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Oprah's one tweet about loving bread made her $14 million in a day

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People are following what Oprah Winfrey is eating now more than ever. And she's making quite a fortune off the attention.

The famous yo-yo dieter and media mogul tweeted on Tuesday about her love for bread, and getting to eat it every day during her recent 26-pound weight loss on Weight Watchers. As anyone who's dieted knows, carbohydrates like bread are frequently on the prohibited list for weight-loss plans.

The twist is that Winfrey bought a minority share of the diet company last October. So she stands to make a good profit if the company does well. And yesterday's tweet was quite the payday for Winfrey: The company's stock went up 19.51%, or about $2.17 per share.

And according to the the Wrap, Winfrey made about $13.8 million after Tuesday's tweet. Here's the breakdown:

"Winfrey owns 10% of the company, or 15% when stock options are exercised. Weight Watchers has 63,621,022 shares outstanding, which would mean Winfrey owns 6,362,102.2 of those, without even exercising her option.

On Tuesday, based on the $2.17-per-share jump, Winfrey's total haul gained $13,805,761.80."

So Winfrey's not only eating bread, but she's earning that bread, too.

See Winfrey's multimillion-dollar tweet below:

 

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Joe Scarborough: 'Fox News has just walked into the biggest Donald Trump trap'

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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has offered a fairly passionate defense of Donald Trump's decision to skip this Thursday's Fox News Republican presidential debate.

Scarborough on Wednesday repeatedly supported Trump's claim that Fox host Megyn Kelly, one of the debate's moderators, was biased against Trump's presidential campaign.

At one point, Scarborough played a short highlight reel of Kelly's sharper words for Trump and for the media — including Scarborough's "Morning Joe" — regarding some of its relentless Trump coverage.

"That is just good, unbiased journalism," Scarborough said, sarcastically. "And if I were a candidate, I certainly would want that person asking me questions in a fair and a balanced way."

He added: "No, actually, as I said before, I would rather set myself on fire in front of the Fox News news studio than go on the debate stage with that."

Scarborough, a former Republican congressman whose show competes daily against Fox News, further argued that Fox chief Roger Ailes had made a mistake by standing so firmly against Trump.

Trump has repeatedly suggested Kelly would be unfair to him at the Thursday-night event. Fox dismissed Trump's criticism as unfounded and said Kelly would remain one of the three moderators of its debate.

After the network mocked Trump for polling his Twitter followers about whether he should go to the debate, given Kelly's alleged bias, the Republican front-runner announced he would boycott it.

"He's ahead by 20, 30 points. He's probably going to be the front-runner," Scarborough said at another point in his show. "And when you know that Fox News' viewers tend to trend older and white and male — and Donald Trump's most ardent supporters are older and white and male — is one anchor worth splitting the network's audience right down the middle?"

Scarborough elaborated on that argument later in the day on Twitter:

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Scarborough also said on his show that Trump's feud with Fox was just the latest in a string of firestorms Trump had ignited to manipulate the media. He cited Trump's claim that Mexico was sending rapists across the US border and the mogul's proposal to bar Muslims from entering the US.

"It's the press that makes a one-day story a one-week [story] by predicting the bitter end for Donald Trump," the MSNBC host said. "And they are always wrong. And I saw it happening again last night on Twitter: 'Donald's scared.' No he's not! He's scared of losing."

Scarborough added: "And Fox News has just walked into the biggest Donald Trump trap of the 2016 campaign."

Kelly once roasted Scarborough on her show in 2014. During their exchange, Kelly jokingly told Scarborough to have fun with his "four viewers."

For its part, a Fox representative released a lengthy statement noting that Trump had "viciously" attacked Kelly since August, when she was one of the moderators at the first Fox-hosted debate. At the time, Kelly infuriated Trump by asking a pointed question about derogatory remarks he had made about women's looks.

The Fox statement also accused Trump's campaign manager of threatening Kelly:

Capitulating to politicians' ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats, including the one leveled by Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski toward Megyn Kelly. In a call on Saturday with a Fox News executive, Lewandowski stated that Megyn had a "rough couple of days after that last debate" and he "would hate to have her go through that again." ... We can't give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees.

Watch Scarborough discussing Trump's 'trap' below:

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The extraordinary 40-year Hollywood career of Jennifer Jason Leigh, who just got her first Oscar nomination

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Jennifer Jason Leigh grew up in Hollywood and has never shied away from tough or provocative roles, all the while developing a reputation as one of the most interesting actors alive.

After four decades in the industry, the 53-year-old actress has finally earned her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the captive fugitive — and only female character — in Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight." 

She also lent her voice to the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film "Anomalisa." 

Starting with small film and TV roles in the '70s, Leigh's career took off following her role in the coming-of-age classic "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

Since then, her career has included critically-acclaimed roles in films like "Miami Blues," "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," and "Georgia" (many people believe the latter should have earned her an Oscar nomination).

She currently has three other projects in the works, including a Lyndon B. Johnson biopic and the "Twin Peaks" revival.

Here's a look at her impressive four-decade career: 

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Jennifer Leigh Morrow was born February 5, 1962, in Hollywood. Her parents, actor Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbara Turner, were both in the industry.



Jennifer picked the middle name "Jason" in honor of family friend actor Jason Robards Jr.

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Her first film role was a nonspeaking part in 1976's "The Spy Who Never Was," directed by her now ex-stepfather, Reza Badiyi. You never see her face.

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Kanye West melted the internet by trashing Wiz Khalifa with a legendary tweetstorm

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Kanye West went off on fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa in a series of tweets after Wiz included "kk" on his Twitter.

West thought he was going after his wife, star of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," Kim Kardashian.

Wiz insisted he was only referencing a strain of marijuana.

That didn't stop West from unleashing a series of tweets aimed at destroying Wiz, including various tweets taking shots at Wiz's failed marriage to Amber Rose, who West once dated.

Another reason for the thrashing was a series of tweets Wiz posted the night before calling out West's new album title.

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Wiz launched a comeback attempt at West.

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But West did not relent.

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After the series of nearly 30 tweets, West softened his tone toward Wiz.

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West later deleted the series of tweets calling out Wiz on Wednesday afternoon.

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Here’s why a recession might help Netflix and hurt cable companies (NFLX)

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reed hastings netflixNetflix will only become stronger if the market tanks, according to analysts at MKM Partners.

In a note on Wednesday, the analysts wrote that a recession would boost Netflix’s prospects because it would accelerate “cord-cutting.”

“While more limited, an $8-10 per month video service [like Netflix] is more attractive than a $100 per month service [like traditional cable] when spending budgets are stressed,” the analysts write. When money is tight, that big cable bill starts to look more like a luxury than a necessity. And consumers might just be tempted to cut the cord and ditch their cable bill altogether.

But that’s not the only factor that could cause Netflix to rise in an economic downturn, according to MKM. They note that cable companies are reliant on advertising dollars, which tend to dry up in a recession. Netflix is not. This means that cable will have less money to spend acquiring new shows, putting Netflix in a relatively better position to snag the best content.

What the analysts don’t mention, however, is that such a recession could hurt Netflix’s subscriber growth more generally. Netflix is already starting to see flagging subscriber growth in the US, and those who are not yet Netflix customers might be reluctant to sign up for yet another entertainment bill. New subscribers who don’t fall into the “cord-cutter” category could be harder to come by when the market is bad.

Netflix’s prospects in a recession, then, might hinge on how many people see disposing of their cable bill as a viable option. And that, in turn, might depend on how well Netflix uses the $6 billion it plans to spend on content in 2016.

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Netflix bought the first great horror movie of the year at Sundance, and here's why you need to see it

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The midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival can be hit or miss, but when the program is done right, it includes some of the best movies at the festival.

The section has a gem this year from a first-time Iranian filmmaker who has looked back on his memories growing up through the Iran-Iraq War in 1980s Tehran to make a chilling horror movie: "Under the Shadow."

Horror movies have been used perfectly over the decades to comment on topical issues within the US — from civil rights in 1968's "Night of the Living Dead" to the Big-Brother-is-watching-you angle of 1988's "They Live." But only recently have filmmakers of Middle Eastern descent begun to tell such stories on an international stage in a significant way.

"Under the Shadow" director Babak Anvari will quickly be compared to Iranian-American filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, as she also used the horror genre to explore living in Iran with her acclaimed 2014 film "A Girl Walks Home Alone." But both stories are different in tone and style, with "Alone" shot in black and white and focusing more on female isolation, while "Under the Shadow" has slick camera work and tackles a family dynamic.

"This is a personal story about what I remember as a child and what my family went through, other Iranians went through" during the war, Anvari told Business Insider at Sundance. "I used all those memories and put a horror twist on it."

The film focuses on Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi), who have a hot-and-cold relationship that only gets more challenged when Shideh's husband is sent off to serve in the war while Iraqi air raids rain down on their apartment complex.

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The terror of that setting is elevated when Dorsa tells her mother that an invisible figure — or as they call it, djinn, a spirit that steals those they want to posses — keeps entering their place and has stolen her favorite doll.

The tension and scares only increase from there. As neighbors begin to leave because of the bombings, Dorsa becomes ill and Shideh realizes that what Dorsa tells her may be true.

"From day one I felt like this was a great setting for a horror," Anvari said. "Tehran at that time was very intense and dark because of the war."

Babak Anvari Under the Shadow Sundane Film FestivalAnvari, who lives in London now and hasn't been back to Iran in close to five years, remembers as a child staying up late at night to watch VHS tapes of his favorite horror movies. Anvari points out that at that time VCRs were illegal to own.

"I was influenced by horrors, but they freaked me out," he said. "My parents realized what I was doing and banned me from watching horrors."

But he was already hooked. Writing the "Under the Shadow" script on spec, he found the support of producers Emily Leo and Oliver Roskill, who were able to put together financing through their own production deal and a grant from the Doha Film Institute to shoot the film in Jordan last year.

Though there are some computer-generated scares, most of the things that will frighten you are just good old-fashioned tricks that were used by the masters, like Dario Argento ("Suspiria") and Wes Craven ("Scream").

It's been a long time since I've heard actual screams in a movie theater, and they could be heard numerous times throughout the screening of "Under the Shadow" I attended.

It certainly got buyers' attention. Netflix bought worldwide streaming rights to the movie on the first day of the festival. Then two days later, Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films announced that they were teaming up to give the film a theatrical/VOD day-and-date release.

But Anvari is realistic about where the film can be released and where it can't — like in Iran.

"Someone will buy it off the street," he said, referring to the bootleg-movie market in Iran. "It would be great to show it there. I don't feel I offend anyone, but my guess is it will be a bootleg version they see."

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FOX NEWS: Hey, remember when Donald Trump told Megyn Kelly about debate 'courage' 4 years ago?

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During at least two Wednesday segments, Fox News highlighted an old interview Donald Trump did with host Megyn Kelly.

Back in 2011, Trump sat down with Kelly to promote a Republican presidential debate the real-estate mogul was planning to moderate.

Trump criticized several of the candidates who wouldn't commit to the event, which was to be hosted by the conservative news organization Newsmax.

"We're not seeing a lot of courage here, are we? Not lots of courage. These Republicans, they're supposed to be brave," Trump told Kelly at the time.

He also said he "could never" be a better moderator than Kelly, who he said was doing "a great job, and I mean it."

According to Newsmax, Trump ultimately backed out of moderating the organization's debate, as he was considering a potential 2012 presidential campaign of his own.

Trump, now the Republican presidential front-runner, has launched raging attacks against Kelly since last August, when she was one of three moderators at the first Fox-hosted debate. At the time, Kelly infuriated Trump with a pointed question about disparaging things he's said about women's looks.

The billionaire repeatedly complained that Kelly would treat him fairly at Fox's upcoming debate on Thursday. He even polled his Twitter followers asking if he should attend the debate, given Kelly's alleged bias against him.

After Fox mocked Trump's Twitter poll with a sarcastic statement, Trump announced Tuesday that he would boycott the debate.

Watch Trump discuss that debate with Kelly in December 2011:

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See how the amazing cast of 'American Crime Story' transformed to bring the O.J. Simpson trial back to life

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FX is hoping for another hit from "American Horror Story" co-creator Ryan Murphy with his upcoming true-crime anthology series "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story."

Based on Jeffrey Toobin's book "The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson," the limited series will look at the Simpson trial from the perspective of the lawyers.

It will explore the chaotic behind-the-scenes dealings and maneuvering on both sides of the court and how the LAPD's history with the city's African-American community affected the trial.

The show has a stellar cast playing the actual people, including Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, John Travolta as his attorney Robert Shapiro, and Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark, among others — and the costuming, hair, and makeup certainly do a lot of work.

Take a look at the actors in character next to the real-life people they're portraying below:

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Cuba Gooding, Jr. ("Jerry Maguire," "Empire") as O.J. Simpson:

Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman in June 1994.



David Schwimmer ("Friends") as Robert Kardashian:

The late Kardashian was one member of Simpson's team of high-profile defense attorneys. And, yes, he's the father of Kim Kardashian, her sisters, and her brother, who is named after the attorney.



Courtney B. Vance ("State of Affairs," "Revenge") as Johnnie Cochran:

The most well-known member of Simpson's defense team, which was dubbed "The Dream Team." Cochran went on to represent several celebrities, including Sean Combs, Snoop Dogg, and Michael Jackson.



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A legendary true-crime filmmaker argues that this is what really matters in the 'Making a Murderer' case

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Errol Morris, whose documentary "The Thin Blue Line" is considered a trailblazer in the true-crime genre, has some strong opinions about the trials that are covered in "Making a Murderer."

"There’s one thing I do know from watching ['Making a Murderer'] —that neither Brendan Dassey nor Steven Avery received a fair trial, and that that trial should be overturned," he told Slate in a new intereview.

In many ways, "Thin Blue Line" and "Making a Murderer" share similar themes. Both have a subject who was wrongly sent to prison and eventually exonerated (Avery for a rape prior to his murder conviction). Both deal with how the legal system may treat poor people versus wealthy ones. And both involve potential police and attorney misconduct.

"To me, ['Making a Murderer'] is a very powerful story, ultimately, not about whether these guys are guilty or innocent – but it’s a very powerful story about a miscarriage of justice," said Morris, who expressed jealousy over the amount of documents and materials used in the Netflix series about Avery.

"Thin Blue Line" would ultimately help to free its subject, Randall Adams, from prison. While Adams was serving time, the real murderer, David Harris, committed another murder and was later executed by lethal injection in 2004.

Morris believes that "Making a Murderer" could help free Avery or Dassey, because it's getting the right kind of attention, especially online.

"I suppose the technical way to say it is both of those trials were totally f--ked up," he said. "But that’s not enough in our world. You have to bring it to the attention of people in a powerful enough way that people are compelled to do something about it. I suppose it’s another sort of thing to be jealous about — not really jealous about, but a little bit — is that in 1988, there was no Internet."

Both Avery and Dassey are currently appealing their convictions.

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'Be the bigger man': Bill O'Reilly confronts Donald Trump over debate boycott in combative interview

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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly confronted Donald Trump on Wednesday over the Republican presidential front-runner's high-profile boycott of Fox's primary debate.

O'Reilly repeatedly told Trump that he was making a "big mistake" by skipping out on Fox's Thursday-night debate.

"You're running for president. I believe you want to improve the country. I believe that personally," the host told Trump.

He added: "You lose an opportunity to persuade people that you are a strong leader."

The real-estate mogul announced that he was refusing to participate in the Fox debate on Thursday, after a back and forth between himself and the network.

Trump repeatedly and loudly complained that one of the moderators will be Megyn Kelly, whom he has been attacking since August, when she was one of the moderators in the first Fox-hosted debate. At the time, Kelly angered Trump by questioning him about the disparaging comments he's made about women's appearances.

O'Reilly defended Kelly during his Trump interview.

"Kelly's question was within journalistic bounds," O'Reilly said after saying that he would have asked a similar question had he moderated the debate.

"In your Christian faith, there is a very significant tenet. And that's the tenet of forgiveness," O'Reilly later told Trump.

He added:

And I think you should forgive not only journalists who come at you in ways you don't like, but I think you should be the bigger man and say, 'You know what? I didn't like it. ... But I'm not going to take any action against it.' Don't you think that's the right thing to do?

Trump said he subscribed to a different tenet.

"It probably is. But it's called an 'eye for an eye,' I guess, also. You can look at it that way," he told O'Reilly.

"No, no, no, no," O'Reilly shot back. "If you're the Christian, the 'eye for the eye' rule goes out. Here's what it is: Turning the other cheek."

O'Reilly then tried appealing to Trump's patriotism, but also failed on that front.

"Come on! It's about the country!" he said.

Trump said that instead of doing the debate, he was hosting an event to benefit veterans on Thursday night. O'Reilly offered to team with Trump to host a larger event on behalf of veterans, but he did not appear to win over the mogul.

Later in the interview, O'Reilly asked Trump if he would "reconsider" his stance. Trump suggested that they had an agreement beforehand that he would not ask that question.

"Even though you and I had an agreement that you wouldn't ask me that, which we did … it's up to Fox," Trump said. "It's not up to me, Bill."

O'Reilly finished their exchange by complimenting Trump for coming onto the network for the interview despite his complaints about Fox. Trump said earlier that he wouldn't have done the interview, but he agreed last week to do it and didn't want to break his word.

"I don't know any politician under these circumstances," O'Reilly said, "that would've come on and did what you did here tonight."

Watch the first segment of the interview:

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Additional reporting by Brett LoGiurato.

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60 teenagers reveal what they think is cool — and what isn't — in 2016

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Too often when writing about what teenagers like, we neglect to talk to the most important group of all: teens. So we decided to put together a State of the Union on the American teenager. To learn what American teenagers in 2016 really like, and what they don't, we polled about 60 of them from across the US. We spoke with teens ages 13 to 19, in middle school, high school, and college.

We asked them about their digital lives and habits, the apps they use and the games they play, pop culture, and politics. Their answers offer a glimpse into what it's like being a teenager in 2016. We've drawn out the highlights below, along with some data from other sources, so keep scrolling for our guide to teenagers in 2016.

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Who did we talk to?

For our survey on American teenagers, we talked to a group of about 60 teenagers from across the US, of various socioeconomic classes, grades, and ages. We didn't want to focus on one particular geographic area, so we talked to teenagers from across the country, including California, Colorado, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania.

Every teen we spoke with owned a smartphone, and most owned or regularly used a variety of devices, like gaming consoles, tablets, and desktop computers.



Teens get their first smartphone when they're 11.

On average, the teens we spoke with received smartphones from their parents when they were 11 years old. At their youngest, they received phones when they were 8; at the other end, one teen's parents made her wait until she was 16 before she got a phone.

 



Teens are shy to talk about how much time they spend on their phones, but it's a lot.

We got lots of "too many" and "I'm embarrassed to say" responses, but the numbers we were able to get suggested teens spend about six hours a day on their phones. (This is both in and out of school.)



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Neil deGrasse Tyson drops the mic on B.o.B's flat-earth theory 'once and for all'

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Earlier this week, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson corrected rapper B.o.B's theories about the earth being flat on Twitter, so B.o.B fired back with a diss track ("Flatline") targeted at Tyson. 

Tyson didn't take the song sitting down. On Wednesday's episode of "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore," the astrophysicist emerged to Wilmore's "science panic button" to fire back at the rapper. 

"Listen B.o.B, once and for all. The earth looks flat because, one, you’re not far enough away, at your size,” Tyson said. “Two, your size isn’t large enough relative to Earth to notice any curvature at all. It’s a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry — small sections of large curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it.”

He continued that B.o.B's belief is part of a larger problem. "There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain in this country, and it may be the beginning of the end of our informed democracy,” Tyson said. 

Though he added that people are free to believe anything they want to, those with influence need to have facts right, because "being wrong becomes being harmful to the health, the wealth, and the security of our citizenry."

Tyson then turned to Isaac Newton to drill his point home: "Isaac Newton, my man, said, ‘If I have seen farther than others, it’s by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ So that’s right B.o.B, when you stand on the shoulders of those who came before, you might just see far enough to realize the earth isn’t f–ing flat.”

"And by the way, this is called gravity," Tyson said as he literally dropped the mic. 

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Watch the schooling from Tyson below:

 

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Donald Trump goes on raging tweetstorm about Megyn Kelly and the 'total disaster' debate he's boycotting

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Real-estate mogul Donald Trump called the coming Fox News-hosted Republican debate a "total disaster" and shared a Twitter user's post that called Fox News host Megyn Kelly a "bimbo" during a raging series of tweets hours before he was set to boycott the Thursday-night debate.

"The 'debate' tonight will be a total disaster — low ratings with advertisers and advertising rates dropping like a rock. I hate to see this," the Republican presidential front-runner wrote.

The real-estate tycoon had told Fox host Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday night that he hoped Fox did "well," even though he said the network would "make much less" money without him on stage.

A Fox News spokesperson disputed Trump's characterization, telling Business Insider that ad rates have not changed and that no advertisers have backed out of their spots.

"The debate is completely sold out. No rates have changed and there are no advertisers who have backed out. Prices don't change once the orders have been placed," the spokesperson told Business Insider.

CNN's Dylan Byers reported Thursday that ad rates for primary debates and similar events are usually set weeks or months ahead of the event.

Later in the tweetstorm, Trump also continued his assault on Kelly, with whom he has feuded for months.

One tweet, which Trump promoted on his account Thursday morning, attacked Kelly for a GQ Magazine photo shoot and labeled her a "bimbo."

"And this is the bimbo that's asking presidential questions?" the tweet said. The user attached two photos from the shoot with text that read, "Criticizes Trump for objectifying women ... Poses like this in GQ Magazine."

The candidate shared the post a day after he had said he wouldn't refer to Kelly as a "bimbo," a term used to insult women, because doing so would "not be politically correct."

Trump drew some backlash last year when he twice promoted tweets calling Kelly a "bimbo." One of the times Trump retweeted the insult was after Kelly, a moderator at an August debate, confronted him about past comments he had made about women's looks.

He also shared an image that falsely claimed Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia had posed with Kelly and was "the co-owner" of Fox News. According to the myth-debunking site Snopes, the photo is fake, and the Saudi prince's investment firm owns a minority share in 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News.

Trump has raged against Kelly and her coverage of his campaign since that August debate. And the Fox host played a key role in Trump's big Tuesday announcement that he would not be attending the debate.

On Wednesday, Trump's campaign announced plans to host a dueling event in Iowa during Thursday's Fox-hosted debate. It said the event would be held to benefit veterans organizations.

Trump refused to back down from his stance Wednesday night, when he appeared on the Fox host O'Reilly's show. On Thursday, he said "two candidates" had contacted him about attending his Iowa event Thursday night.

View part of Trump's tweetstorm below:

This story has been updated with comment from a Fox News spokesperson.

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Jimmy Kimmel explains everything you don't understand about the Kanye West-Wiz Khalifa feud

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Jimmy Kimmel did God's work on Wednesday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" when he quickly recapped the Twitter feud that blew up on social media between Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa.

The host started right from the beginning for those of us who didn't follow the feud from its start.

"It's a lot to digest," Kimmel said. "But basically [Kanye] revealed that he is changing the title of his new album for the third time, an album he's already calling the greatest album of all time. He's changing it from 'Swish' to 'Waves.'"

That is, apparently, the inciting incident. Rapper Wiz Khalifa responded by mentioning a rapper, Max B, who calls his style "the wave." And then he set West off.

jimmy kimmel live abc wiz khalifa tweet kanye westLike a comedy of errors, West thought that one of Khalifa's tweets referred to his wife, Kim Kardashian West, which then escalated the feud. But Khalifa was really referring to marijuana.

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And so West apologized and then brought the entire social-media battle right back to ground zero when he used the hashtag #WAVES.

"I guess he's still calling it 'Waves,'" Kimmel concluded. "He says he came up with waves. All this time, I thought it was the ocean that created waves. But I guess not."

What was the purpose of all that? Kimmel doesn't even try to explain. He does wonder about one thing, though.

"I do have to believe that [late rappers] Tupac [Shakur] and Biggie [Smalls] are watching this and saying, 'You got to be kidding me.'"

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's starring in a new 'Conan' reboot and reveals plot details

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Though it looks like the "Terminator" franchise has been put on hold after Paramount announced earlier this month that it's taking a sequel to "Terminator Genisys" off its release schedule, Arnold Schwarzenegger is already thinking of another of his legendary franchises to reboot.

During a Q&A with fans in Edinburgh, Scotland, over the weekend, the actor said that a new Conan movie is in the works, which he told the audience is titled “Conan the Conqueror.”

“I’m sitting on the throne for years and years — decades, and then all of a sudden, the time comes when they want to overthrow me,” Schwarzenegger told the audience of some of the plot details. “So that story will be told and that movie will be done.”

conan throneStating that there is “a serious drive” to make the film, he added that a script for “Conan the Conqueror” has been written and that a search for a director is underway.

Schwarzenegger had his breakout in Hollywood with the release of “Conan the Barbarian” in 1982, based on the pulp-fiction character created in 1932 by Robert E. Howard, which was later immortalized into the hulking presence of an Adonis warrior by the cover paintings of Frank Frazetta.

“Barbarian” grossed over $40 million in its domestic theatrical release (over $117 million by today’s ticket prices), and was No. 1 at the box office its opening weekend. 

Schwarzenegger came back to the role two years later in “Conan the Destroyer,” the same year that “The Terminator” was released. The disappointing box office of “Destroyer” and the worldwide success of “The Terminator” led Schwarzenegger to do more modern-day action movies.

The franchise attemped a reboot in 2011, starring Jason Momoa in the lead, but that bombed, making only $48.7 million worldwide. 

But at 68, can Arnold handle the physicality of a “Conan” movie? He says yes.

“When you stay in shape, you do turn back the clock,” he said. “So I feel great and the last few movies that I’ve done, I’ve done many of my own stunts. I did all the physical stuff and it didn’t wipe me out and I have plenty of energy and feel really terrific. So I am absolutely convinced that I can do the Conan movie and do the horseback riding, the sword fights, and all the fighting.”

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The best movies and TV shows coming to Amazon Prime, iTunes, Hulu, and more in February

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The big boys of the streaming world have a couple of original titles coming in February.

For Amazon, it’s the streaming release of the Spike Lee movie it produced, “Chi-Raq,” which has been playing in theaters since early December. And over at Hulu, it’s the premiere of the adaptation of the Stephen King novel “11.22.63,” starring James Franco.

And there are also a whole lot of classics coming to streaming, like “Lost in Translation,” “Zodiac,” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

All the new movie and TV titles are below. We’ve highlighted in bold some titles we think are worth watching.

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iTunes

Available February 2

“Spotlight”
“Steve Jobs”
“Bridge of Spies”

Available February 9

“The Night Before”
“Secret In Their Eyes’
“99 Homes”

Available February 16

“Room”
“The Danish Girl”
“Trumbo”
“Miss You Already’

Available February 23

“The Big Short”
“The Good Dinosaur”
“In the Heart of the Sea”
“Victor Frankenstein”



Amazon Prime

Available February 1

“A Better Life”
“Amy”
“Batman”
“Broad City” (Season 2)
“Deliver Us On Evil”
“How To Steal A Million”
“Kings of Summer”
“Lost In Translation”
“Men In Black”
“Nightwatch”
“The Fifth Element”
“The Fury”
“The Karate Kid”
“The Truth About Emanuel”
“Twelve O'Clock High”

Available February 2

“Adaline”
“Myanmar: Bridges to Change”
“Poldark” (Season 1)
“Steve Jobs”
“Truth”

Available February 3

“American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson”

Available February 4

“Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby”
 
Available February 5

“Chi-Raq” (AMAZON ORIGINAL)
“Ouija Exorcism”

Available February 9

“The Leftovers” (Season 2)
“Grandma” 

Available February 10

“Shameless” (Season 6)

Available February 11

“Girls” (Season 2)

Available February 15

“The Americans” (Season 3)
“The Newsroom” (Season 3)
“Solomon Kane”

Available February 15

“Togetherness” (Season 1)
“The Walking Dead” (Season 6 - second half) 

Available February 16

“Better Call Saul (Season 2)
“The New Yorker Presents” (Season 1)

Available February 17

“Billions” (Season 1)
“Rizzoli & Isles” (Season 7)

Available February 23

“Black Sails” (Season 3)

Available February 21

“Love & Friendship”

Available February 24

“Digging for Fire”
 
Available February 29

“Inequality for All”



Hulu

Available February 1

“Astro Boy”
“Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations”
“Dave Chappelle's Block Party”
“From Within”
“The Hand That Rocks The Cradle”
“Hannibal”
“Braveheart”
“The Madness of King George”
“Blood Simple”
“Staying Alive”
“The Firm”
“The General's Daughter”
“King Kong” (2005)
“Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult”
“Naked Gun From The Files Of Police Squad”
“An Office and a Gentleman”
“Panic”
“School Ties” 
“She's Having a Baby”
‘Species”
“Species II”
“Species III”
“Summer of Sam”
“Summer Rental”
“Summer School”
“The Talented Mr. Ripley”
“Trainspotting”
“Universal Soldier”
“Zodiac”

Available February 2

“Castle” (New Episodes)
“Inside the NFL: 2015 Super Bowl Preview: Special”

Available February 3

“UnREAL” (Season 1)
“The Muppets” (New Episodes)
“Fresh Off the Boat” (New Episodes)

Available February 4

“Workaholics” (Season 6 Premiere)
“Idiotsitter” (Season 1)
 
Available February 5

“Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall”

Available February 6

“Mortdecai”
 
Available February 11

“The Thin Blue Line”

Available February 12

“Grey’s Anatomy” (New Episodes)
“Scandal” (New Episodes)
“How To Get Away With Murder” (New Episodes)

Available February 14

“The Imitation Game”

Available February 15

“11.22.63” (HULU ORIGINAL)
“The Aviator”

Available February 17

“A Murder in the Park” 

Available February 25

“Blue Is The Warmest Color”
 
Available February 26

“Project Runway” (Season 13)
“Duck Dynasty” (Season 5)
“Pawn Stars” (Season 7 & 8)
                
Available February 29

“Jerry Maguire” 
“The Lifeguard”
“Gotham” (New Episodes)



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'Entitlement and arrogance': Billionaire investors Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca slam a well-known Silicon Valley venture capitalist who just bashed 'Shark Tank'

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Paul Graham, one of Silicon Valley's best-known investors and a cofounder of the startup accelerator program Y Combinator, doesn't seem to be a fan of ABC's hit show "Shark Tank."

Graham believes startups should focus on building great products, not on marketing, and for that reason he thinks shows like "Shark Tank" are a distracting waste of time for entrepreneurs.

He said as much on Twitter on Wednesday night, but billionaire investors Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca came back swinging.

Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, previously founded a company, Broadcast.com, that sold to Yahoo for over $5 billion in Yahoo stock. He is also one of the sharks, or judges, whom entrepreneurs pitch to on "Shark Tank."

He more or less called Graham and the startups his accelerator program had backed "entitled" and "arrogant."

Y Combinator is designed to help startups grow rapidly by providing guidance and money to founders in exchange for equity in their companies. YC has helped multibillion-dollar companies like Dropbox and Airbnb get off the ground.

But the companies that go through YC — which has a very low acceptance rate — are known for demanding a premium on their valuations when seeking funding from venture capitalists, hence Cuban's "entitled" jab.

But a lot of people feel accelerator programs aren't worth the equity founders give up to participate in them, which Cuban also pointed out to Graham.

Sacca is a billionaire angel investor who put early money into massive tech companies including Uber and Twitter. He has been a guest shark on ABC's show. He told Graham that pitching 7 million viewers every Friday night on ABC hardly seemed like a waste of time for a founder.

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Leonardo DiCaprio just gave the pope a sentimental present

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Leonardo DiCaprio had a private meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss climate change, a cause important to both.

But the best part was when DiCaprio presented the Pope with a very sentimental gift.

Story by Aly Weisman and editing by Stephen Parkhurst

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