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‘Contagion’ Director Steven Soderbergh Leads DGA Committee on Resuming Production
The Directors Guild of America has selected “Contagion” director Steven Soderbergh to head a committee to explore resuming production when the coronavirus pandemic abates. DGA President Thomas Schlamme and National Executive Director Russell Hollander made the announcement late Thursday afternoon. “A major concern we’re hearing most right now is about when we’ll be returning to…
5 Bold Predictions for WWE Raw and SmackDown for Remainder of 2020
0 of 5Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesThe uncertainty that surrounds the WWE product due to the coronavirus pandemic has, inadvertently, set the company up to take several creative risks, as we witnessed at WrestleMania 36 with the Boneyard and Firefly Funhouse matches.That will be a trend as the remainder of 2020 plays out and fans return to…
Coronavirus: Yep, ‘The Simpsons’ predicted murder hornets too
“The Simpsons” apparently did it again. It inadvertently foresaw the future. Bill Oakley, a writer on the long-running animated TV show, recently admitted in a tweet that yes, he and some of his colleagues predicted some disturbing events of 2020.First up was the coronavirus crisis and now the “murder hornets” from Asia that were recently…
Coronavirus: Why are football teams in Belarus still playing?
Published on 9 Apr 2020Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has resisted calls for a nationwide lockdown, calling fears of the coronavirus epidemic “psychosis” and suggesting vodka or a sauna would help.So as football leagues across Europe have shut down for safety, teams in Belarus are playing on. The country’s little-known league is now surging in popularity…
Kristen Bell records Dax Shepard performing surgery on himself during coronavirus pandemic
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Self-isolating has people turning to their own devices for everything — even surgery.After recently injuring his arm, Dax Shepard chose to remove pins from his hand while his wife, Kristen Bell, recorded the ordeal.KRISTIN CAVALLARI, JAY CUTLER ANNOUNCE DIVORCE AFTER…
The Lidl, Aldi, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons and Asda foodboxes available during coronavirus lockdown
We will use your email address to send you newsletters. Please see ourPrivacy Noticefor more information on how we use your data and your data protection rights.Invalid EmailAldi has become the latest supermarket to introduce a ‘food parcel’ to mitigate the strain of the coronavirus pandemic. It follows similar efforts by rival stores Asda, Morrisons,…
Coronavirus: Insurer to give £25 refunds as cars and vans sit idle
Image copyright PA Media Image caption Roads have been extremely quiet owing to the virus restrictions One of the UK’s biggest motor insurance companies, Admiral, is giving a £25 refund to customers as cars and vans sit idle in the coronavirus pandemic.The payment will be paid automatically to anyone with a car or van insurance…
Coronavirus: UK facing ‘significant recession’ after economy suffers worst fall since financial crisis
The UK faces a “significant recession”, the chancellor has warned, after figures showed the economy shrank by 2% in the first three months of the year.The figures are the first official look at the lockdown’s financial effects and show a contraction of 5.8% in March GDP (gross domestic product) alone – the biggest monthly fall…
Coronavirus: More businesses ‘beginning to reopen’
Image copyright Getty Images A survey suggests there are signs companies that shut down completely in April are starting to reopen.The Bank of Scotland’s business barometer survey found a fifth of firms were not operating, down from 32%.Meanwhile Scottish firms operating at less than 50% capacity had increased 18 points to 43%. Three-quarters of businesses…
Facebook will send postcards to verify US election ad buyers
There’s no specific time frame for when the cards will take effect, but they should be in use before the 2018 mid-term elections in November.Harbath acknowledged to Reuters that this “won’t solve everything.” A determined foreign manipulation effort could rely on US-based volunteers, for instance, and this won’t help if there are any plans to…
Lord Mervyn King gives stark warning over coronavirus business loans
‘Something has gone wrong, I am worried’: Ex-Bank of England governor Lord Mervyn King gives stark warning as just 4,200 UK firms get crisis loans compared to 725,000 in AmericaLord King is ‘worried’ about the Government’s emergency bailout loans system It has seen just 4,200 firms in Britain get the payment out of 300,000 applicants£800m has…
‘This Is Reprehensible.’ Read Jeff Flake’s Speech Comparing Trump’s Attacks on the Media to Josef Stalin
Jeff Flake delivered a searing rebuke of President Donald Trump’s attacks on the press on the Senate floor Wednesday, urging the chamber to counteract his rhetoric by defending the media.“Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has in turn…
Broadway actor Nick Cordero’s condition going ‘a little downhill,’ wife Amanda Kloots says
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEMay 21, 2020, 11:41 AM UTCBroadway actor Nick Cordero’s condition is going “a little downhill” after almost two months of battling the coronavirus, his wife said on Instagram on Wednesday.Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, said the Tony-nominated actor “had…
Chiefs’ Laurent Duvernay-Tardif working as orderly during coronavirus pandemic
5:52 PM ETAdam TeicherESPN Staff Writer CloseCovered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013Kansas City Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a medical school graduate and volunteered to help recently when his hometown of Montreal experienced a shortage of medical personnel during the coronavirus pandemic.He was assigned to assist in a…
Bank of England boss: Loans need to be sorted out
Image copyright Getty Images The boss of the Bank of England has said that emergency lending to businesses “has to be sorted out” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Andrew Bailey questioned whether the system is “too complicated” as banks struggle to cope with applications.Mr Bailey said that banks must now “dig in” with processing risk…