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Martin Luther King Jr. probably had too much faith in the decency of America. In director Sam Pollard’s new documentary
MLK/FBI, close friends and family of the murdered civil rights leader say he dismissed concerns that government authorities, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, were tracking his every move. The truth arrived in the form of a threatening letter and embarrassing recordings from bugged hotel rooms, sent to King in an effort to demoralize and silence him. A half century later, it’s the FBI that’s wracked with shame over its conduct in the documentary (distributed by IFC and executive produced by, among others,
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In photos she smolders or glowers or sulks. Her music videos are awash in black liquids streaming from her eyes, oil spills, burn marks, tarantulas, disembodied hands clawing at her face. Finneas has worked the sickening whiz of a dentist’s drill and the wet suck of Eilish removing her Invisalign into her songs. There is an extreme teen-ness to her, which elicits the same sort of rebukes bestowed upon other young stars (Kristen Stewart, most notably) who haven’t taken fondly to instant fame. A screenshot of Eilish, her lip curled in what appears to be confused derision, went viral seemingly nanoseconds after she made the expression during Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph’s performance at the 2020 Academy Awards, drawing instant ire for her apparent dis of our comedic lords and saviors. But the Twitter takedowns left out context: Eilish had been smiling up at the performance until she caught sight of herself on a giant screen. At the Grammys, following her sweep of e
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All good things must come to an end, as you already know. Seasons, youth, a pretty good dream. The
Dawsonâs Creek season six episodes âAll Good Things.â and â.Must Come to an End.â (Not
Sex and the City, though. That goes on forever.) But something that no one is talking about is that
bad things also must come to an end. They gotta! This whole
situation weâre in right now, for example, or that man having access to the nuclear codes. A bad trip. A bad dream. It all comes to an end one way or another.Â
Longtime friends and neighbors
Kourtney Kardashian and
Travis Barker have reportedly been dating for the last couple of months and, so far, their relationship seems to be off to a strong start.
Over the weekend, the pair both shared poolside photos on Instagram from their trip to Palm Springs where Kourtney s mother
Kris Jenner owns a $12 million home. A source revealed to
People that this weekend away was more than just a little road trip amongst pals. âThey re in Palm Springs together,â the insider confirmed. âThey ve been dating for about a month or two. They ve been friends for a long time but it s turned romantic. Travis has liked her for a while.â A source speaking to
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Last Thursday, a friend texted me to tell me that the Standard in Hollywood was permanently shuttering after 22 years on the Sunset Strip. Like most of my friends and enemies, he knew that I carried a torch for this particular hotel.
It was the original boutique hotel. The logo on the outside of the building was upside down. The keycards said, âSlip it in.â The valets wore â90s alternative-rock-style work shirts; they were friendly and a little bit too good-looking. You could relax on the beige Ligne Roset Togo sofa in the lobby while a DJ spun tasteful electronic music and a scantily clad out-of-work actor lazily read a script in the âthe Boxâ behind the front desk. You could eat adequate diner food 24 hours a day; you could float on a pink tube in the tiny pool; you could play ping-pong on blue Astroturf; you could hear the traffic on Sunset at all hours if you got the wrong room; you coul