A Pennsylvania-based CEO recreated a scene from “The Wedding Singer” and proposed to his girlfriend on a flight. Sam Riber, 34, and his fiancé, Lissy Alden, 37, were traveling to Mexico on Lissy’s birthday when Sam surprised her with a performance that ended with him down on one knee.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95.
An off-duty FDNY firefighter apparently blew through a red light and barreled into an unsuspecting motorist in a deadly DWI crash in Queens, according to cops and video of the collision.
And a grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder sees as the malign influence of billionaires, big corporations and both major political parties on the lives of working Americans.
