Here's Why PETA is Pushing MLB to Rename 'Bullpen'

PETA called the term "outdated" and is pushing for MLB to rename it to 'arm barn,' a more "animal-friendly term" that also happens to be a vulgar slang reference.
Read more: https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/10/29/peta-calls-for-mlb-to-rename-outdated-bullpen-to-arm-barn?source=Snapzu

Writing books is hard. Why do authors do it?

You can't drink writing or wear writing to keep you warm. It doesn't make good firewood, nor does it keep the rain out of your tent. What's the point?
Read more: https://blog.constelisvoss.ml/why-do-authors-write-books/?source=Snapzu

TV drama shows Colin Kaepernick before he took the knee

When American football star Colin Kaepernick took the knee during a national anthem, he became an overnight symbol of the protest and division over race in the US. He has now worked with Netflix to show what set a sport-mad teenager on the path to becoming a civil rights standard bearer.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58994604.amp?source=Snapzu

Australian entertainment icon Bert Newton dies aged 83

Bert Newton, a legend of Australian TV and radio, has died at age 83. Newton was a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, quadruple Gold Logie-winning entertainer and a radio, theatre and television personality and presenter.
Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/national/showbusiness-icon-bert-newton-dies-aged-83/60525fe7-4fc1-4b4e-812a-b9be05ac65f9?source=Snapzu

Why We Need ‘Goosebumps’ More Than Ever

Thanks to R.L. Stine’s scary stories for kids, I’ve been able to replace some of the real horrors of the past year with fears outlandish enough to laugh at.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/magazine/goosebumps.html?source=Snapzu

No Subscriptions, Big Money: How Free Streamers Are Changing TV’s Business Model

Channels like Buzzr are finding a way to compete in the streaming wars.
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/free-streamers-apps-buzzr-pluto-tubi.html?source=Snapzu

Orgasmatron - Motörhead

From the album "Orgasmatron", 1986
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Dr. Dre Reportedly Making New Music For Grand Theft Auto

Leave it to Snoop Dogg to deliver some of the biggest news of the day. Snoop Dogg says Dr. Dre is working on new music for an upcoming Grand Theft Auto game. Snoop Dogg revealed the news while as a guest on the Rolling Stone Music Now Podcast. In an episode that will air on Friday, Snoop said, "I do know [Dr. Dre] is in the studio... I do know he's making great f***ing music.
Read more: https://www.ign.com/articles/dr-dre-grand-theft-auto-new-music?source=Snapzu

Ayrton Senna's father has passed away at 94

Milton da Silva, the father of the late Ayrton Senna and the grand-father of former F1 driver Bruno Senna, died on Wednesday in Sao Paulo at the age of 94 from natural causes. Although the three-time world champion raced under his mother's surname, his father was a quiet but enduring force in Senna's life.
Read more: https://f1i.com/news/422713-ayrton-sennas-father-has-passed-away-at-94.html?source=Snapzu

Do we really want TV shows to mention the pandemic?

From The Morning Show to You to Curb Your Enthusiasm, shows are facing a thorny question: should they include Covid?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/26/tv-shows-covid-pandemic-streaming?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: Dr. Dre Working on 'Great F-ing Music' for 'Grand Theft Auto,' Snoop Dogg Says

Snoop also previews next year’s Super Bowl halftime show in upcoming episode of Rolling Stone Music Now
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dr-dre-new-album-detox-2021-grand-theft-1248754/?source=Snapzu

Chucky Turns a Tired Horror Cliché on Its Head

Charles Lee “Chucky” Ray has taken on many different roles in the 30-plus years since his debut in Child’s Play. Beyond the obvious — serial killer turned evil doll — he’s been a romantic antihero in Bride of Chucky, a reluctant father in Seed of Chucky, and a wisecracking shock jock as a mainstay at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. Now on Chucky, his first TV series, the titular good guy gone bad is something Chucky has never been before: an LGBTQ+ ally.
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/article/chucky-tv-series-gay-lead-queer-ally-horror-trope.html?source=Snapzu

France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon

Sophie Fornairon's independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant's ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/france-moves-shield-its-book-industry-amazon-2021-10-25/?source=Snapzu

Squid Game’s creator: ‘I’m not that rich. It’s not like Netflix paid me a bonus’

The smash hit survival drama has earned Netflix £650m. But the stress of making it cost Hwang Dong-hyuk six teeth – and he didn’t get paid any extra. He reveals the family catastrophe that inspired his hyper-violent capitalism satire
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/26/squid-games-creator-rich-netflix-bonus-hwang-dong-hyuk?source=Snapzu

Matt Berry Has a Type

Matt Berry plays men who do not fit in this world, who are either too dumb to know that or too self-involved to care. He’s the cruel, fatuous hangman — also named Matt Berry — in Snuff Box and the witless, talentless actor Steven Toast in Toast of London. In FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, he’s a sex-obsessed, murderous Victorian vampire who is absolutely serious at all times, especially when he’s being very stupid.
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/article/matt-berry-profile.html?source=Snapzu

Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns

NEW YORK (AP) — With computer-generated imagery, it seems the sky’s the limit in the magic Hollywood can produce: elaborate dystopian universes. Trips to outer space, for those neither astronauts nor billionaires.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-movies-gun-politics-prop-gun-shooting-16b511c9dd479b06d9f63fe763445698?source=Snapzu

MLB work stoppage almost certain on Dec. 2

Baseball's ninth work stoppage and first in 26 years appears almost certain to start Dec. 2, freezing the free-agent market and threatening the start of spring training in February.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32471133/major-league-baseball-work-stoppage-almost-certain-dec-2?source=Snapzu

Facebook hires Britney Spears’ lawyer to fight an upcoming TV show

Facebook probably wishes it had a delete button for its timeline now that it’s threatening an upcoming TV show with a lawsuit for potentially tarnishing the brand’s reputation.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/25/22745525/facebook-britney-spears-lawyer-doomsday-machine?source=Snapzu

Randy Bachman to be reunited with his guitar that was lost for four decades

Rock star Randy Bachman will be reunited with a favorite guitar that was lost for more than four decades thanks to an internet sleuth who identified the instrument in a Christmas performance by Japanese musicians. The writer of hit songs such as American Woman and band member in Bachman Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who had his rare Gretsch guitar stolen from a Toronto Holiday Inn hotel in 1976, and had all but given up hope of ever seeing it again.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/16/randy-bachman-lost-guitar-gretsch?source=Snapzu

One of Spain’s Most Celebrated Female Authors Turned Out to Actually Be 3 Men

Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero came forward after “Carmen Mola” won a coveted €1 million literary prize.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5wm4/carmen-mola-spains-most-celebrated-female-authors?source=Snapzu

50 years ago, 'The Electric Company' used comedy to boost kids' reading skills

In October 1971, The Electric Company flipped a switch and hit the public TV airwaves, aiming to use sketch comedy and animated shorts to teach kids to read.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048365940/50-years-ago-the-electric-company-used-comedy-to-boost-kids-reading-skills?source=Snapzu

Michael C Hall on death, dogs, depravity and Dexter: ‘It was fantastic to be ethically unbound’

Michael C Hall’s face is weirdly immutable – he looks no different now, at 50, from a decade or more ago, when he would loom down from giant posters as Dexter, the footloose serial killer. In fact, he looks pretty much the same as he did in Six Feet Under, playing David Fisher, right at the start of the century – he has one of those very structured faces, its features and angles carved so surely that there’s nowhere for them to disintegrate into.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/25/michael-c-hall-dexter-back-serial-killer-interview?source=Snapzu

Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are in ‘Pandemonium’ After Ransomware Attack

Sinclair is still struggling to go back to normal operations. Channels can’t air ads, employees had no email access for days, and there’s a lot of confusion.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypg4w/sinclair-workers-say-tv-channels-are-in-pandemonium-after-ransomware-attack?source=Snapzu

Yes, Dune Part 1 will get a Part 2, says Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. has done everything it can to indicate that it will make a sequel to Dune and finish the story. Everything...except actually announce one.
Read more: https://winteriscoming.net/2021/10/21/dune-part-1-will-get-part-2-warner-bros/?a_aid=46089?source=Snapzu

Invasion Made Me Root for the Aliens

The first episode of Invasion, the new aliens-attack-Earth series premiering today on Apple TV+, gives you the impression that it will be a fairly rote entry in the genre of Devastating Alien Crisis Inspires Global Panic and Individual Resiliency. Sam Neill plays a small-town sheriff heading out for his last day on the job before retirement.
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/amp/article/invasion-review-apple-tv.html?source=Snapzu

Marvel and Sony Kept Spider-Man Split Secret From Cast and Crew

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures kept their impasse over a second Spider-Man deal secret
Read more: https://comicbook.com/movies/news/marvel-studios-sony-spider-man-deal-split-secret-cast-crew-far-from-home-2019/?source=Snapzu

Baldwin didn't know weapon on movie set contained a live round, search warrant says

As a film crew and actors in Western garb prepared to rehearse a scene inside a wooden, chapel-like building on a desert movie ranch outside Santa Fe, assistant director Dave Halls stepped outside and grabbed a prop gun off a cart. He walked back in and handed it to the film's star, Alec Baldwin, assuring him it was safe to use because it didn't have live ammo.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048583558/baldwin-didnt-know-weapon-on-movie-set-contained-a-live-round-search-warrant-say?source=Snapzu

Buildings might come crashing down in GTA 6, or whatever Rockstar is working on

Destructible scenery and environments aren't white whales in the gaming industry, but they are still uncommon enough to warrant prime spots on the feature lists of games. Many titles out there have incorporated the feature into their very identity, like Battlefield, but it's definitely one we're happy to see coming to more games - and based on a job posting, it seems like Grand Theft Auto is next in line.
Read more: https://www.xfire.com/buildings-crashing-down-gta-6-rockstar/?source=Snapzu

Invasion review: A slow-moving, tedious disaster drama

It takes a while for the alien incursion promised in the title of Apple TV+’s Invasion to arrive, and even then, the aliens themselves and their purpose remain largely shrouded in mystery. A slow-moving, often tedious disaster drama, Invasion takes five episodes to get through what a blockbuster movie might take care of in half an hour.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294349-invasion-review-a-slow-moving-tedious-disaster-drama/?source=Snapzu

Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set

A woman has died and a man has been injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set for the 19th Century western Rust. Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot while working on the set as director of photography. She was flown to hospital by helicopter but died of her injuries.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59005500?source=Snapzu

It's not Kanye, it's Ye, after judge approves name change

Rapper Kanye West has won legal approval to officially shorten his name to Ye.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/its-not-kanye-its-ye-after-judge-approves-name-change-2021-10-19/?source=Snapzu

Brian Cox says Succession might end after the next two seasons

He also confirms the fourth season won't start filming until summer 2022
Read more: https://www.avclub.com/brian-cox-says-succession-will-likely-end-after-the-nex-1847908802?source=Snapzu

UNCHARTED - Official Trailer (HD)

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Paul McCartney on Writing “Eleanor Rigby”

How one of the Beatles’ greatest songs came to be.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/paul-mccartney-writing-eleanor-rigby-beatles?source=Snapzu

Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick.

On the occasion of its 170th publication anniversary, here are the very first reviews of Herman Melville’s leviathan-sized opus of obsession, revenge, and meticulously detailed whaling practices.
Read more: https://lithub.com/check-out-the-original-1851-reviews-of-moby-dick/?source=Snapzu

NFL agrees to end 'race-norming' in settlement

The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims, according to a proposed deal filed Wednesday in federal court.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32439093/nfl-agrees-end-race-based-adjustments-dementia-testing-used-evaluate-concussion-claims?source=Snapzu

Dune review – Denis Villeneuve’s awe-inspiring epic is a moment of triumph

Villeneuve’s take on the sci-fi classic starring Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac and Zendaya has been given room to breathe, creating a colossal spectacle
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/20/dune-review-denis-villeneuves-awe-inspiring-epic-is-a-moment-of-triumph?source=Snapzu

Science and sci-fi memorabilia booming at auction

It would be reasonable to expect that it might be a slow year at auction for science, technology and science-fiction, but 2021 is on track for a record.
Read more: https://newatlas.com/collectibles/science-and-sci-fi-memorabilia-auction-boom?source=Snapzu

No Australian Open for unvaccinated tennis players, with more than a third not jabbed yet

Nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic must be double vaccinated if he wants a shot at a 10th title in 2022, with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke confirming there will not be a special exemption for tennis players.
Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/no-australian-open-for-unvaccinated-tennis-players-confirms-federal-minister-20211020-p591h9.html?source=Snapzu

Why Is Mariah Carey Teaming Up With the Winklevoss Twins? (Hint: It Has to Do With Financial Empowerment)

Carey is the latest artist to (publicly) join the crypto craze, teaming up with the Winklevii on a new campaign aimed at encouraging women to educate themselves about the asset class
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mariah-bitcoin-crypto-gemini-winklevoss-1244072/?source=Snapzu

Ozark Season 4 Part 1: Netflix Revealed the Release Date

Netflix released a short trailer for what will be the first half of the upcoming fourth and final season of the award-winning drama series. This teaser is for the first part of the fourth season, which will be released on January 21, 2022.
Read more: https://anythingmag.com/ozark-season-4-trailer-release-date-netflix/?source=Snapzu

Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the 21st Century

David Simon and Ed Burns' Baltimore epic came top in BBC Culture's critics' poll to find the greatest shows of the century. Eric Deggans explains why.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211015-why-the-wire-is-the-greatest-tv-series-of-the-21st-century?source=Snapzu

A decade later, Ubisoft has finally greenlit a new Splinter Cell, sources claim

Ubisoft has greenlit what will be its first mainline Splinter Cell game in a decade. That’s according to development sources, who told us that the title has been put into production as a means of winning back fans frustrated by recent efforts to revive the franchise in the mobile and VR spaces.
Read more: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-decade-later-ubisoft-has-finally-greenlit-a-new-splinter-cell-sources-claim/?source=Snapzu

NHL player Evander Kane suspended following league's investigation into his Covid-19 vaccine card

The National Hockey League has handed a 21-game unpaid suspension to Evander Kane of the San Jose Sharks after an investigation into whether he submitted a fraudulent Covid-19 vaccination card, according to Front Office Sports and ESPN, which cited unnamed sources.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/sport/evander-kane-nhl-suspension/index.html?source=Snapzu

Snoop Dogg Slapped With $150k Lawsuit Over Viral Instagram Video

Snoop Dogg is being hit up for $150,000 in federal court. According to court documents obtained by Radar, a company called Freedom News TV (FNTV) is suing the 49-year-old rapper for copyright infringement.
Read more: https://radaronline.com/p/snoop-dogg-sued-150000-lawsuit-viral-instagram-video/?source=Snapzu

Well, Mel Gibson Is Starring in the John Wick Prequel The Continental

The first actor to join the cast of the John Wick prequel is Mel Gibson, who you might recognize from Mad Max, Braveheart, or his history with anti-Semitic, sexist, and racist comments. According to Deadline, Gibson is set to star in The Continental, which takes place 40 years before the original film franchise starring Keanu Reeves.
Read more: https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/mel-gibson-to-star-in-john-wick-prequel-the-continental.html?source=Snapzu

‘They didn’t just pick us up off the street!’ Meet the globally derided Squid Game VIPs

The K-drama is the hottest show in the world – so why do its English speakers sound like they’re reading off Google Translate? We meet the men accused of dire, stilted acting to see how they’ve found being catapulted to fame
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/19/they-didnt-just-pick-us-up-off-the-street-meet-the-globally-derided-squid-game-vips?source=Snapzu

North Korean website says 'Squid Game' reflects South Korea's 'brutal' society

From Seoul to San Francisco, hit South Korean Netflix series “Squid Game” has become a hot topic of conversation in recent weeks. Now, North Korea is weighing in. A North Korean propaganda website published an article Tuesday arguing that the series reveals that life in South Korea is "infested by the rules of survival of the fittest, corruption and immorality."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korean-website-says-squid-game-reflects-south-koreas-brutal-soci-rcna2959?source=Snapzu

New Woman Claims Danny Masterson Raped Her At 'Dracula 2000' Cast Party As He Faces Trial For Allegedly Raping Three Other Women

Another woman has come forward on Friday night to allege Danny Masterson raped her over 20 years ago. Kathleen Jenkins tweeted the claim in response to a tweet in 2017 of another accuser Bobette Riales.
Read more: https://radaronline.com/p/danny-masterson-new-woman-claims-raped-dracula-2000-cast-party-faces-trial/?source=Snapzu

Halloween Kills Tops Box Office in Opening Weekend

Halloween Kills is slaying the competition at the box office on its opening weekend.
Read more: https://comicbook.com/horror/news/halloween-kills-box-office-opening-weekend/?source=Snapzu