Hightower announced Tuesday via his personal Twitter account that he has retired from professional football.
Hightower is officially retiring after nine seasons in the NFL, all of which he spent with New England. The two-time Pro Bowler earned three Super Bowl rings during his time with the Patriots, a span in which he solidified himself as one of the team's most important defensive players. He will perhaps be best remembered for his tackle of Marshawn Lynch at the one-yard line with seconds left in Super Bowl XLIX, which set up teammate Malcolm Butler's famous goal-line interception of Russell Wilson. Read More...
The movie adaptation of the Robert Schenkkan play “All the Way ,” which premiered Saturday on HBO, may be just the televised tonic required for people within the congressional orbit already suffering election- year burnout.
The film chronicles the first year that Lyndon B. Johnson (played by Bryan Cranston) served as president. Half a century later, in this surreal season oftoxic campaigning that’s not leavened at all by substantive legislating, the story illustrates how accomplished politicking can be harnessed in the service of ambitious policy-making. Read More...
Helen McCrory has passed away at the age of 52.
McCrory was known in part for her role as Evelyn Poole, aka Madame Kali, a practitioner of the dark arts of the occult and leader of a coven of "nightcomers" in the Showtime series Penny Dreadful. In this compilation of scenes from Season 2, we see her luxuriating in her villainy as she manipulates Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russell Beale) and schemes against Vanessa Ives. Read More...