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Hulu hikes price of live TV service to $55 a month

2019-11-18T12:00:00.001+05:30

Hulu hikes price of live TV service to $55 a month

Cord-cutters just can’t cut a break.

Hulu informed subscribers that it will increase the price of its Hulu with Live TV service by a whopping 20%, bringing the price of the monthly subscription to $54.99, up from $44.99.

The price hike, which goes into effect Dec. 18, was announced via an email to subscribers Friday.

“This price change allows us to continue delivering the best live and on-demand TV experience for you. In addition to ongoing product enhancements, Hulu + Live TV will continue to include the largest streaming library with more than 85,000 episodes of TV, movies and award-winning Hulu originals,” the email read.

The price hike will be implemented on customers’ billing cycles after Dec. 18.

“As always, you have choice and control in how you watch Hulu. Explore all of our plan options and find the one that best fits your unique needs, or to cancel, visit your Account page,” the email went on.

The company acknowledged that people are likely going to start paying for live TV on an as-needed basis.

“We know that many people don’t watch live television year-round, so we’ve made it easy for Hulu subscribers to switch back and forth between our plans to best suit their needs,” a blog post on its site read.

The news comes after an eventful week in the streaming wars: Disney launched its streaming service, Disney+, which includes the option of a bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu, though not Hulu’s live TV offering.

TV-watchers who used Hulu to replace traditional cable were, unsurprisingly, not happy about the 20% increase — especially considering it was the second price hike of the year.

“At this point I’m feeling like it must just be cheaper to add TV to my internet and get a bundle discount,” wrote @ryeisenberg on Twitter.

“Sorry @Hulu, but I draw the line at the second price increase with no new channels or features. $700+ year is just as bad as big cable company’s,” @iammatthew wrote.

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Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford accepts ACLU 'courage' award

2019-11-18T11:59:00.003+05:30

Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford accepts ACLU 'courage' award

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — In a rare public appearance to pick up an award, the woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she had a responsibility to come forward, NBC News reports.

Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, spoke Sunday after she accepted the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award from the ACLU of Southern California in Beverly Hills.

She said: “When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen. I understood that not everyone would welcome my information, and I was prepared for a variety of outcomes, including being dismissed.”

Blasey Ford testified in September 2018 during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings that Kavanaugh assaulted her during a gathering of teenagers in suburban Maryland in 1982.

Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegation.

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Four dead after mass shooting in Fresno backyard: report

2019-11-18T11:59:00.001+05:30

Four dead after mass shooting in Fresno backyard: report

Several people are dead and others wounded after a shooting at a home in Fresno, California on Sunday, a report said.

The shooting took place at a family gathering in the city where people were watching a football game in the backyard, according to local television station Fox26.

The network said that an unknown individual came to the backyard and opened fire.

It wasn’t clear how many people were dead or injured. Police called the incident a “mass casualty event.”

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Elephant named after Osama bin Laden dies following fatal stampede

2019-11-18T11:58:00.007+05:30

Elephant named after Osama bin Laden dies following fatal stampede

An elephant named after Osama bin Laden has died in captivity after going on a wild stampede that killed five villagers in India.

The rogue animal — nicknamed “Laden” — died early Sunday in Assam’s Orang National Park, where officials planned to teach it to patrol wildlife parks and sanctuaries in the state, according to AFP.

The beast killed five people, including three women, during a terror-filled 24 hours through Goalpara district in October. It had been tracked for days by forestry officers and was tranquilized last week.

On Sunday morning he was found dead.

“The animal was behaving as normal. It was, however, kept with its legs tied so that it couldn’t escape,” a park ranger, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP.

The cause of death was unclear, but a senior official said the state government had sent a team of veterinarians to carry out an autopsy.

About 2,300 people have been killed by elephants in India in the last five years, while 700 elephants have been killed since 2011, according to the report.

Elephants frequently migrate into Goalpara, resulting in many fatal encounters with people amid rampant deforestation.

Some elephants have been poisoned or shot by locals, while others have died on electric fences or on railroads cutting through migration routes.

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Samoa declares emergency after six people killed by measles

2019-11-18T11:58:00.005+05:30

Samoa declares emergency after six people killed by measles

A massive measles outbreak has claimed the lives of six people in Samoa, prompting the country to close all of its schools and ban children from public gatherings.

The government is also requiring all of its citizens to get vaccinated as 100 people remain hospitalized — 15 of which are in intensive care — from the deadly disease.

Of the 716 confirmed measles cases, most of the dead victims are under the age of 2.

Some residents of the Pacific island nation had been more susceptible to the disease since a large portion of the population was never vaccinated.

Samoa’s Director General of Health Leausa Dr. Take Naseri said only two-thirds of the country’s 200,000 people were vaccinated. He also said he expects the outbreak to worsen.

Naseri’s vaccination estimation differs from numbers provided by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, which say Samoan infant immunizations rates plummeted from over 70 percent in 2013 to below 30 percent last year.

For a few months last year, the Samoan government stopped its immunization program when two infants died in a medical accident involving the vaccine, according to Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand.

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Stop-and-frisk a 'perfect' police tool: former NYPD official

2019-11-18T11:58:00.003+05:30

Stop-and-frisk a 'perfect' police tool: former NYPD official

Stop-and-frisk was “very valuable” in driving down crime — and would likely help stem the gang violence that now plagues some neighborhoods, a former high-ranking NYPD official told The Post on Sunday.

Retired Deputy Commissioner of Training Wilbur Chapman said he had officers and plainclothes cops employ the tactic when he was the commanding officer of precincts in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and Jamaica, Queens.

“We used it in high-crime areas and areas where there was narcotics distribution,” he said. “It was very valuable, and the community was fully behind us using it.”

Chapman said stop-and-frisk would also be “a perfect tool to use in fighting gangs.”

A retired NYPD detective who formerly patrolled Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights in Brooklyn also praised the effectiveness of stop-and-frisk.

“It allowed the hardworking people to just simply be able to walk to the corner or let their kids play without being afraid,” the ex-cop said.

Gristedes supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis was a Republican mayoral candidate when then-Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled against stop-and-frisk in 2013. He defended it at the time as “an example of proactive police work that stops crime and keeps guns off the streets.”

On Sunday, he said he remained “a strong supporter of stop-and-frisk” as a way to instill fear in criminals so they “leave the guns at home.”

“Stop-and-frisk helps the poorer neighborhoods. The bullets don’t go flying on Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue,” said Catsimatidis, a Sunday-morning talk show host on AM 970.

Eugene O’Donnell, a former NYPD cop who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that without the practice, “the sad truth is that guns that might otherwise be seized remain in the stream of criminal commerce.”

“Beyond a doubt,” he said, “individuals will be grievously wounded or killed by these weapons that might otherwise have been stripped from those bent on using them.”

Additional reporting by Bruce Golding

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McDonald's employee charged in tampering of police officer's food

2019-11-18T11:58:00.001+05:30

McDonald's employee charged in tampering of police officer's food

Management at a McDonald’s reportedly caught an employee tampering with food being prepared for a police officer.

The employee was taken into custody after the local sheriff’s office was made aware of the incident. The suspect had previously accused the local police department of excessive force for a 2017 encounter with law enforcement officers.

The incident occurred at a McDonald’s in Bakersfield, Calif., ABC 23 reports. According to the report, the employee allegedly tampered with a police officer’s food on Tuesday. She was taken into custody on Saturday morning. She was booked on one felony count of tampering with food.

The restaurant’s management became aware of the incident while reviewing footage, which they turned over to authorities.

In a press release obtained by ABC 23, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said that they obtained video footage of Tatyana Hargrove tampering with the food. Based on the footage, her actions appeared to be intentional.

It has not been revealed what exactly Hargrove did to the food, but the Bakersfield Police Department confirmed to Bakersfield.com that a BPD officer was involved in the incident.

In 2017, Hargrove sued the city of Bakersfield, alleging excessive force and civil rights violations after she was reportedly mistaken for a male suspect. ABC 23 reports that officers looking for a male suspect who was 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds approached Hargrove, who is 5 feet 2 inches tall and 120 pounds.

The officers denied Hargrove’s claims that officers used excessive force, instead claiming that she resisted arrested. In October, a district court ruled in favor of the arresting officers, ABC 23 reports.

In a statement obtained by Fox News, the McDonald’s owner, Jim Abbate, said, “I want to ensure our customers and law enforcement that the behavior exhibited by the individual involved in this incident does not represent my values nor those of my McDonald’s business. When we found out about this disturbing incident, we quickly notified the police. We are cooperating with their investigation and want law enforcement to know they are always welcome at McDonald’s.”

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Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard grounded at LGA after mechanical issue

2019-11-18T11:57:00.003+05:30

Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard grounded at LGA after mechanical issue

A plane with Hillary Clinton aboard was grounded at LaGuardia Airport Sunday afternoon after suffering an unknown mechanical issue on the tarmac, a report said.

American Airlines flight 2144 to Washington DC’s Reagan Airport was forced to return to the gate about 3:15 p.m. following a mechanical issue reported by ground personnel, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Another source confirmed with the network that the former secretary of state was on board.

The flight’s pilots reported to authorities feeling the plane shake then saw smoke, the report said.

Metal debris was later discovered in the area where the mechanical issue took place.

Passengers were able to catch another flight to the nation’s capital, the airline said.

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Man opens fire after Iowa strip club denies debit card for lap dance

2019-11-18T11:57:00.001+05:30

Man opens fire after Iowa strip club denies debit card for lap dance

A man in Iowa allegedly opened fire in a strip club parking lot after his debit card was declined for a private dance, a report said.

James Allen Wells, 67, was a patron at the Porsches Theater of the Arts strip club in Waterloo on Friday night at around 11 p.m. when he got a lap dance and stiffed the club, according to The Courier.

After the card was declined, Wells stormed into the parking lot and pulled a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver from his waistband, firing off five rounds, the report said.

Multiple cars were struck including: the rear window of a Dodge Durango, the tailgate of a Chrysler Town and County, and the windshield of a Chevrolet Impala.

The gunman then fled the scene and police attempted to pull him over for speeding — but he refused to stop, leading to a short chase.

Wells eventually crashed his vehicle into a curb and was apprehended after a scuffle with cops. One of the officers injured a hand during the arrest.

Wells was charged with criminal mischief, reckless use of a firearm, assault on a peace officer and reckless driving.

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Britain's 'first gay dads' split after one starts dating daughter's ex

2019-11-18T11:56:00.001+05:30

Britain's 'first gay dads' split after one starts dating daughter's ex

The well-documented relationship between Britain’s “first gay dads” has officially come to an end — as one of the men is now “in love” and dating his daughter’s ex-boyfriend, a report said.

Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow — who were England’s first same-sex couple to be named on a birth certificate as parents — have parted ways and Barrie opened up about their new unconventional living arrangement to The Sun on Saturday.

“I’ve fallen in love with Scott and he has done the same,” Barrie, 50, said, referring to the ex of his 19-year-old daughter Saffron, who is openly bisexual.

“I feel stupid at my age to have these feelings about someone other than Tony and half my age. But when you know something is right, it’s right. We have not made definite plans but I would like to marry Scott.”

Scott, 25, and Barrie are continuing to live in the family’s $7.5 million Florida mansion, along with Tony and Saffron and the rest of the family.

Barrie told the paper that his estranged husband and Saffron are accepting of the relationship.

“I’m not having a mid-life crisis — if I was having one I’d buy myself a Porsche 911,” Barrie said.

“This is the real deal. But not everyone will get it, as our living arrangements are unorthodox — I feel like I’m living in a commune, we are all still living together.”

Barrie and Tony in 1999 welcomed twins born to a surrogate and declared themselves “Britain’s first gay dads,” The Sun said.

The couple became civil partners in 2006 and married in 2014 once it became legal to do so in the UK, the report said. They have five children.

Barrie said that while Tony is his “true love” the two grew romantically distant in recent years with the two sleeping in separate bedrooms.

That coupled with Tony’s deteriorating health following a 2006 cancer diagnosis led them to drift “into a platonic relationship.”

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Everything You Need to Know About Selena Gomez and Julia Michaels’ Friendship and Matching Tattoos

2019-11-14T00:16:00.003+05:30

Everything You Need to Know About Selena Gomez and Julia Michaels’ Friendship and Matching Tattoos

Selena Gomez is one-eighteenth of Taylor Swift’s infamous girl squad, but aside from Taylor, she has a few other really close friends too! Like Julia Michaels, who just got a matching tattoo with Sel and sealed it with a kiss. Before we get into all of that, though, here’s everything you need to know about their super-close friendship.

It’s not exactly clear how Selena and Julia met or how long they’ve been friends, but they’re both musicians who write songs together, so it’s possible they met in the studio or through their record labels. Most recently, Julia is credited as a writer on Selena’s “Look at Her Now” and “Lose You to Love Me” singles. When the latter came out, Julia wrote, “Constantly grateful I get to write with people that have changed my life multiple times.”

Speaking of working together, earlier this year, the BFFs released a duet called “Anxiety,” and they got real about living with it and depression. In it, they sing about how their friends don’t know what it’s like to struggle with their mental health and how it keeps them up at night and makes them want to sit out of social activities. Just this week, Selena and Julia performed the song at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. Julia posted about it on Instagram and wrote, “Thank you @selenagomez for the most epic headline show I’ve ever played. I love you beyond words and I’m so happy we finally got to sing our baby together :)”

After the performance, they shared a kiss, which Selena posted on her Instagram Stories.

Julia just turned 26 today, and to celebrate, she threw a huge prom-themed birthday party. Like the good friend that she is, Selena was there and described Julia as “my love, my heart and my soul.”

My love, my heart and my soul @juliamichaels 🖤

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If you need any more proof that they’re going to be friends forever, take a look at the matching wrist tattoos they got from artist Brad Reis.

On her IG Stories, Selena shared pictures from their tattoo session and a picture of them holding hands and wrote,“It’s tatted..my arrow points to you forever.”

That’s pretty much all you need to know about Julia and Selena, and if anything major happens between them, this trivia trove will be updated.

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Eminem’s Rep Addresses His Leaked Lyric Siding With Chris Brown Over Rihanna Assault

2019-11-14T00:16:00.001+05:30

Eminem’s Rep Addresses His Leaked Lyric Siding With Chris Brown Over Rihanna Assault

Warning: This article contains descriptions of violence against women in Eminem’s alleged song lyrics.

Er, it looks like Eminem might have some explaining to do. According to both Complex and E! News, a snippet of a leaked verse from the rapper has been making its way around Twitter and Reddit—and in it Eminem sides with Chris Brown while rapping about Brown’s 2009 assault on Rihanna.

The leaked part is allegedly from recording sessions for Eminem’s 2009 album Relapse, and in it he raps, “Of course I side with Chris Brown, I’d beat a bitch down too.” Complex reports that the song never made it onto Relapse, but that a “different version of it” was released which has references to other instances of violence against famous celebrity women.

Naturally everyone on Twitter is deeply unimpressed and coming to Rihanna's defense:

To think that Rihanna is mainly the sole reason Eminem got brought into the 2010s since she graciously featured him on his own verses.. pic.twitter.com/7IvTfVH0mJ

eminem grown ass really glorifying rihanna abuse for a damn song after my fav lend her vocals to numerous songs for him is disgusting pic.twitter.com/gfgJjHPKZt

She basically gave him two No. 1 hits and helped keep him relevant. Rihanna is unbothered, but this is another item on Eminem’s long, long list of problematic verses and quotes (against women). pic.twitter.com/f29aB31kTS

As Complex notes, Eminem and Rihanna have worked together before on “Love The Way You Lie,” “Numb,” and “The Monster.” They even performed “Love the Way You Lie” at the 2011 Grammy Awards during a medley with Dr. Dre, Skyler Grey, and Adam Levine—and they went on what E! News described as a “mini tour” together in 2014 after the release of “Monster.”

At this point, neither Rihanna nor Eminem have commented on the alleged song lyrics, but stay tuned.

If you or someone you love is a victim of domestic violence and needs help, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE.

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Why ‘The Mandalorian’ on Disney+ Is a Must-Watch Even If You're Like 'Star Wars' Who?

2019-11-14T00:14:00.003+05:30

Why ‘The Mandalorian’ on Disney+ Is a Must-Watch Even If You're Like 'Star Wars' Who?

Disney+ headliner original series The Mandalorian has been kept so secretive that if you’re watching it and have absolutely no idea what’s going on, don’t sweat it. Literally none of us do. Aside from a few Easter Eggs and familiar vocabulary words, even Star Wars fans are going into this thing blind. You don’t need to know Jabba from jawas to get drawn into the world of The Mandalorian.

Every sweeping landscape is gorgeous to look at, and Ludwig Göransson’s score is absolutely getting added to my work playlist this winter. There are some real instrumental bangers right off the bat. We also have to talk about Pedro Pascal’s performance as the titular Mandalorian. You wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at him, but that’s the guy who got his eyes smooshed on Game of Thrones. (Your dad probably knows him from Narcos.) How he manages to be so compelling, dryly comic, and ridiculously attractive with a fully masked face is maybe the biggest mystery of all. Seriously, it makes no sense that he’s this hot in this role.

As a character, the Mandalorian is the Star Wars equivalent of “not here to make friends.” He works alone and he wants you to know it. He rolls up into dive bars, blasters blazing, and he doesn’t care who he has to cut in half in order to complete his assignment and get paid. He also hates droids (robots) for some unexplained reason. He’s like your one friend who deleted Facebook before it was cool and begrudgingly carries a flip phone. Maybe he listens to vinyl, I don’t know his life.

In Episode 1 we’re basically just following the Mandalorian as he goes about his job and errands for the day. He captures one criminal with ease, showing us that he’s good at what he does. He collects payment from one guy, gets information about his next assignment from another guy, and gets a new shoulder pad for his armor made by a cool blacksmith lady. The flashiest of flashbacks reveal that his parents were killed. Of course! Did you not expect a tragic backstory coming?

Oh, but even though Mando’s a lonely murderer who’s scared of technology, he has a heart of gold. He donates some of his salary to charity, and there’s a whole sequence in which the Mandalorian bonds with an equally stubborn animal — the universal sign for having a soul. He’s also not a fan of the fallen Empire (a.k.a. Darth Vader a.k.a. the Bad Guys), so that’s a plus.

But the end of the episode is truly a game changer. We’ve been silent for too long about the truly bonkers reveal: there’s a freakin’ baby Yoda in this thing! Move aside Baby Groot, a new adorable munchkin has arrived. It’s not Yoda himself, just a member of the same species which (she says, pushing imaginary glasses up the bridge of her nose) actually doesn’t have a name in the Star Wars universe, as far as we know. The Mandalorian is tasked with killing the lil’ green cutie at the end of the first episode but thankfully/obviously decides against it, promising all kinds of fun Three Men and a Baby shenanigans to come.

I’ll be real honest, some parts of The Mandalorian may initially be a little boring if you’re not already emotionally invested in Star Wars. For a shoot ‘em up series set in space, a lot of scenes in the first episode are just two characters talking about, like, money and job assignments and… metal. There’s a real “this meeting could have been an email” vibe. But when it gets going, it really gets going. The Star Wars universe is gigantic, and it’s kind of nice to follow this one simple story about this one (probably not that simple) guy that even encyclopedic fans know nothing about. To borrow a phrase from another key addition to Disney+, when it comes to The Mandalorian, we’re really all in this together.

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WTF You Just Watched: 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' on Disney+

2019-11-14T00:14:00.001+05:30

WTF You Just Watched: 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' on Disney+

For many fans of Disney’s original High School Musical trilogy, like myself, the movies are an inimitable work of canonical art that nobody has any business messing with. Period. And so my first thought upon hearing the news about the new Disney + series was that it was totally unnecessary. We don’t need ~another~ High School Musical. I don’t even need to know what happened to Jimmie “The Rocket” Zara and Tiara Gold. But the new show isn’t continuing old storylines, not is it an HSM wannabe. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is it’s own quirkily self-aware form of entertainment that both Gen Zers and millennials can appreciate.

HSM The Musical: The Series is like the woke lovechild of The Office, Glee, and HSM. The show doesn’t simply have new characters step in to take the place of the old, but creates a whole new story with a noticeably diverse cast. Of course, there are plenty of cheeky references to the films (with lots of shoutouts to V-Hudg), but it also isn’t afraid to throw a little shade and make fun of the movies as well as the bygone era of the 2000’s. (I definitely felt my age while watching the first two episodes.)

Unlike the movies, there aren’t any dramatic, random burst-into-song moments. Instead, most of the singing is confined within the physical space of the theater, or within the online world in the form of Instagram videos. And the show doesn’t just recycle HSM classics, but there are new beautifully-written, singer-songwriter-vibe, catchy songs. It also takes a documentary-style approach as its characters talk directly to the camera between scenes, voicing out their thoughts and explaining their actions as they go along.

The show is set in Salt Lake High School East or East High School (EHS) — where the original movies were shot, and home to the East High Leopards (nope, they were never known as the Wildcats IRL). There’s a new drama teacher named Miss Jenn (Kate Reinders), who says she starred as a background dancer in the first HSM movie. And now that she’s returned to East High, she wants to do a production of High School Musical as an homage to the film.

High school junior Nini Salazar-Rodgers (Olivia Rodrigo) is the sweet baby girl who wants to play Gabriella. Most of her life, she’s played the role of “cow” or “tree” in school productions. But after recovering from a breakup from her skater boy ex Ricky Bowen (Joshua Bassett), and focusing her attention on theater over the summer while attending camp, she feels like she’s ready to be the leading lady. Luckily, she has the support of her family, her fierce patriarchy-smashing best friend Kourtney (Dara Reneé), and seemingly perfect theater kid/ jock boyfriend EJ Caswell (Matt Cornett) — an overachieving senior who also happens to be the co-captain of the water polo team and his class’s treasurer.

In an attempt to win Nini back, Ricky — who is kind of a fuccboi, but is also dealing with his own family problems at home — auditions for the role of Troy. In an unexpected (or, let’s be real, 100% expected) turn of events, Nini and Ricky get cast in the lead roles, which becomes a problem for the production because of the former couple’s bickering, and a problem for understudies EJ and Gina (Sofia Wylie) who also want the lead roles for themselves.

The main plot of HSM The Musical: The Series/ HSMTMTS/ HSM The Series (or whatever the young people will choose to call it) sounds a lot like your typical high school drama, with love triangles and struggles for high school stardom. But it also tackles themes beyond what goes on in the hallways of East High. It delves deeper into what it means to be a teenager in this day and age, looks into the pressures of school and family life, and deals with the changes that come with coming-of-age.

🏀 Ricky (#HSMSERIES) / Troy (#HSM1) 🏀 . . Edit just for fun. Not trying to pine the two versions against each other. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is not a remake! . . Edit apenas por diversão. Sem intuito de criar briga entre as gerações. High School Musical: The Musical: The Series não é uma remake! . . All credits go to Disney. No copyright infringement intended. . . #highschoolmusical #hsm #highschoolmusicalseries #hsmtm #highschoolmusicalthemusical #highschoolmusicalthemusicaltheseries #hsmtmts #wildcat #sharpay #troy #highschoolmusicaltheseries

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This new High School Musical definitely isn’t the original. There are no over-the-top personalities like the Evans siblings and no spontaneous dance numbers. It’s different, and is fun in its own relatable way. I’m honestly looking forward to watching the rest of the series, and would definitely recommend original HSM fans give this show a shot. In the words of Natalie (Alexis Nelis) the stage manager, “Buckle up, Wildcats! Sh*t’s about to get real.”

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Most WTF Moments of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series:

These kids think Gabriella’s old phone looks like a garage door opener. Has it been that long since HSM?

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Everything You Need to Know About Selena Gomez and Julia Michaels’ Friendship and Matching Tattoos

2019-11-14T00:11:00.005+05:30

Everything You Need to Know About Selena Gomez and Julia Michaels’ Friendship and Matching Tattoos

After the performance, they shared a kiss, which Selena posted on her Instagram Stories.

My love, my heart and my soul @juliamichaels 🖤

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If you need any more proof that they’re going to be friends forever, take a look at the matching wrist tattoos they got from artist Brad Reis.

On her IG Stories, Selena shared pictures from their tattoo session and a picture of them holding hands and wrote,“It’s tatted..my arrow points to you forever.”

That’s pretty much all you need to know about Julia and Selena, and if anything major happens between them, this trivia trove will be updated.

Eminem’s Rep Addresses His Leaked Lyric Siding With Chris Brown Over Rihanna Assault

2019-11-14T00:11:00.003+05:30

Eminem’s Rep Addresses His Leaked Lyric Siding With Chris Brown Over Rihanna Assault

Warning: This article contains descriptions of violence against women in Eminem’s alleged song lyrics.

Naturally everyone on Twitter is deeply unimpressed and coming to Rihanna's defense:

To think that Rihanna is mainly the sole reason Eminem got brought into the 2010s since she graciously featured him on his own verses.. pic.twitter.com/7IvTfVH0mJ

eminem grown ass really glorifying rihanna abuse for a damn song after my fav lend her vocals to numerous songs for him is disgusting pic.twitter.com/gfgJjHPKZt

At this point, neither Rihanna nor Eminem have commented on the alleged song lyrics, but stay tuned.

If you or someone you love is a victim of domestic violence and needs help, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE.

Shawn Mendes Hopped on Taylor Swift's "Lover" Remix and Gushed About His Love for Camila Cabello

2019-11-14T00:11:00.001+05:30

Shawn Mendes Hopped on Taylor Swift's "Lover" Remix and Gushed About His Love for Camila Cabello

Hello good citizens of the internet! Today is the dawn of a new day, and just when you thought that all of the hype surrounding Taylor Swift's album, Lover, had finally died down—surprise b*tch, you thought!!! Taylor, like the musical mastermind that she is, decided to collaborate with Shawn (Bae) Mendes to give her chart-topping song, "Lover," a new remix with a brand new verse.

Taylor hopped on Twitter and Instagram this morning and let her fans know that her COLLBORASHAWN (yes, really) is here, and ready for your ears to absorb. Of Shawn's verses, Taylor said "He has taken "Lover" and he has rewritten parts of it which I think is so important because I love him as a writer, and I also think that everybody would write a different love letter to their lover, and I think his take on it is so beautiful." The highest of praise!

Well guys it finally happened: WE DID A COLLABORASHAWN. Sending out a whole entire THANKS BUDDY to @shawnmendes rn - I’m so stoked that our remix of Lover is out NOW! Link in bio 💗

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With that being said, let's discuss Shawn's "Lover" lyrics and analyze how it applies to his actual IRL lover, Camila Cabello.

[Verse 2: Shawn Mendes with Taylor Swift]We could light a bunch of candlesAnd dance around the kitchen, babyPictures of when we were young would hang on the wallWe would sit on the stoopI'll sing love songs to you when we're eightySee, I finally got you now, honey, I won't let you fall

This seems pretty obvious—Shawn is looking to the future and envisioning what he could possibly have with Camila, which is so freaking cute. He wants the candlelit home-made dinners, complete with kitchen dances and pictures around the house of his youth (with Camila, of course) decorating their hallways and precious countertops. It's all very romantic!

[Bridge: Taylor Swift, Shawn Mendes & Both]Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand?With every guitar string scar on my handI take this magnetic force of a man to be my loverLook in my eyes, they will tell you the truthThe girl in my story has always been youI'd go down with the Titanic, it's true, for you, loverAnd you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for meAnd at every table, I'll save you a seat, lover (Save you a seat)

Anyone else squinting their eyes at "The girl in my story has always been you" lyric? You totally should be, because chances are it's referring to Shawn and his five-year friendship-turned-relationship with Camila.

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Last month, Camila opened up to The Sun about going into romantic territory with Shawn and revealed she was nervous because there was a teeny chance it could fail. “It’s almost more scary because you have more to lose," she said. "When you first start dating a person and you know nothing about them, there’s less at risk there. I think when you fall in love with somebody you’ve known for a long time, there’s more at stake."

"But it also feels more special because it feels like the love story you see in the movies of people who have known each other for a long time but been too stupid to realize it or say it and then it happens—and that’s beautiful too,” she added. Did you read that? Camila said "story," and Shawn used that specific verbiage in his "Lover" lyrics. A coincidence? I think TF not!

That being said, Shawn's "Lover" lyrics alludes to his relationship with Camila and reveals what he hopes to have with her in the future when they're older. A polite thing to do, considering that she wrote her recent single, "Easy," about him!

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Angelica Ross Just Gave Us a Huge Hint About Donna's Fate in the 'American Horror Story' Finale

2019-11-14T00:10:00.001+05:30

Angelica Ross Just Gave Us a Huge Hint About Donna's Fate in the 'American Horror Story' Finale

Can you even believe that it's already the American Horror Story: 1984 finale, and we still have no idea where the heck this season is going? LOL. Time truly flies when you are confused as hell. I mean, I'm sure Ryan Murphy has some elaborate plan to blow all of our minds and leave us wanting a few more episodes...but in the meantime, this story has a LOT of loose ends to tie up. Like, who is going to end up being the final girl?!

Although she's obviously not going to spoil the ending, I chatted with Angelica Ross (who plays Donna Chambers) to try and pry some answers out of her. And you know what? After our interview, I'm convinced that Donna will end up surviving this whole thing. BTW, if you haven't been paying any attention, you should know that the final girl is a horror movie trope where there's only one woman left standing at the end. Right now, it's looking like it's going to be Brooke, Donna, or Margaret. Brooke and Donna are planning to kill Margaret, Margaret's hoping to kill a bunch of musicians, and the ghosts just want to kill everyone. It's a mess.

As much as we're all rooting for Brooke and Donna to get their revenge, it's kind of tricky to get a read on Donna. She's continuing to work on her "Are serial killers born or made?" thesis, and it's impossible to predict her next step. Still, Angelica says we can trust her. It's all about her backstory, TBH.

"I really do think you can trust Donna. I think that if you look at it really closely from the beginning, the starting point of this is that her father is a serial killer. Her thinking about this thesis is partially her seeking her own redemption," Angelica explained. "She doesn't want to be evil. She doesn't want to kill. She doesn't want to be a part of it. But in order to face that fact, she has to push it to the limit."

So yeah at this point Donna Chambers should be the final girl. Idc. She’s by far the most interesting character left #AHS1984 pic.twitter.com/iQN9CDvct3

Uh...is anyone else getting final girl vibes here? So far, Donna has had one of the most impressive redemption arcs in the history of AHS, and to throw that away by killing her off would be totally tragic. It might make sense for her to die in a very heroic way (maybe by trying to save Brooke), but she's just too badass for that! Knowing what we do about Donna, she simply HAS to be the final girl. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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My First Post on Wordpress from Python

2019-11-13T23:56:00.001+05:30

Hooray, posting frm commandline!

Will Ferrell set to host 'Saturday Night Live' for fifth time

2019-11-13T23:47:00.003+05:30

Will Ferrell set to host 'Saturday Night Live' for fifth time

“Saturday Night Live” alum Will Ferrell will guest host the sketch comedy show on Nov. 23 — joining the five-timers club.

As a a cast member from 1995 to 2002, Ferrell left his mark with impressions of notables like “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek and former President George W. Bush (who appreciated Ferrell’s impersonation). He also portrayed now-iconic characters including annoying Spartans cheerleader Craig alongside Cheri Oteri; half of the dancing “Roxbury Guys” with Chris Kattan; mutton-chopped keyboardist Marty Culp; and, perhaps most famously, the overly enthusiastic cowbell guy, Gene Frenkle, from the 2000 sketch about the recording of the Blue Oyster Cult song “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.”

King Princess, who recently released her debut solo album, “Cheap Queen,” will be the musical guest.

“SNL” returns this week with former One Direction singer Harry Styles as both host and musical guest.

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Adam Driver stars in dull torture porn movie 'The Report'

2019-11-13T23:47:00.001+05:30

Adam Driver stars in dull torture porn movie 'The Report'

“The Report,” true to its no-nonsense name, does the admirable work of trying to interest viewers in the way that bureaucracy can be used to hide the most terrible truths. Alas, the movie gets as buried in paper-pushing as its characters do.

Adam Driver stars in this true story as Daniel J. Jones, the US Senate staff investigator who uncovered the CIA’s efforts to whitewash its program of “enhanced interrogation techniques” — a k a torture — of detainees in the months and years following the Sept. 11 attacks, and the fact that the interrogations were ultimately near-useless.

You have to appreciate Driver’s range — between this, “Marriage Story” and the upcoming Star Wars release he’ll have hit three genres in two months — and it’s satisfying to watch his policy nerd slowly come to a boil of rage. But the screenplay by director Scott Z. Burns (writer of “The Informant!” and “The Laundromat”) spans so much time and information that it ends up saddling its powerhouse cast (Jon Hamm, Michael C. Hall, Maura Tierney, Corey Stoll, Matthew Rhys and Annette Bening under a helmet of hair as Sen. Dianne Feinstein) with hefty chunks of exposition that feel more like Wikipedia entries than dialogue.

Burns intersperses Jones’ investigation with dramatizations of the interrogations, so sadistically hard to watch they end up undercutting one of the film’s most interesting points: Jones discovers that the CIA allegedly lied when it claimed that information gleaned from torture led to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. That official version of torture-plus-manhunt was depicted in 2012’s “Zero Dark Thirty.” In one “Report” scene, Jones casts a withering eye toward an ad for “Zero Dark Thirty,” but the over-the-top violence echoes the torture-porn scenes that defined Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller.

In contrast, the most chillingly effective moment is when two shady contractors (Douglas Hodge and T. Ryder Smith) initially present a slideshow of their techniques to CIA staffers. As they casually flip through stick-figure depictions of waterboarding, small-box confinement, sleep deprivation and “mock burial,” you truly get a feel for how so many officials rationalized looking the other way: via a PowerPoint presentation of horrors, masquerading as patriotism.

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'Tina' star Daniel J. Watts says Ike Turner 'has paid his dues'

2019-11-13T23:46:00.009+05:30

'Tina' star Daniel J. Watts says Ike Turner 'has paid his dues'

It’s rough playing a wife-beating coke addict, even one who was a musical genius. Just ask Daniel J. Watts, who finds himself defending Ike Turner.

“Someone asked me, ‘How do you reconcile playing this role every night?’ ” the actor tells The Post. “Well, you can’t tell Tina’s story without Ike — there’s a big, 16-year hole!”

Over breakfast near the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, home to “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” the soft-spoken 37-year-old with the easy smile seems as unlike Ike as you can get. It’s a lot easier to imagine him as Sammy Davis Jr., the other musical legend he was playing in Los Angeles when the Turner tuner’s people came calling.

“Crazy, right?” Watts says. “Everyone loves Sammy, but no one says, ‘I love Ike.’ I went from playing the most beloved entertainer of all time to one of the most hated . . . and, perhaps, most misunderstood.”

Watts believes it was “Tina” star Adrienne Warren, then burning up the stage in London, who put him on the short list for Broadway. They met 10 years ago, when they did “The Wiz” at City Center, and Watts still calls her “my baby sis.” An audition and two callbacks later, he got the gig, and immersed himself in the life of Ike.

From the 1999 memoir “Takin’ Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner,” Watts discovered a man who, like himself, grew up in the rural South. But being the only black child in his third-grade North Carolina class in the ’80s was easy compared with growing up in the Jim Crow South, where Turner came of age in the 1930s.

“His father was ‘courting’ a white woman and a mob beat him to within an inch of his life,” Watts says. “Ike said it took him two years to die.”

Turner was 6 or 7 at the time. As he wrote in his memoir, a neighbor started paying him to feed her chickens on his way to school — and invited him into her house, to molest him.

Watts believes that those early sexual experiences shaped and shadowed Turner’s life. He was married at least four times before meeting and wedding Anna Mae Bullock, the singer he renamed Tina. They met in St. Louis, where Turner was a very busy man.

“Ike had the keys to different women’s houses all over St. Louis,” Watts says. “He said that at one point he had, like, 38 sets of keys!”

‘You can’t tell Tina’s story without Ike — there’s a big, 16-year hole!’

Determined to dig deeper, the actor flew into Memphis, Tenn., and drove past cotton fields to Clarksdale, Miss., where Turner’s old house is still standing. “Someone else is living there and they have a ‘Beware of dog’ sign,” Watts says of 304 Washington St., “so I didn’t go over and knock and say, ‘Can I look around?’ ”

But the town does have a blues museum, and the plaque out front honors Turner. By the time he died, in 2007 at age 76, he’d won five Grammys, and his 1951 single “Rocket 88” was finally recognized as the first recorded blast of rock ’n’ roll. Nevertheless, Watts says, “as a black man in America, even if Ike was a saint, he’d never have been able to have the career Elvis had.”

In time, drugs took their toll. “Ike got hooked on cocaine when he realized he could stay up and be more productive,” Watts says. “Tina was never interested,” though she popped Valium to escape their marriage.

Her star rose when she left him, becoming a powerhouse on her own. Her memoir-turned-movie, “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” wrecked what was left of Turner’s career and reputation, unjustly or not.

“I think Ike has paid his dues,” Watts says, and suspects Tina feels the same. He says director Phyllida Lloyd told him about the singer’s response when she saw the musical in London.

“Tina got misty,” he says. “She said, ‘Ike would have loved to have seen this.’ ”

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Kristin Davis: I hated filming this sex scene in 'Sex and the City'

2019-11-13T23:46:00.007+05:30

Kristin Davis: I hated filming this sex scene in 'Sex and the City'

The four leading ladies of “Sex and the City” certainly filmed their share of steamy, bizarre and sometimes questionable sex scenes, but Kristin Davis hates one raunchy romp from the hit show in particular.

The actress who played Charlotte York on the HBO series says that one scene filmed almost 20 years ago still sticks in her mind in a negative way.

During an appearance on Monday’s “Watch What Happens Live,” host Andy Cohen plays a game called “Sex and the Gritty” with the 54-year-old and asks her some softball questions, including which character’s wardrobe is the least desirable. Davis answers that the ultra-sexy clothes of Samantha Jones (played by Kim Cattrall) would not make it into her dream closet.

Cohen also asks about her favorite and least favorite Charlotte storylines, and Davis doesn’t mince words about filming a very awkward sex scene in Season 3.

“I have a least favorite,” she says. “OK, there was this one time where this guy I’m having sex with had to shout ‘Bitch! Whore!’ in my face.”

In the episode “Are We Sluts?,” which aired in 2000, Charlotte finds the ultimate gentleman who meets all of her dating criteria — that is, until they reach the bedroom, when he utters the words that shock prim, proper and prudish Charlotte (and Davis in real life).

“I really, really hated it. I hated it so much,” Davis tells Cohen.

The actress also gets the ultimate surprise thanks to Cohen, who invites co-star Sarah Jessica Parker to ask a question that involves food they always ate on the set of “Sex and the City 2.”

Davis, who is promoting her new Netflix movie “Holiday in the Wild,” also weighs in on the oft-argued Mr. Big-vs.-Aidan debate regarding who was a better match for Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw.

“I love John Corbett so, so much,” she says of the actor who played Aidan, “but I do think she was meant for Big.”

Later in the interview, Davis also offers her thoughts about a third “SATC” movie, which Parker has publicly shot down.

“I’m a hopeful person, obviously, and I have a whole, rich imagination,” Davis tells Cohen. “I have all different fantasies, Andy. I have a whole short movie planned.”

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James Holzhauer Emma Boettcher to face off again on 'Jeopardy!'

2019-11-13T23:46:00.005+05:30

James Holzhauer Emma Boettcher to face off again on 'Jeopardy!'

It’s the “Jeopardy!” rematch fans have been begging for.

After his victory in the Tournament of Champions semifinal Wednesday night, James Holzhauer — who won 32 games in a row this summer — will face Emma Boettcher on Thursday and Friday in a two-part final.

Boettcher bested the seemingly unstoppable Holzhauer — a 35-year-old professional gambler from Las Vegas — in his 33rd appearance on the beloved game show on June 3.

The 27-year-old librarian from Chicago went on to win two more games and jut shy of $100,000 on the program, while Holzhauer raked in a staggering $2.4 million during his run.

“Jeopardy!” lovers who closely tracked Holzhauer’s exciting chase of legend Ken Jenning’s regular-season consecutive win record (74 games) and regular-season earnings record ($2.5 million) are eager to see Holzhauer once again take on the contestant who brought him down.

Upon returning to the small screen last week in the first round of the Tournament of Champions — which Jeopardy!” hosts about every two years or so, inviting back 15 of the most successful contestants since the last tournament — Holzhauer dominated his competition.

On Tuesday night, Holzhauer returned for the semifinal against Rachel Lindgren of Bend. Ore., and Steven Grade of Atlanta, Ga. Going into the final round, he had racked up $30,466 — which, at more than double the score of Grade in second place, meant he locked in a win.

Similarly, Boettcher emerged victorious in her preliminary round handily — then returned to win Monday night’s semifinal.

Monday’s game also made headlines because one of Boettcher’s competitors — Dhruv Gaur of Brown University, who won the student tournament — penned a heartfelt note to host Alex Trebek on his podium screen during the Final Jeopardy round.

The 79-year-old game show icon was visibly moved he read Gaur’s answer (in the form of a question): “What is ‘We [love] you, Alex!,’” with a heart standing in for the word “love.”

“That’s very kind, thank you,” Trebek said after reading the question (which was not correct, given that the clue was “In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 exposé of poverty in New York City slums, these three words follow ‘How the'”).

The beloved host — who is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer — appeared choked up, seeming to hold back tears. He paused for a few beats before continuing the round.

On Tuesday night, Trebek referenced the touching tribute. Monday’s game, he joked, “had laughs, it had tears and it had mistakes, and I’m just talking about myself.”

In the Tournament of Champions final, Holzhauer and Boettcher will play whoever wins Wednesday night’s semifinal — Francois Barcomb of New Paltz, NY, Gilbert Collins of Princeton, NJ, and Lindsey Shultz of Pittsburgh, Pa. — for the $250,000 grand prize.

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’90s trivia with 'All That' stars Lori Beth Denberg and Danny Tamberelli

2019-11-13T23:46:00.003+05:30

’90s trivia with 'All That' stars Lori Beth Denberg and Danny Tamberelli

Lori Beth Denberg and Danny Tamberelli — stars of the ’90s kids comedy series “All That” — sat down with Page Six this week and put their Nickelodeon theme show knowledge to the test.

The pair — who are longtime friends — reunited in New York on Tuesday for the first stop on their new live tour called “Nostalgia Personified,” where they share old clips and stories fans haven’t heard about their time on Nickelodeon.

“[She] is like the older sister I never had,” Tamberelli, 37, told Page Six of his friendship with Denberg, 43. “Complete with telling me my fashion sense and what I should and shouldn’t be doing, specifically with facial hair I used to have, that I no longer have.”

Denberg jokingly explained, “He had bad facial hair that strongly implied he was on the sexual predator watchlist. You’re fine, but your mustache was not allowed within 100 feet of a school.”

Denberg, who appeared on the original “All That” from 1994 to 1998, recently returned to the series, revived by former “All That” star and current “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson. The new cast also includes young actors Nathan Janak, Kate Godfrey, Lex Lumpkin, Chinguun Sergelen, Reece Caddell, Ryan Alessi and Gabrielle Nevaeh Green.

“The new cast of kids is so great. They are so much fun, so smart, so goofy,” she said, adding, “They have had original cast members back so far. Danny, I’m getting you in, don’t worry.”

Tamberelli was on the original show from 1997 to 2000. Before that, he starred on Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” from 1992 to 1996.

When we asked the duo for some of their “vital information for everyday life,” Denberg said, “If you’re going to rent an apartment, get the renter’s insurance. It’s worth it.”

“Make sure you go to the dentist twice a year,” Tamberelli added.

Very vital information, indeed.

“Nostalgia Personified” with Tamberelli and Denberg heads to Brooklyn on Wednesday night and will have shows around New England through Nov. 23.

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