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...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
Contenders for US Senate seat are divided on Israel and also seek to paint themselves as most anti-Trump candidate
...The largest holder of Paramount’s B shares is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which in 2022 disclosed a stake of about 75mn shares at $28 per share — almost twice the share price today....
...B&B Theatres, a cinema chain, is selling a bourbon cocktail tied to Oppenheimer called The Bomb and a Barbie-themed tequila drink called Think Pink, among other offerings....
...foray by French investors into Hollywood in a year after Mediawan, founded by French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, struck a deal in December to buy Brad Pitt’s sought-after production company Plan B...
...“I think that the public sees through the B.S. when a multimillionaire is saying something like that.”...
...the final vote count confirms the voters’ rejection of our project, we will respect the outcome, and will not bring the hotel project back in any form,” said a statement released by the group, the Yes on B&...
...Mirisch, then just 25, was cutting his teeth at Monogram-Allied, a studio that specialised in B-movies that could be shot quickly and on a shoestring budget....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams, Cornerstone Press £25, 416 pages Christopher Grimes is the FT’s Los Angeles bureau chief Join our online book...
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...Christopher Grimes, reviewing it for the FT, described it as “a deeply reported account of one of the trashiest episodes in recent business history”....
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...She brings together electro-experimentalist Grimes and late-1990s soul-popster Dido for the unexpectedly pretty, breakbeat-fuelled “Fly to You”....
...The FT’s Christopher Grimes describes it as “the scandalous story of how Redstone’s late-life obsessions — sex, power and a seeming belief in his own immortality — drove him to the brink of handing control...
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Bulgari rose-gold and antique silver coin Monete ring, £6,850, and rose-gold and ceramic B.Zero1 bracelet, £5,750....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...His first, 2017’s Gang Signs & Prayer, marked the Londoner’s crossover from underground grime MC to mainstream chart act....
...There has been a steady stream of them and the most recent pair — Bach’s B Minor Mass and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius —predictably drew full houses....
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...This year, she’s hopeful things will be better, but she still rolls her eyes at the fact the pop/R&B category contains no R&B artists and that Little Simz has been nominated for Best New Artist, four albums...
...UK vocalist Tiana Major9 sings the title track’s R&B hook. The mix of styles and geographies continues in the lyrics. In romantic slowie “Beautiful”, Kojey quotes Jay-Z....
...Talent and studio executives have been fighting over pay since before Louis B Mayer. But for a disagreement to become so public is rare....
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...“This is not about the [Chappelle] special,” said B Pagels-Minor, a former manager at Netflix who was fired this month for allegedly leaking data about the Chappelle show....
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