Netflix has released the titles that will be leaving its streaming service in July, so take a break from your tans and watch some great movies before they're gone.

There's some very worthy stuff you should consider: Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing Saddles,” the late Adam West as the Dark Knight in a movie version of his popular “Batman” TV series from the '60s, and Melanie Griffith putting the moves on Harrison Ford (and facing off against Sigourney Weaver) in the '80s classic “Working Girl.”

Here's everything that's leaving Netflix in July (we've highlighted the titles we think you should watch in bold):

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Leaving July 1

“Blazing Saddles”
“American Pie Presents: Band Camp”
“Flicka 2”
“9/11: Stories in Fragments”
“Secrets: The Sphinx”
“Batman”
“Working Girl”
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
“An Unmarried Woman”
“Hello, Dolly!”
“MacGyver” (Seasons 1 - 7)
“Ghost Whisperer” (Seasons 1 - 5)
“Futurama” (Season 6)
“Day of the Kamikaze”
“Mystery Files: Hitler”
“Mystery Files: Leonardo da Vinci”
“Nazi Temple of Doom”
“The Hunt for Bin Laden”
“The Incredible Bionic Man”
“History in HD: The Last Bomb”
“Secrets: A Viking Map?”
“Secrets: Richard III Revealed”
“Shuttle Discovery's Last Mission”
“Titanic's Final Mystery”
“Samurai Headhunters”
“America's Secret D-Day Disaster”
“Black Wings”
“Blondie's New York”
“Bombs, Bullets and Fraud”
“Death Beach”
“Hip Hop: The Furious Force of Rhymes”
“American Pie Presents: Beta House”
“Hugo”
“American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile”
“Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging”
“While You Were Sleeping”
“Kate & Leopold”
“El Dorado”

Leaving 7/3/17

“The Last Samurai”
“Two Weeks Notice”

Leaving 7/6/17

“Los Heroes del Norte” (Seasons 1 - 2)

Netflix isn’t known for canceling its series, but it's not afraid to.

The streaming service doesn't cancel shows often, especially when compared to networks and cable. But over the past month it’s cut ties with three series, the most recent being its new comedy series “Girlboss."

“Girlboss” debuted on Netflix in April, and received poor reviews from critics and audiences alike. It has a 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The series was based on the life of Sophia Amoruso, the founder and owner of the fashion brand Nasty Gal. The streaming service also recently canceled “The Get Down” and “Sense8.” 

Since Netflix doesn’t reveal viewership numbers, we’ll probably never know if “Girlboss” was canceled for performing poorly with audiences, but the backlash it received due to a problematic protagonist and a dull story are definitely both prime suspects. 

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Jamie Foxx revealed in a recent interview on "The Graham Norton Show" that he helped launch the career of Ed Sheeran by letting the English singer-songwriter crash on his couch "for six weeks before he was famous."

Foxx was hosting a radio show in Los Angeles at the time, and Sheeran came to the station to try and show Foxx his music. Foxx said he liked Sheeran's music enough to let the up-and-coming musician stay at his home for a while.

Soon after, Sheeran received a foreshadowing sign of his future success when Foxx took him to an open mic event that he was hosting.

"It was like 800 black people, all black, just the best musicians," Foxx said of the show. He explained that his musician friends were initially incredulous that Sheeran would do well in such an environment.

"So all of a sudden I say, 'Ladies and gentleman, Ed Sheeran!' He pops out, with red hair and a ukulele," Foxx continued. "It was just like a movie. I said, 'Well, let's see what the kid has.' And he went out there on that ukulele — got a standing ovation in 12 minutes. And the rest was history."  

Sheeran has gone on to have all of his first three albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, and each of his three albums have been certified platinum. 

Watch Foxx tell the story in the segment below:

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On Sunday night's season finale of HBO's hit comedy "Silicon Valley," we bid a fond farewell to one of the show's most popular characters, Erlich Bachman. The actor behind "Bachmanity," T.J. Miller, revealed in late May that the recently ended fourth season would be his last on the show.

Following his last episode, The Hollywood Reporter ran a lengthy interview with Miller in which the comedian got more into the specifics of his departure. 

Miller said that HBO offered him a reduced role on the show going forward (three to five episodes), but instead Miller countered by saying he'd be more comfortable leaving the show entirely. 

"It felt like a breakup with HBO," Miller told THR. "The final phone call was them going like, 'Well, I don’t think this is the end of Erlich. I still want to see him on television,' and I was like, 'I know but I think this is for the best.' ... So they were very, very cool about it, and that final conversation was super friendly and sad. It was heartbreaking on my end."

In a separate interview with THR, show co-creator Mike Judge gave a little more clarity about the situation.

"It was kind of becoming clear that he didn't want to do the show anymore, but we wanted to leave it so that there would an opportunity to come back at some point, " Judge said, who added that the open-ended storyline on the season finale episode (SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen it yet) in which Erlich is left behind in an opium den in Tibet by Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) was done on purpose. 

"When the season was done, we talked to T.J. and said, 'Do you want to come back for part of it?' And he just wanted to move on," Judge said.

Miller said in the THR interview numerous times that he's extremely busy with other projects, from stand up to the Comedy Central show "The Gorburger Show" to upcoming movies like "The Emoji Movie" and the "Deadpool" sequel, so he felt this was the best time to move on.

"I swear to god, that’s why the internet broke," Miller said, referring to when the news broke that he was leaving "Silicon Valley." "Everybody was like, 'What the f--- are you talking about? You’re on this successful show. Don’t you want three more years of solid acting work and don’t you want to be a famous television actor?' And I was like, 'No, not really.' I’d like to parasail into the Cannes Film Festival for 'The Emoji Movie' because that’s the next new funny thing that will make people laugh."

Miller said most his castmates and crew were supportive of his decision to leave the show, though he did have a few parting shots for one of the show's Executive Producers/writers Alec Berg and star Thomas Middleditch:

"I think that HBO and Alec Berg, specifically, kind of thought — and I guess apparently Thomas Middleditch — I guess they thought, 'Alright, maybe this is the end of the character. But like everything in the show, we’ll sort of solve this and then it’s back to normal.' And they just didn’t imagine that I would be in a position of being like, 'I think that’s it.' … I don’t know how smart [Alec] is. He went to Harvard, and we all know those kids are f---ing idiots. That Crimson trash. Those comedy writers in Hollywood are f---ing Harvard graduates and that’s why they’re smug as a bug. … I think that in television you usually have one element that is very challenging, very frustrating. It’s an obstacle, right? So you’re doing the best work that you can do. Alec was that for me, and I think I was that for Alec. And a very good article was written that says that Erlich in the show is just this constant annoyance to Richard. ... And I think in some ways, that is analogous to real life. I think in some ways Thomas Middleditch is … we have a contrarian relationship, like a big brother-little brother relationship. And this is also an opportunity for me to be like, 'Let me just step off, dude. Like, just do your f---ing thing. You’re amazing.' I did a two-man improv show with him for a decade. He’s amazing."

When asked if he's upset Erlich didn't have a better sendoff in the finale episode, Miller said he doesn't watch the show anymore because "I don't have the time."

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John Oliver ripped into President Donald Trump on Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" for misleading the American public about whether he had tapes of his meetings with James Comey, the FBI director he fired on May 9.

"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" Trump tweeted in May.

In an interview with Fox News last week, however, Trump said he "didn't tape" his talks with Comey but had instead referred to the possibility of tapes in an attempt to force Comey to change his story.

"When he found out that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows? I think his story may have changed," Trump said, adding that his move to tweet about the specter of tapes "wasn't very stupid."

Oliver took apart what he called Trump's "extraordinarily stupid" reasoning on the issue, raising the possibility that Trump committed "witness tampering" with his threatening tweet to Comey.

"He didn't just casually admit to misleading the American public," Oliver said. "He also implied that doing so may have swayed Comey's testimony, which, if that was his intent, could constitute witness tampering.

"And on top of all that, he then implied he made Comey tell the truth about their conversations, seemingly verifying Comey's account, which is incredibly damaging to the president," he continued. "So yeah, Trump might actually be right: It wasn't very stupid; it was extraordinarily stupid."

Watch the segment:

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Facebook is gearing up to announce its first slate of TV-like shows this summer, and the company could spend up to $3 million an episode, according to The Wall Street Journal, putting spending in the range of marquee cable networks, and tech rivals like Netflix.

Facebook has been prepping its push into TV-style programming for quite some time, following YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and others into the premium streaming market. But Facebook has delayed the effort multiple times already.

Facebook initially wanted to unveil its shows around its developer conference in mid-April, then in time for the Cannes Lions advertising festival, which started June 17. Neither of those dates happened. Now a person familiar with Facebook’s strategy tells Business Insider that Facebook is aiming for a July announcement, though the shows might not make their way into the wild until August — and the release could be delayed again.

When they do finally come out, those shows will exist in two main tiers.

The first are shorter shows around 3-10 minutes in length, mostly unscripted. Facebook will guarantee a minimum payment of $5,000 to $20,000 per episode for these shows, according to The Wall Street Journal, but Facebook won’t own them. Media companies will be free to move these videos off of Facebook’s platform after a few weeks, and monetize them elsewhere. Facebook has signed up a ton of new media companies for these shows, including Vox Media, BuzzFeed, Attn, and Group Nine Media, Reuters first reported.

But the real juicy speculation has swirled around that second tier, the high-end shows that Facebook will try to buy outright.

According to The Wall Street Journal, in meetings with major talent agencies, Facebook has said it was willing to do production budgets as high as $3 million per episode, for shows up to 30 minutes in length. That would put Facebook close to Netflix’s first big splash, “House of Cards,” which cost an estimated $4.5 million per episode starting out.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that Facebook is interested in “more moderate-cost scripted shows in the mid-to-high six-figure-per-episode range” as well.

One indication that Facebook is shopping in that range: Multiple outlets have reported that Facebook is near a deal to bring “Loosely Exactly Nicole” back for a second season on Facebook. The MTV show was a comedy loosely based on the life on Nicole Byer, and was cut after season of poor ratings.

The per-episode production budget for the show’s first season on MTV was "$700,000-$800,000 per episode," an individual with knowledge of the show told Business Insider. Mina Lefevre, Facebook’s head of development, oversaw “Loosely Exactly Nicole” during her time as an EVP at MTV. Lefevre joined Facebook in February.

If Facebook does drop millions per episode on original shows, it will be a test in whether its platform can sustain that level of quality on advertising alone, since right now Facebook doesn't seem to have any plans to launch a subscription service.

Facebook gave the following statement to Business Insider, from VP of media partnerships Nick Grudin: 

“Our goal is to make Facebook a place where people can come together around video. To help get there, we're supporting a small group of partners and creators as they experiment with the kinds of shows you can build a community around -- from sports to comedy to reality to gaming. We're focused on episodic shows and helping all our partners understand what works across different verticals and topics. We're funding these shows directly now, but over time we want to help lots of creators make videos funded through revenue sharing products like Ad Break.”

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Nintendo's latest video game console is off to a killer start.

The barely three-month-old Nintendo Switch remains sold out everywhere. Its main launch game, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," is heralded as one of the best games ever made. And Nintendo has a huge new Mario game, "Super Mario Odyssey," in the works that is scheduled for launch this holiday.

Between this year's Switch games and what we found out recently about 2018's Switch lineup, it looks as if Nintendo is finally delivering on its long-held promise to release a steady cadence of games from its biggest franchises. Heck, Nintendo just announced a full-on new Pokémon game for the Switch. That's an outright first for Pokémon, a series forever tied to Nintendo's handheld consoles.

We've put together a comprehensive list of what's coming to the Switch in 2017 and what to expect for 2018 — follow that below:

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2017: A new "Super Mario," a sequel to "Splatoon," a Pokémon spin-off, and a new series for Mario.

For a launch year, the Switch is getting a mess of fantastic games. Nintendo started with the showstopper in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," which launched alongside the Switch in March. 

"Zelda" was quickly followed by an updated rerelease of "Mario Kart 8" — arguably the best "Mario Kart" game ever made — and an entirely new entry in "Arms." "Minecraft" launched soon after, and Nintendo even allowed the Switch version of "Minecraft" to play nice with the Xbox One, PC, mobile, and VR versions of the game. If you're playing the game on one of those platforms, you're also playing with people on the Switch!

And that's just through to now (June 2017) — much more is coming in the back half of 2017 and next year.

At this point, we know much of Nintendo's plan for the rest of 2017. While several games are launching for the Switch leading up to this holiday season, the heavy among them is "Super Mario Odyssey." It's a gorgeous new Mario game along the lines of "Super Mario 64" and "Super Mario Sunshine." It's scheduled for launch on October 27.

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Before "Super Mario Odyssey" arrives this October, Nintendo's summer plans are dedicated to "Splatoon 2" — a sequel to the delightful shooter that debuted on Nintendo's failed Wii U console. It arrives on July 21.

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Writer-director Edgar Wright has shown his affection for genre filmmaking by doing everything from the beloved Cornetto trilogy (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End”) to the equally beloved “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” and now it looks like he has another for his dedicated fans to gush over, with the thrilling heist movie “Baby Driver” (in theaters on Wednesday).

Using a mix of incredible needle-drops, insane car chases, pitch-perfect performances, and a stellar script, Wright’s latest is a summer release that finally lives up to the hype.

The story revolves around a twentysomething named Baby (Ansel Elgort) who can basically do anything he wants in a car, as long as he’s got his tunes playing on his iPod. With that skill set, Baby is a getaway driver for a crew of bank robbers in Atlanta. Wright gets right into the action from the start, showing Baby’s moves as he escapes the police following his team’s robbery, headed by Buddy (Jon Hamm).

Baby gets everyone back to the safe house where we meet the brains of the operation, Doc (Kevin Spacey). And we quickly realize Doc has been forcing Baby to do jobs for him since Baby tried to rob him. Doc tells Baby he’s got one more job to do and then they are square.

Baby goes back to his life until called upon. During his break between heists he falls for a diner waitress, Debora (Lily James). Through that relationship, we learn a little more about Baby: his parents died in an auto accident (he was in the car, too), which still haunts Baby, and he listens to music constantly to help his permanent tinnitus.

Doc eventually calls and Baby is back on the job, this time working with the crazed Bats (Jamie Foxx). Once more, Baby has to go on a bonkers car chase to flee the scene. But when he gets back to the safehouse, Doc gives Baby a reality check — he will always be his wheel man.

This leads to the final job, one that involves Buddy, Bats, Doc, and even Debora, who gets roped in.

Wright delivers a story with little dead spots and great dialogue for Foxx, Hamm, and Spacey to shine. And the visuals by legendary cinematographer Bill Pope just add to the enjoyment.

One scene that stood out for me wasn't one of the chases, but the beginning of the movie when Baby goes to get the robbers coffee. All shot in one take, the choreographed sequence has Elgort gracefully weaving down the street to the beat of the song, at one time even imitating a trumpet player during the song's solo when he’s next to a music shop that has a trumpet hanging in the storefront window. Pope also moves the camera to lyrics that show up on the sidewalk and telephone poles.

Elgort plays the character of Baby similar to Ryan Gosling in “Drive” (which director Nicolas Winding Refn took from Ryan O'Neal in Walter Hill's 1978 classic, "The Driver") — quiet and methodical — which is good because there are some instances when Elgort has to do some heavy acting and comes off a little green. But Foxx, Hamm, and Spacey pick up the slack.

“Baby Driver” has been a passion project of Wright’s for years and it certainly shows. There are some movies where you can see the care put into it, and this movie has it. From the sound editing that has almost every movement and gunshot in sync to the music, to the meticulous song choices (tracks by The Beach Boys, Beck, T. Rex, and The Commodores are just a few featured), Wright has made a movie that showcases his incredible moviemaking talents and should be instantly included in the conversation with the best car chase/heist movies of all time.

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Fox NFL correspondent and "Dancing with the Stars" host, Erin Andrews wed her longtime love, former NHL star, Jarret Stoll in a mountainside ceremony at the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana. 

Surrounded by their family and friends the once, on-again-off-again couple exchanged vows and celebrated with a reception all designed by celebrity wedding planner Yifat Oren, according to PEOPLE.

Andrews wore an off-the-shoulder gown by Carolina Herrera. The sunset ceremony took place on Saturday, Stoll's 35th birthday.

The two first got engaged at Disneyland's Club33 over Christmas.

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 While on Extra, during the wedding planning process, Andrews joked that Stoll was a "bridezilla." Stoll seemed to be helping with the planning alongside celebrity wedding planner Yifat Oren.

"He is Pinteresting. I’m in Dallas Cowboy meetings, and he’s sending me, 'Hey babe, I saw this on Pinterest,' and I’m like, 'Hey babe, will you let me get through Super Bowl?'" Andrews told Extra.

It seems like all the planning paid off. Stoll and Andrews' ceremony overlooked the mountains in Big Sky Montana.

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The bride wore a Carolina Herrera dress and bridesmaid sister, Kendra also wore white. 

The intimate ceremony, held the day of Stoll's 35th birthday, included both parties' families.

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Nintendo is making a miniature version of its Super Nintendo, called the SNES Classic Edition.

For $80, it comes with 21 packaged Super Nintendo Entertainment System classics, from "Donkey Kong Country" to "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past."

The console arrives on September 29, and it includes the best Mario game ever made: "Super Mario World." But what else is on there?

Here's the full list of games:

• Contra III: The Alien Wars
• Donkey Kong Country
• EarthBound
• Final Fantasy III
• F-ZERO
• Kirby Super Star
• Kirby’s Dream Course
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Mega Man X
• Secret of Mana
• Star Fox
• Star Fox 2
• Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
• Super Castlevania IV
• Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
• Super Mario Kart
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
• Super Mario World
• Super Metroid
• Super Punch-Out!! 
• Yoshi’s Island

The console is officially named the "Super NES Classic Edition" — a shortened version of the console's name from 1991 when it was released as the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System." Unlike the original SNES console, the "Classic Edition" won't play cartridges. It's only capable of powering the 21 games included on the box. 

The console is small enough to fit in your palm:

The Super NES Classic Edition is much more akin to Nintendo's "NES Classic Edition" console that launched last year, and has since been discontinued, than the original SNES.

The NES Classic Edition was a miniaturized re-creation of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, albeit with built-in games rather than the ability to play cartridges. As a stand-in for being able to play all your old cartridge-based games, the console had a concept called "save states" — a virtual system for adding saves to all games on the console. In practice, this meant stopping wherever you want and picking back up right where you left off, which was impossible in many old games.

The Super NES Classic Edition will assuredly replicate that functionality for its 21 games. though Nintendo hasn't confirmed as much just yet. Here's what we do know: The Super NES Classic Edition comes with two (wired) controllers and an HDMI cable for the $80 it costs; it also comes packed with the 21 aforementioned games.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about this package is the inclusion of "Star Fox 2" — a game that was never released by Nintendo. It was actually completed back in the 1990s, but was never released to the public for a variety of reasons. Its inclusion in the Super NES Classic Edition is both bizarre and delightful.

The SNES Classic Edition arrives on September 29, and costs $79.99 — and we'd suggest getting one while you can, as Nintendo's likely to stop producing it at some point.

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After last week's surprise firing of directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller from the upcoming Han Solo "Star Wars" anthology movie, more stories are surfacing about the unstable production.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that, as previously reported, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the directing duo did not hit it off from the start of production. Both sides struggled with control as there was a constant battle over how scenes should be shot and how much Lord and Miller could stray from the script, written by "Star Wars" veteran Lawrence Kasdan ("The Empire Strikes Back," "The Force Awakens").

In one instance, the trade was told by sources that Lord and Miller only did three different setups (camera placements) for a scene shot on the Millennium Falcon, versus the 12 to 15 that a movie of this size usually does. This led to limited options to choose from in editing.

And the duo's improvisational style didn't go over well for many of the crew. Known for their comedies "The Lego Movie" and the "21 Jump Street" franchise, in which Lord and Miller collaborate heavily with their cast, on a movie of the size of a "Star Wars" project, that led to hundreds of crew members standing around waiting for marching orders, according to THR.  

Lord and Miller also shot some scenes by delivering improvised lines to the actors. According to sources, once Kasdan saw this he demanded that every line be said word for word. THR reports that Lord and Miller did do takes for scenes as it was written in the script. 

But in May things got really bad. Lucasfilm fired editor Chris Dickens and replaced him with Pietro Scalia. And the company also brought on an acting coach for its star Alden Ehrenreich, who plays young Han Solo, a rarity this late in a production.

According to THR, Lucasfilm wasn't satisfied with the performance Lord and Miller were getting out of him. It's possible Ehrenreich wasn't pleased with Lord and Miller, either. Star Wars News Net reports that the actor voiced his concerns about how the character was coming across to a producer who then sent it up the ladder to Kennedy. One source told SWNN that Ehrenreich 's performance of Solo is "oddly comparable to Jim Carrey’s performance in 'Ace Ventura' at times." 

Kennedy's decided to steady the ship by having Kasdan shadow Lord and Miller, similar to Tony Gilroy coming on to direct reshoots for Gareth Edwards' "Rogue One." But Lord and Miller pushed back, leading to Kennedy firing them. 

When the crew was told Ron Howard would be taking over the movie, they broke into applause, according to the THR story.

Though sources say the footage Miller and Lord shot is "very usable," the plan is for Howard to shoot until September. Production was originally supposed to wrap in July.

The untitled Han Solo movie is still slated for a May 25, 2018 release. 

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John Oliver summed up the problem with the anti-vaccine movement on "Last Week Tonight" in one line:

"Opportunistic quacks writing books that fan the flames of people's unfounded fears don't cause a legit public health hazard, except when they do."

Oliver was talking about Dr. Robert Sears, a pediatrician who promotes the idea that vaccines could be safely administered to children over a longer period of time, rather than all at once as is traditionally done.

Sears' approach has been portrayed as a sort of middle ground between anti-vaccination naysayers, who wrongly claim that vaccines are dangerous, and the medical community's consensus that vaccines are safe and necessary.

The problem is that Sears' method doesn't work. No scientific studies suggest there's a benefit to his technique, and a mountain of evidence supports the fact that vaccines are important and effective. There is no safe alternative to vaccination, and research has shown  that spacing out vaccines can have harmful results.

"Infants and young children who follow immunization schedules that spread out shots ... are at risk of developing diseases during the time that shots are delayed," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in its vaccination guidelines.

The frightening consequences of spreading out, delaying, or avoiding vaccinations has already been seen in the recent measles outbreaks in the US.

Nevertheless, a growing number of parents have expressed worries about vaccines. That controversy, Oliver says, can likely be traced back to a 1998 press conference called by London's Royal Free Hospital, which publicized a research paper published in the medical journal The Lancet. That paper has since been withdrawn from the journal. 

The paper's author, Andrew Wakefield, said during the conference that his research suggested a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and the onset of autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction.

Wakefield's results— which actually came from a small and poorly done study — were wrong.

Dozens of large-scale studies done since then, including a Danish study of close to half a million children, have sought to redo Wakefield's work in an attempt to replicate and essentially prove his results. So far, none have found an association of any kind between autism and the MMR vaccine.

The Lancet retracted Wakefield's paper in 2010, after an investigation revealed not only poor science but also financial conflicts of interest. Wakefield was stripped of his medical license a year later.

Nevertheless, what John Oliver calls "scary vaccines stories" continue to circulate. And this can translate into real challenges. There are now 11 states where the number of unvaccinated kids is on the rise, according to STAT News.

Oliver is determined to follow the science, however. At the end of the episode, he announced that he plans to vaccinate his 19-month-old son "fully and on schedule."

Watch the full "Last Week Tonight" episode:

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The HBO sitcom "Silicon Valley" may hinge on fictional technology, concocted by the show's co-creator Mike Judge and its showrunner Alec Berg, but if that tech actually makes waves, Judge and Berg may go down as geniuses.

In a recent New Yorker article examining just how thorough "Silicon Valley" creators and writers are about building their fake world, writer Andrew Marantz offered a revealing detail from the show's head consultant, Jonathan Dotan.

Dotan was remarking on an idea Judge and Berg floated to him one day in the writers' room. They wondered if so-called "middle-out" compression was a viable way to make really big files, like 4K video, much smaller. Typical compression methods were either top-down or bottom-up.

Dotan took the question to Stanford engineers Tsachy Weissman and Vinith Misra. Rather than laugh it off, the experts mulled it over.

Eventually, Weissman published a paper on the topic. And a couple years later, in 2015, Misra published a paper of his own on "middle-out compression," the breakthrough concept that scores the show's main character, Richard Hendricks, his big career breakthrough in season one.

"Clearly, middle-out compression doesn't work as well as it does on the show," Dotan told Marantz. "If it did, we'd all be trillionaires. But we do have an arrangement where, if Tsachy and Vinith ever perfect it, Mike and Alec will share the Nobel Prize with them."

Middle-out compression, however viable it may be, is probably the least plausible part of "Silicon Valley." In his piece, Marantz notes that 200 consultants are on-hand to ensure every document, whiteboard, negotiation, and board meeting are staged to mimic the real Silicon Valley.

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Europe's already full of gorgeous old buildings, the world's finest art, and millions of beautiful people. Does it deserve a better looking Super Nintendo as well?

In September, Europe's getting the much cooler-looking version of Nintendo's new $80, miniature Super Nintendo — the Super NES Classic Edition. Just look at this thing:

Super fresh, right? Agreed.

Nintendo announced the Super NES Classic Edition on Monday morning; there are two near-identical versions coming to North America and Europe on September 29. The one big difference? Appearance.

The European version of the Super NES Classic Edition has the quartet of early-'90s Nintendo symbols (the green/blue/yellow/red icon in the upper right corner). It's got the adorable little 1 and 2 next to each controller port. It's got the power switch, and the massive eject button. It's got the retro-futuristic vibe of a device ripped from "Blade Runner."

But in the United States? We get the rectangular box we all grew to know and love:

I grew up with the Super Nintendo model seen above.

It was slightly larger, and it took cartridges — the Super NES Classic Edition is small enough to fit into a palm, and only plays the games that are built into it (no cartridges) — but it was basically what you see above. And, like many of you, I loved my SNES.

But also, as a long-time Nintendo fan, I saw the European model of the SNES and was insanely jealous. That jealousy extends to the European version of the Super NES Classic Edition. Even the box looks better!

When the console does arrive in September, it'll come with the same 21 games in both North America and Europe. Here they are:

• Contra III: The Alien Wars
• Donkey Kong Country
• EarthBound
• Final Fantasy III
• F-ZERO
• Kirby Super Star
• Kirby’s Dream Course
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Mega Man X
• Secret of Mana
• Star Fox
• Star Fox 2
• Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
• Super Castlevania IV
• Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
• Super Mario Kart
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
• Super Mario World
• Super Metroid
• Super Punch-Out!!
• Yoshi’s Island

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In a statement provided to Business Insider, a Nintendo representative said, "We aren’t providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition."

In late 2016, Nintendo launched a $60 video game console that looked almost exactly like the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It was called the "NES Classic Edition," and it was in high demand as a gift during the holidays.

That demand carried into 2017 — until Nintendo suddenly killed the console in April. As such, the life of the NES Classic Edition was a roller coaster of emotions for anyone trying to buy the console. It was made available during the holiday season, was near impossible to buy, and then it was never fully re-stocked before being discontinued.

Why was it killed? 

There are a variety of answers to that question, but the main thing to understand about Nintendo's "Classic Edition" console sales is that they're intended as an elaborate commercial for Nintendo. The end goal is simple: You buy other Nintendo products, like the company's new Switch console, after having been reminded that Nintendo games are a lot of fun. It's a diabolical combination of product, advertisement, and nostalgia.  

The Super NES Classic Edition is the same way.

Nintendo's only promising it'll continue production of the Super NES Classic Edition console "until the end of calendar year 2017." After that? "We have nothing to announce regarding any possible shipments beyond this year." Rough! While it's entirely possible that Nintendo continues producing its Super NES Classic Edition console well into 2018, it sounds equally likely that it'll end its run when 2017 is over. 

All of which is to say one thing: Get ready to pre-order. There's no way to do so just yet, but Nintendo says it'll have that info "coming soon." If that fails, you can always line up bright and early on September 29 at your favorite local store — the Super NES Classic Edition costs $79.99 and launches on September 29.

Here's the full statement from Nintendo regarding the Super NES Classic Edition supply:

"We aren’t providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition.

"Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition is currently planned to ship from Sept. 29 until the end of calendar year 2017. At this time, we have nothing to announce regarding any possible shipments beyond this year.

"Our long-term efforts are focused on delivering great games for the Nintendo Switch system and continuing to build momentum for that platform, as well as serving the more than 63 million owners of Nintendo 3DS family systems. We are offering Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition in special recognition of the fans who show tremendous interest our classic content."

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Professional golfer Tiger Woods once posed for the cover of Men's Fitness shortly after the National Inquirer received a tip in 2007 that Woods was sleeping with a waitress named Mindy Lawton, the New Yorker reported in an exposè published in the July 3 issue.

The tip was years before Woods' marital infidelities had been revealed to the public.

Men's Fitness and the National Inquirer are both owned by American Media and run by CEO David Pecker, who was profiled in the New Yorker for his ties to President Donald Trump.

Pecker told the New Yorker that Lawton's mother had called the Inquirer and said Woods and Lawton met at a diner near Woods' Orlando home where Lawton worked.

"She said her daughter serves him, and then she has a relationship with Tiger, and she goes out to the parking lot behind there and they have sex together," Pecker said.

Reporters from The National Enquirer hid behind the bushes of the parking lot and captured evidence of Lawton and Woods together.

"The Enquirer guys were behind the bushes and she must have had her period, so she threw the tampon and they grabbed it," Pecker said.

Pecker said that the Men's Fitness editors had asked Woods to appear on the cover of the magazine multiple times. After the Inquirer asked Woods for comment on his tryst with Lawton, Woods' agent called Men's Fitness and agreed to negotiate for a cover story. Woods appeared on the cover in August 2007.

"Pecker was all over me about the negotiations with Tiger’s people," Neal Boulton, the editor of the magazine at the time, told the New Yorker. “I allowed myself to get sucked into this situation."

Pecker insisted to the New Yorker that Woods' first cover appearance was not blackmail and that he never intended to run the Lawton story.

The National Enquirer would go on to publish stories about Woods' other affairs in 2009.

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Pandora cofounder and CEO Tim Westergren has stepped down, the company announced on Tuesday.

The board will begin searching for candidates to fill the position, and CFO Naveen Chopra will serve as interim CEO. Westergren, who cofounded Pandora back in 2000, will also no longer serve on Pandora's board of directors.

This news comes on the heels of a $480 million investment from Sirius XM earlier this month, which gives the satellite-radio powerhouse 19% of Pandora, in addition to three board seats. At the same time, Pandora announced it would unload Ticketfly, the ticketing startup it paid $335.3 million in stock and cash for in 2015, to Eventbrite for $200 million.

Westergren took over the CEO role last March, mostly to guide the company's launch of its on-demand competitor to Spotify and Apple Music, which completed its rollout in April. The $9.99-a-month service, called Pandora Premium, was meant to wring money out of Pandora's massive user base in a more effective way than its ad-supported product. Grumblings are, however, that Sirius XM has little interest in this service.

Pandora's stock has been flat in premarket trading following the news.

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Tesla, the electric-car and energy-storage company, could become the next big music-streaming service. 

Last week, a spokesperson told Business Insider that it was important for its customers to "listen to the music they want from whatever source they choose." The comments followed a report suggesting the company was working on a music-streaming service. 

And according to Adam Jonas, an equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, this would make sense.

Silicon Valley is interested "in the potential multi-trillion dollar opportunity selling data, content and experiences unfamiliar to today's auto firms," Jonas said in a note on Tuesday.

"The potential total addressable market of such a bundled mile (utility + content + data) dwarfs some of the major end markets (PC, smartphones) that Silicon Valley currently services."

By 2030, Jonas forecast, Tesla Mobility — an on-demand service similar to Uber — would have about 2 million cars, and there would be about 7 million privately owned Teslas.

"Tesla wants to be more than a 'dumb pipe,'" that moves people around, Jonas said. 

The auto industry would be a "money loser" by 2030, Jonas said. However, Tesla would be able to monetize the time that people are spending in their cars, as Tesla and other companies develop what he described as a "living room on wheels."

"These firms could cede 100% of the value of content to the likes of Apple, Alphabet, Pandora, Sirius or Netflix," Jonas said. "On the other hand, they could say: 'Wait a second. This is our venue. Our OLED screen. Our speakers. Our HMI. Our seats. Our software. Let's at least give the customer a choice of using our own apps before we too quickly go the way of the pure handset manufacturers.'"

Additionally, the buying power of people that own Tesla's electric cars could be well suited in the market for paid premium content.

Jonas expects that Tesla's peers entering the self-driving and ride-sharing space, including Alphabet and Apple, could also explore original content for their cars' passengers. 

But these competitors are bigger and better capitalized than Tesla, meaning they could provide ridesharing at a loss and at Tesla's expense, Jonas said. 

Music streaming is worth about $50 million in enterprise value to Tesla, Jonas estimated.

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With its authentic look at all things 1980s, the new Netflix series "GLOW" has become our latest binge obsession. And then there's its incredible soundtrack.

Following the creation of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion, which really became a hit TV show in the late 1980s, the Netflix comedy starring Alison Brie and breakout star Betty Glipin pays homage to the era with loud outfits, teased hair, and some of the best music of the era.

Here we highlight the 15 best songs from the show:

Warning: Minor spoilers revealed if you haven't seen the entire first season.

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1. "The Warrior" by Patty Smyth

The first episode of the show kicks off with this classic anthem.

Listen to the song.

2. "Separate Ways" (Worlds Apart) by Journey

When Debbie (Egan) finally learns that Ruth (Brie) has been sleeping with her husband, Mark (Rich Sommer), she confronts her at the wrestling gym. With both ladies in the ring, G.L.O.W. director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) has a vision of what could be. Cue this classic Journey song.

Listen to the song.

3. "Stir It Up" by Patti LaBelle

The song in the first episode's end credits is a track best known for being on the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtrack, which, at the time the show is set in, would have been a huge hit on the radio.

Listen to the song.

In the mid-90s, Nintendo created — and never released— a direct sequel to the original "Star Fox" Super Nintendo game.

It was named simply "Star Fox 2," and it's about to come out for the first time over 20 years later.

Since nobody has a Super Nintendo anymore, this game is coming out in an especially strange way: through a brand new game console.

On September 29, Nintendo plans to release the Super NES Classic Edition, an $80 miniature Super Nintendo console. It doesn't play original SNES cartridges, and it's significantly reduced in size from the original SNES, but it's essentially a tiny SNES console that can plug into your modern high-definition television.

It's through this console, alongside 20 other SNES games, that "Star Fox 2" will finally become available. Weirder still: You'll have to complete the first level of the original "Star Fox" (also included in the Super NES Classic Edition) in order to gain access to "Star Fox 2." Sure!

So, why is Nintendo finally releasing "Star Fox 2" over 20 years later? Outside of offering it as an extreme form of fan service, it's not clear — we've asked for more details and haven't heard back as of publishing.

What we do know is why the game was canned so many years ago (it was supposed to launch in 1995). Here's the game's creative lead, game developer Dylan Cuthbert, speaking to Kotaku about the game back in 2011:

"'The thinking was that if Nintendo released another 3D game on the Super Nintendo,' said Cuthbert, 'then it would be compared with the PlayStation 1, and the quality was completely different.' [Nintendo creative lead Shigeru Miyamoto] came and told the team that the completed game would not be released. 'Star Fox 2 was disappointing but I could understand the reasoning — the PlayStation and Saturn had come out and were obviously superior to the SuperFX chip,' said Cuthbert. 'Considering the rivalry between Sony and Nintendo I could see exactly where they were coming from.'"

Over the past two decades, various unfinished, untranslated versions of "Star Fox 2" have leaked out — some folks have even gone so far as to fix bugs with those versions, and translate the game into English from its original Japanese.

Nintendo, however, is releasing the finalized form of the game for the first time ever when the Super NES Classic Edition launches on September 29.

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