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LEGO pulled ads for police-related sets in wake of George Floyd death, protests

Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- The industry trade The Toybook has reported that building toy giant LEGO requested that its marketers pull online ads "ASAP" for building sets regarding police, in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of now-terminated Minneapolis cops. Floyd's death May 25 sparked ongoing protests worldwide as well as looting in major cities, including a LEGO Store in Lower Manhattan. Some 30 building […]

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Patrick Warburton on suiting up for ‘Space Force’, and finding his inner Puddy amid COVID-19

Aaron Epstein/NETFLIX(LOS ANGELES) -- In the role of Elaine's sleepy-eyed, face-painting, on-again-off-again boyfriend David Puddy, Patrick Warburton only appeared in nine regular season episodes of Seinfeld -- but his character left an impression strong enough that even die-hard fans swear he was in more.  Now the star, who is also a regular voice on Seth MacFarland's Family Guy, can be seen in Space Force, Steve Carell's new Netflix workplace comedy. "That was […]

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‘Saturday Night Live”s Chris Redd launches COVID-19 relief fund for protestors

Ashley Good/NBC(NEW YORK) -- With protests erupting across the nation demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis, health officials have raised concerns about the demonstrations sparking a second wave of COVID-19. Despite that a majority of protestors have been photographed wearing masks, it's the lack of social distancing that has health officials worried. Saturday Night Live star Chris Redd is also concerned about the possibility of a spike in new cases, […]

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Bill Murray’s son arrested for disorderly conduct at protest rally

iStock/LukaTBD(MASSACHUSETTS) -- Caleb Murray, the son of actor Bill Murray, was arrested on Monday for disorderly conduct at an otherwise peaceful Tillsbury, Massachusetts rally protesting the death of George Floyd, according to a police report obtained by the Martha’s Vineyard Times. Caleb, one of Murray's six children, was charged with with malicious destruction of property, a threat to commit a crime, three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, making terroristic threats and […]

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Leslie Jones opens up about the sobering advice she’d give her younger self about rioting

Barbara Nitke/Bravo(LOS ANGELES) -- Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones opened up about the one piece of advice she wishes she could give to her past self when discussing her first brush with rioting during a Tuesday appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. The Ghostbusters star revealed that, in hindsight, she wishes she did things differently.  If given the opportunity to confront her past self, who was "running out to the riots" 30 years ago, Jones revealed, "I would […]

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‘Glee’ Star Heather Morris calls working with Lea Michele “unpleasant”

Gregg DeGuire/WireImage,Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) -- Following Samantha Marie Ware's accusation the Lea Michele made her life on the set of Glee a “living hell, another one of of her co-stars on the show, Heather Morris, has also described working with Michele as “unpleasant.” "Let me be very clear, Hate is a disease in America that we are trying to cure, so I would never wish for that hate to be spread to anyone else," Morris wrote in […]

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Bill & Ted, aka Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, surprise virtual graduation of real-life San Dimas High School

Orion Pictures(LOS ANGELES) -- Monday night, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves surprised the 2020 video graduation of California's San Dimas High School, which as fans know is also the alma mater of their Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure alter-egos Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan. "We know it's a tough time right now and you're having have to do this virtual graduation," Winter said, to which Reeves, on a split-screen, grunted […]

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‘Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge’, the first-ever ‘Star Wars’ game show, premieres today

Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Every hero's journey has the part where the main character returns home, transformed after facing down monsters.  For actor Ahmed Best, who played the controversial Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks, his triumphant return after confronting his own trials comes in the form of the first-ever game show set in that galaxy far, far away. Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge debuts Wednesday with two episodes on StarWarsKids.com and the Star Wars YouTube […]

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“I apologize…” — Lea Michele responds to racism accusations from former ‘Glee’ co-stars

ABC/Kelsey McNeal(LOS ANGELES) -- Lea Michele has responded to allegations of racism and on-set bullying made by former Glee co-stars by apologizing for acting "in ways which hurt other people." It all started when Michele tweeted last week in reaction to the death of George Floyd in police custody, "George Floyd did not deserve this. This was not an isolated incident and it must end. #BlackLivesMatter." In response, fellow Glee alum Samantha Marie Ware accused the star of treating her […]

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