Dabney Coleman, the moustached character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in 9 to 5 and the nasty TV director in Tootsie, has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said in a statement to The Associated Press. She said he “took his…
Sixty years ago, baseball commissioner Ford Frick received a telegram from a Wisconsin congressman. Rep. Henry Reuss was worried the Milwaukee Braves would defect to Atlanta for the promise of a richer television contract, and proposed a fix: if all the Major League Baseball teams would share their television money, then the Braves might stay….
It has been around nine years since Rajamouli’s grandiose period film franchise Baahubali, set in a fictionalised Mahishmati kingdom, hit Indian screens and yet the fandom feels fresh; the magnificent sets, the powerful story, impressive VFX, nuanced performances, and addictive songs made Rajamouli’s magragnum opus unforgettable. So when Hotstar announced an animated spin-off, fans of…
Saomi Bagh in Agra is a new white marble structure in Agra that took 104 years to build A new white marble structure in Agra that took 104 years to build is daily drawing hordes of spiritually inclined tourists. The visitors often draw comparisons between the iconic Taj Mahal and the newly built mausoleum of…
Sutton Foster, a classic Broadway triple threat beloved for her comedic skills and her big belt, will star this summer and fall in a Broadway revival of “Once Upon a Mattress.” The production had a brief and exuberantly received run earlier this year as part of the Encores! program at New York City Center, where…
Redmi Note 13R has been launched in China as a successor to last year’s Redmi Note 12R. The new Note series phone is available in three colour options and five RAM and storage configurations. It flaunts a 6.79-inch display and runs on a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC. The Redmi Note 13R ships with HyperOS…
Nearly 5.5 million EVMs will be used in the 2024 parliamentary elections. (Representational) New Delhi: It is a well-known fact that India is the world’s largest democracy, but not many know that it is India that perfected and deployed mass electronic voting for the first time anywhere in the world. So, the country, in a…
The sneaky brilliance of “Problems Between Sisters” is that it doesn’t simply ask, “What if the brothers were sisters?” but rather the more complex question: “What if the sisters gave themselves permission to act as men do?” More precisely, what if women ceded control to their inner art monsters? The question has special resonance for…
The Microsoft logo is displayed on a smartphone. Mateusz Slodkowski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority cleared Microsoft’s artificial intelligence partnership with Mistral of regulatory concerns after previously inviting views on whether the arrangement qualified as a merger. The CMA said in a brief update Friday that…
Four of the seven phases of India’s general elections have been concluded, covering 380 seats and hundreds of candidates. Voters have sealed the mandates for roughly 70% of the total Lok Sabha seats. Both social and traditional media are abuzz with poll studies and analyses, though a common observation between them all is that the…
