Nearly 300,000 people gathered at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois this weekend to watch over 150 bands and musicians perform at the Lollapalooza music festival.

Paul McCartney, Metallica, Florence and the Machine, Sam Smith, and Kaskade were among the headliners.

On Sunday afternoon, the festival was briefly evacuated as a storm moved in, but music resumed after a 90-minute delay. The weather returned later that evening just in time for Florence and the Machine to close out the festival amid a lightening storm.

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A record-tying 300,000 fans descended upon Grant Park in Chicago this weekend to watch over 150 musicians perform.

Paul McCartney headlined Friday night with a special appearance by Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard.

Metallica closed on Saturday night to a giant crowd.

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True power is ageless.

From the toddling Prince George, third in line to the British throne, to 100-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk, we found the most powerful person at every age from 1 to 100.

To create this list, we took four criteria into consideration: command, or the degree to which a person formally controls a group of people; past influence, or how much a person has changed the world; future influence, or how much a person is likely to change the world going forward; and net worth.

Spanning industries and time zones, these are the most powerful people, from 1 to 100.

AGE 1: Prince George of Cambridge

Heir to the British throne

What makes him powerful: After his grandfather and father, little George is next in line to succeed his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. As an eight-month-old he took his first royal tour — a 19-day visit to New Zealand and Australia. He's also a tiny fashion icon, and he recently became a big brother to new princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

AGE 2: Macallister Bogue

Son of Marissa Mayer and Zach Bogue

What makes him powerful: While he's only a couple of years old, Bogue, son of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, still influences his mom's outlook at work. Though Mayer herself only took a few weeks off after giving birth, she doubled the amount of paid maternity leave Yahoo offers new mothers from eight to 16 weeks and offered new dads eight weeks as well.

AGE 3: Blue Ivy Carter

Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay Z

What makes her powerful: Nothing is too good for this power couple's little girl. Blue Ivy's second birthday was celebrated at the exotic Jungle Island in Miami; for her third, Blue got an ice sculpture with her name carved into it. Gwyneth Paltrow, who is good friends with the Knowles-Carter clan, said of Blue Ivy: "She is a powerhouse. I love her so much."

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Matthew McConaughey isn't the only star in his family: Mike "Rooster" McConaughey — a self-made millionaire investor and Matthew's older brother — is now the star of a new reality series called "West Texas Investors Club."

The show, which premieres on Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNBC, has been billed as a mix between "Shark Tank" and "Survivor." As the stars of the program, Rooster and his business partner, Wayne "Butch" Gilliam, fly aspiring entreprenuers to Texas on private jets and decide whether or not to invest in their products.

Unlike the hosts of similar reality shows, Rooster and Butch vet their potential investments through a series of very personal — and often hilarious — examinations.

"We’re more about the people, basically," McConaughey told Business Insider. "Sometimes we’ll pick up a glitch in their personality, and we’ll test that a little bit ...  The deal’s gotta be decent, but the person counts as much or more as the deal does."

Over the course of the season's eight episodes, Rooster and Butch meet with 16 entreprenuers and end up investing a total of $1.97 million in products ranging from apps and eyewear to guitars and barbeque sauces. 

The show breaks down into several parts: first, the entreprenuers pitch their ideas; then, in a segment that Rooster calls "scenarios," the two hosts test the product out in the real world, all while evaluating the character of the entrepreuner through a series of challenges.

In one episode, Rooster tests out an app that allows you to order drinks at a busy bar, while his partner Butch orders the old-fashioned way and get his drinks faster.

"The son of a b---- cheats," McConaughey joked about his business partner. 

By the final segment, if they think the product and the entreprenuer have potential, Rooster and Butch will sit the guest down and settle on a deal through some tough talk and, often, a lowering of expectations.

"The figures [the entreprenuers] come in with are out of sight,” McConaughey said. "And there’s times where we might beat them up a little too hard in other people’ opinions, but [when] we do, there’s really not much there."

In an exclusive clip from the show, Rooster and Butch become annoyed with an entreprenuer named AJ who clashes with them, and Rooster ends up throwing a Miller Lite can at the unruly guest:

According to Rooster, the beer can he threw was "empty."

"I would never throw a full beer at anybody, I can tell you that," McConaughey said. "Not because I wouldn’t hurt them ... It’s a waste."

Alcohol happens to be a dominant feature of the program — "Let's you get to know somebody better," Rooster said — and of McConaughey's life altogether. In an interview with People magazine, Rooster revealed that he named his children, Miller Lyte and Margarita Olympia, after his favorite alcoholic beverages. 

And though his brother, Matthew, hasn't seen the show yet, Rooster is nonetheless excited to knock his younger sibling off of his spot as the only McConaughey in show business. 

"We're gonna surprise everybody," McConaughey said.

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We have all been waiting ages for the 'Zoolander' sequel, and at long last, our first peek has arrived. This is of course just a tease. This teaser trailer will certainly be followed up by a full trailer at some point in the near future.

'Zoolander 2' is coming February 12, 2016.

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The Honest Company, founded by Jessica Alba, is known for creating organic and "safe" baby and household products. However, many parents are complaining online that the company's sunscreen products leave their children burned. 

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In the wake of filing for bankruptcy, rapper Curtis Jackson, aka "50 Cent," has pulled back the curtain on his seemingly lavish lifestyle.

Before filing for bankruptcy, 50 Cent was hit with a court order to pay $5 million to Lastonia Leviston. The woman had won the payment in court after the rapper allegedly released a sex tape of her to embarrass the rapper's nemesis, Rick Ross, who had fathered one of her children. 

Leviston's lawyers believed 50 Cent's bankruptcy was a way to avoid paying Leviston, so they took him to court again. But on the stand, 50 Cent indicated his wealth was little more than an illusion. In other words, he merely led the public to believe he was a baller. Jackson says he did this because the whole music industry is about aspiring to something greater.

Here are six ways 50 Cent says he embellished his hip-hop lifestyle, according to a transcript of the testimony he gave in the Leviston lawsuit:

1. He recycled his gold chains.

50 Cent claims he could barely fill a jewelry drawer, let alone a whole jewelry chest. He said that he only actually owns "two or three chains" at "$30,000, $40,000" each. But, how does he make it seem as if he has more? The rapper says he takes those chains to a jeweler who can transform them into new, unrecognizable pieces of bling.

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Eminem was in a bad place.

It was 2007 and the legendary rapper was 230 pounds.

He was addicted to painkillers that caused him so much stomach trouble, he had to eat tons of food — often unhealthy — to soothe it. In a recent interview with Men's Journal, the artist opened up about his struggle.

"The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I'd been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating," he said. 

When he got out of rehab, Eminem, whose birth name is Marshall Mathers, needed to satisfy what he called "an addict's brain." He couldn't sleep when he was off the drugs.

He needed an outlet.

So, wanting to abandon his old way of life, Eminem turned to excercise. 

"It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect," Eminem told the magazine. "It's easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise."

Soon, the Grammy-winning rapper was running 17 miles a day. "I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour," he said, "and followed that up with eight and a half miles at night."

"I started getting OCD about the calories, making sure I burned 2,000 every day."

Eminem says he ran so much that he injured himself, and realized he needed to mix things up. "I tried out some of those workout DVDs you do at home," he said. "One of the first ones was Shaun T.'s "Insanity" workout. I know a lot of these DVD guys are wacky, but I'm alone in my gym; I need someone on the TV yelling to motivate me."

The artist then jumped to P90x and eventually to the "Body Beast" series, dropping 80 pounds in the process.

The past

Eminem has had a long history of drug use. He was quoted in 2011 saying drugs basically "wiped out" five years of his life. At the peak of his addiction, he was taking as many as 60 pills per day.

In 2013, he told MTV his addiction was probably at its worst some eight years prior, in 2005. That's when he says he started mixing pills — eventually landing himself in the hospital. "The doctors told me I'd done the equivalent of four bags of heroin ... Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died," he said. "My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything."

He added, "They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death."

Eminem says he relapsed multiple times and spoke of how difficult it was to break away. "Coming off everything, I was literally up 24 hours a day for three weeks straight. And I mean, not sleeping, not even nodding off."

The artist committed two of his albums to detailing the process of weaning himself off drugs: "Relapse" in 2009 and "Recovery" in 2010.

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Comedian Amy Schumer issued an impassioned call for gun-control legislation alongside her cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York), at his office in New York City on Monday.

Amy, who said the cause became "extremely personal" for her when two people were killed during a showing of her hit movie "Trainwreck" in Louisiana last month, said she isn't concerned about facing a "backlash" from her gun-control push.

"I am expecting a backlash and I'll handle it the way I've handled it the last 10 years," Schumer said. "I've had death threats and a lot of hate directed towards me, but I'm someone who — I want to be proud of the way I'm living and what I stand for."

At times during the press conference, Amy seemed to be holding back tears. Like much of her comedy, "Trainwreck" has been widely considered a feminist work. The shooter, whom Amy refused to name, was found to have espoused many misogynistic views before he opened fire in the theater.

Business Insider asked Amy whether the shooting and some of the criticism her work has faced made her think feminism is under attack in the US. Amy said any assault on feminism would just make her and other women "fight harder" for equality.

"I got about a million emails from friends telling me it could have been any movie and I'm trying to believe that, but I'm not sure," Amy said of the Louisiana shooting. "I think the idea of women — women's equality making anyone upset is not something I'll ever understand. I think women are always in a great threat of violence just statistically, but I know personally that I'm someone — and the people I'm close to know — when these sort of things happen, we mourn and then we get angry. And it'll just make us fight harder, and rise up, and rally together to fight against this kind of violence and any other kind of aggression that comes toward us."

Chuck Schumer described the legislation and other proposals he and his cousin unveiled on Monday as a "three-pronged plan" for "reasonable limits on the Second Amendment."

Their proposals included legislation that would reward states that provide all necessary records to the federal gun sale background check system and fine those that do not. They also are publicly calling Congress to fully fund mental-health and substance-abuse programs and asking the Department of Justice to review standards for involuntary commitment in each state.

Amy vowed Monday's event would not be the end of her advocacy for gun control.

"The time is now for the American people to rally for these changes," she said. "These are my first public comments on the issue of gun violence, but I can promise you they will not be my last."

The pair also described their familial connection and how they teamed up for this gun-control push.

"We're cousins," Chuck explained. "Her father Gordon and I are second cousins. Our grandfathers were brothers."

The senator said he and Amy's dad used to "play stickball" together when they were growing up. Chuck said he decided to reach out to Amy following her initial comments on the Louisiana shooting.

"Before I said anything, she said to me ... 'I hope you're going to call me to do something about gun violence," Chuck recounted.

After the initial call, Amy said the pair "brainstormed."

"One thing Amy was certain on is she wanted to do something that was effective, but could actually pass," Chuck said. "That was sort of speaking my language."

According to Amy, she had "a lot of say" on the legislation and other proposals.

"I'm pretty stubborn," she said.

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Taylor Swift is on the cover of Vanity Fair's September issue, and in the magazine she discusses the letter she wrote to Apple about its decision not to pay artists during Apple Music's trial period.

Swift's letter caused Apple to promptly change its mind and compensate the artists. But last summer when Swift pulled her music from Spotify and voiced concerns about the way Spotify compensated artists, the company largely ignored her.

Swift told Vanity Fair it was "ironic" that Spotify, which isn't profitable, ignored her while Apple listened.

"Apple treated me like I was a voice of a creative community that they actually cared about," she said. "And I found it really ironic that the multibillion-dollar company reacted to criticism with humility, and the startup with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine."

Zing!

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Taylor Swift was up all night deciding whether or not she should publish the letter that pushed Apple to change its policy regarding how it pays artists that participate in its Apple Music streaming service, the singer revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair.

Swift wrote the blog post, which she published on Tumblr, after friends had sent her screenshots of the contracts Apple had sent them regarding Apple Music. Here's how she described her experience confronting Apple to Vanity Fair's Josh Duboff:

I wrote the letter around four A.M. The contracts had just gone out to my friends, and one of them sent me a screenshot of one of them. I read the term 'zero percent compensation to rights holders.' Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and I'll write a song and I can't sleep until I finish it, and it was like that with the letter.

Swift shared the letter with one person before publishing it — her mother. She told Vanity Fair:

I read it to my mom. She's always going to be the one. I just said, 'I'm really scared of this letter, but I had to write it. I might not post it, but I had to say it.'

In June, just days before the official launch of Apple Music, Swift wrote an open letter to the company that criticized its decision not to pay artists any royalties during the free trial period. She called the move "shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive ad generous company." Less than a day later, Apple reversed its decision and announced that it would pay artists during that free trial period.

Although Swift's letter convinced Apple to change its policy, the pop singer said she was nervous before posting the message — especially since she was criticized for the op-ed she wrote in The Wall Street Journal last year about Spotify's free music streaming model.

Swift told Vanity Fair she was worried "people would say, 'Why won't she shut up about this?' My fears were that I would be looked at as someone who just whines and rants about this thing that no one else is really ranting about."

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If you run into Taylor Swift and mention it's your birthday, she may whip out a surprise gift for you right on the spot.

Swift tells Vanity Fair she always keeps birthday cards in her purse, because it feels good to give someone a card minutes after you know you're supposed to be celebrating them.

"I have a lot of birthday cards because you never know when you’re going to run into somebody and it’s their birthday and it's just like, oh wow, you gave them a birthday card five minutes later," the singer says. 

Taylor Swift is known for surprising her fans and friends in big ways. She once gifted a fan nearly $2,000 to help her pay off student loans. She surprised another fan by showing up to her bridal shower. And for her high school best friend's birthday, Swift lined up a private performance from her favorite singer, Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba. 

As far as Swift is concerned, birthday cards are just the start of the gifts she wants to give away. Swift tells Vanity Fair she wants to be accomplished and influential, while also being known for making people happy like Oprah does and being charitable, like Angelina Jolie.

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Back in April, we revealed that reality TV star Khloe Kardashian was working on a new messaging app that was loaded with social polling features to help take the hassle out of making plans with your friends.

The app used to be called Regroupd, but that name has changed in the past few months to "Begroupd," and Business Insider got an exclusive first look at the app, which launches later today for iPhone.

"The main problem the app really solves is that it streamlines the decision-making process," Begroupd founder Lindsey Cummins told Business Insider. "Because right now, while group chat does solve one problem, it creates another, where making plans and decisions and just getting what you’re after is nearly impossible. And that’s what Begroupd does for you, it simplifies that."

Cummins and Kardashian are betting that enough people are annoyed with the current system of texting, calling, and circling back to confirm plans that they'll jump ship for Begroupd, with introduces a host of social polling features to streamline the planning process.

Cummins, who first thought up the idea for Begroupd shortly after graduating from Cornell, still gets cagey when asked how she and Kardashian first met and connected, saying "she can't get into the specifics of that." But Kardashian says Cummins approached her with the idea for Begroupd, and since then Kardashian has teased and promoted the app on her Instagram. 

"I've always wanted to get involved in the tech industry, but hadn’t come across anything that really clicked for me," Kardashian told Business Insider in an emailed statement. "When Lindsey approached me with Begroupd I fell in love. Messaging is such an integral part of our lives and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to."

Beyond the celebrity promotion, Begroupd looks a lot like a traditional messaging app like iMessage or WhatsApp, but there's an entire section of the app devoted to decision-making tools.

In a few seconds, you can conduct a poll, ask a simple Yes/No question, seek a star rating on a photo, or send out RSVPs for events that will automatically sync with your calendar. The creator of the poll can also decide whether or not to make the responses public or private.

By offering these polling features within the app, Cummins and Kardashian want to allow people to send out feelers to their friends, receive feedback, and nail down plans all without leaving their app.

"The beauty of the app is that it’s totally customizable, you can use it however you want," Cummins said. "You can do any combination of photos and text. You could do a yes/no for something as simple as ‘Are you going out tonight?’ or ‘Should I buy this pair of shoes?’ and put a photo in. The RSVP feature is more for planning meetings with people, planning birthday parties, planning get-togethers where you’re sending multiple people and you want it to actually go into your calendar with a specific time."

While you can send out these polls to a specific friend or create a group chat and poll them all at once, Begroupd also saves any poll you create and you can recycle and send them to others at a later time.

Kardashian fans will also be happy to know that Khloe and the Begroupd team also have access to a "blast" feature of sorts that allows them to send a one-way message or poll to the app's users. This allows them to get feedback from fans without having to worry about people spamming them with thousands of messages — users can only respond to the poll, but they can't message back.

During my brief time using the app, I found the social-polling features surprisingly useful, especially for getting responses that were more than just a simple yes or no. Your friends will need to also be using Begroupd in order to take advantage of these features, but it's a quicker way to come to a consensus on where to go for happy hour drinks or when to catch a movie than texting via iMessage.

While it could be easy to dismiss Begroupd as yet another celebrity app, the core utility that the app offers is useful, and it further highlights that you can't do everything you'd like to do on your iPhone's native messaging app. 

You can download Begroupd for iPhone starting later today over at the App Store. 

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Jelly Belly could be in trouble.

On Monday, Hollywood and internet darling Anna Kendrick shed light on the candy company's alleged connection to an "anti-trans students campaign."

The actress tweeted:

This is partially true, according to various media reports.

In 2013, the Huffington Post noted. that Jelly Belly Candy Company's chairman, Herman G. Rowland Sr., had donated $5,000 to Privacy for All Students, an organization that made a concerted effort to strip away California's Assembly Bill 1266, which granted transgender students rights.

According to the Associated Press (via CBS), the bill allowed transgender students (kindergarten through 12th grade) to select which bathroom they identified with, making California the first state to pass such groundbreaking legislation.

A Facebook group, Boycott Jelly Belly, emerged, which highlighted articles circulating the internet that promoted transgender rights, as well as various memes and complaints, such as:

 As well as:

One post read, "End the boycott! Jelly Belly's CEO is a great-grandfather; thus, he is allowed to use company profits for 'personal donations' to hate groups working against the rights of transgender children. Sigh. Jelly Belly is not only totally aware of their owner's actions but keeps justifying those actions and trying to wash their hands of bigotry. Here's an idea for Jelly Belly: principles over profit. That's a concept Jelly Belly should write into its company mission and fire their Chairman if they truly support ALL children.‪ #‎BoycottJellyBelly‬."

The post was accompanied by a photo of a note from Jelly Belly:

In 2013, Buzzfeed acquired a letter from the National Center for Transgender Equality, requesting that Rowland rethink his donation. Buzzfeed also noted that Rowland's donation was not nearly as big as some other supporters, some of whom donated upwards of $10,000; one donor gave $80,000.

While this may be old news to many, Kendrick's prominent internet presence (she has over 4.5 million followers on Twitter), could prove to be detrimental to Jelly Belly — even though the chairman, not the entire company — donated money two years ago.

We've reached out to Jelly Belly for comment and will update if we hear back. 

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The final week of Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show” kicked off Monday with Amy Schumer as the guest.

While promoting her new movie, “Trainwreck,” she also addressed the theater shooting during a screening of her movie in Louisiana last month where a 59-year-old white male shot and killed at least two and injured nine before turning the gun on himself. 

Schumer told Stewart it “broke her heart” when she first heard the news.

Immediately following the tragedy she tweeted her condolences to the victims.

But she wanted to do more, as she told Stewart. “The second this happened you want to act,” she said. “I wanted to go down there and do whatever I could.”

Last weekend, Schumer became even more personally linked to the shooting when Sarah Clements, daughter of a Sandy Hook survivor, wrote an open letter to the comic via Medium.com asking her to “be a voice for our generation and for women” against gun violence.

"I know deep down that the tweet you sent after the shooting was not all that you’ve got," Clements wrote. "And we need your voice in this movement. We need your help."

Schumer replied to the story with this tweet on Sunday.

Then Monday, before going on “The Daily Show,” Schumer joined Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) for a press conference where they issued a call for gun-control legislation. 

“This has been in the works,” Schumer told Stewart. “I was so happy he invited me to be a part of it,” she said of Chuck Schumer, who are cousins.

At the press conference, Schumer stated how serious she is about being an advocate for gun control.

“The time is now for the American people to rally for these changes,” she said. “These are my first public comments on the issue of gun violence, but I can promise you they will not be my last.”

Watch the complete “Daily Show” interview with Schumer here:

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There’s nearly five months left of releases in 2015, but it’s likely within a week Universal will shatter the record for the highest grossing year for a studio as it nears $5.5 billion in global box office.

According to The Wrap, Universal will speed past the record 20th Century Fox set last year thanks to three global hits — "Furious 7," "Jurassic World," and "Minions."

"Furious" and "World" are both past the $1 billion worldwide gross mark and "Minions" should hit the milestone when it debuts in China in September.

That makes Universal the first studio ever to have three films hit the $1 billion worldwide mark, according to The Wrap.

“Their record shows how important content is, but also the release strategy, the dating, marketing,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at box office tracker Rentrak, told TheWrap. “If you were going to create a playbook for studios, you could base it on the year they’re having.”

Along with "Jurassic World" ($1.55 billion), "Furious 7" ($1.51 billion) and "Minions" ($855 million), Universal also has "Fifty Shades of Grey" ($570 million) in the top 10 worldwide grosses of the year. 

Overall, 2015 is on pace to be the largest-grossing year ever at the US box office, according to The Wrap, with more than $11 billion.

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Barry Crimmins, subject of the documentary "Call Me Lucky," is the epitome of a "comic's comic" — but that's far from his only identity. 

He's not a household name; his work has never been plastered all over Comedy Central; and you won't find a catalog of his hits on Spotify. 

But in the comedy world, Crimmins is a prolific figure. A Golden God. And his fearless comedy is just the tip of the iceberg — he's also a political activist whose work has made a difference and even saved lives.

Bobcat Goldthwait's "Call Me Lucky" is part loving tribute, part exposé, and altogether an exhilarating film that could only be made by somebody as close to the story as the director. 

Crimmins was more than a friend to Goldthwait — he was his mentor. Goldthwait and all the other comedians featured in the film (including Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt, Kevin Meaney, and Dana Gould) speak so passionately about Crimmins and his impact on comedy, it's as if they're eulogizing a loved one.

It's just that even though Barry is still alive, his legacy extends further than the man himself.

Crimmins was about as outspoken as one can be regarding US government and politics, and sometimes his comedy sets would turn into enraged rants without a hint of funny.

Some would say he considered himself a political activist before a comedian. Crimmins wasn't afraid to lay into Reagan, or the Bush administration, or whichever entity was infuriating him at the time. 

The film takes a dark turn when Crimmins himself delves into his troubled past and reveals the source of his anger at the world, and how this trauma directly influenced his career path. 

Perhaps the greatest and most impactful moment of Barry Crimmins' career is that he singlehandedly took on the fight against child pornography, and won. When Crimmins discovered that pedophiles were using AOL chat rooms to share horrific child porn, he took the fight to AOL, but they didn't listen.

Crimmins took it upon himself to go undercover, collect mountains of evidence, and take his grievances literally to the Senate floor on July 25, 1995.

The scene in which Crimmins rails off against AOL's top lawyer in front of a panel of clueless senators is unforgettable entertainment as well as an important cultural moment that helped shift a serious conversation into the digital age.

Goldthwait's first foray into non-fiction is a far cry from the darkly hilarious "World's Greatest Dad" and even farther from his more recent bigfoot-centered horror flick "Willow Creek," but it's easily his most polished and passionate film yet.  

It's certainly a comedy documentary, but it has also a narrative drive full of shocking revelations that make the story that much more compelling and engaging.   

The film is truly like a punch to the gut — its reveals are devastating and the details infuriating, but Barry Crimmins is such a lovable figure that he forces you to take it all in with a smile.

"Call Me Lucky" is an excellent documentary, and a brilliant portrait of a man whose name you won't soon forget. 

"Call Me Lucky" opens in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, and expands the following week. For theater information click here.

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Two people are dead and three are injured after a shooting broke out at a Toronto nightclub during an after-party for Drake's popular OVO Fest, the Toronto Star reports. 

The two deceased people were in their 20s and 30s, according to the Star. 

Three others were injured. Police said the shooting started at 3:30 a.m., according to the CBC. 

OVO fest is a concert held every year in Toronto and hosted by Drake. Drake takes tons of pride in the event as he is from Canada, and quite often makes music about Toronto. In fact, his upcoming album "Views from the 6" is referring to an area code in the city.

A shooting also broke out at the event in 2014, leaving one man being hospitalized. 

Knowing there was a history of violence at the event, police came in full force, even stationing extra officers at the club.

"We did our best to prevent such a thing from happening. In fact, we called extra resources down to the area in advance, just to provide extra security," Deputy Police Chief Peter Sloly told CBC. "Unfortunately, this tragic event took place."

CBC reported that it wasn't clear whether Drake was in the club during the shooting. 

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Rapper Curtis Jackson, aka "50 Cent," claims that his assets are worth about $25 million, but that two separate court-ordered payments plus other high expenses have pushed him into bankruptcy.

He filed a statement of his financials in Connecticut bankruptcy court on Monday, and Business Insider has obtained a copy of it.

Here's how Jackson says he's drained his millions in just a few years' time.

The money going out: $108,000 per month in expenses and millions of dollars in lawsuits

Apparently, 50 Cent was primarily forced into filing for bankruptcy after two court judgments put him over the top. There's the $7 million owed to Lastonia Leviston, the woman had won the payment in court after the rapper allegedly released a sex tape of her to embarrass the rapper's nemesis, Rick Ross, who had fathered one of her children. 

And then, there's the electronics company Sleek Audio, which he owes an $18 million court-ordered payment after a partnership to produce headphones fell apart.

Those court orders total about $25 million, the amount 50 Cent claims in assets.

But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The rapper claims another $7 million in liabilities.

50 Cent says he has about $108,000 in monthly expenses, which include his homes and personal expenses.

His lavish Connecticut house — the one with 21 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, and a nightclub — costs about $72,000 a month to maintain, he says. He spends about $5,000 per month on just the gardening.

See his housing costs below:

He also pays a monthly $5,745 Bentley car lease and $12,000 in child support for two children. Additionally, he supports a grandparent in the amount of $2,500 a month.

50 Cent keeps himself looking good with about $3,000 a month on clothes and $1,000 a month on grooming.

See his personal expenses below:

What money is coming in? He has about $10 million in cash and investments

As far as his income, 50 Cent claimed he made $3.3 million from his music so far this year. He also made about $372,000 from SMS, his company that makes headphones, in 2015. Additionally, he has made $771,000 from numerous films, touring, merchandising, and other pursuits with G-Unit, 50 Cent's record label.

The rapper has $10 million in cash and $500,000 in cars, including three Chevy Suburbans and a 2010 Rolls Royce.

There is no mention of the income he made from film and TV work. Previously, 50 Cent stated that he made $100,000 each on "Southpaw" and "Spy," according to the court transcript acquired by Business Insider. As for Starz drama "Power," which the rapper acts in and executive produces, 50 Cent testified that he has made $150,000.

Here's a look at his income, from the filing:

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MORE: 50 Cent's comments on 'Conan' are coming back to haunt him in court

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The author of "Orange Is The New Black" had a blunt message for Congress on Tuesday: Her sentence was virtually pointless.

In a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday, Piper Kerman, whose memoir about her year in prison was adapted into a Netflix series, said that her sentence for a decade-old drug-trafficking crime did nothing to improve the community or prevent future crime.

"It's hard, however, to believe that there was a lot of social benefit to the community drawn from my incarceration. It prevented no new crimes," Kerman, the basis for the character Piper Chapman on "Orange is the New Black," told the Senate panel.

"If any member of this committee had the opportunity to meet the hundreds of women that I did time with, you would probably walk away from getting to know those women with a deep feeling that their confinement in a prison cell was just a colossal waste, and not an appropriate way in intervening in the things that put them in the criminal justice system."

Though Kerman said she saw the harmful effects of the drug trade on women, she suggested that she could've learned that lesson if she'd done community service with families impacted by drug addiction. 

Kerman frequently speaks out about the treatment of women in federal prison, drawing from her own experiences as an inmate at a Connecticut prison where she served 13 months on drug-trafficking charges.  

This isn't the first time that Kerman's been called to testify before Congress about life in prison and the criminal justice system. In 2014, she spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary committee about the effects of solitary confinement on women in prison.

Criminal justice and sentencing reform are increasingly becoming issues with bipartisan support, as everyone from President Barack Obama to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) has called for reform. As The Hill reported, several members of the House of Representatives indicated on Monday that they are likely to introduce a bipartisan bill to overhaul the criminal justice system.

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