If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Fans of The Beatles, rejoice: the Fab Four’s long-awaited documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, is finally here and available to stream on Disney+. Here’s everything you need to …
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Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay nearly $31 million to production company Media Rights Capital for breaching his House of Cards contract with behind-the-scenes behavior leading up to his 2017 termination from the Netflix show amid allegations of sexual misconduct. On Monday, MRC filed a petition in Los Angeles …
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The Thanksgiving edition of Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update was jam-packed, with topics ranging from Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal of homicide charges and the climate crisis to a Baby Yoda float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kicking off the segment by taking aim at Joe Biden’s colonoscopy, hosts Colin Jost …
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Nearly two hundred and thirty American dollars. That’s how much former President Trump is charging for a signed copy of his forthcoming picture book, which he is touting as “a must-have for all Patriots.” Leave it to Trump to try to swindle his supporters out of money, and just in …
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Bittersweet, midtempo chords. A softly falling melody. Lyrics that look back on a heartbreak that may never fully heal, examining that loss with a tone of tender regret. The song, of course, is Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well” — unless it’s Don Henley‘s “The Heart of the Matter.” Wait, wait, …
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An associate of R. Kelly was sentenced to 96 months in prison on charges related to the intimidation of a Jane Doe victim-witness to dissuade her from cooperating with the government’s investigation into the singer. Michael Williams, a relative of an unnamed Kelly publicist, was previously charged in August 2020 …
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Back in 2016, as the snappy, swooping “Lake by the Ocean” was blanketing R&B radio, Maxwell was already thinking about the end of a long-gestating album trilogy that started in 2009. He had just released the second part, blackSUMMERS’night, and he was daydreaming aloud about following it quickly with part …
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Writing the biography of the man best known for marrying traditional Irish music with British punk — a sound once described by concertina player Noel Hill of the band Planxty as a “terrible abortion” of Irish music — was never going to be easy. To further complicate the matter, Shane …
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Documents and interview transcripts released by a congressional committee shine additional light on how the Trump administration interfered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, undermining the agency’s efforts to communicate the seriousness of the pandemic to the American people as the virus began to spread throughout the country. …
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