Новости за 02.01.2021

The first Friday night of the year saw Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown take top honors, carding an 0.5 in demos to top a rerun-heavy night. In the WWE SmackDown, Kevin Owens got a measure of revenge after being beaten twice by Roman Reigns, defeating his cousin, Jey Uso, in the regular match. However, Reigns […]

Ron Dominguez, a Disney Legend and former Executive Vice President of Attractions, died January 1, 2021 at 85. No cause of death was revealed in a Facebook post by the Disneyland Alumni. Known as “Mr. Disneyland,” Dominguez was a prime mover in creating the Disney California Adventure theme park. He retired from The Walt Disney Company […]

It’s generally agreed that 2020 was not a great year. But for investors, there was a happy ending to it all. Despite the headwinds of the pandemic, most mutual funds and exchange traded funds showed strong returns by the end of the year. Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index fund, the largest fund by assets, returned […]

After a landmark year when several new billion-dollar streaming services jockeyed for attention, there is a big question greeting the new class as 2021 begins: Where from here? Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia, the most prominent new players in the streaming game, have all made a solid go of it, to varying degrees. (Alas, poor […]

The Celluloid Ceiling, a report that has tracked women’s employment in film for the last 23 years, says female directors reached an all-time high in 2020. The report claims to be the longest-running and most comprehensive study of women’s behind-the-scenes employment on US films. Since 1998, the study has tracked a total of approximately 73,000 […]

NBC’s Peacock streaming service had a New Year’s Day surprise treat for fans of The Office: a never-seen cold open, marking the show’s move from Netflix to its new streaming home. The five-minute, unaired cold open was cut for time from the 2013 series finale. The open is an elaborate plan to convince Dwight that […]

Watermelon Sugar singer Harry Styles is teaming with Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge in a new music video, Treat People With Kindness. The black and white video is taken from the single on Styles’s new album, Fine Line. Inspired by the glamour of any number of shows, the video shows Styles and Waller-Bridge breaking out the […]

The number of daily new Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles County had been falling for two weeks. From an all-time high of 21,411 on December 16, new cases had settled at between 13,000 and 15,000. While deaths remained punishingly high, there was some hope that a plateau in cases meant that transmission of the virus […]

Joan Micklin Silver, a film director who broke several barriers for female filmmakers, died Thursday at her Manhattan home. She was 85 and her death was attributed to vascular dementia by her daughter. Silver’s 1975 film Hester Street, the story of an immigrant Jewish couple on the Lower East Side of Manhattan set in the […]

UPDATED with latest: Friday was by far the deadliest day of the pandemic in California. On Wednesday, California saw a frightening new high of 432 Covid-related deaths. Thursday’s number dipped slightly to 428. On Friday, the number of lives recorded lost to the virus rocketed to 585. That’s a 37% rise in one day. Some […]

Richard M. Bates, longtime senior vice president of U.S. government relations for The Walt Disney Company, died on Thursday. No cause of death was given, but The Walt Disney Co. said that his passing was sudden. In a joint statement Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger and Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek said that “his loss […]