Tag: ‘Was

02 OCT

Country musician flips on gun control after Las Vegas massacre: ‘I cannot express how wrong I was’

Mike Stone/Reuters Caleb Keeter, a guitarist with the Josh Abbott band that performed at the Las Vegas country music festival targeted in a mass shooting on Sunday night, said Monday that he has changed his position on gun control following the attack that left 58 people dead and over 500 others injured.  “I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd […]

31 AUG

IT movie: Stephen King reveals he ‘was NOT prepared’ for new Pennywise Clown adaptation

The 69-year-old author has had many novels adapted for film and television over the years. In fact this year has seen quite a few, with The Dark Tower and The Mist TV series released. However there’s also IT, about his evil killer clown Pennywise, which King has already seen. In a new featurette for the […]

16 AUG

WA’s finest on the way for crack at Toorak

Video Image Doc you are a Star0:35 Horse Racing: Hey Doc claims the $ 150,000 Aurie’s Star Handicap in style. August 12th 2017 4 days ago /display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Sport news and galleries/More Sports/ Scales Of Justice is primed for a big spring. Picture: Sean Middleton LEO SCHLINKHerald Sun Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on […]

25 JUN

Sony: Resident Evil 7’s PSVR success ‘was a big surprise to us’

Five months on from launch and Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 is still the biggest game to come to Sony’s PlayStation VR so far. Using an optional stat-tracking service, we know that quite a few people have tried the game with this VR support. In fact the sheer number of people playing in VR has been […]

03 MAY

American novelist Ernest Hemingway ‘was a spy for Soviet Union’

The hell-raising writer and war correspondent was recruited by Moscow on “ideological grounds” in 1940, according to a new book by a former intelligence agent.  He was given the codename Argo and his “dalliance” with spying and political intrigue fuelled the paranoia which drove him to suicide 20 years later, says writer Nicholas Reynolds.  In […]

16 FEB

Britain’s head Supreme Court judge: Some Brexit ruling criticism ‘was undermining the rule of law’

Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – The head of Britain’s Supreme Court has accused politicians of not doing enough to protect the independence of the judicial system when judges came in for harsh criticism from pro-Brexit newspapers last year. England’s High Court triggered an angry response from some newspapers in November when it ruled that the decision […]

03 FEB

Disney race shock: Mickey Mouse ‘was based on blackface minstrels’

Have you ever wondered why Mickey Mouse and cartoon characters wear white gloves? Part of the reason has always been that hand garments are easier and quicker for animators to draw, especially in the early days before computers were involved in the process. However Vox’s new video reveals a more disturbing reason, one that takes […]

31 JAN

Joe Lieberman says Trump’s immigration ban ‘was to be expected’

REUTERS/Mike Segar Former Sen. Joe Lieberman isn’t surprised that President Donald Trump delivered on his campaign promise to restrict the travel of people from some terrorism hotspots to the US. “Like everything else, this was to be expected, President Trump is keeping his promise,” Lieberman, the former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told Business […]