One on One Interview with Tony Awards 2016 Host James Corden (THE LATE LATE SHOW, CARPOOL KARAOKE)
NEW YORK Yes it will win and yes, it should win because amid all the hype and ludicrous ticket prices,Lin-Manuel Mirandas Hamilton is extraordinary and the years best musical.
The hip-hop infused story of the rise and fall of Alexander Hamilton has rightly been called a reinvention of the form, but like all successful challenges to the expected, it pays homage to what has come before, giving us lovely, haunting balladry as well as drop the mic rap battles and wicked rhymes.
Thats not to say that there arent others deserving of an A in this years class of nominees the soulful charmer that is Waitress, for one, a production buoyed by the warmth of the siren-voiced Jessie Mueller as a hash slinger and pie maker at a local diner with a heart of gold and a bun in the over,
In contention for best play, is another female-centered work Eclipsed, by Danai Gurira, heretofore best known as Michonne, a woman who knows her way around a samurai sword in The Walking Dead. The searing political drama starring Oscar-winning actressLupita Nyongo features similarly fierce women captive wives of a rebel officer during the Second Liberian Civil War and glitters with flashes of malicious humor. Its also the first Broadway play written by, directed by, and starring women. Alongside the genre-busting Hamilton, it feels like a creative revolution.
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It was toward the end of the night at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, when club-goer Christopher Hansen had taken his first sip from a drink and heard sharp noises ringing out in succession. He thought it was a beat of the song pulsating in the venue until people started crumpling onto the dance floor.
"I just saw bodies going down. Bang, bang, bang," he recalled to NBC News.
Photos: Gunman Opens Fire at Orlando Nightclub
The club was packed with over 300 people for Latin night at around 2 a.m. Sunday. Hansen said he didn"t see the gunman later identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen but his first instinct was to get down and crawl away from the epicenter of the shooting, as some 20 or 30 shots rung out.
"People stomped on me ... I was zig-zagging just in case because you could still hear the bullets going off," he said. "I was terrified. I was in shock."
He was already near the exit when he crawled past the bathroom and made it outside to relative safety. There were people bleeding. A man who didn"t speak English had a bullet in his back and his pants were drenched in blood, Hansen said.
He tore off his bandana and used it to suppress the bleeding.
"I had just seen the movie "The Conjuring 2"" before coming to the club, Hansen added. "To go from a horror movie to a real horror, it"s just shocking."
Police say Mateen killed at least 50 people and injured 50 others in what"s being described as the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
A motive was still under investigation, although his family told NBC News he may have carried out the carnage after seeing two men kissing in Miami while with his wife and young son. Law enforcement sources told NBC News Mateen had called 911 before the shooting to pledge allegiance to ISIS"s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Around 5 a.m., authorities sent in a SWAT team to rescue the club-goers who were being held hostage.
Mateen, who officials say was carrying an AR-15-type rifle with large capacity magazines, was killed.
Joshua McGill said he and his roommates hid in an employee area of the club before rushing outside.
"During my run across the parking lot I did hear more shooting and I ducked behind a car and crawled under the car," McGill, a nursing student, told NBC News. "That"s when I noticed another club-goer staggering, covered in blood and I helped him get behind the car."
Jackie Smith, who was also inside the club, said two friends next to her were shot.
"Some guy walked in and started shooting everybody. He had an automatic rifle, so nobody stood a chance," Smith told The Associated Press. "I just tried to get out of there."
Related: Mass Casualties After Gunman Opens Fire in Gay Club
Relatives and friends, many in tears, gathered outside the hospital to learn whether their loved ones were among the dead or wounded.
Smith did not know the conditions of her friends and came out of the hospital and burst into tears.
The wounded included one police officer who was shot and suffered injuries to his face, officials said.
Jon Alamo said he was at the back of one of the club"s rooms when a man holding a weapon came into the front of the room.
"I heard 20, 40, 50 shots," Alamo said. "The music stopped."
An injured person is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage early Sunday morning in Orlando. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Steven Fernandez / AP
Club-goer Rob Rick said the shooting started just before closing time.
"Everybody was drinking their last sip," he said.
He estimated more than 100 people were still inside when he heard shots, got on the ground and crawled toward a DJ booth. A bouncer knocked down a partition between the club area and an area in the back where only workers are allowed. Thus people inside were able to then escape through the back of the club.
Hansen said he had moved to the Orlando area about two months ago, and was only expecting to have fun not see the night descend into chaos.
"There"s sweat and blood, I know it"s under my nails," he said. "This is just a tragic situation."
FAST 8 Production Featurette - Massive Car Explosion Stunt (2017) Vin Diesel Action Movie HD
Fast and the Furious actor Vin Diesel shared a drool worthy picture of himself with his x*x: The Return of Xander Cage co-star Deepika Padukone on Instagram on Sunday.
In the picture, Deepika, 30 and Vin Diesel, 48, have been photographed somewhere by the sea. Deepika however is the star of the picture looking drop-dead gorgeous in a black crop top and fitted leather pants. In hindsight Vin Diesel doesn"t look too bad himself as he shows off his pecs while posing shirtless.
Vin Diesel posted a picture of him with Deepika on Instagram and wrote, "Destiny..#thereturnofxandercage".
The film shoot was wrapped up on May 12.
Here are some more stills fromthe shoot for x*x.
x*x: The Return of Xander Cage is set to release on January 17, next year. Deepika Padukone was spotted at the Mumbai airport on June 1. She was flying back home from Budapest, where she was filming for the film Raabta.
The 22-year-old woman, whom CNN has identified only as Laura, was at a hotel bar having drinks with a friend, but then had a drink that made her feel "very unwell," according to Brian Lokollo, a lawyer who was hired by the woman"s family.
She reportedly woke up in an unfamiliar location and realized "to her great horror" that she had been raped after her drink was spiked, Lokollo said.
When she reported the rape to the police, she herself was imprisoned.
"I don"t know what the charges are. To my knowledge she is being held in custody because she reported that she was raped," Lokollo told CNN Sunday.
Charges unknown
According to Lokollo, she is due to appear before a judge in the Qatari capital Monday where the official charges will be heard for the first time.
The Dutch government and its embassy in Doha are in close contact with the defendant and her family in the Netherlands, according to a statement from the embassy.
"We have provided assistance to her since the first day of detention. For the sake of the defendant"s case we will not make further comments at this point," the statement added.
The Qatari authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
Adultery a crime
"Adultery," or "fornication outside of marriage," is a crime in Qatar as well as other countries in the conservative Muslim Gulf regardless of the marital status of those involved.
According to Qatar"s Penal Code 2004 (Law No. 11), "anyone who copulates with a female above sixteen without compulsion, duress or ruse is convicted to no more than seven years in prison. The same penalty is also imposed on the female for her consent."
In the nearby United Arab Emirates in 2013, a Norwegian woman who reported being raped by a colleague was sentenced to 16 months in jail, charged for having unlawful s*x, making a false statement and the illegal consumption of alcohol.
Marte Deborah Dalelv was later pardoned by Dubai"s ruler.
Warriors vs Cavaliers: Game 4 NBA Finals - 06.10.16 Full Highlights
The Golden State Warriors have seemed pre-ordained to repeat as NBA champions since the moment the season began, with their dominant victory over the New Orleans Pelicans all the way back on opening night.
On Monday night, their long journey to the NBA title could come to an end as they look to close out the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Outside of an injury to Stephen Curry that caused the Warriors to lose a total of two games in the first two rounds, and an impressive, admirable effort from the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round, the Warriors have cruised this season.
The Cavaliers thought they might have found something after a dominant Game 3 victory, but their success was fleeting. The Warriors corrected their issues, played with more intensity, got their 3-point shot to fall, and took a dominant 3-1 series lead. The numbers are not good for the Cavs" chances of a comeback, as you"ll see below, and the usual "but they have LeBron" response doesn"t resonate because the Warriors have essentially neutralized James despite his quality per-game numbers (more on that below as well).
The Warriors look to clinch their first-ever back-to-back NBA championships Monday night in Oracle, 9 p.m. ET on ABC. Here"s where the series stands after Game 4.
THE BIG PICTURE
Before Game 4, I warned that it was very much possible that instead of finding adjustments and a solution for the Warriors, that Golden State just had a bad game. If so, there was every reason to think they would play better and win Game 4, effectively ending the series. That"s what happened. Though they started off rocky, and the Cavaliers lead by eight points at one moment, it wasn"t enough, and the Warriors eventually splashed their way to a win.
No team has ever lost after going up 3-1 in the Finals (32-0). Surprisingly, teams are just 13-10 in Game 5"s at home after going up 3-1, so there"s at least a little hope that Cleveland can push the series back to Cleveland to give themselves a chance at the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history, but in reality, this is done. The Warriors have led for the majority of the series, dominate in nearly every statistical category, have won all the matchups, neutralized LeBron James, stymied Kyrie Irving, negated J.R. Smith, and likely have already gotten Kevin Love traded. All that"s left is to figure out how many games it takes, where the Warriors stand as an all-time team, and where the Cavaliers go from here.
Oh, and what happens with Draymond Green out.
WITH DRAYMOND GREEN SUSPENDED
With Green out, expect the Warriors to move Iguodala into the starting lineup. USATSI
The Warriors can still win. Green has been terrific, with the Warriors outscoring the Cavs by 13.6 points per 100 possessions with him on the court. He"s defended LeBron James, knocked down 3-pointers, made key passes, and helped get into James" head while protecting the rim. Yet Golden State is at home, and if Green is out, the emotion of playing without him might be enough to carry the day.
With Green out, expect the Warriors to move Iguodala into the starting lineup, with a modified smallball unit featuring Andrew Bogut at center. Their smallball advantage is less with Bogut on the floor, but their versatility at 1-4 still gives them an advantage, especially since the Cavaliers will still be starting Tristan Thompson. Mo Speights likely gets more time, and that helps the Cavs, but if the Warriors simply shoot the lights out as they are prone to at any time and especially at home, Golden State can still secure the title.
Green will not be allowed into the building until after the game was over, so any championship celebration will likely have to wait until he was through security and into the building.
ADJUSTMENTS
CAVALIERS
Well ... I"ve got very little for you. Benching Kevin Love helped for a while. He was better vs. the non-starter lineups in the first half, but finished with a minus-4, primarily when the Warriors started targeting him again. Richard Jefferson, his replacement, was a minus-1, even in the first half. There aren"t really any answers for the Cavaliers. They have to shoot the lights out and hope the Warriors play well. That"s really it. If the Warriors play well, they simply can"t beat them. That much is apparent at this point.
The Math Problem: The Cavaliers actually dominated the paint in Game 4, winning 48-20. (They outscored the Warriors by 28 points in the paint and lost by nine!) They won on the offensive glass, with 25 second-chance points to 19 by the Warriors.
But the Warriors hit 11 more 3-pointers. That"s your ballgame. That"s your series. That"s your season.
The Warriors had 11 more attempts from deep than the Cavs, and that"s a number that gets lost. You have to be able to prevent the Warriors from getting those shots up, which is the hardest part of defending them. The Cavaliers set the record for most 3-pointers earlier in the playoffs vs. Atlanta with 25 made 3-pointers. The Cavs had 25 attempts from deep in Game 4. Being able to make 3"s often isn"t as important as being able to generate 3-point looks in volume, and, even more importantly, being able to restrain the number of those attempts.
The Cavs have to shut down the Warriors" perimeter attack at any cost. Surrender layups. Abandon the mid-range. But they have to stay locked down on shooters, particularly after offensive rebounds.
LeBron has been solved: I never thought I"d reach this point, at least not until he was at least 34, but the Warriors have solved LeBron James, and made him into just another multi-talented forward. His numbers are still great, but his impact is not. The Cavaliers have been outscored by 6.6 points per 100 possessions with James on the floor in this season. Teams almost never outscore James" team when he"s on the floor, but the Warriors have done it two years in a row, this year with the Cavs at full strength. (The Spurs also did it in 2014, so "almost never" really applies to "teams that aren"t elite," I suppose.)
Will LeBron go down without a a fight? Probably not. USATSI
Iguodala bodies him on the catch in the post, challenges his dribble on the drive. The Warriors also bring swiping help and contest at the rim, the perimeter defense stays home on shooters, and they prevent the offensive rebound. James is frustrated; that was evident in Game 4. There are no adjustments he can make because he can"t magically get his jumper to a place it was two years ago. It"s going to take a full year of work to get it back to where it needs to be, with adjustments to his legs and form. There is no easy remedy.
The best all-around player in the league (even if Curry is "the best player in the league") has been rendered impotent (without force or effectiveness) and it is a credit to the Warriors" defense that he can"t save them.
WARRIORS
The 1-2 pick and roll: The Warriors made a few tweaks in their pick-and-roll game to free up the Splash Brothers in Game 4, and they worked. Zach Harper broke down the ways that Curry and Thompson freed themselves in Game 4 with help from the Cavaliers" poor defensive attention. The Warriors used Thompson as the screener, forcing the Cavaliers into an impossible decision between not trapping Curry and leaving him in space and leaving Thompson wide open. No good options. More of that in Game 4 will secure the repeat.
No letdowns: The Warriors didn"t bring their best selves in Game 3, and it cost them. They were complacent, and while everyone got excited about what the Cavs were doing, in the end, it was just about the Warriors not bringing the energy they needed. Green"s suspension looms large here. He"s the emotional engine of the team, Steve Kerr always says the Warriors "need his fire." With him out, someone will have to be that emotional spark plug. Maybe it"s Curry, maybe it"s the typically reserved Thompson, maybe it"s Andrew Bogut, constant veteran. Whoever it is, they need that to keep their energy level high. Feed off the crowd, play your game, and secure a second-straight title, cementing a dynasty in the Bay.
THE NUMBERS
The Warriors are 6.5-point favorites in Game 5, the highest they"ve been favored in this series. Took a while but the books and the public finally gave up on Cleveland
Teams have never lost a 3-1 lead in the Finals (32-0).
Teams are just 13-10 at home in Game 5 of the Finals after going up 3-1.
Teams are just 5-7 after losing Game 3 and winning Game 4 to go up 3-1 per WhoWins.com.
The Warriors have 29 more assists on just six more made field goals in this series. That is incredibly telling.
Golden State has outscored Cleveland by 60 points from the arc in this series.
The Cavs have more rebounds, more points in the paint, more second-chance points, and more fast-break points in this series.
Channing Frye is the only Cleveland rotation player with a positive net rating (plus-5.5 per 100 possessions.)
Per ESPN, the Cavs are plus-31 with LeBron James on the floor and Andre Iguodala off the court in 44 minutes in this series. They are a minus-48 with James and Iguodala both on the floor, a stunning testament to Iguodala"s repeat-Finals-MVP candidacy.
On Thursday, French Montana and Kodak Black released the music video for their summer hit, Lockjaw. In a new interview, Kodak reveals that the songs hook was originally a freestyle before it became the fully fleshed out chorus that it is now.
The beat came on, and [French] was trying to figure out the hook to it, says lil Kodak in the video above. He was in the booth trying to go off the head with a melody to try and come up with something. I didnt even really like how he was coming with it. I came up with something better in my head. So I told him to record me.
The 18-year-old continues, That song, we made it weird. It wasnt all at one time. The hook wasnt supposed to be the hook, really. Then [French] was like, Oh, we can just keep repeating it and then we made the hook.
The Ben Billions-producedtrack is a sonic masterpiece about drugs, liquor, women and guns. French and Kodak use a back-and-forth strategy fortheir braggadocious verses, and the music video amplifies the overall effect. Neighborhood folkshow off their motorcycle and ATV tricks and flash wads of cash as the NY and Floridarappers take the viewer on a tour of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and Broward County, Fla..
In other Kodak news, the up-and-comers new mixtape, Lil B.I.G. Pac, is set to drop tomorrow (June 11), and its got a collab with Gucci Mane on it. Lockjaw will appear on Montanas forthcoming album, MC4.
The O. J. Simpson Trial: Drama of the Century (2015)
When you hear the name O.J. Simpson, you tend to think up images from his famous 1994 trial (where he was found not guilty) or, if you are of the younger variety, scenes from the recent FX hit, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. In that case, you probably see Cuba Gooding Jr. in your mind rather than the famed football player-turned actor-turned accused murderer. Yep, Simpson was intent on being an actor, but you aren"t alone in asking, what movies has O.J. Simpson been in. That"s right, O.J. Simpson was trying hard to build some sort of movie career and although he will likely never be remembered as a movie star or even an actor, the proof is in his would-be career in show business.
Of course at the time of his trial, O.J. Simpson was well known for his Hertz commercials and for being a football superstar, but there had always been a part of the charismatic camera-ready man that obviously yearned for stardom on the big screen. And, believe it or not my fellow young millennials, he definitely made it in some capacity. But what movies was O.J. Simpson in? Unsurprisingly, none of O.J. Simpson"s movies were cinematic classics and hits like those in the n***d Gun series, but damned if Simpson didn"t give it all he had. Even if it wasn"t much.
GIPHY
You know how when an athlete guest stars in a TV show or makes a cameo in a movie, even if you don"t realize they"re a famous football or basketball player, you can usually tell that they are because of their awful acting chops? The lines delivered in the most cringe-worthy of ways? I won"t say O.J. Simpson was as bad as an athlete showing up on an after school special, but a huge movie career he did not make, even with several movies like these under his belt.
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Simpson appeared in The Towering Inferno, alongside Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, so it wasn"t a bad group to be cast with. Based on a novel, almost the entire movie centers around a fire in a huge office building and the people inside trying to get out. You know, kind of like a Michael Bay film in the "70s.
The Diamond Mercenaries (1976) GIPHY
Think of this as an Oceans 11 before (and after) its time. The Diamond Mercenaries is about a group of jewel thieves trying to pull off some crazy diamond heist.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Taking pretty much any role you"re offered has its perks. Especially for Simpson, when he got to work with Martin Sheen in The Cassandra Crossing. The movie is like a Contagion-esque scenario, except everyone who is infected is stuck on a train speeding through Europe.
Capricorn One (1977) Warner Bros.
This one actually sounds kind of good. It"s about the cover up of a faked NASA mission and also stars Elliot Gould and James Brolin in his heyday. OK, so we don"t exactly talk about this movie today, but it had to have some value in its time, right? Right?
Firepower (1979)
O.J. Simpson had a pretty big role in Firepower, about a fugitive on the run and the several people after him for different reasons. Yes, a fugitive. We can"t even make up the irony in that.
The n***d Gun (1988)
As a crime drama spoof, The n***d Gun did everything right. It even got in a cameo of an attractive former pro football player who would go on to appear in both of its sequels. Is it a timeless classic today? Well, it remains high ranking on both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, which currently has it at at 86% fresh rating. So there"s that.
The n***d Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear (1991)
Obviously Hollywood can"t just quit while they"re ahead, like ever. Sequels are the stuff that can either totally ruin a movie or leave people wanting yet another one. In this case, it just makes you appreciate the first movie on its own. With the same sort of humor and pretty much the same cast, The n***d Gun 2 1/2 grossed about $8 million more than its predecessor, but remains slightly inferior to the original.
No Place To Hide (1992)
Simpson starred with Kris Kristofferson and a young Drew Barrymore in this thriller mystery about the death of a teenage ballerina and the sister she left behind, who becomes a target herself. Is it the stuff Oscars are made of? Probably not, but you have to give O.J. Simpson props for getting in on another movie with some pretty decent leads.
n***d Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
When you"ve got two movies making close to $100 million each, you have to add a third and make a trilogy, right? Luckily for O.J. Simpson, he was welcomed back a third time to the n***d Gun franchise, reprising his painful role as Nordberg, best friend and partner to Leslie Nielsen.
Obviously O.J. Simpson"s movie career wasn"t super expansive or even impressive, but that seemed to be his goal for the better part of his career during and after football. In fact, he was trying to break into big time acting right up until his trial in 1994.
