Scarlett Johansson Claims Her Remark on Being ‘Allowed to Play Any Person’ Was ‘Taken Out of Context’
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The actress did, however, stand by her claims that art should be “immune to political correctness”

Scarlett Johansson says comments she made about being able to play any type of character amid a trend of “political correctness” within the casting world have been taken out of context.

The actress, 34, saw renewed focus this weekend on a year-old casting controversy after she told As If magazine that she believed that, as an actor,

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WHO IS LASHANA LYNCH? 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ACTRESS RUMORED TO BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE 007
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Daniel Craig’s last appearance as James Bond will reportedly happen in the still-untitled 25th Bond film (or Bond 25, as it’s known), and there’s no word yet on who the next actor to play the iconic MI6 agent will be. But a new report suggests that the upcoming film will show that the 007 moniker has been passed off to a new agent, played by Captain Marvel star Lashana Lynch.

According to Mail on Sunday,

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UFC Fight Night 155 Results: Did Herb Dean Cost Germaine De Randamie A $50K Bonus?
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Herb Dean probably cost Germaine De Randamie $50,000 on Saturday night.

No. 1-ranked women’s bantamweight Germaine De Randamie showed why she is so highly regarded on Saturday night in Sacramento. The Iron Lady knocked out Aspen Ladd in 16 seconds, but a controversial early stoppage took some shine off of her performance. Here is a look at the fast finish:

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Utility Says Power Restored In New York City After Outage Hits 73.000 Customers
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Updated at 12:38 a.m. ET Sunday

New York officials and Con Edison say power has been fully restored after an outage knocked out lights on Times Square’s giant monitors, shut down subways, and stranded people in elevators along Manhattan’s West Side on Saturday evening, impacting tens of thousands in the city.

Some 73,000 customers over six networks on Con Edison’s local grid lost power just before 7 p.m. local time, the energy provider said.

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Disney’s Live-Action Lion King (2019) Review: Repeating History
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The new live-action version of The Lion King arrives in theaters on July 18. It’s another remake of an animated classic, but does it do the original justice or bring anything new and worthwhile to the table? Read on for our full review.

With the new Lion King movie, Disney adds another film to the ever-growing list of animated classics given new life with a live-action remake. That is, depending who you ask–some view the new versions of movies like Dumbo,

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4.6 earthquake shakes Seattle region no damage reported
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David Capocci woke up at the guest house he runs near Mount Pilchuck just before 3 a.m. on Friday. His two dogs, Titus and Kobe, were barking like crazy, so his husband groggily got up to let them out.

Outside, their 15 alpacas were calm as could be.

“Meanwhile, I’m bouncing out of bed going, ‘That was an earthquake, that was an earthquake,’ ” Capocci said. “The herd of alpacas didn’t even blink an eye.”

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Seattle and the Puget Sound region at 2:51 a.m.

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The director of Crawl answers our most serious Florida question
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Crawl, the upcoming disaster horror movie from director Alexandre Aja, takes place in the land of hurricanes, chaotic police reports, and alligators: my home state of Florida.

Of all the areas of the United States where the American alligator roams — an impressive habitat range that includes Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, South and North Carolina, and Georgia — Aja, who directed 2010’s creature-feature Piranhas 3D and dark fantasy Horns, always intended to set the animal-attack thriller in Florida,

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Twitter Suffers Widespread Hour-Long Outage on Mobile Apps Web
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UPDATED: Twitter users worldwide were unable to access the social-networking site for about an hour Thursday, with an outage that affected both mobile and web platforms.

On the web, users saw an error message that said, “Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing —we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” An error message in the Twitter app said, “Tweets aren’t loading right now.”

According to website DownDetector.com,

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Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz says she was 15 when ‘he forcibly raped me’
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A new accuser says she was raped at age 15 by Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy, jet-setting financier now awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Jennifer Araoz, in an explosive interview with NBC News, says she was a 14-year-old student in 2001 when a young woman approached her outside her Manhattan high school and later lured her to Epstein’s nearby mansion.

That began a series of meetings that abruptly ended after Epstein sexually assaulted her during one of their encounters,

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Flooding hits New Orleans as possible hurricane looms
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A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic Wednesday as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: a possible hurricane that could strike the Gulf Coast and raise the Mississippi River to the brim of the city’s protective levees. The storm was associated with a broad area of disturbed weather in the Gulf that forecasters said was on track to strengthen into a hurricane by the weekend.

The system was expected to become a tropical depression by Thursday morning,

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