Part four of ESPN’s documentary “O.J.: Made in America,” which aired on the network Friday, opens with an unbelievable recollection by detective Mark Fuhrman: the first time he went to O.J. Simpson’s house back in 1985.

He tells it with remarkable detail. Driving up the driveway to see Simpson’s wife, Nicole, sitting on her car crying hysterically with Simpson on the other side of the driveway holding a baseball bat. Numerous times Fuhrman tells Simpson to drop the bat until he finally complies after Fuhrman takes out his baton. When Fuhrman asks Nicole if she wants to press charges, she declines.

Fuhrman's last words to Nicole, probably the first and last time he would ever meet her, are chilling: “It’s your life.”

Part four thrusts us into the madness of the Simpson murder trial, aka “The Trial of the Century.” You may be thinking, “I know it all,” from either living through the endless TV coverage in the 1990s or having recently seen the FX miniseries “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” but if you’ve watched “Made in America” up to this point, you probably know that there are other stories that have not been explored.

Director Ezra Edelman has a knack for getting things out of people — and it helps that the passage of time since the trial has likely made the people he interviewed a little more loose-lipped — and that talent is on full display in part four.

Some of the most shocking revelations include Simpson’s former agent Mike Gilbert saying one reason the bloody gloves didn’t fit Simpson’s hands in court was that he had stopped taking his arthritis medicine so his hands were swollen. And then there are the two never-before-seen crime-scene photos. Of course, there's Fuhrman's racist rants played on tape in the courtroom that solidified the racial cover-up that the defense sold the jury.

But lasting memories from this part for me are a little less headline-grabbing.

The Ron Shipp storyline throughout “Made in America” is one of the most fascinating, and it all comes to a head in this part. A guy who idolized Simpson when he was young, he became the former football star's friend when he joined the LAPD. He was so convinced that Simpson did the murders that he agreed to testify against his former friend, in one of those “you couldn’t write a better script”-type storylines for a documentary filmmaker. And the back-and-forth of courtroom footage of Shipp’s cross-examination by Simpson’s defense team with Shipp’s recollections in his interview for the docuseries is masterfully handled.

In another highlight, Edelman interviews two jurors from the trail. Rarely over the decades have we heard from them, and the insight they provide is both enlightening and frustrating. While the prosecution was trying to make its case for why Simpson would have killed his wife given his history of domestic violence, a juror admits she doesn’t respect a woman who stays in a relationship in which she’s getting abused. And of the famous moment when Simpson put on the bloody gloves, a juror recalls, like the rest of the world, that the prosecution was duped into doing it.

Edelman then ends the part at a perfect moment. Right at closing arguments. The theme of racist corruption within the LAPD over decades is at its peak, but is the jury buying it? We need that breath before delving into the verdict.

But we also see in part four that by the trial’s conclusion, for right or wrong, it’s become a civil rights movement that America tunes into daily to watch. Simpson’s “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” motto has been tossed aside like former friend Ron Shipp so he can keep his freedom.

Part five of “O.J.: Made in America” airs on ESPN on Saturday.

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Everyone's got to get their start somewhere.

Sometimes that means taking a strange or terrible job before moving on to something bigger and better. 

Here are 26 of the weirdest jobs that famous people had before making it big.

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President Obama scooped ice cream

That's right. The current president of the United States worked at Baskin-Robbins in high school, as Business Insider previously reported.

He wrote about the experience on LinkedIn: "Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists."

Mariah Carey was a hat checker

Like many other rising celebs, Carey worked many jobs. At one point, she worked as a hat checker. According to IMBD, Carey stated that she "got fired from all her jobs because of her attitude and was concentrating on becoming a [backup] singer and mixing demos."

The Pope was a bouncer

Can you imagine getting tossed out of a bar by the Pope?

Pope Francis — who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio — worked several odd jobs before joining the Society of Jesus. These included testing chemicals at a lab and working as a bouncer at a bar, according to the Fiscal Times.

By now, you have probably seen the Instagram photos of a bearded J.K. Simmons in the weight room flexing a pair of big and powerful guns.

The photos were posted by his trainer, Aaron Williamson, a Marine veteran who has become a trainer to the stars. He has been working with the 61-year-old Simmons off and on since they met on the set of "Terminator Genisys." Business Insider reached Williamson by phone this week to get the scoop on how Simmons has accomplished his dramatic body transformation.

Simmons has been training his body for a while, Williamson told Business Insider.

"When we first trained on 'Terminator' he just wanted to stay healthy, and it progressed after people saw him transform for 'Whiplash,'" he said. Simmons worked with another trainer, Dana Perri, for his role in "Whiplash," but since January, Simmons has begun training again with Williamson as well, usually two to three times a week.

After "Whiplash," Williamson said, Simmons "wanted to do more of a physique transformation."

"He wants to have some 'beefing' guns to show people that he is just not that guy that does Farmers commercials," Williamson said.

So what's the secret to getting this impressive new physique?

"Each session is different — I don't pre-plan any workout before he gets there," Williamson said. "We never go in and do the exact same workout. It is always different." He added, however, that each session followed a relatively similar pattern.

"Usually [Simmons] always rides his bike to gym, so he is getting cardio before he gets there, and then once we meet up we do about 15 minutes more of cardio, then jump into some warm-up sets of whatever body part we are working on just to get some blood in the muscle," the trainer said. Then they jump into working sets — though these are more like supersets.

"I'm big on hitting the muscle from as many different angles as you can with as much blood volume as you can," Williamson said. All these different angles confuse the muscles, creating definition. "We use different exercises back to back to back … [and] by the end of the set, we are essentially doing 30 to 40 reps."

Simmons can do high numbers of reps by using lower weights, Williamson said, though the low weight can still yield results.

For example, Simmons does a lot of dumbbell work, which allows him to change his hand placement throughout the workout, keeping ligaments and tendons safe while working the muscles in his arms in a variety of different ways.

He also does cable work to build up his chest, plank work to strengthen the core, and crunches and leg raises to work the lower body.

There has been a lot of speculation that Simmons is working to transform his body for his role as Commissioner Gordon in the "Justice League" film, but if he is, he hasn't told his trainer.

"If he is, I have no idea about it," the trainer said. "Honestly, when I posted those photos up on my instagram, we never could have imagined this was going to happen and people would assume it was just for this role. But like I said, if he is, he has been pretty hush-hush about anything he is doing. This has just been a personal goal of his to transform his body into something different."

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Most long-form documentaries that examine a highly publicized murder trial or focus on an alleged murderer (think “The Jinx” or “Making a Murderer”) will spend its final chapter exploring why the person in focus of the murders did or didn’t do it.

ESPN’s documentary “O.J.: Made in America” doesn’t go down that path, and instead, for part five, which aired on Saturday night, provides a sad, darkly comedic coda to the O.J. Simpson story.

Director Ezra Edelman’s look at the aftermath of the not-guilty verdict is perfectly wrapped up by a helicopter pilot tailing Simpson being dropped off back at his house from prison who says, “Alright, let’s get out of all this bull----.”

With the trial behind us, we are thrown into the pitiful life Simpson has led since.

Run out of Brentwood by those who think he really did the murders and then fleeing to Florida to protect himself from paying the $33.5 million he was ordered to pay Ron Goldman’s family in the civil case, Simpson falls into a lifestyle of debauchery.

Group sex, drugs, and hanging out with questionable characters are the new norm in Simpson’s life. And with the murder being the only thing he can cash in on, he tries to do just that by writing a book titled, “If I Did It.”

Then there’s the 2007 Las Vegas incident, Simpson’s most costly mistake.

Edelman interviews most of the players involved in what has led to Simpson’s current incarceration. You can’t help but laugh through most of the retelling of it, in which Simpson attempts to reclaim personal effects that have been sold without his permission, because most involved didn’t know why they were following Simpson in the first place.

But after being arrested for armed robbery and kidnapping, there was no dream team to help him this time. Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison.

To some, like Ron Goldman’s father, it’s justice; to others, like dream-team member Carl Douglas, it’s nothing but payback from those who thought Simpson was guilty for the murders.

The greatest thing about “Made in America” is Edelman doesn’t interview Simpson. In many ways Simpson today is no longer the story. The man who ran through the airport in the Hertz commercial is no more. Some would make the point he was never that guy to begin with.

America created Simpson and it destroyed him. Edelman just draws us a map of how it happened.

A very memorable map.

Watch the entire "O.J.: Made In America" documentary on the Watch ESPN app.

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In 2005, when Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos began the documentary project that would eventually become Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” they thought they were making a feature length documentary film.

They weren’t.

Over a decade after the start of production, “Making a Murderer” was released by Netflix as a 10-part series. It sparked a far-reaching and passionate discussion about the criminal justice system in the US.

But it wasn't always clear that "Making a Murderer would find any audience at all. It didn't fit the mold, the directors tell Business Insider, and a path toward a commercial release wasn't clear until 2013, a full eight years after they started work on it.

The beginning

By March 2006, just a few months into filming, Ricciardi and Demos knew they were pushing the seams of what a documentary could be commercially. Then 16-year-old Brendan Dassey entered the story as one of two men, along with his uncle Steven Avery, who would stand trial for the murder of Teresa Halbach. As the story the directors were capturing unfolded, it became simply too big for a single film — or even a miniseries.

“There were not many distribution forms for a longform nonfiction series that was all one story, told over the course of several episodes,” Demos says. “We had one example of ‘The Staircase,’ which aired on the Sundance channel, and we held it onto that model for dear life.”

But things weren’t looking good. Ricciardi and Demos took a series of meetings as the years crept on, some with high-profile outlets, but the talks always broke down. When the details came out, traditional deals would require them to cut and compress, and significantly alter the storytelling language. It was rewarding to have people interested, but it didn’t really help, they explain.

There was a point when they just had to make a decision to put their energy in making the film instead of making the sale, Demos says.

95% of the project was self-funded until 2013 (the rest came from things like grants). While the pair edited the film, they returned to their former careers: Ricciardi worked as a contract lawyer, and Demos as an electrician on film sets and television shows.

Enter Netflix

But in 2013, Netflix started producing original content, and the directors saw an opening.

“Netflix was already a place we went to see documentaries,” Ricciardi explains. Netflix hadn’t started releasing its own documentaries yet, but agreed to a meeting anyway. Ricciardi says by the end of the meeting Netflix had said they were on board. 

What impressed Netflix so immediately about “Making a Murderer"?

“We can look at the data and say true crime is an interesting category that people are interested by, sure,” Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s VP in charge of documentary acquisitions, explains. That's one factor. 

“But there’s a lot of true crime content out there, right? So the question was what made this compelling and interesting and for me, it was that commitment to the level of storytelling.”

Lots of true crime is focused on descriptions and reenactments, she says. “Making a Murderer” put you in the courtroom, in the interrogation, right in the story.

Netflix was hooked, and it didn’t have the constraints that some other bidders for the series had. Netflix didn’t care what form the story took. It could be a feature, six episodes, 10 episodes — as long as it was compelling and entertaining.

Global distribution and virality

Netflix's global distribution is another big factor that helped Netflix snag the series.

Nishimura explains, “The standard way in which documentaries are produced is inherently disaggregated, meaning that generally, the old school way to do it was that you would take money from various distributors, like an advance. You would then promise some window of your broadcast to that partner."

They would get it for a certain period of time.

"But when that was DVD," Nishimura continues. "Some markets were less unsold. They would go sometimes months if not years before getting another partner ... What [Netflix has] taken out of the whole mix is the ambiguity of availability.” If you sign a deal with Netflix, you don't have to worry about being being able to find a way to watch your film.

There are other outlets for broad distribution of documentaries. Nishimura points particularly to international broadcasters like BBC, or NHK in Japan, which have been funding quality documentaries for a long time. But there is still often a regional element and a constraint in availability. It’s simply easier for something with global distribution on the internet to go viral.

Documentary filmmakers "want to be fairly compensated, which we completely agree with, and they want to be heard,” Nishimura says.“They want their story to reach an audience. That is why they do what they do.”

In some sense, they want to go viral.

Ricciardi and Demos echo this sentiment. Their goal was to start a dialogue about the American criminal justice system. That’s not an easy feat, but it’s something they certainly accomplished (whichever side of the case you come down on). Nishimura describes it as a “global watercooler moment.”

The climate

Netflix isn’t the only company to have discovered the viral potential of longform nonfiction narratives, especially in the true crime genre.

HBO’s “The Jinx,” which chronicles the deaths surrounding real estate heir Robert Durst, burst into the cultural conversation in a similar fashion, and ESPN’s “O.J.: Made in America” is getting initial buzz. In a slightly different medium, there is also “Serial,” the podcast megahit that revisits a murder trial over a decade old.

The commercial climate bodes well for filmmakers, Ricciardi and Demos say.

But Netflix’s lure of freedom and global distribution has spanned beyond the true crime genre as well, notably to celebrity projects. In May, Chelsea Handler began her three-year, 90-episode talk show deal with Netflix.

“I wanted to create my own structure and the only place to do that, in my mind at that time, was Netflix,” Handler recently told Recode’s Kara Swisher. “So they didn't come to me, I went to them.” She’s also been impressed with the global distribution. “Netflix being in 190 countries … that kind of platform is hugely attractive.”

And Nishimura says nonfiction will be a big part of Netflix global future, as it’s been since she began working there 9 years ago. "It’s been part of our DNA and our fiber from the get-go," she says, and as Netflix expands internationally, it will only become more so.

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Alejandro "Jano" Fuentes is dead after being shot multiple times on Chicago's southwest side on Thursday.

NBC News reported that Fuentes, 45, was pronounced dead by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office on Saturday afternoon.

According to police, Fuentes was shot while leaving the performance school he owned, Tras Bambalinas, to go celebrate his birthday.

While in a vehicle with another person, a man with a gun approached the vehicle and ordered Fuentes to get out of the car. After Fuentes resisted the man's order, the man shot the singer in the head three times, police said.

Fuentes was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment. The shooter fled the scene in a car that was parked nearby.

The police don't have suspects for the attack, reported The Guardian. They are investigating the crime as a potential carjacking or robbery.

The singer was a top-10 finalist on the Mexican version of "The Voice," called "La Voz," in 2011.

His death occurs just a week after former "The Voice" finalist and YouTube star Christina Grimmie was shot and killed while signing autographs in Orlando.

Last weekend also saw the largest mass shooting in US history when a gunman killed 49 people in an Orlando gay club.

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Zoe Saldana responded to critics of her casting as Nina Simone in the recent biographical film, "Nina."

After a 2012 announcement that the "Star Trek" actress would play the iconic singer and activist, Simone's estate and others criticized the production for casting an actress who didn't look like the African American star.

"There's no one way to be black," Saldana, 38, said in a new interview with Allure magazine of the criticism. "I'm black the way I know how to be. You have no idea who I am. I am black. I'm raising black men. Don't you ever think you can look at me and address me with such disdain."

In 2012, Simone's daughter, Simone Kelly, said of Saldana's casting, "Appearance-wise this is not the best choice."

Later that year, Kelly elaborated in a New York Times interview on how central Simone's appearance was to her story.

"My mother was raised at a time when she was told her nose was too wide, her skin was too dark," she said.

People expressed further outrage when a trailer for "Nina" was released in March, showing Saldana wearing a prosthetic nose and makeup to make her skin darker.

Grammy-winning singer India Arie, who portrayed Simone on a 2003 episode of the 1960s-set NBC drama "American Dreams," saw an early version of the movie during a 2013 private screening. She, too, criticized the Saldana's appearance as the singer.

"It made me sad," Arie said. "The way she looked in the movie was ugly. Whether or not Nina Simone was beautiful in your eyes, I thought she was beautiful. But in this movie, she just looked weird. Her skin looked weird, and her nose looked weird. It made me wonder, was that how the filmmakers see her? Did they not think she was beautiful? Were they like, 'Yeah, we got it! That's how she looked.'"

Regarding the prosthetics and makeup, Saldana told Allure, "I never saw her as unattractive. Nina looks like half my family!"

"But if you think the [prosthetic] nose I wore was unattractive, then maybe you need to ask yourself, What do you consider beautiful? Do you consider a thinner nose beautiful, so the wider you get, the more insulted you become?" Saldana continued in the interview.

Saldana said the movie script was passed on numerous times and that the singer's story may not have been told if she didn't sign on. For that reason, Saldana said she has no regrets over doing the role.

"The fact that we're talking about her, that Nina Simone is trending? We f---ing won," the actress said. "For so many years, nobody knew who the f--- she was. She is essential to our American history. As a woman first, and only then as everything else."

"Nina" was released in April to a limited number of theaters and through video on demand.

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The ESPN documentary "O.J.: Made in America" is full of interesting behind-the-scenes insight on O.J. Simpson's incredible rise to fame and sudden infamy. 

One of the most reveling sections of the documentary is a two-minute breakdown in part four about how Simpson generated money while in prison during his trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman.

In a recording that plays during this section of the documentary, an interviewer asks Simpson if he ever thought what would happen under the same circumstances if he was just a middle-class guy instead of a rich, ex-NFL star.

"I would have no chance," Simpson said.

As it turns out, Simpson was allowed to keep generating memorabilia during his trial, which allowed to afford the "Dream Team" of lawyers — which the doc notes cost him an estimated $50,000 a day.

Here's how he did it.

The entire "O.J.: Made In America" documentary is available on the Watch ESPN app and iTunes.

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While Simpson was awaiting trial, as well as during it, he was allowed to continue generating income for himself, mainly through memorabilia.

Simpson's former agent, Mike Gilbert, said in the doc that by the third day Simpson was in prison, he got his reps to start getting together a marketing and merchandising plan to generate a lot of money.

Memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong explained that Simpson would be given numbers to sign his autograph to in his jail cell.

Anton Yelchin, an actor known for appearing in the "Star Trek" movie franchise, was found dead on Sunday morning in California's San Fernando Valley, where he lived. He was 27.

TMZ reported that the actor's body was found at around 1 a.m. by friends. Yelchin's body was pinned between his car and a brick mailbox attached to a security gate at his Studio City home.

Friends found the body after he failed to arrive at a rehearsal on Saturday evening.

Police told the news website that the car's engine was still running and in neutral when the body was found.

Police currently don't suspect foul play.

A representative for Yelchin also confirmed his death to Variety.

Yelchin played the character of Pavel Chekov in 2009's "Star Trek," 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness," and the upcoming "Star Trek Beyond," due in theaters on July 22. His credits also include the movie "Alpha Dog," and he provided the voice of Clumsy in "The Smurfs" movie franchise.

Yelchin also appeared on several television series, including "Taken," "The Practice," and "Huff."

According to IMDb, Yelchin was born in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), Russia on March 11, 1989. His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were professional figure skaters and later, coaches. The family moved to the US when Yelchin was 6 months old.

He also wrote music and performed in a band.

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Millennials are the coolest kids on the consumer block. Companies are trampling over each other in the race to figure out what they want. And that includes TV networks.

In May, The CW announced that it was creating a digital channel called CW Good. It's meant to tap into the millennial generation's desire for content around social causes. CW Good will feature the causes its stars and fans support, as well as original series meant to inspire.

The CW, which targets a younger audience than the other broadcast networks, has long used its digital arm to experiment with content. But could it already be on the wrong track with CW Good?

"Anybody who's going to lean into [the social causes], saying it's good for you, are not going to win," Linda Ong, CEO and founder of the cultural research and branding company TruthCo., told Business Insider.

Ong — who said The CW is a TruthCo. client, though her company wasn't part of developing CW Good — argues that it's too early to judge how effective the digital platform will be with millennials.

"It will all depend on the execution," she said.

Ong told Business Insider what TV shows millennials are most engaged with, according to TruthCo.'s brand analysis:

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Millennials, like all of us, are making their way through a 'fire hose of content.'

Millennials can seem awfully abstract, but it's worth noting that they're not actually so young, nor are they so separated from other generations.

Under the framework established by generation researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss, millennials were born between 1982 and 2004. So currently, the bulk of millennials are older than age 20 to about 34 years old.

"We need to stop talking about millennials like Donald Trump speaks about Mexicans," Ong said. "They're not a horrible, invading species. They're people, and they're very influential in our culture. Millennial ideas radiate to everybody. There are more non-millennials than millennials on Facebook now."

And their TV viewing behaviors and tastes can align with older generations in that they are looking for ways to filter through the incredible amount of content that's available; at least 400 scripted shows were on TV in 2015.

"Right now, there is an abundance, a fire hose of content, and consumers have to use very different kinds of filters to determine what it is they’re actually going to invest their time in," Ong said.

Millennials want entertaining content that also changes the world.

It used to be about quality entertainment and social traction, but now, in the golden age of TV, there's too much quality entertainment for that to be an effective filter. The next filter has to do with how we believe and how we were raised.

"Some of the basic underpinning of the millennial culture was that everybody got a trophy," Ong said. "We can laugh at that, but they were brought up valuing equality. They were raised with a sense of fairness, and that’s what they’re trying to enact now. Everything they do has to align with those values."

And so one way for content creators to capture millennial audiences is to lead with quality entertainment that has an underlying social element to it.

"I think what we’re starting to see are shows like ‘Making a Murderer’ and ‘American Crime’ springing from an idea that program or content with social value can be entertaining," Ong said. "But now, content comes from a place where the very act of investing your time to watch it helps make the world a better place because you become more aware of things or even sometimes you can act on things."

Ong and her team put together a list of shows that best exemplify what millennials would invest their time in.

Here are the TV shows that most reflect millennial values according to their research:

Standard young-millennial programming, which tends to lean toward the preachy (reflecting the generation's social values)

"Degrassi: The New Class" (Netflix), pictured above
"The Fosters" (Freeform)
"Switched at Birth" (Freeform)

As word spreads of "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin's tragic death in a freak car accident on Saturday, celebrities are expressing their sadness and appreciation for the late actor.

"All of us at Paramount join the world in mourning the untimely passing of Antony Yelchin," the movie studio behind the "Star Trek" film franchise told Business Insider via a statement on Sunday.

"As a member of the 'Star Trek' family, he was beloved by so many and he will missed by all. We share our deepest condolences with his mother, father and family," the statement continued.

Friends of Yelchin found the actor dead at his Studio City, California, home early on Sunday morning. He had been pinned between his car and a brick mailbox attached to a security gate.

Law enforcement said that his car's engine was still running and in neutral when the body was found. They don't suspect foul play but are continuing to investigate his death.

In addition to playing Chekov in the "Star Trek" films, Yelchin's credits include the movie "Alpha Dog," and he provided the voice of Clumsy in "The Smurfs" movie franchise. Yelchin also appeared on several television series, including "Taken," "The Practice," and "Huff."

Many notable Hollywood figures who knew him, worked with him, or were fans of the actor expressed their sadness over his loss:

"Star Trek" director JJ Abrams called him "brilliant" in a handwritten note.

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock, wrote from the heart.

"Star Trek" costar John Cho, who plays Suhu, said he's "in ruins" over the actor's death.

"Star Trek Beyond" director Justin Lin wrote of Yelchin's "passion and enthusiasm."

Levar Burton, who played Geordi on the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" couldn't believe the news. 

 "Two Broke Girls" star Kat Dennings, who starred with Yelchin in the 2007 film "Charlie Bartlett" said the actor was "one of [her] best friends."

 Director Guillermo del Toro cast Yelchin on his upcoming Netflix series, "Trollhunters."

 "Pitch Perfect" star Anna Kendrick called Yelchin's death "unreal."

 Hank Azaria, who played Yechin's father on the TV series "Huff," said he's "devastated."

 Josh Gad, TV actor and star of Broadway hit "The Book of Mormon," called the death "absolutely horrible."

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" season six.

"The Battle of the Bastards" proved to be the epic and bloody showdown "Game of Thrones" fans had anticipated. With plenty of death and destruction to go around, we watched as the meager force of Jon Snow loyalists fought tooth and nail against the Boltons, Karstarks and Umbers. There was plenty of gore on the battlefield, but one gut-wrenching death happened before any of the real action started: Rickon Stark. 

Rickon, the youngest Stark child, has been Ramsay's captive since season six episode three when Smalljon Umber turned him over to the Boltons. Rickon's state of well-being was completely unknown to viewers until Sunday's episode, when Ramsay brought him out to the battlefield. 

In usual sadistic fashion, Ramsay had a brutal and twisted death planned for the boy. He allowed Rickon to run across the battlefield towards Sansa and Jon, while firing arrows at him the whole way. Seeing what was happening, Jon rode forward on horseback to try and save Rickon, but it was too late.

Ramsay struck Rickon with a fatal blow just before Jon could reach him.

Fans were left gutted before the action had even truly began. 

Jon's attempt at rescuing Rickon nearly cost them the entire battle, and Littlefinger had to swoop in at the last minute to save them all with the Knights of the Vale. Though Jon and Sansa were victorious, the death of their youngest brother leaves the episode with a bittersweet result. With one more Stark eliminated from the series, Sansa, Jon, Bran and Arya are more important than ever. 

But at least we got to see Sansa loose the hounds on Ramsay, right?

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If you thought Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" was fantastic, just wait for next week's season six finale.

HBO has released the teaser for the tenth episode of the season, "The Winds of Winter," and it's going to be a huge episode. Expect to see more of Daenerys, Littlefinger, Bran, and an angry Davos. But we're betting the most exciting parts of the episode will involve Cersei who is finally going to be on trial for her crimes. There's no way Cersei's letting herself lose to the Faith Militant, especially when there's supposedly a lot of wildfire just waiting to get lit in King's Landing.

The "Game of Thrones" season six finale airs Sunday, June 26 at 9 p.m.

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WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six episode nine.

"Game of Thrones" season six episode nine was a bloody, epic showdown that had fans gripping the edge of their seats as Jon Snow went up against Ramsay Bolton and Daenerys Targaryen showed the might of her dragons.

But there was a lighter moment during the episode, which was Theon and Yara Greyjoy’s arrival in Meereen to try and get Daenerys on their side against their uncle Euron. Daenerys and Yara quickly bonded over shared traits like their evil fathers, desire to be queen, and dislike of misogynist men. There was even an epic hand shake.

And "Game of Thrones" fans couldn’t handle their banter.

But it wasn’t just that they got along so well — mainly, fans started "shipping" the two strong female characters, or hoping that the pair would start a relationship of some kind.

So how likely would this plotline be? Daenerys and Yara even briefly brought up the idea of a relationship between them when they were talking terms as well as Euron’s plan to woo Daenerys.

"Euron’s offer is also an offer of marriage you see, you won’t get one without the other," Yara explains.

"And I imagine your offer is free of any marriage demands?" Daenerys asks.

"I never demand, but I’m up for anything really," Yara says flirtatiously.

On the show, Yara has been shown having a sexual interest in women. In the books, Yara’s name is Asha and she has only been known to take male lovers.

And while Danerys hasn’t shown a sexual interest in women in the show, Daenerys in the books is a different story. She briefly takes her handmaiden Irri as a lover in "A Storm of Swords," though that has more to do with missing Khal Drogo and less to do with her attraction to Irri. It’s a relationship of convenience.

Plus, the show was likely just teasing fans by introducing two of the strongest women on the show to one another. And while there was undeniable chemistry between the pair, it had more to do with their alliance than a possible love story.

Still, if fans want to believe, there’s no stopping them.

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For a show known to favor the "bad guys" far more than its "good guys," the ninth episode of "Game of Thrones" just delivered some long-awaited justice to Ramsay Bolton. The sadistic son of Roose Bolton was finally defeated at the hands of the Starks. Ramsay is dead, and long live the Starks!

And this was no ordinary death. Ramsay was killed poetically by his own man-eating hounds, while Sansa Stark watched from the Winterfell courtyard.

Oh, and did we mention that Jon Snow got to beat his face into a pulp first? It'd probably be impossible to tally up the number of times Ramsay Bolton has had a perfectly punchable expression on his face during the course of this season. After winning the battle (thanks to a last minute save from the Knights of the Vale), Jon followed Ramsay into the courtyard of Winterfell. 

Jon then beat Ramsay to the ground with a shield, and proceeded to beat his head into the ground over and over again. At that moment, Jon was acting out nearly ever viewer's brutal fantasy.

Miguel Sapochnik, who directed the episode, said he gave Jon Snow actor Kit Harington one piece of advice during a 10-hour shoot where he bloodied up Ramsay.

"The only direction I gave to Kit was, 'It's not human anymore. He doesn't feel any sympathy, empathy for this guy," said Sapochnikin a behind-the-scenes featurette.

The most satisfying part of Ramsay's death was Sansa's direct hand in the murder. Jon might've left Ramsay as a prisoner for all we know, but Sansa was having none of that. She had been on the receiving end of his torment, and was eager to repay the debt. 

Back in season six episode two, Roose Bolton warned his bastard son that "rabid dogs" get what's coming to them. Perhaps Ramsay — staring down his starved and bloodthirsty hound — wished he had heeded his father's warning instead of killing him in cold blood.

Ramsay's death means the Starks officially hold Winterfell once more. Sansa and Jon are safely in the walls of the castle, and though they will mourn the death of their brother Rickon, this victory is a huge step for House Stark.

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Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," "Battle of the Bastards."

"Game of Thrones" staged two great battles this week.

In the first one, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) had to fend off an attack by the masters of Meereen. It took not one, but all three dragons to exert her power over the masters once again.

And with the odds against them, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Sansa Stark's (Sophie Turner) army went to battle with Ramsay Bolton for the lordship of Winterfell. There were plenty of casualties, including their brother Rickon Stark (Art Parkinson), but Ramsay's forces fell. And this season's biggest villain met his end. Finally.

With all that to pay attention to, there may have been some details that viewers didn't catch.

Here are five important things you probably missed on this week's "Game of Thrones":

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Will Dany go bad?

Some believe that Dany is walking down a villainous path, one that has the burned corpses of Khals, the beheaded bodies of slave masters, and a trail of broken hearts. After all, bloodlust runs in the family; her father was The Mad King.

When Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) had to remind her that she was getting carried away with the burning-of-cities talk, it felt like there was some foreshadowing of this theory.

Who are the other dragon riders?

In the George R.R. Martin books, on which "Thrones" is based, there's a saying that the dragon has three heads. This is commonly theorized to mean that three people will become dragon riders. Not anyone can be a dragon rider. If it's not meant to be, they will surely be killed by the dragon before they even get close to mounting it.

One theory is that Jon Snow will become the second rider. Some believe all the riders will be women. So this week's alliance with Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan) had some wondering if she'd be one of those dragon riders.

A historic battle inspired a deadly tactic by Ramsay's men.

That deadly semicircle that Ramsay's men formed around Jon Snow's army was inspired by the Roman Battle of the Cannae, in 216 BC.

"The Romans get caught and encircled by Hannibal and just slaughtered," executive producer D.B. Weiss said during the "Inside the Episode" video.

Executive producer David Benioff added: "The Battle of the Bastards becomes incredibly compact, and all these men, all these combatants, crammed into this incredibly tight space on the battlefield. You read some accounts of the battles in the Civil War where bodies are piled so thick they actually become an obstruction on the battlefield."

Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," "Battle of the Bastards."

This week's "Game of Thrones" staged two great battles this week.

First, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) faced an attack by the slave masters on Meereen, then Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) took the fight to Winterfell.

But which moments had fans talking the most?

Social-media monitoring platform Brandwatch found more than 114,000 "Thrones"-related mentions on Twitter during the one-hour episode and identified the scenes when conversation peaked.

Here are the five most talked-about moments from the latest "Game of Thrones" episode:

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5. RIP Rickon Stark. Ramsay Bolton played with the young Stark's life as a precursor to the battle with Jon Snow.

9:39 p.m. ET — Around 2,100 mentions. 

4. "Thrones" is on! Once again, fans celebrated that the episode was beginning.

9:02 p.m. ET — Around 2,200 mentions.

3. Jon Snow stops pummeling Ramsay Bolton when he sees half-sister Sansa Stark looking on.

9:57 p.m. ET — Around 2,610 mentions.

With summer comes the possibility for myriad outdoor activities, including music festivals. 

Every season, people flood to these open grassy areas, ready to spend a day or an entire weekend enjoying music with friends and a bunch of other music lovers. 

But nothing ruins a day at a festival quicker than being unprepared. Here are some of the best gadgets to bring with you, from toys to necessities.

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The Coolest Cooler has a blender and LED lights.

The Coolest Cooler does more than keep your beverages and sunblock cold. It has a built in ice crushing blender that operates by battery, a bluetooth speaker, a bottle opener, and LED lights in the lid so the party never has to stop. 

Buy it here:$450

Ditch the extra cargo with this backpack seat.

The Foldable chair backpack means less to pack. The chair is built right into the back of the bag and offers a place to sit and rest any time you choose. 

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The inflatable lounger doesn't take up much space, but will amp up your comfort level.

The inflatable lounger is easy to fill with air, tie up, and hop on for a quick nap or lounging with friends. They're popular on the festival circuit, so join the crowd and get one of your own.

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Dr. Dre and 50 Cent are facing a lawsuit for their alleged uncredited use of a producer's beat for the song "P.I.M.P." from 50 Cent's 2003 album "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'."

The producer, Brandon Parrot, claims he sent 10 instrumental tracks to Dr. Dre's label Aftermath Entertainment in 2001 — including one called "BAMBA," which Parrot claims was incorporated in 2003's "P.I.M.P." without his knowledge, according to a TMZ report. 

Denaun Porter, who is listed as the sole producer of "P.I.M.P." in the album's credits, allegedly told Parrot that his track "BAMBA" was used in the song by mistake, and Parrot subsequently signed a settlement in 2003 based on Porter's story.

Now, Parrot is claiming that 50 Cent and Aftermath "took advantage of him" in their settlement, and he is currently seeking compensation for their alleged use of his music, according to TMZ.

Dr. Dre is also currently facing a defamation lawsuit from former N.W.A. manager Jerry Heller, who claims that Paul Giamatti's portrayal of him in the 2015 film "Straight Outta Compton" was allegedly "false and damaging."

Business Insider has reached out to 50 Cent and Aftermath Entertainment for comment on the recent allegations from Parrot.

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