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Christopher Nolan Honors Dear Friend Heath Ledger While Accepting Golden Globe for Best

Christopher Nolan was lauded as best director at the Golden Globes for “Oppenheimer,” a grim, three-hour historical drama that ignited the box office. It marks Nolan’s first Globe win, having been previously nominated for writing 2000’s “Memento,” writing and directing 2010’s “Inception” and directing 2017’s “Dunkirk.” In this year’s director race, Nolan was up against Bradley Cooper for “Maestro,” Greta Gerwig for “Barbie,” Yorgos Lanthimos for “Poor Things,” Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Celine Song for “Past Lives.

Deadly Fungal Infections Are Increasing in U.S. Hospitals

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking the rise of a deadly, treatment-resistant fungus that’s causing outbreaks in a growing number of health care facilities across the country. New data compiled by a CDC research team, published Mar. 21 in Annals of Internal Medicine, show that Candida auris infections have increased dramatically in the U.S. in recent years. In 2021, national cases reported by health care facilities increased by 95%, and from 2019 to 2021, 17 states reported their first case.

Death of a Showman: Dino De Laurentiis (1919-2010)

For his first five years, Agostino De Laurentiis didn’t speak, but his mother Giuseppina showed no concern. “Look at it this way,” she said of the lively child. “When he begins to talk, nobody will be able to make him stop.” By the time he was 15, as a traveling representative for Pastaficio Moderno, his father Aurelio’s food business, the kid from Naples had turned words to his advantage. “Agostino’s greatest asset — which he’d use to straighten out a million different messes, in decades to come — was his overwhelming skill as a communicator,” wrote his biographer Tullio Kezich.

Essay: THE POOR AMIDST PROSPERITY

“EMPLOYMENT in the U.S. stands at a record 75 million, and unemployment is down to an eight-year low. A rising stock market attests to the seemingly invincible health of the economy; the nation shoulders the costs of foreign war and foreign aid without strain; the big metropolises revel in the autumnal excitement of the new movies, the fall fashions, the opera, the art galleries, a thousand assorted a go-gos. And amidst such affluence the U.

Ex Porn Star Exposes Actor's Intimate Bedroom Skills

According to the sex actor, Clooney was an "11" in bed and the "manliest man" she's ever met after she participated in a six-month romance with the A-list silver fox. "On a scale of 1 to 10, I’m going to give George an 11 for performance," Allen dished to the mag. "And as far as equipment, I give him a 12." Allen said she met the ER hunk on the set of the short-lived series Sunset Beat in the early 1990s.

FAO Schwarz: Doors Close Tonight

July 15, 2015 9:57 AM EDT Wednesday is your last day to dance on the giant piano from Big. FAO Schwarz, the 45,000-square-foot dreamland famous for its collection of toys—including the Manhattan floor piano where Tom Hanks danced out “Chopsticks” in the 1988 film—will close its doors today due to rising rents and heightened online competition, the Telegraph reports. The store, which first opened in New York in 1870, has been at its current 5th Avenue and 58th street location for nearly three decades, and will be replaced by none other than Apple.

Fifty Shades of Grey Movie: Fans Hate Jamie Dornan Casting

January 9, 2015 12:26 PM EST Jamie Dornan is asking Fifty Shades of Grey loyalists to please refrain from murdering him on the red carpet, if they don’t mind. Even if they’re real mad he got the role of Christian Grey. Even if they are incensed he decided to shave his beard — making him akin to a “cupcake with no frosting” — for the part. “I almost don’t want to put this out there into the ether, but I fear I’ll get murdered, like John Lennon, by one of those mad fans at the premiere,” he told Details.

Fireboy's interview with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1

While answering questions on working with Ed Sheeran and the numerous remixes of 'Peru'. "It was the Ed Sheeran version first, that's the one that matters, that's the first. That's the one. Everything else was about strategic stuff and all that, but the collaboration was the Ed Sheeran one. My team reached out to me like, "Yo." Jamal Edwards, rest his soul, very close to Ed Sheeran, played the song to him, sent it to him and he loved the song,"

Gloria Steinem (Journalist) - On This Day

Profession: Journalist Biography: Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a prominent figure in the fight for women's rights and played a pivotal role in shaping feminist discourse and activism in the United States. Steinem began her career in journalism in New York City in the early 1960s.