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NOPE – Official Trailer

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“¿Qué es un mal milagro?”

 

El ganador del Oscar® Jordan Peele sacudió y redefinió el terror contemporáneo con Get Out y luego Us. Ahora reinventa el cine del verano con una nueva pesadilla pop: la gran epopeya de terror Nope.

 

La película vuelve a unir a Peele con el ganador del Oscar® Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), a quien se le suman Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) y el nominado al Oscar® Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) como los residentes de una solitaria quebrada en el interior de California que presencian un descubrimiento insólito y aterrador.

 

Nope, que está coprotagonizada por Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) y Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), fue escrita y dirigida por Jordan Peele y producida por Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) y Jordan Peele para Monkeypaw Productions. La película será estrenada por Universal Pictures a nivel internacional.

 

Género: Epopeya de terror

Elenco: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea

Escrita y dirigida por: Jordan Peele

Productores: Ian Cooper, Jordan Peele

Advocates call on state candidates to “Break Up with Fossil Fuels” for Valentine’s Day

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Billie Eilish says she ‘never said a thing’ in response to Ye’s request for apology

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Eilish halted her concert in Atlanta over the weekend to help an audience member get an inhaler — a move that Ye appeared to take as a diss to rapper Travis Scott.

Ye (left) and Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish on Thursday responded to Ye’s recent comments that he would pull out of Coachella unless Eilish apologized to rapper Travis Scott.

Over the weekend, videos shared on social media showed Eilish halting her concert in Atlanta to help a fan in the crowd get an inhaler — a move that Ye, formerly Kanye West, took as a diss at Scott.

In one clip, Eilish said: “We’re taking care of our people, hold on. I wait for people to be OK until I keep going.”

Pfizer pulls FDA request for COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5

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The company said it believes three doses “may provide a higher level of protection in this age group.”

Kids drawings hang on a wall as a boy is vaccinated, in a vaccination center, in Nantes, western France, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. France has vaccinated 77% of its population and is rushing out booster shots. But more than 4 million adults remain unvaccinated. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzales)
Pfizer-BioNTech is postponing its rolling application to the Food and Drug Administration to expand the use of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months to 4 years.

The move means that vaccines for this age group will not be available in the coming weeks, a setback for parents eager to vaccinate their young children.

Pfizer said on Friday that it will wait for its data on a three-dose series of the vaccine, because it believes three doses “may provide a higher level of protection in this age group.” Data on the third dose is expected in early April, the company said.

La legendaria carrera de Whitney Houston: un gran ascenso, una caída trágica

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La noticia apareció en la víspera de la entrega de los premios Grammy, la noche más importante de la industria musical: la mujer con la voz espectacular que alguna vez fue la reina del pop en esos premios había muerto.

Whitney Houston fue fallada muerta el 11 de febrero de 2012 por su guardaespaldas en el cuarto piso de un hotel de Beverly Hills en donde después iba a asistir a un evento presentado por su mentor, Clive Davis.

Su muerte, a los 48 años, fue el capítulo final de una carrera noticiosa que empezó con la educación de parte de la superestrella y prima de Dionne Warwick, que tocó la cima en los años ochenta y los noventa con varios récords musicales, que decayó cuando su consumo de drogas y su matrimonio con Bobby Brown coparon los tabloides, y que ahora empezaba a recuperarse con un anticipado regreso.

“Vas a recordar en dónde estabas cuando oíste la noticia. Es así de importante. Era indudablemente una de las grandes superestrellas de todos los tiempos”, dijo el productor Simon Cowell.

“Una de las mejores voces que hayamos escuchado. Oír esta noticia es algo muy, muy, muy triste para mí”:

La voz de Houston, alguna vez descrita por The New York Times como “incomparable”, influenció e inspiró a una nueva generación de cantantes, desde Mariah Carey a Christina Aguilera, y cosechó una legión entera de fanáticos.

“Sus notas llegaron a lugares que la mayoría de cantantes apenas sueños con alcanzar”, dijo Aguilera.

Whitney Houston parecía destinada al estrellado casi desde el principio

Nacida el 9 de agosto de 1963 en Newark, Nueva Jersey, hija de la gran intérprete de gospel Cissy Houston, prima de Dionne y De Dee Warwick y ahijada de Aretha Franklin, la educación de Houston fue la encarnación de grandeza musical.

Ella afinó sus cualidades vocales desde muy pequeña, cantando en un coro de iglesia y subiendo al escenario ocasionalmente con su madre. Siendo adolescente, Whitney fue corista para Chaka Khan en I’m Every Woman, una canción que Houston volvió a grabar en 1992 y que se convertiría en uno de sus más grandes éxitos.

Clive Davis descubrió a Houston en 1983 cuando cantaba en una discoteca de Nueva York y la contrató inmediatamente.

Houston lanzó su álbum debut Whitney Houston en febrero de 1985, que fue ampliamente aclamado. La revista Rolling Stone la llamó “una de las voces nuevas más emocionantes en años”.

Con el lanzamiento del álbum, su estupenda voz sumada a una belleza natural y a una buena imagen la hicieron una estrella instantánea.

Una generación entera bailó en los ochenta con su racha de éxitos, incluyendo a How Will I Know, Saving All My Love For You, I Wanna Dance With Somebody y The Greatest Love Of All.

Pero fue en los años noventa en que llegó a la estratosfera del superestrellato con dos canciones que mostraron su impactante rango vocal y su madurez.

El 27 de enero de 1991, mientras Estados Unidos estaban en guerra en el Golfo Pérsico, Houston interpretó The Star Spangled Banner en el Super Bowl XXV para registrar una audiencia récord de 79 millones de televidentes.

En un momento en que Estados Unidos estaba dividido por la guerra, su sincera e impactante interpretación pareció unir a la nación al menos por unos minutos. Su impacto fue tal que valió para que la canción fuera lanzada como sencillo y alcanzara el Top 20 de la lista de los éxitos de Billboard en ese país.

La versión de Houston fue relanzada en 2001 después de los ataques terroristas del 11 de septiembre, y las utilidades de las ventas fueron donadas a la caridad.

El éxito que tuvo Whitney Houston con I Will Always Love You

A ese éxito le siguió su cover de la canción I Will Always Love You de Dolly Parton, grabado para la película The Bodyguard, en la que ella hizo su debut actoral.

Aunque la película en general recibió malas críticas, la canción vendió 10 millones de copias, ganó el premio Grammy a la mejor grabación del año y le mereció la mejor interpretación vocal femenina en los mismos premios. El álbum ganó el galardón al mejor disco del año.

“Siempre estaré agradecida y sobrecogida por la maravillosa interpretación que ella hizo de mi canción y yo puedo decir en realidad desde el fondo de mi corazón: ‘Whitney, siempre te amaré. Te echaremos de menos’”, dijo Parton.

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Pero para el momento en que la película se estrenó, la imagen cuidada de Houston empezó a empañarse con su matrimonio con el chico malo del R&B Bobby Brown. Los dos se conocieron en 1989 y se casaron tres años después.

Su relación fue comidilla de los tabloides, con cada paso en falso siendo registrado y con la vida de la pareja quedando permanentemente sujeta a la especulación. Los hábitos de fiesta pesada de Brown lo llevaron a tener varios problemas con la ley y a pasar temporadas en prisión.

Mientras que Houston luchaba por mantener una carrera musical y cinematográfica exitosa al final de los noventa, protagonizando The Preacher’s Wife y Waiting To Exhale, su comportamiento se volvió cada vez más errático en medio de reportes de alto consumo de drogas.

Para la primera década de este siglo, su carrera estaba en caída libre en tanto las ventas de su álbum cayeron y su voz empezó a mostrar señales de desgaste.

Los rumores fueron alimentados por su demacrada apariencia y su comportamiento burdo en el reality show de la cadena Bravo llamado Being Bobby Brown, que luego ella aceptó que sólo hizo para tratar de salvar su matrimonio. La pareja, que tuvo una hija, se divorció en 2007.

Brown se presentó en un concierto de New Edition este sábado en South Haven, Misisipi.

“El ambiente fue agridulce”, dijo paar iReport Moshiu Knox, que atendió al concierto con su esposa. “Bobby estaba llorando durante el concierto y en un punto se fue del escenario. La multitud quedó conmovida y mucho lloraban”.

Videos del concierto muestran a Brown pidiéndole a la audiencia orar por la hija de la pareja. “Si tienen tiempo, ¿pueden orar por mí? Porque lo voy a necesitar”, dice.

En un desafortunada entrevista en 2002 con Diane Sawyer de ABC, Houston admitió consumir drogas pero negó consumir crack.

“Crack is wack (El crack es loco)”, dijo, citando a una frase de un mural de Keith Haring pintado en 1986.

Muere Bobbi Kristina Brown, hija de Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston: Soy mi peor enemiga

Durante la misma entrevista, ella le dijo a Sawyer: “El mayor demonio soy yo. Soy tanto mi mejor amiga como mi peor enemiga”.

Houston entró y salió dos veces de rehabilitación, declarándose completamente limpia en una entrevista de 2010 con Oprah Winfrey, aunque la gira australiana de ese año quedó colmada de reportes de prensa diciendo que ella sonaba como “graznando” y, a veces, que parecía estar desorientada.

Recientemente, Houston luchaba por recuperar su carrera e imagen con un regreso a las pantallas en la película Sparkle, una nueva versión de una película de 1976 que se dice estar en parte inspirada en el grupo The Supremes.

La noche en que Houston murió era la invitada de honor en la fiesta previa a los Grammy de Davis.

“A ella le encantaba la música y le encantaba esta noche que celebraba la música”, dijo Davis a los asistentes.

“La familia pidió que siguiéramos adelante”.

Ella también habría encantado eso.

Su hija, Bobbi Kristina Brown, murió en 2015.

Souece: CNN

Houston Health Department’s See to Succeed program returns to full capacity

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 A Houston Health Department program that puts underserved students on the path to success through the gift of sight is back at full capacity. The See to Succeed mission on February 8-11, 2022 was the largest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The four-day clinic provided free eye exams and corrective eyewear to approximately 900 Cy-Fair ISD students with unresolved vision needs. The program, a public-private partnership supported by the Houston Health Foundation, has served more than 87,000 students and provided more than 80,000 pairs of glasses since 2011.

“See to Succeed is one of the most impactful programs at the Houston Health Department and fills a vital gap experienced by many students in our region,” said Stephen Williams, director of the health department. “Without these free eye exams and corrective eyewear, most of these students would go years, or perhaps a lifetime, without a core need to succeed academically and socially.”

The program serves school children ages 6-18 years from 13 school Houston-area districts and charter schools. Of the children served through the program, 69 percent are in elementary school, 51 percent have some form of limited English proficiency, and 94 are economically-disadvantaged.

Each year, more than 40,000 children are diagnosed with a vision issue in the Houston region and half of the cases go unresolved. Unaddressed childhood vision disorders hinder development, social interactions, self-esteem, and school performance, especially in reading. Students who cannot read on-grade level are far more likely to drop out of school, and those with vision problems tend to earn 50% less annually upon entering the workforce.

“We’ve had some students even cry because it’s the first time they are actually able to see clearly,” said Jacy King, program manager for See to Succeed. “Seeing that impact is an amazing thing. I can’t believe that this is my job.”

In a study conducted collaboratively with HISD in 2015, the health department found the following program impact:

  • 69% of students with at least one prior disciplinary action showed improvement
  • 80% of students with failing grades improved: 94% of those passed reading; 67% of those passed math
  • 68% of students chronically absent improved

See to Succeed is supported by Berkeley Eye Center, Essilor Vision Foundation, San Jacinto College Eye Technology Program, the University of Houston College of Optometry, and numerous volunteer and philanthropic organizations.

The health department and partners conduct several one-day “missions” throughout the school year where hundreds of students rotate through various stations to receive comprehensive diagnostic eye exams. The last station offers a variety of frames for students to try on and select to be delivered to their school a few weeks later.

For more information about See to Succeed, visit houstonhealth.org or houstonhealthfoundation.org.

CRIME STOPPERS OF HOUSTON FUGITIVE FRIDAY

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In an effort to keep our neighborhoods safe, Crime Stoppers of Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s help locating the following individuals that have active Felony and/or Misdemeanor Warrants.

Crime Stoppers may pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the location and arrest of the suspects featured. Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477), submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org or through the Crime Stoppers mobile app. All tipsters remain anonymous. Only tips and calls DIRECTLY TO Crime Stoppers are anonymous and eligible for a cash reward.

The following individuals all have active warrants as of Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 2:00 pm.
Boggan, Ronaldo Cortez
B/M      05-18-85      5’09”/170 Lbs.      Blk/Brn
Warrant #: 1754073, 1756282
RETALIATION
Last known location: Houston Texas
Broughton, Eva Marie
W/F      04-29-75      5’10”/140 Lbs.      Bro/Bro
Warrant #: 1748814
UNAUTH USE OF VEHICLE
Last known location: Houston Texas
Carn, Romello Octavio
B/M      04-29-95     6’00”/175 Lbs.     Blk/Brn
Warrant #: 1756428
ASSAULT OF PREGNANT PERSON
Last known location: Houston Texas
Cooper III, Robert George
W/M      12-03-93      05’10”/175 Lbs.      Bro/Bro
Warrant #: 1755819
THFT MAT ALUM/BRNZ/COPPR/BRASS
Last known location: Houston Texas
Cruz, Elizabeth
W/F      04-17-90      4’11”/134 Lbs.      Bro/Bro
Warrant #: 1756285
BURGLARY OF HABITATION
Last known location: Meadows Place Texas
Davis, Jerkyma Ann
B/F      05-08-97      5’04”/130 Lbs.      Blk/Bro
Warrant #: 1756021
THEFT AGGREGATE =>$2,500<$30K 1CW
Last known location: Houston Texas
Jimenez, Alan Joel
W/M      11-09-94      5’02”/130 Lbs.      Blk/Bro
Warrant #: 1755354
EVADING ARREST/DETENTION W/VEHICLE
Last known location: Houston Texas
Schubert, Alexandra O
W/F      03-15-90      5’07”/260 Lbs.      Bro/Bro
Warrant #: 1755818, 1602423
THFT MAT ALUM/BRNZ/COPPR/BRASS
Last known location: Sugar Land Texas
Smith, Dana Renee
B/F      07-04-86      5’06”/238 Lbs.      Blk/Bro
Warrant #: 1716770
ENDANGERING A CHILD
Last known location: Houston Texas
Weaver, Stephen Ray
W/M      10-27-66      5’11”/190 Lbs.       Bal/Haz
Warrant #: 1756002
CREDIT/DEBIT CARD ABUSE
Last known location: Baytown Texas
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Prosecutors seek more possible victims of former Hedwig Village police officer

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Prosecutors are urging more possible victims to come forward if they recognize a former Hedwig Village police officer accused of offering special treatment to a woman in exchange for sexual favors while he was still employed with the police agency.

“We know that sexual predators who use a badge to coerce vulnerable people generally do it over and over again,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “We have to get the word out to possible victims to come forward and speak up. It’s not easy, but it’s necessary and important.”

Ogg stressed that regardless of a person’s immigration status or criminal history, they should not fear reporting a crime.

“We do not ask victims how they came to the United States,” she said. “We treat everyone equally when it comes to seeking justice.”

A grand jury recently indicted Richard Hernandez, 37, for Official Oppression.

In July 2020, Hernandez, pulled over a woman who was driving alone for a traffic stop. When he saw the woman had open warrants, he said he wouldn’t arrest her in exchange for sexual favors, said Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Smith of the Public Corruption Division.

The woman acted like a willing participant and then once Hernandez stepped far enough from her vehicle, she fled the scene, Smith said. She later reported the incident to police.

If convicted, Hernandez, who has been fired from the police force, faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

“When you look at the confidence he had in approaching the victim and the way he tried to strike a deal, there may be a pattern,” Smith said.

Anyone who believes they were victimized by Hernandez is urged to call the Harris County District Attorney’s Office Public Corruption Division at 713-274-5911.

 

Who killed Billi Jo Fisher?

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Crime Stoppers and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Vehicular Crimes Division need the public’s assistance identifying the suspect responsible for a Hit and Run – Failure to Stop and Render Aid – Fatality.

On Thursday, January 27, 2022, at approximately 1:48 am, the victim was struck by a vehicle in the 14000 block of the Eastex Freeway service road in Harris County, Texas. During the incident, the victim was walking southbound in the inside lane of the service road. The suspect’s vehicle was traveling in the same lane and struck the victim. The suspect fled the scene without rendering aid to the victim. The victim suffered major injuries and sadly died as a result of the collision.

Based on vehicle debris located on the scene, the suspect vehicle is believed to be a 2013 – 2017 maroon or red Chrysler.

Crime Stoppers may pay up to $5,000 for information leading to the charging and/or arrest of the suspect(s) in this case. Information may be reported by calling 713-222-TIPS (8477), submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org or through the Crime Stoppers mobile app. Only tips and calls DIRECTLY TO Crime Stoppers are anonymous and eligible for a cash reward.

VICTIM: BILLI JO FISHER
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‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Apprentice plumber sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting 4-year-old girl while on the job at her home

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A 26-year-old apprentice plumber from Spring Branch has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting a 4-year-old girl in the living room of her home while his boss and the girl’s parents were looking at an upstairs bathroom, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday.

“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare to have a stranger violate the sanctity of a family’s home and abuse a small child, and I’m proud we were able to get justice for this little girl,” Ogg said.

Brandon Joseph Bonds, 26, pleaded guilty on Monday to Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, a first-degree felony, instead of facing a jury in a trial for the incident on Aug. 25, 2018. The plea spares the girl from having to take the stand at trial.

Bonds and his boss, a master plumber, were working on a garage apartment at the victim’s family’s home and the young girl was watching television in the living room. The girl’s father asked the master plumber to come check on an upstairs bathroom and locked the back door, leaving Bonds outside. Bonds was able to get the girl to unlock the door to let him in and then proceeded to molest her. He then went upstairs where the girl’s father asked him how he got in. After the plumbers left, the child told her parents what happened.

The girl was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital where she was examined by a sexual assault nurse examiner, who collected evidence and interviewed the girl.

The evidence against Bonds included DNA from the victim’s body and forensic evidence from his phone that showed that he recorded the incident on video. That video was deleted, but investigators with the District Attorney’s Digital Forensic Investigations Unit were able to recover evidence that it existed, according to Assistant District Attorney Preston Burns, who prosecuted the case.

“Of all the child abuse cases I’ve seen, this is one of the worst because that 4-year-old was watching cartoons in her living room, with her parents at home, and it should have been the safest place in the universe for her,” Burns said. “But he was able to get to her and do something terribly, horribly awful to her.”