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Katie Couric’s 2014 documentary Fed Up includes instances of deceptive editing similar to 2016’s Under the Gun, according to several people familiar with the making of the film. Fed Up, which focuses on obesity and the food industry, was directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Couric. The film includes two interviews with figures who hold viewpoints counter to the narrative of the film, and sources say both interviews include at least one misleading or deceptive edit intended to embarrass the interviewee. Dr. David Allison, an interview subject in the film and the director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center,...

Obama is extremely unseemly constantly on TV shows during his tenure. This jerk has to be the most-visiting president ever to TV spots while in office. Why doesn't this come up more?

Richard Schaefer, a 21-year-old man from Orange County, California, has spent years posting pictures of himself dressed up as his favorite female Disney characters to social media. Boasting a massive collection of 40 costumes and 30 wigs, the self-described “Disney addict” says his decision to cosplay — a combination of the words costume and role-play, where a person dresses up as a character from a comic book, video game, or movie — came after people began commenting on how similar his appearance was to that of a woman. “I decided to start cosplaying as princesses because of how androgynous people...

Cinemas existed years agoSaudi Arabia is expected to allow the opening of cinema houses again after they were shut many years ago because of religious opposition. “Cinemas had existed in Saudi Arabia for a long time but they were shut a few years ago. We expect a decision allowing them to reopen,” said Sultan Al Bazei, chairman of the Saudi Culture and Arts Association. “The decision is not in our hands but I am optimistic because the society in the Kingdom has drastically changed,” he told the Saudi Arabic language daily ‘Alhayat’. Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab country and world’s...

I know, I know. I felt bad even doing this, but it had to be done. Even then, I had no clue just to HOW far liberals would go. If you don't laugh, you'll cry. So please, laugh with me... VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEnu9HUFpo

The house that sparked “The Amityville Horror” book and multiple movies on the murders that took place there is back on the market. Currently listed for $850,000, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom Long Island home at 108 Ocean Ave. is up for sale through Coldwell Banker Harbor Light owner and broker Jerry O’Neil. “I’m very familiar with the house,” he told the Daily News. “A friend of mine from high school, his family owned it. I spent a lot of time in this house as a kid. It’s a beautiful home.” The broker added that he does not know what to expect...

Star Trek II: the opera.

Ghostbusters director Paul Feig has fired back at “misogynistic” critics of his upcoming all-female-led remake, telling a film industry panel over the weekend that he has faced an “onslaught” of hate mail and negative messages since the project was announced two years ago.

The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat. "As a woman in the United States Army, I think ... we are just as tough as men. As a commander of my unit, I'm powerful, I am dedicated," Deshauna Barber said. "Gender does not limit us in the United States." The winner of Sunday's 2016 Miss USA competition held at the T-Mobile Arena off the Las Vegas Strip will go on to compete in the Miss Universe contest.

Fox has apologized for promoting X-Men: Apocalypse with images of Jennifer Lawrence's character Mystique being strangled by Oscar Isaac's Apocalypse with the tagline: "Only the strong will survive." "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form," Fox said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter Friday. ... New York blogger EV Grieve posted a photo of the poster last month above a subway station in Manhattan that had been covered with eight pieces of paper that read: "This violence in my kid's face is...

It’s time for the glitz and glamour of the Miss USA pageant! There are 52 gorgeous ladies will compete tonight, June 5, for the title of Miss USA. Find out the beauty who’s representing your state now!

As liberals often do, Chelsea Handler exploited a group of young children for political gain. In the episode of Chelsea “Magic & GMOs with Lizzy Caplan, Bill Nye” on Netflix, she opened with a focus group of elementary-aged boys and girls. Naturally a self-professed Hillary Clinton supporter would ask them, “Who here is a Donald Trump supporter?” As soon as the first child said that Trump would be a good president, some of the others wore shocked faces. Then the rest began bashing Trump. He was described as grumpy and only liking white people. One little black girl said Trump...

The climate-change documentary “Time To Choose” makes the disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” look like a model of judiciousness and restraint. Charles Ferguson’s alarmist manifesto, narrated by Oscar Isaac, makes sci-fi claims such as “Over 600 million people’s homes will be destroyed if the world’s coastlines are flooded.” Yes, and over 7 billion people will be killed if aliens decide to destroy the human race, but that isn’t going to happen either. Among other outlandish claims: Oil causes corruption (er, the world’s first and fifth largest oil producers are the US and Canada), two-thirds of all proven fossil fuel...

It's odd to think that, once upon a time, a TV show set in space -- one that declared, in its opening narration, as the cosmos being the "final frontier" -- was considered the pop-cultural equivalent of an unwanted party-crasher. Yes, a concept like Star Trek was both of its time and clearly ahead of it; history has more than vindicated Gene Roddenberry's notion of boldly going where no man had gone before. But given the number of top-notch shows set in the far reaches of the galaxy and that used genre for pulpy and profound purposes over the last...

Over the past week, numerous stories have emerged about reshoots on the first of the Star Wars stand-alone films, and fans have become as nervous and confused as C-3PO at a Star Trek convention. High level sources at Lucasfilm, speaking to EW anonymously, offered some details that place the schedule in context. (Official studio sources declined comment, saying they don’t respond to rumors.)

FULL TITLE: Stacey Dash On Trans Bathrooms: ‘I’m Not Putting My Child’s Life At Risk Because You Want to Change a Law’ Actress and model Stacey Dash weighed in on the contentious debate over so-called transgender bathroom laws in an interview with Entertainment Tonight this week. In her new book, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative, the Clueless star criticizes Bruce Jenner and calls men who want to use women’s restrooms “tyranny by the minority.” The 49-year-old Fox News co-host is also mother to a 13-year-girl named Lola. Dash told ET’s Nichelle Turner that she’s not comfortable...

The head of the ACLU's Georgia chapter resigned because of President Obama's transgender directive requiring public schools to allow students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. Maya Dillard Smith told The Kelly File she took a stand on the issue after witnessing three transgender young adults over six feet tall with deep voices enter a women's restroom, which frightened her elementary school age daughters. She said the ACLU didn't provide "the opportunity for robust discourse on the competing civil rights" of LGBT equality and religious freedom. Smith, a Democrat, said she is open-minded about the issue...

A Florida university has offered scholarships to a woman who made the viral Facebook video showing her laughing hysterically as she tries on a Chewbacca mask. Southeastern University announced Monday that its president presented Candace Payne and her entire family with full tuition scholarships. President Dr. Kent Ingle says Payne, from Texas, inspired the university with the joy she expressed on her video. He says the school wanted her family to experience some of that joy in return.

Welcome to NBC OUT, NBC's newest digital destination, where we'll showcase enterprise reporting, original video and other unique content about and of interest to the LGBTQ community. If there's one thing everyone in our community can agree on (and there may just be one thing), it is that we are an extraordinarily diverse group. Our acronym may only include a handful of letters, but the variety within each of them is vast. Keeping this in mind, the NBC OUT team is committed to highlighting content that spans the spectrum - from a profile piece about an intersex millennial to an...

NBC News chief Deborah Turness offered up her 3-year-old daughter to break into zoo enclosures as motivation for the news team to come up with more creative suggestions to cover the horrific Harambe controversy. SNIP “She asked, ‘Shall I strap a GoPro to my 3-year-old and let her go to the Bronx Zoo and try to see how easily she can get into enclosures?’' SNIP