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• Catastrophe, season four review – still superbly vicious, and a little more silly

  08-01-2019 23:31
  Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s comedy is spiky, beautifully confident, nimble, quick and exceedingly funny – but it’s right that this is the last seriesThe great skill of Catastrophe (Channel 4) has always been its unrivalled ability to show us brittle and spiky people, behaving mostly terribly, and then to make us feel deeply invested in their messy, fractured lives. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney have wallowed in their brutally unsentimental fictional on-screen romance for fo
  
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• It’s Not Just Trump: Why Network TV Shouldn’t Air Any White House Speeches

  08-01-2019 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pity the poor souls who run the legacy broadcast networks. Ratings for the collective Big Four (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) keep going down, Emmy and Golden Globe voters regularly ignore their shows, and the only time those of us who write about TV for a living seem to pay...More »
  
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• The Season 5 Grace and Frankie Trailer Has 100 Percent More RuPaul

  08-01-2019 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s buddy comedy Grace and Frankie returns to Netflix this month with a brand-new batch of episodes, and today the streaming network dropped a trailer. Renewed for a fifth season nearly a year ago, the series also stars Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, June Diane Raphael, Baron...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Case Officially Has a Trial Date in May

  08-01-2019 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein’s sexual-assault trial in Manhattan is currently scheduled for May 6, his lawyers said in court papers filed Monday.This news of a potential trial date in Weinstein’s sexual-assault case, in which he faces five counts for allegedly nonconsensual encounters with two women, comes slightly more than two weeks after the...More »
  
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• Criminal Investigation Opened Against R. Kelly in Georgia

  08-01-2019 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  A criminal investigation has been opened against R. Kelly in Georgia, and it’s reportedly because of the interviews featured in the recent Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. Per TMZ’s sources, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has been reaching out to several women who dated the rapper and shared their...More »
  
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• How Bad Bunny Brought Latin Trap to the American Mainstream

  08-01-2019 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scarcely a week into 2019, there’s still no escaping Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin’s 2018 single “I Like It.” Reviving fellow Bronx denizen Pete Rodriguez’s 1967 hit “I Like It Like That” by way of sampling, the repurposed boogaloo bursts with an opalescence bolstered by the added trap bass...More »
  
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• Jake Paul Does the Bird Box Challenge--in Traffic

  08-01-2019 21:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  Definitely DO NOT try this at home.Just days after Netflix sent out a safety warning, YouTube star Jake Paul has taken the Bird Box challenge, during which he walked blindfolded into...
  
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• The Carpetbagger: D.G.A. Nominations Bolster ‘Green Book,’ ‘Roma,’ ‘A Star Is Born’

  08-01-2019 21:38 via nytimes.com
  But could directors like Ryan Coogler still find favor with Oscar? The academy doesn’t always go with the Directors Guild Awards.
  
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• Theater Reviews: Obsession, Mourning and Migration at Under the Radar

  08-01-2019 21:24 via nytimes.com
  Offerings at the festival include a riff on “Uncle Vanya”; a “Frankenstein” adaptation highlighting a mother’s grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
  
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• Amy Heckerling on the ’90s Hits That Made It — and Didn’t Make It — Into Clueless, the Musical

  08-01-2019 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New Group’s production of Clueless, the Musical will close its two-month, sold-out Off Broadway run this Saturday. But according to Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of the 1995 teen classic movie as well as the author of the musical it inspired, that does not mean you’ve seen the...More »
  
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• ‘Bird Box’ Is Full of Plot Holes. We Tried (and Sometimes Failed) to Plug Them.

  08-01-2019 20:44 via nytimes.com
  For a certain type of fan, half the fun of watching a movie is pointing out the logical inconsistencies. “Bird Box” gave us plenty.
  
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• The Game of Thrones Prequel Just Cast a Bunch of Young Actors You’ll Soon Learn to Tell Apart

  08-01-2019 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember how long it took you to get all the Game of Thrones characters straight in your head when you first started watching (or reading) the series? Get ready for more of that mental mapping, because eight new faces have just been added to the cast of the prequel series....More »
  
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• Bradley Cooper Double-Dips With Two DGA Nominations

  08-01-2019 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Star Is Born, yes, but a director with double DGA nominations has been born, too! The Directors Guild of America has announced nominations for the 2019 awards, and Bradley Cooper (with no beard, no Tom Ford bronzer, and short hair) scored noms in Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film...More »
  
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• Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Will Open South by Southwest 2019

  08-01-2019 20:00 via nytimes.com
  The director’s follow-up to his horror hit “Get Out” will premiere at the festival in Austin on March 8.
  
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• Bradley Cooper (and No Women) Get Directors Guild Film Nominations

  08-01-2019 19:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  Today, the Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director...
  
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• Fox Is Reopening Paradise Hotel, Now With ‘Interactive Elements’

  08-01-2019 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early-aughts nostalgia is apparently a thing, now. Fox has announced plans to revive Paradise Hotel, the reality series about — as you might expect — a group of single people living in a hotel together and voting each other off, which originally aired on the network in 2003. The new...More »
  
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• Pamela Adlon Opens Up About Louis C.K. Sexual Misconduct Story: ‘It Was Devastating’

  08-01-2019 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  To promote the upcoming third season of her FX comedy Better Things, Pamela Adlon sat down for an interview with Vanity Fair, which inevitably touched on the subject of her longtime collaborator Louis C.K. As a result of the 2017 New York Times report about the multiple sexual misconduct claims...More »
  
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• Lorena Bobbitt Is Ready to Talk in the First Trailer for Lorena

  08-01-2019 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like so many of those massive news stories that birthed our modern-day 24-hour news cycle — O.J. Simpson, Tonya Harding, etc. — the trial of Lorena Bobbitt and the media furor surrounding it didn’t leave much room for nuance. That’s what the new Amazon docuseries Lorena, from producer Jordan Peele,...More »
  
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• Brooklyn Nine-Nine Is Back, Thank God

  08-01-2019 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a canceled TV show is raised from the dead, it brings up a mixture of two specific emotions. First, there’s joy and a sense of reprieve. It was a near miss! It was almost gone, but now it’s been rescued! But underneath that, there’s a niggling feeling of concern....More »
  
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• The True Origins of Monty Python’s Spamalot Musical

  08-01-2019 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Monty Python celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The legendary troupe (they’ve been called the Beatles of comedy because they’re so groundbreaking and British — except for Terry Gilliam) counts 1969 as its year of birth, because that’s when the first project bearing the Python brand reached audiences: the surreal...More »
  
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• How Captain Marvel Might Just Save the Day in Avengers: Endgame

  08-01-2019 19:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Thanos might have met his match in Captain Marvel.In 2018's Avengers: Infinity War's mid-credits scene, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) sent an urgent message to Captain Marvel...
  
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• Recapping the Mystery of Ruth Wilson’s The Affair Departure

  08-01-2019 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  2018 might not have been as disastrous for The Affair as it was for Lethal Weapon, but when one of your leads decides to quit over ridiculously vague circumstances, hey, that’s not great! Yet that’s exactly what happened with one of the Showtime drama’s stars, Ruth Wilson, last year, when...More »
  
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• Watch The Bachelor’s Fake-Accent Girl Tell Colton the Truth in Deleted Scene

  08-01-2019 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bri, Bachelor Nation’s careful scammer, got Bachelor viewers into a delighted tizzy even before the show premiered last night, thanks to the show’s social-media accounts teasing her ingenious plan to make Colton Underwood remember her: The 24-year-old model pretended to have an Australian accent, choosing her words carefully to stop...More »
  
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• Behind the Scenes of Captain Marvel: Everything You Need to Know About Carol Danvers, the Skrulls and Nick Fury's Past

  08-01-2019 18:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Captain Marvel is unlike any other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe--and not just because a woman is finally leading the charge. "In many ways, it's a classic Marvel origin story, but...
  
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• Skin Deep: Laura Harrier’s Awards Season Beauty Secrets

  08-01-2019 18:20 via nytimes.com
  Here’s how the “BlacKkKlansman” star survives the back-to-back red carpets.
  
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• Brian Tyree Henry’s Family Missed His Big Spider-Man Scene Because They Were Getting Chicken Fingers

  08-01-2019 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The hardest working actor in Hollywood Brian Tyree Henry has a lot of nieces and nephews (he’s the uncle to 12 kids, and the great-uncle to seven kids) squarely within the demographic for his new movie Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. When his family went to see the Spidey movie, many...More »
  
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• It Finally Happened: Two Bachelor Contestants Wore the Same First-Night Cocktail Dress

  08-01-2019 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re living in a postmodern fast-fashion world full of Zara, Fashion Nova, and ASOS gowns just yearning to be taken for a spin at a reality-show rose ceremony and then swiftly disposed of. But there are dangers: Last night on The Bachelor, the first hit to the egos of some...More »
  
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• Grool! Vote for Lindsay Lohan's Best Role Before Watching Her Beach Club Debut

  08-01-2019 16:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Attention, Lindsay Lohan fans: LiLo is back baby!The 32-year-old actress is about to delight you on the regular thanks to her new MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, which...
  
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• Chris Rock Absolutely Will Not Host the Oscars Again, Not in a Million Years, Nope, Not Him!

  08-01-2019 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  We have only 47 days until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out the Oscars, and still no host! It won’t be Kevin Hart, according to Kevin Hart, and it won’t be Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and it probably won’t be a humble young Vulture writer.When...More »
  
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• In Chef Brian Jupiter’s Chicago, It’s Always Game Day

  08-01-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just about every weekend at Frontier in Chicago’s West Town, chef Brian Jupiter brings out an array of omnivore’s delights: whole-roasted wild boar, lamb marinated in-house, farm-raised pig smoked over cherrywood — even wild-caught alligator flown in from Shreveport, Louisiana, stuffed with whole chickens and served with whole sausage and...More »
  
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• A Running Tally of All the Requisite Virgin Jokes During The Bachelor’s Premiere

  08-01-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s “thing” as last season’s Bachelor leading man might’ve been the sad whimper of viewers asking who? after his unveiling, this year, Colton Underwood got a very different reception from the franchise: The 26-year-old former football player is a happy virgin — a not-particularly-unusual status, but one...More »
  
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• Welcome to Dystopian Realism

  08-01-2019 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dystopian fiction has been with us for at least a century and a half — that is, for as long as the acceleration of modernity has made us simultaneously desire and fear for the future. We’ve tended to know dystopia when we’ve seen it: the inversion of utopia (the good...More »
  
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• Light of Our Lives Ethan Hawke Moonwalked on Colbert Last Night

  08-01-2019 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ethan Hawke didn’t just stride onto the Late Show’s set Monday night to talk the Broadway revival of True West with Stephen Colbert — he moonwalked! “Wow! You are a well of hidden talents, Ethan Hawke!” Colbert said, stunned. Hawke — the coolest person to ever live, period — said...More »
  
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• Lindsay Lohan Swears She’ll Never Dance Again, Dances on Jimmy Fallon

  08-01-2019 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest dance craze was dropped into the Aegean Sea and carried out by the tide last fall when Lindsay Lohan, filming whatever she’s doing for her new Mykonos reality series, birthed the #DoTheLilo challenge. It’s pretty endearing, actually! She shimmies to the left; she shimmies to the right. There’s...More »
  
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• Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh’s BFF Ascension: A Timeline

  08-01-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are a lot of friendships out there in the Hollywood “community” that are definitely worth talking about. Hell, that are definitely worth celebrating. We’re ride or die for Nicole and Naomi. We’d take a bullet for Winona and Keanu. But, frankly, we’re going to need you to immediately forget...More »
  
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• Bandersnatch's Fionn Whitehead: prince of 'sick, sad or angry'

  08-01-2019 16:00
  He’s played a traumatised soldier in Dunkirk and a dying teenager. Now, the 21-year-old Black Mirror star has been forced by viewers into all manner of sadistic acts It is strange to sit down with Fionn Whitehead only days after watching him in Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror episode that appeared on Netflix just after Christmas. As a viewer, you’re given the chance to make his character, Stefan Butler – a video game developer in the early 1980s whose p
  
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• Bandersnatch's Fionn Whitehead: prince of darkness

  08-01-2019 16:00
  He’s played a traumatised soldier in Dunkirk and a dying teenager. Now, the 21-year-old Black Mirror star has been forced by viewers into all manner of sadistic acts It is strange to sit down with Fionn Whitehead only days after watching him in Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror episode that appeared on Netflix just after Christmas. As a viewer, you’re given the chance to make his character, Stefan Butler – a video game developer in the early 1980s whose p
  
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• 'Hail Christian!': Church of Satan revels in Bale's Golden Globes shoutout

  08-01-2019 15:58
  Church thanks actor for crediting underworld lord as inspiration for his performance as Dick Cheney, but politician’s daughter is among those inflamed by tributeThe critics and the awards voters are broadly united: Christian Bale’s transformative performance as Dick Cheney in Vice is the best male performance of the year.But opinion is more divided on the actor’s acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globe awards: as well as praise from pundits, the actor’s sho
  
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• It's Official: Margot Robbie to Star in Live-Action Barbie Movie

  08-01-2019 15:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  You really can be anything.Margot Robbie has officially signed on to produce and star in a live-action Barbie movie. E! News confirmed the news Tuesday, revealing that Warner Bros. and...
  
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• James Bulger's mother calls for Oscars to drop drama about son's killers

  08-01-2019 15:51
  Bulger’s parents argue Detainment, a short film about the 1993 case, is sympathetic to the toddler’s murderers and shouldn’t have been madeThe parents of James Bulger, the two-year-old boy murdered in Liverpool in 1993, have criticised the makers of a short film about the case, which has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination.Detainment, written and directed by Irish film-maker Vincent Lambe, is based on transcripts of the police interrogation of Robert Thompson and Jon Venab
  
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• The Bachelor Premiere Recap: ’Round Yon Virgin

  08-01-2019 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you love New Year’s Eve? Do you love watching crowds of people huddled in the cold? Is your idea of a thrilling evening of television watching the human equivalent of dry toast throwing focus across the country, where someone who has no business holding a microphone is holding a...More »
  
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• 17 Comedy Bookers on Whether They’d Put Louis C.K. Onstage

  08-01-2019 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Louis C.K. is fond of telling people how he lost $35 million in a single day, thanks to that pesky backlash over how he forced women to watch him masturbate. It’s a recurring bit in his sporadic stand-up sets, including his controversial performance in December, and one he’ll likely keep...More »
  
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• Kevin Spacey pulled over for speeding hours after appearing in court

  08-01-2019 14:35
  Actor was given a verbal warning in Virginia following a court hearing in Massachusetts on criminal charges related to gropingKevin Spacey was pulled over for speeding as he left an airport in near Washington on Monday night, hours after appearing in court in Massachusetts on criminal charges relating to groping. Related: Kevin Spacey case brings attention to Nantucket – where many go to avoid spotlightRelated: Kevin Spacey's creepy video looks like a cynical attempt at distraction | Micha
  
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• The Favourite begins reign at UK box office after Golden Globes glory

  08-01-2019 13:49
  Mary Poppins Returns holds on to the top spot but Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne makes an impressive debut ahead of the Oscars raceJanuary and February represent the climax of awards season in the UK, when many of the films with the biggest chance of Oscar and Bafta wins are released. A year ago, those releases included best picture Oscar nominees Darkest Hour, The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Continue reading...
  
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• Captain Marvel Reveals Even More Superpowers in the Latest Trailer

  08-01-2019 13:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Captain Marvel has been touted as the most powerful character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe--and last night, fans got their first look at the extent of the superheroine's...
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Purchase Drama Book Shop

  08-01-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  After the bookstore announced it was being forced from its home by rising rents, Mr. Miranda teamed up with “Hamilton” associates and the city on a rescue plan.
  
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• Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need

  08-01-2019 09:00
  The troubled actor has invited MTV to film her lively Mykonos business but given her misadventure to this point, is there anything left for us to see?Lindsay Lohan doesn’t need a reality show, because her entire life already fulfills that purpose. Her music career was an uncomfortable exercise in oversharing. Her acting work isn’t nearly as interesting as the behind the scenes articles written about her acting work. Her social media output is at least partially made up of genuinely t
  
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• The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. Wants You to Take His Bird Box-Inspired R. Kelly Challenge

  08-01-2019 08:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Lifetime aired its six-party docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, more and more people have begun to reckon with the moral implications of loving the R&B singer’s work despite Kelly being accused of the sexual abuse and exploitation of underage girls and women. Some have apparently responded to this psychological...More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: Charmed; My Million Pound Menu; Icons

  08-01-2019 07:00
  Clunky witchy goings on in the rebooted occult drama and tomorrow’s restaurant brands in the financial frying pan. Plus: who was greatest 20th-century icon?This fresh reboot of the 90s/00s witchy drama has a few things going for it. It boasts a Riverdale-style sheen, a trio of energetic, young female leads (played by newcomers Madeleine Mantock, Sarah Jeffery and Melonie Diaz) and some scary computer-generated demons. However, as a continuation of a cult series, it ends up feeling more sup
  
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• New Captain Marvel Trailer Is Giving Us Carol Danvers/Nick Fury Buddy Comedy Vibes and We’re In

  08-01-2019 06:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, so Marvel dubbed their most recent Captain Marvel video a “special look,” but what’s more special than a trailer? Exactly. While the film’s previous spots focused on Carol Danvers’ mysterious amnesia or her incredible alien powers or the planet’s impending Skrull invasion, the movie’s latest spot focuses on something...More »
  
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