George Carlin lampoons the people he used to know in his New York City neighborhood, including Italians, Jews and the police, doing hilarious stereotypical impressions in a recently rediscovered clip of him performing in 1973. The clip comes from the rarely seen special, The Real George Carlin, that will be …
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It’s a Thursday afternoon in February, but it feels like Christmas morning in the Studio City, California, office where Greg Lansky’s adult entertainment empire is headquartered. At the center of the office, which resembles a tech start-up with its open floor plan and clusters of video editing bays with flat-screen …
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A Florida man who claimed in a TV interview to have helped cremate Natalee Holloway’s remains back in 2010 was fatally stabbed with his own knife during an attempted kidnapping Wednesday. John Christopher Ludwick was stabbed in North Port, Florida, after trying to kidnap a woman as she was exiting …
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It all began with David Bowie. Candy-colored hair. A lightning bolt across his cream-painted face. A mysterious backstory that he was a “messenger from Mars.” It was February 1973, and Bowie had come to New York to promote The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars …
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There are no simple answers from Rose McGowan. Even a “How are you?” from the 92Y event’s moderator and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow pulls the actress, activist and author into a circuitous explanation about how the cult she was born into trained her for The End of Days at 18 …
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