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It’s never easy for brands to go viral, but the Minions might have just set the new blueprint.“Minions: The Rise of Gru” smashed a Fourth of July record at the box office, bringing in a whopping $125 million during the holiday weekend. Much of that is thanks to Yeat, the buzzing rapper who concocted a woozy, Minions-themed anthem.The song doesn’t appear in the movie, but it soundtracks a movie trailer created by Cole Bennett and his multimedia company, Lyrical Lemonade. Over undulating synths, Yeat counts his money while…

If you came across a pack of suit-wearing teenagers this weekend, quietly discussing the artistic merits of Minions and muttering about “counting money,” you weren’t alone. In movie theaters across America, self-described Gentleminions have been dressing up in suits, buying tickets to Minions: The Rise of Gru, and treating the animated children’s film like it’s a sophisticated Broadway play.Wait a minute. You might be wondering when the Minions franchise became high-brow entertainment. Well, it didn’t. This is the work of…

It is 16 August 2020 and Alan Bennett and his partner are on their customary evening walk. Given that 86-year-old Bennett is hobbled with rheumatoid arthritis, this is hardly an ambitious excursion – literally three minutes “round the block” of their north London street. Suddenly the windows fly open and neighbours start banging pots and clapping. Since he needs to lean heavily on his walking stick, Bennett is unable to join in, but he compensates by standing in the street and nodding enthusiastically. Until, that is, the…

A Maryland man who lived with a transplanted, genetically-modified pig's heart for two months may have died due to a virus that targets feral animals, The New York Times reported Thursday.  Dr. Bartley Griffith, a surgeon focused on transplants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, performed the animal-to-human surgery on the patient, David Bennett Sr., and also reported the complication as the patient's health torpedoed.The procedure initially had been deemed a success. It took place in January 2022, after…