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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the Chicks as the Band of the Sesquicentennial, as Group Performs First U.S. Show in Three Years at SoCal&#8217;s Yaamava&#8217; Theater: Concert Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hollywood Warns Against Sabotaging California Film Incentives, Seeks Exemption From Credit Limit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The entertainment industry is warning Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state risks undermining California production if it imposes a new limit on corporate tax credits. In a June 8 letter, a coalition of industry and labor groups argued that the governor&#8217;s budget proposal will cost production jobs and sabotage the state&#8217;s film incentive. &#8220;The result [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fat Joe, Mary J. Blige, Wu-Tang Clan and More Rock New York Knicks’ Victory Parade With Tag-Team Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing says love more than climbing atop a New York City Department of Sanitation garbage truck with your friend and waiting three hours for the New York Knicks to arrive. Well, maybe the only thing that tops it is climbing over steel barricades — in defiance of whatever barriers the NYPD set up — with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jalen Brunson Ends Feud With Elmo at New York Knicks NBA Championship Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Elmo and Jalen Brunson are cool. The iconic &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; character caught flak from Knicks fans earlier this month for posting a video on his official social media account saying, &#8220;Elmo hopes both teams have fun!&#8221; with four basketball emojis, referring to the NBA playoff series between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paramount&#8217;s &#8216;Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,&#8217; Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Set for November 2027</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angelique Jackson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paramount&#8217;s “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,&#8221; starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and directed by Siân Heder, will hit theaters next November. Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel tells the story of two friends whose lives first intersect in childhood and college, and follows them over several decades as they become creative partners in the video game business of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Comedian Carlos Mencia Charged With Tax Evasion After Failing to Report $8.7 Million in Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Comedian Carlos Mencia has been charged with tax evasion and failing to report $8.7 million in income. Mencia was arrested Thursday and remains in custody. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced the felony state tax evasion charges. It is the first case filed by the DA’s newly established Business Tax Fraud Unit. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Voicemails for Isabelle&#8217; Review: Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson Give a Hard-Sell Romcom Premise the Hard Sell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guy Lodge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is &#8220;Voicemails&#8221; the least romantic word ever to appear in the title of a romantic comedy? It&#8217;s up there, surely. But consider it a suitable warning, since &#8220;Voicemails for Isabelle&#8221; isn&#8217;t terribly romantic either, though it puts much bright-eyed effort into proving otherwise. Writer-director Leah McKendrick&#8217;s film challenges itself early, bringing its attractively matched leads [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>David Sheiner, Character Actor Known for &#8216;The Odd Couple&#8217; and &#8216;Murder, She Wrote,&#8217; Dies at 98</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Sheiner, the character actor known for his work in films like &#8220;The Odd Couple&#8221; and shows like &#8220;Murder, She Wrote,&#8221; died June 5 of renal failure in Los Angeles, his daughter Kate Sheiner confirmed to Variety. Sheiner was a Lee Strasberg-trained actor who left Broadway to move to Los Angeles. While studying the performing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peter Serafinowicz&#160;appeared on a recent episode of the &#8220;Classic Clown&#8221; podcast and looked back at his brief stint voicing the villainous Darth Maul in 1999&#8217;s &#8220;Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.&#8221; While Ray Park physically played the Sith villain on the set of the George Lucas-directed prequel, Serafinowicz&#160;contributed his voice to the part [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tay Keith, Producer of Travis Scott’s ‘Sicko Mode’ and Drake’s ‘Nonstop,’ Dies at 29</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tay Keith (real name: Brytavious Chambers), the Grammy-nominated producer behind such hits as Travis Scott’s ‘Sicko Mode’ and Drake’s ‘Nonstop,’ was found dead Thursday in his Nashville apartment, local police confirm. No cause of death was announced. A report from Nashville police reads: “No foul play is suspected in the death of Brytavious Chambers, 29, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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