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On Sunday night, Investigation Discovery released a fifth episode of Quiet on Set, a docuseries that has generated much conversation about what happened behind the scenes of several popular children’s TV shows in the late 1990s and 2000s. The series' first four episodes tell the story of the allegedly toxic workplace culture on Dan Schneider’s Nickelodeon shows. In the fifth episode, journalist Soledad O’Brien interviews former cast members of Schneider’s shows, including one who had previously not spoken out but chose to come forward to discuss his experience with Brian Peck, the former dialogue coach who pleaded no contest to sexually abusing actor Drake Bell when the latter was a teenager. [Read More]

Basically, the shows contestants (aka Islanders) thought they'd found love-or at least, a sexy single to share their bed with-and were happily coupled up. ICYMI, here's the breakdown of who's who: Caro and Cashel, Mallory and Weston, Alana and Yamen, Alexandra and Michael, and Elizabeth and Zac. Of course, that's when the producers threw a flirty wrench named Kyra into their dating game. Love Island host Arielle Vandenberg introduced the sixth girl to the cast and gave Kyra the oh-so-fun job of picking one of the other girl's guys to partner up with. [Read More]

My mother died of breast cancer. After two years of illness and major surgery, she had become gaunt. Her hair was almost gone. Her skin was yellowed. Her limbs were swollen. The day after she died, I took my father to the funeral home, where he bought the most expensive coffin available. The mortician assured him it was waterproof. Two days later, after my mother had been embalmed, we returned. I started to walk into the Slumber Room. [Read More]

Nick D’Aloisio has officially earned his seat at the cool kids’ table. The 17-year-old high school student this week sold his news-aggregator app Summly to tech giant Yahoo for a reported $30 million in cash and stock. While he’s finishing up his diploma, he’ll also start work at Yahoo’s London office. Meanwhile, Yahoo plans to enhance its own mobile apps with the technology developed for Summly, which uses an algorithm to automatically produce easily digestible summaries of news stories. [Read More]

Republic PicturesDirector: Orson Welles Year Released: 1948 Studio: Republic Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy Get This MovieNo major acting and directing talent in movie history had as uneven a career behind and in front of the camera as Orson Welles. The man responsible for masterpieces like Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil (and the movie-stealing small role of Harry Lime in The Third Man) struggled mightily to maintain control over projects that got away from him (Othello, Don Quixote) and, despite the “genius” label hung on him in his early 20s, continually had to scrape, beg and borrow money for the films he wanted to make. [Read More]

December 21, 2014 10:51 AM EST Winter solstice, falling this year on Sunday, Dec. 21, marks the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. More precisely, winter officially begins at 6:03 p.m. ET — the moment when the Northern Hemisphere is pointed at its furthest distance from the sun. This means winter solstice boasts the longest night and the shortest day, and often colder temperatures, too. But the good news? [Read More]

Spoiler alert: This article discusses all episodes of Netflix's Baby Reindeer. A woman walks into a London bar, crying softly, her eyes on the floor. She claims to be a powerful lawyer, but she also says she can’t afford a cup of tea. So the bartender, intrigued by this suddenly chatty enigma, gives her one on the house. This isn’t the setup for a joke, though the bartender happens to moonlight as a comedian. [Read More]

If you’ve ever taken a taxi in any metropolitan area, the “terrible taxi experience” will be familiar to you. We swap awful taxi tales like they’re war stories; heck, we’re almost proud of them. However, when it comes to holiday travel, the ride-hailing app Uber hopes to give people some peace of mind. The customer-driver mutual rating system creates reciprocal obligations in which both sides are incentivized to be as nice as possible. [Read More]

A former Somali military commander accused of committing war crimes during the African nation's brutal civil later moved to the US and got a job driving for Uber and Lyft. According to a CNN investigation , Yusuf Abdi Ali, a driver for Uber in Virginia since November 2017, is in fact a former officer in the Somali army, and is accused of being involved in killing more than 100 men while serving under dictator Siad Barre. [Read More]

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