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		<title>Ben Jones, Actor Turned Politician Who Played Cooter Davenport in &#8216;The Dukes of Hazzard,&#8217; Dies at 84</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ben Jones, the actor turned politician best known for playing Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” died on Sunday from a heart attack, according to his wife Alma Viator. He was 84. Viator announced her husband&#8217;s death in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon. With a photo of Jones holding his dog, she wrote, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Phoebe Bridgers Sings about Love and Death and the Whole Damn Thing in &#8216;Lost Weekend,&#8217; a Captivating Record Worth the Six-Year Wait: Album Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it&#8217;s land a punch line. There are a lot of them in &#8220;Lost Weekend,&#8221; her first solo record in six years, and she doesn&#8217;t waste any time in getting to the first of the album&#8217;s many great jokes. Possibly the most quotable couplet comes right in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>David Sackeroff, Emmy-Nominated &#8216;Seinfeld&#8217; and &#8216;Home Improvement&#8217; Production Designer, Dies at 81</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mya Copeland]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Sackeroff, an Emmy-nominated production designer and art director known for his work on classic shows like “Seinfeld,” “Alf” and “Carol &#38; Company”, died July 10 on Bainbridge Island, Wash. He was 81. Sackeroff was born on November 8, 1944. He spent his childhood constructing miniature puppet theaters and developing a fascination for spatial storytelling. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ariana Grande Debuts at No. 1 on Album Chart With &#8216;Petal,&#8217; Earning Her Best First-Week Numbers in Seven Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ariana Grande has earned her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with &#8220;Petal,&#8221; which bows in the top spot with 295,000 equivalent album units, her best opening-week figure this decade. &#8220;Petal&#8221; and its songs and videos have been the topic of considerable conversation — before and after the singer&#8217;s declaration that she [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma&#8217; Cinematographer, Editor and Star Jack Haven Break Down Little Death&#8217;s Bloody One-Take Dance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Minton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When &#8220;Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma&#8221; director Jane Schoenbrun described their vision for the bloody one-take sequence in which Little Death (Jack Haven) massacres an entire summer camp —&#160;all set to Counting Crows&#8217; 1996 rock ballad &#8220;A Long December&#8221; — they said it should feel like a Michael Bay movie. &#8220;That&#8217;s the one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Blockbuster Mentality Is Back, Baby!</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/columns/the-blockbuster-mentallity-is-back-baby-spider-man-1236830819/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Owen Gleiberman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The suits of Hollywood are used to big numbers. That’s how they roll. But the record-setting opening weekend of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” isn’t something that happens every day, or every year — more like once a decade. Domestically, the film enjoyed the biggest opening weekend in movie history. And while it had to take [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s&#8217; to Open Real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Location in 2027</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/news/five-nights-at-freddys-real-life-freddy-fazbears-pizza-1236830901/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mya Copeland]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s&#8221; and New Jersey entertainment and retail center American Dream will open a real-life Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location in East Rutherford, N.J., in 2027. Based on the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” franchise, the immersive restaurant experience is a functional reimagining of the game’s location, designed in collaboration with IP holder ScottGames. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Florian Hoffmann’s U.N. Compound Drama &#8216;Yazz&#8217; Takes Main Alliance 4 Development Prizes at Locarno Pro Awards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emeza805]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Florian Hoffmann’s “Yazz,” about a teenager growing up in a UN compound in the Central African Republic, celebrated two major wins at this year’s Locarno Pro Awards for the Alliance 4 Development co-development platform for projects from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland Swiss-German-French co-production from Tellfilm, NiKo Film and Eaux Vives Productions beat out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s It Going to Take for Steve Carell to Finally Win an Emmy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What does Steve Carell have to do for Emmy voters to take notice? In recent years, he’s died in car accidents twice (Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” and Netflix’s “Four Seasons”), been a billionaire with incurable cancer (HBO’s “Mountainhead”) and a therapist held hostage by his homicidal patient (FX’s “The Patient”). Geez, hasn’t this guy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; Is Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Highest-Grossing Movie Ever With $1.1 Billion and Imax&#8217;s Biggest Release of All Time With $289 Million</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-biggest-movie-imax-record-1236830867/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Rubin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; has notched two major box office milestones over the weekend. The big-budget adaptation of Homer&#8217;s original epic is officially Christopher Nolan&#8217;s biggest movie ever, with $1.1 billion, ranking ahead of 2012&#8217;s &#8220;The Dark Knight Rises&#8221; with $1.08 billion, not adjusted for inflation. And the sword-and-sandal adventure is Imax&#8217;s highest-grossing release of all time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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