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#a-ha #TakeOnMe #MTVVMA1986 #1BillionViews Norwegian synthpop trio  A-ha ’s “Take On Me” has joined  YouTube ’s billion-views club. The iconic video from A-ha, which combines live-action with pencil-sketch animation, is only the second song from the 1980s to reach the elite  YouTube  milestone, after  Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” crested the one-billion-views mark last fall  (and currently has 1.05 billion). The “Take On Me” video is averaging over 480,000 daily views so far in 2020, according to YouTube. The  A-ha music video for “Take On Me,”  directed by Steve Barron and first released in 1985, won six awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, including for directing and best new artist in a video. It also was nominated for favorite pop/rock video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986. More recently, “Take on Me” was sampled in Pitbull’s 2013 dance hit “Feel This Moment” featuring Christina Aguilera. On YouTube, it’...

#LGBTQ #MCU #KevinFeige #MarvelStudios #Disney It’s sounding like there may be some internal conflict going on at Disney. Word is that Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige is eager to get more openly LGBTQ characters in the MCU, but those plans are having the brakes put on them by the Mouse House. Sources close to WGTC – the same ones who said that National Treasure 3 was moving forward and that Marvel was planning a She-Hulk show, both of which turned out to be correct – are telling us that Disney are scared that the inclusion of too many LGBTQ characters may mean that Marvel movies will be unable to be screened in the increasingly lucrative Chinese market. This story comes hot on the heels of the confirmation that The Eternals will feature the MCU’s first same-sex kiss between an openly gay married couple. This was intended to be an opening salvo for the MCU integrating more openly queer main characters in Phase 4, with Thor: Love and Thunder already confirmed to show Tessa Thompson...

(Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Getty Images) #MarkieffMorris #DeMarcusCousins #LosAngelesLakers The Los Angeles Lakers made official what had been reported a couple of days ago and signed forward  Markieff Morris . In a corresponding move to open a roster spot, the Lakers waived center  DeMarcus Cousins . Los Angeles Lakers ✔ @Lakers OFFICIAL: The Lakers have signed Markieff Morris. Welcome to L.A., @ Keefmorris ! 42.7K 4:36 PM - Feb 23, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 9,650 people are talking about this Morris was with the Detroit Pistons earlier this season and reached a buyout agreement last week. For the season, Morris has averaged 11 points per game on 45% shooting from the field. He’s extended his range and is hitting 39.7% on a career-high 4.3 attempts per game from behind the arc this season. The Lakers signed Morris using the $1.75 million Disabled Player Exception they received af...

Mrs. Johnson at her desk at Langley in an undated photo. Credit...NASA #KatherineJohnson #Mathematician #Apollo11 #NeilArmstrong #NASA They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday at a retirement home in Newport News, Va., calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth. A single error, she well knew, could have dire consequences for craft and crew. Her impeccable calculations had already helped plot the successful flight of Alan B. Shepard Jr., who became the first American in space when his Mercury spacecraft went aloft in 1961. The next year, she likewise helped make it possible for John Glenn, in the Mercury vessel Friendship 7, to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Yet th...

The Lakers retired Bryant’s jerseys — Nos. 8 and 24 — during a ceremony on Dec. 18, 2017. #KobeBryant #LosAngelesLakers #NBA Kobe Bryant, who made the leap directly from high school to a glittering 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers that established him as one of basketball’s all-time greats, was among nine people  killed in a helicopter crash  on Sunday north of Los Angeles. Bryant was 41. The crash also killed  Gianna Bryant , 13, the second oldest of Kobe Bryant’s four daughters with his wife, Vanessa. They were traveling from the family’s base in Orange County, Calif., to Thousand Oaks, 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. A budding star herself, Gianna was scheduled to play an afternoon game with her travel team, coached by her father, at Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy. News of Bryant’s death predictably rocked the N.B.A., which is filled with players who grew up watching Bryant as he won five championships with the Lakers ...