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Two years after their interaction went viral, a shy El Sereno boy and the KTLA reporter whose back-to-school questions made him cry have been reunited. Andrew Macias, now 6, became a true internet sensation when he was asked by reporter Courtney Friel if he would miss his mother on his first day of preschool at City Terrace Elementary School in East Los Angeles. ... He initially said no, then paused, put his hands to his face and began, adorably, to cry. Friel, who has a son the same age, laughed. For asking the question, she was excoriated by some viewers....

So I'm sitting here watching Fox News before going to bed and this sack of crap called Rick Leventhal begins his show giving voice to all the limp-wristed Trump-haters who are condemning President Trump for his "lackluster" condemnation of white supremacist groups and then he brings on some airhead teleprompter reader named Kristin Fisher who reads a statement from some supposed neo-Nazi group praising President Trump for not attacking them. What a sack of crap and crapette. I'm done with Fox News.

Joseph Bologna, an actor, playwright and screenwriter who was so memorable as the egotistical King Kaiser in the 1982 comedy classic My Favorite Year, has died. He was 82. Bologna died Sunday morning at City of Hope hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer three years ago, said his wife of 52 years, actress and screenwriter Renee Taylor. Bologna received an Oscar nomination for adapted screenplay, shared with his wife and David Zelag Goodman, for his work on Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). The couple had first written it for Broadway in a 1968 production directed by...

Since no one else started it yet... a quiet but full episode.

<p>So proclaimed the trailer for "Bonnie and Clyde" when it hit the theaters in Aug. 1967.</p> <p>On the surface, the tagline to Arthur Penn's groundbreaking gangster film about young lovers on the run from authority snugly fit into the Summer of Love. Well, at least two-thirds of it.</p>

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For some reason, this song sticks in my head today. Also did the song for Galaxy Quest, a movie that was sort of a Star Trek spoof. Galaxy Quest, Trouble, Cat Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dj347DHVU&index=1&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCrNOxcEGE_UhsLp-IU4pRyV

Horror novelist Stephen King took to Twitter Friday to call for President Donald Trump to be “removed” from office. “Donald Trump is unfit for office. Needs to be removed,” the author wrote. The social media missive was just the latest attack King has lodged at President Trump in recent months. Last month, the 69-year-old Dark Tower author called Trump “fake” in a Twitter post that went viral online. “The news is real. The president is fake.” he wrote. King, however, wasn’t the only celebrity to call for Trump’s removal from office Friday. Comedian Chelsea Handler urged the president’s generals to...

Who Knew That 2016 Problems Were 1974 Problems As Well Huh? Talk about some Common Sense!

For some reason, this song has been playing in my head all day as I read news. Ilya rides a bomb down that's supposed to hit Las Vegas. What he doesn't know is that it's actually a stink bomb, rather than the more destructive kind.

A Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game Lead the Starks or Lannisters into battle using amazing preassembled miniatures based on the characters of the best-selling novels!

Every since Ryan Murphy dropped the bomb that American Horror Story's seventh season would be inspired by the 2016 presidential election, fans have been speculating about what exactly that might look like. Will we get Murphy's terrifying take on Trump? Will it follow the lives (and deaths) of Washington politicians? But according to executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall, American Horror Story: Cult won't be as literal a take as all of that. "I think it's more about what's going on in the world around us -- and we talk about the streak of paranoia -- I think that there's a...

CNN ended its relationship with political commentator Jeffrey Lord after he tweeted “Sieg Heil” on Thursday. “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.” 4h Angelo Carusone ✔ @GoAngelo Replying to @realJeffreyLord @amspectator Your headline has a mistake in it. Why do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you don't take yourself seriously. Follow Jeff Lord @realJeffreyLord Sieg Heil! 11:51 AM - Aug 10, 2017 364 364 Replies 66 66 Retweets 40 40 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Lord has been one of President Donald Trump’s...

EXCLUSIVE: The Munsters are back! NBC is rebooting the 1960s comedy series about a family of lovable monsters with Odd Mom Out creator Jill Kargman and Seth Meyers. Inspired by the original series, the half-hour single-camera The Munsters, now in development, follows members of an offbeat family who are determined to stay true to themselves but struggle to fit in in hipster Brooklyn. (In the original, the Munsters resided at the famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address in the city of Mockingbird Heights, a fictional suburb in California.) Kargman will write the script and will executive produce with Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions’...

While the rate of cord cutting during the second quarter wasn't quite as aggressively dire as many analysts predicted, the latest wave of TV subscribers lost by the traditional cable TV industry wasn't what you'd call good for the pay TV industry, either. Wall Street research firm MoffettNathanson predicts that once tallied, the sector lost about 1 million pay TV subscribers last quarter, with the losses hitting Dish Network, DirectTV, and AT&T particularly hard. Dish for example lost another 196,000 subscribers on the quarter, and that tally includes the additions seen to the company's Sling TV streaming video services (which...

In two weeks, I'll be visiting my daughter & son-in-law. The son-in-law is a liberal. [We were visiting on election day and by 9:00 pm he assured me that "Silver's polling" guaranteed a Hillary win. I mentioned that Silver's voter turn-out model was wrong, then retreated to the guest room to await results. The next day's breakfast chat did not include any discussion of the election results! Son-in-law is such a know-it all that he would have pounded on us if Hillary had won.] So we'll be there, at the new-house housewarming party that will included the Game of Thrones...

Should white creators tell black stories? Top creators John Ridley, Glenn Mazzara and more weigh in on the controversial slavery drama from the 'Game Of Thrones' creators, Amazon's similarly-themed 'Black America' and whether it's "all fair in love and television writing."

NFL Preseason Schedule - 2017

In a footnote on page 1 and again on page 8 of its third quarter earnings release The Walt Disney Company makes note of a $177 million charge affecting its earnings. That charge comes from ABC News settling a defamation lawsuit over its reporting of so-called pink slime. Beef Products Inc. (BPI) sued ABC News and correspondent Jim Avila for $1.9 billion dollars over what it claimed were “false and misleading and defamatory” statements about its product known as Lean Finely Textured Beef. After 5 years of pre-trial, the case went before a South Dakota judge in early June. It...

With the seventh season of HBO's Game of Thrones at its halfway point, Westeros is at war yet again. In the last two episodes (episodes 3 and 4), the forces aligned with Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister have met upon the fields (and seas) of battle at last. Things have not gone entirely according to plan for either side. In fact things have gone so wrong, so fast that I thought it might be time to convene the Ars Technica Board of Fictional Military Historic Analysis—with its charter members, Jon Nichols and Steve Skaggs, two special operations professionals now in...