Today is Friday, March 21, 2025.
It is the 80th day of the year.
285 days remain.
WHAT’S ON TAP
NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: A JFK file pro says he’s seen enough to conclude who coordinated the hit on the late president.
HILARIA BALDWIN defends her red carpet scolding and GUNS N’ ROSES is in need of a new drummer. More in SHOWBIZ.
A shelved film gets a new home and some exes may star in a new rom-com. Details in CASTING CALL.
An influencer hears from MEGHAN SUSSEX in ROYALS.
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One of the most prominent researchers into the assassination of John F. Kennedy says the latest dump of files strengthens the argument that the CIA absolutely played a role in the former president’s murder.
Jefferson Morley said in a post on X that six files in particular “enable a verdict of complicity” that the CIA was responsible for the assassination, perpetrated by a small clique of counterintelligence agents.
Morley says the new documents reveal the code names of CIA operations run by this group that are directly linked to assumed killer Lee Harvey Oswald.
Understanding the details requires more space and background history allowed here, but Morley is a well-credentialed, even-headed analyst. For full details and context, give him a follow > [via Jefferson Morley]
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On March 8, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Since then, investigations have suggested the flight was rerouted and flew south over the Indian Ocean. Search efforts have come and gone, wreckage has washed up on the East African coast and around Indian Ocean islands, but families still don’t have definitive answers.
NOW: The Malaysian government has approved a renewed search attempt, this time helmed by a Texas-based marine robotics company, Ocean Infinity. The company will search a 5,800 square mile tract of the ocean floor. If it finds the wreckage, it’ll earn a $70 MILLION reward – but nothing if it comes up empty.
Ocean Infinity spearheaded a search effort in 2018 but didn’t find anything definitive. [via New York Post]
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FOLLOW UP: Music fans are upset over BRITNEY SPEARS not making it into Billboard’s Top 10 Women Artists of the 21st Century.
“Britney should be top ten she’s the queen of girly pop,” one fan wrote on social media, while another suggested she should be in the “top 5,” asking how “Katy Perry is number 5?”
Others who should have been in the Top 10, according to fans, are MARIAH CAREY, JANET JACKSON, and MADONNA. [via Daily Mail]
FOR THE RECORD: Spears was ranked No. 14. [via Billboard]
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A former employee of EMINEM’s has been charged with criminal infringement of a copyright and interstate transportation of goods after selling the rapper’s unreleased music.
Joseph Strange, who worked for Em from 2007 to 2021, was found to have sold songs from the then-not completed album “Houdini” to various buyers via several websites.
If convicted on both charges, Strange faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. [via THR]
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FOLLOW UP: A year after it was shelved, “Coyote vs. Acme” may have found a new home.
Ketchup Entertainment is expected to purchase distribution rights from Warner Bros. for an estimated $50 million. The independent distributor is behind the recent theatrical release of “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.”
“Coyote vs. Acme” is a live-action hybrid starring JOHN CENA and LANA CONDOR. [via Variety]
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UP NEXT: Hilaria explains the mansplaining, a distribution home for “Coyote vs. Acme,” the (potential) beginning of the end of a major government department, Napoleon asserts his power on this date in history.
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