You’ll Never Guess What Stocks Warren Buffett Wants To Buy
Aug 16, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
The Oracle of Omaha is famous for making large purchases in companies like IBM (IBM) and Coca-Cola (KO), but this isn’t where he made all of his biggest returns. The investments that made Buffett worth $72 billion are in smaller less known companies with higher potential for growth and businesses protected from competition. Hands down, Warren Buffett […]
Billionaire Stanley Drucknemiller Loads Up On Gold, Makes It His Largest Position For First Time Ever
Aug 16, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Over the past several years, one of the biggest critics of the Fed’s ruinous monetary policy has been billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who in 2010 announced he would be shutting down his legendary Duquesne Capital Management, and convert it to a family office. Yet, despite his constant drumbeat of warnings that the period of ZIRP/QE/NIPR will end […]
EURUSD: Retains Recovery Tone, Targets More Strength
Aug 16, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
EURUSD: With EUR seeing closing higher the past week, it now faces the risk of following through higher in the new week. Note that we may see a slight pullback in the new week. Support lies at the 1.1050 level where a violation will aim at the 1.1000 level. A break of here will aim […]
Laura Prepon Talks Scientology, Sounds Next Level Crazy While Doing So
Jul 08, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Scientology puts out a magazine to their disciples called Celebrity and I guess it’s like People Magazine only a zillion times more insane. Laura Prepon gave an interview to Celebrity about all things Scientology and the half-broken DOS hard drive I call a brain rebooted at least a dozen times while reading it. If you […]
Entertainment One TV Promotes Tara Long as Unscripted Division Grows (Exclusive)
Jun 02, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
As Entertainment One expands its unscripted TV operations, Tara Long has been upped to exec VP of U.S. alternative programming. Long’s promotion comes as the division has prospered with series across five cable networks and a slew of projects in development for next season. During its upfront, BET announced its fourth show with eOne, “About […]
Finish him! ‘Mortal Kombat X’ is the bloody next chapter fans deserve
Apr 15, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
It took just four button taps to squeeze a man’s guts out, like a tube of toothpaste. Except you wouldn’t brush your teeth with shimmering, red entrails. Five minutes later, a few more button taps left my victim’s skull bisected. Her brain rolled out and her tongue lolled outside of a face without a jaw. […]
‘Get Hard’ movie review: Is Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s NOLA-shot comedy racist or not racist?
Mar 27, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
There are any number of unflattering invectives that can fairly be hurled at Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s comedy “Get Hard.” It is crude. It is juvenile. It is flat-out moronic. But “racist” and “homophobic” aren’t among them. Those were the hot-button words used to describe the New Orleans-shot, Los Angeles-set comedy immediately upon its […]
ITV to buy The Voice producer for £355m
Mar 11, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
ITV has agreed to acquire Dutch TV production company Talpa Media for £355m. Established by Big Brother creator John de Mol, Talpa Media is the company behind shows such as The Voice, I Love My Country and Dating In The Dark. Talpa Media focuses on developing new formats that draw in big audiences. It has […]
Simon Rattle to lead the LSO: ‘It’s a homecoming’
Mar 03, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Simon Rattle is to join the London Symphony Orchestra, he has confirmed, saying: “It feels like a homecoming.”He will take over as music director in September 2017, combining the job with his last season at the Berlin Philharmonic. Sir Simon, 60, said it will be his “last job”. He has spent the last 12 years […]
Why Jon Stewart and Brian Williams should just switch jobs
Feb 11, 2015
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Within minutes on Tuesday night, two major media stories exploded. The first detonated around 7 p.m. Comedy Central announced on Twitter that Jon Stewart, the longtime host of “The Daily Show,” will step downlater this year after more than 16 years running the show. Then, less than an hour later, the Brian Williams bomb dropped. […]