Confessions

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: charlton, Romance ComicsCharlton liked the title and formula of its first successful romance comic True Life Secrets so much that they relaunched it as something elseAfter entering the genre with the short-lived title Pictorial Love Stories, the series True Life Secrets became Charlton's first successful romance title.  The series would be the publisher's only romance title throughout the early 1950s, until the acquisition of Fawcett's Sweethearts and Romantic…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: American Comics Group, ogden whitney, Richard E. Hughes, Romance ComicsSeemingly part of a final act of Pre-Code defiance on the part of ACG, Confessions of the Lovelorn #52 hit newsstands right before the CMAA was announced.Article Summary Exploring ACG's pre-Code era with Confessions of the Lovelorn #52's grim narratives. Richard Hughes's strategic navigation ahead of CMAA's formation in Sept 1954. ACG's mid-1954 rebranding: shifts from…

Two decades after Usher made fans question if every time he was in L.A., he was with his ex-girlfriend, the R&B sensation finally gave an answer. In a People cover story following his Super Bowl halftime performance, Usher opened up about his Confessions album, which features several songs with lyrics about a man cheating on his partner with his ex. “There is a great deal of truth in that album,” Usher told the publication. He noted, however, that it wasn’t just his truth, explaining that…

“I’m not a fan of AI,” Nebojša Vujinović Vujo says. The admission surprises me: He has built a bustling business by snapping up abandoned news outlets and other websites and stuffing them full of algorithmically generated articles. Although he accepts that his model rankles writers and readers alike, he says he’s simply embracing an unstoppable new tool—large language models—in the same way people rationally swapped horse-drawn buggies for gas-powered vehicles. “I hate cars. They’re making my planet bad,” he says. “But…

A S HE TOOK his sunrise walk through a quiet Las Vegas suburb of tan stucco houses and desert landscaping in late September, Duane Davis resembled nobody’s idea of a gangster legend. A bald man on the soft side of 60 in a white Polo Sport T-shirt and loose-fitting pants, he could have been just another middle-aged neighbor plodding uphill against the ravages of time. Whatever reverie Davis enjoyed ended as officers from Las Vegas Metro’s Criminal Apprehension Team swiftly approached in tactical gear out of…

The three C’s of current TV documentary programming are celebrity, crime and cults, and the new Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard checks off the first two with ruthless, pinpoint efficiency. The subject, a young woman who arranged for the murder of her deranged, abusive mother in 2015, has become a media sensation, the subject of a previous dramatic miniseries (Hulu’s The Act, from 2019) and now a TikTok sensation about to release her own memoir. Let there be no underestimating the…

Image via Marvel Studios There are now a whopping 32 MCU movies. So far, Marvel Studios has never put out an objectively terrible box office bomb, though it’s safe to say there are entries that fans dread revisiting when doing a watchathon. But each and every MCU movie, no matter how poor the critical reception, has its fans. r/MarvelStudios is currently picking through these, with fans revealing what their MCU “guilty pleasure” is. The top candidate seems to be Chloe Zhao’s 2021 Eternals, which sputtered at the…

Jennifer Lopez Finally Breaks Silence On Ben Affleck’s S*xual Prowess Days After Gwyneth Paltrow’s Explosive Revelation ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Ben Affleck may have gotten married to Jennifer Lopez, but he was previously married to Jennifer Garner. He also dated Gwyneth Paltrow in the past. She recently made explosive confessions about her husband Ben’s s*xual prowess. Lopez now gushed about her husband in a recent interview. Scroll down to know more. Paltrow stunned fans by comparing her two A-lister exes, Brad…

Floating above the audience in a lifeboat that slowly moved from one end of the Kia Forum to the other, SZA performed her song “Special” on Wednesday night as a rotating searchlight shot out from a replica of a lighthouse below her.“Special,” from the 33-year-old singer and songwriter’s smash “SOS” album, is a gut-punch of an acoustic ballad about giving the best of yourself to the wrong person, and here the searchlight — which roved the capacity crowd, illuminating each face it passed over — was an apt metaphor for the…

Once a rare species, celebrity authored children’s books have become stalwarts of supermarket books aisles. Perfect for a grandparent hunting a last-minute Christmas gift, or a parent looking for something that will appeal to a child reluctant to read, books by stars have become the go-to for many. Those buying them might have it in the back of their minds that these “authors” might not have done much of the writing. But that doesn’t matter, does it? As long as the kids are reading, that’s what counts.For children’s…