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Serendipity strikes for Simon Rex as an adult-film antihero
NEW YORK — Simon Rex, in town for the recent Gotham Awards, where he was nominated for outstanding lead performance in “Red Rocket,” was comparing today’s pandemic-scarred New York with the city he knew in the 1990s as a VJ on MTV. “Times Square was like pimps and sex booths and then it became Disneyland. Now it feels kind of sketchy again and I kind of like it,” Rex says, smiling. “Maybe I shouldn’t say that.” However much New York has changed in the last 25 years, it’s got nothing on the fluctuations of fortune for Rex. The 47-year-old sometimes actor, sometimes rapper, regular social-media prankster and Los Angeles nightlife…
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Warner Music Strikes Deal with Community for Texting Platform
Warner Tunes is partnering with Group, a textual content messaging system for immediate-to-admirer communications. This marks Community’s initially offer with a significant new music company. “Our partnership with Warner New music unlocks extra prospects for artists to push participating conversations at scale with their admirers. Expanded connections with followers finally outcome in increased profits, greater content consumption, deeper artist affinity, and supplemental prospects for Warner Music’s roster and models,” says David Ross, SVP of Development, Partnerships, and Revenue at Local community. Warner Music artists have been early adopters of Group. Ali Gatie often texts with his supporters, sending them particular birthday messages and exchanging selfies. Labelmates Junior Varsity are also…