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		<title>Slipknot Confirms Sid Wilson’s Sudden Exit: &#8216;We Wish Him the Best&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Slipknot is officially parting ways with Sid Wilson, who had been part of the group for nearly 30 years. &#8220;Effective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson,&#8221; the band posted on its Instagram account in a post that has since been taken down. &#8220;We wish him the best in his future endeavors.&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Here&#8217;s How to Watch Claressa Shields vs. Kaye Scott Boxing Live Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After defending her undisputed women&#8217;s heavyweight title against Franchon Crews-Dezurn back in February, American boxer Claressa Shields drops in weight class to middleweight to challenge WBA and WBC champion Australian Kaye Scott. The bout is scheduled for 10 rounds. On Saturday, Aug. 15, Shields (18-0-0) vs. Scott (5-1-1) takes place at State Farm Arena in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Director Frieda Luk on Olivia Luccardi’s ‘Sacred Creatures’ Role and the Fine Line Between ‘Crazy’ and ‘Enlightened’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For “Sacred Creatures” director Frieda Luk, belief can be comforting, ridiculous, exhilarating and hard to explain. “I’m really fascinated by when people believe in something,” she tells Variety. “One person believes in something, and then a group of people, and then it slowly becomes this massive phenomenon. It goes viral.” That fascination drives Luk’s debut [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Lanterns&#8217; Bosses and Stars on How the Show&#8217;s Grounded Approach Ushers in an &#8216;Entirely Different Kind of Superhero&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Minton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of James Gunn and Peter Safran&#8217;s newly expanded DCU, a more grounded take on the &#8220;Green Lantern&#8221; comics may surprise audiences who associate the character with the Ryan Reynolds film that received poor reviews back in 2011. But for co-creators Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, &#8220;Lanterns&#8221; is all about going back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘How the F&#8212; Would You Get This Movie Made in America?’ Christine Vachon, Film4, BBC Film Put ‘Trainspotting,’ ‘Ratcatcher’ and ‘The Wicker Man’ Through the 2026 Greenlight Test</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Callum McLennan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Would “Trainspotting” get financed today? Could Lynne Ramsay survive the jump from shorts to a first feature? And might “The Wicker Man,” once treated as a problem child, now look like exactly the kind of genre package buyers chase? That was the conceit of a lively session hosted by Wendy Mitchell, with Picturehouse’s creative director [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Selena Gomez Slams &#8216;Completely Meritless&#8217; Wondermind Lawsuit, Will File to Dismiss &#8216;Baseless Claims&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Dunn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Selena Gomez and her legal team have released a fiery statement after the “Only Murders in the Building” star was accused of defrauding investors in her mental health startup, Wondermind, in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. “The allegations that Selena Gomez engaged in any way whatsoever in any purported ‘fraud’ or other wrongdoing are completely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;The State of Us&#8217; Review: A Pair of Spirited Performances Lift a Familiar Yorkshire Tearjerker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The weather being what it is in Yorkshire, a sunroof is not a top priority for most car buyers in that English county — but the tired hatchback driven by young slacker Frankie (Samuel Bottomley) has one. That&#8217;s the first of a few improbabilities in &#8220;The State of Us,&#8221; an occasionally hokey but winningly sweet-natured [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UFC 330 Livestream: Here&#8217;s Where to Watch the Makhachev vs. Machado Garry Online for Free</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudie Obias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After Max Holloway defeated Conor McGregor in a TKO in less than 70 second during UFC 329 in July, the Ultimate Fighting Championship travels from Las Vegas to Philadelphia for UFC 330. For the main event, Russian Islam Makhachev (28-1-0) defends his welterweight title belt against Irish fighter Ian Machado Garry (17-1-0) in a marquee [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dave Marsh, Bruce Springsteen Biographer and Rock Critic, Dies at 76</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dave Marsh, the music critic and biographer who documented the early days of Bruce Springsteen in his influential 1979 book “Born to Run,” died Friday in his Connecticut home. He was 76. Jim Rotolo, who hosts the Springsteen-fan cast “The Wild &#38; The Innocent” on SiriusXM, confirmed Marsh’s death in a Facebook post on Saturday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adam Scott Says His Daughter&#8217;s Acting Class Was Forced to Watch His Failed &#8216;Office&#8217; Audition as an Example of What Not to Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, &#8220;Severance&#8221; star Adam Scott auditioned for the beloved sitcom &#8220;The Office.&#8221; Years later, he&#8217;s reliving the memories of that failed audition after his daughter&#8217;s acting teacher had the class compare Scott&#8217;s audition tape to John Krasinski’s successful tape. “He put it to the class like, ‘Okay. Let’s discuss why&#160;he&#160;got the job, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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