• Howard Stern criticized CBS CEO Les Moonves on his Monday Sirius XM radio show for at least 45 minutes.
• Stern called Moonves, who was accused by six women of sexual misconduct in a New Yorker report last month, a "shark" who tried to ruin his life.
• CBS Radio sued Stern in 2006 for allegedly violating his contract.
• Stern admitted he became emotional in a meeting with Moonves at the time, and told Moonves, "We're going to war, and I'm going to win."

Howard Stern isn't shocked that CBS CEO Les Moonves is facing heat. The outspoken shock jock went after Moonves on his Sirius XM radio show on Monday for at least 45 profanity-filled minutes, and called Moonves a "shark" who tried to ruin Stern's life.

Moonves was accused by six women of sexual misconduct in a New Yorker report last month, and the CBS board has since decided to hire outside legal counsel to conduct an investigation while Moonves remains at the company. Stern seemed pleased, but not surprised, that Moonves is under fire. 

"I know his true nature. He’s a shark," Stern said on Monday's show.

Even in 2001, Stern foresaw Moonves' troubles. "He’s just a friggin’ snake in the grass," Stern said in an old clip he played on Monday's show. "Big president of CBS, he’ll fall."

In 2006, CBS Radio sued Stern for $500 million for allegedly violating his contract. Stern was leaving CBS Radio for Sirius XM, and CBS Radio accused Stern of promoting the new job on his CBS Radio show. In a settlement, Sirius agreed to pay CBS Radio $2 million for the rights to 20 years of Stern's show.

"I knew this was just some sort of bad, like, 'We're going to f--- with you because you're leaving us,'" Stern reminisced. "It's like a stalker who says, 'You know what? You left me, we broke up, but I'm going to f--- your life up.' And I didn't do jack s--- to Les Moonves, except make him money, and I was pissed and upset and scared."

Stern said he met with Moonves to explain himself, but became emotional. Stern said he started to cry, but then became angry, and told Moonves, "We're going to war, and I'm going to win."

"When I say emotional, I start crying in front of Les," Stern said. "I've never really admitted that before. I start crying, actual tears."

Stern also called out Moonves' wife and co-host of CBS' "The Talk," Julie Chen, who publicly supported Moonves after the allegations became known.

"Julie should’ve said, 'Listen, I’m a woman. Listen, it’s obviously awkward. I’m married to Les Moonves, but I’m not going to come on the air and degrade what these women are saying,'" Stern said.

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Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime series, "Who Is America?," caused a stir before its premiere last month, as several Republican politicians felt the need to get ahead of the show in explaining how Cohen "duped" them to appear on it.

The former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the former congressman Joe Walsh, and the former US Senate candidate Roy Moore were among those who preceded the show's premiere with statements explaining their appearances on the series and criticizing Cohen.

In the show's pilot episode, Cohen, disguised as an Israeli "anti-terror expert," roped several Republican congressmen and former elected officials into voicing their support for a program that would arm toddlers with guns to prevent school shootings.

On Sunday, in episode four, the disgraced Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, whom President Trump pardoned last year, told Cohen, who was in character as a Finnish YouTuber, that he would accept oral sex from Trump.

Before the show's premiere, Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report tweeted a list of political and media figures he said Cohen had "finked" for the series, including Palin, Howard Dean, and David Patreus, each of whom we can expect to see in the show's final three episodes.

Here are the notable people and politicians who have appeared on "Who Is America?" so far:

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Sen. Bernie Sanders

The show's first episode began with Cohen interviewing Sanders, the Vermont senator who was a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, as a right-wing conspiracy theorist character named Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr.

Sanders, with a perplexed expression, politely dodged and shut down various absurd questions on income inequality and other topics from Cohen's Ruddick.

Larry Pratt, executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America

In the strongest segment on the pilot episode, Cohen's Israeli "anti-terror expert" character, Col. Erran Morad, introduced Pratt and several other conservative political figures to a fake program called "Kinderguardians" that would arm children as young as 3.

Pratt endorsed the program and, reading off a teleprompter, said: "Toddlers are pure, uncorrupted by fake news or homosexuality. They don't care if it's politically correct to shoot a mentally deranged gunman. They'll just do it."

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz

Cohen's Morad character interviewed Gaetz for the segment on arming toddlers, but Gaetz wisely sidestepped the topic, saying, "Typically members of Congress don't just hear a story about a program and then indicate whether they support it or not."

• MoviePass' film production subsidary, MoviePass Films, has announced that Bruce Willis will star in the company's first production, a crime thriller titled "10 Minutes Gone."
• The company's launch of MoviePass Films in June followed several releases from its previously existing distribution arm, MoviePass Ventures, which distributed the crime films "American Animals" and  "Gotti" earlier this summer.

MoviePass' film production subsidary, MoviePass Films, has announced that Bruce Willis will star in the company's first original production, a crime thriller titled "10 Minutes Gone," Deadline reports. 

Brian A. Miller, who also directed Willis in the upcoming action film "Reprisal," will direct "10 Minutes Gone" from a script by Kelvin Mao and Jeff Jingle.

MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, launched MoviePass Films in partnership with production company Emmet Furla Oasis Films in May. 

The launch followed several releases from the company's previously existing distribution arm, MoviePass Ventures, which distributed the crime films "American Animals" and  "Gotti" earlier this summer, in partnership with The Orchard and Vertical Entertainment, respectively. 

"10 Minutes Gone" will be the first release from the company's new production arm. 

Deadline reported the film's plot with the following description: 

"The story follows a man who loses ten minutes of his memory due to being hit by a stray bullet during a bank heist gone wrong. He must put the pieces of his broken memory together in order to find out who sabotaged the job and took the money, all while being pursued by a powerful crime boss hellbent on recovering the cash. Willis plays the pissed off crime boss."

The launch of MoviePass Films in June marked another attempt by Helios and Matheson to expand the MoviePass brand beyond the struggling movie subscription service it drastically remodeled this week, limiting subscribers to 3 movies per month from its previous one-movie-per-day plan. 

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• Actor Tom Hardy told Esquire that he based his "Venom" performance on writer and director Woody Allen, UFC fighter Conor McGregor, and rapper Redman.
• Hardy said he didn't tell the studio, Sony, about his inspirations: "You don’t say s--- like that to the studio."
• He said he was inspired by Allen's "tortured neurosis and all the humor that can come from that."

Tom Hardy found unusual inspiration in three completely different people for his performance in "Venom," which hits theaters later this year: controversial writer and director Woody Allen, UFC fighter Conor McGregor, and the rapper Redman.

Hardy plays troubled reporter Eddie Brock in the movie, who becomes the anti-hero Venom after an alien symbiote latches on to him. The character is a classic Spider-Man villain who the studio, Sony, is giving the solo treatment. Hardy revealed to Esquire in a profile published Tuesday that he based his performance on those three, which he said he never told Sony about.

"You don’t say s--- like that to the studio," Hardy said.

Esquire described Hardy's acting process as "using personalities, both real and fictive, as lodestars toward which he guides his portrayal." For "Venom," Hardy plays a character with colliding personalities, which turned him toward three unlikely figures to guide him.

In Allen, who has been accused by his adopted daughter of sexual assault, Hardy said he was inspired by his "tortured neurosis and all the humor that can come from that"; in McGregor, the "überviolence but not all the talking"; and he described Redman as "out of control, living rent-free in his head."

You can watch the full "Venom" trailer below for a peak at Hardy's performance. "Venom" comes to theaters October 5.

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• MoviePass and AMC's Stubs A-List are two of the most popular movie ticket subscription services in the country.
• Breaking down each service, it's clear who the winner is.

On Monday, MoviePass announced another change to its service, as it will now only offer three movies per month for $9.95. 

While MoviePass continues to work out the best path to profitability, AMC Theatres rival subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List, a $20-a-month service that lets you see three movies per week, is doing better than expected, according to the company. AMC reported last month that it had over 170,000 subscribers in its first five weeks, beating its projection.

AMC's service may be double what MoviePass is, but you get more perks like being able to see IMAX and Real 3D movies, and see the same movie multiple times. MoviePass now only allows three movies per month, instead of one every day per month, but you can still use the app at almost any theater in the US (not just AMC theaters). 

Conflicted?

Here's the tale of the tape:

With the latest tweak by MoviePass, the winner now is clear: AMC.

AMC is the largest theater chain in the world, and if for some reason one isn't in your neighborhood, it's likely you won't have to go far to find one. Now with MoviePass only allowing three movies per month (after that MoviePass will offer discounts of $2 to $5 a ticket if you book through the MoviePass app), the perks AMC offers with its service, especially being able to see the same movie more than once, makes it the more worthy choice.

However, if you are someone who doesn't care about seeing movies in IMAX and only occasionally goes to the movies each month (like one or two times), MoviePass is the smarter choice.   

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• According to Vulture, Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders will reprise their Marvel Cinematic Universe roles as Nick Fury and Maria Hill in "Spider-Man: Far From Home."
• Both Fury and Hill vanished into dust at the end of "Avengers: Infinity War."
• The casting further implies that the "Thanos snap" that wiped out half of humanity at the end of "Infinity War" will be reversed somehow.

Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury has been absent from the Marvel Cinematic Universe the last few years, but he's coming back in full force in 2019.

According to Vulture, Jackson will reprise his role as Fury in "Spider-Man: Far From Home," the sequel to "Spider-Man: Homecoming" that comes to theaters next summer. Cobie Smulders will also return as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill. Both characters vanished into dust in the after-credits scene of "Avengers: Infinity War," victims of the Thanos snap that wiped out half of humanity. 

Before that, Jackson will play Fury in "Captain Marvel," which stars Brie Larson as the title character and comes to theaters March 8. That movie is set in the 1990s, so Fury's return doesn't have as much significance for "Avengers 4," due in theaters on May 3, as "Spider-Man: Far From Home," which will be the first MCU movie after "Avengers 4."

Since Fury and Hill are reportedly set to return in "Far From Home," that means characters who vanished at the end of "Infinity War" will most likely come back somehow. That's not surprising for a number of reasons: the Thanos-snap is reversed in the comic "Infinity War" loosely based on, "The Infinity Gauntlet"; Marvel has numerous release dates set for yet-to-be-announced movies through 2022; and Spider-Man himself Tom Holland may have even accidentally confirmed a popular fan theory for "Avengers 4" that involves it in an old interview.

"Spider-Man: Far From Home" swings into theaters on July 5, 2019.

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• Bachelorette contestant David Ravitz has said that he runs a private equity/venture capital firm.
• According to the results of an investigation by Pitchbook reporter Dana Olsen, Ravitz doesn't appear to have any connections to venture capital or private equity firms.
• "David still says he's a VC, but all available evidence says he's not," writes Olsen.

"Bachelor in Paradise," a reality show featuring cast-off contestants from ABC's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" trying their luck at love once again at a resort in Mexico, has returned for its fifth season. 

One contestant, David Ravitz, made a memorable debut in "The Bachelorette" season 14 when he appeared in a fluffy chicken suit in an unsuccessful attempt to woo the heart of a woman whom he hoped to make his future bride. He was also the guy who fell out of his bunk bed. After returning to the show following that injury, Ravitz was eventually eliminated from the show. 

Ravitz's forthcoming return in "Bachelor in Paradise" has reinvigorated the compelling investigation of Pitchbook reporter Dana Olsen, who has been researching his claim to be a venture capitalist.

According to Ravitz's bio on ABC, he's a 25-year-old venture capitalist in Denver Springs, Colorado. His bio also identifies him as a "successful businessman" who "enjoys fitness" and "spending time with his family at their beach house."

Here's where Olsen takes issue: Is Ravitz really a venture capitalist? Would a venture capitalist and "successful businessman" really take multiple months off  of work to devote himself exclusively to the pursuit of wooing a potential fiancée on a reality show? 

Olsen has amassed a growing pile of evidence that suggests that Ravitz's might not be a VC at all: Ravitz seems to take lots of vacations, he doesn't appear to have a LinkedIn page, and most importantly, he doesn't seem to be connected to any Colorado-based venture or private equity firms. 

Not only does Ravitz say that he's a venture capitalist, but he purports to run his own firm. In a June interview with Bustle, Ravitz said, "I run a private equity firm...venture capital, private equity...hence why I can take the time off myself." 

From this information, Bustle concludes: "[T]o put it bluntly, Bachelorette contestant David is rich." Entertainment news site Flare also came to a similar conclusion: "He works as a venture capitalist and runs a private equity firm which basically means he’s $$$$$$$$$$$$."

At the very least, Ravitz does appear to be well off. Olsen, however, suggests that Ravitz might be benefitting from his family's money.

In an earlier report in which she describes Ravitz as "the world's most secretive venture capitalist," Olsen writes, "David's family owns Ravitz Family Markets, which operates several grocery stores on the East Coast...One of my personal theories is that David's family runs an investment holding company that owns the supermarkets."

"David still says he's a VC, but all available evidence says he's not," writes Olsen.

Ravitz, who did not return Business Insider's request for comment, still appears to be very much man of mystery. 

Read the full investigation over at Pitchbook.

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• Magic Leap's long-awaited smartglasses are finally available to order in the United States.
• They cost $2,295 and will start shipping Wednesday for people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
• The product is called Magic Leap One Creator Edition and is intended for developers and other professionals who want to make content for the platform.

Now, 2,065 days after the multibillion-dollar augmented-reality startup Magic Leap was revealed to the world in a cryptic TED Talk, its first product — a pair of futuristic smart glasses — is available to order in select US cities.

Magic Leap announced Wednesday that its product, Magic Leap One Creator Edition, was available to order on its website. The company says it will first ship orders to customers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle starting today. People outside those six cities can preorder their device now, and Magic Leap says it will eventually ship to additional locations, though it didn't specify a time frame for the wider rollout.

The system, which contains the Lightwear headset, a controller, and a battery and computer pack, known as Lightpack, that goes into your pocket, will cost $2,295.

For an extra $495, you can add a Professional Developer Package, which includes a hub that allows you to connect the headset to a computer and charge at the same time, as well as a resource that will provide a replacement Magic Leap One within 24 hours.

The prices and Creator Edition moniker suggest this device is for developers, who will create software and other experiences so there's a full set of content for the system when it launches more broadly.

"It's really for developers and creators to start to understand and start to engage with the power of spatial computing," Magic Leap's chief product officer, Omar Khan, who recently joined the company, said in an interview. "So they can take the experiences that they're developing for other platforms and really start to think about — I call it the word 'unshackling.'"

But the system won't be limited to handpicked developers. Anyone who has registered for Magic Leap's developer program, called Creator Portal, can order the smartglasses.

"I mean, obviously, Magic Leap One Creator Edition is for creators and developers," Khan said. "You know I do not put any limitation on who can be a creator or developer."

What does it do?

Magic Leap's glasses display the real world and integrate computer graphics so users can play games, videoconference with friends and family, and get work done.

Magic Leap is one of the most richly funded startups in the field of augmented reality, but Magic Leap prefers the term "spatial computing."

The buzz around Magic Leap's tech led the Florida-based startup to raise over $2.3 billion from investors including Google, Alibaba, top-tier Sand Hill Road venture capitalists, and Saudi Arabia's sovereign investment arm.

One early application shipping with the device is called Create, which enables people to virtually change the world around them — at least through the lenses of Magic Leap One.

"I love the color purple, I'm wearing purple today, and I may choose to put a purple hue on the world that I interact with," Khan said. "I can say I want to turn every mug into a vase and I can start to put flowers and cups around my room and around the physical spaces that I interact with."

"The spatial browser is an important part of launch from a Creator Edition perspective — there's communications, social, a lot of aspects to what we're launching," he continued.

The first device specifications

There's also a lot of advanced technology in the system: It runs off an Nvidia Parker processor, which includes six ARM cores. Its GPU is an Nvidia Pascal with 256 cores.

It also has 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of built-in storage, of which about 33 GB is reserved for the operating system.

For connectivity, the device can connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. There isn't a cellular connection available on Magic Leap One.

All of that computing power needs electricity, and the rechargeable battery last for "up to three hours continuous use," Magic Leap said. "Power level will be sustained when connected to an AC outlet."

Here are few images of the user interface from the developer program:

Here are some pictures of a working device, via the FCC:

Here's a list of specs:

Lightwear glasses and Lightpack computer pack

CPU & GPU

• Nvidia Parker SOC
• CPU: Two Denver 2.0 64-bit cores and four ARM Cortex A57 64-bit cores (two A57s and one Denver accessible to applications)
• GPU: Nvidia Pascal, 256 CUDA cores
• Graphic APIs: OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan, OpenGL ES 3.1+AEP

RAM

• 8 GB

Storage Capacity

• 128 GB (actual available storage capacity 95 GB)

Power

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Up to three hours continuous use. Battery life can vary based on use cases. Power level will be sustained when connected to an AC outlet.
• 45-watt USB-C Power Delivery (PD) charger

Audio Input/ Output

• Voice (speech to text) and real-world audio (ambient)
• Onboard speakers and 3.5 mm jack with audio spatialization processing

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 4.2
• Wi-Fi 802.11ac/b/g/n
• USB-C

Controller

Haptics

• LRA Haptic Device

Tracking

• 6DoF (position and orientation)

Touchpad

• Touch sensitive

LEDs

• 12-LED (RGB) ring with diffuser

Power

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, up to 7 1/2 hours continuous use
• 15-watt USB-C charger

Other inputs

• 8-bit resolution Trigger Button
• Digital Bumper Button
• Digital Home Button

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• Netflix's new series "Insatiable," which stirred up controversy following the release of its trailer, is even more offensive than it appears.
• It attempts to tell the story of a teenager who was bullied for her weight and wants to get revenge on those who wronged her.
• By casting a thin actress in the main role, it fails to make its most basic point. 

Netflix's latest original series, "Insatiable," is just as upsetting as its trailer. The show intends to criticize society's standards of beauty in a satirical way but gets lost among its sensationally offensive content and characters.

When Netflix debuted the trailer for "Insatiable," which drops Friday, it immediately stirred controversy and was accused of fat shaming. The trailer suggests the show is about a fat teenage girl who loses weight — now that she's skinny, she seeks revenge on her bullies. Many criticized the casting of Debby Ryan, a thin woman who wears a fat suit at the start of the series.

The casting and premise seemed to continue the tradition of excluding fat women, or anyone who doesn't meet society's standards for beauty, from Hollywood — even while purporting to tell their stories.

Netflix execs, actors on the show (including Alyssa Milano), and its creator, Lauren Gussis, urged people not to judge the show by its trailer. But unfortunately, "Insatiable," while possibly well-intentioned, does not make its message clear at all. It thinks it is making a point about society and beauty by having its characters aggressively make the opposite point. But it doesn't work.

To get this confusing message across, "Insatiable" uses dated clichés. It pits all its female characters against each other, makes jokes about statutory rape and molestation, and has a cast full of thin women. Characters, both male and female, constantly call women things like "crazy," "insane," and "b----," and its main character at one point calls another woman "a resting anus face of a wife."

But none of this leads to anything, or makes any poignant point.

The central story of "Insatiable" isn't even Patty, a high-school girl — played by Ryan, who is 25 — getting revenge on those who wronged her. That part lasts for really only the first two episodes.

Patty's recent thinness is just an excuse for the actress to be conventionally attractive enough to appeal to the masses. Besides her desire to be even thinner and therefore more beautiful — so Bob Armstrong, a 40-something-year-old lawyer turned beauty-pageant coach, will fall in love with her and end his marriage to a woman Patty constantly demeans — Patty's history with her weight is pretty much erased. It seems to be used solely as a reminder that this show is inclusive because its main character used to be fat.

This is not a show about someone who gets back at bullies; it is about a hot teenager who lusts after an adult man, and about a bunch of people who are horrible to each other.

Dallas Roberts ("The Good Wife"), who plays Armstrong, and Christopher Gorham ("Ugly Betty"), who plays his rival, do their best with the material and bring some levity to the series. But that's about it.

I don't know who "Insatiable" was made for, but it was certainly not me. After watching six episodes (of a 12-episode season) that all exceeded an agonizing 46 minutes, I felt awful and gave up.

You can watch the trailer for "Insatiable" below and watch the entire first season starting Friday on Netflix:

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For the most part, Netflix has won over critics with its innovative approaches to adult animation. 

Since the premiere of "BoJack Horseman" in 2014 — which CEO Reed Hastings has previously called his favorite Netflix show— the streaming service has released five other original animated shows that deal in mature themes.

Its latest, "Disenchanted," an animated fantasy series from "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" creator Matt Groening, has received positive reviews ahead of its premiere on August 17.

To find out which of these six shows critics liked the most, we turned to reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Here are Netflix's six original adult animated shows, ranked from worst to best, according to critics:

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6. "Neo Yokio" — 33%

Critic score: 33%

Audience score: 57%

Netflix description: "Joined by his faithful mecha-butler, Kaz Kaan pursues love, fashion and supernatural forces amid Neo Yokio's sinister high society."

Seasons released: 1

5. "F is for Family" — 81%

Critic score: 81%

Audience score: 89%

Netflix description: "Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV."

Seasons released: 2

4. "Disenchantment" — 83%

Critic score: 83%

Audience score: N/A

Netflix description: "Princess duties call, but she'd rather be drinking. Free-spirited Bean exasperates the king as she wreaks havoc with her demon and elf pals."

Seasons released: 1 (upcoming on August 17)

• Papa John's reportedly considered hiring Kanye West to work with the chain's founder, John Schnatter, earlier this year, according to a letter Schnatter wrote to the company's board. 
• Schnatter says he told the ad agency that West couldn't be a Papa John's spokesperson "because he uses the 'N' word in his lyrics." 
• Papa John's sales plummeted following a July report that Schnatter used the N-word on a company conference call that was held soon after West was pitched as a spokesperson. 

As Papa John's was searching for a way to win over Americans — prior to the chain's founder's backlash-inducing scandal — the pizza giant reportedly considered hiring rapper Kanye West as a spokesperson. 

Advertising firm Laundry Service reportedly "strongly urged" founder John Schnatter to team up with West in television ads and other promotions in May, Schnatter said in a letter to the board in July, which was obtained by CNN and other media outlets.

Papa John's had been considering using Schnatter in ads again after removing him following backlash due to his comments on the NFL's national-anthem protests in November. Schnatter was pushing to star in more commercials, even seeking the opinion of an ad agency independently from the company, Ad Age reported.

On Tuesday, Papa John's executives said they had been searching for ways to cut back on Schnatter's role as the public face of the chain since he blamed Papa John's sales slump on the NFL's response to players' protests during the national anthem. 

"On the marketing front, the research and analysis we conducted after the NFL comments by our founder in November of 2017 have made it clear that we needed to move away from a founder-centric marketing plan," CEO Steve Ritchie said on a call with investors. 

Schnatter did not take kindly to the suggestion that he co-star in commercials with Kanye West. In his letter to the board, he says he told Laundry Service that West couldn't be a Papa John's spokesperson "because he uses the 'N' word in his lyrics." 

West has seen his share of controversy in 2018. In April, the rapper inspired backlash when he tweeted in support of President Donald Trump. And, in May, West received more negative press when he said slavery "sounds like a choice."

Days after Laundry Service reportedly pushed for West as a potential co-spokesperson, Schnatter said the N-word on a now-infamous conference call with the ad agency. Forbes reported on the call in July, sending Papa John's reputation into a downward spiral. 

On Tuesday, the company reported that sales plummeted in July, falling 10.5% in North America in the month. Executives said on a call with investors that the company planned to spend between $30 million and $50 million over the rest of the year on costs related to the scandal, including removing Schnatter from marketing, an internal audit, and additional legal costs.

"Moving forward, these efforts will take into account what consumers, in particular millennials and Gen Z consumers expect from a business, including their expectations that companies have an active role in making the world a better place," Ritchie said on Tuesday. 

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• Not all Disney content will be available on its upcoming streaming service when it launches late next year.
• CEO Bob Iger said in an earnings call on Tuesday that some movies are affected by licensing arrangements. That includes "Star Wars" movies released before 2019.
• Disney will let a deal with Netflix expire at the end of the year, but according to Bloomberg, it's still facing pushback from Turner Broadcasting, which owns the TV rights to old "Star Wars" movies until 2024.
• However, Disney is developing a number of original shows and movies for the service, including a live-action "Star Wars" series.

Disney is preparing to enter the streaming wars, but it's already facing complications. When Disney launches its Netflix competitor late next year, it's likely not everything in the Disney catalog will be available right away — notably "Star Wars" movies released before 2019.

In a Disney earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Bob Iger said that "a number of products" made before 2019 are "encumbered by licensing arrangements," and he used "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as an example.

"We're obviously going to make sure that when we bring this product forward, we market it," Iger said. "People are going to know that if they're looking for, I don't know, 'The Force Awakens,' that it's not going to be on."

Movies like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," and the animated show "Star Wars: The Clones Wars," are currently available to stream on Netflix, but according to The New York Times, Disney will allow its licensing deal with Netflix to expire at the end of this year.

But Disney is facing pushback from another media giant.

Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, recently reported that Disney was trying to buy back the TV rights to old "Star Wars" movies but talks have gone nowhere. Disney sold the rights to Turner Broadcasting in 2016, which can currently air the films on its networks TNT and TBS until 2024. A source told Bloomberg that Turner would want "financial considerations and programming to replace the lost films," and negotiations have stalled since.

During the Tuesday call, Iger took a defensive tone when discussing the issue, and highlighted Disney's 2019 slate of films coming to theaters that would go on the service, including Marvel's "Captain Marvel" and "Avengers 4," live-action remakes of "Dumbo" and "The Lion King," and "Star Wars: Episode IX."

"So when we launch at the end of 2019, now they still have to be windowed in based on how we bring product to market, but the windowing will not be affected by existing licensing deals," Iger said, before reading the list of movies again.

"That's a pretty strong slate," he added.

Disney is also developing a number of original shows and movies for the service, including a live-action "Star Wars" series from "Iron Man" and "The Jungle Book" director Jon Favreau. It will be up to consumers to decide whether that offsets the lack of old "Star Wars" movies and other content.

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• "Crazy Rich Asians" star Henry Golding had never acted before filming.
• Director Jon M. Chu found Golding after he widened the search for the leading man, Nick Young, because the casting process was "lazy." 
• Chu found Golding through an accountant on the movie who noticed his charm and movie-star quality after seeing him at an awards show.

"Crazy Rich Asians" star Henry Golding took the leading role in the $30 million Warner Bros. rom-com without any acting credits to his name. 

Before Golding was cast in "Crazy Rich Asians," which is the first studio movie starring an Asian-American cast in 25 years, he hosted travel shows on BBC and Discovery Channel. The movie is his acting debut, and he has another film out in September: Paul Feig's "A Simple Favor" starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.

By fall 2016, most of the "Crazy Rich Asians" cast was set, except for Nick Young, the leading man. Young is a handsome professor from Singapore who neglects to tell his serious girlfriend that he comes from one of Asia's wealthiest families — until they meet his family while they're in Singapore for his best friend's wedding. 

"Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu said Golding wasn't easy to find. In a Vulture profile about Golding, Chu said lazy Hollywood tradition was holding them back. 

“I was very frustrated because I felt like our casting was lazy in the beginning,” Chu said. “We weren’t digging up people I’ve never seen. It’s a systematic problem: there are the casting directors who are only aware of ten Asian male actors out there that they go to. When you see the same ten people, you don’t get to discover new people.”

So in an effort to discover new talent, Chu broadened the search by making the casting global and by looking in unexpected places like theater schools, sports teams, modeling agencies, and even YouTube. But Golding was ultimately discovered through networking: an accountant working on "Crazy Rich Asians" saw Golding host an awards show, and recognized his charm. 

After getting slews of emails with suggestions for Asian actors who could pull off a British accent to play Nick Young, Chu wasn't feeling too confident about Golding. “I think I blew it off, because I got so many emails from people who have good-looking Asian male friends that are just good-looking Asian men.” But Chu went into a rabbit hole watching Golding's travel videos, and then got connected through a mutual Facebook friend. 

"Crazy Rich Asians" which stars Golding, Constance Wu, Michelle Yeong, and Awkwafina comes to theaters August 15.

Watch the trailer below:

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• Stephen Colbert on Tuesday mocked Infowars host Alex Jones for getting removed from the online platforms of companies like Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify this week. 
• The "Late Show" host brought back a Jones-like character called Tuck Buckford to parody Jones and Infowars in reaction to the news.

Stephen Colbert on Tuesday mocked Infowars' host Alex Jones over the news that companies like Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify had kicked his show off of their online platforms this week.

"Why now? Why did this happen now?” the "Late Show" host asked in his monologue. "Alex Jones has been spreading vile conspiracy theories that hurt real people for years. Well, Jones earned this latest scrutiny when he addressed Russia investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller on his show, imitated firing a gun, and said, 'You’re going to get it, or I'm going to die trying.'"

"OK, that is awful, but it's actually pretty close to my message to Mueller: 'You’re going to get him, or I’m going to die crying,'" Colbert joked, in reference to President Trump.

Colbert then brought back a Jones-like character called Tuck Buckford that he debuted earlier this year to parody Jones and InfoWars.  

Buckford, host of a show called "Brain Fight," said he has been facing "similar struggles" to Jones.

"Listen up, Brain Fight nation, the Brain Fighters, the Brain Nation, the skull meat, let's talk about the elephant in the room,"  Colbert's Buckford said. "The martyrdom of old Tuck Buckford at the hands of Silicon Valley snow boys and soy flakes."

“It's a slippery slope," he continued. "If they can de-platform Tuck Buckford, next thing you know they’ll be coming after me for so-called child support which I 'owe' to my 'ex-wife' who I 'miss desperately.'"

Mocking Jones' pleading with Trump on Monday to fight the "censorship" against him, Buckford added, "President Trump, I need you to do the right thing, all right? Help Tuck. Venmo me fifty bucks, or China will win the midterms."  

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After $2.3 billion in funding from the likes of Google, JPMorgan, and Alibaba, and years of outlandish hype, the Florida-based startup Magic Leap is finally peeling back the curtain on its mysterious, futuristic mixed-reality device: Magic Leap One.

The headset/computer/controller trio is the first step in Magic Leap's plan to replace your smartphone, your TV, and your computer. The idea is simple: Instead of having a bunch of disparate computing devices across various screens, you'll wear your computer on your eyes.

Forget about looking down at your phone to check email — the promise of mixed-reality headsets like Magic Leap One and Microsoft's HoloLens is overlaying your digital life onto your real life. You could pull up your email in a floating window, while another floating window plays an NBA game, all while still interacting with human beings in the real world.

The first device from Magic Leap is on sale now — it costs $2,300 and starts shipping this week to customers in six US cities.

Whether Magic Leap One actually accomplishes what it aims to is another question. A handful of press outlets were invited to Magic Leap's headquarters to try out Magic Leap One, the crazy-looking device seen above. Here's what they had to say:

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The Verge's Adi Robertson described the headset as such after her experience: "It doesn't seem like a satisfying computing device or a radical step forward for mixed reality."

Robertson had positive things to say about Magic Leap One, but those came with a lot of caveats. In her experience with the headset, she was shown a digital dinosaur that was visible only to her.

"The whimsical anecdote setup is supposed to emphasize how well the Magic Leap One tricked my mind into believing this impossible thing existed, which is what I'd hoped would happen last month when Magic Leap invited me to its headquarters," Robertson said. "But it just didn't happen.

"In reality, the dinosaur I see through the Magic Leap One looks genuinely three-dimensional, but pieces start getting cut off when I approach it. When a man walks behind it, I can see him slightly."

Robertson did have some positive things to say about the experience as well: "The headset looks far from utilitarian — it's like something a hacker would wear in a 'Shadowrun' larp. But against all odds, it's surprisingly comfortable."

CNET's Scott Stein shared a similar perspective: "My initial experience didn't blow me away, despite Magic Leap's promises."

"Magic Leap feels, to me, like a familiar stepping-stone more than a revolution," Stein said. "This isn't made for everyday customers yet." 

Like other members of the media who got to try Magic Leap One, Stein took issue with the headset's field of view. Simply put: If you're not looking directly through the relatively limited digital window in the Magic Leap One headset, you don't actually see the digital world being presented on top of the real one.

"The display's small field of view doesn't cover everything you see in the room," Stein said. "Not being able to see a fuller view of the room's virtual objects is a serious drawback. Sometimes I lose track of things I can't see, and require sound to help me track where the augmented things are hiding, and where to turn."

Wired's Jessi Hempel said, "I tried out the Magic Leap One in a 1,000-square-foot faux-living room that had been tricked out in West Elm furniture, and it wasn't great at first."

Hempel was more forgiving. "A main menu popped up in front of me, the field of view large enough that it didn’t seem narrow," she said. "But as great as this was, there were glitches. When I tried to use the hand controller to navigate to a football demo, the controller didn't respond; the experience appeared frozen."

Once rectified, those issues apparently gave way to a positive experience. "Once the headset was working, the experiences were creative and compelling," Hempel said. "The images were crisp and solid (as solid as virtual reality can be, anyway)."

That said, Hempel compared the experiences to the often shallow experiences found on other virtual-reality platforms and augmented- or mixed-reality devices. "These experiences are certainly on par with other augmented reality and virtual reality demos I have seen," she said. "Are they really mind-blowingly better than the competition? Not yet."

• Netflix's first original series, "Sacred Games," has been under legal pressure for an unflattering reference to an assassinated Indian Prime Minister.
• Netflix was reportedly in the process of changing a term in the subtitles of the show.
• But Netflix counsel told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that Netflix did not want to change the word. 

Netflix has been facing legal heat for its first original Indian series, "Sacred Games," because of the show's references to former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991. But the streaming service seems to be pushing back.

"Sacred Games" is about a Sikh cop in the Mumbai police force named Sartaj Singh (played by the Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan), and a mysterious Mumbai criminal, Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), caught in a game of cat and mouse after Gaitonde calls Singh to tell him of an attack on the city set to take place in 25 days.

In one scene in the show, Gaitonde calls Gandhi "fattu," which is translated in English subtitles as "p----." Since the show streams online, it is not censored by India's Censor Board. But that didn't stop a member of India's Congress political party's legal team from filing a petition in the Delhi High Court for Netflix to delete any scenes that reference Gandhi.

Time reported last month that Netflix was in the process of replacing "p----" with the word "wimp" in the show's subtitles. But Netflix reportedly still hasn't changed the reference, and doesn't have any plans to do so.

According to Indian news outlet India Today, Netflix's counsel informed the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that Netflix doesn't want to change the word because the series is available in numerous languages that were translated by different people.

"My instructions are that we don't want to change the word," said Chander Lal, a senior advocate appearing for Netflix.

India Today said the issue was scheduled for another hearing on September 20.

Netflix did not immediately return a request for comment.

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• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced changes to the 2019 Oscar telecast.
• It will be a three-hour telecast.
• A new "popular film" category is being put in place.

On Wednesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced some major changes to the 2019 Oscars telecast, and one in particular has made people furious on social media.

The Academy revealed that along with promising a three-hour show (it usually always goes closer to four), the 91st Academy Awards will also have a new category "designed around achievement on popular film."

The idea of there being "best picture" and "popular film" categories has led to an uproar on social media as many are confused how you can differentiate the two. Are those films in the best picture category now deemed unpopular? And are the popular films going to be considered not good enough to make it in the best picture category? And will titles be eligible for both categories? (The Academy says eligibility requirements and other key details will be forthcoming.)

This is the latest attempt by the Oscars to gain more viewership. Previously, the Oscars expanded its best picture category to go as high as 10 titles in the hopes that more audience favorites would be included. 

Though the Oscars is the biggest night in Hollywood, for most of the world it's become tired and not relevant to today's moviegoing habits. This year's best picture Oscar went to Fox Searchlight's "The Shape of Water," by director Guillermo del Toro (who also won the best director Oscar). The movie only made $195 million worldwide at the box office.

This has led to low ratings, with this year hitting an all-time low in viewership.

Along with the Academy board of governors passing these tweaks, it also announced that the 2020 telecast will air even earlier, on February 9.

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• Magic Leap is a secretive Florida-based startup that makes augmented-reality headsets.
• On Wednesday morning, it launched its first device: Magic Leap One. It's a product that's over six years and $2.3 billion in the making.
• The first media impressions were published on Wednesday morning, and they all point to the same problem shared by Microsoft's HoloLens headset: a tiny field of view.

The next step after smartphones is almost certainly some form of augmented reality — at least, that's what investors believe, to the point where they've pumped over $2.3 billion into Magic Leap, a Florida-based startup that creates AR headsets.

For years, Magic Leap has raised astronomical rounds of funding from the likes of Google, Alibaba, Fidelity, and JPMorgan. And on Wednesday morning, after years of hype and fundraising, Magic Leap released its first product: the Magic Leap One Creator Edition.

It includes a headset, a controller, and a corresponding computer (the circular thing on the left in the picture above). The idea is simple: It's a wearable computer.

Looking through Magic Leap One's "Lightwear" glasses, you can manage your email, watch YouTube videos, or do whatever other stuff you'd do on a smartphone or computer. Instead of on a screen, it's projected into the world around you.

You know the movie "Minority Report"? It's kind of old at this point, but if you've seen it, you may remember Tom Cruise using a computer essentially projected into the world in front of him.

Magic Leap's headset is similar, and it goes where you go. But there's a huge difference between what Magic Leap is promising and what it's offering.

This line in one hands-on with the headset, from CNET's Scott Stein, says it all: "The display's small field of view doesn't cover everything you see in the room."

Simply put, Magic Leap's headset offers a viewing window into an "augmented" reality, rather than fully engulfing users in that reality.

Imagine a window-sized rectangle in the middle of your view, through which you can see various things — your emails floating in mid-air, or an NBA game running on a floating screen, or whatever other stuff you'd normally do on a smartphone or a computer. That's what it's like using Magic Leap One. It's like looking through a window into a digital world, but the edges of it disappear the moment you turn your head.

It turns out, that feels about as natural as it sounds.

"Not being able to see a fuller view of the room's virtual objects is a serious drawback," Stein said. "Sometimes I lose track of things I can't see, and require sound to help me track where the augmented things are hiding, and where to turn." Stein wasn't alone in his criticism — every one of the handful of previews Magic Leap One issued the same concern.

It's the same problem that Microsoft's similarly futuristic AR headset, HoloLens, suffers from; using HoloLens feels like looking through a window into a different world rather than moving into one.

Stein makes a similar comparison: "It's not all that fundamentally different from the HoloLens," he wrote. "The Magic Leap One feels better in terms of display, controls, graphics and immersiveness ... Still, though, there are significant drawbacks to Magic Leap's AR hardware, mostly in terms of its limited field of view."

Seeing only what's directly in the middle of your vision while wearing a headset is one of HoloLens' biggest limitation, and it ends up feeling like a tease of something amazing.

When I last wore the HoloLens, it told me where to walk by painting arrows on the floor in front of my eyes.

The proof of concept there is obvious — imagine wearing a simple pair of glasses that offered Google Maps within your vision. Amazing!

But so are the limitations. Magic Leap One and HoloLens can't project anything into your peripheral vision, nor can they get anywhere near close to filling the field of vision of an average person. 

This is tremendously meaningful in ways that are inherently human, like seeing something moving out of the corner of your eye and being able to shift attention accordingly. It's only after you limit your field of vision that it feels so integral to sight, but it really is — try walking around for a few minutes with your hands held up to your eyes, binoculars-style, and see how it goes. 

This is one of the largest limitations of all augmented/mixed reality at the moment, and Magic Leap One is no different. Subsequent models of Magic Leap's hardware are said to expand the field of view, but in reality it's clear that it needs to fill your field of view — or at least come close enough to not feel like you're looking through a window.

When that future comes, augmented-reality products will come much closer to delivering what they promise. But, for now, they're just very impressive computer glasses.

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• MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe told Cheddar he'd received many offers from "very big media companies" to acquire MoviePass.
• He wouldn't say which companies, only that people "would recognize them."
• He also said the company would be profitable in 6-9 months, and that its cash burn had been reduced by 60%.

After a week that has given MoviePass subscribers whiplash and provoked confusion about the company's future, CEO Mitch Lowe seems optimistic about the months ahead — at least to the media.

This week, MoviePass announced significant changes, and rollbacks to previous controversial changes. The big news was that the movie-theater subscription service will now limit the number of movies subscribers can see to three per month (instead of one per day). And the new plan also rolled back the unpopular surge "peak" pricing, brought back big movies like "Mission Impossible" that MoviePass had recently banned, and kept the price at $9.95 a month rather than raising it to $14.95 a month.

Lowe sat down with Cheddar on Wednesday to discuss the changes and how the service could bounce back. 

Lowe said he'd received offers to acquire MoviePass from "very big media companies that understand the value that we're generating." He wouldn't name which ones, though, only saying, "You would recognize them."

"It's attractive and interesting, but I'm focused on driving the business and repairing all these things that have not worked so well for the customer," he added.

Lowe also said he had a "great partnership" with Helios and Matheson Analytics, the company that took a majority stake in MoviePass last August (now up to 92%), and was instrumental in dropping its price and raising funds to cover the service's losses by issuing new shares to the public. 

"They're great partners, they've been there all day, they've invested hundreds of millions of dollars into MoviePass and I know they'll always be there for us," Lowe said.

Lowe said 15% of subscribers had already converted to the new plan. He said MoviePass wouldn't become profitable for another six-to-nine months, but claimed changes had reduced the burn rate by 60%.

"The change of the model to three movies will get our burn to zero very quickly," Lowe said.

In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Helios and Matheson estimated its cash burn due to MoviePass at $45 million for both June and July. On Wednesday, Helios and Matheson stock was trading at $0.07 per share.

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Not all all street art is spray paint and wheatpaste. London Kaye crochets large colorful murals out of yarn and ties them up to walls and fences. We spoke with Kaye in Brooklyn to watch how she creates her pieces and what is involved in the process. Following is a transcript of the video.

London Kaye: My name is London Kaye, and I'm a street artist here in Brooklyn. Everything I make is made out of yarn.

Yarn bombing is when you take a piece of crochet or knit and you wrap it around something, usually outside.

I think it's great, because it takes that craft of your grandma that holds so much nostalgia and is almost reinventing it in a whole new way.

I started crocheting when I was 13, I sold scarves to my friends and girls at my dance studio when I was growing up. After I graduated college, I was working at Apple, 9-5 job, and knew there was more to life than selling computers.

So, I took one of my scarves I made and wrapped it around a tree outside of my house in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn and left it there. It started catching on, I haven't stopped since.

Coming up with a piece, it always starts with an idea, and I get inspiration from current events, things going on in pop culture, bright colors; anything that kind of interests me.

From there, sometimes, I'll draw it out, water down the shapes to the most basic shapes; from the sketch I crochet it, I glue it all together, and then I hang it up on the fence. I'll go through and tie each string up on the fence, cut the strings, take a photo and I'm out.

I usually put up my crocheted art on chain link fence. When I started out, I had no idea it would be such a perfect canvas, because it allows you to stretch and manipulate the yarn. I also love doing it out of a water pipe or unexpected objects that usually wouldn't see crocheted.

I like to mix a lot of different colors and textures together to create a bit more depth. I print my own crochet hooks on 3D printers, I actually just got a patent approved a few weeks ago.

My crochet art usually lasts about two weeks. It's not the weather that hurts the crochet. The yarn does very well in rain or snow, in the heat. It's usually people that take it, but I tell myself whoever takes it, loves it so much, they can't live without it, and that kind of keeps me going.

Out of the, probably 400 yarn bombs I've hung up, I've been stopped four times. I never got officially in trouble by the police and hopefully I'm going strong with that record.

Right from the start, people started reaching out, brands started reaching out to me, asking them to do marketing campaigns, advertising campaigns. A couple of my favorite brand collaborations I've done is: a capsule collection with Red Valentino, which is a fashion brand based out of Rome, and I got to do 14 different store windows around the world and open up two new stores and do a capsule collection of crochet clothes; dream.

I got to do a 25-foot by 50-foot billboard in Times Square for Miller Lite beer, all crocheted. I've worked on a Gap commercial crocheting a school bus. I've crocheted high heels for Sarah Jessica Parker.

My favorite piece is a crocheted dragon I put up, it was on 6th Avenue between 14th and 15th street and stretched for about 20 feet. It was shooting fire out of its mouth. When it got pulled down, the community came back with ribbons saying where's my dragon, who took my dragon and it was the first time I got to see, wow, this art really does affect the people that live here and see it every day.

Everybody has that connection to yarn, so no matter who it is, young, old, where they're from, they've seen crochet.

I just love bringing unexpected joy to people's day and I think that's what street art does.

I am a really big "[The] Amazing Race" fan, so I was at a sushi restaurant one night and I met the host of "The Amazing Race." We got to talking and somehow, I ended up on a season of "The Amazing Race." I came in third place. The crochet did not help at all, I was really hoping for, like, a crochet challenge, or a crochet challenge, or a crochet challenge. No.

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