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The force is strong between these two.

On Wednesday, Pennsylvania man Charles Wilson-Adams threw a very special party to celebrate his pooch’s first birthday, going all out to make sure his best pal Deuce had everything a dog could ever want.

Wilson-Adams — whose sister is a writer/reporter at People — bought Deuce a “Happy Birthday” banner, plates, napkins and a cake, all Star Wars-themed.

Deuce, an American Bully and Wilson-Adams’ service dog, even got a lightsaber-embroidered sweatshirt to wear when guests arrived.

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And the festivities didn’t stop there!

Later, surrounded by family and friends,...

HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” was hit with a defamation lawsuit by Murray Energy Corporation CEO Robert Murray after host John Oliver spent much of Sunday’s show bashing the coal executive. The complaint says the show’s segment was “false, injurious, and defamatory,” and an “attempt to advance their biases against the coal industry and their disdain for the coal-related policies of the Trump Administration,” according to Dan Abrams’ LawNewz. The suit names producer Charles Wilson, HBO, and parent company Time Warner, Inc., according to Law Newz. The sites also reported that the suit claims Time Warner “is widely...

Ah, the apocalypse. Arguably one of the most fertile grounds for creativity across any medium, be it film, video games or television. Today, we’ve picked up news of another genre entry coming to the latter medium, after Syfy announced plans to adapt Robert Charles Wilson’s award-winning novel Spin into a miniseries.

With Jim Uhls already on board — screenwriter behind the likes of Jumper and Fight Club — the network is pushing ahead to bring the six-hour series to the small screen by the year’s end. In terms of the actual storyline, we understand that Spin centers around (no pun intended) a young scientist who is tasked with preventing impending doom after a mysterious, all-consuming cloud envelopes planet earth in its entirety and pushes humanity to the brink.

It’s the first book in Charles Wilson’s trilogy, a series that also includes Axis and Vortex, and though Syfy...

Merrillville, Ind. — The tour manager who was widely credited with saving the lives of country duo Sugarland before a deadly stage collapse at last summer's Indiana State Fair has become a central focus of lawyers seeking millions in damages for the families of seven people who died and dozens who were injured.

Fair officials say they had a concert promoter ask the band twice to delay the Aug. 13 concert because of concerns about severe weather, but were rebuffed. Investigative reports unveiled last week said tour manager Hellen Rollens told a state fair representative, "It's only rain. We can play."

About 55 minutes of last week's videotaped deposition from Sugarland lead singer Jennifer Nettles in Charleston, W. Va., was released Monday by Merrillville attorney Kenneth J. Allen, who represents victims of the stage collapse. In it, Nettles said that she wasn't aware what fans were told about the timing of the concert.

You want to take a quick trip through cinema history? Not a lot of better places to start that Quebecois film maker Olivier Asselin’s Un Capitalisme Sentimental. The opening night film of the ongoing Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal the film spins through a variety of styles, from classic American noir to German expressionism to the rise of 70s indie cinema and much, much more. The story? Here’s an excerpt from the Fnc description:

Fernande Bouvier (Lucille Fluet) meets Max Bauer (Paul Ahmarani) who introduces her to modern art, and Maria Rozanova (Sylvie Moreau) who teaches her to be wary of men. Meanwhile, in New York’s business circles, three men are also investing in the future: Victor Feldman (Alex Bisping), a stock market speculator, Charles Wilson (Frank Fontaine), a mine operator, and George Buchanan (Harry Standjofski), who works in the porcelain toilet trade. “It’s not the supply that matters,...