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NEWS:
SPORTS - From ESPN: The Las Vegas Aces have won the 2025 WNBA Championship, defeating the Phoenix Mercury in Game 4 (97-86) to win the series 4 games to 0. This is the Aces third championship in four years.
AWARDS - From CBSNews: The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday Oct. 10th to Venezuelan political opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado. The Swedish Academy said Machado received the award "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
DISNEY - From Deadline: Disney has resumed developing a live-action remake of its 2010 animated hit, "Tangled." Scarlett Johansson is in play to take the role of the villain, "Mother Gothe."
MOVIES - From Deadline: Taron Egerton and Jessica Henwick are set to star in the comedy thriller "Everybody Wants To F*ck Me," which will be written and directed by Jonathan Schey. The film is a Studiocanal, LuckyChap, Film4, and Parkville Pictures co-production and is set in London and the world of modern dating.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 10/3 to 10/5/2025 weekend box office is AMC Distribution's "Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl" with an estimated take of 33 million dollars.
NFL SCANDAL - From NewYorkPost: "The New York Post" has a timeline of events regarding the events surrounding the stabbing of former NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports analyst, Mark Sanchez. The article also has a picture of the alleged victim, 69-year-old Perry Tole.
From NBCSports: Stabbed just a few nights ago, former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports analyst, Mark Sanchez, has gone from victim to facing felony charges, including one that could land him in prison for up to six years.
SCANDAL - From USAToday: Grammy Award-winning recording artist and music producer and business mogul, Sean "P Diddy" Combs, has been sentenced to 50 months for his conviction in a federal sex-crimes case. However, Combs will received credit for the time he has already spent locked up in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
POLITICS - From Variety: Oscar-winner Jane Fonda has relaunched the "Committee for the First Amendment," the McCarthy-era initiative founded in the 1940s by her father, Oscar-winner Henry Fonda, to protect against attacks on free speech. The Committee has already received the support of more than 550 A-list names, including Kerry Washington, Natalie Portman, Aaron Sorkin, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal, Ben Stiller, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Billie Eillish, to name a few.
ANIMATION - From Variety: Disney's 20th Century has set a July 23, 2027 release date for the animated sequel film to 2007's "The Simpsons Movie."
OBITS:
From Variety: American film and television actress, Diane Keaton, has died at the age of 79, October 2025. Keaton had a long and successful career. Keaton won the "Best Actress" Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's film, "Annie Hall" (1977). She also received "Best Actress" Oscar nomination for her roles in "Reds" (1981), "Marvin's Room" (1996), and "Something's Gotta Give" (2003). Keaton is also best known for her roles in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" trilogy of films, "Baby Boom" (1987), "Father of the Bride" (1991), "Father of the Bride II" (1995), "The First Wives Club" (1996), and "Mad Money" (2008), to name a few.
From BBC: The English actress and singer, Patricia Routledge, has died at the age of 96, Friday, October 3, 2025. Routledge was best known for playing the character, "Hyacinth Bucket," on the former BBC sitcom, "Keeping Up Appearances." Hyacinth was a social-climbing snob who insisted that her married surname, "Bucket," was pronounced "Bouquet" when it really was pronounced "bucket." Hyacinth often made her put-upon husband, "Richard Bucket" (played by the late Clive Swift). In 1968, Routledge won the Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" for her performance in "Darling of the Day."
From ABC: London-born English zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist, Jane Goodall, has died at the age of 91, Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Goodall was only 26 years old when she first entered the Goombe Stream National Park in the East African nation of Tanzania and began her important research on chimpanzees in the wild with the park's "Kasakela chimpanzee community." Throughout her study of the species, Goodall proved that primates display an array of similar behaviors to humans, such as the ability to develop individual personalities and make and use their own tools. Goodall was the subject of more than 40 films, many of them documentary works.
From THR: Italian artist and painter, Renato Casaro, has died at the age of 89, September 30, 2025. Casaro was best known for the film posters he painted and he was one of the most influential, important, and innovative Italian film poster artists. His best known work in American films includes painting movie posters for such films as "Flash Gordon" (1980), "Conan the Barbarian" (1981), "Dune" (1984), and "Army of Darkness" to name a few. Casaro also painted calendars, collectibles, and book covers, and album covers.
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