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Ruby Dee, the multitalented and highly decorated actress, writer and activist has died at the age of 91. Dee died Wednesday in her home in New Rochelle, New York, of natural causes, her personal representative confirmed Thursday. See also: 10 Maya Angelou Quotes That Will Lift You Up She was best known for starring in the 1961 film A Raisin in the Sun before she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in American Gangster in 2008. Dee got her start on Broadway, but easily made the transition to television and film, and was nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning one for the 1990 TV movie Decoration Day . She also won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album with her late husband Ossie Davis, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together , which tied with former President Jimmy Carter in 2007. Her many honors include Screen Actors Guild awards, the National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center honors. Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Harlem, New York … [Read more...] about Ruby Dee, Decorated Actress, Activist and Writer, Dead at 91

The event gathers nearly 600 participants including representatives from the culture ministry, tourism management agencies and leading tourism firms. At the forum, participants analysed the importance of the domestic tourism situation, the development of domestic tourism in Vietnam and other neighbouring countries, and solutions to develop domestic tourism as a sustainable economic sector. Speaking at the forum, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties but has also caused administrators to realise that the tourism industry was not balanced between international tourism and domestic tourism. The Minister expressed his hope that the travel businesses participating in this forum would pioneers to impact on domestic tourism, causing domestic tourism to become the main product in the tourism structure in the new context of Vietnam being unable to open to the international tourism market. The forum is … [Read more...] about National Forum on Domestic Tourism 2021 opens

The writers of the classic 1987 sci-fi action movie Predator are suing Disney over its rights. Jim and John Thomas claim that Disney's hold on the series is about to lapse, but the studio is unwilling to relinquish the rights. US copyright law allows for authors to cancel the ownership of their work by previous rights holders and reclaim the copyright after a 35-year period. According The Hollywood Reporter , the Thomas brothers state that their original Predator script--titled Hunters--reverts back to them on April 17 this year. In addition, Thomas brothers state that they served Disney notice that they planned to take back the rights in 2016, but heard nothing from the studio until January this year. The brothers have sued, with copyright lawyer Marc Toberoff representing. Disney's 20th Century division have now countersued, arguing that Thomas's claim on the copyright have not met "statutory requirements" and that their attempts to regain it are "premature," given the studio … [Read more...] about Predator Writers Are Suing Over Franchise Copyright, But Disney Are Putting Up A Fight

WHEN you're considering ending a relationship, who is the first person your turn to? Chances are, it'll be your best mate or your mum... or maybe even both. But for one woman who is considering dumping her boyfriend, it's her fed-up NEIGHBOUR who is urging her to pull the plug on her relationship. In a brutal note which was shared on Reddit's "Trashy" forum , the anonymous neighbour, from New York, asked the woman to do everyone in the building a "favour and dump him". They wrote: "We don't need to be woken up one more time at 2am because he can't be an adult and hold his s*** together. "Not one more time woken up by slamming doors, stomping feet and the worst part - hearing his 'whiny a** voice yell 'what the f***!'" Referencing a previous incident between the couple involving an ironing board, they added: "Your new dog deserves better. Just BREAK. UP. ALREADY. Please allow us to go at least one month without being woken up in the middle of the night. … [Read more...] about Exhausted neighbour begs woman to dump ‘whiny a*s’ boyfriend so their late-night arguments FINALLY stop in brutal note

Instead of tearing the ground asunder and swallowing Wall Street whole, Coinbase's direct listing on Wednesday was a conventional, though thoroughly successful, affair. Seen as a litmus test for cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance, investors snapped up the shares and sent the price soaring more than 50% higher directly after launching on the Nasdaq. Briefly topping out at $100 billion, the valuation of the cryptocurrency exchange was not far off Facebook's back in 2012, and easily dwarfed some of the biggest exchange companies in the world, including Nasdaq itself. Advocates of Bitcoin, Ether and a broad range of other cryptocurrencies traded on Coinbase's exchange would like to tell you the listing is a vindication of the digital tokens, and proof of their ascent toward becoming a mainstream asset class alongside fiat currencies or commodities. But cryptocurrencies still have a long way to go. The issue of volatility Companies like Coinbase are forced to bare all when … [Read more...] about Opinion: Don’t let the Coinbase listing fool you