But when her school’s principal suggests that her acting out might be covering up a learning disability, Claire’s mom is hesitant to have her evaluated.
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Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
15 Oct. 2025
In the clip, which was shared by celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton, Jenner and Appleton, 42, acted out daughter Kim Kardashian's viral quote from The Kardashians.
Although the Peacock adaptation didn't show a full shot of Gacy in his clown costume, the series included scenes of him talking about his passion for dressing up as a clown and publicly performing as one.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
However, the real ineptitude occurs a little earlier when River interprets a fight that Gimball has with Jaffrey’s chief of staff, Tyson Bowman (Abraham Popoola), as a physical attack and inserts himself into the scene, setting off this tragicomic series of events.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
The Duggan administration has interpreted state law to mean they can’t be repaid.
In 2023, their bond took on new meaning when Ancestry’s UnFamiliar series revealed that their great-grandparents had lived just a block apart on Elizabeth Street in early 20th-century New York City.
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Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
Arnold's post suggested that Kansas City wasn't ready to take on Detroit, but the Lions ultimately fell 30-17 to the Chiefs on Sunday before a massive brawl broke out between the two teams.
LaKeith Stanfield is an easy standout as Parker’s best friend Grofield, a passionate actor who moonlights as a criminal to fund his dead-end theater company — some of the movie’s heartiest chuckles come from the joy Grofield takes in getting to ham things up as part of the heist.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
Episode writer Zachary Reiter knows exactly how to ham up the calm before the storm, warming us up with sentimental moments (like a mother preparing her son for his first date) and frisky foreshadowing (of course there’s a couple getting it on in the bathroom).
But no matter the intent — the intent can be right, but when things get misconstrued, or however the media wants to portray it, that leaves a void of silence and a lot of questions for the guys on our team.
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Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
That pic won Safdie best director at Venice and earned Johnson the best reviews of his career portraying UFC fighter Mark Kerr.
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