• A new lawsuit alleges Harvey Weinstein employed an "entourage" of "wing women" on the company's payroll to help him meet women "with whom he could attempt to engage in sexual relations."
• These "wing women" would also allegedly teach Weinstein's female assistants how to dress and smell to his liking.

Since October, dozens of women have accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault, and a new lawsuit alleges he was assisted by a female entourage — "wing women" — who The Weinstein Company employed to help him meet women at parties, and who taught his assistants how to dress (and even smell) to his liking.

A lawsuit filed Sunday by New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against The Weinstein Company claims there was a complicated apparatus to enable Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct over decades, and that the company failed to appropriately reprimand its former CEO.

One big way the lawsuit alleges TWC enabled Weinstein's behavior was by employing women to accompany him to parties and help facilitate his actions, known as his "roster" or "wing women." 

"While they had different titles, as a practical matter their primary responsibility included taking [Weinstein] to parties at which he could meet young women, and introducing him to young women seeking opportunities at [The Weinstein Company] with whom he could attempt to engage in sexual relations," the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit claims these women were on payroll in the company's New York, Los Angeles, and London offices. 

"One of the members of this entourage was flown from London to New York to teach HW's assistants how to dress and smell more attractive" to Weinstein, the lawsuit alleges.

Employees were often hesitant to challenge Weinstein, according to the lawsuit, out of fear of angering him.

"On certain occasions, company employees expressed concerns about his improper charges to company accounts, but would be dissuaded from following through by fear of angering him," the lawsuit states.

But in 2015, company management requested that the "roster" of women be taken off the payroll, according to the suit.

"While [Weinstein's] use of corporate cards after this 2015 meeting remains under investigation, certain members of the 'roster' remained on staff after that date," the lawsuit says.

The Weinstein Company was not immediately available for comment.

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The reasons the Olympics enthrall viewers — the atmosphere, the joy of winning, the agony of defeat, the spectacle of sport — are the same reasons they produce some of the best photos.

The Winter Olympics are underway, and although we're only a few days in, already photographers have captured some stunning images from the games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Though there's too many great photos to count, we used Getty to compile some of our favorites so far.

Take a look below.

Lydia Lassila of Australia floats upside down, as freestyle skiers do.

Dramatic angles show how daunting the snowboard slopestyle is.

But winning the slopestyle can be rewarding, as it was for Red Gerard.

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• A showrunner for "Bachelor Winter Games" said the Trump administration's strict policies on entry into the United States directly affected the casting process.
• Producers wanted one cast member from every country that has its own version of the show. 
• Some contestants were denied visas, including a German contestant of Persian descent. 
• Other contestants arrived late to filming after waiting for their visas to get approved.

President Trump's immigration policies have affected the country in unexpected ways — including casting of the most recent spin-off of "The Bachelor." 

"Bachelor Winter Games," a spin-off series of ABC's "The Bachelor" franchise debuts this week. The show features contestants from "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" seasons from all over the world, from the United States to Australia, to Switzerland and Japan.

"The Bachelor" has a franchise in over 30 countries, and "The Bachelorette" is in 13. With "Winter Games," producers wanted to take advantage of the show's global presence. 

Initially, the goal was to recruit one contestant from every country that has its own version of "The Bachelor." But in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, co-showrunner Bennett Graebner said getting some of the foreign contestants to the United States was a challenge as a result of Trump's policies.

Graebner said the process was more difficult for 2018 than for 2017, saying some contestants missed the show's opening ceremony due to a long visa approval process. 

"It was shocking," Graebner told THR. "I had a lot of sleepless nights wondering if certain people were going to get into the country."

Graebner said that one contestant, who was on the German version of "The Bachelor," was a favorite to be a contestant on "Winter Games." He is of Persian descent, and his visa was denied "immediately," he said.

Graebner said that the casting process took months, with contestants attending visa interviews and appointments at embassies.

Of 26 contestants on "Winter Games," 12 are from the US. The other 14 contestants come from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, China and the UK.

"Winter Games" premieres Tuesday night on ABC.

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• An NBC Asia analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo, made comments during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony that many people viewed as culturally insensitive.
• The network has issued an apology and said in a statement that Ramo "will have no further role on our air."

An NBC Olympic commentator is no longer on the air after making remarks about Japanese-South Korean relations that some deemed insensitive.

The network has said the Asia analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo is no longer under contract with it after saying during Friday's opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea, that "every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological, and economic example, has been so important to their own transformation."

Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula before and during World War II was marked with humanitarian atrocities including forced prostitution of Korean women and forced labor. The Japanese occupation remains a provocative subject for many South Koreans, particularly among the older generation. Disputes over the countries' history are still a point of contention.

NBC responded to the backlash in a statement to Reuters: "Joshua Cooper Ramo has completed his responsibilities for NBC in Pyeongchang, and will have no further role on our air."

Though Ramo did acknowledge that Japan "occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945," South Koreans and foreign-policy experts decried his remarks:

Severalonline petitions with thousands of supporters have surfaced amid the criticism.

"Any reasonable person familiar with the history of Japanese imperialism, and the atrocities it committed before and during WWII, would find such statement deeply hurtful and outrageous," a petition with more than 15,900 supporters said. "And no, no South Korean would attribute the rapid growth and transformation of its economy, technology, and political/cultural development to the Japanese imperialism."

The Pyeongchang Organizing Committee said that it "informed NBC of the errors in their commentary and the sensitivity of the subject in Korea," according to Reuters.

The NBC Sports anchor Carolyn Manno issued a statement about Ramo's comments following the public backlash:

"During our coverage of the Parade of Nations on Friday we said it was notable that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the trip to Korea for the Olympics, 'representing Japan, a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945 but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation.' We understand the Korean people were insulted by these comments and we apologize."

Ramo left the network after the Olympic opening ceremony. Though media reports suggested he was involuntarily fired, an NBC Sports executive reportedly said that Ramo was contracted only for the opening ceremony and that his employment came to a natural end.

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• Omarosa Manigault suggested that people should be more worried about Vice President Mike Pence than they are of President Donald Trump.
• Manigault, a former reality television personality who briefly worked in the Trump administration before returning to reality television, made those comments on the show, "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition."
• She is appearing on the series two months after her departure from the White House, and has made headlines with her comments on the administration she briefly served before her departure in December.

The former White House aide Omarosa Manigault is sharing more candid thoughts about the Trump administration on the reality series "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition."

Manigault reportedly said that people would be "begging for the days of Trump" if Vice President Mike Pence became president, the New York Daily News reported Monday night.

Manigault called Pence "scary" because "he thinks Jesus is telling him to say things."

"I'm Christian. I love Jesus," Manigault said. "Jesus isn't saying that."

Manigault also hinted that the administration's immigration-reform actions would escalate. "The roundup plan is getting more and more aggressive," Manigault said according to the Daily News.

It was not immediately clear what Manigault meant by the phrase, "the roundup plan," but she may have been referring to the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency's stepped-up deportation activity under Trump.

Manigault made headlines last week when she confessed that President Donald Trump's tweets "haunted" her "every single day" during her tenure in the White House.

Deputy press secretary Raj Shah served up a biting rejoinder to those comments last week.

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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was dismissive of Facebook's video ambitions during Recode's Code Media conference.
• Wojcicki said that Facebook "should get back to baby pictures."
• Facebook and YouTube are competing to become the dominant social video platform.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki joked that rival site Facebook "should get back to baby pictures" rather than attempt to become a video platform that competes with YouTube, according to a report on CNBC.

Wojcicki was speaking at Recode's Code Media conference on February 12 and was asked by journalist Kara Swisher whether she's concerned about Facebook's growing video ambitions.

"I mean you always have to take your competitors seriously, but you don't win by looking backwards and looking around," Wojcicki said.

Swisher pushed her to expand on that response, asking "what do you think they're doing?"

"I think they should focus on what they're focused on," Wojcicki said. "I think they should get back to baby pictures and sharing."

"I'm not an expert about Facebook. They're experts in it and they should do what's best for their business. And look, we should all compete for content. I build our business and I focus on what we need to do, and I know that we have a lot of things to do. You can always remind me of all the things that we need to do and we're going to keep doing them because that's the way that we're going to get stronger."

Facebook and YouTube both want to become the web's go-to video platform

Wojcicki's shot at Facebook comes as the two companies are battling to control social video. Facebook has been ramping up the amount of video it shows in its news feed, and introduced new advertising options including pre-roll and mid-roll ads for creators.

And Facebook is also expanding its Facebook Watch program, which is its television-like service for people to watch videos from professional creators and creators lured from YouTube.

For the first batch of Facebook Watch shows, Facebook reportedly spent $10,000 (£7,200) to $40,000 (£28,000) per episode for short-form series, and $250,000 (£180,000) to $1 million (£721,000) per episode for TV-length original series.

However, Wojcicki's comment does touch on an important point: Video is a relatively new part of the mix of content on Facebook, and the company has indicated that it's going to refocus its news feed on content from friends, rather than pages.

"When people are engaging with people they're close to, it's more meaningful, more fulfilling," said Facebook's director of research David Ginsberg in an interview with The New York Times, "It's good for your well-being."

And the ever-changing nature of Facebook's news feed algorithm can make it difficult for creators to steadily grow their audience. One creator Business Insider spoke to, Jessica Nigri, said that her reach on Facebook had been "decimated."

"I have noticed that videos in general are receiving less reach than usual," she said. "It's concerning because a lot of people depend on social media to showcase their work and reach new audiences."

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• An allegation of domestic abuse against actor Michael Fassbender has resurfaced in a new report from The Daily Beast, which cites a 2010 court filing from Fassbender's ex-girlfriend, Sunawin Andrews.
• Andrews reportedly filed for a restraining order against Fassbender in March 2010 for allegedly dragging her alongside a car and, in a separate incident, breaking her nose. 

A nearly decade-old allegation of domestic abuse against actor Michael Fassbender has resurfaced in a report from The Daily Beast published on Monday.

Fassbender, who married actress Alicia Vikander in October, was accused in 2010 by his then-girlfriend Sunawin Andrews of dragging Andrews alongside a car and, in a separate incident, breaking her nose, according to a court petition which Andrews filed and The Daily Beast recently obtained. 

Andrews, then a 36-year-old aspiring model and actress, reportedly filed a restraining order against Fassbender in March 2010 for the alleged abuse committed in 2009. 

TMZ first reported in 2010 on Andrews' court filing and allegation of abuse, but as The Daily Beast notes, the allegation never gained much traction in the public or media's perception of Fassbender, known for his leading roles in films like "Steve Jobs" and the latest incarnation of the "X-Men" franchise. 

Fassbender has also never commented on the allegation publicly. The actor's representatives did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. 

In response to The Daily Beast article, Andrews referred the outlet to her statements filed in the court petition.

In the court filing, according to The Daily Beast, Andrews alleged that Fassbender became upset after one of her ex-boyfriends said hello to her while she was dining with the actor and two friends at a restaurant. Andrews said that Fassbender was "drinking and became angry," and that her friends followed them home, concerned.

"Michael was driving my car dangerously fast and screaming at me. I begged him to stop the car in fear of an accident or for my children who were home asleep," Andrews wrote in the filing. "As we got closer to my house I put my car in stop. Got out walked around the car to pull key from ignition. Michael drove of[f] dragging me along from the car."

In the court filing, Andrews said that she went to the hospital on November 29, 2009, 11 days after the alleged incident, to treat "a twisted left ankle, blown out left knee cap, and a bursted ovarian cyst."

A former friend of Andrews' who attended the same dinner told The Daily Beast that she "didn't witness anything [Fassbender] did to her" the night of the alleged car dragging.  

Andrews also alleged that, in a separate incident at a film festival in July 2009, Fassbender became violent and broke her nose the morning after a night of drinking.

"He was sleeping in urine," Andrew wrote in the court filing of Fassbender. "I woke him and he began to be violent and threw me over a chair, breaking my nose."

According to the records obtained by The Daily Beast, a judge granted Andrews a temporary restraining order that called for Fassbender to move out of the couple's home in Bel Air, which Andrews said was leased in her name.

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• NBA superstar Lebron James is producing a remake of the 1990 film "House Party."
• "Atlanta" writers Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori are set to write the screenplay.
• James says "it is definitely not a reboot."

LeBron James is taking on Hollywood producing, starting with a remake of a 90s classic.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, SpringHill Entertainment, which was founded by James and his partner Maverick Carter, will produce a new "House Party." "Atlanta" writers Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori are set to write the screenplay. The original comedy was released by New Line in 1990. It had two sequels, in 1991 and 1994, and starred Kid and Play of the hip hop duo Kid 'n Play. 

“This is definitely not a reboot. It’s an entirely new look for a classic movie,” James, 33, told THR. James, who grew up loving the film, said that the opportunity to bring "House Party" to a new generation is "unbelievable."

“We’re trying out some ideas for musicians to be cast in and to be a part of the project,” Carter said. James is good friends with Drake, and SpringHill is already collaborated with the rapper on two projects.

Carter also mentioned that there's a possibility James, who received a lot of acclaim for his role in the comedy "Trainwreck," will appear in the film. 

James is not the first NBA star to try out producing. Kobe Bryant is a 2018 Oscar nominee for the short documentary "Dear Basketball," and Steve Nash is producing a currently untitled feature about the rise of ecstasy and rave culture in Texas during the Reagan administration. 

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• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said at a media conference Monday that the controversial YouTube star Logan Paul hasn't violated enough policies to be banned from the platform.
• YouTube temporarily suspended paid advertising on Paul's page last week after he uploaded a video of himself tasering two dead rats.
• In January, Paul drew criticism for uploading footage of a dead body hanging in Japan's "suicide forest."
• Wojcicki said that suspending Paul's ad revenue was "actually a pretty strong statement."

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki explained at Recode's Code Media conference on Monday that the controversial YouTube star Logan Paul hasn't violated enough of the site's policies to get banned from the platform.

"When someone violates our policies three times, we terminate. We terminate accounts all the time," Wojcicki said. "He hasn't done anything that would cause those three strikes."

Paul, who first gained an audience on the defunct video platform Vine, has over 16 million followers on YouTube, where he posts vlogs and reaction videos.

Last week, YouTube temporarily suspended paid advertising on Paul's page and removed him from Google's Preferred Ads program after he uploaded a video of himself tasering two dead rats. The star made $12.5 million in 2017, according to Forbes, some of which came from YouTube ads.

In January, Paul drew immense criticism for filming and uploading a video of a dead body hanging in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the "suicide forest." 

Instead of terminating Paul's account over his recent videos, Wojcicki said that suspending his ad revenue was "actually a pretty strong statement."

When asked if YouTube could be more strict in its policies, Wojcicki admitted that the site could potentially change its rules, while also cautioning against censorship.

"On the one side is censorship, and on the other side is too much freedom of speech," she said. "It's a complicated and very nuanced place where that line is drawn."

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• Amazon-owned Twitch is now pulling in as many monthly viewers as cable news networks.
• In January 2018, Twitch had nearly a million people watching at any given point.
• Twitch primarily features live video streams of people playing video games, but the service has added other types of content recently.

Amazon's $970 million bet on game streaming service Twitch continues to pay off — the service is now averaging more viewers than some major cable networks.

In January, 962,000 people was the average viewership on Twitch. Sometimes there was more, sometimes there was less — but in general, nearly a million people were watching Twitch at any given point.

That puts Twitch viewership on par with the likes of MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and ESPN. 

"For comparison, 2017 total day viewership for Fox News Channel and ESPN was ~1.5 million, MSNBC was 885,000, and CNN was 783,000," Macquarie Capital analyst Ben Schachter points out in a recent note, "putting Twitch squarely among the most-watched US cable channels."

Twitch is a free service that's populated by user-generated content. People play games live on Twitch while other folks watch. There is a comment section so that viewers can interact with the person streaming, along with the ability to tip the streamer with virtual items called "Bits" that can be purchased with real money. 

Both Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One have software built in that enables streaming games directly to Twitch from the consoles, and many streamers use gaming PCs to broadcast. Watching Twitch is similarly open and simple.

Beyond gaming, Twitch also offers "IRL" streaming— an acronym for "in real life" — which enables people to share their reality with a streaming audience. It's not clear how much this burgeoning section of Twitch contributed to the overall average viewership record set in January, but it's a good idea of where Twitch could go in the future. 

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• Marvel's "Black Panther" is on track to have the biggest February opening of all time.
• If domestic box office sales go the way experts are predicting, it could could surpass some of the biggest movie openings of all time. 
• The film's early success proves that "Black Panther," which has a predominantly black cast and was directed and written by a black man, is the kind of movie people want to see.

In addition to rave reviews, Marvel's "Black Panther" is on track to have the biggest February opening weekend ever.

And if domestic box-office sales go the way experts are predicting, they could even surpass some of the biggest openings of all time. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, tracking service NRG estimates the movie's domestic debut will be between $165 million and $170 million, which would make it the biggest February launch of all time, beating 2016's "Deadpool," which opened at $152.2 million.

Two weeks ago, NRG predicted "Black Panther" would make $125 million opening weekend. So that number could surge even higher.

As Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List, pointed out, if the projections are correct that means "Black Panther" could beat some of the biggest openings of all time. It could have a bigger opening than movies including "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I," "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," "The Dark Knight," "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and all movies in "The Hunger Games" franchise. 

Here's how films with massive opening weekends compare to the "Black Panther" projections:

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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I" (2010): $125 million

"Furious 7" (2015): $147.18 million

"Spider-Man 3" (2007): $151.1 million

The foibles and trials of relationships have always made for compelling comedic cinema.

From the silent movies of Charlie Chaplin to Judd Apatow-produced films like "Knocked Up" and "The Big Sick," the romantic comedy genre has evolved with and adapted to each generation.

To find out which rom-coms have received the most critical acclaim, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes for its historical ranking of the genre.

The site ranked each film by a weighted adjustment of its average critic score to account for variation in the number of reviews each movie received.

Here are the 27 best romantic comedy movies of all time, according to critics:

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27. "Obvious Child" (2014)

Critic score: 90%

Adjusted score: 95.757%

Audience score: 72%

Summary: "A twenty-something comedienne's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time."

26. "Moonstruck" (1987)

Critic score: 92%

Adjusted score:96.27%

Audience score: 81%

Summary: "Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry."

25. "High Fidelity" (2000)

Critic score: 91%

Adjusted score:96.812%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress."

I've been living with the $650 TCL P607 for over a month, and it's a fantastic TV.

It's a 55-inch TV with ultra-sharp 4K resolution, HDR10 for great picture color, and it even has Dolby Vision for content that supports it, which is an even better version of HDR10.

It also has Roku built in, which handily outclasses the built-in software that most smart TVs come with.

The TCL P607 isn't the cheapest 55-inch 4K TV with HDR, but it's close. And most TVs with this kind of extended feature set, including Dolby Vision, can easily cost north of $1,000.

Check out what I thought of the TCL P607 TV after using it for a month:

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The TCL TV makes 4K and HDR video look just as good as more expensive TVs.

4K TV shows, movies, and games look stunning on the TCL. 

The TCL has 72 local dimming zones, which means it can dim or turn off certain zones of the screen that show a dark scene. As a result, the color black is surprisingly deep for a regular LCD TV. It's not an OLED display where every pixel acts as a local dimming zone, so it doesn't get that perfect black color in darker scenes, but the TCL is remarkably close. Having such deep black levels makes for a richer picture, and brighter parts of a scene can truly pop, too. 

With that said, the dimming zones can lag when scenes suddlenly switch from dark to bright. Parts of the screen can stay dim for a split second before switching back to bright. It's noticeable, but not really distracting. 

It supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision, which you usually find on more expensive TVs.

The TCL also supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision, which make for more natural colors on content that supports HDR. It also helps reveal detail in darker parts of a scene that you normally wouldn't see on a TV without HDR.

I should note that most HDR TVs only support the regular HDR10 standard while relatively few TVs support Dolby Vision, which is a kind of "premium" version of the standard HDR10 that's usually found on higher-end TV models. The Dolby Vision badge can ramp up the price of a TV, but it hasn't done so with the TCL. 

I was surprised to find that Dolby Vision does actually look better than regular HDR10. The enhancements to color and detail are more noticeable than they are with regular HDR10, and it's always a treat when I find a show or movie that supports Dolby Vision on Netflix. 

I should also note that most streaming devices only support HDR10, not Dolby Vision. So the TCL, as a streaming device, is better than most streaming devices if you value Dolby Vision. So far, only the Apple TV 4K supports Dolby Vision.

If you want better TV quality, the next best thing are OLED TVs, which usually come with a huge price tag.

I found that I enjoyed content with the $650 TCL just as much as I did with the $5,500 LG OLED TV I tried out a few months ago. 

TCL may not be a household name like LG or Sony, but don't let that scare you. The Chinese brand has existed for decades. It recently made a splash in the US TV market with its Roku-powered smart TVs, and it's made a name for itself as a great budget-friendly brand for TVs.

• GoCompare.com compiled a list of the most filmed locations in romantic movies, using data from IMDB.
• The data limited the movies to the last 20 years, and only included movies filmed on location.

With Valentine's Day (and unfortunately a new "Fifty Shades" movie) upon us, love is in the air. But there are some cities where it seems to be more prevalent than others, at least according to Hollywood movies.

Insurance site GoCompare.com crunched data to determine the most filmed locations for movie romances, based on IMDB data from over 340,000 movies. The company developed a platform that restricted the data to movies from the last 20 years, and included only movies filmed on location.

There are a few caveats with the data. While the IMDB data was fairly comprehensive for Hollywood movies, it often was missing information about Bollywood films, especially in terms of on-location filming. So Mumbai is probably undercounted (it comes it at No. 6).

That said, it's still interesting to see the cities moviemakers think are full of love.

Here are the top 7 places:

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7. Barcelona, Spain

As seen in: "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (2008), "The Spanish Apartment" (2003), "Biutiful" (2010)

Number of romantic movies filmed on location here: 15

6. Mumbai, India

As seen in: "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008), "Bride and Prejudice" (2004)

Number of romantic movies filmed on location here: 18

5. Brooklyn, New York

As seen in: "Enchanted" (2007)

Number of romantic movies filmed on location here: 19

• "Friday Night Lights" producer Brian Grazer and Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant are teaming for a scripted dramatic series for Apple.
• The series will be based on Durant's childhood playing basketball at an early age in Washington, D.C.

Apple's leap into scripted television is attracting an NBA superstar and a major TV and film producer.

Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant and "Friday Night Lights" producer Brian Grazer will team for a dramatic scripted series for the tech giant, Deadline first reported.

The series, called "Swagger," is inspired by Durant's time playing Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball in Washington, D.C. at an early age.

Grazer said he hopes to capture the essence of "Friday Night Lights," an NBC drama that focused on the lives of small town Texas football players that aired from 2006 to 2011.

Durant "created a beautiful world that the 'Friday Night Lights' essence could inhabit,” Grazer told Deadline. “It has the same things. The fragility of how you were as a kid, and how these kids — 12-13 years old — are presented with money, real money, (from athletic apparel brands). It’s a fascinating universe of possibilities.” 

Apple has recently been making moves in the scripted series world, even willing to drop a reported $1 billion this year on programming.

In January, The Hollywood Reporter broke that Apple had acquired a 10-episode comedy starring Kristen Wiig and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.

"Swagger" would also join the likes of the Steven Spielberg-produced "Amazing Stories," among other shows, in Apple's move to challenge Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon for the original content streaming crown.

And while Apple is bankrolling this project, here's a fun aside: Durant and Grazer were actually brought together by Google. The pair reportedly met at the exclusive "Google Camp" gathering, started by  Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, which has been called the "Davos on the sea" for bringing together VIPs across tech, media, and fashion.

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• Amazon Music is now available on the Windows 10 app store. 
• Amazon previously announced that the Alexa virtual assistant is coming to certain Windows 10 PCs, leaving the door open for more to come. 
• While the PC market is shrinking overall, Microsoft says that there are now over 600 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild.
• Spotify is already available from the Windows Store, with Apple promising that a version of iTunes is on the way.

Amazon is bringing its popular Amazon Music streaming service to Windows 10. To cut to the chase: If you want it, you can get the app from the Windows Store here.

In a broader sense, it's part of a big play that Amazon is making for the Windows 10 PC.

In January, Amazon announced that its Alexa virtual assistant would be built in to some new PCs from manufacturers including HP, Acer, and Asus. While Amazon hasn't announced anything specifically, that news puts it within the realm of possibility that Amazon could release Alexa as a standalone Windows app, too. Besides, playing music is already a tremendously popular feature of the Alexa agent; having a full Amazon Music app too just makes sense.

On the one hand, the move to launch Amazon Music on Windows 10 seems counterintuitive. The PC market is shrinking, while Amazon's own hardware businesses — like the Alexa-powered Echo speakers and its Kindle Fire tablets— are booming, according to all available indicators. 

And yet, Windows 10 is still a massive market. Microsoft says in a blog post that there are now over 600 million Windows 10 PCs out there. That gives Amazon a big market to address, which could help it gain ground on Spotify and Apple Music, the first- and second-place most popular streaming services, respectively. Notably, Spotify is already available on the Windows Store, with a delayed Apple iTunes app coming soon.

Plus, Microsoft is still a major player in the demographic that every media company wants: Young people. While Google's low-cost Chromebooks dominate the educational market in the United States, Windows is overall the most popular operating system in classrooms around the world.

In the bigger picture, too, Microsoft is reportedly pushing "S Mode"— a Windows 10 feature that grants improvements to battery life and performance, with the tradeoff that you can only install software from the Windows Store. If Microsoft's ambitions are fulfilled and "S Mode" comes to many more PCs, it'll behoove Amazon, Apple, and Spotify to all have apps on the Windows Store, or else risk losing access to those users.

As for Microsoft itself, it doesn't really have a horse in this race. The company shuttered its own Groove Music streaming service in 2017, offering users a way to migrate their playlists to Spotify. And Microsoft and Amazon had previously announced an integration between Alexa and the Microsoft Cortana smart agent, too. 

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• Katie Couric was widely criticized for suggesting skating was an "important mode of transportation" in the Netherlands.
• Using data from Statistics Netherlands, Business Insider estimated how long Dutch gold-medal speed skater Sven Kramer would take to skate the average distance traveled by a Dutch person in a day.
• If Kramer were able to sustain a speed of 29 mph, he would be able to cover the average daily commute distance of 32 kilometers in about 39 minutes, beating the average travel time by a solid 23 minutes.

Katie Couric came under fire over the weekend for comments she made during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

When the Netherlands' delegation entered the stadium during the parade of athletes, Couric proposed an interesting hypothesis as to why the Dutch tend to dominate in speed skating:

"Because skating is an important mode of transportation in a city like Amsterdam which sits at sea level. As you all know, it has lots of canals that can freeze in the winters. So, for as long as those canals have existed, the Dutch have skated on them to get from place to place, to race each other, and also to have fun."

This statement was quickly mocked on Twitter, and Couric eventually apologized. But it made us curious about what ice skating as a mode of daily transportation might look like in the Netherlands.

Conveniently, the main Dutch government statistical agency, Statistics Netherlands, published a report in 2016 on transportation and mobility in that country.

Notably, speed skating is not listed as a major method of getting from place to place. According to the report, about 73% of kilometers traveled and 46% of trips in 2014 were in a car as either a passenger or a driver. Bicycle trips are common, with 28% of trips taken on a bike, accounting for 9% of the total distance traveled. About 3% of trips and 5% of total distance were categorized as "other," which could, hypothetically, include ice skating.

Setting aside the fact that, despite Amsterdam's frozen canals, ice skating is likely not a convenient mode of transportation throughout the Netherlands. Hence, we wondered how speed skating would compare to a normal Dutch person's daily travel.

According to Statistics Netherlands, the average Dutch person traveled nearly 32 kilometers (19 miles) per day, taking 63 minutes of travel time. On Sunday, Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer set a new Olympic record in the men's 5,000 meter race with a time of 6:09.76. That suggests an average speed of 48.7 km/h (29 mph).

If Kramer were able to sustain that speed, he would be able to cover the average daily travel distance of 32 kilometers in about 39 minutes, beating the average travel time by a solid 23 minutes.

The biggest part of an average Dutch person's daily travel was their commute to work, according to the Statistics Netherlands report. The average commute in 2014 was 24 km (14.4 miles) and took 34 minutes. At his record-setting speed, Kramer could skate that average commute in just under 30 minutes, narrowly beating the average commuter.

So, if it were feasible, Olympic-caliber speed skating would be a pretty quick way to get around the Netherlands.

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• Actress and model Louise Linton married US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in June of 2017.
• Linton has gained attention due to public fights via her Instagram comments, and was the subject of criticism after a photo of her holding a sheet of newly printed $1 bills circulated on social media last year.
• Most recently, she was interviewed by Elle magazine, responding to the backlash.

Louise Linton, wife of US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, was in the spotlight well before her involvement with Washington insiders.

An actress and model from Edinburgh, Scotland, Linton married Mnuchin in an extravagant ceremony last June. Last November, she made headlines after she and Mnuchin were photographed holding up a sheet of freshly printed $1 bills. The photos drew attention and criticism on Twitter, as well as a write-up in the Styles section of The New York Times, which critiqued her all-black leather outfit. 

Prior, she caused news when she published an Instagram photo that showed her and Mnuchin stepping off a government jet, adding the caption: "Great #daytrip to #Kentucky!" She tagged several high-end designers, including Tom Ford and Valentino, in the post. The resulting comments were less than charitable; Linton then bashed one commenter for being "adorably out of touch" and made her Instagram account private for a period of time. She has since made the account public again. After that incident, Linton was often referred to as a modern Marie Antoinette.  

In a recent interview with Elle magazine Linton talked about her marriage to Mnuchin, as well as responded to the Instagram feud. Elle magazine's Carrie Battan writes: "[Linton] is "super-duper" sorry for all of the missteps in her self-presentation."  

But the jet photo and ensuing comments were not the first time Linton sparked a controversy. Below, see more about her life.

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Linton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and spent weekends in the Melville Castle Dalkeith. In an interview with the Daily Record in 2015, Linton said of the property: "The castle is definitely haunted and many people have claimed to see a ghost."

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Linton began acting professionally in 2006. Prior to that, she made a TV appearance in 2003 on VH1's short-lived reality show "Hopelessly Rich."

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She's made appearances in "CSI: NY" and "Cold Case." More recently, she starred in movies like 2016's "Intruder."

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• Michael Cohen, the long-time attorney for President Donald Trump, said he personally made a payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels.
• Cohen stressed that neither the Trump campaign nor the Trump Organization was involved in the transaction.
• The payment was allegedly made to the porn star for a nondisclosure agreement of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

Michael Cohen, the long-time attorney for President Donald Trump, said he personally made a payment of $130,000 to porn-star Stormy Daniels with his own money, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday.

"Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," Cohen said, referring to Daniels' real name in a statement to The Times. "The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone."

Cohen declined to provide further details about the payment, The Times reported.

The money, which was previously reported to have been brokered by Cohen, raised suspicion after a Wall Street Journal report suggested it was made to prevent Clifford from publicly disclosing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. The deal was reportedly made in 2016, a month before the US presidential election. Cohen previously denied this.

Though Clifford previously discussed the alleged encounter before, she has since denied it ever happened.

"I recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging that I had a sexual and/or romantic affair with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago," Clifford said in a statement. "I am stating with complete clarity that this is absolutely false."

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• Famed "Glee" and "American Horror Story" producer Ryan Murphy is said to be pulling up stakes from 21st Century Fox and going to Netflix in a five-year deal worth as much as $300 million, The New York Times reported on Tuesday night.
• If finalized, the agreement would be the most lucrative deal for a producer. "Scandal" and "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rimes inked a $100 million deal with Netflix in August.
• Murphy's tie-up with Netflix comes as his contract with 21st Century Fox nears its end. His move would be a potentially significant loss for Fox, which announced in December that it would sell a number of its television production assets to Disney for $52.4 billion.

Ryan Murphy, the producer behind the hit TV shows "Glee," "American Horror Story," and "Nip/Tuck," is said to be in talks to land at Netflix in a five-year deal worth as much as $300 million, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The deal represents the largest-ever for a television producer according to the The Times, and follows a $100 million agreement the streaming service reached with "Scandal" and "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rimes in August.

The Murphy-Netflix arrangement is materializing as the producer's current relationship with 21st Century Fox nears its end, and two months after Disney agreed to buy some of Fox's television production assets for $52.4 billion in December.

In a statement to The Times, Murphy said, "The history of this moment is not lost on me. I am a gay kid from Indiana who moved to Hollywood in 1989 with $55 of savings in my pocket, so the fact that my dreams have crystallized and come true in such a major way is emotional and overwhelming to me."

Bringing Murphy to Netflix also gives the company a potential edge over its streaming rivals, Hulu and Amazon. Hulu has beefed up its original offerings — most recently earning accolades for the drama, "A Handmaids' Tale." Hulu also swept the Emmys last year, and dealt a blow to Netflix by getting shows like "30 Rock," which left Netflix in October, and the 1990s sitcom, "Will and Grace."

Murphy officially moves to Netflix in July.

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