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With the launch of Pepsi Max’s “Uncle Drew” campaign in 2012, there was a touch of Eddie Murphy in Coming to America and a dash of Jackass, with a covert Kyrie Irving under piles of Hollywood makeup, pairing surprising improv comedy chops with his incredible hoop skills. What there wasn’t, …

The man who disarmed the Monterey Park shooting suspect after he entered a second dance hall with a gun recalled the harrowing confrontation in a new interview with Good Morning America. Brandon Tsay, 26, was at the Lai Lai Ballroom and Studio, which he helps run with his parents, in …

A former Kansas schoolteacher has been arrested and charged with leading an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria over the past decade. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen, was charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice announced Saturday, …

At first, it seemed like harmless fun, a plotline directly lifted from female buddy romcoms likeThe Other Womanor John Tucker Must Die: a group of women discovered, via the power of social media, that they had all been dating the same man. West Elm Caleb, as he soon came to …

Things just aren’t looking up for Novak Djokovic — and, if the Australian government has its way, the 34-year-old tennis star could soon be packing his bags and heading home without hitting the clay court at next week’s Australian Open. According to court documents filed by Djokovic’s lawyers, the nine-time …

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell continued on Wednesday in federal court in downtown Manhattan, where the British socialite is facing sex-trafficking charges for allegedly assisting her late associate, Jeffrey Epstein, in abusing underage girls. In today’s testimony, the defense cross-examined the government’s first alleged-victim witness, who, to protect her privacy, …

Following the news of Stephen Sondheim‘s death on Friday, there was an outpouring of tributes and condolences on social media dedicated to the musical theater icon. Sondheim, the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist, died at the age of 91 at his Connecticut home, according toThe New York Times. He penned …

Alex Murdaugh‘s alleged insurance schemes continue to unfold. The prominent South Carolina attorney, charged with hiring a hitman to kill him so his son could claim the insurance money — and whose wife and son were shot outside his house in an unsolved killing in June — is facing new …

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein entered a new not-guilty plea on Monday to a reinstated charge in his California criminal case, the same day prosecutors filed a motion to introduce uncharged, so-called “prior bad-acts” material at his upcoming trial. The charge, which represents the sole count for one of the five …

This story originally appeared in the June 15th, 1989 Issue of Rolling Stone. Deep in Laurel Canyon, the Wonderland Gang was planning its last heist. It was Sunday evening and the drugs were gone, the money was gone, the situation was desperate. They’d sold a pound of baking soda for …