Actress Natalie Portman is leading a mostly female celebrity-backed group of investors that is bringing a women’s soccer team to Los Angeles, her new team announced Tuesday. The squad will enter the National Women’s Soccer League in spring 2022. Among the others backing the team are tennis superstar Serena Williams, …
Read More »Harold Reid, Statler Brothers bass singer, has died at 80
Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group the Statler Brothers, has died after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80. Reid died Friday in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia, his nephew Debo Reid said. The Statler Brothers frequently sang backup for country icon Johnny Cash. …
Read More »Myles Garrett reinstated by NFL, ending indefinite suspension
Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has been reinstated from his indefinite suspension, the National Football League announced Wednesday. Garrett was suspended for his role in a brawl between the Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers last season. Garrett had to sit out the final six games of the 2019 season …
Read More »Star Wars: UNC Charlotte shooting hero Riley Howell honored with new Star Wars character
A man who was killed in April while helping to stop a shooter at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte was honored by Lucasfilm with a Star Wars character named after him. Ri-Lee Howell, named for the late Riley Howell, is a Jedi Master and historian of the Jedi Order, according …
Read More »Douglas Rain, voice of HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” dead at 90
Douglas Rain, a Canadian actor best known for voicing the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s classic film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died on Sunday. He was 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, where Rain was a founding member, announced that he died of natural causes in Stratford. “Canadian theatre …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks after heart surgery: “I’m back!”
LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first public comments since undergoing heart surgery to replace a valve last week. “It’s true: I’m back!” the 70-year-old former governor tweeted on Monday. “I went to sleep expecting to wake up with a small incision and woke up with a big one …
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