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SPORTS - From YahooSports: Enes Kanter plays for the NBA's Oklahoma Thunder, and is originally from Turkey. He has been outspoken and critical about current Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Now, Kanter has had his Turkish passport cancelled.
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BOX OFFICE - From Variety: "Alien: Covenant" looks to be the winner at the weekend box office.
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MOVIES - From ScreenDaily: Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about "Terminator" and a sequel to "Twins."
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CULTURE - From YahooTV: A British author celebrates his small penis in his book, "The Small Penis Bible," which is available on iTunes.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: Tom Hardy will play Eddie Brock/Venom in Sony's film based on the Marvel Comics Spider-Man adversary.
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MUSIC - From YahooMusic: A judge rules that Prince's six siblings are his heirs.
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TELEVISION - From TVLine: Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of a prequel TV series to Jim Henson's classic 1982 film, "The Dark Crystal."
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STAR TREK - From YahooTV: CBS revealed its new series for Fall 2017, including the first new footage from "Star Trek: Discovery."
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STAR TREK - From TheWrap: CBS has expanded the first season of "Star Trek: Discovery" from 13 episodes to 15. There will also be an after-show, "Talking Trek."
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OBIT - From YahooNews: FOX News founder, Roger Ailes, has died at the age of 77, Thursday, May 18, 2017.
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OBIT - From YahooMusic: Rock musician Chris Cornell has died at the age of 52, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Cornell was best known as the co-founder of the influential 1990s rock band, Soundgarden, as well as for his association with Temple of the Dog and Audioslave.
From YahooMusic: Musicians such as Jimmy Page, Nile Rogers, and Dave Navarro react to Chris Cornell's passing.
From TheWrap: Apparently, Chris Cornell committed suicide by hanging.
From YahooCelebrity: Chris Cornell battled depression and drugs.
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COMICS-FILM - From TheWrap: Robert Zemeckis is in the lead to direct Warner Bros.' "The Flash."
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Michael Moore and Harvey Weinstein reunite for a Donald Trump documentary.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: ABC won out over Netflix to land the revival/reboot of the classic 1980s-90s sitcom, "Rosanne." Several original cast members are returning including Rosanne Barr and John Goodman.
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OBIT - From YahooMovies: Former Paramount Pictures chief, Brad Grey, has died at the age of 59, Sunday, May 14, 2017. Grey was also a talent manager and formed the award-winning production company, Plan B, with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: George R.R. Martin, who wrote the book series that inspired the Emmy-winning TV series, "Game of Thrones," gives new info about HBO's spinoff plans for the series.
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TELEVISION - From Variety: Paramount Network (which is what Spike will be rebranded into come January 2018) names its first scripted series, "Yellowstone," starring Kevin Costner.
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POLITICS - From YahooTV: If you want to believe that ABC cancelled "Last Man Standing" because its star, Tim Allen, is an outspoken conservative, good one on you. It is not like ABC did not know this about Allen before they even picked up the show in the beginning.
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OBIT - From THR: The actor Powers Boothe has died at the age of 68, Sunday, May 14, 2017. Boothe won an Emmy in 1980 for portraying cult leader Jim Jones in the CBS miniseries, "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones." In recent years, he was known for appearing in HBO's "Deadwood" and ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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CRIME - From YahooNews: In Baton Rouge, La., high school quarterback Bryant Lee was shot and killed three days before his graduation.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 5/12 to 5/14/2017 Mother's Day weekend box office is "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" with an estimated take of $63 million.
From YahooMovies: "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" had an even worse box office opening ($14.7 million) than expected ($25 million).
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OBITS - From YahooSports: Former Major League Baseball umpire Steve Palermo has died at the age of 67, Sunday, May 14, 2017. Palermo was known as a hero umpire because in 1991 he assisted two waitresses who were being mugged and was shot in the back. Initially expected not to survive or to walk again if he did live, Palermo survived and was able to walk with a cane. He worked with umpires, although he never worked again as an on-field official.
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Melissa McCarthy still killin' it as White House Spokesman Sean Spicer on "Saturday Night Live," as she did on Sat., May 13th, 2017.
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: Final trailer for "War for the Planet of the Apes."
From YouTube: Official trailer for "The Orville," from Fox. It is Seth MacFarlane's spoof of "Star Trek."
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