Month: September 2021

Did Lena Dunham Get Married This Weekend? – Vulture
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Did Lena Dunham Get Married This Weekend? – Vulture

Photo: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Images via Getty Images Lena Dunham is the bride of her generation, or the bride of a generation. Maybe. People is reporting that Dunham married her boyfriend, musician Luis Felber. Dunham’s reps did not respond to People’s request for comment. Felber makes music under the name Attawalpa. Dunham did a soft boyfriend reveal in the New York Times in April 2021. “It’s been a few months,” she said. “I feel really lucky. He’s the greatest person I’ve ever met.” The couple made their red carpet debut at a Sundance London Zola screening in August of this year. Besides the perennial “sources,” People cites a post on Felb...
Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study – The Guardian
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Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study – The Guardian

Life expectancy Pandemic behind biggest fall in life expectancy in western Europe since second world war, say researchers The Covid pandemic has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy in western Europe since the second world war, according to a study.Data from most of the 29 countries – spanning most of Europe, the US and Chile – that were analysed by scientists recorded reductions in life expectancy last year and at a scale that wiped out years of progress.The biggest declines in life expectancy were among males in the US, with a decline of 2.2 years relative to 2019 levels, followed by Lithuanian males (1.7 years). Life expectancy losses exceeded those recorded around the time of the dissolution of the eastern bloc in central and eastern Europe, according to the research, led b...
The Closest Related Virus to SARS-CoV-2 Has Just Been Discovered, And Its in Bats – ScienceAlert
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The Closest Related Virus to SARS-CoV-2 Has Just Been Discovered, And Its in Bats – ScienceAlert

Researchers have discovered coronaviruses lurking in Laotian bats that appear to be the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, found to date, according to news reports. In a new study, researchers from the Pasteur Institute in France and the University of Laos captured 645 bats from limestone caves in northern Laos and screened them for viruses related to SARS-CoV-2. They found three viruses — which they dubbed BANAL-52, BANAL-103 and BANAL-236 — that infected horseshoe bats and shared more than 95% of their overall genome with SARS-CoV-2. One of the viruses, BANAL-52, was 96.8% identical to SARS-CoV-2, according to Nature News. That makes BANAL-52 more genetically similar to SARS-CoV-2 than any other known virus. Previously, the closest known relativ...
Kelly Price Breaks Silence on Disappearance, Says COVID Nearly Killed Her – TMZ
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Kelly Price Breaks Silence on Disappearance, Says COVID Nearly Killed Her – TMZ

Play video content TMZ.com Kelly Price is finally addressing going MIA from her family and sharing an incredible story of her hospitalization with COVID ... telling us at one point, she was medically dead. Price tells us she was never actually missing, despite some of her family members insisting she had vanished without a trace. Kelly says she isolated herself as she recovered from COVID, and was avoiding her family, who she says she doesn't routinely stay in touch with. Price's battle with COVID was a serious one ... she says she actually flatlined at one point, and had to be brought back to life by doctors and staff. She...
Rolling Stones open American tour, pay tribute to drummer – Yahoo News
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Rolling Stones open American tour, pay tribute to drummer – Yahoo News

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their backbeat. The legendary rockers launched their pandemic-delayed “No Filter” tour Sunday at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis without their drummer of nearly six decades. It was clear from the outset just how much the band members — and the fans — missed Charlie Watts, who died last month at age 80. Except for a private show in Massachusetts last week, the St. Louis concert was their first since Watts' death. The show opened with an empty stage and only a drumbeat, with photos of Watts flashing on the video board. After the second song, a rousing rendition of “It's Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It),” Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood came to the front of the stage....
Tony Awards 2021: Moulin Rouge! Wins Best New Musical – NPR
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Tony Awards 2021: Moulin Rouge! Wins Best New Musical – NPR

"Moulin Rouge! The Musical," dominated the 2021 Tony Awards on Sunday. Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP hide caption toggle caption Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," dominated the 2021 Tony Awards on Sunday. Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP NEW YORK — "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's ...
Life expectancy of American men fell by two years amid pandemic: study | TheHill – The Hill
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Life expectancy of American men fell by two years amid pandemic: study | TheHill – The Hill

The life expectancy of American men decreased by two years during the pandemic, according to a new study published Monday by Oxford University. The study found that life expectancy among men fell by 2.2 years relative to 2019,  the largest drop among the groups that were observed, according to Reuters. Life expectancy decreased by more than six months compared to 2019 for 22 of the 29 countries examined as part of the study, according to Reuters, which includes the U.S., Chile and nations in Europe. The drop in life expectancy in 2020 was the largest observed since World War II, and fell overall in 27 of the 29 countries analyzed, according to Reuters.  The university said the majority of the life expectancy decreases can be attributed to COVID-19, which has caused more than ...
‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline
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‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are making their debut as Joel and Ellie in the first photo for HBO’s The Last of Us, the high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Based on the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. When I first saw them on set in full costume, I was like: "Hooooo...
‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline
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‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are making their debut as Joel and Ellie in the first photo for HBO’s The Last of Us, the high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Based on the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. When I first saw them on set in full costume, I was like: "Hooooo...
‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline
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‘The Last Of Us’: Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey Debut In First Photo Of HBO Series – Deadline

Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are making their debut as Joel and Ellie in the first photo for HBO’s The Last of Us, the high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Based on the critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. When I first saw them on set in full costume, I was like: "Hooooo...