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Static Media/Getty Images The majority of Stephen King’s novels (and many of his short stories) have been adapted into films or TV projects over the years, but there a few outliers that have yet to make the leap from page to screen. While it seems inevitable that sooner or…
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Labor minister Bill Shorten has admitted having rich parents is ‘more important than ever’ for young Australians after a boomer confessed he paid just $22,000 for his first home. Self-funded retiree Phillip Irvine questioned Mr Shorten and Independent senator Jacqui Lambie about how his grandchildren will ever be able to afford a home during ABC’s…
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PARIS — Jayson Tatum stood in the arena loading dock Saturday night, an Olympic gold medal draped around his neck and untold bottles of champagne waiting for him, answering questions about his personal disappointment and his mom coming to his defense on social media. This should have been, and in many ways still was, the…
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Paramount In Jonathan Frakes’ 1996 film “Star Trek: First Contact,” the ordinarily diplomatic and level-headed Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) inexplicably cracks. The Borg — an evil race of all-consuming cyborgs — have traveled back in time to the year 2063 to muck around with human history. They intend…
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Graham Thorpe took his own life after several years battling anxiety and depression – believing his wife and children were ‘better off without him’, his bereft family revealed today. The left-handed Surrey batsman, a talisman for England and hero for many who grew up watching cricket in the 1990s, died aged just 55. Mr Thorpe, a father-of-four,…
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CNN — Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of students across rural Kenya with…
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Through the torrential downpour and thunder rolling in the sky above MetLife Stadium, 82,154 fans bore the brunt of a mid-summer storm to watch Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-1 in a thrilling preseason friendly between two rivals that has become somewhat of a tradition in the United States. It did not matter that some of…
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Lionsgate Remember the halcyon days of 2010? The Marvel Cinematic Universe was still in its infancy, but much was already being made of any superhero movie that felt even slightly different from the future juggernaut’s quippy origin stories. Future DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn’s name was already in…
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Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold had no idea of the terror that lurked beyond this gate. It was meant to be a simple welfare check for a missing person – in and out, joined by their fellow Chinchilla-based police constables Keely Brough and Randall Kirk, as part of their routine Tuesday afternoon shift. But only…
