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When actress Sonia Manzano goes out in public, bringing a hanky can be quite helpful. Fans tend to react to her with deep emotion. They know and love Manzano from Sesame Street, the show she graced as Maria from 1971 to 2015, an extraordinary 44-year run. Her impact on American culture — as the first […] More
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Ben McKenzie On Confronting Sam Bankman-Fried About Crypto Fraud
Ben McKenzie suspected there was something suspicious about crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried long before anyone else did. The actor known for Gotham and The O.C., who earned a degree in economics from the University of Virginia, turned his attention to the study of cryptocurrency during the pandemic. Unlike millions of others who have evangelized for […] More
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Fidel Castro’s Daughter Reflects On Cuba’s Future At Miami Film Fest
For decade upon decade, many Cuban exiles have prayed for the downfall of the island’s communist government, established in the 1959 coup led by “comandante” Fidel Castro. Remarkably, among the foremost critics of Cuba’s single-party despotic rule is one of Castro’s own daughters, Alina Fernández Revuelta. Fernández Revuelta escaped Cuba in 1993 with the aid […] More
