The Daily Populous

Monday January 8th, 2018 morning edition

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Robbie describes the journey with wide eyes and big gestures, teasing out the seat-of-her-pants lunacy of it.

After a run of close shaves and near misses, her story’s ending almost feels anticlimactic.

The release of the Will Smith film is still some way off; for now, she’s talking about the Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese one.

In The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie stars as Naomi Lapaglia, the trophy wife of DiCaprio’s monstrous stock-market fraudster, Jordan Belfort.

Robbie is a graduate of Neighbours, and worked on the soap opera for two-and-a-half years before moving to Hollywood with a very specific game plan.

The Wolf of Wall Street is its successful outcome – or, at least, the start of it.

“The whole point of Naomi is that her body is her only form of currency in this world. »

R.I.P. astronaut John Young, the first man to get yelled at for smuggling a sandwich into space

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CNN is reporting that John Young—one of the most celebrated astronauts in the history of American spaceflight—has died today, at the age of 87.

Despite those storied accomplishments, Young never got as much name recognition as your Neil Armstrongs or your John Glenns.

The inciting incident in question occurred on March 23, 1965, while Young and fellow astronaut Gus Grissom were orbiting the Earth as part of the Gemini 3 mission. »

Nebraska Proposes to Re-Instate Net Neutrality

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Nebraska Introduces Law to Re-Instate Net Neutrality Statehouses across the country: the next battlefield for a free internet?.

A state legislator, Adam Morfeld, introduced a bill Friday to restore rules net neutrality rules in the state of Nebraska.

The “Internet Neutrality Act” (LB856) would restore the former federal rules and prohibit broadband internet service providers from “limiting or restricting access to web sites, applications, or content.”. »

WATCH: That time the Grammys cut off Frank Sinatra … and Billy Joel made them pay

Authored by nj1015.com

What transpired after the live ceremony came back on the air, however, was arguably even more memorable.

Billy Joel took the stage to perform his Grammy-nominated hit “The River of Dreams,” a song with several built-in pauses before the choruses.

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