Month: July 2020

Charlize Theron says shes dating herself, her daughter said she needs boyfriend – Fox News
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Charlize Theron says shes dating herself, her daughter said she needs boyfriend – Fox News

Charlize Theron is in love with herself. The South African actress revealed on Diane von Furstenberg’s “InCharge with DVF” podcast on Thursday that her daughter August wants her to get a boyfriend. Theron, 44, however, said she’s happily in a relationship with herself. CHARLIZE THERON NOT FOCUSED ON DATING, SAYS GWYNETH PALTROW’S SEPARATE-HOME LIVING'S ‘MY KIND OF RELATIONSHIP’ “Two days ago I was in the car with my two girls and my little one said something like ‘You need a boyfriend!'” she revealed. Theron continued: “And I said, ‘Actually, I don’t. Right now, I feel really good,’ and she’s like, ‘You know what, mom? You just need a boyfriend, you need a relationship!'” The “Mad Max” actress is a mother to two adopted daughters: Jackson, 8, and August, 5. CHARLIZE THERON SAYS SH...
Alan Parker Dies: Towering UK Director Of ‘Bugsy Malone’, ‘Midnight Express’ & ‘Evita’ Was 76 – Deadline
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Alan Parker Dies: Towering UK Director Of ‘Bugsy Malone’, ‘Midnight Express’ & ‘Evita’ Was 76 – Deadline

Filmmaker Alan Parker, a towering figure in the UK industry, passed away this morning following a lengthy illness, the British Film Institute has confirmed. He was 76. Two-time Oscar nominee Parker was best known for directing classic films including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning and The Commitments, as well as big-budget Madonna movie Evita. Across a glittering career, his feature films won 19 BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars between them. Parker was a passionate supporter of the UK industry and a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain. He was the founding Chairman of the UK Film Council in 2000, a position he held for five years, and prior to that he was Chairman of the BFI. He received a CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 200...
Opera Goes On in Salzburg, With Lots and Lots of Testing – The New York Times
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Opera Goes On in Salzburg, With Lots and Lots of Testing – The New York Times

SALZBURG, Austria — A poster advertising this year’s Salzburg Festival bears a quotation from one of the festival’s founders, the poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal: “Wo der Wille erwacht, dort ist schon fast etwas erreicht.” Roughly translated: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Plenty of will — along with political and financial resources few other classical music organizations could possibly deploy — is evident here this summer. For its 100th anniversary season, Salzburg, bucking the coronavirus-prompted trend of canceling cultural events or presenting them only with onstage social distancing, is going ahead with performances featuring casts interacting closely and full orchestras in the pit. Which is not to say the festival has been unaffected by the pandemic. A sprawling, ...
Facebook will add music videos after deals with labels – CNBC
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Facebook will add music videos after deals with labels – CNBC

In this screengrab, Lele Pons speaks during SHEIN Together Virtual Festival to benefit the COVID – 19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO powered by the United Nations Foundation on May 09, 2020. Getty Images Facebook plans to launch music videos starting in the U.S. on Saturday after reaching deals with big and independent music companies in a move that could grab advertising dollars from Google-owned YouTube. In a blog post, Facebook announced deals with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, BMG, Kobalt and other independent music groups to launch music videos on its platform.   Users will be able to react to, comment on and share music videos on their news feed, on Groups and in Messenger. Artists with videos will include Blake...
El Paso surpasses 14000 confirmed cases; 7 new virus deaths announced – KVIA El Paso
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El Paso surpasses 14000 confirmed cases; 7 new virus deaths announced – KVIA El Paso

Top Stories EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The El Paso Department of Public Health announced seven virus deaths and 337 new cases Friday morning. The death toll now stands at 266. The heath department said the victims ranged in age from their 70s to their 90s. Only one of the victims, a man in his 70s, did not have underlying health conditions. There have now been 14,276 confirmed cases in El Paso County since the pandemic began. The number of active cases increased for the first time in five days. It now stands 3,311, compared to 3,204 on Thursday. The Department of Public Health has not yet published the updated number of recoveries. Hospitalizations decreased by 15 from 279 to 264. The number of ICU patients decreased f...
Maine reports 24 new coronavirus cases, one additional death – Press Herald
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Maine reports 24 new coronavirus cases, one additional death – Press Herald

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday as well as an additional death. The total number of confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 in Maine stood at 3,912. To date, at least 123 Mainers have died after contracting the disease caused by the coronavirus. A pedestrian crosses Spring and Union streets in Portland on Monday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer The Maine CDC was reporting 428 active cases Friday after accounting for the total number of deaths and the 3,361 individuals who have recovered, an increase of seven since Thursday. There have been 3,499 confirmed cases of the virus and 413 probable cases. Maine continues to have among the lowest infection and death rates in the nation from COVID-19, according to daily tr...
Allegheny County records 2nd highest new covid-19 case count – TribLIVE
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Allegheny County records 2nd highest new covid-19 case count – TribLIVE

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Allegheny County saw its second biggest addition of new covid-19 cases Friday, with the county’s Health Department reporting 244 new incidences. The cases come from a batch of tests conducted from over the past month, 30 of which have specimen collection dates from more than two weeks ago. Officials said they were aware of the backlog and have already completed case investigation and contact tracing. On the state level, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Friday it will boost its covid-19 contact tracing staff by about 1,000 more workers. In addition, the county set another record for new hospitalizations, adding 33 more people to its total of...
The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It. – Slate
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The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It. – Slate

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Andrey Zhuravlev/iStock/Getty Images Plus. In the U.S., COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. At the same time, the research community is learning more and more about how the coronavirus gets from one person to another. There are many nuances, and we don’t know everything about it yet. But we’re in an emergency, and we do have actionable facts. To help break through the noise, the public should be warned, plainly, and often: The coronavirus is airborne. Researchers and medical practitioners have spent months pressing the public health establishment to evolve on messaging about the ways that COVID-19 spreads. At first, many experts thought that the virus spr...
Young children with coronavirus may carry 10 to 100 times more of virus than adults: study – Fox News
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Young children with coronavirus may carry 10 to 100 times more of virus than adults: study – Fox News

Children under five years of age may harbor up to 100 times as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults and older children, according to a study out of Chicago. “Our analyses suggest children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19 have high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in their nasopharynx compared with older children and adults," the researchers stated in the study published in JAMA Pediatrics on Thursday. RECOVERED CORONAVIRUS PATIENT REGAINS SENSE OF SMELL - BUT ONLY FOR FOUL ODORS  "Young children can potentially be important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 spread in the general population, as has been demonstrated with respiratory syncytial virus, where children with high viral loads are more likely to transmit," they wrote. The authors stated ...