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Broadway actor Nick Cordero, whose battle with COVID-19 has made him one of the most public faces of the pandemic, is still “fighting” despite a recent setback, according to an Instagram Stories update from his wife Amanda Kloots. “When things look down, we look up,” Kloots, 38, wrote in a separate Instagram post — “I …
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Dakota Johnson opened up about how she has been coping with her depression while in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. “You are at home, you’re not with your friends, you’re not with your family, you are not able to do the things that make you feel worthwhile,” Johnson, 30, recently told Extra. “You’re kind of …
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If you want to work for Facebook from your house in Peoria, Ill., don’t expect a Palo Alto, Calif.-sized paycheck. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said half of the social-networking giant’s employees could be working remotely within the next five to 10 years, and that Facebook will begin allowing certain employees to work from …
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It’s the coronavirus’ reckoning for Batman fans. The public has turned to an unlikely ally in the fight against COVID-19: Bane. Masks modeled after Tom Hardy’s depiction of the burly “Batman” baddie from the smash-hit movie “The Dark Knight Rises” have been selling like hotcakes since the advent of the pandemic. The bizarre trend comes …
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Put down the kitchen scissors. As more people experiment with cutting their own hair at home, Sally Hershberger is offering up some advice: Don’t do it alone, and stay away from regular scissors. “I recommend having someone else cut your hair instead of cutting it yourself. When I give virtual cuts, I always have two …
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The global entertainment industry will take a $160 billion hit over the next five years as it slowly recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. The outbreak has already whacked Hollywood studios, which have been forced to delay the release of top grossing franchises and suspend productions of summer blockbusters under shelter-in-place …
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During Wednesday’s film and television industry Zoom roundtable with Governor Gavin Newsom, “This Is Us” actor Jon Huertas said that after talking to show creator Dan Fogelman, the NBC drama may not return to production until January 2021 in case of a second wave of COVID-19. People ran with this return date which made Huertas …
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Julia Roberts and other A-listers, including Hugh Jackman and Millie Bobby Brown, have teamed up with Dr. Anthony Fauci for a campaign aimed at spreading accurate coronavirus information. Celebs participating in the #PassTheMic campaign will hand their social media accounts over to a COVID-19 expert for the day to spread awareness about how people can …
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Big tech companies such as Facebook and Google have touted their efforts to help small businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic — but those efforts may eventually take customers away from the small businesses they were supposed to help, according to a new report. Facebook and Instagram Shops were announced this week to help shuttered …
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Apparel chain Gap is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters. Gap reached a deal early this year to more than triple the number of item-picking robots it uses to 106 by the fall. Then the pandemic …
Broadway actor Nick Cordero, whose battle with COVID-19 has made him one of the most public faces of the pandemic, is still “fighting” despite a recent setback, according to an Instagram Stories update from his wife Amanda Kloots. “When things look down, we look up,” Kloots, 38, wrote in a separate Instagram post — “I …
