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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here’s why they remain so alluring  The Associated Press Source link

Google cofounder Larry Page has purchased another private island, this time in Puerto Rico. In 2018, Page, whose net worth is estimated to be approximately $127 billion, bought the island of Cayo Norte for $32 million, Business Insider recently reported. Cayo Norte is located between Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Page purchased the island in two separate transactions via a limited liability company called U.S. Virgin Island Properties, which Business Insider… Source link

Host Jerrod Carmichael speaks onstage at the 80th Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo: Rich Polk/NBC via Getty Images) After a tumultuous hiatus, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hoped to restart Hollywood’s biggest party with the 80th Golden Globes. But the show’s host, Jerrod Carmichael, had some honest words to share before the festivities started. Rather than talk around the reasons for the ceremony’s absence from… Source link

The past few weeks haven’t exactly been a golden age for the Golden Globes. The annual event honoring film and television has been embroiled in near-constant controversy following a February investigation by the Los Angeles Timesthat discovered the group behind the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, did not have a single Black member among its ranks, among other troubling revelations. By mid-March, Hollywood’s leading publicists joined with representatives from Time’s Up and… Source link

The Golden Globes will air this Sunday on NBC, but the award show’s glamor is being overshadowed by a recent scandal and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that’s forced the production to go virtual. Despite its not so subtle problems, the Globes still offers a window of opportunity for shows and movies that want to capture more viewers. It is also often perceived as a precursor to the annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will take place on April 25 this year. Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago… Source link