"Rick and Morty" creator Justin Roiland used his fame to develop relationships with young fans, according to extensive evidence that 11 woman and nonbinary people shared with NBC News. One woman says that Roiland sexually assaulted her. Here's the full story, by tech and culture reporter Kat Tenbarge.
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#Entertainment #RickAndMorty #JustinRoiland
Marvel's VFX artists have voted unanimously to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). "When I started my first job at Marvel, I felt like I couldn't complain about the unpaid overtime, the lack of meal breaks, and the incredible pressure put on VFX teams to meet deadlines because I was just supposed to be grateful to be here at all," said Sarah Kazuko Chow, VFX coordinator. CNBC has more.
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Some women today — particularly high-income, highly educated ones — are using alcohol as a stress reliever. "Gradually, booze has become the 21st-century 'mother’s little helper,'" says Olga Khazan for The Atlantic. She talked to experts, and looked at the history of sedatives that are "meant to resign women to their fate."
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#Alcohol #Women #WomensHealth #History #Lifestyle
Ash Ketchum was a central figure of the Pokémon anime for 25 years until he became a World Champion and was put out to pasture. Polygon took a look at how the franchise is set to thrive without him.
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#Television #Animation #Pokémon #TuneIn
Many of Lahaina's cultural riches were destroyed in the devastating wildfires last month. The Washington Post spoke to community members including Lucas Smith Sequeira, a 15-year-old who has had to relocate to Oregon, but is determined to maintain the legacy of his late grandfather, a master carver and canoe builder. “Hopefully, the school I go to has woodworking,” Lucas said. Story may be paywalled.
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#Lahaina #Culture #Wildfires #Hawaii
Danny Masterson's former co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis wrote support letters for him prior to his rape sentencing, as did Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith, who played Kitty and Red Forman on "That '70s Show," and actor Giovanni Ribisi. Legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff has more on her Substack.
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#DannyMasterson #Entertainment #TV #Hollywood
Today is the 57th anniversary of the broadcast of "The Man Trap," the first regular episode of "Star Trek." In this archival @c11fa870 story, Professor Stephen Benedict Dyson looked at the show's troubled journey to the screen, including a botched pitch by Gene Roddenberry, a rejected pilot, script problems and high production costs.
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#Television #History #Culture #StarTrek
It looks like Nintendo's Switch 2 may finally be on its way. Multiple video game publications are reporting that the console is being demoed to select third-party developers, with a rumored late 2024 launch. The original Switch came out in 2017 and continues to sell millions of units a year. @872ab8e1 has the details.
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#Gaming #VideoGames #Switch2
"The Tonight Show" has been a toxic workplace for years because of Jimmy Fallon's erratic behavior and an ever-changing leadership team that don't know how to say no to the host, @8084e121 reports. Krystie Lee Yandoli spoke to 16 current and former staffers about life behind the scenes.
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#Television #JimmyFallon #TonightShow
Fallon and showrunner Chris Miller apologized to staffers over Zoom after the story broke. "It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad. Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends,” Fallon said. “I feel so bad I can’t even tell you.”
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“That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women 20 years ago: AP reports: https://flip.it/7G73_J
#Entertainment #TV #Hollywood #DannyMasterson
New albums don’t get much bigger than this. Next month, The Rolling Stones will release “Hackney Diamonds,” the band’s first album of original songs since 2005. Pitchford provides an early look, including which stars joined the band in recording and the meaning behind the album title: https://flip.it/4mNsAB
#Culture #Music #Entertainment #TheRollingStones #ClassicRock
In Ikaria, one of Greece’s many islands, it’s common for people to remain active well into their 90s, making the region a Blue Zone, areas of the world where people regularly live longer than average. Insider explains how Ikarians naturally weave health into their daily lives: https://flip.it/0z76rW
#Culture #Greece #Lifestyle #Health #BlueZone
@61fe51d1 King also referenced Mambo No. 5 in an Entertainment Weekly story in 2009. "I want to share that my wife once informed me that she would disembowel me with her sharpest Ginsu knife if I played the extended version one more time. I waited until she was running errands, then played it…not once but several times."
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In order to legally comply with new state legislation, a school district in Iowa is using ChatGPT to decide which titles should be removed from school libraries. The AI was used for textual analysis, and flagged books include "The Color Purple," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Friday Night Lights." All of these have been taken out of Mason City's 7-12th grade collections and stored as educators “await further guidance or clarity.”
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#Books #Bookstodon #Libraries #AI
@d0154568 "While the deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to 'give away' to 20th Century Fox studios the life rights to his story 'without any payment whatsoever.' The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him."
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