At least 48 dead as Taiwan train derails in tunnel
Map of Taiwan, locating deadly train derailment on Friday.
Map of Taiwan, locating deadly train derailment on Friday.
Fox Sports play-by-play commentator Joe Buck will take a turn as guest host of “Jeopardy!” this summer, and fans of the long-running game show are most definitely not thrilled. While many are asking “Who is Joe Buck?,” others are panning the idea or clamoring for Levar Burton to get the coveted job. But it was AnthonyCFA who summed up a whole lot of people’s feelings in a single word: “Ugggggh!!” Buck joins the ranks of celebs who have taken on the role of “Jeopardy!” guest host following Alex Trebek’s passing. The episodes featuring Buck will air this summer, TMZ reports. Reps for Sony Pictures Television, which produces “Jeopardy!,” didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. Also Read: Dr Oz Pulls Worst Ratings Among Post-Trebek 'Jeopardy!' Hosts Buck has been the voice of the World Series for FOX since the 1996 World Series, which the Yankees won and has also called multiple NFL Super Bowls on Fox since 2002. The “Jeopardy!” gig would not interfere with his duties as the voice of the MLB and the NFL on Fox. He will be the sixth famous face to serve as “Jeopardy!” guest host in the post-Trebek era, joining a lineup that has included CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Dr. Oz Mehmet, Katie Couric and Ken Jennings. A huge fan group is pushing hard for LeVar Burton to take the reins permanently, even starting a petition to drive the point home to Sony suits. But reaction to the possibility of Buck as a permanent host of “Jeopardy!” was pretty mixed. Or, to be more specific, not so great. “Just when things seemed to be at their darkest, it was announced today that America’s most punchable face, Joe Buck would be hosting Jeopardy this summer with a chance to become the permanent host,” wrote TheSportsMemery.com. And that’s just the tip of the freezing cold iceberg. Here’s a look at a few outspoken others: So, fans are clamoring for @LeVarBurton to succeed Alex Trebek. They're literally saying, I'd watch @Jeopardy every night if he's the host.And Burton told me in an interview that the job would make him "exceedingly glad."Nothing against Joe Buck, but… am I missing something? https://t.co/VcndmXMSSW — Joshua Johnson (@NBCJoshua) April 17, 2021 Also Read: 'Jeopardy!' Loses Top Ratings Spot for the First Time Since Alex Trebek's Final Episodes Can we not make Joe Buck the next permanent host of Jeopardy, he can barely make football interesting, let alone a gameshow. — GamemasterDael (@DaelGamemaster) April 17, 2021 Joe Buck being asked to guest host @Jeopardy instead of @LeVarBurton is like having John Walker as Captain America instead of Sam Wilson. — Natalie Ford (@Fordgirls) April 17, 2021 Ugggggh!! 🙁 Joe Buck #Jeopardy — AnthonyCFA (@tonycfa) April 17, 2021 Even Joe Buck's wife doesn't want to watch Joe Buck host Jeopardy. — Marshall Jordan ⚾ (@Firestorm227) April 17, 2021 @Jeopardy are you deaf to your audience? @levarburton is the choice of the viewers. https://t.co/GCLIMpF4ca — Hidden Treasure 1-20-2021 our new beginning (@HiddenT1221) April 17, 2021 Is it really gonna need to take Alex Trebek's ghost to come and haunt TF out of the Jeopardy producers to have them give LeVar Burton a chance?? Joe Buck? C'mon 🙄 — Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) April 17, 2021 Alex Trebek to Joe Buck would be one of the biggest fall offs ever — Troy Tanis (@tanis_troy) April 17, 2021 Read original story Fox Sports’ Joe Buck to Guest Host ‘Jeopardy!’ – and Alex Trebek Fans Are Fighting Mad At TheWrap
Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 17, on the seventh night of protests against the police shooting of Daunte Wright.Footage of the Reverend, captured by Michelle Oerter-Clark, shows him walking among the crowd gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Station.According to local news reports, Rev. Jackson had spoken to Daunte Wright’s brother, Damik Wright. Credit: Michelle Oerter-Clark via Storyful
Sprint star Cate Campbell fired a warning shot with a lightning-fast 50m freestyle swim to win the Australian title Sunday as Kyle Chalmers sealed the men's treble.
In one particular team fight, Miracle combined with MinD_ControLand pulled off an incredible combo that annihilated four Secret heroes and gave Nigma full control of game two.
In Den Bosch, the Dutch were without world number 11 Kiki Bertens for the second day because of injury and found themselves trailing China 2-1 after Wang Xiyu beat Lesley Kerkhove in Saturday's opening singles. But Aranxta Rus beat Wang Xinyu to level the tie and then teamed up with Demi Schuurs to defeat Zhang Shuai and Zu Yifan to send the hosts through.
With virus cases rising and its vaccination drive delayed, Madrid heads into an election campaign Sunday ahead of a vote likely to cement the right-wing's hold on Spain's wealthiest region.
Jimmy Butler did his part on Friday night to try to send the Miami Heat home with a victory to cap their four-game trip. But his 30 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists weren't enough as the Heat dropped their third game in a row, this time to the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves. And now Miami returns home Sunday against a much tougher opponent when it hosts the Brooklyn Nets.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 — DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has questioned the logic behind Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba’s statement that a fourth Covid-19 wave will not happen in Malaysia...
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When the Oklahoma City Thunder visit the Toronto Raptors at Tampa, Fla., on Sunday night, the Thunder will be playing the last team they defeated before going on a nine-game losing streak. That 113-103 win by the host Thunder on March 31 concluded a 1-13 March for the Raptors. Since then, while the Thunder have done nothing but lose, the Raptors have won five of nine.
The Vegas Golden Knights can move into a first-place tie in the West Division if they can complete a sweep of their back-to-back with the host Anaheim Ducks on Sunday afternoon. Vegas, which has a five-game winning streak, already has swept nine two-game back-to-backs this season. The Golden Knights enter Sunday's game coming off a dominating 4-0 victory over the Ducks on Friday night and trail first-place Colorado by two points.
President Joe Biden hopes to give a shot of adrenaline to the planet's sluggish fight against climate change with an Earth Day summit but a question lingers -- can the United States be trusted to lead?
Muar MP coy over details on cooperation with Shafie's party.
The sound mixing team from “Sound of Metal” on Saturday won the top prize at the Cinema Audio Society’s annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing. In the animated feature category, Pixar’s “Soul” added another win to its shelf. The film which follows Joe as he ventures into the Great Before also won […]
The Minnesota State Patrol also agreed to stop photographing journalists and their credentials and will no longer order reporters where they can position themselves to cover the demonstrations. The statement came after state police and officers from eight other law-enforcement agencies in the joint force known as Operation Safety Net were criticized by media organizations for how they treated journalists at the protests in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
“Sound of Metal” has won the award for sound mixing in a live-action motion picture at the 57th annual CAS Awards, which were presented by the Cinema Audio Society in a virtual ceremony on Saturday. The film beat three other Oscar nominees in the Best Sound category, “Greyhound,” “Mank” and “News of the World,” along with “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” The CAS Awards winner has gone on to win the Oscar in the Best Sound Mixing category for the last three years in a row, and five times in the last decade. But this year the Oscars combined Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing into a single Best Sound category, so the CAS’ effectiveness at predicting the Oscars has yet to be determined. Also Read: 'Greyhound,' 'Tenet' Win at Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Awards On Friday, “Greyhound” won the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Award in the category that in the past most closely corresponded to the Oscars sound-editing award. “Soul” won the CAS Award for animated film, and “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” won for documentary. In the four television categories, the winners were “The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Mandalorian” and “Hamilton.” Also Read: Oscar Nominated 'Sound of Metal' Sonic Designer Breaks Down the Film's Profound Final Scene Also during the ceremony, George Clooney was honored with the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award, and production sound mixer William B. Kaplan received the CAS Career Achievement Award. The winners: Motion Pictures – Live Action: “Sound of Metal” Production Mixer – Phillip Bladh CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Jaime Baksht Segovia Re-Recording Mixer – Michelle Couttolenc Esparza Re-Recording Mixer – Carlos Cortés Navarrete Foley Mixer – Kari Vähäkuopus Motion Pictures – Animated: “Soul” Original Dialogue Mixer – Vince Caro CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Ren Klyce Re-Recording Mixer – David Parker Scoring Mixer – Atticus Ross Scoring Mixer – David Boucher CAS ADR Mixer – Bobby Johanson CAS Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis Motion Pictures – Documentary: “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” Re-Recording Mixer – Gary A. Rizzo CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Jeff King Non-Theatrical Motion Picture or Limited Series: “The Queen’s Gambit”: Ep. 4, “Middle Game” Production Mixer – Roland Winke Re-Recording Mixer – Eric Hoehn CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Eric Hirsch Re-Recording Mixer – Leo Marcil Scoring Mixer – Lawrence Manchester Television Series – 1 Hour: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”: S3, Ep. 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks Into the Apollo … “ Production Mixer – Mathew Price CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Ron Bochar CAS Scoring Mixer – Stewart Lerman ADR Mixer – David Boulton Foley Mixer – George A. Lara CAS Television Series – 1/2 Hour: “The Mandalorian”: Ep. 102, “Chapter 2: The Child” Production Mixer – Shawn Holden CAS Re-Recording Mixer – Bonnie Wild Re-Recording Mixer – Stephen Urata Scoring Mixer – Christopher Fogel CAS ADR Mixer – Matthew Wood Foley Mixer – Blake Collins CAS Television Non-Fiction, Variety or Music – Series or Specials: “Hamilton” Production Mixer – Justin Rathbun Re-Recording Mixer – Tony Volante Re-Recording Mixer – Roberto Fernandez Re-Recording Mixer – Tim Latham CAS Student Recognition Award: Brandyn Johnson, University of Southern California Outstanding Product – Production: Sound Devices, LLC: CL-16 Linear Fader Control Surface for 8-Series Outstanding Product – Postproduction: iZotope, Inc.: RX8 Filmmaker Award: George Clooney CAS Career Achievement Award: William B. Kaplan Read original story ‘Sound of Metal’ Wins Top Award From Cinema Audio Society At TheWrap
Like millions of people around the world, Yuri Nekrasov stopped going to the grocery store every day last year when authorities in Moscow enforced a coronavirus lockdown.
(Warning: Slight spoilers ahead for this week’s “The Falcon and the Winter Solider” episode, “Truth”) If there’s one good thing that came from this week’s episode of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” it’s that the new Captain America is no longer the new Captain America. And let’s be honest, the only person who’s mad about that is probably John Walker. After killing a foreign national in broad daylight last week, John Walker has officially been stripped of his shield, stripped of his title and, clearly, stripped of his sanity. To his credit, Wyatt Russell is playing John Walker masterfully and achieving exactly what he set out to do. “He definitely doesn’t make life easier for anybody,” Russell previously told TheWrap of his character. “You’ll definitely begin to see and understand, hopefully, more of why John is the way he is and what drives him to do the things that he does.” And over the course of the last two episodes, we’ve seen exactly that. But the thing is, John Walker appears to be driven almost entirely by ego. And, after a full-blown meltdown this week, it begs the question: Are we actually expected to sympathize with this man? Also Read: 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': The Next Falcon Might Already Be Here Now, to be fair, John did just lose his best friend and partner, Lemar Hoskins (Cle Bennett). The Flag Smashers may not be smashing any actual flags (or really have any clear-cut goals in general) but their leader, Karli Morgenthau, certainly smashed Lemar’s spine last week. It was brutal to watch as a fan; one can only imagine watching it as John Walker. No one could fault him for having a bit of an emotional breakdown as a result. Does it excuse him for killing a man? No. But it is the sole thing I can find to sympathize with John Walker. Even so, I have to be honest — no part of me wants to see a redemption arc for this guy. He hasn’t earned it. Obviously, we knew John Walker was going to be a problem from the start. He had to be though, right? Sam and Bucky needed a push to work together, and Sam needed the motivation to take up his inevitable role as the next Cap, as Steve intended. Even John Walker acknowledges Sam and Bucky’s anger over him having the shield, admitting that he knows they didn’t expect it to go to him (or anyone, for that matter). But Walker insists that he just wants to do the job. He wants to help people and help his country. However he got there, it doesn’t matter; he wants to be a force for good. OK, great! Maybe eventually we can accept him. And then he tries to do the job. Also Read: Incel Captain America Is So Perfect To say that he’s terrible at it would be putting things gently. John Walker’s Captain America is laughably out of his depths in a world full of gods and aliens and super soldiers. We might’ve even been able to sympathize about that, though, because really, that’s not his fault. No one can be expected to naturally excel at something they’ve never prepared for. He’s just a regular soldier the U.S. government decided to name the new Captain America. He hasn’t been trained to fight these kinds of opponents, so naturally, he gets absolutely wrecked. But the second he does, he goes into a tailspin. He’s embarrassed at being repeatedly shown up and angry that Sam and Bucky won’t be his wingmen. Because, obviously, they had to be his wingmen; Toxic Masculinity Captain America is a captain who gives the orders, not one who takes them from sidekicks. “He doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t feel good anytime ever you don’t get accepted by somebody,” Russell adds. “You feel s–y about yourself. Right?” Then the Dora Milaje smacked him down even harder than the Flag Smashers last week, and as John Walker incredulously notes, “They weren’t even super soldiers.” He can’t handle that he’s not the best, especially compared to a bunch of women so, naturally, he takes the super-soldier serum he squirreled away during his confrontation with Karli. Also Read: 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': What Are the Flag Smashers Actually Trying to Do? For those who haven’t watched “Captain America: The First Avenger” in a minute, a quick reminder: the creator of the original super-soldier serum, Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), revealed to Steve Rogers that “the serum amplifies everything that is inside. So good becomes great — bad becomes worse.” Seeing how the serum has affected John Walker, it’s clearly a case of the latter — which, essentially, tells us that John Walker is inherently wrong for the role. On top of that, John Walker still blames anyone else for his shortcomings. In fighting Sam and Bucky this week, he repeatedly says “Why are you making me do this?” He’s convinced that everything he does is right because “I am Captain America.” Then, when he’s stripped of that title, he screams at his superiors that the military built him and that he deserves to be heard out, given the circumstances of his murderous actions. He fully believes he was justified in his killing. Then, when he’s shut down once more, Walker whines to his wife that people just don’t understand what it takes to be Captain America. It’s unclear if this moment is actually meant to make him more unlikeable or be a genuine moment of him baring his soul. Either way, it doesn’t do him any favors. Why exactly should we feel bad for him? John Walker is clearly deluded, driven to take a serum that only heightened the worst in him because of his own hubris. The decisions he’s making aren’t rooted in grief; it’s certainly a contributing factor to their severity, but it’s Walker’s own ego at the center of everything. It’s typical to see a hero rise once he hits rock bottom. (And if this isn’t John Walker’s rock bottom, I’m not sure we want to see what is). But at this point, John Walker has done nothing to prove there’s anything heroic about him. And that’s fine — if “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is going to fully commit to this trajectory. John Walker isn’t a hero, and he’s definitely not an anti-hero. He’s just kind of an awful, deeply insecure dude. And with only one episode left to go, he kind of has to stay that way to make any sense. Tim Baysinger contributed to this post Read original story ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': Are We Honestly Supposed to Sympathize With John Walker? At TheWrap
The deployment is aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine and Britain's NATO allies, the newspaper reported https://bit.ly/32pc4BK. One Type 45 destroyer armed with anti-aircraft missiles and an anti-submarine Type 23 frigate will leave the Royal Navy's carrier task group in the Mediterranean and head through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, according to the report. RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jets and Merlin submarine-hunting helicopters will stand ready on the task group's flag ship, the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to support the warships in the Black Sea, the report added.
The deployment is aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine and Britain's NATO allies, the newspaper reported https://bit.ly/32pc4BK. One Type 45 destroyer armed with anti-aircraft missiles and an anti-submarine Type 23 frigate will leave the Royal Navy's carrier task group in the Mediterranean and head through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, according to the report. RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jets and Merlin submarine-hunting helicopters will stand ready on the task group's flag ship, the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to support the warships in the Black Sea, the report added.