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John Lewis and Tybre Faw.Photo: Courtesy Leigh Weaver When young Tybre Faw read Rep. John Lewis’s favorite poem,Invictus,at the civil rights icon’s July 2020 funeral, he captivated everyone watching — including bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney. Now, Faw’s unlikely friendship with the late Georgia representative is the subject of Pinkney’s new children’s bookBecause of You, John Lewis,which also explores Lewis’s relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. Faw was 10 in 2018 when he drove seven hours with his grandmothers from his home in Johnson City, Tennessee, to join his idol at a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama....

Photo:Vermont State Police Vermont State Police Beetlejuice 2is experiencing a theft problem on set. On Thursday, theVermont State Policesaid in a news release that they are investigating two reported thefts of items used inTim Burton’s upcoming sequel, which was filming in East Corinth, Vermont. In one instance, the film’s security team reported to police just after midnight on July 14 that someone removed “a large lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration” and fled with the item in the back of a pickup truck....

01of 15 ON BEING GRATEFUL HE WAS BORN Gregg DeGuire/WireImage For Legend’s 40th birthday, Teigen shared a slideshow of adorable posts of their familyto Instagramalongisde a heartfelt caption expressing her love for him — and a cheeky nod to how she shows it. “Happy 40th birthday to the most incredible man. The best father, hardest worker, best lover, best friend I could ever imagine,” she wrote on Dec. 28....

McKrae Game.Photo: Post And Courier/Youtube In the hours after McKrae Gamecame out as gay, he received support as well as a wave of backlash. “I’ve had some hate-filled messages,” said Game during aFacebook Live broadcastafter he took a run Wednesday. “And I get the hate and lashing out.” Game, 51, founded one of the largest conversion therapy programs in the country and led the homophobic organization for 20 years,a movement he now calls harmful....

Bridgertonis once again the talk of the ton!Fans of the hit Netflix period drama pointed out a small oversight in the premiere episode that reminds the eagle-eyed viewer that the series was, of course, filmed in the twenty-first century and not Regency-era England.The premiere begins with a scene showing the town square, with several people riding in horse-drawn buggies. In one shot, a yellow traffic line can be seen atop the cobblestone street....

Netflix is going all in onBridgerton. In Netflix’s recent release about the new season, Rhimes, 51, said, “From the first time I read Julia Quinn’s deliciousBridgertonseries, I knew these were stories that would captivate a viewing audience. But the evolution of this adaptation would not be a success without the many significant contributions of the entire Shondaland team.” Phoebe Dynevor in Bridgerton.LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX “This two-season pickup is a strong vote of confidence in our work and I feel incredibly grateful to have partners as collaborative and creative as Netflix....

Rodney King.Photo: David Longstreath/AP/Shutterstock Lora King was 8 years old on April 29, 1992, when she and her older sister decided to go to the neighborhood liquor store for candy. When they arrived, the South Los Angeles store was on fire. They didn’t know what was going on until they heard people chanting their father’s name:Rodney King. The sisters ran home, and when the family turned on the news they saw a riot unfolding, the city’s reaction to the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen — three of them white — after the beating of Rodney King, who was arrested on March 3, 1991, at the end of a high-speed chase....

Photo:ABC/John Fleenor ABC/John Fleenor Warning: This post contains spoilers forClaim to Fameseason 2 finale. The winner ofClaim to Fameseason 2 has been revealed! During the second half of the two-hour finale on Monday, Chris, Monay and Gabriel faced off as they competed for the $100,000 grand prize. After winning the final challenge earlier in the episode, Gabriel was given the upper hand going into the Guess Off as he was able to pick the bottom two before making himself the guesser for the final round....

The first full-length trailer for Prime Video’s adaptation ofDaisy Jones & The Sixis finally here — and it’s a wild ride! “Their complicated musical partnership catapulted the band from obscurity to unbelievable fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they suddenly called it quits,” a description of the series reads. “Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth.” In the trailer, featuring one of the 24 original songs created for the series, viewers see just what causes the titular band — The Six — to implode at the height of their fame....

Miller, 51 — who waspreliminarily diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphomain April after an emergency surgery for what she thought was a spinal infection — shared a video on Saturday of her hospital room, as she wasabout to undergo what she said was her sixth “lumbar injection.” “This is my final, I hope to god, my final lumbar injection,” Miller explained from offscreen, before walking her followers through what exactly the procedure entailed....

Photo: Courtesy of Jason Ralphie is more imp than demon these days. The French Bulldog rocketed to fame in January whenNiagara SPCAshareda Facebook postseeking a home for the 26-Lb. “demon,” who they described as “fire-breathing” and “a whole jerk- not even half.” After the post and Ralphie went viral, the black-and-white caninefound a homein February but wasbrought back to the sheltertwo weeks later when the Frenchie “proved to be more than she [the owner] could handle,“Niagara SPCA shared on social media....

A rabidly anti-Muslim politician in Australia is facing widespread denunciation after immediately blaminga Friday mass shooting in New Zealand— which killed more than 40 people at two local mosques — on the Muslim faith and Muslim immigration. “The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,” Sen. Fraser Anning, who represents Australia’s Queensland,said in a statement to the media....

Photo: Courtesy Marvel Studios TheMultiverse of Madnesslives up to its name. This Friday, Benedict Cumberbatch returns as his genius, magical Avenger inDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessafter unintentionally blending alternate universes in December’sSpider-Man: No Way Home. Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlett Witch also makes a comeback after her devastatingWandaVisionfinale, even more hell-bent on being reunited with her kids. First reviews for the sequel dropped Tuesday, withThe Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calling the film a “freaky adventure” that is “handled with lightness and fun....