Imagine being able to vacation in the homes from your favorite movies and TV shows. Business Insider took a look at famous homes that arenow vacation rentals and compiled a list that includes everything from a fragile glass home in Connecticut to a baseball fan's paradise in Iowa. ADVERTISEMENT
Some of the homes are perfect places to unleash your inner creativity, like John Steinbeck's California cottage while others are perfect for quick weekend getaways, like Reese Witherspoon's Malibu beach house in the hit show "
If you’re asked to share a few fun facts about yourself, you’re probably not going to rattle off your blood pressure or cholesterol levels (even if your “good” cholesterol is, well, really good). But you should have a solid sense of what those numbers are, experts say. Why? “That old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is absolutely correct,” says Dr. Josh Septimus, an internal medicine physician with Houston Methodist Hospital.
In our 50th anniversary commemorative issue of TIME, we published a rare photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald being arrested outside the Texas Theatre. Gary Mack, the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, writes for LightBox about the photo’s legacy:
Certain images and scenes from the Kennedy assassination — the gruesome Abraham Zapruder film; Bob Jackson’s shocking photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald; Stan Stearns’ heart-wrenching view of John F.
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Friends expected Navy Lieut. (J.G.) Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O’Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position.
The singer made this known during a chat with Angela Yee of the 'The Breakfast Club.' According to him, Jada's husband, Will Smith gave his blessing to the relationship, “I actually sat down with Will [Smith] and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership … he gave me his blessing,” he said. ADVERTISEMENT
Alsina says he met Jada in 2015 after he was introduced to her by her son, Jaden, and the two became when he vacationed with the family in Hawaii in 2016.
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This year, tech companies are once again using the week of Thanksgiving as a way to sell their streaming devices and smart speakers with deep discounts. And since you can use some of these devices to cut the cord, you’ll be able to save even more over time — or spend the money now, and treat yourself to a new smart display while you’re at it.
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Billie Eilish became the youngest two-time Oscar winner at the age of 22 at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Eilish, along with her brother Finneas O'Connell, won the Academy Award for best original song for the power ballad, “What Was I Made For?” from the blockbuster Barbie. "I feel so incredibly lucky and honored," Eilish said, before thanking Barbie director Greta Gerwig. "This goes out to everyone that was affected by the movie and how incredible it is.
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Biography: Buddy Ryan was an American football coach known for his creation of the 46 defense and his time with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and other NFL teams. As a defensive mastermind, Ryan was part of the coaching staff that led the Jets to a Super Bowl III victory and orchestrated one of the most dominant defenses in NFL history with the 1985 Chicago Bears.
Now, retailing and starch
This year’s wave of corporate takeovers already has swept up companies dealing in copper, oil, paper, beer, aspirin and dozens of other products. Last week the tide spread to retailing and starch. Los Angeles-headquartered Carter Hawley Hale, the sixth largest U.S. department store chain, proposed buying Chicago’s venerable Marshall Field & Co. for an estimated $325.8 million — over Field’s resistance. And Unilever United States Inc., a subsidiary of the giant Anglo-Dutch food and household products maker, bid $482 million for National Starch & Chemical Corp.
Almost four decades after Mao Zedong’s death, China is not ready for a Pop-art depiction of its Great Helmsman.
Andy Warhol’s iconic portraits of China’s longtime leader were excluded from the Beijing and Shanghai legs of the 26-month Asian tour that marks the 25th anniversary of the artist’s death, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. “They said the Maos won’t work,” the director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Eric Shiner, told the weekly, which also cited a person close to cultural authorities in Shanghai as saying that the portraits were rejected because of “political sensitivity.