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(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you don’t want to know spoilers for “Crazy Rich Asians.”) “Crazy Rich Asians,” director John M. Chu’s rom-com adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, may not seem like the sort of movie that would demand a Marvel-style post-credits scene. Read the full article on The Wrap

This week marks 20 years since Stella got her groove back … and she’s still got it. The beloved 1998 rom-com “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” saw Angela Bassett — at the peak of her movie career — and the illustrious Whoopi Goldberg pack their bags and head to Jamaica with fresh-faced newcomer Taye Diggs, in his first film role as young, handsome islander Winston Shakespeare. Read the full article on The Wrap

Luke Mitchell has been cast in the CBS drama “The Code,” stepping in for Dave Annable, who played the role in the original pilot. It was reported shortly after the legal drama was ordered to series in May that the roles played by Annable and Mira Sorvino — the male lead and a series regular, respectively — were to be recast before the show’s premiere in midseason. Read the full article on The Wrap

STX Entertainment announced on Wednesday it is partnering with Lantern Entertainment to acquire worldwide distribution rights to The Weinstein Co. holdover film “The Upside.” The film, starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston, and directed by Neil Burger, was one of the films acquired from TWC when Lantern Entertainment bought the studio out of bankruptcy back in May. Read the full article on The Wrap

So you’re in the starting lineup for the A’s, first inning, you’re getting loose in the on-deck circle, and — wait a minute, you’re out of the game? That happened to Mark Canha in Tuesday night’s game against Seattle, and the way he reacted said a lot about the A’s. Certain episodes make it clear that it’s all about the team. Only two batters had come to the plate when Jed Lowrie stepped in against Seattle left-hander James Paxton in the first inning and lined a shot that struck Paxton on his pitching arm. Читать дальше...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan army base and a police checkpoint in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 39 soldiers and police officers, officials said, and a suicide bomber in the capital killed at least 48 people in a classroom. Hundreds of Taliban fighters carried out the predawn attacks on two units of Afghan forces in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan province, according to a police official who was at the scene and... Читать дальше...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Daryl Weathers remembers trying to pull men from the sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands after a U.S. Navy destroyer hit a mine left by the Japanese following the only World War II battle fought on North American soil. The explosion, which ripped the stern off the USS Abner Read, also covered many of the men in oil, which prevented some from being rescued. "They were so slippery, you couldn't get ahold of them," the 94-year-old Weathers said this week from his home in Los Angeles. Читать дальше...

After one season as a featured player on “SNL,” Luke Null will not be returning to Lorne Michaels’ sketch-comedy series. Null hardly made it to air in the 2017-18 season. He was hired for Season 43 alongside Chris Redd and Heidi Gardner, and is now this summer’s first casualty from the cast. Read the full article on The Wrap

Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door production company has hired former Imagine Entertainment president Erica Huggins to serve in the same role. Huggins will oversee development for all content including film, television, literature, music and digital. She spent the past 14 years at Imagine Entertainment, with the last five as president. Read the full article on The Wrap

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's two major political parties chose wealthy businessmen with little to no elective experience as their gubernatorial candidates in the November election. While their pedigrees may sound familiar to voters, the two candidates claim to be very different from one another. "I hear a lot about, 'hey, these are two outsiders and these are two businesspeople.' I'll just tell you, our business backgrounds are as different as night and day," Greenwich Democrat Ned Lamont told reporters on Wednesday... Читать дальше...

The english-language adaptation of German comedy sensation “Toni Erdmann” is still alive at Paramount, TheWrap has learned, but with some key changes in housekeeping. Jack Nicholson is no longer attached to star as an errant father to a joyless daughter, despite reports to the contrary on Wednesday, one insider familiar with the project said. Kristen Wiig is still attached to star as the daughter, career-driven until her dad teaches her chaotic lessons about what matters most in life. Read the... Читать дальше...

The english-language adaptation of German comedy sensation “Toni Erdmann” is still alive at Paramount, TheWrap has learned, but with some key changes in housekeeping. Jack Nicholson is no longer attached to star as an errant father to a joyless daughter, despite reports to the contrary on Wednesday, one insider familiar with the project said. Kristen Wiig is still attached to star as the daughter, career-driven until her dad teaches her chaotic lessons about what matters most in life. Read the... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Daniel Crowley endured more than three years of slave labor while being held prisoner by Japan during World War II. This week, the 96-year-old is in Hawaii to participate in a dedication honoring about 400 Allied prisoners killed when a Japanese ship similar to a vessel he was once on was sunk by U.S. forces unaware the POWs were on board. The men are buried in 20 separate graves marked as "unknowns" in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, which... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the revocation of former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Democrats are lining up to denounce President Donald Trump's decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, says Trump's move is a "stunning abuse of power." Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, warns a "dangerous precedent" is being set. The White House... Читать дальше...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Mario Abdo Benitez took over as Paraguay's new president on Wednesday, replacing a seemingly disgruntled Horacio Cartes, who left the inauguration ceremony before it finished. Abdo Benitez, 46, promised to combat poverty and entrenched corruption, and urged Paraguayans to "look toward the future and not remain stuck in the past" as he took the oath of office to start a five-year term The marketing expert campaigned to continue Cartes' business-friendly policies and played... Читать дальше...

TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, August 15, 2018 _____ 636 FPUS54 KLUB 152014 ZFPLUB Zone Forecasts for the South Plains Area National Weather Service Lubbock TX 314 PM CDT Wed Aug 15 2018 TXZ035-160915- Lubbock- Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton 314 PM CDT Wed Aug 15 2018 .TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph. .THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. .THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly... Читать дальше...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 4, Episode 9 In the midseason premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” on Sunday, Morgan (Lennie James) shared with the rest of the survivors that he’s planning to return to Alexandria — and back to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and company. Read the full article on The Wrap

SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were: 4-6-8 (four, six, eight)

LOS ANGELES — Nick Hundley took a few lumps Wednesday in the public discourse over l’affair Yasiel. The best conversation occurred on the Major League Baseball network on Sirius/XM, and the most interesting opinion came from co-host Brad Lidge, the former Phillies and Astros closer. Lidge acknowledged that Hundley was the aggressor, shouting at Yasiel Puig while the Dodgers right fielder had his back to the plate after Puig reacted angrily when he fouled off a hitable Tony Watson pitch. Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts State Police say four troopers will be suspended without pay. A duty status hearing was held Wednesday for the department members relieved from duty on Monday after an internal review of overtime pay discrepancies in personnel records. Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, Superintendent of the state police, said the temporary relief of the four personnel from duty is a result of the department's continued review of records and data indicative of whether members were "present and working... Читать дальше...

LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — Jack Hattendorf steers his road grader back and forth across a dirt path cutting through blackened earth. With each pass, he smooths and tamps down the soil to remake a dirt road that fire crews tore apart days earlier to stop flames that would become part of the largest wildfire on record in California. Even as flames chew through forestland nearby, Hattendorf and others are working to repair the damage caused not by flames but by firefighters trying to stop them. They seek to restore private lands... Читать дальше...

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve watched through the Season 7 finale of “Game of Thrones.”) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is just as tight-lipped about the final season of “Game of Thrones” as every other star who has been asked to dish on the last six episodes. But although he couldn’t tell TheWrap pretty much anything about the upcoming eighth installment in the hit HBO fantasy series (because then he’d “get a bunch of angry calls”) he did tease the heck out of the very last script. Читать дальше...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while he was visiting her in the hospital after she’d had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out the boy’s mouth with holy water. One boy was forced to say confession to the priest who sexually abused him. Those children are among the victims of roughly 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania who molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s... Читать дальше...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin governor's race (all times local): 3:06 p.m. The air war in Wisconsin's governor's race is picking up. A group backed by the Democratic Governors Association is launching a $1.8 million television ad to boost Tony Evers in his run against Republican Gov. Scott Walker. It comes as the Wisconsin Republican Party is launching a $500,000 attack ad against Evers. He won the Democratic nomination Tuesday. In the pro-Evers spot, his work as a teacher, superintendent... Читать дальше...

“BlacKkKlansman” is one of those based-on-a-true-story films in which many of the most outrageous events really happened. Perhaps the best example of this is the fact that two members of NORAD — the North American Air Defense Command — really were members of the Ku Klux Klan, according to the book on which the film is based. Americans may know NORAD best for the NORAD Santa Tracker. Every Christmas Eve, NORAD tells children where in the skies they have the best chance of seeing Santa’s sled and reindeer. Читать дальше...