The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. An anonymous reader shares a report: “En route to Paris,” Gwyneth Paltrow wrote on Instagram last week, beneath a shot of herself on an airplane heading to Paris Fashion Week and wearing a black face mask. “I’ve already been in this movie,” she…
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‘Contagion,’ Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 Thriller, Is Climbing Up the Charts
One of the hottest movies in the Warner Bros. library is a nine-year-old drama that kills off Gwyneth Paltrow in its first 15 minutes. From a report: Fears of the coronavirus have prompted movie fans to re-examine Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded 2011 thriller, “Contagion,” a fictional account of a pandemic that kills 26 million people worldwide. According to Warner Bros., the film…
China Quarantines Cash to Sanitize Old Bank Notes From Coronavirus
Today China announced it was taking unusual new steps to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. It’s blocking the transfer of old bank notes between provinces and cities affected by the outbreak, according to the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China — and that’s just the beginning. Bloomberg reports:
The central bank also ramped up measures to sanitize old…