Getty Kim Kardashian is using her celebrity to bully a small business for the rights to a skincare line, according to a new lawsuit ... but Kim's legal team says it's nothing more than a "shakedown effort." Kim is being sued for trademark infringement over her new brands, SKKN and SKKN BY Kim, by a company out of Brooklyn called Beauty Concepts, which claims it owns the rights to "SKKN+" and says Kim's use of the moniker on her beauty products is confusing customers. Document Launch Doc According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Beauty Concepts says it's a Black and woman-owned business that survived the pandemic, and moved up to a brick-and-mortar store only to learn Kim K was launching her new brand with a strikingly similar name. In the docs , Beauty Concepts says it reached out to Kim's team after she filed papers trying to lock up rights to "SKKN" ... informing her it already held the trademark for "SKKN+" and asking Kim not to use … [Read more...] about Kim Kardashian Sued over SKKN for Trademark Infringement, Calls it a Shakedown
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It’s Quinta Brunson’s World and We’re All Just Laughing in It
Quinta Brunson — creator, executive producer, and star of the hit comedy Abbott Elementary — could moonlight as a tour guide. She meets me at the Warner Bros. Television building on a crisp day in April. The building, tucked behind bushes and an open-air set of a quaint city street, is boxy and drab, one of the least magnificent structures I see on the massive lot. And yet Brunson has a way of showing its hidden magic. Flanked by a publicist and a studio rep, we load into a golf cart, where Brunson leads me on a tour of the WB campus — it also just happens to be a tour of one of the most exciting young careers in comedy. In fact, while we chat in front of an outdoor set of a white church used in Gilmore Girls and Pretty Little Liars , an eager fan on a stretch cart packed with visitors on a guided tour loudly points her out. In 2018, she was cast as a lead in a CW series called The End of the World As We Know It after auditioning in this very building. The show never … [Read more...] about It’s Quinta Brunson’s World and We’re All Just Laughing in It
Jason Kander Was a Rising Star in the Democratic Party. Then He Went on Suicide Watch
Scandal, drugs, assault, outright crime — American voters have learned to forgive all of these. But historically, there’s been one thing that no politician returns from: mental illness. No one knew that better than Jason Kander, a former Army Captain who returned from Afghanistan and immediately began a meteoric political ascent, one that took him from the Missouri House of Representatives at the age of 27 to the first name on Barack Obama’s lips when he was asked in 2017 who he saw as the future of the Democratic party. Pollsters polled, cameras flashed, tv interview requests came flooding in. Jason’s star got shinier and shinier. At night, though, when his world grew quiet, Jason was unable to sleep for fear of paralyzing nightmares. He was on high alert every waking minute, and increasingly distant from his wife and infant son. Like many vets, Jason had left the war, but the war hadn’t left him. He didn’t want to believe he was suffering from PTSD because he had never heard of … [Read more...] about Jason Kander Was a Rising Star in the Democratic Party. Then He Went on Suicide Watch
Tamannaah Bhatia On Success Of Pan-India Films: People Want To See Movies That Are Close To Their Roots
This year, the box office has been majorly dominated by pan-India films like Ram Charan-Jr NTR's RRR and Yash-starrer KGF: Chapter 2 . The dubbed versions of these movies have also performed exceptionally well at the ticket windows. In a recent chat with Etimes, Tamannaah Bhatia expressed her take on the success of the pan-India movies. The actress who has been a part of the blockbuster pan-India film Baahubali , opined that one of the reasons why these films are receiving so much love from the audience is because their stories are close to their culture and roots. The tabloid quoted Tamannaah as saying, "Films, whose story lines are quite authentic, stories that talk about our roots are being dubbed in multiple languages and released in various states. Such films have received a lot of appreciation from the audience. So, in the end... authenticity... subjects that are close to the culture and roots of the public are really what matters in today's time." … [Read more...] about Tamannaah Bhatia On Success Of Pan-India Films: People Want To See Movies That Are Close To Their Roots