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What to stream: Show Labor Day solidarity with these worker and union movies

With Labor Day kicking off the month, it’s an appropriate time to consider the meaning of the holiday, not just as a summer sendoff and ushering in of fall, but as a holiday meant to honor the American labor movement, first signed as a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland.
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Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’

NEW YORK — Veteran cast members Heidi Gardner and Michael Longfellow are leaving “Saturday Night Live” ahead of its 51st season. Gardner, who had been the longest-tenured woman in the cast, was on the late-night comedy show for eight seasons. Longfellow, who reportedly screen tested for the "Weekend Update" segment earlier this year, was in the cast for three seasons. Gardner is known for ...
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Jerry Adler, veteran character actor from ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ dies at 96

Jerry Adler, who spent decades backstage on Broadway before reinventing himself in his 60s as a television actor, most memorably as Herman "Hesh" Rabkin on HBO's "The Sopranos" and Howard Lyman on CBS' "The Good Wife," has died. He was 96. Adler died Saturday in New York, where he lived, according to his family. A cause was not disclosed. On "The Sopranos," Adler played Hesh, a Jewish music ...
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Her home was crowned the ‘Ugliest House in America’ on HGTV

PHILADELPHIA – With glee in their voices and a very unnecessary bullhorn in hand, HGTV host Retta and interior designer Alison Victoria stood on the porch of Justine Mays’ Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, home last summer and proclaimed her to be the owner of “the ugliest house in America!”
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What to stream: Explore Margaret Qualley’s best roles on path to A-list stardom

In “Honey Don’t!,” in theaters this weekend, Margaret Qualley makes her second star turn in the Ethan Coen/Tricia Cooke lesbian B-movie trilogy, following last year’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” and proves she makes a pretty good private eye in the vein of Philip Marlowe, following the lineage that goes from Humphrey Bogart to Elliott Gould.
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What to stream: Choose a Kurosawa original or one of many remakes

For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, remaking his 1963 film “High and Low.” Kurosawa’s films have been remade almost as long as he’s been making movies, so “Highest 2 Lowest” enters a pantheon of Kurosawa remakes that go back seven decades. Here are some of the best, where to stream them, and how to watch the originals too.
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Jason Momoa prefers to be called a ‘sensitive alpha male’

HONOLULU – You will want to know what it feels like to be pulled by the strong hands of Jason Momoa from the cyan waters of the Pacific and then to flop, into the belly of a canoe, like some recently netted fish. It feels, I can tell you, wonderful.
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What to stream: Dive into the files of ‘Naked Gun’ filmmakers

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, “The Naked Gun” movies starring Leslie Nielsen were wildly popular and the height of absurdist comedy. The franchise gets revived this week with a new installment and cast, and a new director, Akiva Schaffer, of comedy troupe the Lonely Island.
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Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan dead at 71

Hulk Hogan, the 6-foot 8-inch behemoth fueled by Miller Lite and anabolic steroids for decades, made his living by tossing grown men around the ring. Last fall he ripped his shirt in half while praising President Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention.