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Gailard Sartain, the very funny character actor who spent some 20 years on Hee Haw, appeared in three Ernest films with Jim Varney and displayed a flair for the dramatic in The Buddy Holly Story and Mississippi Burning, has died. He was 81. Sartain died Thursday of natural causes at his home in his native Tulsa, Oklahoma, his wife of 36 years, Mary Jo Sartain, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Actually, he died of silliness,” she said. Sartain showed up in nine features directed by Alan Rudolph: Roadie (1980), Endangered Species (1982), Choose Me (1984), Songwriter (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985),…

SZA might be extraordinarily busy as she prepares to head overseas with her and Kendrick Lamar‘s Grand National Tour — but that didn’t stop her from swooping in for a quick recording session with her friend Lizzo. In a series of posts to her Instagram Stories early Friday (June 20), SZA teased fans with a forthcoming collaboration between her and the “Juice” singer. What started as a glimpse of Lizzo’s own new music in the video, the “Luther” singer started sharing clips of her voice playing alongside Lizzo’s in the background. “Working on a guest star for bookie @lizzobeeating’s new…

In a bold step to unlock Bihar’s entrepreneurial potential, YourStory Media, in collaboration with the Department of Industries, Government of Bihar, Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP), IIT Patna, and JEEViKA (NRLM Bihar), has launched the Bihar Idea Festival a large-scale initiative aimed at identifying, supporting, and scaling 10,000 startups across all 38 districts of the state.The initiative is part of the Bihar chapter of The Bharat Project, a nationwide mission led by YourStory to democratize entrepreneurship in non-metro India. The launch was formally announced at B-HUB, the state’s flagship innovation centre in Patna’s Maurya Lok Complex, in the presence…

Almost all major platforms were affected by a massive breach, including datasets from Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, GitHub, and other platforms (government, too), according to Cybernews.Cybernews reports that 30 databases have been stolen (social media, VPN logins, corporate and developer platforms), exposing 16 billion passwords, calling it “one of the largest data breaches in history.”Related: Over 10 Billion Passwords Have Been Exposed in Massive Password HackThe outlet also says that “massive datasets” have been emerging every few weeks, though this is the first reporting of the hack. Cybernews does note that Wired reported in May about a “mysterious database” being…

Netflix’s Sirens had a splashy premiere, claiming the top overall spot on Nielsen’s streaming charts for its debut week. The series starring Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore was the only title to clock more than a billion minutes of viewing time for the week of May 19-25, coming in at 1.36 billion minutes. Sirens also recorded the highest weekly viewing time since You’s 1.78 billion minutes from April 28-May 4. A pair of Hulu series showed improvement week to week. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drew 810 million viewing minutes, a 19 percent improvement over the previous…

Submit questions about Billboard charts, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com. Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and country, if outside the United States. Or, reach out on Bluesky. Let’s open the latest mailbag. “Mariah Carey’s latest hit is a great achievement, considering she is a legacy artist on the Billboard Hot 100. Out of her 50 career entries, 19 are No. 1s and, by the end of the year, she may hold the record for the longest-running No. 1, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You.’ “On a side note,…

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King Charles and Idris Elba are teaming up on a new Netflix documentary exploring the impact of The King‘s Trust, in celebration of the charity’s 50th anniversary. Luther star Elba was the beneficiary of a grant from the Trust (then The Prince’s Trust, before Charles had ascended to the British throne). For Elba, it was a small but life-changing opportunity, which enabled him to study acting. The currently untitled doc will see Elba, founder of the Elba Hope Foundation, accompany the King as he offers rare access and insights into his support for the Trust over the past five decades.…

TOMORROW X TOGETHER is getting ready to blow your mind! The K-pop group announced on Friday (June 20) that it is set to embark on its fourth world tour. The trek, titled ACT : TOMORROW, will kick off with two shows at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 22 and 23. The membership pre-verification sale begins at 2 p.m. July 28, and ends July 30, with member presales kicking off later that day, according to the announcement on Weverse. General onsale starts Aug. 1. Additional dates and details will be announced at a later time. According to…

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox’s baby girl’s name isn’t a cliché.  In fact, the “Lonely Road” rapper shared that their daughter Saga Blade Fox-Baker’s name was inspired by the art of storytelling. “I think her journey, you know, the five years of kind of her culmination of coming, disappearing, coming back again, disappearing, coming back again,” MGK—who welcomed his daughter with Megan in March—said during a June 20 appearance on Today. “She is an epic story. That’s what saga means.” Noting that their baby girl’s name was also inspired by his Norwegian heritage, the rapper added, “That’s the Nordic…