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Alec Baldwin’s Trump Calls In To ‘Weekend Update’ To Brag About His Stellar COVID-19 Job

Alec Baldwin was back as Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” — on the phone — calling in to “Weekend Update,” and bragging that America is now “number one in the world” for COVID-19 (in cases and deaths).  Besides, “my TV ratings are through the roof, and every night at 7 p.m. all of New York […]

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Tom Hanks, Direct From Coronavirus, Hosts First-Ever Stay-At-Home ‘Saturday Night Live’

“Hey, it’s good to be here, though it’s … weird to be here hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ from home,” announced Tom Hanks in a surprise appearance at the start of the historic stay-at-home “SNL.” The actor, direct from his own personal ordeal with COVID-19, captured the  bizarre other-worldness of a streamed “SNL” with the entire

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How live theatre is still running despite lockdown

Image copyright Lambert Jackson Image caption Marisha Wallace, whose stage work includes Dreamgirls, Aladdin and Waitress, is among the singers for Leave a Light On Since Covid-19 closed auditoriums worldwide, theatres have been picking tapes of shows from the library shelf to stream online for those feeling play-starved. But a few performers are attempting something

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Bollywood: Coronavirus brings India’s mega movie industry to standstill

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sooryavanshi was all set to be a mega Bollywood hit – and then the lockdown happened With the world at a standstill because of Covid-19, India’s Hindi film industry is seeing abandoned film sets, closed cinemas and movie stars with empty diaries. BBC Asian Network’s Haroon Rashid reports on

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Babyface Reveals He And His Family Had Tested Positive For Coronavirus

Legendary music producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds revealed that he and members of his family had previously tested positive for the coronavirus but that they are now all recovering. “It’s an incredibly scary thing to go through my friends,” the singer/songwriter wrote in an Instagram post on Friday, which was his birthday. “I’m happy to report

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Magician Walks Through U.S.-Mexico Border Wall In ‘Riskiest Stunt’

British magician Dynamo stunned onlookers as he appeared to pass through a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in the grand finale of his latest show. The 37-year-old seemingly wriggled through a gap in the slats ― which a witness attested was smaller than his fist ― to enter Mexico in the concluding segment of

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Mark Hamill Records Every Donald Trump Coronavirus Briefing For A Taunting Reason

Mark Hamill said he makes sure to record “each & every” one of the White House’s coronavirus task force briefings. But it’s not to watch them, the “Star Wars” actor announced on Twitter Friday. Instead, the movie star claimed he only does it so he can then take great satisfaction in deleting the updates ―

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Michael Arceneaux Doesn’t Want To Die Poor, Or At All, During This Pandemic

Michael Arceneaux’s new book, “I Don’t Want to Die Poor,” was always going to be relevant ― even before the coronavirus became a pandemic that would forever change the way we look at this nation’s failing health care system, disproportionate poverty and crippling burden of student loan debt. But since the world completely turned on

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Anthony Fauci Names Actor Who ‘Of Course’ Should Play Him On ‘Saturday Night Live’

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he doesn’t really want anyone to play him on “Saturday Night Live” when it returns to NBC this weekend. But when pressed on the issue of nationwide intrigue by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Friday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases acknowledged that if he was to

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One-Woman COVID-19 Foe Rihanna Churns Out Millions For Fight

Superstar Rihanna has turned into a one-woman force against the ravages of COVID-19 with a string of eye-popping donations to battle the pandemic. The 32-year-old Grammy winner said she’s trying to “save the world,” adding in a snide slap at Donald Trump: “Unlike y’all president.” Rihanna made the comment in a live Instagram post in

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