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Tinsley Mortimer may have to wait a little longer to say “I do.” The “Real Housewives of New York” star, 44, and her fiancé, Scott Kluth, became engaged in November 2019, but their wedding plans are now on hold amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We were thinking about doing something in Japan. And clearly, anything in …
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The Television Academy is adjusting the eligibility and voting deadlines for this year’s Primetime Emmy calendar in response to concerns made by TV communication executives and awards strategists in the current coronavirus climate. The dates for the Creative Emmy Awards and Primetime Emmy shows remain unchanged respectively on Sept. 12 to 13 and Sept. 20, …
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Discretion — the act of being discreet — isn’t tough to grasp. In simple terms, it’s the art and act of looking around to weigh circumstances before you open your big mouth, lest you needlessly hurt someone’s feelings and/or get punched in your big mouth. Personally, I’ve long been in the habit of perusing the …
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It’s a supersize lapse in judgment. Last week, the social-media accounts of McDonald’s Brasil separated the brand’s Golden Arches in order to encourage social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak, Ad Age reported. But the reimagined spaced-out M has since been scrubbed after critics slammed the move as insensitive. “F - - k right off you award-desperate morons,” wrote …
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In a “Dobie Gillis” sitcom, circa 1960, Dobie, the son of a grocer, has a rival for the attention of his love interests. His name is Milton Armitage — the drop-dead handsome, fabulously wealthy, vain, selfish classmate played by Warren Beatty. At the malt shop, Milton declares he’s prepared to run against Dobie in the …
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Anyone hear anything about a virus going around? Desperate times, desperate measures, desperate sports columnist. Alternative TV and radio pandemic programming and executive decisions: I’m particularly excited by the new MLB program on Fox, “We Pick It Up In The Seventh,” which will show the endings of World Series games that ended far too late …
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Former Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes could not have been more surprised by what was in his mail, and he didn’t waste any time revealing it to his Twitter followers. It was an invitation by the Yankees to attend Old Timers’ Day on Aug. 9. “Really guys? I’m 33,” Hughes tweeted on Wednesday. Hughes, who retired …
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Spike Lee and Charles Oakley starred in full-page newspaper ads Friday as heroes of the downtrodden. But where would racial hustlers be if not for selectively sighted, pandering, frightened media? Since the Lee-Jimmy Dolan hassle — an epic struggle between the excessively self-entitled — Oakley, who had his own war with Dolan, has repeated his …