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Last Thursday evening, restaurant mogul Zach Erdem drove up to a customer’s swanky mansion in the Hamptons, rang the doorbell, and left a delicious dinner spread on the front doorstep, COVID-style. Erdem — who owns Southampton hotspot 75 Main, a longtime hangout for celebs like Kim Kardashian West, Leo DiCaprio and Joe Biden — had …
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Coronavirus-stricken Broadway star Nick Cordero has undergone stem cell treatment to help improve his lung health, his wife Amanda Kloots revealed. “We have started stem cell treatment for Nick and that just finished. We decided on this a couple of days ago,” Kloots said in her latest Instagram update on Cordero’s health. Cordero, 41, has …
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“Saturday Night Live” cast member Chris Redd has launched a fundraiser to provide COVID-19 testing and treatment for those participating in protests over the death of George Floyd. Redd announced the GoFundMe campaign on Twitter. “COVID19 protest relief is live!! Give if you can, share if it’s in your heart!! #BlackLivesMatter and more to come!!,” …
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Hospitals have always been filled with heroes, even before the COVID-19 pandemic set in. A new docu-series on Netflix, “Lenox Hill,” serves as a timely reminder with its compelling look at the pre-coronavirus work done behind the walls of that titular New York hospital system. The show, which premieres June 10, was filmed over about …
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The Big Apple is boarding up — just as it was preparing to reopen. After three days of violence and looting in cities across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in police custody, many Big Apple retailers — including Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s, Bloomingdales and Uniqlo — have boarded up their …
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Lots of testing, protective gear, social distancing and coronavirus safety officers are at the heart of recommendations today from Disney, Netflix, CBS and other top studios, Hollywood’s leading guilds and producers to get the industry restarted from the pandemic that shut down production back in March. “The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force (the “Task …
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A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 – the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards – has been postponed in the wake of national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd. “We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” said an executive producer of …
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New York City restaurants are pulling out all the stops to survive the pandemic, including launching deliveries 90 miles away to the Hamptons. Restaurants from American bistro The Smith to Michelin-starred Carbone have been making the trek to Long Island’s East End in an effort to serve customers who fled the city during the coronavirus …
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The world is seemingly still roped off but golf is back swinging — albeit with social-distancing restrictions in place. All 50 states have given the go-ahead to open golf courses, including New York, which closed them earlier in the quarantine. Although the city courses still remain closed with no opening date in sight, facilities just …
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“The Good Fight” is losing one of its most formidable legal pugilists. Cush Jumbo, who originated the role of attorney Luca Quinn on “The Good Wife” before segueing to the CBS All Access spinoff upon its launch in 2017, is departing the series ahead of the recently-ordered Season 5. The current COVID-19 crisis — which …
Last Thursday evening, restaurant mogul Zach Erdem drove up to a customer’s swanky mansion in the Hamptons, rang the doorbell, and left a delicious dinner spread on the front doorstep, COVID-style. Erdem — who owns Southampton hotspot 75 Main, a longtime hangout for celebs like Kim Kardashian West, Leo DiCaprio and Joe Biden — had …
