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Sam Kashner / Vanity Fair:
Meghan Markle, Wild About Harry! — Battered by the tabloids—to the point where her boyfriend, Prince Harry, issued a statement defending her—actress and activist Meghan Markle has largely ignored the media storm. And as Markle tells Vanity Fair about her bi-racial background, her romance …
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Christopher Rosen / EW.com:
Jennifer Lawrence's ‘WTF’ mother! hailed in first reviews — Critics to Darren Aronofsky: You crazy for this one — mother! mercy. — Jennifer Lawrence's latest film, the Darren Aronofsky horror film mother!, debuted at the Venice Film Festival on Monday and left critics reaching for their WTFs.
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Jessica Kiang / The Playlist:
‘mother!’: Darren Aronofsky's Scorchingly Brilliant Thriller Is Visceral, Go-For-Broke Madness [Venice Review]
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Variety and Oh No They Didn't!
Owen Gleiberman / Variety:
Venice Film Review: Jennifer Lawrence in ‘mother!’
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I Don't Like You In That Way and Telegraph
Kevin P. Sullivan / EW.com:
Rami Malek is Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody first look — There are few people in music history as recognizable as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury — and not just his face, but his four-octave voice and flamboyant physicality. Rami Malek is well aware of that fact.
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Meg Swertlow / E! Online:
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Reunite on the Beach Over Labor Day Weekend — They're back to the beach! — After reuniting at the beach in California over the Labor Day holiday, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom just added some serious fuel to the rumor that's the pair is back together.
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Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
Can Netflix Crash the Oscars With Dee Rees' ‘Mudbound’? — “Mudbound” had hit a raw nerve. On the afternoon Dee Rees' operatic drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January, it was met with rapturous reviews and Oscar buzz. Surely, distributors would be duking it out for the rights …
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Crystal Bell / MTV:
Ed Sheeran Knows His Game Of Thrones Character Was No Match For Drogon — He probably didn't survive Season 7's loot train attack (if he was even there) — It's safe to say that the internet wasn't prepared for Ed Sheeran's prominent cameo in the Season 7 opener of Game of Thrones.
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Gary Trust / Billboard:
Taylor Swift's ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Leaps to No. 1 on Hot 100 With Top Streaming & Sales Week of 2017 — YOUTUBE — Swift scores her fifth Hot 100 No. 1 and breaks the weekly streaming record for a song by a woman. “Look” also stops the record-tying 16-week reign of “Despacito.”
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Auburn Seminary:
Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV Statement On Leaving His Church After Speaking Out Against White Supremacy at MTV Video Music Awards — I'm writing this statement to make sure that people are able to read in my own words what has happened to me over the last three weeks so that the events …
Megan French / Us Weekly:
‘Dancing With the Stars’ Anna Trebunskaya Gives Birth, Welcomes Second Child With Nevin Millan — Her tiny dancer has arrived! Dancing With the Stars' Anna Trebunskaya welcomed a baby boy, Kaspyan, with boyfriend Nevin Millan, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
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Amy Zimmerman / The Daily Beast:
Corinne Olympios on Moving Past the ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Sex Scandal … Corinne Olympios just wants to set the record straight. — The 24-year-old Miami native elbowed her way into the zeitgeist on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor, where she easily stole every scene from the underwhelming Bachelor …
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Steve Harvey Unleashed: A New Show, His Private Trump Sit-Down and That Infamous Leaked Memo — The TV host, who now has six shows — including a new daytime talker he owns — also shares what Oprah taught him and how he dealt with “vicious” backlash to his private meeting with the president: “I haven't talked to him since.”
Simon Perry / People.com:
Prince William Reveals 'There's Not Much Sleep' in Kensington Palace After Princess Kate's Pregnancy Announcement — Prince William admitted there is “not much sleep” going on at home since he and Princess Kate found out they are expecting their third child.
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I Don't Like You In That Way and Cele|bitchy
