆ In JD Vance Country, an Addiction Scourge That Won’t Go Away
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Robert Draper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Sitting in a KFC restaurant in the former coal-mining town of Pomeroy, Ohio, a few hours before JD Vance addressed the Republican National Convention, Curtis Ramsey, 18, recalled the first time he heard the Ohio senator’s name. It was last month, he said, in the Washington office of another Ohio Republican, Representative Jim Jordan. Mr. Ramsey, who had never been to a big city or flown on an airplane before, was in the capital with two filmmakers seeking to draw attention to a new documentary, “Inheritance.” The film features Mr. Ramsey and examines the plight of drug-ravaged Appalachian communities like his own. When the filmmakers, Matt Moyer and his wife, Amy Toensing, explained to Mr. Jordan what their documentary was about, the congressman broke into a smile. “Sounds like the story of the next vice president of the United States!” Mr. Jordan said.

Persons: Vance, Curtis Ramsey, Jim Jordan, Mr, Ramsey, Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing, Jordan Organizations: KFC, Republican National Convention, Republican Locations: Pomeroy , Ohio, Ohio, Washington, United States

☆ Lewis H. Lapham, Longtime Editor of Harper’s, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lewis H. Lapham, the scholarly patrician who edited Harper’s Magazine for nearly three decades, and who in columns, books and later his own magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, attacked what he regarded as the inequities and hypocrisies of American life, died on Tuesday in Rome. His death was announced by his children. A longtime resident of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, he had been living in Rome with his wife and other family members since January. After a decade as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer, Mr. Lapham was the managing editor of Harper’s from 1971 to 1975 and the editor in chief from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. He offered a blend of high culture and populism: the fiction of John Updike and George Saunders mixed with reports on abortion fights, global warming and the age of terrorism — generally, but not always, with a progressive eye.

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☆ Marvel boss Kevin Feige says 'Deadpool & Wolverine' proves it's possible to bring back former stars Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. Here's what the actors have said.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Feige told DiscussingFilm on Tuesday that if they brought back Downey Jr. and Evans, they would have to handle the move carefully. And we've been spending, you know, the last two-plus years figuring that out for Wolverine," Feige said. AdvertisementIf pulled off correctly, the return could be a great move for Marvel, Downey Jr., and Evans. A cameo from Downey Jr. or Evans could help bring back audiences to the cinemas. But after winning his first Oscar for "Oppenheimer," Downey Jr. seems more open to reprising the role.

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☆ Harry Connick Jr. says he and his wife of 30 years have 'no rules' in their marriage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThree-time Grammy Award-winning musician Harry Connick Jr. says he and his wife don't live by any rules in their marriage. "We trust each other, we love each other, we communicate," Connick Jr. told People. Advertisement"Certain things that work for us may not work for other people, but we're not too big on rules," Connick Jr. said. Related storiesOther celebrities, in addition to Connick Jr., have spoken about how they keep their relationships strong. A representative for Connick Jr. did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Simone Biles is back at the Olympics, and no one is telling her what to do anymore
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Dana O'Neil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

It began in Tokyo when Simone Biles said she couldn’t go on and no one told her she’d better go anyway. We were all beaten down and battered,” Strug’s teammate Dominique Dawes says in “Simone Biles Rising,” a Netflix documentary. Simone Biles talks with coach Cécile Canqueteau-Landi after the vault that led her to withdraw from the team all-around at the Tokyo Olympics. Are they really letting Simone Biles try out for the Olympics? GO DEEPER Team USA's Olympics gymnastics leotards revealed: A look at the eight designs for Paris(Top illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photo of Simone Biles: Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

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☆ 11 things you probably didn't know about 'Twisters' actor Glen Powell
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Denzel Washington persuaded Powell to pursue acting full-time. Denzel Washington has been a major movie star for decades. But Powell started to pursue acting as a career after he was cast in Denzel Washington's 2007 movie "The Great Debaters." Washington and his agent Ed Limato thought Powell could be a great actor and persuaded him to move to LA. Powell told THR that he was dropped by Limato's agency and struggled to find roles after he died in 2010.

Persons: Denzel Washington, Powell, Sean Gallup, Denzel Washington's, Washington, Ed Limato, Limato, Robert Downey Jr, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Sylvester Stallone, Denzel, Ed, Ringer, Richard Gere Organizations: Getty, Denzel, Haute Living Locations: LA

☆ Bye-bye bitcoin, hello AI: Texas miners leave crypto for next new wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

watch nowThere are a lot of synergies between the bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure businesses. watch nowBeefing up the gridFor years, Crusoe's work has been virtually synonymous with the bitcoin mining industry. But Crusoe's Lochmiller told CNBC that AI infrastructure has actually been part of the vision since the company's founding six years ago. Back in 2018, Fenn says that the only load that was a good fit for this was bitcoin mining. "That has all changed now, with AI data centers optimized for massive scale energy availability, cost, and greenness.

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☆ ‘Twisters’ chose not to mention climate change. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

CNN —Like its titular tornados, “Twisters” blasts through a lot in its 122-minute runtime. Generally, scientists are the least certain about the connection between tornadoes and climate change as it’s unclear how warming temperatures are changing storms themselves or the outbreaks. Cathy, a local farmer, gripes that storms and floods are becoming more frequent, and the price of wheat more expensive, while stopping short of citing climate change. However, for a film populated by scientists and clued-in citizens to not mention climate change is a little like the twisters themselves: there’s a hole at the center. !”“Making a ‘Twisters’ movie in Tornado Alley during storm season, tornado season, it’s kind of perfect.

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On Saturday, hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump with an AR-15-style assault rifle, President Biden sounded a familiar refrain: The United States, he assured the public, settles its differences peacefully; political violence is un-American and abhorrent. “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard-of.”Americans transfer power peacefully from one party to another most of the time, and most elections are fair and free from the taint of bloodshed. But the attack on Mr. Trump is one on a list of fairly common attempts on presidents’ lives — acts endemic to the political culture and part of an alternative tradition of political violence. This tradition contradicts a kind of mythic faith, held widely by Americans, in a political system that shuns the bullet and embraces the ballot. Presidents and former presidents are members of one of the most intimate clubs on earth, and they have almost always described political violence, especially attacks on one of their own, as unnatural exceptions to an otherwise peaceful polity.

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☆ Will ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ give us the new ‘Barbenheimer’? This weekend will be the judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

As for a name for this latest prospective double feature, perhaps presciently, “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal thought “Glicked” (pronounced glick-id) was the most suitable portmanteau back in July. The critical and commercial track records for the directors behind “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” are less consistent, Nunan said, which could make a difference in the cultural and box-office impact they have. Universal PicturesDirectors aside, as with “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” before them, “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” both have star power in spades. It's a battle of the internet boyfriends in "Gladiator II." Some magic just can’t be replicated, though “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” do seem poised to drum up the same must-see prestige as the films that dominated the summer of 2023.

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☆ James M. Inhofe, Senator Who Denied Climate Change, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

James M. Inhofe, a five-term Republican senator from Oklahoma and, until President Donald J. Trump’s arrival in 2017, arguably Washington’s most prominent denier of the established science of human-generated climate change, died on Tuesday in Tulsa, Okla. His death, in a hospital, was announced in a statement by his family, which said the cause was a stroke. After a decade in Oklahoma’s Legislature (1967-77), during which he lost races for governor and a seat in Congress, Mr. Inhofe became a three-term mayor of Tulsa (1978-84), before serving seven years in the House of Representatives (1987-94) and winning his Senate seat in a special election. After two years as a replacement, he was re-elected four times, in 1996, 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2020. He decided to step down two years into his fifth full term and retired in early January 2023.

Persons: James M, Donald J, Inhofe, hoff, Trump Organizations: Oklahoma’s Locations: Oklahoma, Tulsa, Okla

☆ It suddenly looks like there are too many homes for sale. Here's why that's not quite right
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The housing market is just beginning to come out of its leanest few years in history. Inventory of both new and existing homes is finally rising, but there is something suddenly strange in the numbers: The supply of newly built homes appears to be way too high. The supply scenarioThere is currently a 4.4-month supply of both new and existing homes for sale, according to the National Association of Home Builders, or NAHB. In fact, there is now a nine-month supply of newly built homes for sale, nearly three times that of existing homes. The foundation of today's tricky numbersThis housing market is unlike any other because of economic forces unlike any other.

Persons: Jordan Vonderhaar, Robert Dietz, Homebuilders, Brandon Bell Organizations: National Association of Home Builders, Bloomberg, Getty, Housing, Federal Reserve, Builders Locations: San Marcos , Texas, Austin , Texas

☆ A Republican Platform That Could Read Like a Trump Rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Robert Draper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Steve Nagel, a chiropractor and talk radio host based in North Dakota, has frequently claimed that vaccines of all types lead to worse health outcomes for children. Demi Kouzounas oversaw a party platform as the chairwoman of the Maine state Republican committee that defined the teaching of nonbinary genders in public schools as “child sexual abuse.”David Barton, an amateur Texas historian, has long called the separation between church and state a “myth.”All three are among the 112 delegates serving on the Republican Party’s national platform committee, which will assemble in Milwaukee on Monday to spend the next two days writing the first G.O.P. platform since 2016.

Persons: Steve Nagel, Demi Kouzounas, ” David Barton Organizations: Republican, Republican Party’s Locations: North Dakota, Maine, Texas, Milwaukee

☆ Live Updates: Beryl Expected to Hit Texas as a Hurricane
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Isabelle Taft | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Beryl was forecast to bring winds of up to 110 miles per hour to parts of southeast Texas by early Monday. Texans are unusually familiar with power outages: The state had more weather-related power outages from 2000 to 2021 than any other, according to the advocacy organization Climate Central. In 2008, Hurricane Ike left two million customers across eastern Texas without power for three days after the storm. Hurricane Rita, in 2005, also caused widespread power outages lasting as long as seven days in some Texas counties. Texas officials, electricity companies and individuals were all thinking about the grid as Beryl churned through the Gulf of Mexico.

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☆ Opinion: The problem with de-aging our megastars
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Thanks to de-aging technology, De Niro portrayed Sheeran throughout his life, the lines on his face digitally smoothed. There are a few ways to make actors appear younger on screen using technology, each with advantages and disadvantages. In 2019’s “Gemini Man," the younger version of Will Smith’s character Henry Brogan has a fully CGI head. There’s an excruciating bit in “The Irishman” when a supposedly young Sheeran kicks another character out of his shop. This, really, is why de-aging megastars always feels a bit icky.

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☆ Risk premium likely mispriced when it comes to global debt, portfolio manager says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRisk premium likely mispriced when it comes to global debt, portfolio manager saysRobert Dishner, senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, discusses the outlook for the global deficit and the potential market reaction.

Persons: Robert Dishner, Neuberger Berman

☆ Why the Price of Wood and Lumber Keeps Changing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

And then there was lumber mania, when lumber prices soared to records. After peaking in spring 2021, lumber prices briefly collapsed before jumping back up to $1,400 in early 2022. Paul Jannke, a principal at Forest Economic Advisors, said this housing-market malaise is a big problem for the lumber industry. While those in the lumber industry may not be having a fantastic time, if you're in the market for lumber, it's a good time to buy. Jannke said that while the lower lumber prices hadn't resulted in lower housing costs, "homebuilder margins are at or near record levels."

Persons: Stinson Dean, Deacon Lumber, they've, Dustin Jalbert, RISI, Jalbert, they're, Paul Jannke, Jannke, It's, Dean, Robert Dietz, They've, Dietz, They're, Emily Stewart Organizations: Federal, Forest Economic Advisors, Housing, National Association of Home Builders, Business Locations: British Columbia, China, Canada

☆ Jailhouse Correspondence Gives Bernie Madoff the ‘Final Word’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

MADOFF: The Final Word, by Richard BeharWe don’t yet have “Madoff: The Musical,” but years after his 2021 death from kidney disease in a federal prison hospital, Bernie the Ponzi-scheming potentate keeps yielding cultural dividends. As its own author, Richard Behar, admits: doubtful. Along with many, many secondary interviews, he visited Madoff in prison thrice; talked to him on the phone about 50 times; and received from him dozens of handwritten letters and hundreds of emails. For every dollar he stole, Madoff seems to have generated at least one piece of regular paper. orgy: burlap bags of the scraps taken to a nearby recycling plant, his secrets “dissolving to mulch.”

Persons: MADOFF, Richard Behar, Madoff, Bernie, potentate, Robert De Niro, Behar, “ Organizations: Lincoln Center, Netflix, New York Times, of Scientology, U.S . Library of Congress Locations: Brooklyn

☆ How the US Navy tried — and failed — to sink carrier USS America for weeks
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The penultimate conventionally-powered aircraft carrierUSS America, seen transiting the Indian Ocean, featured an angled deck that allowed it to simultaneously land aircraft while launching others from catapults off its bow. PH2 Robert D. Bungle/National Archives CatalogUSS America was initially ordered as one of the six nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the Enterprise class. It was the second to last conventionally powered carrier, followed by USS John F. Kennedy before the Navy began building its nuclear-powered carrier fleet. The America was one of three Kitty Hawk-class carriers, including the lead ship and USS Constellation. The America was first designated as an attack aircraft carrier and reclassified to an aircraft carrier in 1975 following a major overhaul the previous year.

Persons: Robert D, USS John F, Kennedy, Kitty Hawk Organizations: America, Enterprise, Navy, USS, USS Constellation, Newport News Shipbuilding, Norfolk Naval Shipyard Locations: America, Virginia

☆ A Hawaii judge ordered the demolition of a house after a California woman bought a vacant plot, only to discover the building on her land
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Grace Dean | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Related storiesReynolds had also asked for the court to order Keaau Development and PJ's Construction to restore the plot of land to its original state. To build the house, PJ's Construction had bulldozed the lot, which "removed all of the previously standing native vegetation," Kim wrote. AdvertisementAs well as building the house, PJ's Construction also installed a septic tank and a catchment water system. The companies had "seriously disturbed the peaceable use, enjoyment, and possession of real property," Kim wrote. AdvertisementBusiness Insider was not immediately able to contact lawyers for PJ's Construction, and did not immediately receive a response from Keaau's attorney.

Persons: —, Anne, Reynolds, Patrick John Lawrence , Jr, Robert D, Kim, Anne Reynolds, James D, DiPasquale Organizations: Service, Business, Keaau, BI, PJ's Locations: Hawaii, California, Paradise

☆ Opinion: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ has a cultish take on toxic work culture
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In his new film, “Kinds of Kindness,” though, Yorgos Lanthimos goes further. Jesse Plemons is Robert in Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, “Kinds of Kindness." Workplace harassment is a pervasive problem in a huge range of professions, from farm work to domestic labor to Hollywood itself. Remote work saves companies money by reducing rent and relocation costs, and because workers who work from home are more satisfied with fewer pay raises. People in “Kinds of Kindness” are pushed to mistake domination for kindness.

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