Saturday, August 6, 2016

Negromancer News Bits and Bites from August 1st to 6th, 2016 - Update #40

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POLITICS - From Time:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that Donald Trump's treatment of the Khans should be a wake-up call.

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COMICS-FILM - From Mashable:  Brie Larson, who will portray Marvel's "Captain Marvel" embraces her inner fangirl.

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COMICS-FILM - From YahooMovies:  "Suicide Squad" has a cool mid-credits scene [SPOILERS!]

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MOVIES - From SlashFilm:  Anthony Mackie is joining Kathryn Bigelow's untitled 1967 Detroit Riots film.  This is reunion for Mackie who appeared in Bigelow's Oscar-winning, "The Hurt Locker."

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SPORTS - From YahooNews:  NFL running back found that his family and friends went through $1.6 million of his money in 10 months.

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BARACK OBAMA - From NYDailyNews:  Happy Birthday, President! Someone punched George Zimmerman after he started bragging about killing Trayon Martin in a Florida restaurant.

From CBSNews:  Happy Birthday, again! Dylann Roof, who killed nine African-American parishioners at a South Carolina church, got his ass beat in a jail shower.

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COMICS-FILM - From ScreenRant:  Paul Dini, the man who co-created "Harley Quinn" (with Bruce Timm) for the the 1992 "Batman" animated series, likes what Margot Robbie does with the character in the film, "Suicide Squad."

From Moviefone:  Fans angry over the bad reviews that "Suicide Squad" has received.

From IdahoStatesman:  "Rotten Tomatoes" getting the brunt of the fan anger over bad reviews for "Suicide Squad."

From THR:  And man... "Suicide Squad" had a troubled production.

From YahooNews:  "Suicide Squad" set to break August box office records... with a catch.

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OBITS - From TheWrap:  The actor David Huddleston has died at the age of 85, Tuesday, August 2, 2016.  He was Jeffrey Lebowski a.k.a. "the Big Lebowski" in the Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 cult film, "The Big Lebowski."

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COMICS - From CBR:  African-American writer Christopher Priest is returning to comics (on DC Comics' "Deathstroke") precisely because he is not being asked to write a Black character.

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MOVIES - From Showbiz411:  Martin Scorsese says that his film "Silence" will be ready for Oscar contention.

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STAR WARS - From EntertainmentWeekly:  Daisy Ridley quits Instagram because of the furor over her anti-violonece post.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Will Poulter is among the cast members added to Kathryn Bigelow's film about the 1967 Detroit Riots.

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COMICS-FILMS - From EntertainmentWeekly:  Hot star Mike Birbiglia wonders why the MPAA rated his acclaimed film, "Don't Think Twice," "R" and rated the violent "Suicide Squad" "PG-13."
 
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COMICS-FILMS - From EntertainmentWeekly:  As a kid, Viola Davis wanted to be Wonder Woman in order to beat those who bullied her.

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PRINCE - From YahooMusic:  "Weird Al" Yankovic talks about how Prince turned him down four times concerning Al doing parodies of Prince's songs.  Meanwhile, Michael Jackson was very supportive of Al.

From Billboard:  The time Matt Damon met Prince.

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STAR TREK - From YahooNews:  The parents of "Star Trek" Alton Yelchin have sued the makers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee.  The 27-year-old actor was killed by his Cherokee back in June.

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OBITS - From Deadline:  The screenwriter Eric Bergren died at the age of 62 on July 14, 2016.  He was an Oscar nominee for co-writing "The Elephant Man" (1980).

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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From YahooNews:  BLM releases first policy platform.

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TELEVISION - From ScreenRant:  Rapper 50 Cent (a.k.a. Curtis Jackson) has created a new superhero drama, "Tomorrow, Today" for Starz.  Fitty is one of the people behind Starz hit drama, "Power."

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STAR TREK - From ScreenRant:  "Star Trek: Discovery" may be set before the original "Star Trek," but we'll know sometime Wed., August 10th.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Benedict Cumberbatch to star in and produce a film adaptation of the classic British novel, "Rogue Male," by Geoffrey Household.

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MOVIES - From ScreenDaily:  Terry Gilliam begins production on "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" with Adam Driver (Kylo Ren in "Star Wars: The Force Awaken") as the star.

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MOVIES - From Variety:  Disney want to remake Ron Howard 1980s film, "Splash," with Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell taking the roles of the original film's star, Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.

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OBIT - From TheWrap:  The actress Gloria DeHaven has died at the age of 91, Saturday, July 30, 2016.  She was the star of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s like "Summer Holiday" and "Summer Stock."

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AWARDS - From TheWrap:  A complete list of winners at the 2016 Teen Choice Awards.

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COMICS-FILM -  From CinemaBlend:  Will Scarlett Witch be in "Spider-Man: Homecoming?"

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COMICS-FILMS -  From ScreenRant:  Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely updates their work on the screenplays for the third and fourth Avengers movies.

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TELEVISION - From YahooCelebrity:  Shannen Doherty, famous for her role on 90s soap, "Beverly Hill, 90210," that her break cancer, which she has been fighting since February 2015, has spread.  We send her our prayers.

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POLITICS - From YahooNews:  Donald Trump is still at it with Khizr and Ghazala Kahn, the couple who appeared at this past week's 2016 DNC, where Khizr spoke and castigated Trump.  The Kahns' son, Humayun, was an Army captain and a Muslim who was killed in Iraq in 2004.  Now other "Gold Star families" (meaning they have lost a child, sibling, or spouse in the recent wars) want Trump to apologize to the Khans.

From YahooNews:  Former Republican presidential nominee and current Senator John McCain (Arizona) rebukes Trump over his escalating a feud with the Kahns.  Sen. McCain is also a former prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam.

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CULTURE - From YahooCelebrity:  Justin Timberlake gives heartfelt speech at 2016 Teen Choice Awards.

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SPORTS - From DeadspinNot Safe for Work - NBA baller, Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, sends out a picture of his penis on snap chat.

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POLITICS - From NYPostNot Safe for Work - Racy, partial nude photos of Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, are released.

TRAILERS:

From WeGotThisCovered:  The new TV spot for Marvel's "Doctor Strange."

From YouTube:  Grammy nominee Andra Day's video for the song, "The Only Way Out," from the film, "Ben-Hur."

From YouTube:  Behind the scenes video starring Andra Day about the song, "The Only Way Out."

From Variety:  The first teaser trailer for Chris Nolan's WWII action-thriller, "Dunkirk."  The film is due July 21, 2017.


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