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Elizabeth Banks is all smiles while stepping out for the after-party to Saturday Night Live on Saturday evening (November 14) in New York City.
The 41-year-old actress and director hosted the show that night.
During one skit, Elizabeth joined a girl group with Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Vanessa Bayer called Infinity Plus Five. They sang about their crushes on girls. Watch below!
And in case you missed it, watch the touching cold open in which Cecily sent a bilingual message to Paris.
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What to watch for during Saturday"s Democratic Debate
Atlanta Republican presidential candidates called for deeper military engagement in the Middle East as Democrats prepared to face renewed questions over national security in the wake of Friday"sterrorist attacks in Paris, which claimed at least 128 lives and injured more than 200.
The French tragedy instantly shifted the focus of the 2016 presidential race, one that has, so far, often been defined more by character and quirks than global experience. But the threat of ISIS is now a key issue for candidates and its one that American voters tend to see Republicans as being more qualified to handle.
CBS announced that its Democratic presidential debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern TimeSaturday, would focus primarily on national security, raising the political stakes for candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin OMalley, all of whom have resisted calling for US troops on the ground in Syria. (Last month, President Obama ordered some 50 special forces soldiers to the region to fight ISIS.)
Last night"s attacks are a tragic example of the kind of challenges American presidents face in today"s world and we intend to ask the candidates how they would confront the evolving threat of terrorism," CBS News Washington bureau chief Chris Isham said.
Critically, the deadly incursion by Islamic militants into a Western capital gives new urgency to Americas role as a leading coalition member in Syria, where the West is trying to contain the spread of ISIS through diplomacy and coordinated air strikes. Its an effort deeply complicated by the involvement of Russias Vladimir Putin, who ordered his countrys own separate air strikes against rebel and ISIS targets in October. ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, saying it came in retaliation of Western air strikes against ISIS targets in Syria.
The attacks in France prompted Republican candidates to call for a stronger focus on the threat from Syria. That threat, said Ben Carson, is partly about immigration, given reports that at least one of the Paris attackers was among the thousands of male refugees from Syria who have flooded into Europe during the four-year civil war.
Tough times can be clarifying, writes John Avlon, editor in chief of the Daily Beast. They raise the stakes and impose a sense of perspective. They make so many of the debates that preoccupy us seem small. He adds: The politics of the 2016 election have been for the most part petty, bitter and divisive. These attacks should help dispel the fascination with the assorted celebrities, ideologues and demagogues masquerading as serious presidential candidates. Experience matters when the 3am call comes....
At the same time, the attacks underscore a growing concern in the campaign over national security, an issue largely owned by Republicans. In a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 55 percent said Republicans are better capable of protecting US interests compared to 32 percent who said the same for Democrats. Thats the biggest such gap in the history of the poll, which began in 2002, Gallup said, and comes after Democrats, in 2007, earned the most national security trust given the poor handing of the Iraq War by President George W. Bush, a Republican.
Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton has emerged as the most hawkish of the three remaining candidates.Clinton, the former Secretary of State, has joined Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley, in refusing to call for a larger ground war in the Middle East. On the other hand, Clinton alone has advocated for a more robust approach against ISIS. That could, of course, change atSaturday night"sdebate.
For Republicans, the link between the Paris attacks and ISIS fit concerns about the scope of the threat from the would-be Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
The hawks are back in town since the rise of ISIS, Domenico Montanaro writes for National Public Radio. National security this year, unlike in 2011 and 2012, ranks as a top issue for Republican primary voters. And the candidates are talking about foreign policy specifics now, even as developments in Paris continue to emerge.
Ben Carson, for one, blamed Obamas leadership for what he called the lack of a coherent vision to fight ISIS with the full resources of the US military. I think Americas involvement should be trying to eliminate them, completely destroy them, he said.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said the Paris attacks prove that Obamas focus on air strikes isnt enough to contain what he called an unmistakable escalation of ISIS ambitions.
Calling for defensive policies such as preventing ISIS militants posing as Syrian refugees from entering the US, Senator Cruz also called for a more offensive-minded US policy, ensuring that militants understand that they face the undying enmity of America. The message, said Cruz, needs to be that anyone who signs up to fight against the West is signing [their] own death warrant.
As candidates approach a US election, the Paris attacks could be a game-changer.
To the extent that the United States has viewed [ISIS} as a regional problem that can be contained, the debate will now be transformed, write Peter Baker and Eric Schmitt, in The New York Times.
A day that began with Britains Prime Minister David Cameron hailing the drone strike believed to have killed a high-profile ISIL member in Syria as "a strike at the heart" of the movement ended, late Friday, with Frances President Francois Hollande declaring a national state of emergency and closing his countrys borders following a string of attacks in Paris that left more than 120 people dead.
The Paris massacres, for which the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility, occurred the same day a suicide bomber killed 21 Iraqis in Baghdad. They capped a week in which twin suicide bombings in a Shia neighborhood of Beirut killed 43, while Western governments concluded that the Russian airliner that crashed killing 224 people last month in Egypts Sinai peninsula had, in fact, been downed by a bomb.
Terrorism spectacular mass-casualty attacks on civilians designed by perpetrators to build their notoriety is suddenly back in the headlines. And thats a marked shift from recent years in which media attention has focused on the rise of ISIL, which has eclipsed Al-Qaeda both on the ground and in the fears of Western security officials.
Osama bin Ladens movement had relied heavily on transcontinental spectacular attacks on civilian targets to spread its message the East Africa embassy bombings and 9/11; the London, Madrid, Istanbul and Bali bombings, and a steady stream of sectarian bombings in Iraq and Pakistan, for example. But it largely kept itself in the shadows, operating clandestinely so as to stay out of the sights of Western and allied military powers.
ISIL may have shared some of Al-Qaedas ideology and originated in the movements Iraqi affiliate, but its focus has been quite different: It took advantage of the collapse of state power in both Iraq and Syria to brazenly raise its flag over territory it sought to hold, and even govern. Despite the grotesquerie of its propaganda videos depicting captives being gruesomely tortured to death, ISIL fought a conventional guerrilla war using highly mobile forces to stretch its enemies defenses, swarming against designated targets to overwhelm and conquer them. But ISILs drive to conquer territory has enabled its adversaries to counter it with conventional military tactics this weeks recapture of the Iraqi city of Sinjar by Kurdish Peshmerga forces supported by U.S. air power being a prime example.
Such an enterprise, of course, is often inconclusive the legendary British military officer T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") compared it to "eating soup with a fork," the mobility of the guerrilla force making it difficult to destroy once it retreats from any territory where it has mustered. Still, such a conflict remains relatively predictable or, more accurately, its unpredictability is confined to a defined territory, which in the case of ISIL is Iraq and Syria.
The past weeks events (and those of the past 14 years) serve up a reminder that mass-casualty attacks on civilian populations in enemy capitals whether planned and executed long-distance, or simply carried out by sympathizers or fighters returning from the Syria-Iraq theater to their home countries cant be effectively countered through conventional military means in the way that ISILs territorial ambitions potentially could be.
ISIL claimed responsibility for bombing the Russian airliner, saying it was revenge for Moscows military intervention in support of Syrias President Bashar al-Assad. And it claimed responsibility for the Beirut bombing which targeted a stronghold of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement that has intervened in Syria to prop up Assads forces and for Fridays Baghdad bombing aimed at the funeral of a pro-government fighter killed in the battle to recapture Sinjar.
ISIL had not, thus far demonstrated a capacity to exercise command-and-control over long-distance operations despite a growing number of acolytes in locales as far-flung as Nigeria and Afghanistan, but events over the past week certainly underscore a threat of mass-casualty attacks inspired by the group (or perhaps, by its nearest rivals) in distant capitals.
Organized mass-casualty attacks on civilians designed not simply to strike fear into an enemy population and boost the political pretensions of the perpetrators, but also to attract recruits and funding. As much as Fridays mass brutality will unite most of France in revulsion at the carnage, its perpetrators and their backers are betting that their wanton cruelty will inspire more radicalized youths in Europe and beyond to join the movement. (Lets not forget, a disconcerting number of French youths expressed admiration for the Charlie Hebdo attackers.) Theyll also hope to generate the sort of polarization in France that will produce further disaffection that they can exploit to swell their ranks.
Experts have long concurred that effectively countering such tactics relies more on police work, and winning the support of the communities in which radical groups try to recruit, than it does on military strategy.
PlayTime James Wright Chanel Patti LaBelle Pie Review Part 2 Its almost Thanksgiving and if you were thinking about standing over a hot oven cooking your own sweet potato pies, think again.
Thanks to Facebook user and pie reviewer James Wright Chanel, we now know to go pick up a pie from singerPatti LaBelles line of baked goods at Walmart. Why? Well for one, youll turn into Patti LaBelle herself.
Were not kidding. Even the queen herself approved of that familiar high note Chanel made when he took a bite of that sweet, sweet pie.
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The 33 Interview - Antonio Banderas (2015) - Drama HD
You wouldn"t believe it if it didn"t happen. In 2010, 33 Chilean miners found themselves trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine while the world bit its collective nails. Hollywood never has a good time trying to trump fact with the demands of popcorn-filmmaking. And The 33, well-staged by the Mexican director Patricia Riggen, still has to condense a big story into two hours.
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A lot gets lost, despite the strained efforts of screenwriters Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, and Michael Thomas. But the story holds us rapt. As do the actors. Antonio Banderas gives a stellar performance as Mario Sepulveda, known as "Super Mario" for his skill at uniting men faced with starvation and unbearable stress. Lou Diamond Phillips also excels as Luis Urzua, a.k.a. Don Lucho, a veteran hand who has always questioned the safety of the mine. Then there"s Dario Segovia (Juan Pablo Raba), a junkie who has alienated his empanada-selling sister, Maria (Juliette Binoche, the great French actress in an ill-suited role). And yet Maria waits above ground raging at the authorities who arent doing enough to save her brother and his friends.
Individual tales tumble out and over each other to confusing, dizzying effect. Many stories are short-changed or ignored to concentrate on a few. Though Rodrigo Santoro appears as Laurence Golborne, the minister of mines, the story"s political implications go curiously unmined. Inspiration is what The 33 is selling. And it"s hard not to get caught up in the rescue. You forgive the movie its faults, or most of them, because its heart is firmly in the right place.
Bryant rails at reporters: Dallas receiver Dez Bryant went on a profanity-filled rant at a reporter in the locker room Thursday, and was further agitated when another reporter tweeted about the exchange.
Bryants second tirade interrupted Jason Wittens weekly session with the media, and the 13th-year tight end worked to calm the situation and help get Bryant out of the locker room, as did coach Jason Garrett.
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Nashville - Sam Palladino, Hayden Panettiere and Clare Bowen on their Southern Accents
Nashville star Clare Bowen cut her long, luxurious blonde hair into a pixie cut in honor of a little girl suffering from cancer an experience thats close to her heart. In an emotional Facebook post, the actress, 31, reveals that she was diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma when she was just 4 years old.
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Wanna know why I cut it all off? When I was four years old, I asked my mother: Are there heaters in Heaven? I had just been diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma, after several visits to a GP who denied anything was wrong and dubbed my parents paranoid. I"d overheard the doctors telling my family that the only hope of saving me, was an experimental treatment that might kill me anyway. But without it I had maybe two weeks left, Bowen shared.
The ABC star, who ultimately beat the disease, shared that she was really inspired when I heard a story about a little girl who said she couldn"t be a princess because she didn"t have long hair.
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I wanted her, and others like her to know that"s not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero, Bowen explained of her new do. It"s not what makes you beautiful either. It"s your insides that counteven if you happen to be missing half of them.
She also thanked Nashville creator, Callie Khouri, and ABC for letting her character, Scarlett, also sport the new look.
If it makes even one person think twice about judging another, then in some small way, the world is better, she concluded.
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