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Mary Ann Gone

from Deadline Dawn Wells Dies Of Covid-19: Mary Ann On ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Was 82 By Erik Pedersen Dawn Wells, best known for playing the girl-next-door castaway Mary Ann on the iconic CBS comedy series Gilligan’s Island, died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles of complications due to Covid-19. She was 82. Wells, who was Miss Nevada in the […]

Homogenized by COVID

from Vox The year reality collapsed into pixels What I learned from spending 2020 working, learning, and entertaining on the same screen. By Alissa Wilkinson By the time the friendly robot Wall-E makes it to outer space in the Pixar movie that bears his name, the audience is ready to meet the humans. Years earlier, when […]

Pierre Cardin Gone

from BBC Pierre Cardin: French fashion giant dies aged 98 Legendary designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic and stylish designs helped revolutionise fashion in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 98. The French fashion giant, whose career spanned more than 70 years, helped usher in the post-war “golden age” of couture with […]

Willie

from Slate An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: “I Didn’t Ever Think I’d Get This Old” By JONATHAN L. FISCHER As part of Slate’s project on the 80 most influential Americans over 80, we spoke to some members of the list to reflect on aging, work, and life in their ninth decade and beyond. Willie Nelson, […]

Besottedness

from The Atlantic What Drives Writers to Drink? Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle by JAMES PARKER A portrait of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) sitting in an unidentified bar in the early 1950s. (Weegee / International Center of Photography / Getty) The […]

Speed Buggy Back

from MSN An Oil Scion Is Giving a ’60s-Era Dune Buggy a New Lease on Life by Hannah Elliott (Bloomberg Businessweek) — The centerpiece of Phillip Sarofim’s Los Angeles home is his garage. The immaculate space holds two of the most collectible cars in the world: his Ruf CTR Yellowbird and Lancia Stratos Zero, a […]

VG Rising

from MarketWatch Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic COVID-19 lockdowns expected to help global gaming sales rise 20% to nearly $180 billion in 2020, and experts don’t see growth taking a hit in 2021 after release of next-gen Playstation, Xbox By Wallace Witkowski Videogames have grown […]

Christmas Star Rising

from CNN Watch for the ‘Christmas Star’ as Jupiter and Saturn come closer than they have in centuries By Ashley Strickland The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it’s happening just in time for Christmas — hence the nickname of the “Christmas Star.” While it’s […]

Cave Man Need Pubes On Face

from WIRED Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It? Pubes protect you; head hair keeps you warm. But beards and mustaches seem to exist for mainly ornamental reasons. by JOSH CLARK & CHUCK BRYANT THIS STORY IS adapted from Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things, by Josh Clark and Chuck […]

B.E-E. Cancelled

from The Independent UK Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Being cancelled has endeared me to part of the population’ After his recent collection of essays stirred controversy, the author has written the script for a slasher horror movie. He tells Ed Cumming why today’s social media storms are nothing compared with what he faced for writing American Psycho Until […]