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• What TV Execs Really Think About This Year’s Emmy-Nominated Shows

  21-08-2018 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trying to predict the winners of any given awards show is an inexact science, and that’s particularly true of the Emmys. While slightly more than 7,000 people decided this year’s Oscar winners, the TV Academy’s membership rolls have swollen to more than 23,000 potential voting members, up sharply from an...More »
  
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• How Aretha Franklin Ended Up Singing the A Different World Theme Song

  21-08-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aretha Franklin will be remembered for her powerful voice, and virtuosity as a pianist, producer, arranger, and songwriter. She’ll also be remembered for her unyielding activism and effortless shade, but if you grew up in the late ’80s, you probably remember her for something else: A Different World’s theme song.The...More »
  
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• Tiffany Haddish to Make Her Netflix Stand-up Special Debut Next Year

  21-08-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh off her very funny appearance at last night’s VMAs, Tiffany Haddish has yet another comedy project we can all look forward to. Netflix announced today that Haddish has signed on to star in her very own hour-long stand-up special, which will tape in early 2019 and debut sometime later...More »
  
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• Post Malone’s Private Plane Lands Safely, Hours After Its Tires Blew Off

  21-08-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a whirlwind evening at the VMAs, where he performed a delightfully kooky mash-up with Aerosmith, Post Malone was given quite a scare on his private plane this afternoon. According to air-traffic audio obtained by TMZ, Malone, musician Andrew Watt, and 15 other people were onboard the plane when two...More »
  
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• HBO Will Bring You More Angsty Kathryn Hahn With a Series Order of Mrs. Fletcher

  21-08-2018 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems that HBO also likes comedies where Kathryn Hahn stumbles through the chaotic and terrifying realm of human sexuality. The network has ordered the Hahn-starring adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel Mrs. Fletcher to series. Perrotta’s first novel since The Leftovers (which also became an HBO series), Mrs. Fletcher tracks...More »
  
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• Rip Van Winkle, Newly Awake, Meets His Neighbors Onstage

  21-08-2018 22:08 via nytimes.com
  An outdoor production that draws from the Hudson Valley community aims to unearths the strangeness in Washington Irving’s classic story.
  
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• Danny Boyle Won’t Direct New James Bond Movie After All

  21-08-2018 22:06 via nytimes.com
  An announcement by the film’s producers and the actor Daniel Craig, who plays 007, cited “creative differences.”
  
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• Katy Perry Wants Her Dr. Luke–Kesha Deposition Sealed

  21-08-2018 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Back in June, Katy Perry got dragged into the legal quagmire that is Kesha versus Dr. Luke when it came to light that she gave a deposition in Luke’s lawsuit against Kesha. Previously redacted court documents in the case also revealed that Kesha had sent a text message to Lady...More »
  
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• Anthony Michael Hall Will Play the Principal in Riverale’s Breakfast Club–Style Flashback Episode

  21-08-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One by one, Riverdale is subsuming the cast of The Breakfast Club into its own. This fall, the CW series is putting on a flashback episode with the show’s main cast playing their (hot) parents in a dark riff on The Breakfast Club called “The Midnight Club.” Now, the network...More »
  
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• Good-bye to Vulture

  21-08-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The best scene in an American movie this summer has got to be the end-credits montage from Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. I’m serious!To describe it won’t spoil the movie because this sequence exists both outside the main plot of the film and outside of the boundaries of time...More »
  
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• Barbara Harris, Nashville and Freaky Friday actor, dies at 83

  21-08-2018 21:48
  The Oscar-nominated and Tony award-winning star of stage and screen who stopped acting in the 1990s has died of lung cancerBarbara Harris, the award-winning star of stage and screen, has died at the age of 83.The actor, who had left the film industry in the 90s, died of lung cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she had lived for many years. Related: Freaky FridayContinue reading...
  
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• You’re Not Seeing Double, Natalie Portman Will Play Feuding-Twin Advice Columnists

  21-08-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dear Vulture, how ethical is it to pit now-deceased sisters against each other for the sake of big-screen entertainment? We wish we could say! But having an Oscar winner sure helps, no? Per THR, Natalie Portman has signed on to star in and direct an incredibly juicy drama revolving around...More »
  
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• Quiara Alegría Hudes’s 10 Favorite Books

  21-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is In the Heights playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’s list....More »
  
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• Check Out the Trailer for Netflix’s Second Batch of 15-Minute Stand-up Specials

  21-08-2018 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you didn’t get enough of Netflix’s 15-minute stand-up specials that were released last month, you’re in luck, because more are on the way very soon. Today the streaming network released the trailer for part two of The Comedy Lineup, this time featuring sets from Aisling Bea, Emma Willmann, Janelle...More »
  
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• Danny Boyle exits Bond 25 over 'creative differences'

  21-08-2018 20:10
  The Oscar-winning director will no longer take helm of the follow-up to Spectre, set to be Daniel Craig’s last outing as James BondDanny Boyle has walked away from directing the 25th James Bond film.The Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire had been officially attached to the as-yet-untitled adventure but in a tweet from the franchise’s official account, he has now departed over “creative differences”. Related: Idris Elba appears to dismiss James Bond rumours on T
  
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• Madonna Blames People’s Short Attention Spans for Not Understanding Her VMAs Aretha Franklin Tribute

  21-08-2018 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the lows of this year’s VMAs was Madonna conjuring up some kind of “tribute” to the dearly departed Aretha Franklin. Madge pontificated, among other unhinged musings, on how she used to be a “skinny-ass white girl” from Detroit who once managed to have a successful audition to Franklin’s...More »
  
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• Netflix Announces Premiere Date and Guests for Norm Macdonald Has a Show

  21-08-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  First it was a rumor, then it was a confirmed fact, and now, Norm Macdonald’s Netflix talk show is a real thing with a premiere date and guest lineup. The streaming network announced today that Macdonald’s ten-episode talk show, Norm Macdonald Has a Show, will make its debut on Friday,...More »
  
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• Danny Boyle Quits James Bond Movie Over Differences, Creative Differences

  21-08-2018 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Danny Boyle is no longer attached to direct the next James Bond movie. In a tweet from the franchise’s verified account, producers Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, and star Daniel Craig said Boyle decided to pull out of the project due to “creative differences.” (Was it something to do with...More »
  
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• For Megan Amram, An Emmy for Megan Is Just the Beginning

  21-08-2018 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  No person has taken the Emmy Awards by storm this year quite like Megan Amram. Back in April, the comedian, television writer, and author made the Emmy submission deadline at the very last minute with the release of her six-episode comedic web series An Emmy for Megan, in which Amram...More »
  
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• Kelly Marie Tran Writes Moving Essay on Racism and Toxic Fans: ‘I Am Not Giving Up’

  21-08-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  In June, Stars Wars breakout star Kelly Marie Tran deleted all of her Instagram posts after the series’ fans harassed her online. In a new essay for the New York Times, Tran addresses the racism directed toward her and her Asian character, Rose Tico. “[The fans’] words seemed to confirm...More »
  
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• Great British Bake Off: meet this year's contestants

  21-08-2018 19:14
  A DJ, a blood courier and a microbrewer all vie for the title of Britain’s best baker Jon, 47, a father-of-four, expects the tent to be less of a challenge than his manic home kitchen. The blood courier from Newport loves to experiment with different baking techniques. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Everybody feels fragile’: Guy Pearce on fame, family pressures and fatherhood at 50

  21-08-2018 19:00
  The actor went from Ramsay Street to Hollywood – but he’s still close friends with Jason Donovan. He talks humility, hype and why he can’t discuss ‘handsy’ co-starsLong before Hollywood actors were falling over themselves to appear in television series, there was a clear, snobbish line between film and television. “I remember, years ago, when I was on a television show and so many serious actors would sort of scoff and go: ‘Why would you do a thing like
  
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• Vivian Matalon, Tony-Winning Director, Is Dead at 88

  21-08-2018 18:41 via nytimes.com
  Best known for a revelatory staging of “Morning’s at Seven,” he also directed Noël Coward in his final West End stage performance.
  
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• A Wrinkle in Time Is Coming to Netflix in September 2018

  21-08-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Prepare yourself for a night in with Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Zach Galifianakis and Chris Pine, because next month the majestic journey that is A Wrinkle in Time is coming...
  
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• Young Thug’s Remix of Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ Is Finally Here

  21-08-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the best moments of Ghostface’s 2004 album, Pretty Toney, comes on “Holla” when he raps and sings off-key over the Delfonics’ “La La (Means I Love You).” Wikipedia erroneously describes what is happening here as a “sample,” but it’s actually just Ghostface being Ghostface over the entire original...More »
  
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• Disney's Christopher Robin blows The Meg out of the water at UK box office

  21-08-2018 17:55
  Ewan McGregor and his animal friends knock Jason Statham and his shark off the top spot while Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again adds to its towering total Jason Statham and his giant prehistoric shark had a predictably short run at the top of the UK box office, with The Meg knocked off its perch by Ewan McGregor and his animal friends. Disney’s Christopher Robin debuted with a decent £2.42m from 649 venues, or £2.55m including modest previews – the smallest total for a No 1 fil
  
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• Review: ‘John McEnroe’ Captures a Perfectly Imperfect Tennis Star

  21-08-2018 17:53 via nytimes.com
  This documentary, subtitled “In the Realm of Perfection,” revisits an era when Mr. McEnroe was on top of the sport.
  
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• Police Are Looking Into Sexual-Assault Allegations Against Asia Argento

  21-08-2018 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  California authorities are looking into the sexual-assault allegations recently made against actor and outspoken #MeToo advocate Asia Argento, the New York Times reports. In a Times report published Sunday, actor Jimmy Bennett said Argento paid him $380,000 after sexually assaulting him in a hotel room when he was 17. She...More »
  
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• Asia Argento Denies Sexual-Assault Allegation

  21-08-2018 17:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday night, the New York Times reported that actress and #MeToo activist Asia Argento made a deal to pay $380,000 to a former co-star, Jimmy Bennett, who claimed she sexually assaulted him as a minor. In a statement released on Tuesday, Argento said she “strongly” denies and opposes the allegation.In the report, the Times wrote that that Argento...More »
  
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• Breaking Down the Biggest Scare in Down a Dark Hall

  21-08-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s horror cinema has been a zombie-heavy slate, not to mention the inexplicable number of mutant Nazi movies coming in the back half of 2018. But amid all the flesh-eating is Down a Dark Hall, a good old-fashioned ghost story based on the novel of the same name by...More »
  
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• Asia Argento denies sexual assault of 17-year-old actor

  21-08-2018 17:18
  Italian star says $380,000 settlement was paid to Jimmy Bennett by her partner Anthony Bourdain in order to help with Bennett’s financial difficultiesItalian actor Asia Argento has denied allegations that she sexually assaulted actor Jimmy Bennett, saying that a settlement paid to him was made by her partner Anthony Bourdain in order to help alleviate Bennett’s “severe economic problems”.The claims, which were first published by the New York Times on Monday, concern an al
  
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• Asia Argento denies sexual assault claims made by 'dangerous' actor

  21-08-2018 17:18
  Italian star says $380,000 settlement was paid to Jimmy Bennett by her partner Anthony Bourdain in order to help with Bennett’s financial difficultiesItalian actor Asia Argento has denied allegations that she sexually assaulted actor Jimmy Bennett, saying that a settlement paid to him was made by her partner Anthony Bourdain in order to help alleviate his “severe economic problems”.The claims, which were first published by the New York Times on Monday, concern an alleged incide
  
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• Why You Can Thank Crazy Rich Asians and Netflix for Saving Rom-Coms

  21-08-2018 17:06 via feeds.eonline.com
  The rom-com revolution is officially here--and it's about time.
  Crazy Rich Asians premiered this weekend, and while it was a landmark film even before its opening (it's the first...
  
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• Breaking Bad’s David Costabile on His Big Return to Better Call Saul

  21-08-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers ahead for Better Call Saul season three.That Better Call Saul is one of the best dramas on TV has everything to do with how meticulously it’s crafted. Though the show is a prequel to Breaking Bad, the only references it makes to its progenitor are those that are strictly...More »
  
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• Willkommen! to Fräulein Diana Trout’s Big Cabaret Moment on Younger

  21-08-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s more to Diana Trout than just elegant put-downs and gigantic statement jewelry, namely her ability to put on one heck of show. In tonight’s episode of Younger, Empirical heads to the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Diana runs into her old frenemy Cheryl Sussman (Martha Plimpton) and the two reprise...More »
  
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• Macaulay Culkin Breaks Down the Brilliant Satire of Starship Troopers

  21-08-2018 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1997, Starship Troopers marked the finale of the Triple Dutch, Paul Verhoeven’s trilogy of hyperviolent, satirical science-fiction flicks that began ten years prior with RoboCop and anchored in the middle by 1990’s Total Recall.A futuristic, big-budget bug-versus-military movie, Starship Troopers should’ve been a surefire hit, especially in a post–Independence...More »
  
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• Slice: first trailer for Chance the Rapper's pizza werewolf movie

  21-08-2018 16:36
  A first look at the rapper’s big-screen debut shows him and Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz as survivors of a pizza shop crime spree hellbent on finding the culpritsThe first trailer for new horror film Slice, Chance the Rapper’s screen debut, has been released by indie studio A24, the company behind Moonlight and Lady Bird.Written and directed by Austin Veseley, Chance’s longtime collaborator and director of many of his music videos (including Brain Cells, Sunday Candy and Angels)
  
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• The Last Jedi's Kelly Marie Tran speaks out against online bullying

  21-08-2018 16:30
  In an op-ed for the New York Times, the actor explains why she deleted her Instagram posts after trolls inundated her with abuseKelly Marie Tran has spoken out about online bullying for the first time since she deleted her Instagram posts earlier this year.The 29-year-old star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi has revealed the extent of the abuse she received in an op-ed for the New York Times. Related: The Last Jedi: what would the $200m fan-funded remake look like?Continue reading...
  
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• A Movie That Creeps to Its Own Choreographic Beat

  21-08-2018 16:24 via nytimes.com
  Brian Rogers, artistic director of the Chocolate Factory, has made a movie featuring familiar figures from the dance and performance world.
  
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• The Cantankerous Pre-History of America’s Jews

  21-08-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conventional narrative of Jewish America begins in the 1880s, with the massive influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York and other cities. Their descendants indeed make up the majority of today’s American Jews, but the real story begins much, much earlier and continues across centuries of skirmishes...More »
  
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• The Highs, Lows, and WTFs of the 2018 VMAs

  21-08-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Congratulations, Earth, you have endured another zany VMAs and lived to talk about it the next morning. On Monday night, MTV put on its yearly music circus (this year at Radio City Music Hall), servicing all your needs and then a bunch of extra things no one asked for. There...More »
  
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• Bachelor in Paradise Recap: Bad Choices in Mexico

  21-08-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you asked me the age of anyone on this season of Bachelor in Paradise and I’d answer: 26.I don’t care how old anyone actually is. These people are 26 years old. And I know you’re sitting there saying “Ali, you aren’t that old yourself. How can you look down on...More »
  
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• How did the creators of This Country become bigger than Benedict Cumberbatch?

  21-08-2018 15:36
  Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have stealthily become TV’s most successful siblings after word of mouth propelled their masterly sitcom to two BaftasFor the most part, the annual Radio Times TV 100 list is exactly what you would expect – Olivia Colman, Chris Chibnall, David Attenborough, Idris Elba – but you don’t have to look too hard to see a curveball.This year, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, the siblings who created the BBC sitcom This Country, are in third place. They a
  
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• Pizza! Murder! Blood! Chance The Rapper and Zazie Beetz Solve a Mystery in Slice Trailer

  21-08-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I’m gonna tell you a story about a ghost, a werewolf, and a pretty shitty pizza place.” This is how the trailer for A24’s Chance the Rapper–starring Slice begins. When a few pizza delivery boys are murdered in a small town, everyone is leery of who the culprit could be....More »
  
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• American Vandal Season Two Trailer: Who Is the Turd Burglar?

  21-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crime journalism must run in their genes, because teenage documentarians Peter Maldonado and Sam Ecklund are returning this September to face an all-new mystery in American Vandal season two. The Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award–winning Netflix show released a new trailer this morning, outlining an even more explosive wrongdoing at the...More »
  
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• Hulu’s Crime + Punishment Is a Powerful Work of Documentary

  21-08-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Crime + Punishment: Lame title, potent muckraker. Stephen Maing’s documentary revolves around the so-called NYPD12 — a dozen current and former cops who, with some guidance, came forward to say their commanders are still, years after quotas were outlawed, pushing for a set number of arrests. That means, as several...More »
  
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• The Protagonist

  21-08-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Sandra Oh was 21, her older sister spotted an ad in an alt-weekly looking for a young Asian actress. Oh, a student at the National Theatre School of Canada at the time, became fixated on the part — the starring role in The Diary of Evelyn Lau, a TV...More »
  
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• From Beyond the Fringe to Nanette: five shows that changed the face of comedy

  21-08-2018 11:00
  With the Edinburgh fringe in full flow, here are the five standup sets that catapulted their creators to fameThese days, as BBC comedy controller Shane Allen recently confirmed, “Oxbridge white blokes” are out of comedy fashion. Time was they were the cutting edge, as when Messrs Cook, Miller, Moore and Bennett were cherrypicked to create Beyond the Fringe. A modest success at the Edinburgh festival in August 1960, it then made a huge splash in the West End. Here, as never before, th
  
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• Kelly Marie Tran: I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment

  21-08-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The “Star Wars” actress was “brainwashed into believing that my existence was limited to the boundaries of another person’s approval.” Now she’s taking a stand.
  
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• Where are the brown people? Crazy Rich Asians draws tepid response in Singapore

  21-08-2018 09:49
  Critics in city where hit film is set complain that it leaves out minorities and is ‘simplistic’It has been heralded as a milestone for representation of Asian people on screen, the first Hollywood blockbuster to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years.But Crazy Rich Asians, which raked in $26.5m (£21m) at the US box office over the weekend, has proved polarising among the community it is supposed to represent, many of whom have said it perpetuates racist stereotypes and presents
  
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