The New Year's Eve ball that will be lit and sent up a 130-foot pole atop One Times Square to mark the start of the 2019 new year in Times Square, New York.
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In Head, the Monkees made a play for creative and cultural respect. Did it work? No. Was it a strangely great movie? Heck yeah.
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Ayo (Florence Kasumba, left) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) are members of the Dora Milaje, the elite female warriors of Wakanda, in Black Panther.
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The Afro-Latino Brooklynite Miles Morales is one of many characters who don the mask in the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
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Black Panther was a hugely successful and groundbreaking addition to the Marvel canon, and one of our clear favorites of 2018.
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The author's collection of aqua-memorabilia. (Not pictured: The author's many, many Aquaman t-shirts. And the Aquaman tattoo on the authorial left deltoid.)
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Marshall speaks at the ceremony honoring her and Williams with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Aug. 12, 2004, in Hollywood, Calif.
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Cardi B; Ethan Hawke in First Reformed; Sandra Oh in Killing Eve.
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CBS announced on Monday it will not pay out a controversial $120 million severance package to former CEO Leslie Moonves. The company said it had ample reason to fire the disgraced executive for cause.
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Queer Eye, Homecoming, Killing Eve, Vida, The Good Place and Big Mouth all made NPR's top list.
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From left, Beck Bennett, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Cecily Strong and host Matt Damon during SNL promos in Studio 8H on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
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Actress Eliza Dushku reached a $9.5 million settlement with CBS last year after she alleged she was written off Bull because she had made a sexual harassment complaint against the show's lead.
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