‘Boy Meets World’ Maitland Ward became a porn star and was ignored by Hollywood

eElizabeth Berkeley was hanging out with a guy when she walked out of Whole Foods with a bag of produce on her hip. I hate the word “canoodling” but that’s what it was – less craving, more pasta, with “can” added to the front for encouragement. She turned away from the man, blushing when she saw me—a woman with a bun over her head, clumsily running a bag of vegetables, who happens to be fucking men with rods as big as zucchini digging out of the bag for a camera.…

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Summer Boismier of Norman High School in Oklahoma gave kids a QR code to the Brooklyn library’s list of banned books

A high school teacher in Oklahoma resigned this week after providing her students with a QR code to access banned free books online, a strange new twist in the cascading right-wing panic over the teaching of race and gender in schools. “I don’t feel like I can go back to the classroom right now in this state and environment in which we find ourselves doing my job,” Summer Boismier told The Daily Beast. It was the resignation of Boismier First reported by Fox 25 reporter Wendy Soares. Boesmere, an English…

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Sympathy for “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams knows no bounds

MEckel Williams’ path to becoming one of the most prolific TV actors of the 21st century began with Janet Jackson’s video. It’s a story he shared in interviews before his death on September 6, 2021, of a drug overdose in his Brooklyn apartment and one he gave again in his sensational posthumous memoir, Scenes from my lifetoday by Crown Publishing Group. The anecdote goes that Williams was an uninspiring 22-year-old living at home with his mother when Jackson’s famous black and white photo of “Rhythm of the Nation” appeared on…

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Banning the book backfires while forcing the Killar Independent School District in Texas to withdraw the Bible, The Book of Anne Frank

One school in Texas pulled dozens of challenged books from its library shelves — including the Bible — just before the start of the school year under a new policy introduced by conservative leaders. “Attached is a list of all the books that were challenged last year. By the end of the day, I need to pull all the books from the library and classroom,” Jennifer Price, executive curriculum director for the Keeler Independent School District, directed administrators in an email Tuesday, obtained by Texas Tribune. “Once this is complete,…

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Comedian W Kamau Bell in the studio

W Kamau Bell (Propaganda worker, no copyright) Houston – Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. On Houston Live, W. Kamau Bell, Emmy-winning comedian and host of the CNN series United Shades of America, prepares for a trip to Houston. But first, he’s going to join us in the studio. He’ll be in town with bestselling author Kate Schatz to discuss the new anti-racist activism book, Do The Work! Do your job! Anti-racism activity book (Workman Publishing) Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston – All Rights Reserved. [ad_2]

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Some of the most beautiful portraits in the world

In photographic powerOutside Now from ACC Art Booksrenowned gallerist and art collector Peter Fettermann, has curated 120 photos he holds dear to his heart – many of them human portraits of celebrities. “I tried to strike a balance between the iconic images and those that no one had seen before because that’s the fun of collecting for me,” Fetterman told The Daily Beast. “I get a lot of enjoyment and inspiration from all of them regardless of the recognized prestige of their maker.” Some of the highlights of the book…

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Salman Rushdie’s satanic verses provoked an Iranian fatwa before he was stabbed

Not long after Salman Rushdie was published Satanic Verses Until the death threats begin. The 1989 novel helped propel the British-Indian writer to stardom. But the book – which features a character with a dream similar to the story of the founding of Islam – sparked a call for his assassination by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Since then, the 75-year-old author has faced a multi-million dollar bounty on his head, violent protests against his work, and the 1991 murder of Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of his most…

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Central Bucks School District enacts one of the ‘strictest’ form of book ban yet after a rowdy meeting

One of Pennsylvania’s largest school districts implemented the state’s “strictest” book ban policy after community members, parents, teachers, and even board members signed up at a raucous board meeting. The Central Bucks School District, Pennsylvania’s third-largest school district passed its new book removal policy in a 6-3 vote Tuesday night. The new policy allows only one adult—whether a parent, guardian, or community member—to simply challenge the book “on the basis of convenience” and eventually remove it entirely from area libraries. The Board will organize a committee to review the “appropriateness”…

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Gislaine Maxwell’s assistant in Jeffrey Epstein’s “Madam” sues Julie Brown and Harper Collins of the Miami Herald

star Miami Herald Journalist Julie K. Brown is facing a second defamation lawsuit related to her 2021 book on the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case — this time, from a former aide to millionaire Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison. In February, Epstein’s two victims, Courtney Wilde and Haley Robson, sued Brown in Florida state court, claiming that her book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, It included “false and defamatory statements” and “re-victimization”. Now Amy Teller, a former member of Maxwell and Epstein’s inner…

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Ridiculous Oregon school fight over ‘The Handmaid’ story ends with book ban

Ridiculous Oregon school fight over 'The Handmaid' story ends with book ban

Graphic novel based on Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale It was permanently pulled from an Oregon high school library thanks to the district administrator and his deputy who were forced to remove it after the committee couldn’t make a decision on the book. “We removed the graphic novel because… we found numerous images of nudity, sexual assault, and violence throughout the graphic novel,” Medford School District spokeswoman Natalie Hurd told Mail Tribune. Superintendent Brett Champion and Deputy Superintendent Jane Graziol made the final call to remove two copies of…

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