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The leader of the Montreal band Arcade Fire, Win Butler, has denied the allegations of assault made against him by several alleged victims.
He indicated that he has committed adultery on several occasions, while specifying that the women involved were, however, consenting.
Butler’s wife is also a member of the band Arcade Fire.
Win Butler also indicates that he had mental health problems between 2015 and 2019, while stating that he was working hard to become a better person, Pitchfork reports.
The 2023 edition of the famous Pirelli calendar Calendar is a box full of supermodels. A first since 2015.
The latest edition of thePirelli calendar welcomes in its pages some big names in modeling. Cara Delevingne, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Karlie Kloss , Precious Lee, Kaya Wilkins and Lila Moss all posed for the Australian photographer Emma Summerton.
As always, the Pirelli calendar offers refined images and elaborate settings. This new edition, the 49th, is entitled Love Letters to the Muse.
Pirelli tries to innovate every year with its calendar. The latter had not published its calendar in 2021 because of the pandemic of COVID. Last year, it is the Canadian singer Bryan Adams who was given the mandate to relaunch the publication after the one-year hiatus.
The photos for the 2023 Pirelli Calendar were taken during three days in London in July and one day in New York. It will be published this November.
Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts.
Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
NBC-TV canceled “Star Trek.” The show had debuted on September 8, 1966.
San Francisco cable cars replaced by bus service.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.
“A Trip To The Moon”, the first sci-fi film, released.
Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.
Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men’s international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro.
BTS become the 1st all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart with “Dynamite”
Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio.
The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.
Terry Fox abandons Marathon of Hope 135 days and over 5,000 km after it started at St. John’s, Newfoundland, on April 12; cancer has returned and spread to his lungs; hospitalized in Vancouver where he dies the following year.
Last broadcast of “Columbo” starring Peter Falk on NBC.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution.
V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II.
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David.
World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people.
Saskatchewan and Alberta became the 8th and 9th provinces of Canada.
Official opening of the Quebec Assembly building; a provincial member earns $800 per session.
Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal).
Alec Baldwin will return to work for the first time since the tragedy of the film Rust that occurred last year.
The actor will take to the Broadway stage next spring in the musical Art by Yasmina Reza at the Shubert Theatre in New York.
For his return to the stage, Baldwin will be surrounded by some big names, says the New York Post, which first got wind of the news. Tony Shalhoub (The Band’s Visit) and John Leguizamo (Latin History for Morons) will join him on stage.
Despitehis frequent claims of innocence, Alec Baldwin is surely relieved that the New Mexico Medical Examiner’s Office concluded this month that the shooting was an accident.
Prosecutors, however, have not yet determined whether charges should be filed against the actor. Numerous civil lawsuits have been filed against the actor, however. One of these lawsuits is filed by the family of the victim Halyna Hutchins.
The ashes of Nichelle Nichols from the Star Trek series will be sent into space for eternity by the end of the year.
“Space, frontier of infinity, toward which our spaceship travels.”
The woman who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols, who died on July 30at the age of 89, will continue the conquest of space. Her ashes will be released into space by United Launch Alliance from a Vulcan Centaurrocket later this year.
The actress played the iconic role of the communications officer on the Starship Enterprise from 1966 to 1969 on NBC and in the science fiction franchise films from 1979 to 1991.
The cremated remains of Nichelle Nichols will be aboard the first Celestis Voyager Memorial Space Flight, which will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Celestis, Inc. is a private company that conducts memorial space flights.
The ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, his wife, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who played various roles in the series and films, and James Doohan, who played Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the films and television series, will also be aboard the flight.
The space flight will travel to deep interplanetary space. It costs between $5,000 and $12,500 USD to send his ashes into space.
She says the British media even insulted her children…
Two years after officially leaving the royal life, Meghan Markle Meghan Markle is regaining control of her story by giving important interviews. In 2021, it was with Oprah Winfrey that she and Prince Harry spoke to lift the veil on their ordeal with the royal family. And just recently, it was an interview with The Cut magazine that the actress did, and she took the opportunity to confide about her new life in California.
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Markle talks about her new business with her husband, her life in California, relatively safe from the tabloids that have pursued her so relentlessly, and everything that has happened with the royal family, among other things. What particularly caught our attention was a passage where she mentions that the British media has insulted her children, calling them the “N-word.” Meghan Markle made this shocking statement as she explains that the royal family has to follow a whole procedure for posting photos or news about their lives online. Specifically, each photo must be shared with the “Royal Rota” and it was usually published in the British media before the parents could even share it with people around them. This reality strongly displeased Markle, with good reason, especially considering that the British media has always been incredibly unfair to her.
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The racism that the actress has experienced since joining the royal family has been very difficult to live with, with good reason, which is one of the reasons why the couple decided to leave their royal duties. The protection of their children was paramount, and we completely understand their reasons. As parents, we usually put our children’s interests first, and if the climate was too toxic to raise children, sometimes the only decision to make is to leave the problematic situation.
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To read The Cut ‘s full interview with Meghan Markle, click here.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone have decided to move on after four years together.
But the breakup happened a few weeks ago, it seems, according to at least a source, People reports.
Leonardo DiCaprio, 47, 'SPLITS' with Camila Morrone just months after the model turned 25 https://t.co/XnOlr52cfT
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) August 30, 2022
They were a couple since January 2018, but they appeared together for the first time at an event in February 2020, that is, at the Oscars.
The couple was photographed on July 4 having a good time together on a beach in Malibu, they kept their relationship private as much as possible.
Leonardo DiCaprio sort avec des amis sur les talons de Split avec Camila Morrone https://t.co/gAgduVx7eV pic.twitter.com/s6PTkI9qAo
— 24H Culte (@24sante_fr) August 31, 2022
Australian Cameron Smith has just confirmed that he too is joining the professional circuit LIV Golf.
The right-handed golfer, currently ranked number 2 in the world, is making a good start at PGA Tour and joins the dissident circuit which attracts more and more big names.
Like the other golfers before him, Cameron Smith accepted a huge sum of money from the new circuit to leave the PGA Tour. He joins a growing contingent that includes Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka among others.
The loss of Cameron Smith to the PGA Tour is significant. The 29-year-old Australian has been on the rise. He has won three of his six tour events this year, including the most recent British Open and Players Championship.
The next event on the LIV Golf Tour will be in Boston next weekend.
“A Star is Born” film remake directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga premieres at the Venice Film Festival.
The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
62nd Venice Film Festival: “Brokeback Mountain” directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion.
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov.
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM.
East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.
Great Britain’s Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures.
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.