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The Huffington Post reports: Banksy stunned the art world this month with the partial shredding of his “Girl With Balloon” artwork moments after it sold at Sotheby’s auction house in London for $1.4 million. But a new video that the guerilla street artist shared to YouTube suggests the stunt was slightly botched. “In rehearsals it worked every time,” a note …

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Newsweek reports: A Florida man who believed he was meeting a teen girl for sex told police upon his arrest he came to the area because he “thought it would be cool” to see a sex sting in action. James Bowen, 34, who is a co-owner of Bob’s Barber Shop in Gainesville, was one of seven men detained by officers …

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A Halloween-themed entry from our pal Matt Baume: The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a huge failure, at least when it premiered. It was too weird, too queer, too musical at a time when moviegoers stopped caring about show tunes. But within a few years, it found a new life as an underground phenomenon where everyone dresses up, shouts along, …

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TIME Magazine reports: Remember Palm, the company behind those handheld PDAs (no, not that kind of PDA) that were so prevalent in the 90s? It’s back Monday with something truly weird: The Palm, a tiny Android-powered smartphone that’s meant to supplement, not replace, your current handset. You can’t even buy the Palm on its own — it’s available only as …

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Theater Mania reports: The Rockettes held an open rehearsal on Thursday, October 11, to preview the brand-new finale to the 2018 Radio City Christmas Spectacular. The new finale, “Christmas Lights,” will begin following the iconic “Living Nativity” scene. As the North Star appears, aerialists will fly across the stage as 100 drones form various shapes and patterns surrounding Santa Claus. …

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Deadline Hollywood reports: Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Gabriel Bateman (Lights Out), Daniel Radcliffe, comic-turned-actor Jim Gaffigan (Chappaquiddick) and singers Meghan Trainor and Adam Lambert lead the voice cast for family pic Playmobil: The Movie. Trainor and Lambert will also sing original songs for the film. The animation-live action hybrid movie, based on the popular kids toy line, is due out …

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Playbill reports: The first teaser trailer for Disney’s live-action Aladdin offers a wealth of riches far beyond whatever lies in the Cave of Wonders. We’re talking lush orchestrations, dramatic establishing shots, and what we can presume is a much more realistic Iago. The teaser also gives us our first look at Mena Massoud as the title role. Joining him are …

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The Associated Press reports: Police at the Orlando airport removed a Florida woman who refused to get off a Cleveland-bound flight after she was found carrying an “emotional support squirrel.” Passengers had already boarded Frontier Airlines Flight 1612 at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night when they were told there was a “situation” and everyone needed to get off the …

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Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: A Florida man abandoned a black Lamborghini early Saturday after the sports car rear-ended a pickup truck in Miami. The driver then jumped into a friend’s waiting Mercedes and fled the scene, surveillance video shows. A Miami Beach firefighter said he was driving to work around 7:30 a.m. when a Lamborghini struck the back of his …

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The Miami Herald reports: Last month, the mayor of Hallandale Beach, Keith London, bizarrely accused fellow commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub of profiting from bleaching her sphincter, causing public outrage and series of #MeToo posts on social media. Now, Lima-Taub is the one under fire for apparently comparing the mayor to Adolf Hitler during Wednesday night’s regularly scheduled commission meeting. “A man …

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Billboard Magazine reports: Bradley Cooper earns his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Oct. 13), as “Shallow,” with Lady Gaga, arrives at No. 28. After the actor made his first Billboard chart visit last week, the song debuts on the Hot 100 following its first full week of tracking. It bows with 8.3 million U.S. streams and …

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The New York Times reports: “Tina,” a jukebox musical about the turbulent life of the rock star Tina Turner, is coming to Broadway. The show, with the full title “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” will open next fall, the producers said this week. They did not announce a specific date or a theater. The musical has been running in London …

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Billboard reports: Janelle Monae is joining Disney’s live-action Lady and the Tramp. She joins a voice cast that will be led by Tessa Thompson as Lady and Justin Theroux as Tramp. Ashley Jensen is set to play Scottish Terrier Jackie, while Doctor Strange star Benedict Wong has been cast to voice English bulldog Bull. Kiersey Clemons and Thomas Mann will …

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Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports: A Florida man looking to make a quick buck printed dozens of counterfeit bills at a library using a Pinterest template and then tried to sell the phony money on Facebook, police said. Levy Newberry, 29, printed counterfeit 5, 10, 20 and 50 dollar bills on resume paper he bought at Walmart, according to the Pasco …

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From the Hollywood Reporter: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, both two-time Tony Award winners, will team up on Broadway to play the power couple who have been a prominent part of the American political landscape for the past quarter-century in Hillary and Clinton. The play by Lucas Hnath is a four-hander set in New Hampshire during the 2008 Democratic primaries, …

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Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports: Newly released dash cam video shows that a bizarre tractor theft came to a literally shocking end for a Florida man. Deputies said Friday afternoon, Charles McNeil, 28, was pulled over while driving a tractor on Douglas Ferry Road. They said McNeil first provided a false name and said he didn’t have identification on him. They …

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The Guardian reports: From Chic’s late-70s imperial phase through to his key role on Daft Punk’s ubiquitous 2013 hit Get Lucky, via career-shaping production work with Bowie, Madonna and Diana Ross, it’s hard to overstate Nile Rodgers’s impact on the evolution of dance music. The first Chic album in 26 years,and the first since the death of Rodgers’s musical foil, …

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Our pal Matt Baume is back with another look on the evolution of LGBT issues on television. His recap: When we think about gay characters on sitcoms, we usually picture people in big Northern cities. But season four of Designing Women features an unusual southern and conservative take on having queer friends. And it also set the stage for Ellen’s …

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Playbill reports: Original Wicked stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth will reunite to host and perform during NBC’s A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway. The special event will air October 29 (the eve of the musical juggernaut’s anniversary) at 10 PM. Performing alongside the pair of Tony winners will be pop star and Broadway alum Ariana Grande …

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Florida Man now has a walking tour. The Tampa Bay Times reports: Dressed in a tie, a straw fedora and linen pants, Eric Hughes guided a dozen people along the RiverWalk and downtown sidewalks of Tampa. The librarian, 43, tied together Tampa histories with a thread of newsy weirdness known as the Florida Man phenomenon — wacky headlines in which …

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