Posts by Nathan Pine
Doc Talk Podcast Hits Road For Hot Springs Doc Festival And Conversation With Executive Director Ken Jacobson, And A Side Trip To ‘Natchez’
Hoop skirts and parasols, mint juleps and columned mansions. For a stroll back in time, bucolic Natchez, MS offers tourists a comforting view of the antebellum South, glossing over such inconvenient realities as millions of people held in bondage. That striking contrast between an idealized version of the Confederate era and a sterner reckoning with…
Read MoreI’m a Shopping Expert, and This $9 Amazon Fabric Shaver Has Totally Saved My Favorite Sweaters
Have you ever looked down at your favorite sweaters and just thought “yuck.” I recently pulled my sweaters out of storage as the weather has been cooling down, and some of them had definitely seen better days. Luckily, I’ve found a hack that doesn’t require any intervention from a dry cleaner to spruce up your…
Read MoreJohn Stamos Shares If He Wants Open Marriage With Wife Caitlin McHugh and Lori Loughlin
The one where fans had no idea their favorite Friends couple actually had feelings for each other. During the iconic NBC series’ HBO Max reunion special, Aniston and Schwimmer admitted they nursed crushes on each other during the first season. As Schwimmer explained, “Yeah, the first season we—I had a major crush on Jen.” Aniston countered, “It…
Read MoreAI Poses Threat To Some Content, Ted Sarandos Says, But Taylor Swift Is “More Popular Than Ever … It Takes A Great Artist To Make Something Great”
Addressing the potential threat to Netflix posed by generative video models like OpenAI’s Sora 2, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said it is more likely to pull audiences away from user-generated video. Professionally produced series and films, as well as other works of art, will remain the province of human creativity, Sarandos maintained during the company’s…
Read MoreKhloe Kardashian Responds to Savannah Guthrie’s Remorse for Paternity Question
Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for Disney Television/Shutterstock; Stephanie Augello/Shutterstock But since then, the Good American co-founder hasn’t been shy about clapping back at speculation over her parentage. “The thing that most became overwhelming was when the stuff happened with one of my dad’s wives,” Khloé shared during a 2016 episode of her now-defunct talk show Kocktails with…
Read MoreAnnabelle Wallis Joins Historical Thriller ‘Pedro Pan’
EXCLUSIVE: Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy) has joined the cast of Pedro Pan, the historical thriller based on true events from director Richie Adams. Wallis is set to play Ms. Penny Powers, a British diplomat who took part in the Kindertransport during World War II and later became a key operative in Operation Pedro Pan, the…
Read MoreThe Kitchen’s Sunny Anderson Jokes About Food Network Cancellation
Sunny Anderson is cutting up some jokes. Amid the news that her Food Network show The Kitchen will end in December after 12 years on air, the cohost had some fun while engaging with supportive fan comments. “Those Kitchen mugs are collector items now!” one fan wrote to Sunny, as seen in a screenshot on…
Read MoreDespite ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ B.O. Success, Ted Sarandos Says Strategy Remains “Exclusive First Run Movies On Netflix”
Don’t believe the hype that Netflix is embracing theatrical lock, stock and barrel. Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, emphasized that “there’s no change in the strategy” when asked by an analyst on today’s earnings stream whether the OTT service was wading deeper into theatrical distribution. This comes in the wake of the streamer’s most viewed feature…
Read MoreJoJo Siwa Reacts to Surprise Announcement From Boyfriend Chris Hughes
“I am not single and I don’t want to mingle,” Siwa shared on a March 2022 episode of the Rachel Uncensored Podcast. “No, I’m a loyal lady.” She’d played the field, she continued, and snagged herself a catch in Katie Mills. “Listen, I went around the block,” Siwa teased. “I tried a lot, and I…
Read MoreDriverless Waymo taxis under investigation after failing to stop for a school bus
Around 2,000 Waymo vehicles are under investigation following reports of one of the self-driving taxis navigating around a school bus while children disembarked. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary investigation on Oct. 17 to examine the performance of Waymo’s autonomous technology around stopped school buses and how the system is designed to…
Read MoreOpenAI launches its own browser to compete with Google
OpenAI launched its own web browser called Atlas, hoping to use its artificial intelligence superpowers to take away market share from Google, which has dominated the browser and search markets for decades. “AI represents a rare once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said during the…
Read MorePBS SoCal Sets Live 3-Hour Telethon With Josh Groban, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ken Burns, Marlee Matlin, Ziggy Marley, Sarah Silverman & More
Following public media’s loss of federal funding, PBS SoCal is hoping viewers will help fill the gap. It has announced We ❤ Public Television, a star-studded live three-hour telethon, which will air on Sat. Nov. 8 from 4-7 pm on PBS SoCal in the Southern California area and on PBS stations nationwide on Thanksgiving night.…
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