Practical Magic’s spellbinding tale of the Owens sisters’ quest to break their family curse isn’t just a film for the Halloween season — although it’s a must watch during the fall.
The 1998 film starred Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens and Nicole Kidman as Gillian Owens, both of whom are unlucky in love thanks to a curse placed on the women of their family because of their witch roots.
While Sally mourns the death of her husband, Michael (Mark Feuerstein) — and moves her daughters in with her aunts, Frances (Stockard Channing) and Jet (Dianne Wiest) — Gillian gets into an abusive relationship. Read More...
“It’s eerie, but there are comedians who are worse than this.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
Artificial-intelligence technology has come a long way since Netflix released “The First Stand-up Comedy Special Written Entirely by Bots” on YouTube in 2021. Written by comedian Keaton Patti, that “special” imagined the type of material a robot might write if it were trained on “400,000 hours” of raw stand-up-comedy data — jokes like “I am now so old my birth certificate is death certificate” and “Free speech? Read More...
A WOMAN scooped a $522million (£416million) lottery prize - then waited three months to claim it.
Laarni Bibal discovered she'd won the jackpot after buying a Mega Millions ticket from a supermarket in San Diego, California.
But instead of rushing out to collect her cash, she placed her winning ticket in a "secret hiding place" until she was "ready", reports the San Diego Tribune.
Bibal selected random numbers for her ticket, which she bought at Sorrento Deli-Mart in June. Read More...