Month: July 2020

Byron “Reckful” Bernstein, a popular video game streamer on Twitch, has died, according to social media posts from his ex-girlfriends and brother. He was 31. According to Blue Madrigal, his ex-girlfriend and one of the people who initially confirmed his death on social media, Berstein died by suicide. Bernstein went by the name Reckful on Twitch, where he was best known for his “World of Warcraft” streams and had over 936,000 followers. Most recently, Bernstein had been working as a developer on his own video game, “Everland,” which was set to release later this year. Bernstein raised concerns early Thursday morning with a series of tweets, one in which he appears to have proposed to his ex-girlfriend Becca Cho. He followed up the post a few minutes later with, “Ahh, I feel ...

SAG-AFTRA has told told its members to refuse work on the pandemic thriller “Songbird,” produced by Michael Bay. “Songbird” had been announced in mid-May as a low-budget production that would shoot in Los Angeles. The performers union announced the “do not work” order on Thursday for production company On A Lark Productions LLC. It said the company had failed to complete the signatory process and is therefore not signed to any applicable SAG-AFTRA agreement. SAG-AFTRA warned members that they could be disciplined if they work on “Songbird.” “As such, SAG-AFTRA members are hereby instructed to withhold any acting services or perform any covered work for this production until further notice from the union,” SAG-AFTRA said. “Please note, accepting employment or rendering services...

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Photo: Kailey Schwerman/Netflix Lucia Aniello has seen a lot of potential reboots cross her desk. She almost always passes. But three years ago, when her agent asked if there was anything from her childhood that she’d want to work with, she had an instant answer. “There is only one thing,” Aniello responded. “And it’s The Baby-Sitters Club.” If you know the canon of author Ann M. Martin and her team of ghostwriters, it is easy to imagine what Aniello’s childhood bookcase must have looked like: row after row of those Care Bear–colored covers, starting with Kristy’s Great Idea and expanding out into a franchise that has published over ...

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