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See what Hunter star Stepfanie Kramer looks like now

See what Hunter star Stepfanie Kramer looks like now

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you grew up watching 80s cop dramas, Stepfanie Kramer’s face will be instantly familiar. She was the sharp, no-nonsense Sgt. Dee Dee McCall in Hunter, and for many fans, she will always be the detective who held her own beside Fred Dryer’s Rick Hunter. But there is far more to Stepfanie than that one role. She has acted for more than 40 years, with appearances in some of television’s best-loved shows, and built a second career as a singer-songwriter. Now 70, she is still part of the industry. Curious what she looks like now? Read on to find out… © MediaPunch via Getty Images Her early acting career Stepfanie’s career began in the late 1970s, while she was still at drama school. She landed guest spots on some of the decade’s most popular television shows, including Starsky & Hutch, Dynasty, Bosom Buddies and Knots Landing. She trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West, and later returned to the school as a guest instructor, passing on what she’d learned. In 1983, she stepped into a leading role in the …

Hunter Biden’s Life After Shame

Hunter Biden’s Life After Shame

Published by Daniella Wilson

How much grace should we extend to people who screw up—like, really screw up? After many years as an addict and a general failson, Hunter Biden’s history includes felony gun convictions, tax evasion, smoking crack, and smoking Parmesan cheese that he thought was crack. But in the past few weeks, the son of the former president has launched a new career as—a sober counselor? A life coach? Since reviving his dormant X account on May 19, the younger Biden has fully embraced a persona he soft-launched last year, when the Gen Z influencer Andrew Callaghan interviewed him about his past drug addiction. His strategy is not to deny his past transgressions, but to flagellate himself so thoroughly for them that no one else can land a hit. “I was definitely a degenerate crackhead, 100 percent,” the 56-year-old recently told Soft White Underbelly, a YouTube channel that encourages sex workers, homeless people, and drug users to tell their stories in their own words. His addiction had been a form of “suicide,” but he was saved by …

‘Grangeville’ review: Samuel D. Hunter play grapples with fraught past

‘Grangeville’ review: Samuel D. Hunter play grapples with fraught past

Published by Sam Flores

Jerry and Arnold, two estranged half-brothers, are forced by circumstances to be back in touch. Their mother, whom Jerry has been looking after, is dying, and there are medical bills that need to be straightened out. Arnold, an artist living with his husband in the Netherlands, doesn’t know why Jerry is reaching out to him. He left Idaho a lifetime ago and would rather not have anything more to do with his abusive upbringing in podunk Grangeville. Samuel D. Hunter, the bard of Idaho, where many of his plays are set, including “A Bright New Boise,” “The Whale” and “Little Bear Ridge Road,” grapples in a novel way with this territory in “Grangeville,” which is having its West Coast premiere at the Ruskin Group Theatre in a beautifully acted production directed by John Perrin Flynn. The setting for this two-hander is more abstract than usual for Hunter, who is one of the theater’s outstanding American realists. But the geography is more mental than physical in a work that takes place largely through telephone and video …

Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter

Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two women, raised continents apart, are forced to kill each other by a contract neither of them signed. That is the bone Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter chews on for over five hundred pages, and somehow it manages to feel less like a worn fantasy beat and more like a fresh wound. The novel arrives marketed as the bridge between Fourth Wing’s dragon swagger, Throne of Glass’s witchy court politics, and Red Queen’s rebellion sparks. It earns those comparisons, though it carves out its own bruised, smart-mouthed identity along the way. The Setup, Spoiler-Free The world is split between two continents. In the frozen north sits Arturea, a queendom of witches whose magic is dying because the source of all power has gone wrong. In the sun-baked south sits Vatra, a kingdom of Blooded humans and dragon riders. Every generation, an heir from each side must duel to the death over an ancient relic called the Heart, locked in by a magical pact called the Covenant. Astrid is the last witch of her bloodline, twenty-four …

Millionaire big-game hunter dies after being trampled by elephants

Millionaire big-game hunter dies after being trampled by elephants

Published by Sam Flores

A millionaire big-game hunter has been killed after being trampled by elephants while on a hunting expedition. Ernie Dosio, 75, had been searching for a rare species of antelope in the Lope-Okanda forest in Gabon, central Africa, when a herd of five elephants emerged and crushed him underfoot. The American vineyard-owner from Lodi, California, had collected an array of animal trophies during his lifetime, including rhinos, elephants and lions. Safari operator Collect Africa confirmed Mr Dosio’s death, according to a report in the Daily Mail. The company said that a professional hunter who had been guiding Mr Dosio was also seriously injured in the incident, which is said to have taken place on 17 April. The team had been on the lookout for a yellow-backed duiker, the largest of all duikers, which is one of the most heavily-hunted species across forests in West and Central Africa. The group of five elephants with a calf are said to have been well-hidden in the undergrowth surrounding them. Elephants are the largest land animals on earth, with adult …

Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants

Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s a contentious topic, with some arguing that big game hunting is key to ongoing conservation efforts, while others say it poses a critical threat to biodiversity, forcing certain species to extinction. It can also be extremely dangerous. Take Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old millionaire who owned a California vineyard and who along with his guide was trampled to death by a group of five elephants while hunting antelope in Gabon, Africa. The schadenfreude on social media is hard to miss. “Oh dear, how sad,” wrote one user. “Hope the elephants didn’t hurt their feet.” But while it may sound like Dosio had it coming, a retired game hunter in Cape Town who said he knew him told the Daily Mail that he was a “very well-known and popular hunter in the US and in Africa and a very keen conservationist and …

How ‘Wednesday’ Star Hunter Doohan Entered ‘The Wilderness’

How ‘Wednesday’ Star Hunter Doohan Entered ‘The Wilderness’

Published by Daniella Wilson

In early 2023, Hunter Doohan got a text out of the blue from Bryan Cranston. Doohan, best known for his work in Netflix’s Wednesday, had played Cranston’s son on the Apple series Your Honor. Now Cranston wanted to know if he could share Doohan’s number with Cranston’s Breaking Bad co-star Aaron Paul. For Doohan, a die-hard Breaking Bad fan, the answer was an emphatic yes. Doohan and Paul had never met, but the pair had a connection beyond Cranston: Doohan played a younger version of Paul’s character in Apple’s Truth Be Told. Paul was producing a small indie called The Wilderness, and wanted to get in touch with Doohan about the lead role. The feature takes place in Utah at a wilderness retreat for teen boys who struggled with addiction. The program is led by an enigmatic program director, James (Sam Jaeger), who may have dark intentions. The feature is partially inspired by personal experiences of writer-director Spencer King, who asked Paul to arrange an introduction. King and Doohan hit it off, with the actor …

Holly Hunter in Paramount+ Show

Holly Hunter in Paramount+ Show

Published by Daniella Wilson

You can hardly blame the young leads of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for being chaotic. They’re essentially first-year college students, most of them adjusting to life away from their home planets for the first time and figuring out who they want to become. Confused and inconsistent is exactly what they’re supposed to be at this stage. You can, on the other hand, certainly blame the Paramount+ show itself for being messy. Created by Gaia Violo, the series is a hybrid of sci-fi spectacle and teen drama that’s admirable in its ambitions but shaky in its execution, at least in the first six hours (of 10) sent to critics. But much like Starfleet’s brightest cadets, it’s too full of charm and promise to dismiss outright. You just hope to see it live up to its full potential someday. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Bottom Line A cast worth following to the ends of the galaxy. Airdate: Thursday, Jan. 15 (Paramount+)Cast: Holly Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Zoë Steiner, Gina Yashere, …