Posts by Nathan Pine
Google Won’t Have To Break Up Its Advertising Business, Federal Judge Rules
Google will not have to break up its advertising operations, a federal judge has ruled, though it will have to alter its business practices. Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, handed down her decision Wednesday. The ruling, which remains under seal, comes after Brinkema concluded last year that the…
Read MoreEmmy Rossum & ‘Furious’ Creator On Depicting Trafficking Survivors, Season 2
As Furious viewers get closure on one character’s search for justice, series creator Liz Meriwether and star Emmy Rossum have some ideas for Season 2. Inspired by the 1987 thriller Black Widow, Rossum told Deadline about a “great scuba sequence” from the film that she wanted to recreate when her character FBI Agent Alice Black…
Read MoreBroadway’s ‘Galileo’ Adds Javier Muñoz, Michael Park
Broadway‘s upcoming Galileo musical starring Raúl Esparza also will feature Bradley Dean (Chess), Jordon Lee Garcia (Broadway debut) and Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In the Heights), producers announced today. Also joining the cast is Michael Park (Stranger Things, As the World Turns), who will alternate with Esparza in the title role at certain performances. The new…
Read More‘Entourage’s Doug Ellin Denies Debi Mazar’s “Disgusting” Weight Claim
Doug Ellin, the creator and writer of Entourage, has said that he does not recognize Debi Mazar‘s claim about being fat-shamed on the HBO series’ “toxic” set. In an interview with The Times of London, Mazar alleged that Entourage producers did not approve of her body after she gave birth to her second child in…
Read MoreGood Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved
In fact, it was an example of the scenario I feared. Early last year, some Democratic activists, furious about 2024, were arguing that any Democratic officeholder over age 70 should be replaced by someone younger. They’re wrong. What Democrats really need is not necessarily younger members, but ones who fight hard, both for progressive policies…
Read MoreReining in Big Tech: How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media
SACRAMENTO — Long the epicenter of the global tech industry, California is taking more action to shield its children, communities and workers from the threats posed by the very industry that’s become central to the state’s identity and enviable economy. State lawmakers on Monday passed new safeguards around social media, artificial intelligence and data centers at a…
Read MoreAndy Cohen Calls Out Paul W. Downs Over ‘Hacks’ Joke
Now that Hacks has concluded its five-season run, Andy Cohen had a bone to pick with showrunner and star Paul W. Downs on live TV. During Tuesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, the talk show host called out Downs over a joke at his expense, which Jean Smart‘s Deborah Vance told in the recent…
Read MoreNeal Huff, Gaby Hoffmann Join Paramount+’s ‘The Best Of Us’
EXCLUSIVE: Neal Huff (Fallout, A Murder at the End of the World), Gaby Hoffmann (Transparent, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere), and Sky Yang (Last Days, Rebel Moon) will star in The Best of Us, the upcoming Paramount+ limited series from writers Tobias Lindholm and Frank Pugliese. The series was previously known as 9/12. The Best…
Read MoreAfter Cruise V Pitt Deepfake, Seedance 2.5 Blocks Hollywood Rip-Offs
EXCLUSIVE: ByteDance‘s new AI video generator Seedance 2.5 is successfully blocking efforts to steal Hollywood intellectual property after Seedance 2.0 prompted outrage among U.S. studios, research has revealed. The Chinese owner of TikTok appears to have made good on its promise to improve safeguards after Seedance 2.0 produced a flurry of videos that regurgitated copyrighted…
Read MoreGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
The fight over a proposal to tax the assets of California billionaires to fund healthcare is getting more expensive. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million this year into Building a Better California, a group that’s funding two ballot measures that could block a billionaire tax, data from the California Secretary of State show.…
Read MorePaul W. Downs Says He “Would Love” To Make A ‘Hacks’ Spinoff Around Kayla & Jimmy
Paul W. Downs was one of the co-creators of Hacks and has revealed that he “would love” to do a spinoff based on his character, Jimmy LaSaque Jr., and Meg Stalter‘s Kayla Schaefer. While visiting Andy Cohen’s clubhouse on Watch What Happens Live, Downs was asked if there were any storylines he had to fight…
Read MoreReport: Trump’s D.C. Military Occupation Isn’t Accomplishing Anything
“If you want to argue that there was an additional decline on top of that due to all these interventions, you could plausibly make that argument,” said crime data analyst Jeff Asher told the Post, noting that violent crime rates have been dropping virtually everywhere for the past three years. “But you can’t make the…
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