August 10, 2016 11:08 AM EDT
A photo of Olympic rock stars Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky meeting ten years ago at an autograph signing has lit up the Internet.
The 2006 image showing a 21-year-old Phelps giving his young fan an autograph first appeared in a 2014 New York Times profile of Ledecky, courtesy of her family. ESPN reporter Darren Rovell posted it Tuesday night, and it’s been retweeted 20,000 times as of Wednesday morning.
Ruth and Billy Graham's Final Farewell
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock,” Billy Graham observes, “and it still hurts very deeply.” Ruth and Billy would have been married 64 years this month. He called her his soul mate and best friend; she was also a woman who could keep him humble, help swat away the temptations and ego trips and the offers from moguls who wanted to make him a movie star or talk-show host.
Disney sci-fi epic “The Creator” and Lionsgate U.K.’s horror franchise entry “Saw X” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office — and the race was almost too close to call.
Tell Me on a Sunday
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Somewhere near the end of "Tell Me on a Sunday," the 75-minute self-help soapbox masquerading as a musical, an overriding question begins to nag: Have the creators of this sung-through lamentation about a lovesick Essex girl on her own in Manhattan ever been to New York? What's more, have they ever met a woman?
Somewhere near the end of “Tell Me on a Sunday,” the 75-minute self-help soapbox masquerading as a musical that was once the “Song” part of the two-act Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black show “Song and Dance,” an overriding question begins to nag: Have the creators of this sung-through lamentation about a lovesick Essex girl on her own in Manhattan ever been to New York?
The human heart beats roughly 3 billion times during the course of an average lifetime. Every single time it beats, blood is drawn into its two upper chambers, held there briefly by a network of valves, and then pumped out forcefully through its two lower chambers. This drawing-and-pumping action ensures that about six liters of freshly oxygenated blood leaves the heart and enters the bloodstream every minute—a volume that can rise to more than 35 liters per minute when someone is exercising.
Zooey Deschanel says she remembers the late actor and comedian Bob Newhart as “kind and generous” from her time working with him on “Elf.” Newhart died July 18, and the pair worked on the 2003 Christmas movie alongside Will Ferrell and James Caan.
“I always say the best actors are very generous people,” Deschanel told Variety on the purple carpet at Sunday’s premiere of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” at The Culver Theater in Culver City.
Fans of new Zach Snyder zombie film 'Army of the Dead' are wondering what happened to the character Geeta during a pivotal end scene. Learn more here.
Source: NetflixThis article contains spoilers for Army of the Dead.
Director Zack Snyder's latest film, Army of the Dead, is the kickoff for a new zombie franchise coming to Netflix. Army of the Dead is the first in an intended zombie heist film franchise from Netflix. Fans of the film have been discussing the horror epic, and many are wondering: what happened to Geeta (Huma Qureshi)?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (APC) on Wednesday elected six members to its fold.
The decision was reached in line with the directives of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC).
The ruling party’s NEC in its last meeting ceded part of its powers to the NWC to allow the party’s administrative organ to fill vacant NWC and zonal positions.
The party’s National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, during a media briefing, disclosed the outcome of the NWC meeting held at the APC National Secretariat and election of the new officials.
John Franklin and Parker Abbott chose to compete on Season 4 of 'The Circle' as their parents. Did that choice lead to romance for the pair?
Source: Netflix Did Parker and John strike up a romance after 'The Circle'?
Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers for Season 4 of The Circle on Netflix. Are they a catfish couple made in heaven? In Season 4 of The Circle, John Franklin and Parker Abbott both chose to compete by catfishing the other contestants as their parents.