Category: NEWS
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Revisit SNL Season 49’s Most-Watched Live Sketches
[ad_1] After nearly half a century on the air, Saturday Night Live is still making headlines with its hilarious sketches. And in a new video shared by the show following the May 18 finale, SNL has compiled the top five most-watched live sketches from Season 49 in 2023-2024. Sketches starring Hosts Shane Gillis, Sydney Sweeney, and…
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MBARI’s Underwater Robots Find New Squid Species with Giant Eggs
[ad_1] In the mid-’90s, NBC’s seaQuest DSV (now streaming on Peacock) took viewers into the deep in an experimental research submarine. Set in the near future (though, that near future was 2018 when the show first aired), a planet rocked by climate disasters and resource shortages sends humanity underwater. The seaQuest deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) operates under the…
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Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The Most Nic Cage Movie Ever
[ad_1] What do Nicolas Cage and the late, great Prince have in common? Aside from singular personalities that couldn’t be duplicated in a million years, their careers each show serious signs of — how do we put this? — no-filter-itis. Immensely gifted artists with even more immense bodies of work, they’re the kind of prolific…
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Are Boeing Starliner Astronauts “Stranded” at the ISS?
[ad_1] Apollo 13 was meant to be NASA’s third lunar landing mission, but space had other plans. Two days after leaving the safety of our planet, an oxygen tank ruptured, disabling electrical and life support systems. What was supposed to be a hat trick of successful lunar landings became a days-long race against time to…
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John Carpenter to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
[ad_1] Forty-two years after The Thing unjustly flopped in theaters and threw a major wrench into his directing career, John Carpenter is getting the recognition he so richly deserves. The 76-year-old filmmaker — whose legendary resume also includes Halloween, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and In the…
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Despicable Me 4 Gru Jr. Clip Sees Him Causing Mischief
[ad_1] This summer, the latest chapter in the saga of Gru arrives when Illumination and Universal release Despicable Me 4, the sixth installment in the larger franchise and the first new sequel in the original Despicable Me story since 2017. That means that, for the first time in seven years, we’ll get to revisit the story of a…
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Land of the Lost Star Spencer Milligan Dead at 86
[ad_1] Spencer James Milligan, the actor who famously played inter-dimensional patriarch Rick Marshall in NBC‘s Land of the Lost television show between 1974 and 1976, has died at the age of 86. According to an obituary posted by the Wisconsin-based Huehns Funeral Home & Crematory (the memorial was reported by Deadline earlier this week), Milligan passed away on April…
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Did 2012 Help Change the Way We Pronounce Years?
[ad_1] The epic disaster movie 2012 (streaming now on Peacock) was about the end of the world, but the movie might have also helped save us from a terrible fate in real life. Were it not for Roland Emmerich (whose new gladiator series, Those About to Die, is coming to Peacock next month), we could be…
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission to Bring Martian Air to Earth
[ad_1] If we lived in the fictional town of Patience, Colorado, we could learn all about alien worlds by talking with Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk), the titular Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock). In the real world, if we want to learn about alien worlds, we have to go there ourselves, or at least send our…
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Back to the Future Fan Theory: Did Marty Invent Pop Music?
[ad_1] A highly diligent Back to the Future fan has taken one of the film’s most iconic gags to the next level. In a lengthy series of posts on Threads, user @podwore makes a rather persuasive case for the argument that young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) was directly responsible for the rise of modern pop…