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Actor Vince Vaughn tore into late night television and explained why he thinks it’s going by the wayside in a recent interview with Theo Von (couple of Vaughns/Vons cutting it up). It’s no secret that programs like The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! aren’t the juggernauts that they used to be. Network television used to be the end goal… now it’s falling behind, and struggling to keep up with modern media. If you were looking for a sign that late night television […]

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Chip Taylor, the man who crafted memorable hits like “Angel of the Morning” by Juice Newton, plus “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)” by Janis Joplin, has died at the age of 86. Perhaps his biggest success was The Troggs’ weirdly wacky track, “Wild Thing.” (It’s a glorious mashup of 1960s novelty song and surreal […]

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It looked like a scene straight out of Reacher, the hit Prime Video drama starring Alan Ritchson.  We reported yesterday about an incident involving Ritchson and his neighbor. The actor was riding his green Kawasaki bike near his home in the quiet Nashville suburb of Brentwood with his children when a neighbor confronted him about the noise.  After […]

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