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Coca-Cola is offering voluntary buyouts to about 4,000 people to reduce the number of layoffs it says will take place as it streamlines operations. Coca-Cola is reducing the number of its individual business segments from 17 to nine, which it said Friday will result in “voluntary and involuntary” staff cuts. The streamlining is taking place …
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The pandemic may have affected plans for the fall 2020 TV schedule, but there's plenty to watch from 'Fargo' to 'Family Guy' to 'Filthy Rich' to 'Fear the Walking Dead.'
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BOSTON — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died. The death of Anthony Martignetti was announced on Facebook by his brother Andy. He was 63. “It is with a heavy and hurting heart that we …
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Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of printing with moveable metal type, is a true benefactor of humankind. His innovative application of printing technologies was not only a showcase example of market anarchism, but a greater source of benefit to mankind than state-sponsored technologies can ever hope to be. His is a story not only of innovation, but …
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They’re not exactly the Moonpersons that anybody wanted to land at the VMAs. But when the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards go down on Sunday, there will be two new, COVID-era categories: best quarantine performance and best music video from home. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and Post Malone are among the music …
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Since Keanu Reeves last played Ted in “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” in 1991, we have watched him brutally kill hundreds of people. In the “Matrix” trilogy, his Neo was a Zen murder machine who could level whole cities with a little karate and a trenchcoat. Later, in “John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum,” he borrowed …
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In “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” opening Friday on demand, Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) travel through time in search of the perfect song to unite and save the world. Like, whoa. So it was important to make sure that the music in the film was most excellent. “We wanted to make …
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Teens going back to school: Do not watch the movie “The Personal History of David Copperfield” for class in lieu of reading the book. You will fail your exam. However, the many, many liberties Scottish director Armando Iannucci takes with Charles Dickens’ story — from flashback projections on walls to a newfound farcical sense of …
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“The New Mutants,” which comes to theaters Friday, is not as new as you think. Fox’s final X-Men film has been floating around for years, plagued by delays, corporate acquisitions, changes of taste and, the cherry on top, a pandemic. Up until a month ago, there were rumors that its new owner, Disney, would quietly …
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Things are about to get ugly in Tinseltown. Hollywood’s newest management firm, backed by billionaire Steve Cohen, has been promising investors it will succeed by waging war on an ailing industry weakened by the coronavirus, according to a leaked investor pitch deck. The new firm, dubbed “Moxie Media,” has been handing out a pitch deck …