Trevor Noah was back behind the desk at Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" after emergency surgery with some insights on the American healthcare system.

The South African comedian had to miss Wednesday's show for an appendectomy, but he returned Thursday. Noah said that in the past he has been asked how he'll manage commenting on the US when he's not from here.

"I was like, 'Well, I'm going to have to experience America,'" Noah explained. "And what better way than enjoying America's healthcare system for myself. Yeah, it was an interesting experience going to the emergency room. I'm not going to lie."

The host described several things about the ER that struck him as strange. They included the fact that it doesn't feel like an "emergency" room if the staff makes you wait, forces you to fill out forms before you can be seen, and then makes you identify how you'll pay for the services.

When the nurse brought up more forms to fill out and asked Noah how he would pay, the host responded, "With my life, clearly."

And about the one day off from work, Noah wanted to make sure that viewers didn't blame Comedy Central. The network actually told him to take as much time as he needed.

"I wanted to come to work yesterday with the stitches and everything," the 31-year-old comic said. "They were like, 'No, no, stay away.'"

Apparently, he received some colorful messages from viewers who thought Comedy Central was forcing him back to work.

"People were writing things like, 'Comedy Central — one day off after surgery? Is it because he's black?'" Noah said. "The best message I got was, 'Is it Comedy Central, or the cotton fields?'"

And the correspondents played a hilarious version of "Game of Thrones" to see who will replace Noah in a sketch set in the host's hospital room.

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Jessica Grossman is one of the many social media personalities hitting back at Essena O'Neill, the 19-year-old Instagram model who went viral after quitting social media and pronouncing it "fake."

Grossman — a Toronto-based digital marketer, actress, and model — runs a website called Uncover Ostomy. The goal of the site is to raise awareness for people with ostomies, and to fight the stigma associated with having an ostomy bag.

She told INSIDER that it would be impossible for her to get her message out without social media.

"I'm trying to spread awareness about something that's not very widely known, and some people find very gross and off-putting," she said. "Social media has been the way I'm trying to spread that message."

Grossman said that O'Neill calling all social media "fake" is an over-generalization that ignores people who use these platforms for good.

"Every day I get someone who's like, 'I'm so glad I found your site. I'm so glad you're showing you can have a life after an ostomy surgery,'" she said.

Earlier this week, O'Neill — who had accumulated half a million followers on Instagram — deleted thousands of photos, vowed to quit social media, and re-captioned several Instagram pictures with the truth behind how they were made. After posting a 17-minute YouTube video in which she called social media stars like herself "fake," and said her "perfect life" made her "miserable," other online personalities came out to disagree vehemently.

While Grossman sympathizes with some of what O'Neill is saying, she says the Australian model should step away from the computer for a while and assess what she really wants out of her campaign.

"If she really wanted to quit social media, she should be off the internet," Grossman said. " Get off it. Cleanse yourself. Take a vacation. Maybe go somewhere where you don't have Wifi."

O'Neill has since deleted her Instagram and YouTube accounts, but still runs a site called LetsBeGameChangers.com and posts videos on Vimeo.

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Rohan Oza is arguably one of the most successful marketing men in the US.

He's made millions from his success in turning food and beverage products into brands that everyone from across the globe will recognise — Vitamin Water, Pop Chips, and Vita Coco. Prior to this, he turned around the fortunes of Powerade and Sprite by boosting revenue through some innovative brand endorsements.

He even worked as an executive at Coca-Cola, but he admitted to Business Insider that he "quit before I got fired" because he wasn't very corporate.

But the self-depicted "brand messiah," and the man dubbed by The Hollywood Reporter as "Hollywood's Brandfather," didn't have it all handed to him on a plate. He started off his career in manufacturing in an M&Ms factory in the British industrial town of Slough. Now he counts 50 Cent and Rihanna — who he calls RiRi — as some of his closest celebrity business partners and friends.

He has come an incredibly long way, so Business Insider decided to sit down with him to see how on earth he managed to get out of manufacturing and into the worlds of Hollywood and marketing and as founder and CEO of Idea Merchants Capital.

Business Insider: How did this all come about? Did you always want to be in marketing?

RO: After going to Harrow [a famous private boarding school in Britain] and then Nottingham University, my first job was actually in a factory for Mars' M&Ms. I was involved with the manufacturing side but I really wanted to get into marketing. I asked my boss but he said I didn't have the necessary marketing skills. I said "alright, let's agree to disagree," and I left to go to Michigan in the US to study for my MBA. I always wanted to work with iconic brands and the US was the place where brands were at the time."

BI: So you ended up working at Coca-Cola, surely that was the pinnacle for you?

RO: I was an executive at Coca-Cola and was part of an amazing team that made Sprite one of the coolest brands in America. I helped build the brand with smart partnerships and built a bridge between Sprite and hip-hop culture and got American artists, NBA athletes and all those people on board. I brought Sprite to life on basketball courts and at concerts. I then was moved to Powerade (another Coca-Cola brand). 

While I helped sales grow more than 30% at brands like Sprite, it is very hard to make the same massive impact at other brands — these companies are too big and there are too many cooks in the kitchen. I wasn't very corporate either so I thought I would jump ship before Coca-Cola fired me.

BI: What did you do after that and how did Coca-Cola take your resignation?

RO: I had a party and then my boss asked where I was going. I said I was going to be a partner in Vitamin Water, which was small and made around $25 million in revenue annually in 2002, and he just laughed and said "good luck with that." Well it was funny because we ended up selling the company to Coca Cola for $4.2 billion in 2007. 

BI: How did you grow the company so rapidly? (Oza helped grow the company's sales to $700 million a year by the time he left in 2004.)

RO: I believed in the brand and Vitamin Water is a breakthrough product in the food and beverage industry. I believed in order to make a product a success you need to be a brand messiah, not a marketing manager. I only hire brand messiahs — they live and breathe the product, not just sell it. They have to create a culture around the product itself. There's a statistic out there that 1 in 10 people influence the rest of us. So you have got to find who those people are to spread the word. Unfortunately due to terrorist activities, this stopped one of the best ways in doing that.

BI: Terrorist activities? What do you mean?

RO: Before airports changed [referring to the September 11 attacks in 2001] I used to take products everywhere, which were mainly bottles of Vitamin Water. I would hand the flight attendants drinks, the hostess on the gates, other people on the flight. You've got to think about how these people influence large amounts of society. They see thousands of a people on a regular basis and it just takes people with that reach to say they love something and recommend it to as many people as possible. You win brand fans that way.

Obviously now we can't take a large amount of liquids on a plane, but this is an example of how you can build up a brand culture without taking just traditional routes of advertising.

BI: So is that where celebrity endorsement comes in? How did you get rapper 50 Cent to become part of the Vitamin Water brand?

RO: I was looking for someone who already loved the product and would be an easy fit for it. My friend knew 50 Cent so we gave him a call and spoke to him and his manager. They were great. Fiddy said he didn't want or need any money for being involved, he just wanted skin in the game. He loved the product. [50 Cent doesn't drink alcohol and regularly drank Vitamin Water, ate healthily, and trained in the gym every day]. That was good as we didn't have much money to give him. It worked out and the rest was history. He was one of two biggest rap artists at that time — him and Jay Z. [50 Cent was paid $5 million in cash and asked for a 5% stake in the company in exchange for his endorsement.]

BI: Vitamin Water ended up selling for billions to Coca-Cola, why didn't you retire after that? What's your net worth?

RO: [Laughing] Let's just say my mum is very proud. I know business publications like to talk about net worth but I don't really like talking about it. You can make a guess from knowing I entered Vitamin Water very early on and the company sold for $4 billion.

When it sold, though, I didn't want to retire, so I became a venture capitalist and be involved with products that I really connect with — like Vita Coco (coconut water), Pop Chips, and Bai (antioxidant infusion drinks). Bai itself is now valued at $500 million.

BI: So what's next on the venture list for you?

RO: Bai is my favourite in the gang in a nutshell. It solves the diet dilemma — everyone wants things to taste good but without a tonne of sugar. This takes out the likes of Pepsi and the Coca-Cola. People also are growing more towards to not having artificial sweeteners, so that strips out the Diet Cokes and Diet Sprites out there too. Bai solves this. It's not big in the UK but it will be.

BI: So which celebrity are you looking for to join Bai as an ambassador?

RO: We are brainstorming on that as we speak, but not every brand needs a celebrity partner. It has to be a good organic fit where the brand is a fan of a celebrity and the celebrity is a fan of the product. People are smart and need a natural fit otherwise it will be too forced. If a celebrity endorsement is clearly forced and the people will reject it and people will tell you about it. People's antennas for bull---t is a lot sharper these days.

BI: I know you said that you have to find the right fit for a brand but surely you must have a dream celebrity to tout Bai?

RO: If you ask me who's my favourite celebrity, it's Taylor Swift. And yes, she would be good for Bai. Unfortunately she currently sponsors a product that may not be as good for you as Bai [referring to her endorsement of Diet Coca- Cola], but you never know.

Taylor's the most iconic musician and celebrity on the planet. She does what she wants and isn't deterred by the press or anyone else. She managed to influence one of the biggest corporations on the planet — Apple – that's real power. She also rolls with a posse and a crew of people who are all beautiful females.

BI: Do you ever get celebrities approaching you to get involved in products that they love?

RO: Not really. We usually look for celebrities that are a natural fit. For example, with Vita Coco, I knew Guy Oseary (Madonna's agent) and Madonna was a fan already. Through him, I got her on board and that became huge. Then RiRi (pop star Rihanna) got on board and it was just perfect. She's a great example of having the exact right fit for a celebrity for a brand. She personally drank it, comes from the Caribbean, which is where coconut water comes from, and is big on social media.

BI: The equity share in endorsements seems a pretty good deal. Who else gets it?

RO: I believe everyone should have a share in the success, not just endorsers or myself — that's why everyone who works for me gets an equity stake early on.

BI: It really does sound like you live and breathe every product you market — sounds a bit hectic! When and what do you do to relax?

RO: I travel a lot. I self-diagnosed myself with Seasonal Affective Disorder so I follow the sun, like most British explorers I suppose! In the winter I spend my time in Beverley Hills, and then in the summer I go to the Hamptons — it's a great place to relax and reminds me a lot of England.

I also love throwing parties and dancing. I throw a lot in LA and even have Western and Bollywood style dance-offs. People always say I throw the best parties because everyone dances. 

But every now and again, I like to do a spot of bowling. It reminds me of my days at Nottingham University (where Oza did his first degree), where we'd just go bowl and get pissed.

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Adele returned in glory Monday when it was announced that she'd sold 1 million downloads of her song "Hello" in just one week — the top debut week for digital sales ever by far.

After an extended career break, the singer has come a long way from a past of sadness and breakups, but despite her incredible success, she's still not allowed to post from her own Twitter account.

According to Mashable, in a BBC special with Graham Norton that's just been recorded, Adele admitted that she has to get her tweets reviewed by her management before they are posted. She admits that's because of her history of shooting off drunk thoughts on Twitter.

"Rumor has it, you're not allowed access to your own Twitter account," someone in the audience said.

"That is true, yeah. I'm not a drinker any more, but when Twitter first came out I was drunk tweeting and nearly put my foot in it quite a few times," Adele said. "So my management decided that you have to go through two people and then it has to be signed off by someone. But they're all my tweets. No one writes my tweets. They just post them for me. So yeah, that's very, very true."

Adele has a massive Twitter presence of 23.8 million followers, so what she puts out there doesn't go without notice. She's used the platform for big declarations like a letter to her fans last month explaining her absence from the music scene and the first announcement for her upcoming album "25."

The Adele BBC special will air November 20, the same day "25" is out around the world.

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The mansion prominently featured in the 1983 film "Scarface" is not actually in Miami but in Montecito, California, 90 miles west of Los Angeles.

For a year, the mansion sat unsold at a sky-high asking price of $35 million. Its price was then cut in half, to $17.8 million, in May of this year.

Finally, the Mediterranean mansion has found a buyer in Pradeep Yohanne Gupta, CEO of private Houston-based investment bank IQ Holdings.

He paid only $12.26 million for the estate and hopes to use the house as his West Coast residence, according to the Wall Stret Journal.

Listing agent Robert Riskin told the Journal that the original ask was "overpriced," and that the actual sales price accurately "reflects [the mansion's] value." The home was previously owned by Russian billionaire Sergey Grishin. 

The 10,000-square-foot mansion is just as beautiful as you remember from the "Scarface" movie. It was recently renovated and includes four bedrooms and nine bathrooms surrounded by Persian gardens and a wild number of fountains.

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Surprise! The mansion used as a set for Tony Montana's abode isn't actually in Miami.

Instead, it's a sprawling, 10-acre edifice in Montecito, California, about 90 miles west of Los Angeles.

The mansion, named El Fureidis, was built in 1906.

19-year-old English actor Tom Holland looks to be hard at work as he prepares for his role as the latest Spider-Man.

Best known for starring in "Billy Elliot the Musical" in London in 2008, he found international attention when he was named the new Peter Parker in June. And he beat out some stiff competition of rising young actors to do so.

Recently, the actor posted video on Instagram of some of the gymnastic moves he's doing to train for the role. 

With skills like these he might not even need a stuntman for his action scenes (though Sony will certainly want a professional to do them and keep its new star out of harm's way).

The studio will release its next Spider-Man movie, currently untitled, on July 28, 2017. The franchise is looking for a fresh start following two previous films with Andrew Garfield as the lead, which didn't do as much business or have as much excitement from fans as the ones with Tobey Maguire in the suit. 

Here's hoping Holland will be allowed to showcase these moves without the help of CGI.

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The opening scene of "Spectre," the latest James Bond film, centers on a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) parade shot on location in Mexico City.

The details behind it make it even more impressive. The shoot, which took six months to plan, used 1,500 extras. Crowd scenes today are usually done with CGI, using only a handful of actors.

Each extra got a specially designed costume. It took just 75 minutes to do all their makeup. That's 20 skeleton faces a minute.

"I wanted the audience to be dropped right into the middle of a very, very specific, very heady rich environment." director Sam Mendes said.

"Spectre" was shot in locations all over the world. It will be out in theaters November 6.

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It can be hard for authors to get their books turned into movies, and even harder to get control of those movies once they're being made.

For every Mario Puzo who's let in Hollywood's door (author of “The Godfather” who also penned the screenplay for all three films), there’s a Stephen King who isn’t (he's publicly bashed most of the adaptations of his work).

And though the J.K. Rowlings, Stephenie Meyers, and E.L. James' of the world have had a lot of power in shaping their pages to screen in the last few decades, recently the movie world has opened the door even wider for input from authors in the adaptation process.

Author Stephen Chbosky adapted his own novel "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (he also directed the film), Gillian Flynn wrote the book “Gone Girl” and the screenplay (which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay), and now there’s Emma Donoghue.

The Irish-Canadian has written eight novels, but the adaptation of her 2010 New York Times Best-Selling book "Room" is the one that has now given her cross-over appeal as it has become one of the most buzzed about films this awards season.

But what sets Donoghue apart from many other author/screenwriters is that Donoghue wrote the screenplay for “Room” before the book was even published.

“I didn’t want to have some company come along and say ‘Let us take it off your hands and have some experienced writer take it,’” Donoghue told Business Insider. “I decided that, privately, I’d do a draft of it myself before anyone could tell me what to do.”

Donoghue had experienced the more traditional path with her previous books — a production company hired on a screenwriter to adapt her stories.

But those movies never got off the ground.

The author had such a good feeling about "Room"’s cinematic prospect, she wanted to be ahead of the game this time.

“And I wanted to be honest,” said Donoghue. “If I found the right filmmaker I wanted to be able to say, ‘Look, I’m not trying to force you to hire me, here’s my script, can we work together?’”

But Donoghue also admitted that if her book were to be made into a movie she wanted to try her best to keep it as true to what she created.

"Room" is an emotional tale filled with as much tension as warmth. It follows a 5-year-old boy and his mother as they are held captive in a small shed. But a big stand-out about the book is it’s told in the voice of the 5-year-old, Jack. The only glimpse we get of his mother, which he calls Ma, is from Jack’s point-of-view.

Certainly not an easy task to adapt into a movie for the author of the book, let alone a screenwriter.

But Donoghue said she wasn’t afraid to rework the story so it was more cinematic. She took out a lot of the social commentary that’s in the second half of the book, as well as an incident where Ma had a stillbirth before Jack was born.

“You always have to streamline,” she said about writing a screenplay. “I’m not left with any regrets.”

While taking meetings with numerous filmmakers who wanted to make the film, which included established names, she was given a ten-page hand-written letter from a fellow Irishman, independent filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson.

“I had a big emotional reaction to the novel, being a parent with a young boy at that point,” Abrahamson told Business Insider. “I had very strong images of how this novel should be adapted and what not to do and what to do. So the letter to Emma was, ‘I know it, I know how your novel works. I promise I won’t f--k it up.'"

Donoghue instantly felt that Abrahamson got the book and got what she was doing.

“He immediately got my references to Plato in the book,” she explained. “He understood this was both a realistic story about people being kidnapped and a metaphor for the moment when you move from childhood into adulthood. And he didn’t call it The Room.”

Once Abrahamson realized that Donoghue had a script he embraced her involvement. In fact, he pushed her to keep things in the script from the book that she was reluctant to include.

“One thing I changed immediately for my first draft of the script was Jack’s long hair,” said Donoghue, who felt that looking at a boy’s hair that goes down below his shoulders in a movie would have looked bizarre.

“But Lenny said, ‘No, go back to the long hair.’ He was just unafraid of the unconventional aspects of the screenplay.”

Donoghue and Abrahamson worked on the script together for months. Flying back and forth to each other's home, with almost no interference from the film's backers. They fleshed out Ma so the character in the film would be a stronger presence than in the book while still keeping Jack as the foundation for the story.

The finished product is an emotional, tear-jerking ride that is excels with Abrahamson's direction and Oscar-worthy performances by actress Brie Larson as Ma and newcomer Jacob Tremblay as Jack.

The film won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Winners of the prize often go on to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

For Donoghue, seeing the film was a thrill, especially watching Larson as Ma.

"Ma was a very real character in my mind but for the book I had this frustrating fact that she was just through Jack," she said. "So seeing her on screen was beautiful. She's strong, and motherly."

Donoghue knows that the experience she had with Abrahamson making "Room" is extremely rare. And though she wants to continue writing screenplays, so knows she'll likely never have that kind of bond and understanding with a director again (although they both say they want to work with each other moving forward).

"The whole thing was made protectively," she said. "It's like the little room."

“Room” opens in limited release on Friday.

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Reports that Bollywood star Neil Nitin Mukesh had been cast on "Game of Thrones" turn out to be false. A source close to the show told Business Insider that Mukesh "is not part of the cast, nor is he being offered a role."

The news began with an interview Mukesh did with the Mumbai Mirror in which he allegedly stated that he had been offered a role on HBO's hit fantasy show. From there, the international media picked up the story. The reported casting also apparently trended on Twitter.

The article states that Mukesh claimed that he worked with stunt coordinator Greg Powell, who it's said is working on "Thrones," on the Indian film "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo."

"Greg has directed two sword-fighting sequences in 'PRDP' for which I had to train for over a month in order to get the stance and wrist movements right," Mukesh said, according to the local newspaper. "He seemed pretty impressed with all the hard work I put in and made the offer when we were shooting for the climax scene a few months ago."

"Game of Thrones," though, isn't currently listed on Powell's IMDb page.

Mukesh claimed that he would "play a royal" and be featured in "combat scenes" on "Game of Thrones." Some reports said the he was cast as a White Walker, one of the show's race of human-like warriors who are said to have last been active 8,000 years ago during the generation-long winter.

He also reportedly said that he wouldn't mind going nude for the HBO series: "I am OK with it if it's required for my character. I am not intimidated by it as an actor."

BI reached out to Mukesh for comment. An HBO representative declined to comment.

"Game of Thrones" is currently shooting its sixth season, which is expected to premiere in Spring 2016.

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When Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai told actress and UN global goodwill ambassador for women Emma Watson that she was her inspiration for embracing the word feminist, Watson was thrilled.

But the two also make a compelling point as to why men should start embracing the word. In an interview at the Into Film Festival on Wednesday, where "He Named Me Malala," a documentary about Yousafzai was being shown, Yousafzai said "My father has set an example to all parents and all males that if we want equality, then men have to step forward." 

Watson agreed. "It's become this really difficult word, but I think it's really great when people do embrace it, because it should be synonymous with equality," she said.

According to a Vox Media survey, despite 85% of Americans claiming to believe in equality for women, only 18% considered themselves feminists. Additionally, only 16% of men identified as feminist, according to a 2013 YouGov survey.

Addressing the men in the audience, Watson continues,"We really need you, as the next generation, to extend a hand to the girls and the women in your life, and to include them and to make sure that they can live their lives without discrimination."

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Donald Trump isn't risking his polling chances in Iowa just to get "Saturday Night Live" a few more ratings points this weekend.

Ahead of the hosting gig, the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that he vetoed provocative sketches that could turn Iowa voters against him, according to Deadline, which got an early look at the interview.

"There were a couple that were too risqué. Because, you know, the poll just came down — I'm leading in Iowa, I want to stay leading in Iowa," the real estate mogul turned politician said.

Though Trump did lead the latest CNN/ORC poll of likely Iowa GOP caucus participants, released Friday, most major recent polls have found retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson ahead in the state.

Iowa is considered an important state during the election because it hosts the first major electoral event of the nominating process for US president.

"We sit down and we look at like 30 — they have all these writers," Trump said. "They have 100 writers. I walk into the room, there are 100 — and they’re all about 17 years old, OK? They're all young and all up in your face. But they come up with many, many skits and you pick the ones you think you like."

Trump's episode of "SNL" airs Saturday at 11:30 p.m. on NBC. The appearance coincides with November sweeps, the period in which ratings are used to inform advertising rates. This will be the second time Trump has hosted "SNL." The first was in 2004.

NBC and the show have been criticized by Latino activists and their supporters, who aren't happy about Trump hosting after his controversial comments regarding Mexican immigrants earlier this year.

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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina returned to "The View" on Friday, days after she suggested the show treated her with sexist double standards.

And the show's hosts grilled the Republican presidential candidate, with the interview going on and off the rails at various points in their discussion.

Joy Behar opened up the back and forth by asking how Fiorina could be pro-women due to her opposition to abortion rights and mandatory maternity leave.

Fiorina attacked the question as the "litany of the left." The hosts then repeatedly interrupted her as she accused Planned Parenthood of "harvesting baby parts," a claim similar to her statement at September's Republican presidential debate. 

"Carly, I need to stop you. I need to stop you because you know that's not true. Carly, you know no one is harvesting baby parts. No one is harvesting baby parts. Carly, come on girl," Whoopi Goldberg interjected. "They weren't harvesting baby parts, baby." 

"That offends my sensibility," Behar added.

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The discussion got even more heated after the commercial break. Raven-Symoné kicked off the second segment by accusing Fiorina of not talking about the substantive issues in the 2016 race.

"That's interesting, because your question is just completely false. I talk about issues all day long with voters," Fiorina replied.

Last week, the show's hosts said Fiorina's face looked like a "demented" Halloween mask at the Republican presidential debate. Fiorina responded on "Fox News Sunday," where she argued that liberal media treat conservative women like herself with a "double standard" by taking shots at their looks.

On Friday, Goldberg asked Fiorina how she would get a "thicker skin to accept some of the humorous things that will be said about you."

Fiorina pointed out that the show had criticized real-estate mogul Donald Trump after he mocked her face.

"Hey, if you meant your comment about my face being demented and a Halloween mask as humorous, so be it. I guess you misinterpreted Donald Trump's comments about my face and thought those weren't humorous. Because you sort of took him to task," she told Goldberg.

Goldberg soon criticized Fiorina for playing up the "demented" spat. 

"Having watched some of the press that you garnered based on this fake feud with 'The View,' I'm a little taken aback," she said.

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Kesha is begging a court to let her record music again, saying that if she doesn't her career will be over.

The singer can't make new songs because of a legal battle with her producer, Dr. Luke, and it has brought her career to a standstill.

Kesha sued Dr. Luke for sexual assault in 2014. He sued her back, claiming that the singer tried to extort him into voiding their contract.

Now, Kesha is saying that her career is "effectively over" unless she can make new music immediately. In order to record new songs, she needs a judge to let her work with collaborators besides Dr. Luke. 

Kesha even submitted an affidavit from Universal exec Jim Urie stating that "she has not been recording, touring, or able to market merchandise for nearly a year — an eternity in the industry."

He continues that "no mainstream distribution company will invest the money necessary to distribute songs for an artist who has fallen from the public eye, as is happening to Kesha at this very moment. Accordingly, if Kesha cannot immediately resume recording and having her music promoted, marketed, and distributed by a major label, her career is effectively over."

The last song to feature Kesha's voice was Pitbull's 2013 hit "Timber," and her last studio album, "Warrior," came out in 2012.

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Recently, Iranian actress Sadaf Taherian started sharing seemingly normal pics on Instagram, posting a series of photos of herself without a hijab.

While this doesn't seem out of the ordinary in the age of selfies, the photos were a protest against Iranian laws, as Iranian actresses aren't allowed to remove their hijabs in public.

The photos drew the ire of the Iranian government. Taherian was labeled an "offender," and her hit TV show was pulled off the air.

She apparently fled for the United Arab Emirates, where she continues to post photos without a hijab online.

"I want to live in a place, and live the way that makes me happy," she said.

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Jennifer Lawrence recently wrote a blistering essay about the wage gap in Hollywood. She was upset when she learned that her male "American Hustle" co-stars were paid more than her, though she also admitted to struggling with salary negotiations.

Her essay started a conversation about the wage gap, and earned her the support of many fellow actors and actresses.

However, now she's saying that even if she could, she wouldn't go back and fight for a bigger paycheck.

"I didn't need to fight for money for 'American Hustle' because we were trying to fit a million movie stars into one movie," she said while promoting the latest "Hunger Games" movie.

"There wasn't a lot of money and I didn't need it. I wanted to do the movie anyway. So if I were to go back, I would go back and ask for the same exact amount of money, but for very different reasons. It wouldn't have been because I was afraid, or I would've come across as a spoiled brat, or because I was worried what people thought."

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Sometimes even anticapitalist protesters find it hard to resist a great deal.

It turns out that some protesters who gathered at Seattle's Westlake park to condemn Amazon's "corporate greed" were wearing masks they bought from Amazon, according to The Seattle Times. The masks of three protesters captured in a photo by the Times' Alan Berner were reportedly "bought for $6 each using the Amazon Prime account of gold mask's mom."

Here is how it appeared on The Seattle Times:

The Guy Fawkes masks the protesters are wearing have reemerged as a symbol of antigovernment and anticapitalist resistance since they appeared in the film "V for Vendetta." They have continued to be popularized by Occupy Wall Street and the loose hacktivist collective Anonymous.

Guy Fawkes was an English dissident who tried and failed to blow up the House of Lords in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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Warning: spoilers for the most recent episode of "The Knick" ahead.

“The Knick” is best known for its authentic look at early-20th-century discoveries in medicine by talented, albeit troubled, surgeons. But in season two, series director Steven Soderbergh ("Magic Mike," "Side Effects," "Out of Sight") has presented us with the entertaining antics of the Knickerbocker hospital’s newest member, Dr. Mays.

The not-so-capable doctor with one of the most impressive mustaches on television came on staff at the Knick after Dr. Thackery (Clive Owen) was put into rehab for his cocaine addiction at the end of the first season. Mays has made an impression, but for all the wrong reasons. He has an obvious lack of surgical knowledge and would rather flirt with the nurses and female patients than do his job.

But on Friday’s episode, his sloppy work turned fatal, as Mays, while flirting with his nurse, caused an explosion while doing a tracheotomy and burned his face off.

The death of Mays is a shock for fans of the show, but the actor who plays Mays, Ben Livingston, always knew his fate.

“I knew going in it was only going to be four episodes, so I knew of his demise,” Livingston said. “But I tried as hard as I could to talk Steven out of it. I would say to him, ‘You know, you can blow this guy up any time you want. Give him a few more episodes.’”

But there was no escaping Mays’ death, which was caused because of the use of ether and a cauterizing gun while doing the tracheotomy surgery. When he punctured the trachea, the ether and the heat of the cauterizing gun led to an explosion in his face.

To the casual observer, the scene looked like the handwork of a stuntman with a fireproof mask over his face. But Livingston said that’s him in the scene, and he wasn’t on fire.

“I flew out to Los Angeles to a special effects studio before we filmed the scene and a cast was taken of my head and face,” Livingston explained. “So on the day of shooting, they shot it once with me miming having my face blown off. And then they used the face they created of me, put it on a dummy, placed it exactly in the same place I was standing when they shot me, and set it on fire. In post, they digitally put the dummy face over mine.”

Livingston, who previously worked with Soderbergh on the stage play “The Library,” had a lot of fun playing Dr. Mays, but he can’t help finding it ironic that before taking on acting as a profession, he was in pre-med.

“I tell people as an actor I’m saving lives because I would have been an awful doctor,” he said with a laugh. “I would have been Dr. Mays.”

"The Knick" airs on Friday nights at 10 pm on Cinemax.

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Writer-director Quentin Tarantino went on "Real Time With Bill Maher" on Friday night to address the controversy surrounding the comments he made at a protest on police violence in New York City last month in which he said that "I have to call the murdered the murdered and I have to call the murderers the murderers."

Following those comments police unions across the country said they would boycott his upcoming film "The Hateful Eight" (opening in theaters on Christmas Day).

Maher pointed out that though reports have since declared that Tarantino was calling all police murderers that that wasn't what he said. He then gave the Oscar-winner the floor to explain himself. 

"[The police unions] are calling me a cop hater, which is slander because I didn't say that, and they are implying that I meant that all cops are murderers, and I wasn't, but the sad thing is we do have to talk to the cops about this," said Tarantino, referring to police brutality. "We have to get to the problem and get this on the table."

Maher later showed footage of Pennsylvania officer Lisa Mearkle shooting and shocking with a Taser to death David Kassick in February 2015, who she stopped for an expired auto inspection sticker. Officer Mearkle was found not guilty on Thursday of all charges regarding the death of Kassick.

Tarantino says this isn't an issue of good cops versus bad cops but that the "blue wall" of protection that the police have with one another needs to come down. 

"They protect their own as opposed to putting themselves in the betterment of citizenry."

The largest police union in the country says it has a "surprise" in store for Tarantino.

Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, told The Hollywood Reporter:

"Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise," he said. "Our offices make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question."

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Whether you're at home or on the go, it's always handy to have something to read.

Smartphones are fast becoming our go-to way to consume all types of media, but sometimes it's hard to know which apps are worth our time. 

From e-books to Reddit to breaking news, these are the best apps to help you stay on top of the stories everybody is talking about.

Additional reporting by Steven Tweedie.

Pocket will help you save articles to read later.

Pocket lets you save anything you come across on your smartphone or desktop computer to come back to later. And lots of apps integrate directly with Pocket to let you save articles and videos.

The app itself can download stories in a clean, easily readable interface for offline reading, and the service learns what you like and recommends more articles you might find interesting.

Price: Free (iOS, Android)

NYT Now is great for digesting the news.

The New York Times exemplifies how to make a great news app with NYT Now. The app is run by a dedicated team at The Times and updated throughout the day with breaking news, features, stories from other publications, and easily digestible breakdowns of the day’s news highlights. 

Even better, you can use it for free, even if you don't subscribe to The New York Times.

Price: Free (iOS)

Nuzzel shows you what your friends are reading.

Nuzzel knows the stories your friends are talking about on Twitter and suggests them for you to read. Not only are you seeing the most talked about articles from around the web in your feed, but you also see them with comments from accounts that you follow.

Price: Free (iOS, Android)

We unearthed Donald Trump's Vine account from 2013. He wasn't active for very long, but in his short stint on the social account he addressed Obama, Miley Cyrus, and ripped Anthony Weiner. 

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