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Filming has begun for Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters movie, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones as the new proton pack-wielding foursome. And the first photos offer a few clues to what kinds of characters these ladies will be playing. Collider points us to a few set pictures that have gone out…
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Jon: WELCOME “THE DAILYSHOW.” I’M JON STEWART. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE– WE HAVE A VERY GOOD SHOWTONIGHT. VERY, VERY GOOD SHOW TONIGHT BECAUSE OF OUR GUEST. WE ARE VISITED TODAY FORTUNATELYBY MALALA YOUSAFZAI, WHO IS ONE OF OUR FAVORITES. SHE A YOUNG WOMAN FROMPAKISTAN– ( CHEERS…
South Carolina Gun Violence South Carolina’s rates of gun crime are some of the worst in the nation. • South Carolina is the seventh-deadliest state for gun homicide: There were 5 gun murders for every 100,000 people in the state in 2010, 39 percent higher than the national average of 3.6 gun murders per 100,000…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.
Alan Stanton/Flickr The Washington Post this week defended its recent claim that, yes, 20 percent of college women will be sexually assaulted during their time in school, basing this confident assertion on new poll numbers gleaned by the Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. While the poll provoked a lot of “see, we told you…
Learning that a major character died in a Game of Thrones season finale shouldn’t surprise you. But exactly who died in last Sunday’s episode very well might. Is this character really as dead as them seem, though? Here are all the reasons viewers and book readers alike have devised that [REDACTED] may yet be around….
Last year, Burger King Japan released a pitch-black cheeseburger, which my colleagueLindsay Abrams speculated had something to do with red meat’s connection with climate change. If Abrams was right, I’m not totally sure what BK is trying to say with it’s new bright red burger, except that the chain is very, very angry. Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft reports: Called…
Jurassic World is delighting audiences, smashing box office records, and making people excited about dinosaurs again. But did you notice the movie is also sort of terrible? If the new installment of Jurassic Park left you with questions, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you didn’t even know you needed! How would you summarize…
To Beggars Group Labels Artists and Managers: We thought it was time to update you on the situation with Apple Music, following speculation in the press, some of it ill-informed. Apple have been a wonderful partner for the last decade, and we confidently trust they will continue to be so. We have recently been in…
South Carolina, a state that thoughtfully welcomes its 19 known hate groups by flying a Confederate flag over the statehouse, is facing a real quandary today. When a white man walks into a black church—a church that was targeted, surveilled and burned down 200 years ago in a period when black churches were prohibited from…