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After a string of performers pulled out of this weekend’s planned NRA “Grand Ol’ Night of Freedom” concert in Houston, the musical event apparently has been canceled. The concert was to have taken place during the organization’s annual conference. “American Pie” singer Don McLean, Larry Gatlin, Larry Stewart, Lee Greenwood, T. Graham Brown and Danielle
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed up-and-coming pools filmmaker Sam Hayes for representation. Hayes soon will wrap post-production on his debut feature, Pools — a coming-of-age story about pool-hopping that he wrote, directed and produced, starring Odessa A’zion, Mason Gooding, Michael Vlamis, Ariel Winter, Tyler Alvarez, Francesca Noel and Suzanne Cryer. The film shot last summer in Chicago
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A planned strike at two London Underground stations over the Jubilee weekend has been suspended. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Green Park and Euston Tube stations had planned to walk out on 3 June in a row over allegations of bullying. However, the union said “significant progress” had since been
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A Texas public safety official faced a barrage of questions over the timeline of police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Victor Escalon, South Texas regional director for the Department of Public Safety, told reporters that they are still trying to determine why it
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Streaming was a silver lining for Lionsgate on Thursday in an otherwise downbeat report of its fiscal fourth quarter results, which was released Thursday and showed revenue and earnings below Wall Street expectations. Revenue totaled $930 million in the period ending March 31, with earnings per share of 6 cents. Analysts had been calling for
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One of Netflix’s biggest draws, Ozark, returned with Part 2 of its fourth season and the re-up put the show back atop Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for the week of April 25 to May 1. The series drew 2.575 billion total minutes of streaming from its 44 episodes. It figures to put up a comparable
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