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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
POLITICS - From YahooNews: In case you were wondering, even after being convicted of 34 felony counts in New York yesterday (5/30), Donald Trump can still run for President of the United States and he can still vote for himself in Florida.
From NBCNews: Outside the courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial, legendary Oscar-winning actor, Robert De Niro, clashed with Trump supporters.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Mike Flanagan will write, direct, and produce a radical new take on "The Exocist" for Blumhouse. Flanagan has previously directed such films as "Oculus" (2013) and "Doctor Sleep."
NETFLIX - From THR: Emmy-winner, Kerry Washington, has joined director Rian Johnson's third "Knives Out" film, "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery." The film is due in 2025.
SPORTS/BLM - From ESPN: Major League Baseball (MLB) has incorporated the statistics from the Negro Leagues, the professional baseball leagues that were made up of African-American baseball players. The first Black players league formed in 1887 and the last such league, Negro American League, disbanded after the 1962 season, although some consider its 1951 season to be the last major league seasons. The records that were incorporated into the MLB record books apparently cover six different Negro Leagues over a period from 1920 to 1948.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the three-day Memorial Day weekend (5/24 to 5/26/2024) box office is Warner Bros.' "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" with an estimated take of 25.6 million dollars.
CANNES - From Deadline: Director Sean Baker's New York-set romantic comedy-drama, "Anora," has won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. It is the first American film to do so since director Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011).
MOVIES - From Deadline: Universal Pictures has announced a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg set for May 15, 2026. Universal always had the weekend reserved for an event title.
OBITS:
From ESPN: Television sportscaster and former American professional basketball player, Bill Walton, has died at the age of 71, Monday, May 27, 2024. Walton won two titles as a member of the UCLA Bruins (1971-72, 1972-73). He played for three NBA franchises: the Portland Trailblazers, where he won a title in 1976-77; the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers; and the Boston Celtics, where he won a title in 1985-86. He became a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. Since 1990, he'd been a television sportscaster, winning an Emmy Award in 2001.
From Deadline: American songwriter, Richard M. Sherman, has died at the age of 95, Saturday, May 25, 2024. Richard and his the late brother, Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012), were known as the "Sherman Brothers" and were also known for the work in musical films. They produced more motion picture song scores than any other team. Apparently all their music was produced for the Walt Disney Company, and Richard and Robert won two Oscars for the music the produced for Mary Poppins (1964). Richard and Robert were named "Disney Legends" in 1990.
From Variety: Film and television writer, producer, director, and personality, Morgan Spurlock, has died at the age of 53, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Spurlock was best known for the 2003 documentary film, Super Size Me, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. His career was mostly derailed after he admitted to sexual misconduct in 2017.
From Deadline: American television entrepreneur and visionary, Patrick Gottsch, has died at the age of 70, Saturday, May 18, 2024. In the early 1980s, he started his own home satellite installation company and also began working for a livestock auction company in the early 1990s. Gottsch put his experiences together and launched "Rural Free Delivery Television" (RFD-TV), a 34-hour rural television network, on the DISH Network in December 2000. Gottsch had first tried to launch RFD-TV in the late 1980s and in the 1990s, but could not get funding. In 2017, he also launched "The Cowboy Channel," which like RFD-TV, operates under Gottsch's company, Rural Media Group.
