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‘Home-bound’ Gene Hackman’s health was ‘slipping’ in recent months, wife Betsy Arakawa was ‘so fit’: friends
Gene Hackman’s health was declining before he and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead, according to the late couple’s close friends. Daniel Lenihan and Barbara Lenihan, who said they were friends with the Hollywood star and classical pianist for more than 30 years, told People Saturday that they described Hackman as “home-bound.” They further alleged…
Read MoreSchool bus personnel training for emergency situations
HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — School bus personnel and first responders from all around Texas gathered at Hays CISD Transportation Training Facility for a school bus safety training on Saturday. The training event, called Operation STEER (Student Transportation Emergency Education and Response) consisted of a smoke-filled bus simulation, fire extinguisher training, first aid, railroad crossing…
Read MoreAlix Earle Breaks Silence on Her Podcast Getting Dropped by Alex Cooper’s Company – E! Online
Earle included an update on her relationship with Braxton Berrios, nothing that she opted not to join him for a trip to the Bahamas to celebrate one of his friends’ birthdays. “I declined,” she said, “just because I feel like I really need to rest and take care of myself. I was feeling sick this…
Read MoreWhat Movie Should I Watch Tonight? ‘The Brutalist,’ an Oscar Contender That’s Worth the Big Runtime
Every year, there’s at least one big Oscar-nominated movie that takes on the patina of homework: the long, anguished slog that only movie critics could love and therefore bully the Academy into recognizing. (Would that critics had this kind of influence over the Academy, but it does offer an explanation, however unlikely, of how the…
Read MoreAustin Parks Foundation hosts citywide park cleanup event
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Saturday, Austin Parks Foundation held its biannual “It’s My Park Day” volunteer event at dozens of parks, trails and greenbelts across the city. Projects included litter cleanup, nature play mulching, invasive species removal and trail maintenance. (KXAN photo/Christian Rodriguez-Panesso) (KXAN photo/Christian Rodriguez-Panesso) (KXAN photo/Christian Rodriguez-Panesso) (KXAN photo/Christian Rodriguez-Panesso) (KXAN photo/Christian Rodriguez-Panesso)…
Read MoreLakers owner Jeanie Buss feared a Luka Doncic trade leak ‘would blow up the team’
Lakers owner Jeanie Buss is proud of how tight-lipped her team remained in the days prior to the official announcing of franchise’s trade for Luka Doncic from the Mavericks, simply for the sake of the team’s development. The three-team blockbuster trade that saw the Lakers also receive Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris in exchange for…
Read MoreExclusive | Keep corrupt, dishonest Andrew Cuomo from office, warns FDNY battalion chief whose parents died during pandemic
FDNY Battalion Chief Sean Newman’s parents Michael and Dolores Newman died in 2020 after then Gov. Cuomo’s executive order allowed hospitals to send COVID-19-infected seniors to long-term care facilities — which were compelled to accept them. Newman and his wife Janice Dean, senior meteorologist at Fox News Channel who have said their family was a…
Read MoreA Guide to Oscar Nominee Demi Moore and Ex-Husband Bruce Willis’ Big Blended Family – E! Online
Bruce didn’t think another great love was in the cards for him after he and Demi divorced, until he met Malta-born model Emma Heming at the gym of the trainer they happened to share in 2007. “I spent the last 10 years single and, for the most part, unhappy,” the Die Hard star told W in 2009. “In…
Read MoreCops hunting for thief who stole $10,000 Rolex from NYC luxury watch retailer
A thief ambushed a Diamond District worker outside his luxury watch store, and made off with a $10,000 Rolex, cops said Saturday. The unidentified man shoved the Rare Time NY employee to the pavement outside the shop on 5th Avenue shop near West 48th Street on Tuesday at around 5 p.m. and snatched a grey…
Read MoreDoes Abby Lee Miller Regret Pitting the Dance Moms Cast Against Each Other? She Says… – E! Online
Consider Asia officially raised. Though the California native stepped away from TV cameras just before her 10th birthday—following one season each on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, Dance Moms and her own standalone series Raising Asia—”I genuinely had a great experience on it,” Asia insisted to E! News in 2021, acknowledging that wasn’t necessarily the case…
Read MoreExclusive | ‘Small dose of justice’ Joy Reid went on antisemitic ‘rant,’ former production assistant claims
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid went “on a vile antisemitic rant,” in which she blamed Orthodox Jews for the spread of COVID-19 in New York City, a former production assistant at the network claims. In the summer of 2020, the lefty former “TheReidOut” host allegedly ripped Orthodox Jews, saying they “only care about themselves” and…
Read MoreHow Georgina Chapman Found Love Again With Adrien Brody After Harvey Weinstein Divorce – E! Online
For him, the hardest part to see “was that she quite rightly took the stance of not going out there and defending herself, because there was just too much white noise and too much bile headed in her general direction. She felt, How dare I raise my head and say, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m…
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