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New this week: 'Interceptor,' Post Malone and 'Fire Island'
Read full article: New this week: 'Interceptor,' Post Malone and 'Fire Island'This weekโs new entertainment releases include albums from Post Malone and Drive-By Truckers, โFast & Furiousโ alum Elsa Pataky leading her own action picture with โInterceptor,โ and the modern romantic comedy โFire Island,โ set in the iconic LGBTQ vacation spot.
Public reaction to killings at Atlanta-area massage parlors
Read full article: Public reaction to killings at Atlanta-area massage parlorsShootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs have left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. The shootings happened under the trauma of increasing violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by white supremacy and systemic racism.โ โ Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta. Ad___โThe surge in violence against Asian Americans over the last year is a growing crisis. We need action from our leaders and within our communities to stop the hate.โ โ Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ... Our entire nation must come together to speak out to Stop Asian Hate."
Lucille Ball Comedy Festival goes virtual in its 29th year
Read full article: Lucille Ball Comedy Festival goes virtual in its 29th yearLOS ANGELES โ The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, โWeird Alโ Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm of humor. The festival, presented by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, will stream conversations with the artists over three weekends, starting Friday and running through Aug. 30. Other pairings include Cho with host and fellow comedian Judy Gold (10 p.m. EDT Friday); Haddish with comedian Flame Monroe (8 p.m. EDT Aug. 22); political satirist Mark Russell with Lewis Black (8 p.m. EDT Aug. 28). The 29th annual festival will pay tribute to Carl Reiner, the filmmaker and creator of โThe Dick Van Dyke Showโ who died in June. A rare Reiner interview from the center's archives will be shown at 8 p.m. EDT Aug. 30, with humorist Paula Poundstone hosting.
'Fresh Off the Boat' leaving indelible mark on TV landscape
Read full article: 'Fresh Off the Boat' leaving indelible mark on TV landscapeThis undated photo made available by ABC shows Randall Park, left, and Hudson Yang in the Jan. 31, 2020 television episode of "Fresh Off the Boat." "I take representing my experience as an Asian American in this country very seriously," Huang said in an interview in January. But because of โFresh Off the Boat,โ there's already hope that Asian American-led successors will no longer be seen as out of the ordinary. โIt helped redefined a space that will help all creative Asian American media, producers and artists.โAs a young Asian American actor, Yang said it's been exciting to see how much the landscape has already changed in six years. โIt's been a focus of mine tell more stories from an Asian American perspective.โPark also recently was in a position to direct.