Entertainment Stories from August 15, 2024 (Change date)
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Lily Collins has found ‘Emily 2.0’ in ParisAug 15, 2024 3:50 pm - The new season of “Emily in Paris” will have many of the same elements as the first three: daring fashion, flirty romance and workplace drama. One thing that has changed? Lead actor Lily Collins’ confidence.
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Katy Perry to be given the Video Vanguard Award at the 2024 MTV VMAsAug 15, 2024 2:21 pm - Katy Perry will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards next month. She will also perform.
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‘Hollywood Squares’ host and Broadway star Peter Marshall dies at 98Aug 15, 2024 2:13 pm - Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.
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Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry lead a middling spy comedy in ‘The Union’Aug 15, 2024 12:53 pm - “The Union,” an action comedy released Friday starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. But it’s lacking a certain charm that could help it be something more than the Netflix movie playing in the background.
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World’s steepest dive coaster planned for Six Flags Great AmericaAug 15, 2024 9:03 am - Six Flags Great America in Gurnee announced plans Thursday to debut a new a dive coaster next year featuring the world’s steepest drop and the most inversions.
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Racing pacing, wince-inducing finale diminish flourishes of cinematic greatness in ‘Alien: Romulus’Aug 15, 2024 8:42 am - An undisciplined, maddening, exhilarating grab-bag of goop, greatness and grateness, Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” should have qualified as the second-best sequel in the nine-feature “Alien” franchise, film critic Dann Gire says.
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Ron Onesti: M&Ms USED to be my favorite candy!Aug 15, 2024 7:00 am - It’s been a whirlwind!!! We have had soooo many shows recently, even more than normal! And coming up in October we have one stretch of 15 shows in 11 straight days! Live music is back … and people are loving it!
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Gena Rowlands, acting powerhouse and star of movies by her director-husband, John Cassavetes, diesAug 15, 2024 6:55 am - Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, has died. She was 94.
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‘Jackpot!’ has a winning star in Awkwafina but never pays offAug 15, 2024 6:27 am - Finally, a movie for everyone who read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and wished it had been a comedy. Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is a farcical twist on an old story that will surely sound familiar to those who enjoyed “The Purge” and its sequels.
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