People might leave that theater looking like they just pulled their hands out of a blender PublishedSeptember 2, 2025 5:45 PM EDT•UpdatedSeptember 2, 2025 5:33 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — I like to include “The Rock” so you don’t get him mixed up with any other A-list Dwayne Johnsons — makes a lot …
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The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey”
In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs tried to imagine a time when the music of the recent past would seem alien. Projecting himself into the old age he would never reach, he pictured his future grandkids asking him about the music of the ’60s: “What’s all this shit about the Yardbirds?” It was a challenge to articulate the …
Read More »Amy Madigan recalls why she didn’t clap for Elia Kazan at 1999 Oscars
Weapons star Amy Madigan explained why she and husband Ed Harris didn’t clap for Elia Kazan at 1999 Oscars. “There was no way we were going to do that,” Madigan said in a new interview. Kazan, who directed On the Waterfront, testified at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Weapons actress Amy Madigan is currently courting Oscar buzz for her role …
Read More »Scientists behind controversial 2010 arsenic-based life study clap back as paper gets pulled: ‘We do not support this retraction’
The controversial claim of microbes that exhibit arsenic rather than phosphorus in their biochemistry has been retracted by the journal Science 15 years after it was first published — but while most in the research community are pleased by the decision, the retraction has angered the authors of the original study. Arsenic, as we know from its use as a …
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