by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION:
From CNN: Full video of Vice-President Joe Biden's acceptance speech at the 2020 DNC.
From CNN: Full video of Sen. Kamala Harris acceptance speech at the 2020 DNC
ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURAL NEWS:
EVENT - From DCFanDome: "DC FanDome" is live.
SCANDAL - From Variety: Actress Lori Loughlin ("Full House") was sentenced to two months in federal prison for her part in paying bribes in order to get her daughters admitted into the University of Southern California (USC). She was also ordered to pay $150,000 in fines and perform 100 hours of community service. Her husband, Mossimo Gainnulli was earlier sentenced to five months in federal prison.
SCIENCE - From IndependentUK: 750 million geneticially engineered mosquitoes to be released in Florida...
FOOD - From YahooLife: Are the so-call "Go Mobile" Taco Bell restaurants the future of fast food?
SPORTS-CRIME - From YahooSports: Could the prostitution case against NFL owner, Robert Kraft (New England Patriots), also help protect citizens from unchecked police surveillance.
STAR TREK - From YahooEntertainment: Their is an intense legal battle for what is basically control over iconic "Star Trek" actress, Nichelle Nichols ("Uhura"), who is 83-years-old and suffers from dementia, involving her son, Kyle Johnson, and her manager, Gilbert Bell.
SCANDAL - From Variety: Nick Cannon may be able to reconcile with ViacomCBS after he has met with Jewish leaders. Cannon made some crazy ass anti-Semitic statements on his podcast June 30th.
MOVIES/TRAILERS - From Variety: "Death on the Nile," the sequel to 2017's "Murder on the Orient Express," has a star-studded first trailer.
MOVIES - From Deadline: "Saturday Night Live‘s" Pete Davidson and "Straight Outta Compton‘s" O’Shea Jackson Jr. are set to co-star in "American Sole," a high-stakes, high-top dramatic comedy set in the world of after-market sneakers. The film will be written and directed by How To Make It In America creator Ian Edelman and produced by Kevin Hart and NBA All-Star Chris Paul.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Will Smith and Kevin Hart will star in and produce a remake of John Hughes' beloved 1987 road trip movie, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles."
SCANDAL - From YahooEntertainment: Rose McGowan accuses director and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Alexander Payne ("Sideways") of sexual misconduct, which is not the first time he has been accused.
CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Ryan Reynold's "Aviation Gin" sells for 300 million dollars.
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Laurence Fishburne has confirmed that he will not return for "The Matrix 4." He played the wise warrior monk-type, Morpheus, in the original "Matrix" trilogy.
MOVIES - From Deadline: The latest round California tax incentives have been announced. Among the recipients include a Jordan Peele film and one starring Chris Evans.
BOX OFFICE - From Deadline: The winner of the 8/14 to 8/16/2020 weekend box office is the new release, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run," with an estimated take of $900,000.
From THR: After an unprecedented 5-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters reopen in North America. In Canada, movie theaters welcomed the first new Hollywood releases to open wide since the shutdown. They are "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run" and "Unhinged," a Russell Crowe road-rage thriller.
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BLACK ACTRESS - From BuzzFeed: The article article got a call-back: "18 reasons why Angela Bassett is the most amazing actress of all time." [She is certainly underrated and under-appreciated. - Leroy]
CELEBRITY - From YahooEntertainment: Bo Derek reflects on her career... and on those cornrows in "10."
OBITS:
From Loudwire: American rock musician and recording artist, Frankie Banali, has died at the age of 68, Thursday, August 20, 2020, of pancreatic cancer. Banali was best known as the drummer for the 1980s heavy metal band, Quiet Riot. He also was the drummer for W.A.S.P. for a period of time.
From Deadline: English stage, film and television actor, Ben Cross, has died at the age of 72, Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Cross was best known for starring in the "Best Picture" Academy Award-winner, "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and for playing Spock's father, Sarek, in the 2009 reboot film, "Star Trek."
From Deadline: Actor, writer, producer, and prolific filmmaker, Ash Christian, has died at the age of 35, Thursday, August 13, 2020. His best known films include "1985," "Social Animals," and "Coyote Lake." He won a Daytime Emmy in 2014 for the short, "mI Promise."
From Deadline: Television music composer, Duane L. Tatro, has died at the age of 93, Sunday, August 9, 2020. He composed music for TV series, including several for ABC, including "Dynasty," "The Love Boat," and "The Invaders," which was his first TV job. The only television series for which he composed the theme music was "The Manhunter" (CBS, 1974-75).
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEWS:
From CDC: The Centers for Disease Control has a "COVID Data Tracker."
From YahooNews: Why does COVID-19 kill some people and hardly affects others?
From YahooNews: Yahoo has a dedicated page of links updating news about COVID-19.
From Deadline: The news site "Deadline" has a dedicated page for news about coronavirus and the film, TV, and entertainment industries.
From TheNewYorker: The venerable magazine has a dedicate COVID-19 page free to all readers.
From YahooNews: Re: the federal government's response to COVID-19: What if the most important election of our lifetime was the last one - 2016?
From YahooLife: What is "happy hypoxia?" And do you have this COVID-19 symptom?
From JuanCole: Remeber when President Donald went crazy and suggested that we ingest household cleaning supplies and UV light to fight COVID-19. Here is the video and commentary from Juan Cole.
From TheIntercept: The federal government has ramped up security and police-related spending in response to the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, including issuing contracts for riot gear, disclosures show. The purchase orders include requests for disposable cuffs, gas masks, ballistic helmets, and riot gloves...
From TheAtlantic: The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
From ProPublica: Hospital's Secret COVID-19 Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns
From TheGuardian: More than 20 million Americans could have contracted COVID-19, experts say.
From RSN/WashPost: The COVID-19 mutation that has taken over the world.
7/13 - From YahooSports: Maybe a pandemic means that there will not be college football this fall.
7/13- From YahooNews: The CDC adds four new symptoms (including nausea and purple or blue lesions on feet and toes) to the list of COVID-19 symptoms.
7/19 - From YahooFinance: Harvard Public Health professor Dr. Howard Koh says the U.S. "needs to regroup" to find COVID-19.
7/22 - From YahooNews: A public health employee predicted Florida's coronavirus catastrophe — then she was fired.
7/22 - From YahooLifestyle: Florida mom loses son, 20, to coronavirus, and then days later, her daughter.
7/23 - From TheWrap: The site has a list of movie and TV stars, entertainment and sports figures who have tested positive for COVID-19
From YahooEntertainment: Oscar-winning filmmaker Mel Gibson reveals that he was hospitalized with COVID-19 for a week in April.
From Bloomberg: Will the COVID-19 pandemic turn Millennials into socialists?
7/27 - From CNN: Chief of critical care at Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Costa, passes away due to Covid-19 complications... after treating the hospital's sickest COVID-19 patients. He was 56 and leaves behind family, including a husband of 28 years.
7/29 - From YahooPolitico: Rep. Louie Gohmert, the defiant Texas Republican U.S. congressman who refused to wear a mask, has tested positive for COVID-19.
7/30 - From Deadline: Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") reveals that he had a bout with COVID-19.
7/31 - From YahooEntertainment: Writer and actress, Lena Dunham, creator of HBO's "Girls, reveals that she contracted COVID-19 and the symptoms she experiences and still experience.
7/30 - From YahooGMA: In their bid to crackdown on illegal gatherings amid COVID-19, New York authorities break up an alleged sex party.
7/31 - From Slate: COVID-19 is airborne - for reals!
8/2 - From TheDailyBeast: In Mississippi, COVID-19 has coroners terrified.
8/6 - From CNN: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (Republican) has tested positive for COVID19.
8/6 - From YahooNews: Testing everyone constantly could stop the spread of COVID-19... according to this article.
8/8 - From YahooNYT: The coronavirus is new, but your immune system might recognize it.
8/8 - From YahooNBC: They thought COVID-19 was a hoax, and they almost died from it or are watching family and loved ones suffer with it or die from it.
8/9 - From YahooNews: The rest of the world is incredulous at the pitiful U.S. response to COVID-19.
8/9 - From YahooAFP: According to the real-time tally kept by John Hopkins University, the United States has hit 5 million cases of COVID-19.
8/15 - From NBA: Bosnian NBA player Jusuf Nurkic of the Portland Trail Blazers says that his grandmother, 67-year-old Hana, has died of COVID-19.
8/16 - From Truthout: COVID Deaths Continue to Surge in Countries Led by Far Right Authoritarians
8/16 - From YahooEntertainment: Sharon Stone reports that her sister, Kelly, is in the hospital with COVID-19. She blames "non-mask wearers" for his sister's condition.
BLACK LIVES MATTER:
From RSN: Judge's Blistering Opinion Says Courts Have Placed Police Beyond Accountability
From Billboard: In an interview will the venerable music publication, legendary country music singer-songwriter and actress, Dolly Parton, expresses support for the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
From RSN: Reader Supported News' "Sunday Song" for Aug. 8th, 2020 is "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke.
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