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For May, 3 Romances About Staying True To Your Passions, Whatever They May Be

5:00am May 22, 2021

by Maya Rodale

This month, Romancelandia brings us three tales of staying true to what you love, whether that's old cars, wedding dresses or even a grade school crush — while still pursuing the future you want.

Charlie, then 1 year old, bites Harry, 3, in the 2007 YouTube video. The rest is history.

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Viral 'Charlie Bit My Finger' Video To Leave YouTube, Sell As NFT

11:28pm May 21, 2021

by Emma Bowman

The 2007 home video raised the bar for "going viral." Now, the famous brothers are deleting the video from YouTube on May 23 to auction it off as a nonfungible token.

Norway's TIX (Andreas Haukeland) performs during the Eurovision Song Contest dress rehearsal in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Lights! Camera! Factions! Your Eurovision Song Contest 2021 Cheat Sheet

2:30pm May 21, 2021

by Glen Weldon

After taking a year off, the Eurovision Song Contest is back, and for the first time a major streaming service — Peacock — is carrying it live in the U.S. Here's what to look for.

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'Solos' And 'The Bite' Showcase How To Create New TV During A Pandemic

1:57pm May 21, 2021

by David Bianculli

The Amazon anthology series Solos features a different actor in each installment. The Bite, on Spectrum On Demand, is comedy-drama that combines COVID lockdown with an outbreak of a zombie contagion.

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Remembering Charles Grodin, Of 'Heartbreak Kid' And 'Midnight Run' Fame

1:57pm May 21, 2021

by Terry Gross

Grodin, who died May 18, was known for his deadpan humor and his ability to make even the most unpleasant characters likable and funny. Originally broadcast in 1989.

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Check-In: Scoring Zombies

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Ask Me Another's house musician Jonathan Coulton adds another credit to his resume: scoring a zombie TV show. He walks hosts Ophira Eisenberg through his bag of spooky audio tricks.

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Which Came First?

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Love About Town podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye are given two things and guess which came first.

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The Who... Dunnit?

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Podcast hosts Kenice Mobley and Rohan Padhye (Love About Town) work together in a music parody game where songs by The Who are rewritten to make them about famous fictional mystery-solvers.

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Line Reading

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Actor Micah Stock and comic Beth Stelling play an audio game where great quotes from theatre are read poorly by an emotionless robot. "Oh, yeah? See if you could do any better." Said the robot.

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O?hio

12:32pm May 21, 2021

Ohio natives and childhood friends comic Beth Stelling (Girl Daddy on HBO Max) and actor Micah Stock (Netflix's Bonding) are challenged to a fact-filled game about The Buckeye State.

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