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The nearly $8.5 billion merger deal between Amazon and MGM is official. MGM is the movie and TV studio behind the James Bond franchise, <em>Legally Blonde</em> and other popular films.

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  • Business

What the Amazon-MGM deal means for the streaming business

MGM is the film and television studio behind iconic films like the James Bond franchise, Rocky and The Silence of the Lambs.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Netflix is testing a way to crack down on password sharing. The streaming service has been asking some users of the popular streaming site to verify that they live with the holder of the account.

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  • Business

Netflix plans to start charging for password sharing, and customers aren't happy

The company said it has previously encouraged account sharing but that the practices are "impacting our ability to invest in great new TV and films for our members."

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Seth Meyers tells the story of his second son's dramatic birth in his Netflix stand-up special<em> Lobby Baby.</em>

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  • Television

Too scared or not scared enough? Seth Meyers explores our relationship with fear

Meyers has satirized issues in the news ever since he became an anchor on SNL's "Weekend Update" segment in 2006. Now he has a new children's book about fear — and how we acknowledge or ignore it.

March 14, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Cohen's routine — full of TMI and poking fun at herself — isn't just part of her comic act, it's therapeutic. "If you can't laugh at yourself, then no one else is going to laugh at you, either. Or maybe they will. But don't you want to be in on the joke?" she said.

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  • Television

Catherine Cohen is in on the joke in 'The Twist...? She's Gorgeous'

In her new Netflix special, the 30-year-old comedian melds her self-absorbed millennial persona with the glamor and confessional satire of a cabaret star. The target of her jokes? Cohen herself.

March 13, 2022
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Billy Joel plays in Moscow in 1987.

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  • Arts & Life

Once, cultural ties to Russia were deliberate and hopeful. Now, they're eroding

Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.

March 13, 2022
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Billy Joel plays in Moscow in 1987.

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  • Arts & Life

Once, cultural ties to Russia were deliberate and hopeful. Now, they're eroding

Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.

March 13, 2022
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Jussie Smollett talks to the media in 2019 before leaving the court in Cook County, Ill. The actor will face sentencing on Thursday.

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  • Law

Jussie Smollett will serve 150 days in jail for lying about an attack on him

The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim.

March 12, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram and
  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB News NPR

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  • Television

'Star Trek' star Patrick Stewart says he's braver as an actor than he once was

Stewart's back as Jean-Luc Picard in season 2 of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard. "I am not averse to risk-taking and I don't judge myself," he says. Originally broadcast July 2, 2020.

March 11, 2022
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  • Sam Briger
Adam (Ryan Reynolds) and Young Adam (Walker Scobell) spend <em>The Adam Project</em> needling each other in a timestack.

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  • Movie Reviews

Why 'The Adam Project' is a different kind of Ryan Reynolds project

In this effective, straight-ahead time-travel yarn, Ryan Reynolds digs beneath his usual persona to find something a bit less glib — and thus, more sympathetic.

March 11, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
John C. Reilly is Lakers owner Jerry Buss and Quincy Isaiah is player Magic Johnson in the HBO series <em>Winning Time.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

Like the '80s Lakers, 'Winning Time' scores with an unconventional playbook

Adam McKay's new HBO series about the Los Angeles Lakers goes out of its way to be out of the ordinary. But its showboating is in keeping with the style of the basketball team it chronicles.

March 07, 2022
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  • David Bianculli
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick and Kyle Chandler as Bill Gurley in <em>Super Pumped: The Batter for Uber. </em>

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  • Television

Adam McKay's signature style is spreading. But one of him is enough

The executive producer of HBO's new series Winning Time is known for his fourth-wall breaking, look-at-the-camera-and-explain style. That approach comes up in Super Pumped, a show he didn't make.

March 06, 2022
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  • Linda Holmes
Actor Mitchell Ryan and Pamela Marvin backstage at the Playhouse Theatre in New York in July 1979, where he was starring in Arthur Miller's play "The Price."

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  • Obituaries

'Dark Shadows,' 'Lethal Weapon' actor Mitchell Ryan dies at 88

Mitchell Ryan died of congestive heart failure at his Los Angeles home, his stepdaughter, Denise Freed, told the Hollywood Reporter. He was 88.

March 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Fireworks are seen as the Olympic cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics at the Beijing National Stadium on March 04, 2022 in Beijing, China.

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  • World

Calls for peace and inclusion dominated the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony

Hundreds of athletes are competing in Beijing in this year's events, which run through March 13. The opening ceremony kicked off on Friday, with the world focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

March 04, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
<em>Reading Rainbow Live</em> is hosted by a group of 20 somethings dubbed "The Rainbows."

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  • Arts & Life

'Reading Rainbow' is getting a reboot but without LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow Live streams Sunday on the digital platform Looped. But Burton, who hosted the original series for more than two decades, won't be there. A cast of 20-somethings will host.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes and Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani in Hulu's <em>The Dropout</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'The Dropout' dares to ask: How did Theranos get away with all this?

The Dropout is about Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder recently convicted of misleading her investors. But at its best, it's about everyone who let it happen.

March 03, 2022
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  • Linda Holmes
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