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Breaking: The first half of 2016 will henceforth always be known as “O.J.” Seriously, we’re in a moment. Through June, it will be nearly impossible to keep O.J. Simpson (and the murder, and his days as an athlete, and his rise to Hollywood stardom, and the conspiracies, and the Bronco, ... More »

Kevin Smith's daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, lucked out in the dad department. When life gets really scary, the filmmaker brings cake that apologizes on behalf of the entire male species.Four days ago, the teenager posted on Instagram that she was nearly kidnapped by two men outside of a Starbucks. In ... More »

If you’re jealous Finn got to keep Poe Dameron’s jacket and you didn’t, now’s your chance to change that. Film Jackets is selling a replica of the now-iconic jacket from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Though Poe was originally the owner of the jacket, he eventually gave it to Finn in thanks for saving BB-8’s […]

There's a very fine line between a scumbag, an "almost" normal person, and a real piece of shit, and The League's Jason Mantzoukas has played them all! While visiting Seth Meyers to promote Dirty Grandpa (in which he plays a scumbag who gives crack to an unsuspecting Zac Efron), the ... More »

10 Cloverfield Lane isn't exactly a sequel to Cloverfield (it's more of a "blood relative," according to J.J. Abrams), but Lane's PR team sure has mastered the first Cloverfield's tactic of releasing a lot, but saying very little. Observe the latest trailer, which has Mary Elizabeth attempt to escape from John Goodman's bunker, only ... More »

Fast food chain partners with ABC comedy to celebrate Chinese New Year.



This is really weird, yet actually kind of makes sense. ABC's Fresh Off The Boat and fast food chain Panda Express are joining up for an exclusive partnership to promote the show and celebrate Chinese New Year.

Beginning this week through February 3, Panda Express restaurants across the country will display special branded Fresh Off the Boat Chinese New Year Posters and table tents featuring the Huangs.

That's right. If you step into a Panda Express location, you might just see Hudson Yang or Constance Wu's faces plastered on that little cardboard table tent, sitting next to your glistening plate of orange chicken.

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With only one last chance to convince the nation to jam harder than they’ve ever jammed before, Barack Obama drops his hottest fire yet at the 2016 State of the Union.

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song produced with Michael Onufrak - http://soundcloud.com/onufrakm

& mastered by Dan Millice - http://www.danmillice.com/

Choreography and Dancers by Pearrie Hammie Dance Group - facebook.com/pearriehammiedance
Dancers: Pearrie Hammie (@pearriehammie) and Taquan Gresham (youtube.com/taquangresham)

additional music assistance from Daniel Bryant - http://youtube.com/danielson742

violin - CheHo Lam
cello - Alexandra Jones


LYRICS
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We’ve got the strongest job growth since 1999
We produce more oil here for the first time
For the first time, for the first time
Get it, get it, like 1999
Get it, get it, like 1999
It has been and still is a hard time
But tonight we get it like it’s 1999

If a kid from Tatooine can save the galaxy, you can too
Your future will be brighter, there’s no limit to what we can do
But here’s the big butt, here’s the big butt
We’re not there yet, we all know that
All the income gains flow to the top 1%
So imma bring jobs back

Get it, get it, like 1999
Get it, get it, like 1999
It has been and still is a hard time
But tonight we get it like it’s 1999

If folks wanna pop off, pop off
I wanna meet ‘em
i’m not gonna be soft, be soft
I’m gonna beat ‘em
If folks wanna pop off, pop off
I wanna meet ‘em
i’m not gonna be soft, be soft
I’m gonna beat ‘em

But here’s the big butt, here’s the big butt,
Here’s the butt, here’s the big butt

Our economy is growing like 1999
The crime rate came down for the first time
For the first time, for the first time
Get it, get it, like 1999
Get it, get it, like 1999
It has been and still is a hard time
But tonight we get it like it’s 1999

Shades of Blue isn't a deep show, but it's a sensationally effective one. It knows what it is (a compacted, melodramatic, commercial TV-friendly gloss on one of those '70s and '80s Sidney Lumet police-corruption thrillers) and it rarely steps wrong. The strong acting helps a lot—most of the show's regulars ... More »

Is Making a Murderer biased in favor of Steven Avery? Prosecutor Ken Kratz thinks so, and argues that the show left out crucial evidence in the state's case against Avery for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. Now Kratz thinks Netflix should append an official disclaimer to the show, telling ... More »

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So, this may have been a first in the world of tennis. During a Hopman Cup match in Australia on Tuesday between American Jack Sock and Australian Lleyton Hewitt, Hewitt hit a serve that was called out of bounds by the line judge. However, Sock, who perhaps had the best view of anyone, saw that it appeared to land in bounds, and quickly offered a tip to his opponent.

“That was in if you want to challenge it,” yelled Sock.

Hewitt took him up on his offer, and what resulted was one of the more fun moments you’ll likely ever see on a tennis court.

Hewitt went on to defeat Sock in two sets (7-5, 6-4). He will face Alexandr Dolgopolov on Thursday.

For the discerning fan who enjoys a good soiree to get pumped for the Super Bowl, do we have the opportunity for you — the Guy Fieri Super Bowl Tailgate Party! Sure, it’ll be hosted by Erin Andrews and promises to feature “25 current NFL players,” but you know and I know why you clicked on an article about a Guy Fieri party. Let’s get right to that menu, and decide if it’s disgusting, amazing, or some alchemical combination of both.

• SUPER STEAK SANDWICH STATION: Slow-roasted California beef sliced thin, served with balsamic onions, pepper jack, horseradish cream on garlic butter toasted sourdough torpedo rolls. (Amazing.)
• WHOLE HOG THROWDOWN: Caja china cooked whole hogs done up right in two tasty styles: Kahlua Pig “Sour or Sweet” Slaw and sauce on soft Hawaiian rolls with crunchy crumbled chicharrones. (Amazing.)
• LOW COUNTRY JAMBALAYA: Cajun chicken sausage, gulf shrimp and smoked pulled chicken jambalaya with dirty rice. (Amazing.)

Hold on, hold on. Is everything on this menu just straight up delicious, rather than grossly overdone? That’s no fun at all! It’s mouth-watering, but we wanted to crack jokes! Maybe we’ll have better luck with the dessert section.

FLAVORTOWN FINALE:

• S’mores Pie
• Mega Rice Krispie treats
• Doughnut Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Bacon Bourbon Glaze

That’s more like it, even if it still sounds delicious. First of all, though “Flavortown Finale” could be Fieri’s longtime name for dessert, but it still sounds like an unholy sex act, the details of which could never be repeated here. Also, try saying “Brown Butter Bacon Bourbon” as if you have a double chin for maximum merriment.

Anyway, for $700, this event is still too rich for our blood, although an open bar does make it that much more enticing. Still, this is a disappointingly-appealing event for one of America’s finest purveyors of foodstuffs that make us alternately proud and disgusted of our country.

A new juror in the controversial Steven Avery trial, documented in Netflix's new series Making a Murderer, has come forward to admit that he or she believes Avery was framed for the murder of Teresa Halbach. Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, in an interview with the Today show, say ... More »

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If you stood in line for four hours for a recent Justin Bieber concert on the Today show, the sad, wet man who attempted to interview you was Saturday Night Live's handsome devil who came down from Heaven himself, Kyle Mooney. Hey, here's an idea: What if SNL just went ... More »

Spoilers for Making a Murderer throughout. Two weeks after Netflix debuted its blood-boiling new true-crime series, Making a Murderer, one of the show's most important real-life key players is now on an even more public trial: As BuzzFeed reports, viewers have been bombarding the Yelp page of the law firm ... More »

Leslie Jones joined Saturday Night Live in 2014, after the show made a concerted effort to hire black female players. She first joined the show as a writer, but quickly proved her chops in front of the camera and became a featured cast member that fall. Now she has a starring role ... More »

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We're approaching the weekend of Star Wars second-wavers. All the obsessive fans — and they are, as we already knew, legion — took down The Force Awakens last week. Now come the masses of curious casual viewers: moviegoers for whom Star Wars is less a lifestyle than just a movie that other ... More »

Leonardo DiCaprio has been one of the biggest movie stars for two decades, yet despite the fact that he grew up onscreen, before viewers’ eyes, there’s still an unknowable quality to Leo. Like many actors before him, DiCaprio has spent much of his career attempting to upend our expectations of ... More »

The leonine Sean Penn will play President Andrew Jackson for the HBO mini-series American Lion, written by Narcos creators Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, reports the Wrap. The six-hour series will be based on Jon Meacham's biography of the same title, and begin with Jackson's orphaning during the Revolutionary War to his eventual ascendance ... More »

Coming off seemingly endless 007 hype, Idris Elba might pivot into Stephen King territory: Deadline reports the actor is the latest front-runner to play the gun-slinging Roland Deschain in Sony and Nikolaj Arcel's first Dark Tower film adaptation. Nothing official has been confirmed, but the update comes after similar news ... More »

This week, instead of our usual Songs of the Week post (which will return next week), we asked Vulture editors to pick their 2015 songs of the year. You'll find all of them conveniently located on our Spotify playlist.Alabama Shakes, "Sound & Color" Alabama Shakes were one of 2015’s subtle ... More »

Virginia Madsen plays Jennifer Lawrence's soap-opera-obsessed mother in David O. Russell's latest film, Joy. But rather than include clips from a pre-existing daytime soap, Russell shot original scenes with soap veterans Susan Lucci (Erica Kane on All My Children), Maurice Bernard (Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital), Laura Wright (Carly Corinthos ... More »

Get ready to take off your pants and jacket: There's a new Blink-182 album coming in 2016. In the comments of a recent Instagram photo, drummer Travis Barker confirmed to a fan that 2016 will bring a new album from the band. When the album debuts, Barker and bassist/vocalist Mark ... More »

James Franco's The Disaster Artist starting filming yesterday, apparently triggering a collective remembering among actors that they told James Franco they would appear in The Disaster Artist. In addition to James and Dave Franco, the making-of–The Room film will apparently feature Hannibal Buress, Kate Upton, and Ari Graynor, and probably 1,200 ... More »

Of his many corporate feuds, one of Jon Stewart's most famous was with Arby's, who made a compilation video of all the former Daily Show's host's Arby's insults at the end of his run. But as with many feud that take place within the fabric of capitalism — such as, say, ... More »

“There was no way I was going to just do the voice. C-3PO is an integration — look at the light on that tree!” Anthony Daniels, the only actor who’s appeared in every Star Wars movie, tromps briskly through London’s Regent’s Park on an unseasonably balmy Halloween afternoon. We’re due ... More »

Holly Woodlawn, the transgender actress whose rose to fame in the early 1970s through her work with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, died on Sunday in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. She was 69.Born Haroldo Danhakl in Puerto Rico, Woodlawn grew up in Miami before running away from home ... More »

The ineffably sexy and immaculately hairy Burt Reynolds has survived Navajo-killing bandits, churning rapids, rapist rednecks, sharks, and a dreadful Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard. But surprisingly the thing that gave Burt Reynolds the most trouble in his long, winding career was portraying an affable pornography filmmaker for ... More »