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33 million. Morrissette's record label, Maverick, predicted the album would sell just 125,000 copies – a figure that impressed Morrissette at the time. “I was like, ‘How am I going to deal with that?’“ she said in an interview with the Globe’s Johanna Schneller. "I had no idea what was coming."
The Tichborne case. The Tichborne case is named for Roger Tichborne, heir to a British fortune, who was presumed drowned at sea in 1854. Andrew Bogle, a Black man who had grown up enslaved on a Jamaican plantation and who was a former servant for the Tichbornes first made an appearance in Smith’s fiction in a draft of her 2012 novel NW, but didn’t end up in the published version.
$14.7 million. Previously, the largest donation made to the TSO was the $10 million donation the Beck estate made in 2019.
The Thighmaster. Somers, who died earlier this week, was best known for her starring role as Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company.
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. While Mullally is one of the film’s bona-fide stars, Offerman has just a small role as a MAGA-esque bigot. The film is a critic’s pick this week – but be warned: it’s not for the easily squeamish.