Irene Bedard, the actor who voiced “Pocahontas” in the classic Disney film, was disturbingly vocal during 2 November arrests cops referred to as wildly-drunken incidents.
We broke the story … Bedard was arrested twice over the Thanksgiving weekend in Beavercreek, OH, and police body cam of the first arrest shows her immediately getting hostile with the officers who showed up to talk to her.
Bedard had a belt in her hand as she repeatedly yelled at the “white man” cops, and then started jumping and screaming, “I’m so crazy” they put her in cuffs.
As we first told you … the arrest went down at her ex-husband’s home, after police responded to a possible domestic violence situation. Cops say she was yelling at her 17-year-old son … which you can see in the video.
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Bedard’s second arrest, a couple days later on Nov. 30, was at a hotel where she allegedly harassed an employee. The police footage, once again, shows her get aggressive and refuse to leave.
She got even more out of control … wildly running around the lobby, and eventually charging at the officer, who managed to take her down and arrest her.
BTW, during both arrests Bedard informed cops she’s 53 … and not in the fun ‘SNL’ skit way.
“Saturday Night Live” wasted no time diving into January’s plentiful political dramas in its first show of the year this weekend after more than a month’s holiday break.
In the show’s “Blue Georgia” sketch, cast members and guest host John Krasinski portray the usually reliably red state as a Rachel Maddow-loving, avocado toast and vegan meatloaf-serving, and solar-heated porch neck of the country.
The “politically correct” transformation follows the state’s real-life election of two Democrats to the U.S. Senate in a pair of Jan. 5 runoff contests, ousting incumbent Republicans.
“Good to see a fellow Blue Stater. We’re just like y’all,” a small-town Georgian waitress, played by Aidy Bryant, tells a New York tourist, played by cast member Pete Davidson, who enters the diner.
“Do you know where the men’s room is?” Davidson, asks after he sits down.
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“Yes, back in 2015,” cast member Beck Bennett tells Davidson while playing Georgia man “Skeeter, he/him,” the owner of the town’s electric truck dealership who looks a little like KFC’s Colonel Sanders. “We don’t have a men’s room, but the all-gender restroom is just down the way.”
Artists set up a painting of Stacey Abrams in the King Historic District on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
After Davidson admits surprise the diner has an all-gender restroom, Bennett jokes that Davidson thinks all Georgians are “crazy Christian types.”
“Oh no, and even if you are, it’s fine,” Davidson answers. “I’m Jewish.”
“I hope you know what we do to Jewish folks down here in Georgia,” Bennett as Skeeter warns ominously.
“We elect them!” he laughs, referring to Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat who defeated Republican Sen. David Perdue in one of the runoffs. Ossoff thus became the state’s first Jewish U.S. senator. (Also winning on Jan. 5 was Sen. Raphael Warnock, the state’s first Black U.S. senator. He defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler.)
Later in the sketch, Deputy Jimmy, played by Andrew Dismukes, bursts into the diner, saying how “honored” he was that a group of Black Lives Matter activists wanted to “protest in our town!”
Then, a Floridian wearing a MAGA hat, played by Alex Moffatt, enters the diner and gets a stern reminder from Krasinski, the town’s sheriff.
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“This is Stacey Abrams country,” the lawman warns, referring to the high-profile Democrat who lost a race for governor of the state in 2018 and then launched Fair Fight Action, a group credited with helping Democrats win the two U.S. Senate races.
But at the end of the sketch, the one thing that hasn’t changed is the diner patrons’ collective refusal to wear masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
“Because we’re free!” they shout.
The show also took on U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., during the cold open, did a sketch on the GameStop stock controversy and mocked the riots at the U.S. Capitol and former President Trump’s impeachment.
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“Saturday Night Live” is back with its first episode of 2021 to remind everyone how chaotic the first 30 days of the year have been.
Kate McKinnon kicked off the comedy sketch show’s cold open with a segment titled “What Still Works?” where she interviewed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), Derrick Boner (Pete Davidson), O.J. Simpson (Kenan Thompson), Jack Dorsey (Alex Moffat), Mark Zuckerberg (Mikey Day) and Tom Brady (John Krasinski) to recap everything going right… or rather, wrong in the United States.
“It’s a new year and we have a new president so somethings should work, but do they?” McKinnon asked the audience before inviting her first guest Greene, “who’s been promoting QAnon conspiracy theories” to talk about their first topic: Government.
Strong’s Greene listed off all the things she believed to be a “hoax” which included, but was not limited to, the Parkland school shooting and September 11 attacks. She also believes the California wildfires were caused by “Jewish space lasers.”
“So government doesn’t work,” McKinnon said.
Next up was the new majority shareholder of GameStop, Boner, whose last name isn’t even Boner (it’s Evans). He wanted his last name to be Boner, so that McKinnon could say “boner.”
Derrick Boner stopped by “What Still Works?” to talk stonks. Oh, and Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg stopped by, too. pic.twitter.com/eTY1vVd4IB
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021
“I put all my money in GameStop and I can’t lose,” Davidson’s Boner… or Evans told McKinnon who then tried to explain to him how the stock market actually works and that GameStop’s stock prices don’t reflect the kind of business GameStop has been doing. In conclusion, the stock market doesn’t work either.
This continued on with Twitter and Facebook CEOs Dorsey and Zuckerberg who’ve had to “suspend the accounts of many prominent conservatives who are spreading lies and inciting violence.”
Moffat’s Dorsey and Day’s Zuckerberg’s shared that this pushed those extremists underground into “darker and scarier apps where their delusion and bloodlust could run wild.”
“Fundamentally Facebook still works. Not only does it help people form communities online, it helps people meet and connect in real life. For example, at the Capitol,” Day’s Zuckerberg said as he laughed.
Next up was Thompson’sSimpson who received the COVID-19 vaccine before teachers and many Americans with underlying health conditions leading McKinnon to the conclusion that the vaccine rollout is also not working.
McKinnon almost had hope with Krasinski’s Brady, who seemed to be still working until she finds out he’s a “weird Trump guy.”
“I’m Kate McKinnon as myself slowly losing my mind along with all of you. Stay strong. Or weak, weak is a great option, too,” McKinnon ended the cold open.
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The first Saturday Night Live cold open of 2021 featured Cecily Strong as Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon adherent-turned-congresswoman whose conspiracy theorizing has become a source of endless media fascination.
The set up was Greene guesting on a talk show, What Still Works, with the host (Kate McKinnon) asking her, “What are some of the theories you believe in and have been promoted?”
“Okay, first off, I believe the Parkland shooting was a hoax,” Greene says. “The teachers were actors and the children were dolls. I believe 9/11 was a hoax. Did anyone actually see it happen? I have also told my supporters that they should physically murder Nancy Pelosi. This lady I work with. And this is a new one that just came out: I think that the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers.”
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“So there are lasers in space that cause wildfires, and the lasers identify as Jewish?”
“Correct,” Greene says, confidently.
As it turns out, the jokes aren’t too far off from reality, as reports surface of Greene’s past social media posts and other statements. On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office blasted out a press release blasted Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for not taking action against Greene and “rewarding her” with a spot on the House Education and Budget Committee.
Strong portrayed her with a kind of off-kilter arrogance that’s been seen in some of the clips of the real-life Greene, including one in which she berated Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg.
What Still Works went on to feature guests Pete Davidson, as the new majority shareholder of GameStop, which saw its share price skyrocket this week amid a Reddit-inspired revolt against hedge funds; and then the long-bearded Jack Dorsey (Kyle Mooney) and Mark Zuckerberg (Mikey Day), defending the way that their platforms have handled misinformation.
At one point, Dorsey asks the host whether his beard, which he has been sporting during congressional hearings, “is working.”
“It’s working in terms of keeping me a lesbian,” the host says.
Next up was Kenan Thompson as OJ Simpson, wearing an ankle bracelet, to talk about how he managed to get a Covid-19 vaccine, even though it’s still been a challenge for elderly Americans to receive it.
“Guilty as charged … about the vaccine,” Simpson says.
The skit ended with John Krasinski as Tom Brady, who the host says “might be the only thing in America that still works.”
“So I guess everyone much be rooting for you, right?” she says.
“Almost no one,” Brady says.
“Well, I’ll be rooting for you Tom Brady, because you are the only goddam thing this country can still rely on. And it’s not like you are a weird Trump guy or anything, right?”
Then, Brady sheepishly says, “Thanks for having me.”
The host then finishes up. “I’ve been Kate McKinnon as myself slowly losing my mind along with all of you.”
See clips from the cold open below.
And now, it’s time for “What Still Works?” pic.twitter.com/4yxkD2Tma8
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021
Derrick Boner stopped by “What Still Works?” to talk stonks. Oh, and Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg stopped by, too. pic.twitter.com/eTY1vVd4IB
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have fancied up Prince Archie’s birth certificate — with Markle erasing her first name and both adding royal honorifics.
After Archie was born in 2019, many royal watchers learned Markle’s true given name — Rachel — for the first time when his birth certificate was revealed.
Now the latest copy of the document, obtained by The UK Sun, shows Markle edited the certificate about a month after Archie’s May 6, 2019, birth, nixing “Rachel Meghan.”
Now she is listed as “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex.”
Prince Harry also added “Prince” to the document to complete his title of “His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex.”
One-year-old Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is seventh in line to the throne.
The revisions were made days before the Sussexes announced they would sever ties to the charity they shared with Kate Middleton and Prince William, amid rumors of a rift between the brothers and their wives.
Meanwhile Saturday, Harry’s summer travel plans to London were revealed.
He is expected to fly there in June to attend his grandfather Prince Phillip’s 100th birthday party and the Trooping of the Colour, among other festivities. Meghan and Archie are expected to remain at the couple’s home in Los Angeles.
The pair famously stepped away from daily royal duties last year and moved to the US in an ordeal dubbed “Megxit.”
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“We’re all of us passing for something or other. Aren’t we?”
This question – something Irene (Tessa Thompson) asks on the side of a dance floor – will haunt you during and well after Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” which premiered Saturday night at Sundance Film Festival.
The black-and-white film (more on that choice later) stars the aforementioned Thompson and Ruth Negga as Clare, two childhood friends who run into each other as adults in 1920s New York. The pair quickly realize they’ve come to live very different lives. While both are Black women, Clare has opted to “pass” as white; Clare’s husband John (Alexander Skarsgård) doesn’t even know the truth and thinks Irene is white as well when they meet.
This chance encounter forces each to confront the choices they’ve made and the lives they lead or could lead. Clare’s sudden reemergence in Irene’s life, in particular, begins to unravel her seemingly happy life with husband Brian (Andre Holland).
“She’s in denial about so many aspects of herself, that it’s causing her to implode,” Hall said during a live Q&A after the film’s premiere.
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For Thompson, the role “eluded me every day and terrified me every day.” there were moments on set she felt “unsettled by the fact that people would see it.”
“That has a great deal to do with the environment of intimacy that (Hall) provided us because I know in my headiest moments, if anyone were to see me, spiraling in my thoughts, I would feel really exposed,” Thompson added. “And I think the beauty of getting to make these things, the beauty that you capture, it is you get to go to those places.”
“Passing” is based on a novel of the same name by Nella Larsen – one that someone gave to Hall years ago just when she needed it.
“Someone happened to hand it to me at a very precise moment in my life when I was asking more questions, thinking more deeply about some of the unresolved mysterious aspects of my mother’s family’s history,” Hall said. Her mother’s father was almost certainly African-American but white-passing, she says. His parents could have been white-passing, too.
The book “gave me some historical context for the choices that my grandfather made, and possibly those before him,” she said.
She had a strong sense of how she wanted it to be made more than a decade ago and wrote a screenplay, then let it incubate for a long time before eventually showing to people in her life.
“I had a strong feeling that it needed to be black and white, pretty much from the first adaptation that was 13 years ago,” Hall said.
She added: “It wasn’t just a stylistic choice. I felt that it was a conceptual choice to make a film in part about colorism that drains the color out of it, and asks you to look at it as an obstruction, as something that is symbolic.”
We immediately put people into categorizations, she says, which become important but in some sense are absurd. Case in point: This black-and-white film isn’t actually black and white, but gray.
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“This is a story of nuance and gray areas and ambiguity, and it asks you to hold one thing and its opposite at the same time, all the time,” she said.
Negga read the book several years ago. “I just was so drawn to the relationship between these two women, and what compelled them towards each other, and why they were drawn to one another,” she said. “And it’s a really fascinating analysis really, of friendship.”
“It’s quite rare that you see all those complexities and nuances in female friendship, and, of course, I was crushed by the psychological cost of feeling you have to make a decision to sever yourself from your community, and essentially from oneself in order in order to survive,” she added.
Hall implied – and audiences will surely pick up on – a relationship beyond friendship in the film.
“They’re sort of defining the terms all the time,” Hall said. “I think of it as a love story. Yes, it is a very complex friendship, and it is deeply, but there’s also this sort of undercurrent of something very potent and erotic frankly, but it’s quiet, and it’s not realized. And it’s suppressed and oppressed by the grander scheme of the world that they’re living in.”
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Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan welcomes her first child with estranged husband Michael Kopech
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Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan has welcomed her first child, a son, with her estranged husband Michael Kopech, according to E! News.
While the duo have yet to confirm the exact birth date or baby boy’s name, the 28-year-old CW star and pro baseball player, 24, are ‘both thrilled’ about their bundle of joy’s recent arrival.
Over the summer, they announced their exciting baby news with an emotional Instagram post with photos from her gender reveal party, a snapshot of her positive pregnancy test and a video from her very first ultrasound.
Parents: Riverdale’s Vanessa Morgan has welcomed her first child, a son, with her estranged husband Michael Kopech, according to E! News; seen in 2018
‘Was debating keeping this part of my life hidden but I knew people would see pictures eventually with my belly & I wanted you guys to hear it from me,’ began Vanessa, who boasts 8.6million followers on Instagram.
Though she wanted to be the ‘first to share the news’, Morgan emphasized that she intends to ‘keep this chapter of [her] life private.’
‘I am overjoyed to be welcoming my baby boy into the world this January. It’s almost like everything I thought mattered in this life has completely changed.. We’re here for such a greater purpose and life is so precious,’ she gushed.
Making it work: While the duo have yet to confirm the exact birth date or baby boy’s name, the 28-year-old CW star and pro baseball player, 24, are ‘both thrilled’ about their bundle of joy’s recent arrival (pictured in 2018)
Bumping along: Morgan posted on Instagram to announce she was on maternity leave last year, writing she is so ‘proud’ of her body for allowing her to ‘work almost 9 months preggo’
At her caption’s midway point, Vanessa directly addressed her unborn son and marveled at how much impact he has already had on her life.
The first-time mother, later, revealed she found out she was pregnant on May 20 – a month before her spouse filed for divorce in Morris County in his home state of Texas on June 19, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Morgan’s rep confirmed to the Illinois newspaper that ‘Michael is the father’ but that didn’t stop him from ending their five-month marriage.
It’s a boy: Morgan and Kopech announced they were expecting a little boy over the summer
Due in January: In an emotional post shared with her Instagram followers, the 28-year-old star of Riverdale revealed that she would be ‘welcoming [her] baby boy into the world this January’
After a six-month engagement and a year of dating, Kopech and the 5ft2in brunette tied the knot at their ‘fairytale’ wedding on January 4 at Florida’s Historic Walton House in front of 35 guests.
Vanessa previously dated NHL player Nathan MacKinnon (2014-2016) and Degrassi: The Next Generation alum Munro Chambers (2008).
Meanwhile, the 6ft3in athlete famously dated Don’t Be Tardy reality star Brielle Biermann, but they ended their two-year, long-distance relationship in March 2018.
Journey: Along with her lengthy caption, Morgan included photos from her gender reveal party, a snapshot of her positive pregnancy test, and a video from her first ultrasound
Made with love: ‘Lil one you were made with so much love & already exude a light so strong it warms my belly. Thank you God for this blessing ☺️ I’m just so happy & can’t wait to dedicate everyday to being the best mommy I can be,’ wrote Morgan on Instagram
Martha Stewart, Joan Collins and Sir David Attenborough are among the growing list of A-list celebrities to have received the COVID-19 vaccination.
But for ‘natural’ medicine advocate Olivia Newton-John, 72, getting a jab isn’t on the cards.
Speaking to The Herald Sun with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 34, on Sunday, the pop icon said she has no plans to get vaccinated against the deadly virus.
‘Not at this point, no’: Olivia Newton-John, 72, (pictured) revealed she WON’T take the coronavirus vaccine in an interview with The Herald Sun on Sunday
‘Not at this point, no,’ said Olivia, who is suffering from stage-four breast cancer.
While the Grease star provided no further explanation, Chloe was more than happy to share her bizarre and unscientific beliefs about vaccines with the publication.
‘I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I’m anti putting mercury and pesticides in my body, which are in a lot of vaccines,’ proclaimed Chloe, who runs a medicinal cannabis farm in Oregon with her beau James Driskill.
Anti-vaxxer: In the same interview, Olivia’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 34, (right), shared her bizarre beliefs about vaccinations and ‘natural’ medicine
She went on: ‘To me real medicine is what comes from the earth. I think people trust vaccines because the doctor says it is safe, I used to.’
Chloe, who has no medical nor scientific qualifications, claimed that she’s ‘done research’ and now believes vaccines aren’t safe.
‘If I had a chance to take herbs and plants as a baby rather than have toxins injected into me I would have done that,’ she insisted.
‘If I had a chance to take herbs and plants as a baby rather than have toxins injected into me I would have done that’: Chloe, who has no medical nor scientific qualifications, claimed that she’s ‘done research’ and now believes vaccines aren’t safe
Vaccinations are vital to reducing the spread of preventable diseases, and any suggestion otherwise flies in the face of science and the advice of medical experts around the globe.
It comes after Chloe shared her outrageous and unscientific views about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic in a bizarre Instagram rant last month.
In a now-deleted post, Chloe outed herself as an anti-vaxxer and claimed that face masks can cause ‘health problems’.
Controversial: The post comes after Chloe shared her outrageous and unscientific views about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic in a bizarre Instagram rant last month
‘Natural medicine saved my mum’s life,’ Chloe, who has no medical training, began, referring to Olivia’s long-term battle with breast cancer and well-publicised use of medical marijuana.
‘So natural medicine is the party I belong to. Not Republican!!! Not Democrat!’ continued Chloe, who runs a cannabis farm in Oregon with her partner, James.
‘What do you do when you don’t fit in a box!? When you are a vegan, cannabis growing, LGBTQ supporting Buddhist that doesn’t agree with vaccines? Anyone relate?’ she added.
Discussing face masks, Chloe clarified that while she does wear a face mask inside public places, she still believes that masks are ‘causing harm to little ones, and poor people that aren’t sick that have to suffocate 9 hour days’.
She even claimed that people have ‘cried to her’ because ‘they can’t breathe and are now having health problems’ after wearing masks.
Unscientific: Discussing face masks, Chloe clarified that while she does wear a face mask inside public places, she still believes that masks are ‘causing harm to little ones, and poor people that aren’t sick that have to suffocate 9 hour days’
Daniel Bryan and Talking Smack are perfect together. While it’ll never be the same as his epic, Tout-sponsored 2016 – 2017 run on the show with Renee Young, DB’s appearances on the rebooted show have been pretty great.
His latest visit to the SmackDown post-show had it all. Bryan continued the work he started when he was a Talking Smack guest in December, and has kept up on Friday nights and in interviews since, setting himself up for “one last run” from tomorrow’s Royal Rumble to the main event of WrestleMania 37. Here he did it by contrasting his love of pro wrestling in its purest form to Universal champion Roman Reigns more business-like, mercenary approach to the squared circle.
“There’s a couple things that you got wrong, and it has to do with motivation and what drives me. I’m not interested in glory. I’m not interested in the adulation of the fans, despite all the yes chants. Do you know what I loved? I loved when we were at the Performance Center, wrestling in front of zero people with zero noise, just wrestling. Do you know what made people love me? I don’t know if you remember the 2015 Royal Rumble? I don’t know if you remember that? I lost, very quickly. That’s the one that Roman Reigns won. It was in Philadelphia. I was in the ring for maybe 5 minutes. 5 minutes total in that Royal Rumble, but when Roman Reigns won, everybody booed. The Rock congratulated him. The Rock saying, ‘oh man, you’re the man,’ and The Rock putting Roman over, people booed.
“I have a theory as to why that is, and it’s this. I think you’re right, Roman Reigns might be the best right now. He’s performing at a whole different level than everybody else, but he doesn’t wrestle with his heart. It’s a facade, always has been. He came out there when he debuted in this company wearing a vest, a bulletproof vest so you couldn’t see his heart. I have a theory that why they connected with me, this happens every night, I put my heart out there. That happened on SmackDown, right. I’ve been wrestling for 21 years, Paul. You go out there and you’ve been out there for 30 minutes,45 minutes, a lot of guys that have been in this business as long as I have, they’d get on the apron. I get in there with a chance to fight The Miz, who I absolutely hate, and there’s no place in the world I’d rather be. So the big difference is not about who’s the best or who wants glory, it’s who’s willing to go out there and fight with heart.”
But that’s not all! We also got some of the weird Bryan – you know, the guy who wrestles bears and always had a sexual double entendre ready for Renee on the old Talking Smack. Here, my man reveals that his hip and glute-focused workouts with Chad Gable & Otis at Alpha Academy will allow him to “toss off so many men” in the Rumble, and… yeah.
Gable & Otis don’t just serve as comic foils do Daniel can serve us that Team Hell side of his personality. The also serve as back-up for the men who sit at Reigns’ table. You ready for Alpha Academy vs. The Usos on the Road to DB vs. Roman at WrestleMania 37?
Watch Bryan’s near-perfect appearance on the Jan. 30 Talking Smack and let us know what you think in the comments below
The purchase reportedly came about through a bidding war with Amazon. The Prime Video operator was eager to buy CODA, Variety said, but might not have had the room to release the title in 2021 given an already-packed lineup. Netflix had also shown interest at one point.
This isn’t a completely unexpected deal. Heder is an executive producer for Apple’s Little America, and has received awards and nominations for directing and writing projects ranging from her short film Mother to Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. Her first feature-length movie, Tallulah, premiered at Sundance 2016 and reached Netflix. She’s not only at home with streaming movies, but could produce a critical success.
That last part may be crucial. Although Apple TV+ started winning awards relatively quickly, the service has so far been shut out of some of the biggest prizes, including the Golden Globes and Oscars. While Apple might not have to wait long when titles like Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks are considered strong candidates, a purchase like CODA increases the odds of picking up statuettes. Major awards could increase the profile of Apple TV+ and help it compete against rivals that already have prestigious movies in their lineups.
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