Month: August 2021

Text size Disney reports earnings on Thursday. Dreamstime Walt Disney is set to release its results for the April-to-June period on Thursday after the market closes. Investors are expecting a big improvement from the year-ago period, during the worst months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. On average, analysts are forecasting $633 million in net income on $16.8 billion in revenue from Disney in its fiscal third quarter. That profit translates to 36 cents per share, or a forecast 55 cents after adjustments. It compares with a loss of $2.61 per share and $11.8 billi...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean military court sentenced disgraced K-pop star Seungri to three years in prison on Thursday for crimes including providing prostitutes to foreign businessmen. The Defense Ministry said the former member of the boy band Big Bang was also fined 1.15 billion won ($989,000). He was taken into custody after the ruling by an army court in Yongin, near Seoul. Seungri, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, was indicted in January 2020 on multiple charges, including arranging illegal sexual services for business investors from Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong from 2015 to 2016. He was also convicted of embezzling funds from a Seoul nightclub he ran and violating laws prohibiting overseas gambling by betting heavily at foreign casinos from 2013 to 2017. He denied mo...

Dustin Diamond's presence will be felt over and over and over this weekend ... 'cause a NASCAR sponsor's ready to unveil his special stock car honoring the late actor. Dan Block, the president of Insurance King, has chosen this Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the race where he'll unveil a tribute to his late friend. The No. 52 car -- driven by Josh Bilicki -- is paying homage to Dustin and his Screech Powers character from "Saved by the B...

Chet Hanks has doubled down on his anti-vaccine stance in a new video posted to his Instagram, following a storm of criticism for a clip he posted Tuesday in which he derided mask-wearing, revealed he lied about having the virus and downplayed COVID-19 as “the flu.”   In the new video posted to Instagram on Wednesday, a shirtless Hanks, who goes by the rap name Chet Hanx, begins by referencing the furore from his initial video. “OK, I’m gonna keep this real simple for you guys. Real simple. OK. Just like you have the right to be mad at me because I said I’m not going to get the vaccine…I have the right to not get that s—,” Hanks said. Hanks — who is the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson who were hospitalized because of COVID-19 last year and have been firm advocat...

Meghan Markle 'desperately wanted' to attend Barack Obama's 60th birthday party but was not included on the guest list, Prince Harry's biographer has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend the lavish do thrown by the former US president at his seven-bedroom £8million holiday home in Martha's Vineyard on Saturday. It included John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Meghan's friend CBS This Morning host Gayle King, George Clooney and Jay-Z and Beyoncé.  And according to royal expert and author Angela Levin, who wrote Harry: Biography of a Prince, it is thought that Barack and Michelle, 57, never included Harry, 36, and Meghan, 40, on the 475 strong guest-list. Angela told The Sun:  'I am told that despite claiming she was unable to attend, Meghan desperately wanted to be the special...

SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- Seungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, was sentenced to a three-year prison term by a military court on Thursday on multiple charges, including prostitution mediation and overseas gambling. The Army's general military court in Yongin, south of Seoul, also ordered the immediate detention of the scandal-ridden celebrity, a 31-year-old whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun. Seungri has been on trial at the military court because he enlisted in the Army in March last year following his indictment in January that year on numerous charges, which also include operation of an unlicensed adult entertainment establishment and embezzlement. Seungri came to the center of the probe in a far-reaching sex and drug scandal surrounding Burning Sun, a Seou...