内容摘要：“We had a strategic advantage because we were 12,000 miles away from our administration critics, with our boots on the ground,” said Arnett, 90, who lives in California today. “Within a year, our reporting was vindicated.”

“We had a strategic advantage because we were 12,000 miles away from our administration critics, with our boots on the ground,” said Arnett, 90, who lives in California today. “Within a year, our reporting was vindicated.”

follows the behind-the-scenes mayhem of filming a movie in an unpopular franchise. It stars Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Billy Magnussen, Richard E. Grant and Daniel Brühl. The series premieres Sunday on HBO and streams on Max.— It’s a special time of year for those of us who are fans of lousy baseball teams (ahem, Washington Nationals). The National Hockey League season is right around the corner, and EA Sports’

is coming with it. This year’s edition features ICE-Q, revamped artificial intelligence that’s intended to make your computer-controlled teammates more reliable and accurate. Franchise mode has been streamlined to make stat tracking, trades and contract negotiations easier. Perhaps you and a friend like to play over and over with the same teams? The new Grudge Match system keeps track of your head-to-head records, raising the stakes whenever you face off. The cover models know a little about sibling rivalries: They’re the Hughes brothers, Jack and Luke of the New Jersey Devils and Quinn of the Vancouver Canucks. The puck drops now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox X/S.Norm Clarke, a colorful journalist who covered the back-to-back World Series champion Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s as an Associated Press sports writer and then became a popular entertainment columnist in Las Vegas, has died after a long battle with prostate cancer.Clarke, 82, died on Thursday at a Las Vegas hospice center, said his brother, Jeff Scheid.

Instantly recognizable with his signature eye patch — he lost his right eye in a childhood accident — Clarke had a big hit with his “Vegas Confidential” column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal beginning in 1999. He covered what he called “the world’s greatest buffet of entertainment news” in a 2024 interview with “Vegas Revealed” podcast co-host Dayna Roselli.His celebrity sightings and reports of “celebrities behaving badly” included scoops on Britney Spears’ 55-hour Vegas marriage in 2004, Michael Jackson’s surprise return to the city in 2006 after nearly three years in Europe, and Elton John getting booed after losing his temper and throwing a stool and glass of water during a show.

“Norm’s Review-Journal column was so popular he became a celebrity in his own right,” Review-Journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook said by email. “He was a gentleman. Readers loved him. I consistently heard from subscribers who said Norm was the first thing they read every day.”

A 2010 Forbes magazine profile described his role this way: “Writing up gossip in Sin City is the Wild West of entertainment beats. Norm Clarke is the sheriff.”” (streaming Saturday, Dec. 7 on Max). There, Lydia (Winona Ryder), still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), is forced into another afterlife odyssey when her teenage daughter (Jenna Ortega) discovers a portal.

AP’s Jocelyn Noveck called it “a joyously rendered sequel that sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn’t, but just keeps rollicking.”— A lowkey reunion of “Love Actually” writer-director

and one of that film’s stars, Bill Nighy, is part of the new Netflix animated movie(streaming Wednesday). The film was co-written by Curtis (it’s based on his series of Christmas books) and features Nighy as the voice of Lighthouse Bill, one of the Wellington-on-Sea townspeople grappling with a winter blizzard. The storm poses challenges even for Santa, voiced by Brian Cox.