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There's a simple reason why a woman in the United Kingdom streams "Bee Movie" nearly every day: Her infant son thinks it's the bee's knees. Gemma Chalmers identified herself as the Netflix subscriber who streamed the 2007 animated movie starring Jerry Seinfeld 357 times in the past year, explaining it's the only movie that keeps her 10-month-old son Jaxson from crying. "He watches the film from the moment he wakes up until he goes to sleep at night," Chalmers told The Sun in a new interview. Chalmers, 29, adds that she's tried other movies with the young boy, but he keeps coming back to "Bee Movie." "He watches the film from the moment he wakes up until he goes to sleep at night," Chalmers told The Sun in a new interview. "I calculated it - and it might even be more than 357 times," she told the British newspaper. Netflix revealed earlier this week that someone had streamed the movie that whopping number of times between Nov. 1, 2016 and Nov. 2017, according to Business Insider. The streaming service did not give the name of the user, but Chalmers says she received a series of messages from friends who were certain it was her. "Bee Movie" centers on an anthropomorphic bee named Barry voiced by Seinfeld who attempts to find a career beyond the honey business after graduating from college. The largely forgettable film earned mixed reviews upon its theatrical release a decade ago. The "Bee Movie" data released this week was part of Netflix's year in review. The service also revealed earlier this week that 53 users had watched its original movie "The Christmas Prince" at least 18 days in a row.

Mark Wahlberg’s movies might not all bring in the big bucks, but he sure does. For that reason, Forbes has named the 46-year-old the most overpaid actor of 2017. Wahlberg was reportedly paid a whopping $68 million this year, before taxes. His estimated salary for the year was over $10 million more than the worldwide gross of his Boston Marathon bombing film, “Patriots Day.” According to Forbes, three of Wahlberg’s pre-June 1 wide release films brought in $4.40 for every $1 he was paid to appear in them. Among the films considered in this figure was “Deepwater Horizon,” which raked in $121.8 million – just over $10 million more than the estimated $110 million it reportedly cost to make. The publication noted that neither “Transformers: The Last Night” nor “Daddy’s Home 2,” both of which brought in more than $100 million, factored into the scoring because of their release dates. Christian Bale was named the second most overpaid actor by Forbes for starring in “The Promise,” the worst-performing wide release of 2017. The film reportedly earned back just 11% of its $90 million production budget. Not far behind him was Channing Tatum, whom Forbes reported brought in a tragic $7.60 for every $1 he was paid. The site credits the poor performance of “Logan Lucky,” which grossed $46.7 million and cost $29 million to make, with his inclusion in the list. Wahlberg needn’t wallow in his new, less-than-complimentary title. In August Forbes named the Dorchester, Mass., native the highest paid actor of the year, edging out the previous year’s winner Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson by a mere $3 million.

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Brown left this Canadian family in the red. The United Parcel Service lost a Canadian man’s $846,000 inheritance, and bank TD Canada Trust is refusing to refund the missing money 10 months later, according to a CBC report. UPS has only offered $32 and an apology letter — and TD hasn’t paid out a dime for the supposedly bank-guaranteed lost dough — leading to “many a night of lost sleep, and gnashing of teeth and anger. Frustration, unbelievable frustration,” for Lorette Taylor and her brother Louis Paul Herbert, according to Taylor. After their father died, Herbert he went to his local UPS store near Cornwall, Ontario, where he was expecting a package from sister Taylor containing his share of their inheritance in the form of a bank draft, but it never came. “I’m waiting at the UPS store, around 3 p.m. because that’s when they said the guys came in, nothing shows up” Herbert told CBC News. “I came back in the evening. Nothing shows up… and I’m wondering ‘What’s happened to my inheritance?'” Taylor sent the money through UPS from her lawyer in Georgetown, Ont., about 270 miles away, so Herbert wouldn’t have to drive to pick up the hefty sum. “I should have just driven,” Hebert said. “It’s something I kick myself in the rear over every day.” Taylor obtained the bank draft — which is like a certified check, but the money is taken from a customer’s account immediately and held by the bank until the draft is cashed — in February, after TD told her it was the safest way to send the large sum. “They said a bank draft was more appropriate,” for that amount of money, Taylor said. “Never in my wildest imagination did I think something like this would happen.” The bank assured the Taylor and her husband the money could be replaced if the draft was lost. The company, whose slogan once asked “What can brown do for you?” was able to track the dough to a parcel distribution center north of Toronto, but said the trail goes cold after that. “While UPS’ service is excellent in our industry, we are unfortunately not perfect. Occasionally, the loss of a package does occur,” spokeswoman Nirali Raval told CBC, declining to answer specific questions. “Our records indicate that our team followed UPS protocol and an exhaustive search for this package was completed by our Operations and Security teams. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate the package,” she continued. The company refunded the $32 it cost Taylor to mail the lost parcel and sent an apology letter. “That’s nice of them to say, but it doesn’t solve my problems,” Herbert said. And TD is refusing to refund the money unless Taylor signs an agreement to pay back the bank if someone cashes the lost draft, which does not expire like regular checks. “It also said that if something happened to me, for example, my children and my heirs and my spouse and my executor would have to pay this debt,” she said. “Well, I didn’t really want to sign this.” She signed anyways, but the bank “never paid anyone a dime,” according to Taylor — instead it demanded she let TD put a lien against her house in case the errant check was cashed, but she refused. “If the bank really wants indemnity, then UPS should sign it,” she said. TD did not answer CBC’s questions but sent a general statement explaining that “before we can agree to a replacement or reimbursement, we need appropriate security to be in place.” Herbert, 61, said he’s maxed-out his credit cards and needs the money to survive. “TD has the money. The money is actually sitting in an account with TD. Nothing has been stolen. It’s there. That’s my inheritance,” he said, adding that if he had the cash, “I would have been retired.”

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Over two decades as a restaurateur, Joe Carroll has incorporated odds and ends from salvage yards into his Brooklyn eateries. In beloved steakhouse St. Anselm, for example, he used decorative molding from the 1940s on the ceiling. But Carroll, a 47-year-old New Jersey native whose popular restaurants and nightspots include barbecue joint Fette Sau and beer bar Spuyten Duyvil, didn’t think about crafting his own house from upcycled building blocks until the early 2000s, when he read about area houses made from decommissioned shipping containers. His partner in business and life, Kim Barbour, 43, got on board for what turned out to be a 15-year journey to homeownership. Since they moved into their shipping container house — which is located near their restaurants in Williamsburg — with 9-year-old twins Susannah and Dante last year, the design elite have taken notice. Architecture buffs fawn over the project’s pioneering use of materials and edgy silhouette. “We wanted to have a rough-and-tumble kind of space, but still cozy and homey,” Carroll says. “Not too elegant or highbrow, because that doesn’t suit who we are — we wanted something funkier and less precious.” The angular structure is more than a showpiece. Beyond aesthetics and environmental consciousness, the couple wanted a true home for their family and a venue ideal for entertaining. It’s all worked out famously: After moving in six days before Thanksgiving 2016, the Carrolls hosted relatives for that holiday, Christmas and New Year’s. Though shipping containers have been used in New York City for commercial spaces as well as additions or components of residential projects, the Carrolls’ home on Street is the first architecturally significant New York City single-family home that solely uses them as its raw material. True, another shipping container home stands on Keap Street, a 10-minute walk away. In 2013, the husband-and-wife team of contractor David Boyle and architect Michele Bertomen stacked a few containers and painted them white. But the Carroll House, as it’s known, is larger and more ambitious. It all started in 2009, when Carroll and Barbour discovered a lot on Monitor’s corner with Richardson Street. They closed on it in 2010 for $699,999. The following year, they tore down the single-family house and low-slung garage on the 25-by-100 property and, another year later, began putting in the foundation and necessary utilities. During this prolonged process, the family of four shacked up in a South Williamsburg apartment measuring 1,200 square feet. Now they’re luxuriating in a 5,000-square-foot residence with five bedrooms. There are terraces at the back of every floor, totaling 2,500 square feet of outdoor space, which were created by slicing off the back of the container stack at a diagonal. After interviewing several architects, the couple found kindred spirits in Ada Tolle and Giuseppe Lignano, partners at Lower East Side- and Naples, Italy-based LOT-EK. Pronounced “low-tech,” the firm specializes in repurposing found materials, from wooden crates to airplane fuselages. “We are interested in the practice of upcycling and using existing objects and systems that are already around us — from a sustainable standpoint but also from a creative standpoint,” Tolle says. “We like the creativity that constraint dictates.” Tolle and Lignano tried to take advantage of having an entire side of the house open to the street while still ensuring the family’s privacy. LOT-EK only installed slender windows on that corrugated facade. (Carroll and Barbour later had them frosted to deter lookie-loos from peering into the intriguing building.) The architects intentionally left the nicks and dents acquired during the containers’ world travels. “Some of the scars of their previous history are very welcome,” Tolle says. “You see the different blues and red of the original containers [on the facade]. We wanted to leave those layers, but we painted some of it brown — a play on a brownstone.” The odyssey from corner lot to shipping container house took seven full years, in part because financing was hard to come by for an ambitious construction project that wasn’t backed by an traditional real estate developer. (Ultimately, Carroll and Barbour paid out of pocket, without loans.) Finally, in 2013, 18 containers — some $3,000 apiece — traveled from Port Elizabeth, NJ, via flatbed truck and were stacked on the site over just four days. Construction costs were $4 million. Designed with parties in mind, the kitchen is decked out with stainless steel appliances, including a deep fryer, from the Bowery’s restaurant supply stores. During gatherings, guests gather around a makeshift dining room table crafted out of three blue-painted planks set on A-frames, which sits beneath lights made from rotary fans. A 2,000-bottle wine cellar occupies part of the basement. Upstairs, the twins’ mirror-image rooms are separated by a movable wall, while Carroll and Barbour’s master suite one floor up features an enormous gold-tiled tub with views of industrial Brooklyn. A multitude of staircases connects all the levels. (“My Fitbit loves me,” says Barbour, who was raised in Atlanta and Munich. “I get an average of 30 flights a day.”) The wood floors are actually original. “People don’t realize shipping containers have hardwood floors,” Carroll says. “You can spill stuff on them, bang them up — and they still look great.” But the vibe is far from austere. The fireplace is lined with rock samples collected during a summer road trip through South Dakota and Montana. A dolphin ride, the kind chained outside grocery stores, sits on a second-floor landing that will eventually serve as a library. The vintage attraction, purchased in Beacon, NY, still works if you feed it enough quarters. Cats Clementine and Oliver, promised to the twins when the new house was ready, have free reign. Every member of the family has a favorite part. The parents take advantage of the gleaming cooktop, ample storage and wall space to display prized works. “Our bartenders and staffers are also artists, so we like to be able to show that off,” Barbour says. “I’m German, so I hate clutter. Now everything can get put away.” (She is considering installing a chicken coop in the spring.) Let’s face it: The shipping container house is probably the most fun for the kids, who relish its nooks and crannies for epic hide-and-seek games. “Once we were hiding for hours in the shower,” reports Susannah. “Whenever I have nerf gun fights, there’s a lot of places I can be a sniper from,” adds Dante, crawling into a gap above the mantel. Susannah, an enthusiastic gymnast, chimes in again: “I can do cartwheels and flips without hitting my foot on the wall.” The screening room and its tiered seating, padded with Yogibo bean bags, are a hit among the elementary-school set. “My friends were begging to see the house,” Susannah says. “After we moved in, we had a massive playdate with my whole class. “They were amazed.” There is one downside to a house made largely of steel: The floors can be cold to bare feet. Plus, it attracts attention from passersby and design aficionados who make the trek to ogle the facade. “Architects, students or people who are interested in building with containers come by a couple times a week,” says Carroll. “Sometimes I let them in.” Over the last year, the family of four has also learned how much space they truly need. They used to pile into Carroll and Barbour’s bed to watch films together. Even now, with the media room’s astounding 80-inch television mere staircases away, they still cuddle in the same bed for movie nights. As the couple’s culinary mini-empire continues to expand — a St. Anselm outpost in Washington, DC, is slated to open in March — the family continues to settle in, adding touches like a metal cooking accessory for the living room fireplace. “We’ll be hosting Christmas dinner here,” Carroll says. “I’m hoping to make a few suckling pigs on the rotisserie in the fire.” Susannah and Dante have rooms separated by a movable wall. They love playing hide-and-seek in the 5,000-square-foot house. Another stellar feature is the media room at the front of the house, which has an 80-inch screen and tiered seating with bean bags.

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What the truck is going on with big box retailers? Target on Wednesday became the latest big boxer to join the equivalent of the arms’ race for retailers — same-day delivery — with its purchase of Shipt, a grocery delivery service. Target made the $550 million deal to compete in what is becoming a must-have service for retailers. While being able to offer customer same-day store-to-front door delivery doesn’t guarantee success, not having the service could spell doom for chains. In October, archrival Walmart purchased Parcel, that will help it get packages to Big Apple residents’ homes within 24 hours. That followed an announcement a month earlier by the discount giant, saying it was testing smart home technology that would allow Walmart workers to enter customers’ homes and put just-purchases groceries right into a refrigerator. Amazon dangled its own offer on Wednesday, expanding a 30-day free trial of its Prime service for last-minute shoppers to include free shipping on two-day, one-day and same-day orders through Dec. 24. “The team from Minneapolis is no longer sitting on its heels,” Gordon Haskett analyst Chuck Grom wrote in a research note, referring to Target’s hometown. “What remains clear to us is that same-day delivery will soon be par for the course in the same way free two-day shipping has become standard in recent years,” Haskett said. The Shipt acquisition is expected to close by Dec. 31, and the cheap-chic chain is set on offering same-day delivery from half its US stores within six months — and from all stores by the end of 2018. Target has been testing same-day delivery with Shipt competitor Instacart in several markets, including New York City. Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, which upended the grocery industry with supermarkets eyeing a way to revamp their e-commerce strategy, also served as a catalyst for these developments. Shipt will be a wholly owned Target subsidiary, but it will continue to run its business independently keeping its partnerships with other retail chains, the companies said. Target shares on Wednesday jumped 2.7 percent, to $62.67, but are down 13 percent year to date.

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The congregation of a burned-out Brooklyn synagogue has received a heartwarming Hannukah gift — more than $20,000 in donations. Rabbi Baruch Yehudah stood outside his charred Bnai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael synagogue Wednesday to hail the community and promise to restore the red-brick house of worship. “I am thankful to you all,” Yehudah said, standing beside several congregation members. “Here we are on the first day of Hanukkah, and we want you to know we have rededicated ourselves ...We don’t plan to be gone long.” The Patchen Ave. temple in Bedford-Stuyvesant went up in flames Nov. 14 after workers trying to repair a leaky roof inadvertently ignited tar with a blowtorch. The fast-moving inferno raged through the roof and attic of the nearly 150-year-old building, leaving gaping holes and raining debris into the synagogue. “No matter how cold it may seem when a fire of this magnitudes guts a historical location ... the warmth of this borough has really wrapped around members of this synagogue,” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The congregation is still a long ways away from raising the $1.5 million listed as the goal on a GoFundMe page dedicated to the temple’s rebuilding. The weekend after the accidental fire that devastated a Brooklyn synagogue, members of the congregation drew together and labored through the night. The congregation at B'nai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael on Patchen Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant bought sheets of plywood and hammered it up to cover entries and secure the damaged 150-year-old building, as required by the city. “We all gathered at the templ and just prayed,” said Kalelah Cooper, who works for the Department of Probation. “I said, 'Dry your eyes. Roll up your sleeves. We have to rebuild.’” In some ways, the moment was instructive of the often rich, sometimes tattered history of the predominantly black synagogue. "The history of the building ranges from horror to absolute joy," said Rabbi Baruch Yehuda, 47. It all started in Harlem in 1919 by Wentworth Mathew, an immigrant from the West Indies. He founded a rabbinical college in 1926 to teach rabbis, and eventually produced more than 40 who found homes in synagogues around the country. Mathew believed that his movement was returning blacks to a religion that they had practiced long before. He was also influenced by the black nationalist teachings of Marcus Garvey. But his movement was never accepted by the European-American Jewish institutions. He was twice denied entry into the New York Board of Rabbis. The congregation's current politics run the gamut from liberal to conservative. “Racism doesn't fit into Torah,” Yehuda said. “When white Jews walk into our synagogue they are welcome." The beauty of our community is that we don't throw anybody away,” he added. Founded in 1954 by a disciple of Mathew, B'nai Adath moved into the Patchen Ave. building in 1967 and paid off the mortgage in seven years — with congregants mortgaging their own homes to help the synagogue. The congregation now has about 200 members, and there are five other black synagogues in Brooklyn. “There are as many of us as God needs,” Yehuda said. “Coast to coast, you'll find us.” It became the home for hundreds of weddings, bar mitzvahs and brises. There was a soup kitchen that fed 100 people a day kosher food complete with flowers in vases and waiter service. “The life cycle events that took place there are countless,” Yehuda said. “I had my own bris there and I'm no spring chicken. I circumcised three of my own sons in that building.” Starting in 1999, the building began to show its age. In 2006, the east wall was damaged following a storm, and a fundraising campaign began. Meanwhile, real estate speculators hovered like crows. Yehuda said he got three calls from people wanting to buy the building on the way to the fire. “After all the fund-raising, for it to go up in smoke is heartbreaking,” Yehuda said. The building was in the middle of a $4.5 million renovation when the fire broke out and chewed the upper part in minutes. Yehuda called it “liquid fire that ran down the beams from the east to the west walls.” Police believe a roof contractor hired by the synagogue accidentally set the fire. “It was his first day,” the rabbi said. “He just set his tools up. He hadn't been working for 40 minutes. The whole place has to be gutted.” Firefighters rescued the Torahs before they even knew the building was safe, but the scrolls suffered some water damage. Yehuda credited the FDNY, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Public Advocate Letitia James and 81st Precinct Deputy Inspector Winston Faison with lending support. “Now we have to wait for the engineer so we can request permits to do the necessary work,” the rabbi said. “We have a total vacate order. Nobody can get into the building.” The police charged one of the contractors, Caesar Raynor of Dutchess County, with reckless endangerment for using a blow torch on a flammable roof. The synagogue is in negotiations over who will pay for the damage and is trying to raise money through a GoFundMe page, which has raised $12,345 out of $1.5 million sought through Saturday. “We are homeless,” Yehuda said of his congregation. “It was heartbreaking. We wept.”

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For heaven’s sake, move! A wealthy widow who had bit parts on “Charlie’s Angels” in the 1970s has been squatting in her dead hubby’s luxury apartment at the ultra-tony Pierre Hotel — even though the pad was sold for $9.85 million more than a year ago. Tara Kulukundis, 73, refuses to hand over the keys to the Fifth Ave. home — despite the executors of her spouse’s estate telling her to get out. Fed up with her stalling, executors Albert Sigal and Barbara de Mare filed a petition in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court on Friday asking a judge to issue an order booting Kulukundis from the high-end home. The executors said they and a buyer agreed to a sale on the apartment in September 2016 and Kulukundis’ refusal to leave could cause the deal to collapse. “More than one year later, (Kulukundis) has refused to vacate and turn over the Pierre apartment or, aside from a single visit on Nov. 17, 2016, even to permit access to the Pierre apartment to the (executors),” they said in an affidavit. If Kulukundis’ luxury squatting sounds familiar, that’s because she pulled the same stunt at her husband’s $25 million Southampton mansion in 2013. The executors had to go to court to pry her from that home — which was under contract for sale at the time. If Kulukundis doesn’t move out of the Pierre Hotel apartment, she could bankrupt the estate with her mounting bills, according to the executors. The estate currently shells out $19,200 a month to cover her maintenance bills at the apartment. That figure doesn’t include the $6,000 a month the estate pays for her personal chauffeur, housekeeper and other staff. In their petition, the executors make clear that Kulukundis wouldn’t end up homeless if she were evicted from the Pierre. They said they’ve offered to find her a suitable rental apartment and pay for it. The widow also owns a recently renovated apartment at the Sutton House in Tudor City. But Kulukundis sees that place more as a “giant walk-in closet” than a place to rest her head, the executors say. Kulukundis’ husband, shipping magnate M. Michael Kulukundis, died in 2010, leaving behind $81 million worth of real estate. But he had multiple mortgages totaling $61.7 million, which has forced the executors to sell his properties in order to fulfill his wishes of caring for his wife for the rest of her life. The estate and a buyer inked a sales contract on the Pierre apartment on Sept. 26, 2016. The buyer has already plunked down $2 million. But if Kulukundis doesn’t move soon, the deal will go belly up and the estate will have to return the money, the executors say. They also say there’s been a financial toll from Kulukundis clinging to homes. “In the recent past, the estate has incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in moving and storage costs to assist the recalcitrant (Kulukundis) out of a five-story townhouse on E. 67th St. in Manhattan and a five-acre beachfront house in Southampton,” the executors said in their filing. Kulukundis did not respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for the executors also did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s not the pits in the United Kingdom. Last week, the posh UK supermarket Marks and Spencer began selling a special avocado that has no pit, freeing Brits from the danger of slashing their hand as they attempt to slice around the creamy fruit’s massive seed. Sadly, they’re nearly impossible to find in the US — a fruit-spotting app reports a sighting at a Santa Monica, Calif., farmers’ market last February, but such instances are rare — leaving Americans to risk life and limb to make avocado toast. British people, meanwhile, are going crazy for them. The fruits, which are grown in Spain from an unpollinated blossom that develops without a seed, are flying off the shelves at the 149 Marks and Spencer stores across the United Kingdom that carry them. I had to visit four different stores to get my hands on a pack of “cocktail avocados,” as they’re called. When I eventually tracked them down ($2.60 for a pack of seven, about what you’d pay for two larger fruits in London), I’m stunned by how small they are. Absolutely tiny — they’re barely 3 inches in length, about half an inch in diameter and the shape of a pickle. They feel the same as a typical avocado and are slightly squishy at the ends when ripe. A knife slides easily through the skin and flesh without meeting any obstructions. Everyone’s favorite health food is no longer a death trap. The taste isn’t quite the same. The cocktail avocados are lighter, more watery and a bit sweeter and fruitier than their larger cousins. The skin is supposedly edible, but it’s so bitter, I almost spit it out. I try them a few different ways. Mashed on toast, they’re OK, but not quite as rich and delicious as a big avocado. Marks and Spencer suggests deep frying them, but that just ends up being a greasy mess. But, they really excel when it comes to guacamole. That slight cloying feeling of a normal guac, where it sticks to the roof of your mouth, disappears. Cocktail avocado guac is light and surprisingly refreshing. It’s also a bit of a pain to make if you need a decent quantity, as you have to scoop the flesh out of several small fruits rather than just scraping a big chunk out of larger one. As someone who’s managed to never hack off her hand while pitting a regular avocado, I’m sticking to the original — it’s more versatile. Americans shouldn’t be jealous of the UK’s tiny fruits. Avocado-lovers everywhere should just brush up on their knife skills and enjoy the full-size version with proper precautions. Lorraine Fisher is an avocado-lover based in London