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MOVIES - From Variety: At the 2018 Venice Film Festival, Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" wins the top prize, the "Golden Lion."
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SCANDAL-MUSIC - From YahooHuffPost: Les Moonves, CBS CEO and chairman, was obsessed with ruining Janet Jackson’s career, sources say.
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TELEVISION - From YahooEntertainment: The is a "GoFundMe" campaign for Dawn Wells, the actress who played "Mary Ann" on the classic 1960s TV series, "Gilligan's Island."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Hollywood remembers the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor, Burt Reynolds, who died today, Thursday, Sept. 6th.
From YahooEntertainment: According to Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds hated "Boogie Nights," the film for which he earned an Oscar nomination.
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MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment: Olivia Munn discovered that one of the actors who appears in the new film, "The Predator," is a registered sex offender... and a friend of the film's director, Shane Black. Fox has edited his scene from the film.
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CULTURE-MOVIES - From BleedingCool: WarnerMedia and Michael B. Jordan Announce Company-Wide Diversity and Inclusion Policy
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: The so-unusual story of how 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' went from bad-boy party song to feminist anthem, 35 years after its made Cyndi Lauper an MTV icon.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: NBC orders 13 episodes of "Law & Order: Hate Crimes," from franchise creator Dick Wolf and one of his top lieutenants, Warren Leight.
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COMICS-STREAMING - From JoBlo: Len Wiseman, one of the people behind the "Underworld" film franchise, has been tapped to executive produce a series based on DC Comics' "Swamp Thing" for the "DC Universe" streaming platform. Wiseman would also direct the first episode.
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TELEVISION - From Deadline: Tyler Perry has offered actor Geoffrey Owens a job on his TV series for OWN, "The Haves and the Have Nots." Ownes, an alumnus of "The Cosby Show," was recently photographed working at Trader Joe's.
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TELEVISION - From TheVerge: The Big Bang Theory is better at portraying geekdom than haters admit.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 8/31 to 9/2/2018 three-day, Labor Day, holiday weekend box office is "Crazy Rich Asians" with an estimated take of $22.2 million.
From Variety: "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" tops the international box office thanks to $77 million grossed in China.
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MOVIES - From THR: Actor Steve Guttenberg said in a Twitter post that a new "Police Academy" movie "is coming." Guttenberg. There are seven films in the franchise, beginning with the first in 1984 and the last in 1994. Guttenberg appeared in the first four films. [Yes, I am a big fan of the franchise. - Ed.]
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Vince Vaughn talks about re-teaming with Mel Gibson in "Dragged Across Concrete."
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POLITICS - From WashPost: Ken Burns writes "How to Honor John McCain's memory."
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CULTURE - From THR: What happens when fandom does not grow up.
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POLITICS - From YahooNews: The memorial service of Senator John McCain, the former Vietnam prisoner of war, is marked by an impassioned and emotional eulogy from his dauther, Meghan McCain, a powerful eulogy frpm President Barack Obama, a former rival of McCain's, and a eulogy of strong and comforting words from President George W. Bush, another former rival.
From TheAtlantic: This article has the full text of President Barack Obama's eulogy of Sen. John McCain.
From TheAtlantic: This article has the full text of President George W. Bush's eulogy of Sen. John McCain.
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STREAMING - From TVSeriesFinale: Jennifer Esposito has reportedly joined Amazon Studio's "The Boys." This is an adaptation of the comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
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STREAMING - From SlashFilm: Netflix plans to shifts the focus of its original movies to films that are Marvel-like blockbusters.
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CULTURE-BLM - From Truthout: “Sorry to Bother You” Exposes the Danger of Bourgeois Integration
OBITS:
From Variety: The actor and comedian, Bill Daily, died at the age of 91, Tuesday, September 4, 2018. Daily was best known for playing the comic foil on two classic television series. On "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965-70), he was astronaut Major Roger Healey. On the "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972-78), he was airline pilot and Bob Newhart's Dr. Robert Hartley's daffy neighbor, Howard Borden.
From Variety: The actor Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82, Thursday, September 6, 2018. One of the most popular leading men of the 1970s and 1980s, Reynolds appeared in a number of films that are legendary or are iconic, including "Deliverance," "The Longest Yard," and "Smokey and the Bandit." He received an Oscar nomination for his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," and he won an Emmy for his lead role in the late CBS series, "Evening Shade." Reynolds was scheduled to appear in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
From RollingStone: The rapper and recording artist, Mac Miller, has died at the age of 26, Friday, September 7, 2018.
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