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		<title>Inde Navarrette Wins Halloween With Penis-Destroying Robot ‘SNL’ Sketch ‘The Inventor’s Wife’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a pretty weak cold open that was crashed by Tom Hanks’ David S. Pumpkins, Donald Trump (who admitted he “might be gay”) and his MAGA minion Nicki Minaj, and an amusing opening monologue where host Inde Navarrette took a swipe at Shane Gillis, the Halloween edition of “Saturday Night Live” aired a surprisingly fun [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Stars Relive Hollywood Ovation and Fan Chants for Yamazaki Takashi at Tokyo Festival</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cast of “Godzilla Minus Zero” brought the glow of a Hollywood standing ovation to the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday, two days before Yamazaki Takashi’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning “Godzilla Minus One” opens in Japan. Kamiki Ryunosuke, who returns as lead character Shikishima Koichi, and Hamabe Minami, who reprises the role of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘SNL’ Weekend Update Finally Weighs in on Israel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlow Stern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Halloween edition of “SNL” Weekend Update saw a cameo by Ben Marshall’s Pennywise as well as some jabs at President Trump’s recent obsession with candidates’ posteriors. “Even Vice President JD Vance came out and said that he was jealous that President Trump has never complimented his butt. What the hell is going on! Your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘SNL’ Celebrates Milwaukee Brewers’ World Series Win With Bobby Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle on Weekend Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia Littleton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Saturday Night Live” paid tribute to the Milwaukee Brewers’ historic World Series win during a Weekend Update segment that featured the return of Bobby Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle commentator character. Moynihan spent nine seasons on “SNL,” from 2009 to 2017. His recurring Drunk Uncle character was a classic Archie Bunker-esque East Coast guy with blunt observations [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘SNL’ Cold Open Crashed by Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins, Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump, Who Admits He ‘Might Be Gay’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia Littleton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tom Hanks returned to “Saturday Night Live” on Halloween night to revive his lounge-y David S. Pumpkins character in a cold open that skewered President Trump’s increasingly bizarre comments on the stump and his fixation with men’s physiques. The segment also featured Saidah Belo-Osagie as Nicki Minaj in a spoof of the star’s vocal support [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inde Navarrette Takes Swipe at Shane Gillis During ‘SNL’ Monologue</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/inde-navarrette-snl-shane-gillis-gym-monologue-1236936565/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marlow Stern]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following a Trump-centric cold open that featured the return of Tom Hanks’ David S. Pumpkins, “Saturday Night Live” host Inde Navarrette took the stage at Studio 8H for her first opening monologue. It was a fitting choice to have the star of the year’s breakout horror hit “Obsession” (and the internet’s apparent obsession) make her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heidi Klum Dressed Up as a Severed Human Hand for Her Annual Halloween Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tanya Fedak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is it really Halloween without Heidi Klum? The supermodel, who has become known for her over-the-top costumes, has returned for another year of her annual Halloween party, this time opting to dress as a realistic-looking severed human hand. At last year’s party, Klum dressed as the mythological monster Medusa, which featured a headpiece decorated with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pandemic-Era Longing to Gather Fed Qiu Jiongjiong’s Tokyo Competition Title ‘Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting’</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/pandemic-longing-gather-tokyo-competition-title-fuxi-1236936421/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chinese painter and filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong began shaping his new film during the pandemic. With the world suddenly forced to pause, he tells Variety, people felt an urgent desire to return to everyday life and to gather around a table. That idea became the starting point for “Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting,” which is competing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Phoebe Bridgers Makes L.A.&#8217;s Intuit Dome Into an Intimate Space Full of Love, Grief, Light Shows, &#8216;Peter Pan&#8217; Cosplay and a Great Billie Eilish Duet: Concert Review</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/music/concert-reviews/phoebe-bridgers-concert-review-billie-eilish-intuit-dome-1236936235/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, in talking about the marvel that was Phoebe Bridgers&#8217; opening night at L.A.&#8217;s Intuit Dome Friday night, which part of the show do you talk about first? Would it the emotionally riveting middle section of the show, in which Bridgers used the no-phones setting to elaborately explore, in song and in monologue, her complicated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Judge Dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal Defamation Lawsuit Over Published Epstein ‘Birthday Book’ for a Second Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Payton Turkeltaub]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump. Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual malice,” wrote U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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