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- Julián Castro has officially ended his presidential campaign: "With only a month until the Iowa Caucuses, and given the circumstances of this campaign season, I've determined that it simply isn't our time, so today it's with a heavy heart and with profound gratitude that I will suspend my campaign for president."
- David Stern, the NBA commissioner during the most successful period in league history, has died. He was 77.
- Martin Scorsese talked the NY Times about mortality, the treatment of women in his movies, moviemaking in the Netflix age, and Joker, which he hasn't gotten around to watching yet: “I saw clips of it,” he said. "I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”
- Cops are now "swarming" TikTok to try to go viral and #HumanizeTheBadge.
- Kevin Feige said that the MCU will introduce a transgender character in an upcoming film.
- A man who set off fireworks in New Jersey near a movie theater as his friend made a marriage proposal "created panic among moviegoers who mistook the fireworks for gunshots, leading to 911 calls and an evacuation."
- Was Long Shot the best romcom of 2019?
- Gene Simmons likes to put ice cubes in his cereal, because what super-villain doesn't like messing with the system?
- Internal documents show that the Canadian military really did not know what to make of the Pokémon Go craze a few years back.
- Kudos to anyone who goes to karaoke, plays the Ghostbusters theme, and then sings Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" over it.
- And finally, it's too early in the year to get up, let me sleep in:
Published Jan 2, 2020
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