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Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 4:21 pm
Susan Sarandon and Hacks' Hannah Einbinder were detained outside Netanyahu's UN speech. Sarandon has done this before
One of them won her first Emmy a year ago and used the speech to make a point. The other has been arrested at protests since the Vietnam War era and says it is still costing her movie roles.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:56 pm
Netflix is donating the novels behind Frankenstein and Heartstopper to 100 UK public libraries
Six novels, a hundred public libraries and an undisclosed cheque for the archives. Netflix has signed a national partnership with the British Library in the year Britain recorded its lowest ever appetite for reading, and the books going out to borrowers are ones the company has already filmed.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 1:36 pm
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Taylor Tomlinson has spent fifteen years telling audiences exactly what she thinks about God, therapy, dating and her own family, with the certainty of someone who has worked the bit out on stage. Her first book is a list of the times she got it wrong, and one position she says she will defend to the grave.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:47 am
It took five Swedish unions to make Activision Blizzard blink
The people behind Microsoft's most reliable money printer asked for the most ordinary thing a Swedish worker can ask for — and now there's a countdown clock ticking in Stockholm.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:16 am
Marathon is turning into Destiny and Bungie should just say it
Bungie's rescue plan for its struggling shooter sounds suspiciously like a game you already played for a decade — the studio just refuses to use the word.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:38 am
I don't know who funds games like Hyper Light Drifter anymore
One of indie gaming's most decorated studios did everything right for thirteen years, and what happened to it anyway should terrify anyone who loves strange little games.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:12 am
Build A Rocket Boy spied on its own staff and still couldn't ship
The studio that promised to out-GTA GTA is winding down for good, and the game turns out to be the least damning thing it built.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 7:46 pm
Lady Gaga had a daughter in June and nobody knew until a birth certificate surfaced
The date is 9 June, the time is 11:19 at night, the hospital is Cedars-Sinai and the name is Rose Bean Polansky. All four facts come from a birth certificate that surfaced on Thursday, because neither parent has said a word in the hundred days since.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 6:56 pm
The child actor from Role Models was sentenced to 30 months over a stolen gun found at 104 mph
The gun was stolen, the car was doing 104 in a 70 zone, and the man in it had three convictions that already barred him from touching a firearm. That is how a child actor from Fred Claus and Role Models ended up with a federal sentence in Iowa.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 5:22 pm
Millie Bobby Brown's second adoption was reported by everyone except Millie Bobby Brown
One outlet had a source. Everyone else had that outlet. Six hours after the first report that Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi have adopted a second child, neither of them has said a word about it — which is precisely what they promised a year ago.