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As if it wasn’t enough to inflict the evils of “All Summer Long” upon the world, Robert James “Kid Rock” Ritchie’s looming bid for the Us Senate seems to be picking up the sort of steady, horrifically inevitable momentum common to both recent international politics and inopportune bouts of diarrhea.

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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the cancer-stricken author who attracted headlines for penning a dating profile for her husband in her dying days, died Monday at age 51, People reports. “Everything Amy did was life and love affirming,” Rosenthal’s literary agent and friend, Amy Rennert, told People in a statement. “She was such a bright light with a great sense of wonder. Amy loved her family. She loved words, ideas, connections.” Chicago-based author Rosenthal, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015, wrote dozens of books for children and adults as well as a memoir, “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.” Also Read: Robert James.

Martial Arts Sensation Paul Mormando Takes On The Mob In his Latest Film " Bound By Debt"   Principal Photography is underway in New York on the new action Film Bound By Debt Starring Martial Arts Sensation Paul Mormando and Bobby Ciasulli (Rhonj) Under the direction  of Anna Mormando in her directorial debut. Mormando plays Dylan James a Rought And Tough Underground Fighter Who Is Estranged From His Family.  Robert James  (Bobby Ciasulli)  Is an addicted Gambler With a Wife And Two Daughters (Nikki Silva) And (Alexis Mormando). When Dylan  Can No Longer Fulfill His Obligations To the Mob, Mob Boss Mr. Russo ( Samuel Difiore) uses Roberts Gambling Addiction And Family as leverage against Dylan.  The Two Brothers will Have to reunite to save...

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Authorities in Georgia are alleging the leader of the state's Sex Money Murder Bloods street gang ordered a retaliation hit from prison on a 9-month-old boy, People confirms. A statement obtained by People contends that Kenneth Eric Jackson, who answers to Kg the God, was indicted this week on murder and gang-related charges for his role in the May 2014 fatal shooting of infant Kendarius Edwards Jr. Jackson, who law enforcement officials claim is Georgia's highest-ranking member of the East Coast branch of the Bloods, is incarcerated at the Autry State Prison in Pelham. Investigators alleged he used a cell phone...

Authorities in Georgia are alleging the leader of the state's Sex Money Murder Bloods street gang ordered a retaliation hit from prison on a 9-month-old boy, People confirms. A statement obtained by People contends that Kenneth Eric Jackson, who answers to Kg the God, was indicted this week on murder and gang-related charges for his role in the May 2014 fatal shooting of infant Kendarius Edwards Jr. Jackson, who law enforcement officials claim is Georgia's highest-ranking member of the East Coast branch of the Bloods, is incarcerated at the Autry State Prison in Pelham. Investigators alleged he used a cell phone...

Novelists take their time responding to history, and we’re now starting to see what they’ll make of America under Obama. You Don’t Have to Live Like This, Benjamin Markovits’s seventh book, captures a peculiar creature of this time: the young liberal entrepreneur who wants to create a model for urban renewal and make a buck or two doing it. His name is Robert James, and his plan is to buy up five square miles of crumbling houses and empty lots in Detroit and jump-start the area’s gentrification by attracting settlers through an online campaign. Before things take their turn toward the violent and distinctly non-post-racial, Obama himself makes an appearance, delivering a speech with the line that gives the novel its title and giving the narrator a bloody nose with a misplaced elbow in a pickup basketball game. The narrator is Greg Marnier, and it...

40. Empire Records

Directed by: Allan Moyle

Ah, the coming-of-age story. There was no sub-genre more hijacked for a quick buck in the 1990′s. In between the good ones (“Dazed and Confused,” “Boyz in the Hood”), the cheesy ones (“She’s All That,” “She Drives Me Crazy”), and the under-appreciated ones (“The Man in the Moon,” “Angus”), there were the middling ones that, if anything, boasted a cast that would go on to bigger, better things. Enter “Empire Records,” which is not only a coming-of-age story, but one that takes place at a record store, no less. Talk about the double dip. The entire film takes place over the course of one day, focusing on the employees, played by Anthony Lapaglia, Ethan Embry, Renee Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, and Liv Tyler. The independent record store is in Delaware – the hot spot of American music – and sees Joe (Lapaglia) allowing night manager Lucas...

Roger Howarth is stepping away from Port Charles in order to spend some time in Central City. The actor, known to “General Hospital” fans as Robert James “Franco” Frank, has been cast on The CW's freshman superhero series “The Flash,” a spokesman for the network told TheWrap on Monday. See photos: CW's ‘Arrow'-'The Flash’ Crossover: Behind the Scenes With Star Emily Bett Rickards Howarth will play Mason Bridge, an award-winning reporter from the Central City Picture News who's assigned to shepherd new employee Iris West. However, their relationship becomes complicated when Bridge begins to investigate Barry Allen's mentor Dr.

Digital Spy presents Doctor Who Week - seven days of special features celebrating the return of the world's favourite sci-fi series, and the arrival of a brand new Doctor - on August 23.

We've known he was coming since August 2013 - and he's officially been our Doctor since Christmas - but in a mere three days, Doctor Who fans will finally get the chance to size up Peter Capaldi's debut as a new, "more mysterious" Time Lord.

Between 1963 and 2014, the show's had 11 stabs at introducing a new Doctor - so before Steven Moffat's 'Deep Breath' is unveiled to the general public, let's take a look back at those other attempts - from the awesome to the audacious to the seriously misjudged.

The musical world of Doctor Who: From Ron Grainer to The Klf

An Unearthly Child

Aired November 23-December 14, 1963

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Doctor Who fans got a special 50th birthday treat last night, when it was revealed that nine episodes of the BBC sci-fi drama originating from the late '60s, and once thought lost forever, have been returned to the BBC archives.

1967/68's 'The Enemy of the World' - which sees Patrick Troughton play both the second Doctor and his villainous double, the ruthless dictator Salamander - is now available to watch in full, while 1968's classic 'Yeti-on-the-underground' adventure 'The Web of Fear' is also all but complete, with only the third episode still missing - and you can download both stories right now via iTunes.

And while we're thrilling that these two Troughton tales are now available to watch for the first time since original transmission, we now can't stop our Whovian brain from wondering... what else might still be out there?

> Doctor Who missing episodes: Which classics do you want to see?...

A Georgia judge sentenced Andrea to five years in prison on August 19 after she was found guilty of lying under oath and hindering the investigation into the murder of her husband, Rusty Sneiderman. Read on for more details.

A jury found Andrea Sneiderman guilty of nine out of 13 felony counts, including perjury and making false statements to police in connection with the murder of her husband, Rusty Sneiderman, who was shot and killed in a daycare parking lot in November 2010 after dropping off his son there.

Andrea Sneiderman Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Perjury

Prosecutors accused Andrea, 37, of Decatur, Ga., of having an affair with her former supervisor at Ge Energy, Hemy Neuman, who was found guilty but mentally ill in Rusty’s murder in March 2012. At the time, Andrea was also charged with arranging her husband’s death, but those charges were dropped.

During Hemy’s trial,...

'Swordmaster' and stunt double who fenced with Errol Flynn and swung the lightsaber for Darth Vader

As a stunt double, Bob Anderson, who has died aged 89, was among the many unsung, unknown, uncredited and partially unseen performers of motion pictures whose purpose is to remain anonymous while making the star look athletic, acrobatic, courageous or devil-may-care. For those in the business, Anderson reigned supreme in the fencing department, earning the title of "swordmaster". Given the partly Japanese genesis of the Star Wars franchise, it was an apt description of the man who wielded the lightsaber for Darth Vader in his duels in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).

In 1983 Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, blew Anderson's cover in an interview: "Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader's fighting. It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told George [Lucas, the creator] I didn't think it was fair any more.

Following on from the hugely successful theatrical run, Dogwoof proudly presents Award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus’s fascinating portrait of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic figures of the 20th century – World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer.

Available on DVD 12th September, a week after the iTunes release, Bobby Fischer Against the World traces the Grand Master from child prodigy to Cold War hero to controversial recluse. Cutting interviews with Bobby and the people who knew him with footage and news reports, Bobby Fischer Against the World is a mesmerising portrait of the rise and bizarre fall of one of the great American icons. With DVD extras including three short films, selected trailers and “Taking on a Grandmaster” clips; this is a DVD must buy for all chess fans or anyone wanting an insight into troubled genius.

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Bobby Fischer was not only one of the greatest chess players of all time, he was possibly also one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century.

After his 1972 World Championship victory in Iceland against the Ussr's Boris Spassky (pictured right), Fischer - who was born in Chicago and raised in New York - vanished off the radar but resurfaced for a 1992 rematch held in Yugoslavia.

However, Yugoslavia was under a Un embargo at the time, so Fischer's American passport was revoked. When he travelled to Japan on the invalid documentation, he was detained there for nine months (see picture below), before being granted citizenship by Iceland where he lived until his death in 2008, aged 64.

Now his story is being brought to life by the award-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus.

Released in UK cinemas by distributors Dogwoof on July 15, Bobby Fischer Against the World traces the Grandmaster from...

HBO Documentaries is certainly on a roll after producing and/or premiering such films as Gaslight, How To Die In Oregon, James Marsh‘s Project Nim, Martin Scorsese‘s Public Speaking, Reagan, and the Oscar-winning Taxi To The Dark Side. One of their latest films is Bobby Fischer Against the World, and like a few mentioned above, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

Liz Garbus‘ doc takes a look at the world’s greatest chess player and received mostly positive reviews at Sundance. I’ve heard you truly have to love the sport to appreciate a doc like this, since his 1972 match with Boris Spassky is the main focus. The film will UK cinemas next month and we have one of their trailers via HeyUGuys. Check it out below.

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Award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus presents a fascinating portrait of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic figures...

Dogwoof have sent over their trailer and some new images for their new movie, Bobby Fischer Against the World directed by Liz Garbus. It’s released on 15th July and is focuses around the game of chess! Sounds dull – but we can assure you it isn’t!

Award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus presents a fascinating portrait of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic figures of the 20th century – World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. Out in cinemas 15 July, Bobby Fischer Against the World traces the Grand Master from child prodigy, to Cold War hero, to controversial recluse. Cutting interviews with Bobby and the people who knew him with footage and news reports, Bobby Fischer Against the World is a mesmerising portrait of the rise and bizarre fall of one of the great American icons.

In 1958, 14-year old Robert James “Bobby” Fischer stunned the chess world by becoming the youngest Grand Master in history,...

Pioneering experimental animator and artist Harry Smith was born under mysterious circumstances today in 1923. While he was born to Robert James and Mary Louise Smith, Harry liked to claim his father was actually Aleister Crowley, whom his mother may or may not have had an affair with.

Smith died on Nov. 26, 1991.

You can learn more about Smith at his archive website.

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HBO brings a film that explores the complex story of a brilliant but troubled man who became a worldwide chess prodigy, seemingly tormented and destructive as his reputation grew. Hailed as a chess genius before puberty, Bobby Fischer's mother pushed his early obsession with chess. In 1958, 14-year-old Robert James .Bobby. Fischer stunned the chess world by becoming the youngest grandmaster in history, launching a career that would make him a legend. Then the next decade and a half, his rise to the top of the game riveted the world and inspired an international chess phenomenon. And then Fischer disappeared from the public eye. The documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, debuting Monday, June 6 (9:00-10:45...

Lexus has teamed up with MSN to present an interesting project in which six artists are given 24 hours to create an original piece based on a choice of three themes. The process is documented in the original web series Fresh Perspectives, which pulls together 45 different videos including artists bios and time-lapsed photography of the works in progress. Fresh Perspectives premiered on April 18 with the first theme "Escape," featuring photographer Tod Seelie, painter-collagist Augustine Kofie, chef Craig Thornton, and clothing designer Robert James. The series promotes Lexus' newest hybrid, the Ct 200h, and each video features the new car in some way. The second theme "Challenge" features Seelie, James, paper sculptor Jeff Nishinaka, and singer-songwriter V. The series are directed by New York-based creative duo the Sniper Twins incollaboration with Microsoft's Branded Entertainment and Experiences Team and Brw USA. The next theme, "Empower," is yet to be released. Last year Lexus...

Lili Taylor and Amy Madigan star in Jenny Deller's story of a budding teen scientist who must contend with an unstable home in "Future Weather." The script won multiple grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received attention at the recent Film Independent Filmmaker Forum. This week's column also features a film co-directed by Ondi Timoner and Robert James about some unclaimed human remains at a psychiatric hospital, one ...

• Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 2010 last night. She's the first Arab-American to win the title and says she knew she won when Donald Trump gave her a "look." Do what you will with this information. (PopEater) • Sometime-Hills cast member, Doug Reinhardt, said that he thinks Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have a "good marriage." If magic crystal-trapping and fame-chasing are hallmarks of a great relationship in Doug's mind, we're glad Paris Hilton broke up with him when she could. (Wonderwall) • Former Black Sabbath singer Robert James Dio passed away this weekend at the age of 67. Go...