Hollywood Week: Google, Microsoft, Media News: Murdoch Saga, Matthew Dowd, Kirk Firings, E. Jean Carroll

The assassination of right-wing conservative political activist Charlie Kirk has reverberated throughout the media world as parent companies sought to minimize the fallout from political commentators who proffered comments on his Trump aligned pro-nationalism position with terminations.

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MrWatchMaster Meets…Bob Bray

Next we meet Bob Bray who took over a failing Sinclair Harding ensuring a famous clock making name would survive. Today, the company is thriving with all the employees personally trained by Bob and part of the family, quite literally.

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Haute Tease

  • Film Fun: 24 Must-See Cult Classics

    It can be tricky to determine which films have cult-classic status. After all, they're usually films that initially received little notoriety, only to evolve over time into truly appreciated works. By definition, cult classics have the ability to still bring in new audiences and inspire new traditions. (Screenings of "The Room" usually involve games of football and plastic spoon throwing in the theater.)  

  • World News: COVID-19 Granulizes Democracy

    Faced with the need to limit individual and collective freedoms to combat the COVID-19, contemporary democracies are torn between defending libertarian achievements and castrating health imperatives. Which one will eventually take over the other?

     
  • From CANNES: LAIKA'S Fifth Film Is "Missing Link"

    LAIKA, the animation studio behind the Academy Award® nominated Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline, announces its fifth and most ambitious film to date: MISSING LINK at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.  

  • Hightown Pirates Release their Debut Album, Dry and High, on Strike Back Records

    We're kicking off the weekend with the debut album from celebrated London ensemble Hightown Pirates, which has so far had a huge response. Hightown Pirates have included with their debut album Dry and High stunning artwork by Pete Doherty.

     
  • L’accélérateur de Particules

    Au lendemain de l'élection présidentielle se posera à la patrie des Droits de l'Homme un choix de crucial, entre démagogie et rationalisme. Désormais baignée par un manichéisme destructeur à même d'exposer la République à sa propre survie, la France se retrouve face à un nouveau destin.  

  • Academy Award Winner Martin Scorsese and Paramount Pictures Release First Clip from “The Wolf of Wall Street”

    Revered filmmaker Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).   From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 1980s. 

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