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6:10 PM ET, July 31, 2017

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Kenneth Miller / AARP:
Jessica Lange Can Finally Relax  —  After collecting every major acting award, is it time to kick back?  —  Jessica Lange makes me nervous.  —  Over 40 years of intense, edge-of-madness performances, she's specialized in playing high-strung characters with dangerous dark sides.
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Broadway World:
Playwright, Director and Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away at 73  —  BroadwayWorld has just learned that playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard has passed away.  Shepard, who had been ill with ALS for some time, died peacefully on July 27 at his home in Kentucky, surrounded by his children and sisters.
Discussion: People.com, Page Six and The WOW Report
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Actor, Is Dead at 73  —  Mr. Shepard, one of the most important and influential early writers in the Off Broadway movement, specialized in capturing the darker sides of American family life.  —  Sam Shepard, the celebrated avant-garde playwright …
Discussion: Us Weekly and Oh No They Didn't!
People.com:
Oscar-Nominated Actor Sam Shepard Dies After Secret Battle with ALS  —  Sam Shepard, known for his acting work in films such as Black Hawk Down and The Right Stuff, has died.  He was 73.  —  Shepard's theater representative confirms to PEOPLE that Shepard passed away at his home in Kentucky on Thursday …
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Alex Morris / Glamour:
Blake Lively Is ‘Awakened’: The Actress Talks Sexism in Hollywood and Raising Fearless Daughters  —  Blake Lively is midsentence in the dining room of a chic Vancouver hotel when her hand darts inside her shirt.  “Why is my bra so lumpy?” she asks, rummaging around.  “Ah, there's a big fold.
Whitney Port:
Meet Our Son  —  So, I have some news.  No big deal, but I created another human being and then delivered him into the world at 12:30am Thursday morning.  Timmy and I named the little man Sonny and I'm in love.  Over the next few blog posts I'll tell you all about the entire day …
James Hibberd / EW.com:
HBO hacked: Upcoming episodes, Game of Thrones data leaked online  —  HBO chairman: ‘Disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us’  —  HBO has joined the ranks of Hollywood entertainment companies to suffer a major cyber attack.  —  EW has learned that upcoming episodes …
Perez Hilton:
Paris Jackson Bonds With Godfather Macaulay Culkin By Getting Matching Tattoos — Awwww!  —  Paris Jackson is very close with her godfather Macaulay Culkin!  —  So close, in fact, that the celebuspawn and the Home Alone actor got matching tattoos on their inner arms.
Discussion: Page Six and X17 Online
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TMZ.com:
DeMario Jackson Is Negotiating With ‘Dancing With the Stars’  —  Turns out controversial “Bachelor In Paradise” star DeMario Jackson may not be done with reality TV — TMZ has learned producers are seriously considering him for a “Dancing With the Stars” slot.
Discussion: Us Weekly, Daily Mail and PerezHilton
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
Luann defends marriage to Tom, he hits on blond at dive bar  —  LuAnn de Lesseps and Tom D'Agostino Jr.  —  While “Real Housewife” Countess LuAnn de Lesseps graced a number of public Hamptons events over the weekend, her new husband, Tom D'Agostino Jr., was spotted getting close to another woman.
Discussion: Dlisted
Christina Dugan / People.com:
The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay Faces Dean Unglert in Emotional Men Tell All Encounter: ‘I Did Love You’  —  The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay is confronting Dean Unglert about that emotional goodbye — and standing by her reasoning for admitting to falling in love with him.
John Koblin / New York Times:
MTV Mines the Past for Its Future: ‘Total Request Live’  —  On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Chris McCarthy, the newish president of MTV, was standing at a corner of 44th Street and Broadway and gazing up at the second floor of Viacom's Manhattan headquarters.
 
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Rose Dommu / Out Magazine:
Dear Gay Men, Stop Telling Women They Can't Be in Gay Bars
Discussion: Queerty and The WOW Report
TMZ.com:
Vic Mensa's Not Pissed Justin Bieber Scratched Their Tour, But R. Kelly Is a Much Different Story
Discussion: Bossip and Stereogum
Aldo Vallon / Egotastic:
Heidi Klum Red Bikini in France
Meg Swertlow / E! Online:
Kim Zolciak-Biermann Vows to Stop Posting About Her Dogs on Social Media After Follower Calls Animal Control
Discussion: Page Six and Cele|bitchy
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Anita Gates / New York Times:
Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89
Discussion: The Wrap and Oh No They Didn't!
TMZ.com:
Blac Chyna Goes Redhead, Gets a Ton of Green for Club Appearance
Discussion: X17 Online and Bossip
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Boosie's Brother Allegedly Stole $361k Out of Rapper's Bank Account
Discussion: Stereogum and Bossip
 

 
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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022

Silla Brush / Bloomberg:
BlackRock has agreed to buy Preqin, a UK-based provider of private markets data, for £2.55B in cash

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The two California bills to help fund local journalism would penalize Google and Meta for news' decline and benefit hedge funds that are destroying newspapers

 
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