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Robert Weide was still at high school in California when he volunteered to teach a class on the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. “There were maybe a dozen people in the class. We had tests, and people did papers and I gave grades and all that, so it was like a really cool Vonnegut book club,” he recalls. Never mind that Breakfast of Champions, the illustrated novel that had introduced him to his hero a couple of years earlier, wasn’t exactly conventional high school fare. “To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for…

By Lynn Elber | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday. Storch was 99. Storch died of natural causes early Friday in his New York City apartment, according to his manager, Matt Beckoff. Although “F Troop” lasted only two seasons on ABC, from 1965 to 1967, it became a cult favorite in reruns. Its devoted fans could recite almost…

Created during lockdown, the latest work from British-Ghanaian artist and film-maker Larry Achiampong is a poetic odyssey, a top-down journey through a near-future England, divided into chapters. It follows a young woman (Perside Rodrigues), known only as the Wanderer, as she travels the country, bearing witness to its iniquities and injustices. Through a fabric of narrating voices, the film touches on race, economic imbalance, the housing crisis and gentrification, among other themes.The approach is superficially similar…

Tesla confirmed that Oracle’s billionaire founder, Larry Ellison, is leaving its board of directors, and he won’t be replaced. As part of Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s settlement with the SEC over the former’s comments about taking the company private, the board had to nominate two new “independent” directors within 90 days. The automaker complied by appointing two new independent directors to its board, Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, a longtime human resources executive, back in…

Tom Cruise wrote off one of Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s cars while staying on his Hawaiian island, according to a new report.According to the extensive report, Cruise visited the island soon after Ellison bought it for $300m (£243m) in 2012 at the behest of his son David, whose company, Skydance Media, produced Cruise’s latest movie Top Gun: Maverick, as well as other films starring the actor.Bloomberg Businessweek spoke to eight sources from the island about Cruise’s visit, and they told the publication that the star…

Drake and the artist formerly known as Kanye West setting aside their issues was intended to serve as a “blueprint” for other artists, says Larry Hoover Jr.Hoover Jr. appeared alongside J. Prince for a recent 90-minute interview on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, resulting in a discussion that saw the guests diving into the ongoing battle for Larry Hoover’s freedom (he’s currently serving multiple life sentences in Colorado) and recent headlines involving Wack 100.Asked around the 32:10 mark in the video up top to detail…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesSen. Ted Cruz blasted BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Tuesday for so-called "woke" investment decisions — and suggested money managers like Fink be barred from voting on behalf of other investors "to advance their own political interests.""Because that is not capitalism, that is abusing the market," Cruz, R-Texas, charged during an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box."During much of the interview,…

Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people and co-founder of the Oracle software company, was involved in a November 2020 call to develop plans to contest the results of the US presidential election, according to a report from The Washington Post. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Fox News host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow, and True the Vote attorney James Bopp Jr., also participated in the call. As reported by the Post, details of the call surfaced in a court filing associated with a legal…

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday explained fresh technical analysis from veteran chartist Larry Williams that signals the market is headed for a bottom."I know it's tough to believe anything positive at this moment, but I said the same thing in April 2020, and that's when Larry Williams made one of the best bottom calls I've ever seen," the "Mad Money" host said, referring to when the market spiraled after the onset of the Covid pandemic sent shockwaves through the global economy."He says this is it. … I wouldn't bet against…

Elon Musk has secured $7.1 billion in new financing for his takeover of Twitter — which CNBC reports will include assuming the role of “temporary CEO” — with this round of funding coming from a group of sometimes high-profile outside investors. At the top of the list is Larry Ellison, with the co-founder and current CTO of Oracle committing $1 billion to the purchase. Ellison has said that he is “very close friends” with Musk, and he was added to Tesla’s board in 2018. As one of the richest people alive — a superlative…