Beyoncé has had a tremendously successful year, bolstered in large part by her platinum-selling album "Lemonade," which made her the first female artist in history to chart 12 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. 

Coupled with her achievements in music, Beyoncé's various business ventures have now earned her a spot on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for 2016. 

Fortune cites Beyoncé's launch of a clothing line, the "athleisure" brand Ivy Park, and her investement in WTRMLN WTR, a "female-founded watermelon-water startup," as reasons for her inclusion on the list.

Though she recieved the 51st "bonus spot" on the list, it's still an impressive feat for a musician, given that the 50 women on the list proper are largely CEOs, CFOs, or presidents of major companies. (Mary Barra, the CEO and Chairman of GM, topped the list.)

Earlier this summer, Beyoncé made another prominent business list when she came in at no. 34 on Forbes' "Highest-Paid Celebrities Of 2016" list, as a result of earning $54 million from June 2015 to June 2016. 

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Van Halen demanded all the brown M&M's be removed from the group's candy bowl. Turns out that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to music stars' backstage demands.

Outlets like The Smoking Gun and Defamer have reported on a variety of leaked backstage documents known as tour riders. A tour rider sets the terms that a venue must fulfill for an artist's performance. We sifted through 20 such riders to see what major musicians want in their dressing rooms. It can get pretty weird.

Some requests may confirm diva suspicions — as with Kanye West's various requests for a barber's chair and a Coke and Hennessy slushy machine. But we were more surprised by other requests, like one rap star who demanded Lunchables.

From specific scented candles to organic honey bans, see what the biggest artists ask for backstage:

Beyoncé

Beyoncé demands her dressing room be kept at 78 degrees and asks for chicken legs "HEAVILY SEASONED" with cayenne pepper and rose-scented candles. And don't have Coca-Cola products anywhere near her — Beyoncé can only be seen with Pepsi products due to a contractual agreement.

The Demands:

1 Large table for catering dressed with white tablecloths.
Dressing room should be 78 degrees
4 Brand New White Towels in bathroom (2 face & 2 body)

Hot Food: 
Juicy Baked Chicken: Legs, Wings & Breast only (Please season with fresh garlic, season salt, black pepper, and Cayenne pepper HEAVILY SEASONED!!)
Steamed Garlic Broccoli
Lightly Seasoned Green Beans
Lightly Seasoned Steamed Spinach 

Beyoncé can only have Pepsi products.
1 Case of Aquafina water (half cold, half room temperature)
1 Hot Tea Set up (Please have NEW Coffee Pot)
Sliced Lemons Wedges
Rose scented candles
Lighter for candles
CD player 

Adele

Adele's many requests include chicken salad sandwiches, Marlboro Lights, the "best quality" red wine, and six metal teaspoons in her dressing room. She also bans organic honey.

The Demands: 

12 Small bottles still (non-carbonated) spring water (at room temperature)
1 Electric kettle for BOILING water
6 Large mugs for tea. All mugs should be new, washed and dried.
6 metal teaspoons
2 "Squeezy" bottles clear honey (not organic) 
1 Bottle very best quality red wine (Italian, French or Spanish)
1 Assortment of chewing gum
1 Pack Marlboro Light plus 1 disposable cigarette lighter
1 Small selection fresh fruit, to include bananas, apples, grapes, fresh berries NO CITRUS FRUIT!
1 Small plate of assorted freshly made, individually wrapped sandwiches, to include chicken salad. Sandwiches must NOT contain tomatoes, vinegar, chili or citrus fruit 

Kanye West

Among Kanye's previous requests are a barber's chair, Carmex lip balm, shower shoes, and a lot of alcohol. On his most recent "Saint Pablo" tour, West demanded a slushy machine with mixes of Coke and Hennessy and Grey Goose and lemonade.

The Demands:

1 Tub Plain Yogurt for dipping
4 small Yoplait Yogurt 
1 Bowl of assorted nuts
1 Bowl of Sunkist Salted Pistachio Nuts (No Red Coloring)
2 Packs of Extra Chewing Gum
1 Bottle of Hot Sauce (Tabasco, Caribbean Type)
1 Box of Toothpicks
1 750 ml bottle of Hennessey Liquor
1 750 ml bottle of SKY or Absolut Vodka
1 Bottle of Patron Silver Tequila
4 Six Packs of Heineken Beer

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the world's most famous astrophysicist, and he is a HUGE Trekkie. In an interview from 2013, the StarTalk Radio host talks about "Star Trek," why Kirk was the best captain (sorry Picard), and how he never got into "Star Wars."

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Netflix has released two trailers for "Amanda Knox," its latest true-crime documentary. This one is about the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, which eventually blew up in the media.

The case became very tangled. Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were arrested for the crime, convicted of it in 2009, "declared innocent in 2011, re-convicted in 2013 — but declared innocent once and for all by Italy’s highest criminal court" in March 2015, as The Washington Post reported. 

In line with its massive hit "Making a Murderer," Netflix promises to explore "the other side" of the epic eight-year crime saga, and its two opposing trailers alternately paint Knox as someone to either "believe" or "suspect."

"Suddenly I found myself tossed into this dark place," Knox says, teary-eyed, as she faces the camera in the "Believe Her" trailer. 

"Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you," Knox says in the trailer that asks you to "Suspect Her."

"Amanda Knox," which premieres tomorrow at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be available on Netflix on September 30. 

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"Star Trek" is arguably the greatest science-fiction television series of all time — if for no other reason than its lasting influence on the genre, 50 years after it started.

The show addressed questions relating to human rights, social issues such as racism and nationalism, the Cold War, the United States' role as a superpower, and the possibility of a global war. Meanwhile, it (usually) promoted tolerance and hope.

Plus, the cast included Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura, a breakthrough role for black women in American TV, and Walter Koenig as Chekhov, a Russian — both of which definitely sent a message in the 1960s.

And so, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first episode's airing this Thursday, we ranked the best 13 episodes from the original series. Whether you love the show or have never watched, it's time to dive in (all episodes are streaming on Netflix).

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13. "The Doomsday Machine"

In "Doomsday Machine," the Enterprise finds another Federation starship, the Constellation, badly damaged and with only one surviving crew member: Commodore Matt Decker. He explains that the Constellation stumbled upon a miles-long machine that "eats" other starships (and basically anything in its path) as fuel; his crew eventually perished after he ordered his ship to attack.

The episode touches on interesting questions about leadership, as well as on weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons.

Memorable quote:

Matt Decker: You're bluffing.
Spock: Vulcans never bluff.

12. "Arena"

Every great show has a great monster battle. And "Arena" is Star Trek's.

The fight scene, featuring a guy wearing what looks like a paper-maché lizard costume, is almost hilariously slow and silly. But, even 50 years later, the episode manages to capture that delightful je ne sais quoi that makes "Star Trek" "Star Trek."

Memorable quote:

Gorn: *Gurgling scream*

11. "A Taste of Armageddon"

In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise encounters a planet fighting a brutal centuries-long war with its neighbor. The catch is that the war is fought entirely through computer simulations, with "casualties" expected to report to suicide chambers when the simulations say they've died.

Memorable quote:

McCoy: In plain non-Vulcan English, we're lucky.
Spock: I believe I said that, Doctor.

Matthew McConaughey gained 40 pounds and a receding hairline for his upcoming film "Gold," and from the looks of the movie's first trailer, the transformation has made for an incredible performance.

The TWC-Dimension film stars McConaughey, Bryce Dallas Howard ("Jurassic World"), and Edgar Ramirez ("Point Break"). It's the first directorial effort from Stephen Gaghan since the release of his Oscar-winning film "Syriana" in 2005. (In case you forgot, George Clooney won the Oscar for best supporting actor in that film, for which he also put on some weight.)

Based on the true story of the Bre-X mining scandal, "Gold" finds McConaughey playing a businessman who makes the largest gold find in history in the tiger-filled jungles of Borneo. 

Here is the film's official synopsis:

"GOLD is the epic tale of one man’s pursuit of the American dream, to discover gold.  Starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, he teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.   Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it would be even harder, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street."

The film is set to premiere on December 25. 

Watch the trailer below:

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Apple's iPhone 7 has no headphone jack.

Instead, Apple wants people to use its proprietary Lightning connector to attach headphones — or, better yet, to buy Apple's new $160 wireless AirPods.

If that sounds like a major frustration to you, don't worry — there's a very silly-looking dongle that you can plug into your phone so that standard headphones will work. It comes with the iPhone 7 and its bigger brother, the iPhone 7 Plus.

It looks more ridiculous than it sounds:

So at this point, you might be wondering why Apple would be removing the headphone jack from its iPhone. Every iPhone ever made has a headphone jack, to say nothing of the billions of other devices around the world that use the standard 3.5 mm jack.

It's beyond ubiquitous.

So, again, why is Apple removing it? Apple has offered a few reasons, and they're all pretty terrible in the logic department.

"Courage" was the official reason given on stage yesterday during Apple's event. Yes, that is seriously what Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, told attendees (before thankfully going into more detail).

"The courage to move on, to do something new that betters all of us. And our team has tremendous courage," Schiller said.

And let's be clear: Even if this move was received positively (it wasn't), the move away from an analog audio jack to a digital one doesn't "better all of us." We're talking about an audio jack still — right, Phil?

Silliness aside, Schiller then offered a three-point "why Apple is removing the audio jack" speech. Here are the tent poles:

1. The 3.5 mm headphone jack is an analog port. Using Lightning means you can, say, skip to the next track on your iPhone 7 straight from your headphones. It can also charge your headphones.
2. The iPhone is packed full of amazing technology. If you want more stuff in there, you need to free up space, and that analog headphone jack takes up space.
3. Apple believes the future of everything is all wireless, all the time.

Notably, none of this logic takes into account that the entire planet uses the traditional 3.5 mm port, or that wireless headphones require charging, or that the Lightning connector is a much more cumbersome connection than a standard headphone jack.

But let's look at Schiller's arguments point by point.

To Schiller's first point, making the audio port a digital one over an analog one is far from meaningful. It adds a few bells and whistles — slightly more control of your music directly from your headphones — and the ability to charge whatever set of headphones you're using.

But you're probably just using the Apple earbuds that came with your phone, aren't you? They don't require a charge, and while you can't access any of the added functionality that comes with a digital connection, you can simply perform all of those actions on your phone (changing the volume or the song).

Removing the headphone jack is fine for people who use wireless headphones, but those people are in the vast minority of iPhone users.

Schiller's second point — that the space being taken up by the headphone port is valuable — is valid.

But as a consumer, I don't care. I want my phone to last forever. I want the sound to be perfect, the screen to be gorgeous. I'm paying how much for this?

If I sound unreasonable, it's because I'm being unreasonable. That's intentional: The vast majority of iPhone buyers were not watching Apple's keynote yesterday, so they'll be unmoved when they hear, "We needed more space inside the phone!"

It sounds like an excuse, not a feature, the "Sorry we removed this — we had to! It's for your own good!" argument.

His final point speaks to the grand vision of Apple in "the future." The idea is that everything will go wireless. Stratechery's Ben Thompson puts it better than Schiller did:

"To Apple's credit they are, with the creation of AirPods, laying the foundation for a world beyond the iPhone. It is a world where, thanks to their being a product — not services — company, Apple is at a disadvantage; however, it is also a world that Apple, thanks to said product expertise, especially when it comes to chips, is uniquely equipped to create.

"That the company is running towards it is both wise — the sooner they get there, the longer they have to iterate and improve and hold off competitors — and also, yes, courageous. The easy thing would be to fight to keep us in a world where phones are all that matters, even if, in the long run, that would only prolong the end of Apple's dominance."

Thompson's not wrong, and that's meaningful for the future for all of us. But it's not an argument that's going to mean much to the average person buying an iPhone, wondering, "Where's the headphone jack?"

Apple went further in depth in an interview with BuzzFeed, timed to publish soon after Wednesday's big iPhone presentation. The company says that, in addition to the points above (which it echoes), removing the jack also helped turn the iPhone into an extremely water-resistant device.

Do any of these arguments seem strong enough to kill one of the most widely used ports in electronics history?

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The new reboot of the 1960 classic Western “The Magnificent Seven,” out September 23, is nowhere close to the original — and that’s not a knock.

The film — directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “Southpaw”) and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, and Peter Sarsgaard — is very much a reimagining, with the premise still intact: A group of gunfighters is hired to defeat a tyrant. But that’s about all that's kept. Even the iconic Elmer Bernstein score from the original only gets a cameo in the end credits.

Fuqua’s take on this classic is blood-soaked and thrilling, but also filled with dark humor. And at times Washington and Hawke bring out some deeper dramatic moments.

In the original, the seven gunslingers are hired by poor Mexican farmers to help them ward off a group of bandits. This time around, it’s the town of Rose Krick that’s in trouble, as it’s being taken over by an industrialist named Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) who has overpowered the town by buying off the sheriff and killing any man who gets in his way.

After seeing her husband killed by Bogue, Emma (Haley Bennett) takes it upon herself to seek out men who can overthrow Bogue.

Washington, paying homage to Yul Brynner’s all-black wardrobe in the original, plays bounty hunter Sam Chisolm, who agrees to help Emma and begins enlisting the likes of an assassin (Byung-hun Lee), a sharpshooter (Hawke), a Comanche warrior (Martin Sensmeier), a tracker (Vincent D’Onofrio), and a Mexican outlaw (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo).

Along for the ride is the often intoxicated gambler Josh Farraday, embodied with the usual playfully sarcastic tone of Pratt. He brings needed comic relief with some great one-liners, and gets some millage out of quick jokes that Steve McQueen says in the original.

The body count in this movie is more on the level of “The Wild Bunch” than the original "Magnificent Seven," but the motivations for the men taking the job are deeper-rooted and more personal, a testament to screenwriters Richard Wenk and “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto.

The creatives behind the movie should also be applauded for the Emma character. In an era when Hollywood is finally expected to give female characters their due, Bennett shows Emma as a tough, independent woman who isn’t scared to grab a gun and get in the mix. A far cry from most women seen in the Western genre.

“The Magnificent Seven” certainly has its flaws, and head-scratching choices (like the high-pitched voice D’Onofrio decided to go with for his character). But if you go into the movie with the expectations of seeing an entertaining action Western, not the original (nor certainly what inspired both, “Seven Samurai”), you should be pleased.

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In order to boldly go where no one has gone before, you've got to be a pretty awesome leader.

Over the last 50 years, the "Star Trek" franchise has given us many characters who've acted as inspirational, pioneering leaders.

Throughout the franchise, these captains and commanders have had very different approaches at times. In his book "Primal Leadership," Daniel Goleman (along with coauthors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee) revealed that people tend to fall into one of six key leadership categories.

Here are these six emotional leadership styles, as exemplified by different "Star Trek" commanders. If you can effectively master one of these styles, you'll be setting yourself up to live long and prosper:

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The visionary leader

Captain Jean-Luc Picard always promotes a clear vision of what Starfleet is all about. He motivates his crew members to be the best they can be can empowers them with the knowledge they need to get out there and make it so.

Picard is leading at a time when Federation ideologies and practices have matured. In dealing with threats like the Borg and complex relationships with traditional enemies like the Klingons and Romulans, he provides excellent insight. Visionary leaders are great for times when a new direction is needed.

The coaching leader

Captain Jonathan Archer is definitely a coaching leader. He's got to be, as the captain in command of the first Starfleet starship. Archer helps his crew members recognize their strengths and weaknesses. He also forms close connections with his team, even coming to an understanding with his Vulcan first officer T'Pol, whom he initially had a contentious relationship with.

Like some coaching leaders, his style can come across as micromanagement sometimes — chronologically, Archer is the first captain to start accompanying landing crews on potentially dangerous missions. Still, all in all, his methods help lay the groundwork for Starfleet's long-term capabilities.

The affiliative leader

Captain Kathryn Janeway is a classic affiliative leader. She's all about creating harmony within her organization and healing rifts between different groups.

She demonstrates this by bringing together her crew and the rebel Maquis faction at the start of the series. Janeway even leads her Voyager team to band together with adversaries such as the Borg and Species 8472.

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The original "Super Mario Bros." is a classic video game.

It's a colorful, surreal, delightful game that's still beloved by millions of people the world over.

And, for years, it was the first video game played by millions of children. 

But times have changed!

Today's kids are growing up with smartphones in the same way that I grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System. 

Nintendo's creative lead, Shigeru Miyamoto — the father of gaming classics like "Super Mario Bros." and "Donkey Kong" — understands this change. He's responding to it with a brand new Mario game that's tailor-made for the iPhone generation: "Super Mario Run."

If you've ever played stuff like "Jetpack Joyride" or "Canabalt," you'll be right at home. The game stars — who else? — Super Mario. He runs forward automatically, and all you need to do is tap to jump. The longer you hold that tap, the higher he jumps. Simple!

But this is much more than Nintendo making a cash grab with its most iconic character. The game is being developed by many of the same folks who, over 30 years ago, created the iconic "Super Mario Bros." for the NES.

"The team that’s developing 'Super Mario Run' is actually mostly comprised of the original Super Mario development team," Miyamoto told Time in an interview following Apple's big iPhone event (where "Super Mario Run" was unveiled). 

"So [Takashi] Tezuka-san is the developer and I’m the producer," he said.

You're forgiven if you've never heard of Takashi "Ten Ten" Tezuka — he's part of the (very small) crew of Nintendo employees who go all the way back to the original Nintendo Entertainment System. He's still a leader at Nintendo, and occasionally takes on directorial duties. 

Simply put: These are the folks who create Nintendo's best Mario games. And that's very exciting, because it sounds like a fantastic "Super Mario" game may be headed to the iPhone. We'll find out for sure when the game arrives this December. 

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Bruce Springsteen is about to turn 67 and has been rocking his Fender Telecaster and turning in marathon live shows for decades.

He's also now publishing a 500-page autobiography about his life, his music, and his long association with the state of New Jersey, and the open road.

The title is, naturally, "Born to Run," same as Springsteen's best-known song and album.

The September Vanity Fair has Bruce on the cover, astride a motorcycle, and a profile inside by David Kamp.

We dived in immediately to see what we could learn about this poet of the asphalt and his thoughts about that icon of American freedom, the automobile:

Young Bruce was a crummy driver

Kamp has read the book already, and from it he plucked this nugget: "[Y]oung Bruce, for all his romantic association with cars and the road, was a terrible driver who didn’t manage to get his license until he was in his 20s...."

Luckily for his fans, he was better at helming the E Street Band than he was behind the wheel!

But that hasn't stopped him from using cars as his go-to metaphor

“One of the points I’m making in the book is that, whoever you’ve been and wherever you’ve been, it never leaves you,” he tells Kamp, who credits the Boss with "expanding upon this thought with the most Springsteen-esque metaphor possible."

Says Springsteen to Kamp: “I always picture it as a car. All your selves are in it. And a new self can get in, but the old selves can’t ever get out. The important thing is, who’s got their hands on the wheel at any given moment?”

Chew on that for a second. It's actually some interesting, hard-earned wisdom.

Read the entire VF profile here.

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Yup, Lady Gaga is really back, and turns out she hasn't changed much at all.

The much-anticipated new solo single from Lady Gaga, "Perfect Illusion" — her first in about three years, and following the disappointing commercial performance of her last album "Artpop" — came out Friday.

Gaga has taken a new sonic turn on the track, which was produced by Mark Ronson ("Uptown Funk"), Bloodpop, and Kevin Parker of the rock band Tame Impala. It pares things down to a rawer, more natural instrumentation than the dance-pop hits "Bad Romance" or "Poker Face."

But that's not to say this isn't the Gaga we know. The '80s arena-rock vibe that owes something to both Bruce Springsteen and hair-metal, and those soaring, hold-nothing-back vocals are vintage Gaga. And with the hooks on this brief earworm ("It wasn't luuuuhv"), expect to hear this thing all over the radio or your friend's playlist immediately.

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The semi-annual chaos that is New York Fashion Week has begun, and designers and fashionistas are deep in preparation mode. 

Perhaps no one knows the ins and outs of Fashion Week better than Anna Wintour, longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine and artistic director at Conde Nast. Donning her trademark black Chanel sunglasses and perfectly styled bob, Wintour has been a fashion-show fixture for decades. 

With an estimated annual salary of $2 million, Wintour leads the kind of lifestyle any fashionista would envy.  

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Wintour is originally from the UK and moved to New York in her 20s. After stints at Harper's & Queen, Harper's Bazaar, and Viva, Wintour took the helm at Vogue in 1988. At the time, the storied fashion magazine had lost some market share to rival Elle, and its focus had shifted slightly to include lifestyle coverage.

Under Wintour, Vogue reestablished itself as the dominant American fashion magazine.

Wintour has now attended more than 3,000 fashion shows on behalf of Vogue. She has an annual clothing budget that's rumored to be as much as $200,000.

Source: T Magazine

Trevor Noah is appalled at Matt Lauer's performance during the this week's "Commander-in-Chief Forum" with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

"Did you know during World War II, on multiple occasions, kamikaze planes crashed into the Intrepid, and last night, Matt Lauer continued that tradition?” the host said on Thursday's episode of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." “Because I don’t know what the f--- he was doing, and neither did he.”

Noah isn't alone. Lauer's performance during the event has been widely criticized by viewers, critics, and political pundits for botching the opportunity to get real answers on military and international relations from the presidential candidates.

Noah pointed out that Lauer spent way too much time grilling Clinton about her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.

"Matt Lauer asked so many questions about email, I thought I was stuck in line at the Genius Bar," Noah joked.

At one point, she was asked about her plans for dealing with ISIS and Lauer asked her to answer the question "as briefly as you can."

"As briefly as you can? Are you s---ting me?” Noah said. "This event was called the Commander-in-Chief Forum. It’s the reason we were watching, and now because Matt Lauer spent so much time on his questions about emails, the actual questions from the actual veterans about the actual Commander-in-Chief-ing gets reduced to a speed date.”

In contrast, when it came to Trump, Lauer failed to call him out on his record of supporting the war in Iraq. Trump claims you can check an Esquire magazine article from 2004 for proof that he was against the war. But the article was published more than a year after the war began. Yet in 2002, the real-estate mogul said he supported the war in an interview with Howard Stern.

"If he wasn't good with Hillary Clinton, he was terrible when handling Donald Trump," the host said. "He just let Trump get away with making lies."

Noah does back away from letting the forum define Lauer as an interviewer. In fact, he even showed a clip of Lauer really taking pop group One Direction to task over the sudden absence of member Zayn Malick on "Today."

"Goddamn, that's journalism, look at that," Noah exclaimed sarcastically. "... Come on Matt Lauer, you didn't flinch in front of a bunch of rich, powerful children. I can’t believe you couldn’t face down just one."

 Watch the whole segment below:

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The dominant media narrative in recent months around ESPN has been this: ESPN is losing cable subscribers, slowly but surely.

There has been a variety of theories as to why, posited by industry insiders and analysts. Business Insider recently spoke to Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio, who said he thought ESPN had been hurt by the rise of digital media and shifting expectations of younger audiences.

To say that ESPN disagreed with Finocchio’s assessment is an understatement.

“The one thing Dave was right about was that [Bleacher Report] started from a smaller base [than ESPN],” ESPN’s digital boss, John Kosner, told Business Insider during an interview about ESPN's digital ambitions.

Kosner said ESPN’s decline in cable subscribers has to do with the evolution of pay TV as a whole, not with ESPN losing the love of millennials. On the digital side in particular, ESPN’s brand is stronger than ever, particularly among younger viewers, Kosner said.

One indicator: Snapchat.

Kosner pointed to ESPN’s booming Snapchat Discover channel as evidence of its continued relevance to younger viewers. ESPN’s Snapchat Discover channel gets a whopping 18 million unique viewers per month, and 2.3 million per day, Kosner said. That makes it the third most-watched channel on Snapchat Discover, according to Kosner.

More broadly, ESPN reached 30.6 million US adults aged 18-34 across its digital platforms in July, according to comScore. That blows its sports rivals away. ESPN's next closest competitor, Yahoo Sports-NBC, snagged 17.1 million.

The digital audience

Kosner doesn’t think ESPN’s digital operation serves a fundamentally different type of consumer than its cable channels, but he does think there's a different sports sensibility in younger generations.

“Sports fans' tastes are changing,” he said.

Primarily, he said that millennials are interested in a wider variety of sports, particularly those with an international focus. He pointed to spiking interest in the Premier League soccer as an example, but also to eSports, where ESPN is a leader in coverage.

On the whole, ESPN streams more than 19,000 sports events annually, according to the company.

One new product that will try to tap into those broad tastes is an upcoming upcoming “a la carte” ESPN streaming service, which doesn’t require a cable subscription. It will include games and related content from the MLB, NHL, college football and basketball, tennis, rugby, cricket, and so on — but nothing that is playing on ESPN when you flip on cable, according to parent company Disney’s CEO Bob Iger.

Cannibalization

With new avenues for young people to consume ESPN, like Snapchat, one worry is that they won’t need to tune into ESPN staples like SportsCenter — or even have a cable subscription.

“I do not believe in cannibalization,” Kosner said, even of younger audiences. He also pointed out that SportsCenter has the youngest audience composition on late night TV, younger than Fallon, Kimmel, and so on. But even though Kosner doesn’t believe in cannibalization, that doesn’t mean ESPN’s digital parts exist simply to serve its cable juggernaut. “Every initiative should be driving value,” Kosner said.

Ultimately, Kosner says ESPN's massive success is sometimes taken for granted, that those expectations are baked into everything ESPN does.

But it's like being on the 1927 Yankees, Kosner said. "It's a good problem to have."

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For over three decades, Tom Hanks has been almost every type of character.

Starting his career as a funnyman on the TV series "Bosom Buddies" and then taking his nice-guy style to the big screen in romantic comedies like "Splash" and "The Money Pit," Hanks moved to more dramatic work in 1993 with his Oscar-winning role as an AIDS patient in "Philadelphia."

Since then, Hanks has gone back and forth, showing his diverse talents but often playing characters that deep down are upstanding men.

In Hanks' latest role, playing "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger in the Clint Eastwood-directed "Sully" (out in theaters Friday), he once again proves he's the Jimmy Stewart of our era. 

Here are Hanks' 16 best performances ever, ranked:

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16. Rick Gassko in “Bachelor Party” (1984)

In one of his first movie roles, Hanks is great as a soon-to-be-married guy who tries to stay out of trouble after his friends throw an insane bachelor party for him. 

15. Walter Fielding, Jr. in “The Money Pit” (1986)

Another classic from Hanks' romantic-comedy days, in which he plays opposite Shelley Long as a couple who struggle to repair a broken-down house they've bought. Hanks' physical comedy is at its best here.

14. James B. Donovan in “Bridge of Spies” (2015)

For most actors, a role like this in a Steven Spielberg movie is a highlight in their filmography. For Hanks, it's a strong performance but hard to compare to the others higher on this list. 

The federal investigators depicted in Clint Eastwood's new film "Sully" — about the real-life investigation of Chelsey Sullenberger, the pilot who made an emergency landing of a U.S. Airways flight in the Hudson River in 2009 — are protesting it. They claim the film is inaccurate and damaging to their reputations, The New York Times reports.

The National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that conducted the investigation, has said that the film's portrayal differs "in both tone and substance" from its public records of the events, according to the Times.

Despite having not seen the film, Robert Benzon, the man who led the investigation, claims that what he has heard about the movie's heated interrogations (and seen in the trailer) are not true to the actual events. 

"We weren't out to hose the crew," Benzon said. "There were no rubber hoses being brought out, no bright lights ... Sully is worried about his reputation, but this movie isn't helping mine."

"We're not the KGB. We're not the Gestapo,” Benzon also told the New York Post about the film's depiction on Thursday. "We're the guys with the white hats on."

Nonetheless, Chelsey Sullenberger himself told The New York Times in an email that the scenes in question — in which he is played by Tom Hanks — do accurately reflect how he felt during the investigation.

"For those who are the focus of the investigation, the intensity of it is immense," Sullenberger said of the process, which he found "inherently adversarial, with professional reputations absolutely in the balance."

"Sully," which opens in theaters Friday, has received positive reviews in advance of its nationwide premiere.

Watch the film's trailer below:

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Grab a cup of coffee or a box of day-old Chinese take-out, because the Gilmore girls are back in town. And no one knows that better than the Gilmore Guys.

On November 25, Netflix will release four new episodes, each 90 minutes long, of the beloved comedy-drama that follows a young, witty mother and her intelligent daughter. The girls were best friends on television from 2000 to 2007, on the WB and CW networks. It sat alongside other teen favorites like "One Tree Hill," and eventually the spooky long-running "Supernatural" series.

But "Gilmore Girls" has persisted unlike any of its peers. It's a living, breathing, unstoppable organism.

These days, fans of the residents of cozy Stars Hollow have been following along, episode by episode, with the "Gilmore Guys" podcast. Two friends, Kevin T. Porter and Demi Adejuyigbe, talk each week about a different "Gilmore Girls" episode, often with special guests. Occasionally, you'll even get to hear them talk with cast and crew of the show, including Scott Patterson, who plays Luke Danes, or Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Jess Mariano.

The premise: Porter grew up watching the series during its original run and totally loved it, but Adejuyigbe has never seen the episodes before. Their powers combined, they aim to entertain listeners with their sometimes wildly differing opinions on the show. In the beginning, Adejuyigbe didn't quite know what he was getting into.

"I figured I'd probably like the show," Adejuyigbe recently told Business Insider, "but I had no idea how strong this fan base was going to be."

The podcast, which is almost two years old, gets tons of fan interaction, since "Gilmore Girls" fans tend to still be deeply nostalgic for the show. Rory's love life is probably one of the most contentious issues that divides fans. In fact, each time the Guys bring on a guest, they make sure to ask them which side they're on: Team Dean, Team Jess, or Team Logan.

"That was the biggest thing that could've been treacherous," Adejuyigbe said. He didn't like Jess at all to start. And the fans let him have it. "People just needed to give me time to watch him over the next four seasons!"

In addition to navigating the potential pitfalls of angering fans, Adejuyigbe and Porter have been trying to avoid any spoilers, or details, from the upcoming revival episodes.

That Netflix revival, as it happens, was announced after the podcast became popular. Some listeners have even speculated that Netflix heard the siren call of hungry fans.

"I'm worried about the next two months. I don't want to see anything until I hit 'play' on November 25," Adejuyigbe said. "We want to watch it the same way anyone else would."

He'll be busy over the next couple of months, anyways. Even though fans of the podcast constantly send the duo casting announcements or leaked set photos over Twitter, they're also taking their show on the road. Though they've recorded live episodes of the podcast before, "Gilmore Guys" is going on a mini-tour of six cities as they wrap up the last season of "Gilmore Girls."

"It's always really nice to have a live audience," Adejuyigbe said. "We know they already like us. We've won. Now we just need to not be mean."

He'll also be able to pass the time until late November by watching episodes of NBC's "The Good Place," a new sitcom starring Ted Danson and Kristen Bell that he writes for.

"I grew up on that block of [comedy] television during high school and college," Adejuyigbe said. "Watching 'Community,' '30 Rock,' 'The Office,' and 'Parks and Rec.' But then they all started going away, one by one. I'm really excited to see a show from [Michael] Schur come back to TV."

"The Good Place," which premieres on September 19, feels like the NBC sitcoms of yesteryear. In it, Kristen Bell's character wakes up in "the good place" after she was hit by a huge truck; however, she quickly realizes Ted Danson's character has confused her with someone else who was a far better person than she was during her time on earth.

This is Adejuyigbe's sitcom-writing debut (he previously worked on "@ Midnight," the Comedy Central game show). The most exciting part of the job for him so far was being on set for the episode he wrote.

"It felt nuts and surreal," he said. "I was just so excited, and I tried to stay out of the way."

He hasn't even seen all the episodes of the show yet, as people can be writing during the same time as production and shooting of a different episode.

"I can't wait for people to fall in love with William Jackson Harper, or Jameela Jamil, or D'arcy Carden. They're all incredibly funny. It's kind of a whole cast of Chris Pratts from 'Parks and Rec.'"

And being so critical of a well-known show like "Gilmore Girls" has affected Adejuyigbe's writing process a little bit. 

"There are certain things, or tropes, that I realize I hate, so I make sure I never include that in what I write," he told us. "I have to be worried that when I write something, that same sort of criticism could come back at me tenfold. It's helpful, but risky."

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Nintendo's next big Mario game isn't heading to Nintendo's consoles. Instead, it's heading to Apple's iPhone exclusively. 

The game is called "Super Mario Run." It's a take on the "runner" genre of mobile games, where a character (Mario in this case) continuously moves in one direction. Your job is to tap on the screen to make the character jump. Simple, fun, and easy to play with one hand.

"Super Mario Run" arrives this December, and it's only coming to Apple's iPhone and iPad to start (it's heading to Android at some point).

The man behind it — the Walt Disney of video games himself, Nintendo creative director Shigeru Miyamoto — says there's a simple reason why the game is heading exclusively to Apple's devices:

"With the Apple devices, their hardware design is such that there’s not much you have to do from a compatibility standpoint across multiple different devices. It’s very streamlined. And I think just from a philosophical standpoint, there are elements of their design that are similar to ours. So that’s why we’re bringing it to iPhone first."

Miyamoto told as much to Time in an interview on Wednesday, immediately following the announcement of the iPhone 7.

It can't be overstated how unusual it is for Nintendo to bring its main mascot to hardware made by a company that isn't Nintendo. This is not something that happens.

Nintendo has fiercely guarded its properties for as long as those properties have existed. A few notable exceptions can be found in the "Super Mario Bros." movie, "Hotel Mario," and a few other odds and ends, but Nintendo tends not to act casual about its properties.

As Miyamoto explained to Time Magazine, this mentality comes from an era "when our hardware systems were the number one gaming platforms in the world." Kids would grow up with Nintendo consoles, thus endearing them to characters like Mario from an early age. 

But kids today are growing up with smartphones and tablets. 

Nintendo was notoriously slow to acknowledge this trend.

The Japanese game company has made plain over and over that a move to mobile could mean the devaluing of its extremely valuable intellectual properties: Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, and other gaming classics. Nintendo is basically the Disney of video games.

"In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, and especially on smart devices, we recognize that it is challenging to maintain the value of our content," late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Time Magazine in 2015. "It is because of this recognition that we have maintained our careful stance."

That was a softening of the company's previous stance.

Nintendo isn't "late" to the mobile game market as much as it has tried to ignore the world of mobile gaming for the past decade. Which is why Nintendo's move to mobile is so huge. It's no surprise that Nintendo's stock shop up by nearly 30% in wake of the announcement.

That Apple got Super Mario — the Mickey Mouse of gaming — to the iPhone first is a coup of gigantic proportions. But it also makes a lot of sense. "Super Mario Run" arrives this December on both iPhone and iPad. It's headed to Android at some point after that. 

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