Entertainment
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‘Deaf President Now!’ amplifies the birth of a rights movement
May 16, 2025 9:39 am - The events depicted in “Deaf President Now!” — a documentary revisiting the 1988 protest by students at Gallaudet University that led to the selection of the school’s first deaf president in its 124-year history — may seem like an incremental advancement for representation in the deaf community. But it was so much more.
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The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ is a surrealist vanity project
May 16, 2025 9:19 am - In “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the tedium of an incoherent first act paints charismatic performer The Weeknd — one of the last few decades’ most popular — as an unempathetic protagonist in a nonlinear and nonsensical world.
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Singer Chris Brown’s tour in question as UK judge orders him into custody on assault charge
May 16, 2025 8:39 am - Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown’s upcoming tour was thrown into question Friday as a British judge ordered him held in custody while facing allegations that he beat a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
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Bono: ‘The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime’
May 15, 2025 4:34 pm - Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. But that doesn’t mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He’s here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender.”
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Cassie forced to read aloud explicit messages with Sean 'Diddy' Combs at his sex trafficking trial
May 15, 2025 2:58 pm - NEW YORK — R&B singer Cassie was forced under cross-examination Thursday to read aloud explicit messages with her former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, some of which expre...
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Singer Chris Brown arrested in UK for alleged attack at London club in 2023
May 15, 2025 2:54 pm - Singer Chris Brown was arrested Thursday in England for allegedly hitting someone with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
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Alligator that starred in ‘Happy Gilmore’ dies of old age in Colorado
May 15, 2025 6:58 am - An alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore,” has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado.
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Beware the blender! ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ makes the everyday item terrifying
May 15, 2025 5:30 am - A blender. A lawn mower. A ceiling fan. A garden rake. A vending machine. An MRI scanner. These mundane items are supposed to ease us through life. But in “Final Destination Bloodlines,” ordinary objects become fearsome tools of murderous mayhem.
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Dark bromance ‘Friendship’ hysterically explores modern men’s awkward embrace
May 15, 2025 5:30 am - Uncool suburban dad Craig Waterman’s chance meeting with his cool neighbor sparks an unlikely friendship. So begins Andrew DeYoung’s debut feature “Friendship,” which tackles modern masculinity and male loneliness with biting satire and humor, taking detours into horror and the surreal.
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Purrrrrfection: Paramount’s cirque-inspired ‘Cats’ dazzles the eyes and earsMay 14, 2025 4:53 pm - Paramount Theatre’s cirque-inspired revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is a nearly perfect revival of the popular, albeit polarizing, musical.