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At 94, June Squibb is a leading lady at last in the Sundance breakout ‘Thelma’
January 22, 2024 - 12:50 PM

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — June Squibb is perhaps the busiest 94-year-old in Hollywood. This year alone she’ll voice a role in “Inside Out 2,” head to New York to star in Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and film a television series that she can’t quite talk about just yet.
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023
December 31, 2023 - 3:31 PM

Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia.
Notable reaction to the death of filmmaker John Singleton
April 30, 2019 - 5:24 AM

NEW YORK - Notable reaction to the death of "Boyz N the Hood" filmmaker John Singleton:
Film Review: 'Superfly' remakes a Blaxploitation classic
June 12, 2018 - 1:49 PM

Director X's "Superfly" transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield's soul score for Future's hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original's politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.
Archaeologists discover 2 ancient tombs in Egypt's Luxor
December 09, 2017 - 9:29 AM

LUXOR, Egypt - Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country's efforts to revive its ailing tourism sector.
Review: Noomi Rapace proves deadly in formulaic 'Unlocked'
August 29, 2017 - 8:43 AM

There's been a lot of talk about who should be the next James Bond after Daniel Craig puts aside his shaken martini. Orlando Bloom? Idris Elba? Damian Lewis? After watching the formulaic spy thriller "Unlocked," might we suggest Noomi Rapace?
Those 2 roads diverging in a yellow wood might be in England
June 14, 2017 - 8:40 AM

DYMOCK, England - The woods were cool, a welcome balm on a hot day. Shafts of sunlight poured through the canopy. Slowly, I walked down a track thick with long-fallen leaves.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

Entertainment News

At 94, June Squibb is a leading lady at last in the Sundance breakout ‘Thelma’

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

Notable reaction to the death of filmmaker John Singleton

Film Review: 'Superfly' remakes a Blaxploitation classic

Archaeologists discover 2 ancient tombs in Egypt's Luxor

Review: Noomi Rapace proves deadly in formulaic 'Unlocked'

Those 2 roads diverging in a yellow wood might be in England

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