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Wed, Dec 30th 2020 3:36pm — Copia Institute Summary: During the somewhat controversial Senate confirmation hearings for the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, there were a few moments that gained extra attention, including a confrontation between Senator Mazie Hirono and the nominee concerning statements regarding LGBTQ rights that Barrett had made in the past. Hirono, who had separately called the hearings themselves illegitimate, was then criticized by traditionally...

Dylan Dog: the hit London-set Italian horror comic unknown in the UK Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo There is a breakfast cafe called Dylan Dog at 7 Craven Road, near Paddington station in west London. To most customers, it is simply another venue for coffee and eggs, wedged into a busy street among the area’s more elegant stucco-fronted terraces and squares. But to Italians the address is no less magical than Harry Potter’s Platform 9 and 3/4, or Sherlock Holmes’s 221b Baker Str...

Writing Humor in Uncertain Times How can you find the funny in the world today? Cartoonist and humorist Bob Eckstein has advice for writing humor in uncertain times. Author: Dec 30, 2020 One of the most common questions asked this year on remote panels has been how to write during this time, and more specifically, how to write funny. With my writing partner, Michael Shaw, we decided to write a book on the subject of how stressful this year has been and how to laugh at it. It started with the pr...

The enigmatic star began her career as an actress, starring in  Bo Selecta!  and presented various ITV2 shows including  Im a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!  and  The Xtra Factor. Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and the following year she began presenting  The X Factor  – replacing the long-standing presenter Dermot OLeary. She also presented the hit TV show Love Island between 2015 to 2019.  Chadwick Boseman (Ian West/PA) Actor and playwright Chadwick Boseman died on ...

J.R.R. Tolkien crafted one of the most incredible fantasy worlds we’ve ever read, seen, or experienced, and we can thank his son Christopher Tolkien for his role in safeguarding the gift that is The Lord of the Rings. Christopher Tolkien spent decades as the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate and became the definitive voice and scholar of Tolkien lore (no surprise, seeing as how he grew up with the stories of Bilbo Baggins and The Lord of the Rings). Advertisement It’s because...

FILE - In this June 29, 1986, file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his teams trophy after Argentinas 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File) Carlo Fumagalli Victoria Will associated press file photo...

Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by...

All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2020 Share (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Losing folks you don’t personally know, but who have influenced your life in a major way thanks to their creative contributions, can ...

Remembering some of the figures from music, film, TV, radio and literature who died in 2020.

Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020 Bernard McGhee Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less 2of24 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak de...