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Science advisor Amy Mainzer talks asteroids and new Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up”
Asteroid scientist Amy Mainzer found herself in a unique position these past few months: chatting with Leonardo DiCaprio about science and asteroids. Mainzer served as the science advisor for Netflix’s new film “Don’t Look Up,” a comedy-disaster film that is set to release in theaters on Dec. 10 (and on Dec. 24 on Netflix). This movie follows a long legacy of films that feature space rocks threatening Earth, like 2020’s “Greenland,” 2012’s “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” and the famous 1998 duo: “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon.” An official trailer for “Don’t Look Up” from September showed DiCaprio (who plays astronomer Randall Mindy) and Jennifer Lawrence (who…
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Best Songs of 2021 – The New York Times
Jon Pareles | Jon Caramanica | Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles’s Top 25 Many of the best songs of 2021 are on the best albums of 2021, listed here. But of course there are many more: peaks of other albums, onetime collaborations, singles, random streams. Here are 25 memorable songs, arranged partly as a ranking but mostly as a mixtape. 1. Prince, ‘Welcome 2 America’ Recorded in 2010 but shelved until 2021, Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” was all too prescient, contemplating disinformation, consumer distractions, celebrity, desperation and historical legacies: “land of the free, home of the slave.” The bass line skulks, women harmonize, and Prince just speaks, bleak and deadpan. 2.…
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12/7/21 Entertainment News – KTOE
12/7/21 Entertainment News — Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Fallon is branching out into the music industry this holiday season. ‘The Tonight Show Host’ teamed up with pop-star Ariana Grande and rapper Megan Thee Stallion for a holiday single. They released “It Was A Masked Christmas” at midnight. Fallon says he put together the idea for this funny jingle over the course of two months and was so happy when Ariana and Megan agreed to take part. — Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is denying he staged a hate crime against himself in 2019. The 39-year-old appeared in court in Chicago yesterday, alleging he was attacked by two suspects…
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Photographer gives back to the recovery community
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NFT project sells for $91.8m, debatably achieving the highest price ever for a work by a living artist
Thousands of collectors are staring at their digital wallets today, wondering how their investments in The Merge, an NFT (non-fungible token) by the pseudonymous artist (or artist collective) Pak, will mature. Sold from Thursday through Saturday in an open edition on the NFT platform Nifty Gateway, more than 28,000 buyers spent an eye-watering total of $91.8m to acquire 266,445 total units of mass (for those who did not join in on the sale, “mass” is analogous to “digital token” and allows for some interesting wordplay with the terms of the sale). According to Nifty Gateway that could make this sale the most expensive ever for a work by a living…
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Venom 3 Movie Update Offered By Sony Producer
Sony producer, Amy Pascal, offers a status update on Venom 3, revealing that the movie is currently in the “planning stages” of development. Sony producer Amy Pascal recently offered an update on Venom 3. The news comes on the heels of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which debuted in October. In addition to Venom (2018), Pascal is responsible for producing blockbuster hits like Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (2018), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). When Venom: Let There Be Carnage arrived in theaters earlier this year, the highly anticipated sequel became a shocking winner of the pandemic-era box office. As of November 2021, the film has grossed over $400 million worldwide, making it the…
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