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• John Glines, Who Helped Bring ‘Torch Song’ to Broadway, Dies at 84

  17-08-2018 23:38 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Glines was a producer who was committed to plays with gay themes and instrumental in bringing them into the mainstream.
  
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• Miriam Nelson, 98, Golden Age Dancer and Choreographer, Dies

  17-08-2018 23:35 via nytimes.com
  A Broadway hoofer who went to Hollywood to tutor William Holden, Kim Novak, Ingrid Bergman, Jerry Lewis, Tuesday Weld and Jane Fonda, to name a few.
  
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• Only One Production Company Said They Wouldn’t Whitewash To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

  17-08-2018 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was important to Jenny Han, author of the YA books To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, that the film adaption would keep one key detail: that the lead character, Lara Jean, was Asian-American. In a new essay for the New York Times about the movie, rom-coms, and representation,...More »
  
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• The Florida Project’s Brooklynn Prince Is Going to Solve a Murder

  17-08-2018 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple’s new Hilde Lysiak series has its star, and it’s none other than everyone’s favorite Critics’ Choice Award Winner 8-year-old Brooklynn Prince. According to Deadline, the ten-episode mystery drama has been ordered straight to series and will be directed by Crazy Rich Asians’s Jon M. Chu. It’s inspired by the...More »
  
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• 48 Minutes With Kieran Culkin

  17-08-2018 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “None.” This is Kieran Culkin’s one-word answer to my question about how much preparation he put into playing Roman Roy, the charismatically loathsome scion of the billionaire Roy clan and the breakout character on HBO’s Succession, the breakout show of the summer. We’re sitting in Decibel, the impressively graffitied East...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Black Men Can’t Jump in Hollywood

  17-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• Santino Fontana Talks Skylar Astin Replacing Him on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: ‘I Love Skylar!’

  17-08-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vulture hit the opening-night red carpet of Pretty Woman: The Musical (a simpler time, a tranquil time, with everyone in high spirits before the review bloodbath) and caught up with actor Santino Fontana, of Frozen, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and, if you are an anxiety-ridden musical theater nerd, your dreams. Though Fontana left CXG at the beginning of...More »
  
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• Crazy Rich Asians: The Biggest Changes From the Book to the Movie

  17-08-2018 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Considering how rarely Hollywood green-lights movies with Asian casts, what’s remarkable about Crazy Rich Asians is really how little changed between Kevin Kwan’s book and the movie. The protagonist Rachel Chu, an American-born NYU professor, wasn’t turned white, as some producers initially suggested, and her boyfriend Nick Young’s crazy-rich extended...More »
  
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• Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin Were Planning a Collaboration

  17-08-2018 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stevie Wonder rushed to Aretha Franklin’s bedside on Monday, wanting to see her one last time before her death on Thursday. Wonder recounted the visit to CBS This Morning on Friday: “I flew out from L.A. to Detroit and went to see her and spoke with her. She wasn’t able...More »
  
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• Renée Zellweger Gets a New Netflix Show That Sounds Like Creepy Sliding Doors

  17-08-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix has just announced What/If, a brand new social thriller series from Revenge creator Mike Kelley. Each season will tackle a new morality tale “and the power of a single fateful decision to change the trajectory of an entire life.” Think American Horror Story but with ethical dilemmas instead of...More »
  
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• Movie Review: Minding the Gap’s Skate Punks Can’t Get Their Lives Airborne

  17-08-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Six or seven years ago, Bing Liu of Rockford, Illinois — the country’s second-most-dangerous city among those with fewer than 200,000 souls — began filming two of his skateboard-riding buddies for the documentary that became Minding the Gap. Early on, the rangy Zack turns and asks why Liu is shooting...More »
  
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• Aretha Franklin’s Greatest B-Sides

  17-08-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aretha Franklin’s legendary voice is rightfully the center of most remembrances of the Queen of Soul. But her almost unparalleled run as a recording artist is a marvel unto itself: She was the first female artist to place 70 songs on the Hot 100, and she’s tied with Stevie Wonder...More »
  
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• Farah Brook on Tweeting With Anxiety

  17-08-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Farah Brook (@farahbrook) is a writer and comedian based in New York City. Her comedy has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, People, HuffPost, Time Out New York, and more. If you live in New York, check out her solo show on November 14 at Union Hall...More »
  
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• Maybe ‘Everytime’ Should Be Ariana Grande’s Next Single

  17-08-2018 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is by now not news that Ariana Grande has a brief song on Sweetener that is called “pete davidson” (lowercase hers), and is about — spoiler alert — her fiancé Pete Davidson. In the scheme of Permanent Relationship Monuments, this ranks somewhere below getting tattoos for each other, but...More »
  
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• The Rights Auction to a Hot Book Is Stalled Because the Author Ran Out of Phone Minutes in Prison

  17-08-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nico Walker is an Iraq War vet who wrote a debut novel, Cherry, which covers the war, the opioid epidemic, and a spree of bank robberies (we called it the “first great novel of the opioid epidemic”). Naturally, Hollywood has come calling for the rights to the book, but there’s...More »
  
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• Ashanti Fondly Recalls the Time Aretha Franklin Called Her to Warn Her About SARS

  17-08-2018 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday we lost Aretha Franklin, and as we reflect on the many stories she left behind, there are a few that stand out. From her classic ability to shade to that time she was on Murphy Brown to the time she made Carole King’s whole life, Franklin was an ever-present...More »
  
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• Ruth Wilson Says She Had ‘No Say’ About The Affair Death

  17-08-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a lot of mystery surrounding Ruth Wilson’s surprise departure from the Showtime drama The Affair. The actress has done very few interviews about her character’s death, which shocked viewers earlier this month, though she fueled speculation by telling CBS This Morning yesterday, “I did want to leave, but I’m...More »
  
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• Stormy Daniels blames Celebrity Big Brother withdrawal on custody issue

  17-08-2018 16:44
  Channel 5 rejects adult film star’s account of her failure to appear on the showStormy Daniels has blamed her last-minute decision to pull out of an appearance on Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother on a “custody development” involving her child.The adult film star, whose allegations of an affair with Donald Trump have dogged the US president, was to appear as the high-profile guest star on the long-running reality TV series. Continue reading...
  
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• How to Listen to Aretha Franklin

  17-08-2018 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The most satisfying approach to Aretha Franklin’s monumental body of work is chronological. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t jump ahead and cherry-pick any song you like. They’re all good. They’re all inspiring. They all display her astounding virtuosity. But to get a feel for her dynamic growth as...More »
  
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• Janet Jackson’s New Video Will Make You Love Summer Again

  17-08-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new Janet Jackson album is on its way, and if you aren’t already psyched about that, you soon will be. Last night the singer dropped her first music video in three years, and it’s easily the best block party you’ll go to all summer. And it’s no wonder, since...More »
  
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• The Week Omarosa Took Over Late Night

  17-08-2018 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  What I wouldn’t give to not talk about Omarosa Manigault Newman ever again! I would love to write about Ryan Reynolds’s Tonight Show appearance, which was little more than protracted sponcon for his gin brand. I’d love to talk about Matt Groening’s return to late night after an 11-year absence....More »
  
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• Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump Isn’t Not Confirming Omarosa’s Claims She’s Feuding With Her Husband

  17-08-2018 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book generates headlines everywhere with claims of infighting between the players in the White House, Laura Benanti’s Melania Trump would like to confirm that isn’t not the case. “Melania” showed up on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night to discuss Omarosa’s claim that she...More »
  
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• Southerners Aren’t Always at Home in Hollywood

  17-08-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Nine actors talk about how their accents — and culture — helped and hindered them as they forged screen careers.
  
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• Michael Che and Colin Jost Get a Little Bit Political in Their First Emmys Promo

  17-08-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost and Michael Che are hosting this year’s Emmy Awards on September 17, and in case watching them on “Weekend Update” isn’t enough for you, here’s a new promo showing what it’s like when these two pair up together. It’s certainly an interesting mix when Colin...More »
  
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• 'He loved making people laugh': fans mourn Barry Chuckle at Yorkshire funeral

  17-08-2018 15:46
  Chuckle Brothers fans flocked to remember one half of comedy duo, after his death age 73The hearse was just pulling in to Rotherham United’s football ground when the first cry rang out. “To me!” shouted one woman. “To you,” yelled another. Inside one of the funeral cars, Paul Elliott, better known as Paul Chuckle, sat silently, head bowed. His brother Barry was dead, and along with it a lifelong comedy partnership, the Chuckle Brothers.Among the mourners was Tommy C
  
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• Ariana Grande Describes the Exact Moment She Fell for Pete Davidson 3 Years Ago

  17-08-2018 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande, a singer who describes herself as “not a crush-y person,” knew she was going to marry Pete Davidson after her episode of Saturday Night Live. She stepped out of the SNL writers room, Grande told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, and already knew she and Davidson would...More »
  
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• Ethan Hawke’s Blaze Reconsiders an Unsung Country Songwriter

  17-08-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ethan Hawke is our most-likable movie-star dilettante. He gives fine, committed performances in films (indie and studio) and still finds time and energy to do Shakespeare, compose and play music, write novels, and direct fiction and nonfiction features. Even when he’s behind the camera, you feel his curiosity and affection:...More »
  
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• Aretha Franklin’s Music Powered Memorable Moments Onscreen

  17-08-2018 15:25 via nytimes.com
  In “Moonlight,” “Murphy Brown,” “Blues Brothers” and more, Ms. Franklin’s catalog was called on to sweeten or deepen a scene.
  
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• Hasan Minhaj Says Good-bye to The Daily Show

  17-08-2018 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hasan Minhaj heads to Netflix in October to host his own weekly talk show Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj, but first, he had to make his final appearance as a Daily Show correspondent. During last night’s episode, Noah welcomed Minhaj to the desk one last time to say good-bye (“Apparently...More »
  
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• Streaming: War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both

  17-08-2018 15:18 via nytimes.com
  How combat deeply affects relationships is the theme of “Extinction” and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: In ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ How Word Travels Fast

  17-08-2018 13:50 via nytimes.com
  The director Jon M. Chu explains his visual choices for a scene in which rumors about a couple (Henry Golding and Constance Wu) are spread through social media.
  
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• Can Manchester City avoid the football documentary curse?

  17-08-2018 13:39
  Docu-series have ruined the reputations of many, from Malcolm Allison to Graham Taylor. Now the Premier League champions have let Amazon in to the Etihad In the autumn of 1980, Granada TV sent a documentary crew to follow the fortunes of Manchester City, then struggling near the bottom of the old First Division, and their manager Malcolm Allison. At the time, Allison was one of football’s great outsized figures, a cigar-smoking, fedora-wearing rent-a-gob who also happened to be a visionary
  
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• This week's best entertainment: from Lenny Henry's birthday to Krypton

  17-08-2018 12:59
  The comedy stalwart ropes in some famous chums to help him celebrate his 60th, and another Superman prequel is apparently exactly what we needLenny Henry is about to turn 60. If you remember him on Tiswas, that’s a statement likely to make you feel very old indeed. His comedy has always been variable in quality but he’s a likable and pioneering presence so there should be no shortage of goodwill surrounding him in this celebratory special. Stormzy and Stevie Wonder (!) guest.
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• ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  17-08-2018 12:45 via nytimes.com
  Jon M. Chu narrates a sequence from his film.
  
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• British gangster classic Sexy Beast to be adapted for TV series

  17-08-2018 12:27
  Ray Winstone’s retired mobster Gal Dove and Ben Kingsley’s unhinged enforcer Don Logan are being brought back to life by one of The Sopranos writing teamSexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer’s stylish and bellicose 2000 gangster film, is being adapted for a prequel TV series by one of the writers of The Sopranos. Deadline reports that Michael Caleo, who was part of David Chase’s writing team on the HBO series, will create the show. It will tell the origin stories of the unhinged du
  
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• A Ballet Crowd, Bustin’ Out All Over ‘Carousel’

  17-08-2018 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Amar Ramasar, Brittany Pollack and Craig Salstein get a chance to stretch on Broadway. With Justin Peck, they talk about the challenges and rewards.
  
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• Liam Neeson Will Play a Snowplow Driver Hell-Bent on Revenge in Hard Powder

  17-08-2018 11:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 15 years after earning an Oscar nomination for Schindler’s List, Liam Neeson took a turn toward the action-packed when, as ex-CIA agent and doting dad Bryan Mills, he promised the men who kidnapped his daughter in Taken that he would find them [dramatic pause] and kill them. Now, 10...More »
  
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• Scarlett Johansson tops list of highest-paid female film stars

  17-08-2018 11:43
  Avengers: Infinity War star earned $40.5m, surpassing Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston, but is dwarfed by male counterpartsScarlett Johansson has been named as the world’s highest-paid female actor after earning $40.5m (£31.2m) in the year to June 2018.Johansson did not feature in Forbes magazine’s top 10 last year, and the actor’s newfound earning power has been ascribed to her role as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The second part of Avengers: Infinity
  
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• Can Blumhouse's political pod repeat Get Out's success? – podcasts of the week

  17-08-2018 11:01
  The horror studio is getting political, while depression is analysed in a brand-new show and we ask why there are so few great music podcastsHear Here podcast tips: sign up now for more audio delights
  Horror studio Blumhouse, the force behind Get Out and The Purge, is trying its arm at a political podcast with The Oval Office Tapes, which will be hosted by filmmaker RJ Cutler and follow the goings on in the Trump White House. Other planned shows include an adaptation of the Gabriel Sherman book
  
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• encounters: What Is Billy Bob Thornton Doing These Days?

  17-08-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Just another semi-rock-star dad, bowling with his bandmates in between acting gigs.
  
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• Channel 4’s Born Famous isn’t insightful – it’s cheap poverty porn | Darren McGarvey

  17-08-2018 10:59
  We need a serious look at the scandal of poverty in the UK. Instead we get the children of the rich playing make-believe• Darren McGarvey won this year’s Orwell book prize for Poverty Safari“Where did you learn to speak so eloquently, Darren?” is a question I am asked with alarming frequency. It’s supposed to be a compliment. The question is posed so earnestly that I – rather than taking offence – have learned to contort myself to accommodate the expectat
  
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• Why you should be watching World of Sport Wrestling

  17-08-2018 10:00
  The Saturday afternoon rumble is back – and struggling to find an audience. But it may just be the best soap opera on TVIs ITV’s revival of World of Sport Wrestling already on the ropes? After recently debuting with more than a million viewers, WOS Wrestling – the abbreviated rebrand designed, presumably, to put viewers in mind of the dominant WWE franchise – has since tailed off in the Saturday afternoon ratings, failing to keep pace with its lead-in, The Chase, and bein
  
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• Brantley in Britain: What’s in a List? Two Critics on Theater’s Special Relationship

  17-08-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Ben Brantley and his London counterpart Michael Billington find much that’s enthralling about the state of playwriting in their countries.
  
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• Tiffany Haddish Tells Us the Best Thing About White People

  17-08-2018 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tiffany Haddish stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday for a cocktail-motivated bit called ‘3 Ridiculous Questions’ where Kimmel bartends and asks, well, ridiculous questions. Three of them. Get it? Cool. Kimmel decided to start things off light with a super-general and chill question: “What’s the best thing about white...More »
  
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• Friday’s best TV: The Big Asian Stand-Up; Peng Life

  17-08-2018 07:20
  Eshaan Akbar and Emily Lloyd-Saini provide some laughs, while chicken shop connoisseur Elijah Quashie reviews Segways, watches and more10pm, BBC Two
  Nish Kumar hosts this standup showcase over two nights as part of the BBC’s Big British Asian Summer. It is a smart, very funny alternative to the plodding middle-of-the-road-fest of Live at the Apollo. Highlights of tonight’s show include Eshaan Akbar talking about his parents’ casual racism towards each other and Emily Lloyd-Sain
  
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• Ariana Grande and The Roots Pay Tribute to Aretha Franklin

  17-08-2018 06:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  While a few Ariana Grande fans complained that Aretha Franklin had inconveniently scheduled her death, the songstress herself took time to pay respect to the late Queen of Soul even on the eve of her new album’s release. While she was originally scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show briefly...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande’s New Album Sweetener Is Here and It Is Lowercase

  17-08-2018 06:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande’s eagerly anticipated fourth studio album Sweetner has arrived, and it’s got everything: lowercase titles, that Pete Davidson song, Missy Elliot, Pharrell, and Nicki Minaj. Grande did decide to add Davison’s last name to the title of the song about him because, as she tweeted, “i like the way...More »
  
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• Smash Mouth and Smashing Pumpkins Have Beef Now and You Have to Choose

  17-08-2018 04:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billy Corgan has been hosting his own AMA over on Instagram (thank you, questions feature) and yesterday gave fans an interesting bit of trivia. According to Corgan, “We were offered the end credit song for Shrek 1 but the offer was withdrawn and given to Smashmouth [sic] (who had hit...More »
  
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• American Woman Recap: Reunited and It Feels So Meh

  17-08-2018 04:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  You can tell this is the second to last episode of the season because everyone does something stupid that they’re going to regret and have to take back next episode just in time for these 11 episodes to end with a soft female-empowerment message and something that looks like a...More »
  
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• Theater Review: Pretty Woman and the Trouble With Onstage Nostalgia

  17-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As you approach the Nederlander Theatre, the marquee flashes a series of bold all-caps phrases: “BOLD WOMAN—FIERCE WOMAN—FUNNY WOMAN—SMART WOMAN,” and finally, inevitably, the title: Pretty Woman. Inside the theater, posters and T-shirts at the merch stand bear the same messaging. The show’s producers have been trying to get out...More »
  
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