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Chris Rock could host the 2023 Oscars one year after he was slapped by Will Smith, ABC has said.This year’s awards ceremony was thrown into turmoil after Smith jumped on stage and slapped the comedian after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Minutes later, Smith won the award for Best Actor.Next year’s ceremony will air on ABC with Smith not in attendance, after he was banned from attending Academy events for the next 10 years.Speaking to Deadline, ABC president Craig Erwich said that 2022’s…

Supernovas are one of the most mysterious as well as luminous explosions of a star in space. In fact, they are the biggest explosions that humans have ever seen. They take place so far away that it requires powerful telescopes to spot them. A supernova typically occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star. Various studies are underway to understand these events. But researchers are hopeful that an extraterrestrial stone found in the Egyptian desert could help shed some light on these spectacular events.…

An incredible discovery has just revealed a potential new source for understanding life on ancient Earth.A team of geologists has just discovered tiny remnants of prokaryotic and algal life – trapped inside crystals of halite dating back to 830 million years ago.  Halite is sodium chloride, also known as rock salt, and the discovery suggests that this natural mineral could be a previously untapped resource for studying ancient saltwater environments.Moreover, the organisms trapped therein may still be alive.The…

At the beginning of Joanne Greenberg’s striking 1964 autobiographical novel, now reissued by Penguin Modern Classics, is a one-way journey. Deborah Blau, 16, is with her parents, who try to normalise the trip: stopping at a diner, catching a movie. But there’s no getting away from it – her parents look upon her as a “familiar face that they were trying to convince themselves they could estrange”. Deborah has schizophrenia, with episodes of psychosis that they can no longer manage, and they are taking her to a psychiatric…

The first time most of us heard of the Smile was a year ago, when the band debuted at Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, alongside Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinnner, delivering an enjoyably punchy performance. Away from Radiohead, both Yorke and Greenwood’s work has tended to the austere, whether electronic or classical, so it was a joy to hear them let loose on spiky post-punk tracks such as You Will Never Work in Television Again.As with Radiohead’s last album, 2016’s A Moon…

Comedian Chris Rock takes Johnny Depp’s side while he took the stage in London to kick start his Ego Death tour in the UK. Chris did not make any comments on Oscar’s slap but instead had some opinions on Amber Heard. According to LAD Bible, Chris had the audience rolling on the ground with laughter when he criticized Amber’s testimony against her ex-husband Depp. Earlier, it was revealed that Amber allegedly told Jonny’s former security guard, Starling Jenkins III that she had defecated in a bed that she once shared…

Even — or especially — in front of 50,000 adoring fans, Paul McCartney was just another proud grandparent.As the 79-year-old pop legend sang his classic soft-rock ballad “Maybe I’m Amazed” on Friday night, giant screens at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium flashed old images of him cradling his newborn daughter Mary inside a shearling jacket. You know the photos, the most famous of which — snapped by his late wife Linda, about whom he wrote “Maybe I’m Amazed” — appeared on the back cover of McCartney’s homemade 1970 solo debut,…

Chris Rock On Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Case(Pic Credit: Facebook, Wikipedia) Chris Rock roasted Amber Heard in his recent performance amid the ongoing defamation case from her ex-husband Johnny Depp. This year will be remembered for a lot of things that the film industry offered, along with a few controversial moments like Will Smith slapping Chris at Oscars 2022. Now, the 5-weeks-long defamation trial slammed by Depp on Heard has become the talk of the town. The whole world has an eye on the…

“She’s like the Michelangelo of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” Pamela Des Barres once said of her friend and peer in penis admiration, Cynthia Albritton. Better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, the 74-year-old artist died last week after battling a long illness. She was one of the last living “supergroupies” of the 60s and 70s US music scene, who built a reputation on their famous bonks and tell-all tales. But Albritton went a step further, casting the privates of the musicians she admired and flipping the notion of woman…

The bandleader, songwriter, singer, saxophonist and keyboard player Orlando Julius, who has died aged 78, helped to transform the Nigerian music scene in the 1960s with highly commercial, ground-breaking fusions that influenced Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat.He began playing professionally as a teenager, working with leading musicians in Ibadan, a major Nigerian cultural centre, before starting his own band, the Modern Aces, in 1964. The group developed a strong local following thanks to Julius’s experiments in mixing highlife and…