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Lauren Sanchez Wears New 'Mrs. B' Bling at Dinner with Fianc Jeff B

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Backgrid Make way for Mrs. B! Lauren Sanchez was out for dinner at Nobu in Malibu with her billionaire fiancé Jeff Bezos and pals Wednesday ... rocking a jaw-dropping new piece of bling. The former TV anchor's 20-karat engagement ring -- reportedly worth $2.5M -- clearly isn't enough to cement their pending union ... as she took a subtle "Mrs. B" gold necklace out for a spin. Backgrid Whether the " Read More...

A 'Decadent And Depraved' Derby With Hunter S. Thompson

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In the spring of 1970, a British illustrator named Ralph Steadman had just moved to America, hoping to find some work. His first call came from a small literary journal called Scanlan's. It was looking for a cartoonist to send to the Kentucky Derby. Steadman had heard of neither the race nor the writer he was to accompany, a fellow named Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman hadn't read any of Thompson's work, and he certainly didn't know that the writer had a bit of a drinking tendency, but he agreed to go. Read More...

Babylon Brings Cocaine-Fueled Orgies, Elephant Feces and Blackface to the Oscar Race

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Paramount Pictures' latest will face an uphill battle in the awards race for Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva It starts with elephant feces and ends with a random clip from “Avatar.” That narrative leap, one lubricated with scatology and film history, sums up the bulky 188-minute “Babylon” after its first initial, somewhat puzzling screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.   Chazelle’s film is the one of the last awards hopefuls to drop this season. Read More...

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