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  • ‘McMillions’: How ex-cop orchestrated $24 million McDonald’s Monopoly scam

    02/03/2020 8:32:15 AM PST · by lowbridge · 21 replies
    nypost.com ^ | February 1, 2020 | Michael Kaplan
    In 1987, McDonald’s launched an ingenious sweepstakes based on the game of Monopoly. Customers would purchase sandwiches, fries, drinks, etc., that included peel-off game pieces on the packaging — potentially rewarding them with anything from a Filet-O-Fish to a new car to $1 million. People went wild for it and business spiked by 40 percent for the fast-food giant, which kept it up for years. But it wasn’t all happy meals. “It seemed like an opportunity for ordinary people to get ahead, but there were consequences,” said Brian Lazarte, co-director of the HBO docu-series “McMillion$,” premiering Monday, about the contest. In fact,...
  • Louis C.K., Ricky Gervais, And Chris Rock Toss Around N-Word In Resurfaced Video

    12/22/2018 8:29:15 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 38 replies
    ET Canada ^ | December 22, 2018 | HAKIEL MAHJOURI
    The Twitterverse has some questions about a resurfaced video in which Louis C.K. and Chris Rock casually drop the N-word. A scene from HBO’s 2011 unscripted comedy talk show “Talking Funny” has recently caught the attention of people online. The clip in question features C.K. and Rock having a conversation with fellow comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Ricky Gervais. Rock told Seinfeld and Gervais how C.K. is “the blackest white guy I know.” C.K. responded by asking Rock, “you’re saying I’m a n****r?” “Yes,” Rock replied. “You are the n****r-est white man I have ever [met].” Gervais was thoroughly amused by...
  • U.S. Embassy Move Is Escalating the Battle for Jerusalem | VICE on HBO

    12/27/2019 11:40:57 AM PST · by NorseViking · 17 replies
    VICE by YouTube ^ | December 25, 2019
    VICE's Gianna Toboni reports on the aftermath of Trump’s announcement to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
  • SOURCES: Biden tells 'AXIOS ON HBO' he will slap restrictions on Hunter if elected...

    12/08/2019 3:22:00 PM PST · by conservative98 · 36 replies
    Drudge ^ | 12/8/19 | Drudge
    SOURCES: Biden tells 'AXIOS ON HBO' he will slap restrictions on Hunter if elected... Denies stuttering to blame for screwups... Adds Warren to veep list... Airs 6:30 PM...
  • Emilia Clarke Joins List of Actresses Upset by Nudity, Sex Scenes

    12/02/2019 4:45:58 PM PST · by Kaslin · 74 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 2, 2019 | Katie Yoder
    What happens on the big screen doesn’t always stay on the big screen.  Actress Emilia Clarke, who rose to fame after starring in HBO’s Game of Thrones, recently revealed that she was pressured to film scenes naked for the show. She’s not alone – actresses from Evangeline Lilly to Jennifer Lawrence have admitted to either crying or drinking in response to filming scenes with little to no clothing.Speaking on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, the 33-year-old expressed her disbelief when she first landed the role of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, which premiered in 2011. “Obviously, I took the job,”...
  • Gossip Girl Reboot Update: Expect 'Non-White Leads,' a 'Lot of Queer Content' (tr)

    11/11/2019 11:09:41 AM PST · by EdnaMode · 28 replies
    TV Line ^ | November 11, 2019 | Michael Ausiello
    HBO Max’s in-the-works Gossip Girl reboot may be set in the same universe as the CW original, but the new series will have a dramatically different (read: more diverse) worldview. In an interview with Vulture, OG Gossip Girl EP Joshua Safran — who will serve as showrunner on the follow-up — acknowledges, “There was not a lot of representation the first time around on the show. I was the only gay writer I think the entire time I was there. Even when I went to private school in New York in the ’90s, the school didn’t necessarily reflect what was...
  • Anti-Christian HBO Series ‘His Dark Materials’ Pits Religion Against ‘Academic Freedom’

    11/05/2019 10:57:20 AM PST · by Morgana · 8 replies
    mrcNEWSBUSTERS ^ | Nov 4, 2019 | Lindsay Kornick
    As we once again near the Christmas season, the last thing we need is yet another show dragging Christianity, religion, or God in general. Sadly, HBO gave us a show that does all three in its latest series His Dark Materials. Based on the books by noted atheist Philip Pullman, this latest adaptation continued the story’s usual controversy of despising Christianity and the Church and making them the bad guys. The November 4 episode “Lyra’s Jordan” introduced us to a world that was “both like and unlike” our own. One key difference included the fact that every human was accompanied...
  • HBO cancels Game of Thrones prequel starring Naomi Watts

    10/29/2019 5:58:08 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    Entertainment Weekly ^ | October 29, 2019 | James Hibberd
    A massively hyped Game of Thrones prequel series is not moving forward. HBO has scrapped plans for a prequel from showrunner Jane Goldman that starred Naomi Watts and took place thousands of years before the original series. The network shot a full pilot episode in Northern Ireland earlier this year and has elected not to pick up the series. EW first heard of the plan to scrap the pilot weeks ago but HBO did not confirm the news. A second GoT prequel project focusing on the Targaryen Civil War, however, is still in the works. The project hasn’t officially received...
  • ‘Off to a Good Start:’ HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ a Radical-Left Daydream(?)

    10/21/2019 8:38:41 AM PDT · by rktman · 12 replies
    newsbusters.org ^ | 10/21/2019 | Corinne Weaver
    Damon Lindelof created a re-imagining of Alan Moore’s The Watchmen on HBO...to portray redneck racists versus black vigilantes. The premiere episode on Sunday, “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice,” introduces disjointed elements of this parallel present day universe. Racism is the center of this retelling. The story starts with a flashback to the 1921 Tulsa race riots. Gunshots echo everywhere while people on fire run away screaming in terror. Members of the KKK, all in white, stampede through the streets. This is very different from The Watchmen of comic lore, which focused more on nuclear and international threats....
  • HBO's The Wire Producer Invokes God to Destroy Mar-a-Lago Using Hurricane Dorian

    09/04/2019 7:15:39 AM PDT · by bgill · 24 replies
    cnsnews ^ | Sept. 3, 2019 | Michael W. Chapman
    David Simon, a former journalist for The Baltimore Sun and executive producer of HBO's The Wire (2002-2008), used Twitter to express his desire that God use Hurricane Dorian to destroy Mar-a-Lago, a National Historic Landmark sometimes used for presidential meetings that is owned by President Donald Trump, who refers to it as the "Winter White House." "After the last three years, the work of a just and righteous God cannot be considered credible evidence of His goodness unless He picks all of Mar-a-lago up by the roots, sails it across half of Florida and heaves it on top of Doral...
  • Bill Maher: I’m ‘Glad’ David Koch Is Dead, ‘And I Hope the End Was Painful’

    08/24/2019 12:21:28 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 80 replies
    therapy.com ^ | August 23, 2019 | ROSEMARY ROSSI
    Bill Maher apparently doesn’t subscribe to the philosophy “never speak evil of the dead.” On Friday night’s “Real Time,” he said he’s “glad” billionaire conservative David Koch is dead, and he hopes “the end was painful.” Maher’s harsh comments come following the Thursday death Koch, who had spent most of his life financing conservative causes, like climate change denial, a hot topic around the world this week as the rain forest in Brazil spreads. “Yesterday David Koch, of the zillionaire Koch brothers, died of prostate cancer. I guess I’m going to have to re-evaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer,”...
  • Video: Bill Maher ‘Really’ Wants a Recession Because ‘We Can’t Survive Another Trump Term’

    08/11/2019 12:31:34 PM PDT · by rktman · 45 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 8/10/2019 | Ben Kew
    HBO talk show host Bill Maher has once again expressed his desire to see the United States fall into an economic recession in the coming year, arguing it would reduce the chances of President Donald Trump winning the 2020 presidential election. “I’m not wishing for a recession, but if the farmers want to keep touching the hot stove,” said commentator Tom Nichols on the issue of Trump’s trade policies, before Maher interjected. Well, you should be,” said Bill Maher. “Because that will definitely get him unelected.” “But Bill, you don’t really want a recession,” argued Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former White...
  • 'Euphoria’ Finale Caps Off Sex-Fueled Season With Teen Abortion Scene

    08/05/2019 10:20:12 AM PDT · by Morgana · 16 replies
    mrcNEWSBUSTERS ^ | AUG 5, 2019 | Lindsay Kornick
    The first season of HBO’s Euphoria has finally come to a close, and it could not come fast enough. This teen drama ranks among the worst shows of the year with its blatant sexual propaganda, and it all comes to a head with quite possibly the worst subject yet: teen abortions. The August 4 season finale “And Salt the Earth Behind You” culminates with a winter formal that all the main characters attend. While we watch them drink excessively and dance suggestively, we’re filled in on details of their lives prior to and directly after the night. Those characters include...
  • What is the NAME of the Protestor Who Heckled Bill Maher?

    08/03/2019 6:36:32 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 25 replies
    Self | August 3, 2019 | PJ-Comix
    It is being headlined on Drudge: Bill Maher show interrupted by pro-Trump heckler. Okay, so security took care of it but what is missing in the stories is the NAME of this heckler. I'm sure they must have gotten that information so why can't it be found? If anybody can find this info, please post here.
  • Catherine the Great: Helen Mirren Stuns in a Regal First Look at HBO's Historical Drama

    07/24/2019 10:35:23 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 48 replies
    Pop Sugar ^ | July 23, 2019 | Quinn Keaney
    The first glimpse of the upcoming limited series shows us Mirren as the legendary monarch, who was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, making her the country's longest-ruling female leader. The series will show us Catherine toward the end of her rule in the 18th century, when she begins a steamy relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke), a military leader. "When I was young I dreamed of freedom, I dreamed of breaking chains," Catherine can be heard saying in the trailer. "But as you get older, your choices narrow. So instead I gave us an empire, but I knew...
  • Bill Maher’s brutal message to Mayor de Blasio: Just quit race now

    06/29/2019 3:31:22 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 29, 2019 | 4:45pm | Mary Kay Linge
    Mayor de Blasio got a scathing rejection from liberal comedian Bill Maher. Hizzoner needs to “get the f—k out” of the 2020 presidential race, Maher said on his HBO show Friday — breaking into song to shoo him out. “And this guy,” Maher condescendingly said, hoisting a photo of de Blasio. “Start spreading the news,” he crooned, “you’re leaving today” — an acerbic take on the Frank Sinatra classic, “New York, New York.” “Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” Maher said. “I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now.” He ordered Colorado Gov. John...
  • Buttigieg says he won’t be the first gay president if elected

    06/16/2019 9:41:05 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 99 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 16, 2019 | 9:02pm | Chris Perez
    Mayor Pete Buttigieg doesn’t believe he’ll be the first gay president if elected in 2020. “I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” he told “Axios on HBO.” “I mean, statistically, it’s almost certain.” Asked if he possibly knew which commander-in-chief was playing for the other team, the Democratic hopeful said: “My gaydar even doesn’t work that well in the present, let alone retroactively. But one can only assume that’s the case.”
  • HBO Drags Disney Star Into the Gutter

    06/14/2019 7:09:53 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 38 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 14, 2019 | Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
    The programmers at HBO pride themselves in setting the tone for the rest of television, especially when it comes to the absence of taste, from Bill Maher's "Real Time" talk-show tantrums to Lena Dunham marching around undressed on "Girls." Every time HBO hits the bottom of the gutter, it finds a way to go deeper still. It is really headed into the gutter, and it knows it. A new HBO series about teenagers and sex and drugs called "Euphoria" is starting June 16, starring 22-year-old Zendaya, another former Disney Channel star desperately seeking to keep her career alive in the...
  • Belarusian Nobel Laureate Says HBO Series Has 'Completely Changed Perception' Of Chernobyl

    06/13/2019 3:19:26 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 9 replies
    RFE/RL ^ | June 2019 | Anna Sous, Tony Wesolowsky
    Belarus's Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich rolled her eyes when the creators of Chernobyl approached her for permission to use material from her book "Voices From Chernobyl" for the hit HBO miniseries. "I told my agent, 'Galya, they're going to make another film...' I was far from convinced. The only thing that convinced me, maybe, was the fee..." However..."It really impressed me. It is a very strong film. There is something there in the aesthetics that touches the modern consciousness. There is a dose of fear. There is reasoning. There is beauty. That is something that has always worried me about...
  • "Axios on HBO" poll: 55% of women prefer socialism

    06/10/2019 5:49:05 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 85 replies
    Axios ^ | 06/09/19 | Staff
    A Harris poll for "Axios on HBO" finds that socialism is gaining popularity: 4 in 10 Americans say they would prefer living in a socialist country over a capitalist one. Why it matters: Socialism is losing its Soviet-era stigma, especially among women. Popular Democratic socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders are bringing new life and meaning to the term. 55% of women between 18 and 54 would prefer to live in a socialist country than a capitalist country. But a majority of men prefer to live in a capitalist country. The big picture: "It's been a truth of American...