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Joey King and Taylor Zakhar Perez gave us a mini `Kissing Booth` reunion

SAG Awards 2024: Joey King and Taylor Zakhar Perez, who starred together in the Kissing Booth movies, had a mini-reunion at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in Los Angeles. The event happened at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall. During the SAG Awards 2024 ceremony, Taylor, who was acting as the SAG Ambassador with Phil Dunster, wore a navy blue suit with a double-breasted blazer. Joey went for a beige and black dress with blue flowers, and she added sheer black gloves, rings, and a blue bejewelled necklace to…

Emily Blunt Revealed How A Gift She Gave Cillian Murphy Caused Him To Split His Head Open While Filming Oppenheimer

With awards season winding down these next few weeks, we only have a few more opportunities to see our so-called "Oppenhomies"—i.e. Oppenheimer cast members Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downer Jr. and the like—laughing it up together on red carpets and talk shows. So we're savoring every last promo appearance, including Blunt's recent, hilarious reveal about how a well-intentioned present she gifted Murphy resulted in the leading man having his head glued shut while filming Christopher Nolan's billion-dollar…

Adam Sandler Won The People’s Icon Award, Gave Hilarious Speech Accepting The Sexiest Man Alive Award

Those of us who grew up in the post-Cold War, grunge, and hip-hop fashion eras know that some of the best movies of the '90s starred the lovable goofball Adam Sandler. For the better half of three decades, some of the greatest comedies and best romantic comedies involved the mumbling antics of the everyman, and now he’s finally getting his due. The Wedding Singer star won the People’s Icon Award, and just like you’d expect from the quotable former SNL funnyman, he hilariously gave a speech accepting the Sexiest Man of…

How Meta gave up on politics ahead of the 2024 election

Facebook was working hard to win over political campaigns in the run up to the 2016 election. The company sponsored debates, set up lounges for delegates at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, and aggressively courted political advertisers, even going so far as to embed staff with then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. “Facebook really is the new town hall,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg boasted to investors just days before that election.Four years later, in an effort to show they’d learned from their mistakes in…

This underutilized laptop accessory gave my device the ultimate super power

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysThis is the StarTech.com MacBook Pro Privacy Screen, Gold Filter with Enhanced Privacy, and is available from Amazon for $59. View at AmazonI get a bit apprehensive before installing any kind of screen protector or filter, as I've had so many bad experiences -- from getting adhesive stuck to my hand, to trapping huge chunks of debris between the screen and the film I'm applying. This kit is easy to install and comes with everything you need. There's a microfiber cloth

Twitter Gave Paid Blue Checks to Terrorists, May Have Broken Sanctions

Anyone active on X (formerly Twitter) since its acquisition by Elon Musk in late 2022 knows that hate speech, misinformation and extremism is rampant on the platform. At this point, such toxic content is simply the price of admission. But a new report from the Tech Transparency Project, a digital research nonprofit, reveals that terrorist leaders have apparently paid for verification badges and premium features on the site, possibly violating U.S. sanctions — as well as X’s own policies. TTP’s report detailed how…

‘The Table Read Was Hell’: Emily Blunt Was Nervous While Making The Devil Wears Prada, But Meryl Streep Gave Her Confidence During A Sweet…

Quite frequently, actors and other famous folk can seem like they are never nervous or even remotely intimidated by working with those in their chosen profession who have even more recognizable names and have been in the game for way longer. So, it’s nice when people like recent first time Oscar nominee Emily Blunt open up about their anxious moments at work and how they got through them. Blunt recently revealed that she had big nerves while making The Devil Wears Prada, but co-star Meryl Streep gave her confidence in a…

A Cat in Oregon Gave Bubonic Plague to Its Owner

A rare case of plague has been found in Oregon. Local health officials reported a U.S. case of the bacterial menace earlier this month—the first seen within the state in nearly a decade. The victim has been hospitalized as a result, but appears to be responding well to treatment, officials say.Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 3 Things We Love and HatePlague is caused by the rod-shaped bacteria Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis can make us sick in different ways, depending on how the bacteria invade our body. When it’s transmitted…

Damo Suzuki: Can’s free-floating vocalist gave us some of the 1970s’ most exotic rock music | Music

The German band Can, whose former singer Damo Suzuki has died at the age of 74, were innovators in many ways, but particularly because the group harboured two of the most original rock vocalists who ever lived. While their 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, featured the machine-gun poetic stylings of American expat Malcolm Mooney, it was Japanese free spirit Kenji ‘Damo’ Suzuki, who appeared on three stunning studio albums between 1971 and 1973, who most completely embodied their adventurous ethos.A 1971 TV clip from the…

Jennifer Lopez Reveals Advice Ben Affleck Gave Her For This Is Me… Now Visuals

From what we know about This Is Me...Now: The Film so far, Jennifer Lopez's planned narrative feature will act as a visual tie-in to her upcoming ninth studio album This Is Me...Now and will be available exclusively to Prime Video subscribers beginning Friday, February 16 to coincide with the record release. We also know that said visuals look absolutely unhinged, as seen in a teaser trailer that showed JLo randomly dancing in a steel factory, sitting down for therapy sessions with Fat Joe and riding across salt flats on…