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Penske Media Eldridge on Wednesday said it has acquired Dick Clark Productions, the live events and alternative media producer. The move is part of a larger strategic alliance with Eldridge augmenting its existing partnership with Penske Media Corporation’s entertainment media brands, which include The Hollywood Reporter and SXSW.   DCP produces live award shows and other music entertainment programs including the Golden Globe Awards; American Music Awards; Academy of Country Music Awards; …

Photo by Hal Gatewood on UnsplashWhen plotting data, we’re generally trying to create a single plot. But what do you do if you want to create a single presentation of a set of related plots? There are many ways of doing this in R. In this article, I will show you three of them, using examples I’ve created in some of my #TidyTuesday submissions. Full code can be found at my github pages.Image by authorOne of the most basic methods for creating a multi-plot is using the par() function with the “mfrow =” attribute. In this…

Image: United ArtistsProlific New York actor Henry Silva passed away earlier in the week. Per the Hollywood Reporter, he passed just a day before he would’ve turned 96 years old.Born in Brooklyn on September 15, 1926, Silva grew up in Harlem, and eventually quit school to take drama classes. In 1955 and 1956, Silva went to Broadway as the character Mother in Michael V. Gatto’s play, A Hatful of Rain. He would later go on to play the character again in the 1957 film adaption, and had an appearance in at least two movies…

My earliest reading memory A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss. The pictures are by a young Maurice Sendak. I can still quote it: “A tablespoon is to eat a table with. Mashed potatoes are to give everybody enough.”My favourite book growing upThe Green Poodles by Charlotte Baker. It had everything I felt a book should have – orphans (none of whom missed their parents enough to spoil the story with sorrow), a mystery, a valuable painting and many dogs. The book that changed me as a teenager Although my parents were proud to…

| Lost in time and with nothing better to do, Dick Grayson finds a job working in the circus again in this preview of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6. Check out the preview below. BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #6DC Comics0622DC1100622DC111 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6 Terry Dodson Cover – $4.990622DC112 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #6 Rafa Sandoval Cover – $4.99(W) Mark Waid (A) Travis Moore (CA) Dan MoraTHE FLYING GRAYSON FLIES THROUGH TIME! The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel might have been…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosGet a glimpse at the return of Epix’s War of the Worlds. David Dastmalchian gets into exorcisms in his latest role. Plus, what’s coming on Archer and American Horror Stories. To me, my spoilers!The Pope’s ExorcistAccording to Deadline, Franco Nero has been cast as the pope in The Pope’s Exorcist, the upcoming horror film starring Russell Crowe as Father Gabriele Amorth from Overlord directorJulius Avery. Laurel Marsden (Ms. Marvel), Cornell S. John and newcomer Peter DeSouza-Feighoney have…

Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for CTAOP Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Alfonso Cuarón are set to team up for an Amazon feature project, Jane. The project is based on the famous science fiction author Philip K. Dick, and will be an alternate reality of the author’s own life, with his daughter Isa Hackett also set to produce. The project is based on Philip K. Dick’s twin sister Jane, who died only six weeks after birth, something that reportedly deeply affected the author. According to Hackett, Jane was an…

Inset of the cover to The Penultimate Truth.Image: Philip K. Dick EstatePhilip K. Dick is one of the most important and influential science fiction authors of all time, having written masterpieces like The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and the novels that inspired the movies Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, and more. Dick was also a very troubled man who suffered from drug abuse, hallucinations, a suicide attempt, and many other psychological ailments. Now the author’s tumultuous real life…

Screenshot: HuluOn Futurama, we learn that Al Gore heads up “a group of top nerds whose sole duty is to prevent disruptions in the space-time continuum” (it’s real, read the Constitution!). This superteam also includes Nichelle Nichols, Gary Gygax, Stephen Hawking, and chess-playing computer Deep Blue. Though they happen to be skilled at murder, they utterly fail at stopping Fry from destroying the universe, but—good news, everybody!—this happens on a “what if?” anthology episode that doesn’t affect Futurama’s own main…

Dick Van Dyke was seen interacting with fans during an outing in Malibu, California last week, remarking that he was “glad” to be up and about.The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star is 96 years old.Van Dyke was seen running errands on Thursday 16 June, then driving his car home after leaving a lunch date with friends.“I’m just glad to still be here,” he said, per the New York Post.Back in 2019, the Mary Poppins star said that he still frequented the gym three times a week, despite his advanced age.“I’ve always been an exerciser…