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McShane was asked about his time on Season 6 of the megahit HBO series, during which time he got chastised when he gave away something of a spoiler during interviews before the premiere. [...] you love it and secondly, you’ll have forgotten by the time it comes out. When he was first catching hell online before the Season 6 premiere, he said, You say the slightest thing and the internet goes ape…

Patty Freedman, ‘Love Boat’ Actress and Publicist, Dies at 64 Co-owner of New York-based Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations repped such clients as Margo Martindale and Eartha Kitt Patty Freedman, an actress who had a long and successful career as a publicist representing such clients as Margo Martindale and Eartha Kitt, died on Feb. 17 at her New York home.

The Emmys will add new categories for reality-show casting and music supervision for the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy announced on Friday. The rules were adopted by the Academy’s board of governors, which also voted to split the cinematography category into separate awards for one-hour and half-hour series, and to expand and change an array of interactive media categories. The Television Academy press release detailing the changes to the Emmys interactive media field described them this way... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A civil liberties group is taking up the case of a central Iowa transgender high school student who was ordered to wash "love trumps hate" written on his arm or be sent home. The ACLU demanded a letter of apology to the transgender student, as well as training for teachers regarding students' free speech rights.

The left-handed starter threw eight scoreless innings in his Oakland debut on Aug. 10 after being acquired from Cleveland for cash considerations, but he lost his next three starts. “The overall numbers might not look great but there were times he pitched really well for us,” manager Bob Melvin said. Detwiler, who is scheduled to pitch after Jesse Hahn in Saturday’s Cactus League opener against the Twins, re-signed with Oakland late as a free-agent non-roster invitee. The coaching staff and the players here are people I enjoy being around. Читать дальше...

Draymond Green did not have his best game on the floor Thursday night against the Clippers. But he did deliver some withering trash talk in the direction of Paul Pierce.

“The Salesman” director Asghar Farhadi will speak at the UTA rally from afar on Friday afternoon in light of his decision to boycott the Oscars due to Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban. “The Salesman” is nominated in the category of Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards on Sunday. The rally, named “United Voices,” will aim to express “the creative community’s growing concern with anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States and its potential chilling effect on the global exchange of... Читать дальше...

Three years after BP-owned Atlantic Richfield Co. shut down the Anaconda smelter in 1980, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated 300 square miles surrounding it as a Superfund site because of the risk to human health and the environment. Niland, Myers and Phillips are among dozens of residents in this small company town next to Anaconda who say federal officials have botched the environmental cleanup, which is in its 34th year, and they want a shot at cleaning their own yards. Ninety-eight... Читать дальше...

Netflix has nabbed a new stand-up comedy special from Tracy Morgan, titled “Staying Alive.” Tracy Morgan’s “Staying Alive” finds the comedy icon exploring his fresh take on life, career and mortality in the wake of surviving a devastating near-fatal traffic collision in 2014. From coping with a traumatic brain injury and learning to walk again to “falling for” his physical therapist and deciding that maybe getting older isn’t such a bad thing, Morgan is back in true form and tackles the most trying time of his life with grace... Читать дальше...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has voted to allow college presidents the option of laying off tenured professors with a three-month notice, rather than the current one-year period. University system officials say the change is needed because low oil and crop prices have put the state and its institutions in a financial quandary.

President Donald Trump spent roughly 13 minutes talking about the media during a 48-minute CPAC speech on Friday, but it surely felt like longer for journalism watchdogs monitoring the president’s near-constant attacks on the press. Trump called the media “dishonest” less than three minutes into his speech, when he mentioned that the press would report that he didn’t get a standing ovation unless the crowd eventually sat down. President Trump Continues Assault on Media at CPAC: 'They Make Up Sources' (Video) On Thursday... Читать дальше...

Get yer Giants’ Cactus League Opening Day lineup here SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Here are the lineups for Friday’s Cactus League opener against the Reds. Jarrett Parker gets the first shot in left. Nobody should read anything into this lineup. The other regulars are healthy. Manager Bruce Bochy normally assigns players different games. Buster Posey, for instance, will catch Saturday’s game against the Cubs. REDS Winker DH The pitcher is named Rookie Davis. Morse DH Hundley C Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal agents are searching for a man they say robbed a northeast Albuquerque bank while wearing a Wal-Mart vest. The FBI said Friday the man hit the bank Tuesday while sporting a blue Wal-Mart vest and a black rag on his head. Agents say he gave a demand note to a BBVA Compass Bank teller and made verbal threats before leaving with an undisclosed amount of money. Authorities say the man was last seen around Albuquerque. No arrests have been made.

The headsets from eSight transmit images from a forward-facing camera to small internal screens — one for each eye — in a way that beams the video into the wearer's peripheral vision. While eSight's headsets don't require the approval of health regulators — they fall into the same low-risk category as dental floss — there's not yet firm evidence of their benefits. The latest version of ESight's technology, built with investments of $32 million over the past decade, is a gadget that vaguely resembles... Читать дальше...

Attempted robbers apologize after victim rebuffs crime Welch says that without the video, no one would have believed that someone put a gun to her face then blessed her and left without causing any harm.

China’s Dalian Wanda Group has taken an equity stake in The Weinstein Company’s “Lion” and plans to distribute the Oscar-nominated film in China, TheWrap has learned. With the deal, TWC gets Chinese distribution for the film — turbocharged with the backing of Wanda, which is the country’s biggest cinema chain operator and hasn’t been afraid to exercise that power. [...] TWC is giving up a valuable piece of equity in such a highly profitable movie like “Lion,” especially at this late stage where there is little risk.

(AP) — Delta State University says it's closing the school's nine-hole golf course after June 30 to save money in the face of state budget cuts. The university says its men's golf team will practice and play at the private Cleveland Country Club.

In this exclusive first look video (above), Cameron discusses filming the scene in which her character Liv sings the song, calling it almost a live concert experience due to the multiple sets and live takes she had to do. The fourth and final season of the sitcom has followed the Rooney family as they pack up from Wisconsin and move in with some cousins in sunny California, where Liv (Cameron) has continued to pursue her acting while Maddie (Cameron) was accepted into college on a basketball scholarship.

(AP) — Graduate students from a half-dozen departments at Yale University have voted to form unions, setting up negotiations for contracts with the Ivy League school. Students from the departments of English, geology and geophysics, history, history of art, math, and sociology voted in favor of unionization, organizers said. The NLRB found last August that graduate assistants who assist in teaching and research at private universities are employees and have a right to union representation.

“Highly Gifted” is a semi-autobiographical show based on the Lehrer brothers’ years of being shunted to highly-gifted programs, where they existed in a precarious intellectual bubble within the larger school — an exotic and forbidden world, where people went on dates, attended sporting events, partied, and engaged in other exotic and mysterious rites and ceremonies. Kesha will play Tess, described as a progressive activist who lectures everyone about income inequality and environmental justice from... Читать дальше...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Final accounting shows Rutgers University spent close to $1.5 million on last year's commencement ceremony headlined by then-President Barack Obama. "Any requests from the U.S. Secret Service to provide protection for President Obama were separate from the expenses listed above and are being handled by the U.S. Secret Service," Smith said. University officials announced earlier this month that musician and actor Steven Van Zandt will be the speaker at this year's commencement exercise on May 15.

Alameda County Sheriff’s Office identified the body as Jayda Jenkins, who went missing January after a head-on car crash during a rainstorm sent her vehicle skidding off Niles Canyon Road and into the creek. Firefighters and police officers from Fremont and Union City recovered the body on the north side of the creek. Jenkins was driving from Tracy to Menlo Park to meet friends the morning of Jan. 21 when a head-on collision sent her Honda Accord down an embankment into the creek. Officials reviewed... Читать дальше...

SHANGHAI (AP) — Democratic senators are protesting the Trump Organization's acceptance of a valuable trademark from the Chinese government without asking Congress first if doing so is constitutional. If you continue to refuse to request and receive congressional approval before accepting favors from foreign governments, we will be unable to serve our constitutional role. Critics say the trademark award violates the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars public servants from accepting... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Trial has been delayed until April for a Florida woman accused of threatening the parent of a boy killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, because she thought it was a hoax. Others linked to the Sandy Hook massacre have reported harassment by conspiracy theorists who argue it was staged to erode support for Second Amendment gun rights.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of Charlotte-area high school students have walked out of school to protest immigration issues facing the country. Schools officials say hundreds of students at several area schools, all of which have significant Latino enrollment, planned to leave their classrooms and speak out about immigration-related issues.