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  • R Kelly has been found guilty of racketeering and eight violations of an anti-sex trafficking law after a six week trial in Brooklyn, and could be facing life in prison.
  • Watch the exciting trailer for Licorice Pizza, the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Alana Haim, Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits, Benny Safdie, Sean Penn, and Cooper Hoffman (son of Philip Seymour Hoffman).
  • It turns out The View cohosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro—who were pulled off-air mid-broadcast last week prior to a live interview with Vice President Kamala Harris—had gotten false positives on their COVID tests.
  • Parallel play isn't just for kids anymore: “Parallel play is one of the hallmarks of secure relationships, but it has to be done right. It’s all about availability. If you know that the other person is available and that, if you need them, they will pay attention to you, then you feel secure.”
  • Lena Dunham secretly got married this weekend.
  • Here's a scary story about "paper terrorism" and the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, in which a woman bought her dream home in New Jersey and then was hounded and harassed by a man who claimed it was his “ancestral estate” despite there being no connection.
  • Right-wing, anti-vaccine cartoonist Ben Garrison has COVID-19 (so does his family), but he is still clinging to ridiculous conspiracy theories and ingesting horse paste rather than get vaccinated.
  • Kyrie Irving has become the face of the NBA’s startling, depressing anti-vaccination movement, whether he wants it to remain private or not.
  • What's up with Hollywood giving Jewish roles to non-Jewish actors?
  • David Chase talked to Vulture about revisiting the world of The Sopranos for his new movie, and how he's accepted that he'll never truly eclipse the prior work in most people's eyes.
  • Bob Dylan announced new tour dates (including a bunch at Beacon Theater this November), and it is billed on his website as a worldwide tour running until 2024!
  • And finally, this video is making me sleepy: