The trippiest Marvel movie yet, "Doctor Strange" (opening Friday) is visually stunning, and you should make every effort to see it in 3D, on the biggest screen possible, to get its full effect.

The story follows Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who tries to get his old life back after a horrific car accident by seeking out Eastern medicine. Instead, he finds enlightenment in the form of the mystical arts. And gets pretty good at it, too.

With a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a projected $65 million-$70 million opening weekend, the movie looks to be the next big hit for Disney/Marvel.

But if you need more convincing, here are some of the things the top critics love about it:

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It's really, really cool to just sit and stare at.

The biggest highlight for critics has been the stunning visual work on "Doctor Strange." From Strange pinballing through different dimensions to city buildings folding up "Inception"-style, the movie is a thrill for the eyeballs.

ScreenCrush calls it "easily the studio’s most exciting spectacle to date," referring to Marvel.

You might feel like you're on drugs, if you aren't actually on them.

"'Doctor Strange' is also, notably, much more mature than its predecessors, and the first blockbuster of the modern superhero era ideally viewed on a magic mushroom trip — all the better to process the stunningly trippy and surprisingly spiritual kaleidoscopic jaunts Strange takes into the astral plane, pulling us along into the rabbit hole," The Daily Beast wrote.

There's a strong origin story, even though you've seen it before.

The smart aleck who's knocked down and becomes humbled while dusting himself off has been done before by Marvel with "Iron Man." But Marvel has the formula down so well for cinematic origin stories that though the plot of "Doctor Strange" is nothing new, it gets the job done.

"True, 'Doctor Strange' is an origin story, and occasionally hemmed in by the genre’s narrative requirements," The Wrap wrote, "but it’s smart enough to bring in great British actors to make the predictable paces and life lessons feel fresh and fascinating." 

Netflix finally unveiled the first look of Neil Patrick Harris in "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

In the adaptation of the beloved children's novels, Harris plays Count Olaf, the eccentric antagonist who is dead set on acquiring the fortune of the three Baudelaire orphans. 

The teaser released Thursday does a good job in describing the tall criminal with a distinct unibrow, calling him "a vile, terrible person," "horrible," and "awful."

"You haven't the faintest idea," Harris' Olaf sneers in reply.

Harris already seems at home as the peculiar villain. 

The series will premiere on Netflix on January 13, 2017. 

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There may not be a literal "movie jail" in Hollywood, but it's still real — just ask Mel Gibson.

Ten years ago, the once-superstar actor and Oscar-winning director was arrested on a DUI charge on the Pacific Coast Highway in California. It was neither the first or last time a movie star will meet that fate, but it's the infamous, hate-filled rant he went on while being placed into a police car that caused his media implosion.

"F---ing Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," the drunk Gibson slurred that evening in the leaked recording.

Gibson took his hits for the comments, made his public apologies, and met with Jewish leaders to ask for forgiveness.

All wasn't forgiven, but he was on the right track.

In 2010, however, the mega-talent agency William Morris Endeavor dropped Gibson after tapes surfaced of him going into a racist rant and making a death threat against his ex-girlfriend.

For many in Hollywood, it was the last straw. They turned their backs on him. Since 2006, he's only starred in one studio-backed movie ("Edge of Darkness").

"I think he's essentially been blacklisted in the industry," "Lethal Weapon" screenwriter turned director Shane Black ("The Nice Guys") told Business Insider back in May. "I think people don't want to work with him."

There have been exceptions. Close friend Jodie Foster cast Gibson in her 2011 directing effort, "The Beaver," and Robert Downey Jr., who found support in Gibson when he had his own substance-abuse problems in the late 1990s, tried to convince Marvel Studios to hire Gibson to direct "Iron Man 3."

But mostly Gibson has been an outcast in Hollywood, and that was most evident in his directing efforts, which had dried up following 2006's "Apocalypto."

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As much as we love to see our stars knocked down a peg (whether we acknowledge it or not), we're even more excited when they stage a comeback. And that's where we are in Gibson's career trajectory right now.

On Friday, the Gibson-directed World War II drama "Hacksaw Ridge" opens in theaters. Along with being his first directing effort since 2006, it's also fueling the best press Gibson has gotten in a decade.

Gibson will receive a directing honor at the Hollywood Film Awards later this week, and at a recent screening for "Hacksaw Ridge" in Beverly Hills, he received a standing ovation. (The movie currently has a 89% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.)

On Variety's "Playback" podcast, Gibson recently spoke about his 2006 arrest, and he was candid, though also much too defensive.

“Ten years have gone by,” Gibson said. “I’m feeling good. I’m sober, all of that kind of stuff, and for me it’s a dim thing in the past. But others bring it up, which kind of I find annoying, because I don’t understand why after 10 years it’s any kind of issue. Surely if I was really what they say I was, some kind of hater, there’d be evidence of actions somewhere. There never has been.

“I’ve never discriminated against anyone or done anything that sort of supports that reputation,” Gibson continued. “And for one episode in the back of a police car on eight double tequilas to sort of dictate all the work, life’s work, and beliefs, and everything else that I have and maintain for my life is really unfair.”

Obviously Gibson has some scars. But hopefully he's aware that in addition to "eight double tequilas" behind the wheel leading nowhere good, the drinks don't excuse the speech or ideas behind them.

It's likely Gibson will never again be the leading man of a studio movie, and perhaps he finds that doing gonzo movies like his most recent "Blood Father" works best for him.

But it's his directing work that might define him for the next decade, and if so, "Hacksaw Ridge," which is being released by Lionsgate, is the foundation for that.

Oscar buzz is building for "Ridge" star Andrew Garfield, who plays Desmond T. Doss, an Army medic who served during the Battle of Okinawa and refused to carry a gun. He would go on to become the first conscientious objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

And it seems from the reaction that Gibson's work behind the camera (which earned him best director and best picture Oscar wins for "Braveheart" in 1996) is as moving and bloody as ever.

Even Lionsgate seems to be getting more comfortable touting Gibson. The first poster for "Ridge" didn't even have his name on it, reading instead "from the acclaimed director of 'Braveheart' and 'The Passion of the Christ.'" But TV spots this week call "Ridge" "a film by Mel Gibson."

This is all leading to the best possible moment for Gibson to be thrust back into the global spotlight. He's working on a sequel to his mega-hit "The Passion of the Christ." Titled "The Resurrection," it will be "a huge undertaking" according to Gibson (a script is currently being developed).

"Passion of the Christ" had its own controversies surrounding it, of course, but no one could deny its devoted fans and box-office might. Given Gibson's slow climb back to relevance, a movie about the resurrection of Jesus seems like an oddly fitting comeback.

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Warner Brothers just showed off the second trailer for “Wonder Woman” and it looks amazing. The film stars Gal Gadot as the titular hero and is scheduled to be released in 2017.

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Democrats hoping to woo millennial voters lukewarm on Hillary Clinton have deployed a towel-clad, yoga-posing James Franco to make a final pitch.

In a digital video released on Thursday by the Women Vote Project, the Academy Award-nominated actor touted several real and fiction Clinton accomplishments, including the Grammy award she won for her audiobook "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Can Teach US."

"She once won a Grammy just for speaking. Hillary Swank is named after one of her pantsuits," Franco said, parodying Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World."

"I don't always endorse candidates. But when I do, they're extraordinary. Vote wisely, my friends."

Thursday's ad is the latest release of a major $20 million partnership between Emily's List, a group that backs pro-choice female Democratic candidates, and Priorities USA, a major super PAC backing Clinton. The groups particularly hope to boost turnout among millennial voters, who overwhelmingly support the former secretary of state and widely loath Donald Trump, but haven't yet turned out in large numbers to support Clinton. Preliminary early voter totals have been significantly lower than turnout rates in early November 2012.

The ad is the final video of the campaign produced together by the two groups, and the third featuring Franco, who previously appeared shirtless wearing a Hillary Clinton-branded towel to urge young voters to back the former secretary of state.

Emily's List and Priorities will be promoting the digital ad in key battleground states, including Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. 

Watch the ad below, via Women Vote:

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NFL ratings are in free-fall this season, and no one can figure out precisely why.

Here's the damage, according to Nielsen: "Monday Night Football" ratings are down 20%, "Sunday Night Football" is down 18.5%, and "Thursday Night Football" is down 21.8%.

Ouch!

One theory, pushed by the NFL itself, is that the drop is because of "unprecedented interest in the presidential election."

But there's another popular theory that's far more troublesome for the powers that be. Perhaps, the thinking goes, the NFL was too greedy and diluted its product to a point where people have lost interest.

There was a time when the NFL was a Sunday afternoon endeavor — then came Monday night in 1970, Sunday night in 1987, and Thursday night in 2006.

"Have they sliced and diced it too much?" CBS boss Les Moonves asked at a recent Vanity Fair conference. "Is there too much product out there?" Moonves didn't have an answer.

But one person answered with an emphatic "yes" to Moonves' question: Mark Cuban — all the way back in 2014.

'Hoggy'

In 2014, Cuban, the entrepreneur who owns the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, went on an epic rant against the greed and overextension of the NFL, which Bloomberg pointed out in an excellent feature published Thursday on the NFL's current woes.

"I'm just telling you: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. And they're getting hoggy," Cuban said in 2014. "Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business."

At the time, the NFL had just signed an eight-game "Thursday Night Football" deal with CBS, which represented an NFL incursion into primetime network television for the first time since "Monday Night Football" debuted.

"They're trying to take over every night of TV," Cuban continued. "Initially, it'll be, 'Yeah, they're the biggest-rating thing that there is.' OK, Thursday, that's great, regardless of whether it impacts [the NBA] during that period when we cross over. Then if it gets Saturday, now you're impacting colleges. Now it's on four days a week. It's all football. At some point, the people get sick of it."

Cuban declared the NFL was 10 years away from an implosion. Well, Mark, it might have come sooner than you thought. (When reached by Bloomberg, Cuban said he had "nothing really to add. The data is the data.")

Alternates

It's worth pointing out that there are a few other theories besides the election and saturation that might explain the NFL's current predicament.

Here's a summary of the big ones:

• Small sample sizes (there haven't been enough games yet)
• Injuries
• Unfavorable matchups
• Cord-cutting (people just aren't as interested in big live-TV events anymore)

Additional reporting by Tony Manfred.

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When it released in 1997, "Starship Troopers" had pretty much everything you could want from a satirical science-fiction action flick.

There's the over-the-top action and the cheesy dialogue with gems like, "The only good bug is a dead bug!"

Now it seems that Hollywood is looking to recapture that magic by rebooting the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The original studio has selected the writing pair behind the new Baywatch movie, Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, to write the script. The Hollywood Reporter says this could "relaunch a potential franchise."

But what would a new Starship Troopers movie look like?

One thing that's good to note is that some of the technology that appeared in the original film is actually we have today — though other things, like faster-than-light space travel, still elude us. And "Starship Troopers" predicted it all the way back in 1997, before the internet changed our lives.

Read on to see what "Starship Troopers" totally nailed about today's tech:

All of the students in Starship Troopers use tablet computers (though they're still as thick as tech from the '90s).

Based on the stylus, it looks like the Surface Pro beats the iPad in the Starship Troopers universe — though Apple has come around to the stylus with the its Apple Pencil.

With fingerprint scanners becoming the standard on phones, it's pretty clear that Starship Troopers was right when it assumed we wouldn't be using passwords to sign into our computers in the future.

Over the course of 15 years and four travel shows, Anthony Bourdain has toured 80 countries, delving into their histories and eating as much of their food as possible.

If you ask him, as Business Insider did earlier this year, what his favorite destination is, he will immediately tell you it's Japan.

"Japan is endlessly, endlessly interesting to me," he said. And even after going on nine filming trips there, "I don't think I've even scratched the surface and I don't think I ever will."

He's especially in love with Tokyo.

"If I had to eat only in one city for the rest of my life, Tokyo would be it," Bourdain wrote for CNN in 2013 on his "Parts Unknown" blog. "Most chefs I know would agree with me. For those with restless, curious minds, fascinated by layer upon layer of things, flavors, tastes and customs which we will never fully be able to understand, Tokyo is deliciously unknowable."

"It's that densely packed, impenetrable layer cake of the strange, wonderful and awful that thrills," he added. "It's mesmerizing. Intimidating. Disorienting. Upsetting. Poignant. And yes, beautiful."

We asked him for his go-to Japanese dishes. "Oh, God. It's hard to pick," he said. "Give me some good uni," or sea urchin, "a really good soba," or buckwheat noodles, "with duck dipping sauce — duck dipping dressing is really amazing — and I adore good yakitori," the grilled chicken skewers.

Japan's "uniquely kooky national schizophrenia," as he calls it in his 2010 essay collection "Medium Raw," gels perfectly with the way he approaches traveling.

"I've found that you're not going to have the really great travel experiences if you're not willing to experience the bad ones," Bourdain told us. "The great travel epiphanies seem to sneak up on you because you kind of f---ed up, you took a wrong turn, and you ended up in a place where you permitted events to unfold."

On Tokyo in particular, he wrote for CNN, "I'm sure I could spend the rest of my life there, learn the language, and still die happily ignorant."

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"Call of Duty" is one the best selling franchises in gaming history, with over 175 million games sold to date. And now "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" will take the franchise to a whole new location: space. So, what does it take to make a franchise game with such high expectations?

We brought in Jason Blundell — an executive producer at one of the "Call of Duty" development studios — to run us through how such a high profile game even gets made.

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Just a day after launching a big new update to Pokémon Go that finally brought some much-requested new features to the game, developer Niantic is back at it again with some minor tweaks that players already seem to love.

That's good, because even the hardest-core players are starting to get frustrated with the game.

The two biggest changes, per the official Pokémon Go Twitter account, are:

• Pidgey and Rattata — two of the very most common Pokémon in the whole game — will no longer hatch from eggs. On the same note, the relatively common Eevee will only hatch from eggs that 5 kilometers of walking to hatch, where before it would appear in 10 kilometer eggs.
• "You may encounter other Pokémon where Pidgey, Rattata, and Zubat were previously more commonly found," Niantic says. That means you'll find way fewer of those common Pokémon in the wild, and theoretically more rare and desirable monsters.

In aggregate, Niantic is addressing one of the biggest complaints with the game: It's way too easy to find or hatch certain Pokémon in the course of everyday playing, but way too difficult to find those last few that you may be missing.

Mixing it up and shaking around where Pokémon are located will ultimately make it easier and more fun to catch 'em all.

Over on the Pokémon Go "subreddit" community on Reddit, players are already applauding the change, calling it "proof that we are being heard." That's good news, as Niantic has so far been slow to address the steady decline of players from the game by adding new features and addressing old annoyances.

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Netflix is coming to your cable box.

Earlier this year, Comcast and Netflix announced a deal that would put Netflix on millions of X1 cable boxes in the US. Now the companies have confirmed that this will happen next week (though one tipster said Netflix had already arrived on his X1 box). 

"X1 customers with Netflix subscriptions will be able to easily browse and access over the internet the extensive online collection of Netflix TV shows and movies alongside the live, on demand, DVR and web programming included with their Xfinity TV subscription," the companies wrote in a statement.

Why is this a big deal? 

For Netflix, the move could help jumpstart domestic subscriber growth. Though Netflix added more domestic subscribers than Wall Street expected last quarter, its sluggish growth in the US has prompted some analysts to murmur about saturation.

But there are segments of the population that Netflix still hasn't quite conquered. There is room for growth.

In a recent note, analysts at UBS highlighted that Netflix, in the US, is underpenetrated among older consumers and those living in Middle America.

"These consumers represent an opportunity for subscriber growth if Netflix can convince them to sign up and stay with the service," the analysts wrote. Getting Netflix onto cable boxes could help with that. Analysts at Cowen think the integration could snag 4 to 5 million new subscribers for Netflix, Variety reports.

Beyond helping get new subscribers, integration into X1 could also help Netflix keep old ones.

“The Netflix integration into the X1 platform means our mutual customers will no longer need to change inputs or juggle remotes,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a statement. “Now they can seamlessly move between the Netflix app and their cable service, enjoying all the TV shows and movies they love without hassle.”

That makes Netflix more valuable.

Here are a few things the companies point out that customers can do with the integration:

• "Launch the Netflix app by simply saying 'Netflix' into the X1 voice remote."
• "Browse Netflix content alongside other on demand movies and shows."
• "Search for an actor like 'Adam Sandler' or 'Kevin Spacey' and see everything they are in, across both Xfinity and Netflix."
• "Start from the beginning of long-running shows like 'The Walking Dead' or 'Scandal' -- with all prior seasons from Netflix and the current season from Xfinity -- available in one place."

The terms of this deal are likely similar to the ones Netflix has with streaming boxes like Roku and Apple TV, or smaller cable operators in the US.

In June, Morgan Stanley explained how the deal would likely work, in a reported unearthed by Recode:

“We would expect Netflix to give up some economics, similar to other distribution partners like Apple or TiVo but we do not believe it would meaningfully alter the direction of Netflix profits over time. Payments to distribution partners are reported in marketing expenses on Netflix's consolidated financials.”

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The first time many of us heard about Netflix's "The Crown," which premiered on Friday, was when its $100 million price tag generated headlines for being the most expensive series to date. "The Get Down" later bested it by about $20 million. But unlike the surreal hip-hop musical, "The Crown" used its money to bring the lives of royals to a relatable level.

That seems absurd to say, of course, when I'm describing an expensive drama about the royal family. They're still in Buckingham Palace, surrounded by expensive art and china, but that doesn't become a focus of the show. It's just dressing. It's impeccable dressing, because it doesn't draw your eye away from the actors.

On "The Crown," Claire Foy plays Queen Elizabeth II, England's current monarch, in her 20s. In many ways, she's naturally more lighthearted and relatable than one would imagine from the woman we see today in public. She's a princess, who is married to a dashing naval officer, Philip (played by former "Doctor Who" star Matt Smith), enraptured with her young children, and they're renovating their first home together. But still, there's the feeling that a tremendous burden, which some would call an honor, is soon to be placed on her shoulders.

Much of the first and second episode doesn't necessarily revolve around Elizabeth. It takes more than two episodes to even see Elizabeth in the titular crown. In fact, the first scene of the premiere episode isn't even of the future queen. It's the sight of King George coughing up blood. At the same time, an elderly Winston Churchill is returning to the role of prime minister. Both of these events are occurring amid a groundswell of support for new ideas and fresh perspectives about the role of government and the actual importance of the royal family in modern times.

That's just one side of what Elizabeth will inherit as queen. She's also dealing with family obligations. She's one generation removed from the scandal of her uncle, Edward (Alex Jennings), abdicating the throne to marry an American divorcee, which then placed her father on the throne. Her sister, Margaret (Vanessa Kirby), is having an affair with a married man and head of palace operations. Not to mention, she shares the name of arguably Britain's most famous and beloved queen.

It's this dichotomy between the public and private Elizabeth that makes "The Crown" so binge-able. It would seem the odds are against her, so how does she preserve the dignity of the throne and yet still keep the family relevant to her modern-minded subjects?

Foy is a believable young Elizabeth. "3rd Rock from the Sun" star John Lithgow is absolutely transformed as Winston Churchill, complete with an almost crouched-over stature and a distinctive speaking style. And Smith plays a terribly nuanced portrayal of Philip, a man who will over and over again have to step back for his wife. And Kirby's Margaret hasn't made me more interested in how a period affair will end since "Downton Abbey's" Mary Crawley.

Fans of this kind of period drama will enjoy the design, the look at media before it fell into the hands of anyone who could tweet, and the British political maneuvering. Anglophiles will relish in the time the drama takes to unveil the story and the dynamics of the family. If you're not a member of those groups, then this isn't the show for you.

Watch the trailer below:

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Style is inherently subjective.

Who does it better? Who is better dressed than somebody else? When it comes down to it, style is really half nailing the basics and half personal preference.

With that in mind, we've decided to rank the best-dressed men in the world according to pure style, keeping in mind how well each nails the basics of tailoring and grooming.

This is by no means a comprehensive list, but these are the 16 guys who we think are the most stylish in the world right now:

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16. Cam Newton

It's no surprise that the most stylish man in the NFL would make a list like this. We respect Newton's irreverent take on press-room dress, which includes a lot of bare ankle and loud patterns.

For that reason, he's dabbed his way onto our list. However, it seems this season he may have jumped the shark with his press room style, and for that reason he drops a few spots.

15. Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan has been killing the game in his recent red-carpet appearances.

He's taken a real interest in men's style, and we have to say that he's a natural — enough to earn the next-to-last spot on our list.

14. Lucky Blue Smith

Lucky Blue Smith is something of a phenom. The 17-year-old model blew up last year on the fashion circuit, nabbing ad campaigns with everyone from Tom Ford and Versace to H&M and Gap.

He's certainly learned a thing or two in his short time in the limelight, and his bleach-blonde hair lands him in the 14th spot on our list.

When someone can joke about the accident that almost killed them, you know they've come a long way. That's especially true for Tracy Morgan.

On Thursday's episode of TBS's "Conan," the comedian and "30 Rock" star showed just how much he has moved beyond his gruesome 2014 car accident when he talked about his feelings toward the Walmart truck driver who badly injured him and killed his friend, fellow comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair.

"I forgave him and I'm not even mad at him no more," Morgan told host Conan O'Brien.

Morgan then added, "You know who is mad at him? All my white neighbors."

He said he recently moved to a nicer neighborhood, which is clearly a nod to the settlement he reached with Walmart last year, the terms of which weren't disclosed. Whatever it was, it was good enough to buy a new Lamborghini in addition to moving into a richer neighborhood.

"How fast do you drive in your Lamborghini?" Conan asked.

"Thirty miles per hour, so everyone in the neighborhood could see it," Morgan replied. "They've never seen a black motherf---er in a Lamborghini."

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Stephen Colbert took on the copious conspiracy theories from both parties in this year's election by coming up with his own elaborate and humorous political hoaxes on Thursday's "Late Show."

Colbert introduced his conspiracy-fueled segment called "Tinfoil Hat" by first issuing "shocking election news" about Hillary Clinton's campaign. 

"During the commercial break, The New York Times broke the story that, according to Wikileaks, the Clinton campaign bought the apartment below Trump's to secretly record him," Colbert said.

"That is incredible!" he continued. "And for a good reason — because I just made that story up. But you believed it for a second because this election is f---ing insane."

The "Late Show" host then holed himself up in a "truth bunker" and — with a quick swig of Nyquil Severe Cold and Flu — began espousing the "the secrets they don't want you to know about."

"Is it possible that we've all been groped by Donald Trump," he joked, "but just didn't feel it because of his tiny baby hands?" 

Then, donning a tinfoil hat and putting a Dixie Cup to his ear, Colbert also took a shot at Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson by relaying a message from a "conspiracy pigeon" that he had spoken to earlier in the absurd segment. 

"It's the conspiracy pigeon. What is it? 'Why do Gary Johnson's voters still have to go to the polls on Election Day when they could just as easily flush their ballot down the toilet at home?'"

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The cover of The New Yorker's November 14th issue sums up how a lot of Americans will likely feel after Tuesday's election: anguish.

The cover depicts a New York City subway rider reading a newspaper splashed with the headlines, 'Oh, sweet Jesus please god, no," "Anything but that," and, "Come on."

The illustrator Barry Blitt said the cover will be relevant after next week's election results are revealed, "whether it's one or the other."

"And it's nice to take a break and not have to draw Trump — or Hillary, for that matter," Blitt told the magazine.

The New Yorker isn't alone in conveying election-related dread regardless of the outcome.

Time Magazine's latest cover shows both candidates smiling and holding a sign reading, "The end is near."

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For Thursday night's "A Closer Look" segment on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," the host targeted Republican lawmakers who are already speaking out on what they will do if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.

There are the politicians like Ted Cruz who will refuse any Supreme Court nominee from Clinton. Senator Richard Burr has gone so far as to say he will "do everything I can do to make sure that four years from now we've still got an opening on the Supreme Court."

Then there's Congressman Joe Walsh who tweeted that if Donald Trump loses the election, "I'm grabbing my musket."

"Trump and the GOP have destroyed some of our most important political norms," Meyers said. "They want to jail or impeach anyone they disagree with and if they don’t get to wield power they want to paralyze the government so no one can. You’d think that would be enough to get people to the polls."

Well, that or President Obama telling everyone at a recent rally about the Taco Bell World Series promotion that allowed people to get a free taco. As Meyers shows, the crowd went nuts over it.

“What a sad state of affairs it is when you say, ‘Get out and vote, we have to stop an insane man from having the nuclear codes,’ and people go, ‘Eh,’ but then you say ‘Free taco,’ and they are all, ‘Yes we can!’" Meyers said.

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The heated fight between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for president may have caused some anxiety in voters. For that reason, Jimmy Kimmel decided to offer a third option.

"I think it's safe to say that this campaign hasn't done wonders for our national morale," the host said on Thursday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "And when there's an election, especially this one, as contentious as this is, there's a tendency to stop and appreciate what we have right now."

So Kimmel sent a video team out to the streets of Los Angeles and told people that Barack Obama had made an announcement that he's going to run for a third term.

As Kimmel's interviewer said, "If it ain't Barack, don't fix it."

Yes, a third term is impossible because it goes against the US Constitution's 22nd amendment, but it doesn't seem that the people captured in the video paid attention in government class.

Plus these folks lied about watching or hearing about the fake announcement. Is that worse than being ignorant about constitutional law?

Watch a new edition of Kimmel's "Lie Witness News" below:

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The "Grand Theft Auto" series is, simply put, a juggernaut.

Its ongoing ability to both dominate sales at launch and retain those sales across the next several years is rare in the mercurial video game market. The "Grand Theft Auto" series is among the likes of "Super Mario" and "Madden" in this respect — it has a notoriously "long tail."

The last game in the series, "Grand Theft Auto V," is especially emblematic of this feat: It just shipped its 70 millionth unit. 

That ridiculously high number is shipped, not sold. But still!

We live in an era of mostly digital sales, where games launch at the same time online that they do in stores. We also live in an era where PC gaming is huge— Steam, the Valve-owned digital game store, has over 125 million active users.

Guess what they're playing?

The game regularly charts on Steam's current player list, often near the top. And Reddit's largest gaming forum, /r/Gaming, often features highlights and bloopers from people still playing the game. All of which is to say one thing: We're guessing there aren't a lot of physical copies of the game collecting dust on store shelves.

Part of this continued popularity comes from the game being really, really good (it is!); another huge part comes from the game's online multiplayer, "GTA Online." The game's developer, Rockstar Games, has smartly supported the game across the past few years, adding in free content and supporting the community. That support has paid off for Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive — "GTA Online" is the company's "single largest contributor" when it comes to "recurrent consumer spending." 

More clearly: "GTA Online" players are buying stuff in-game, and it's bringing in a steady cash flow. 

It's no surprise that news of a new game from the folks behind "GTA" moved Take-Two's stock price.

Keep in mind we're not talking about a new "Grand Theft Auto" game; "GTA V" launched in 2013, and no new "GTA" game has been announced. We're talking about "Red Dead Redemption 2," a third-person, open-world game set in "America's unforgiving heartland." 

It's planned for a late 2017 launch on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but Rockstar is notorious for delaying games until they're just right. Like "Grand Theft Auto," the new "Red Dead" game will feature a robust online component — no doubt influenced by the outrageous success of "GTA Online." 

Whether Take-Two can replicate the success it found with "Grand Theft Auto V" is another question altogether. The most recent lifetime sales number we have on the first "Red Dead Redemption" is around 14 million — a major success for a relatively unknown franchise, and it was available on far fewer platforms than "GTA."

That said, 70 million for "GTA V" is pretty much unheard of — Nintendo sold around 90 million units of all games it published on the Wii U, an entire platform (that it owns and operates, no less). If there's better evidence that "GTA" is a juggernaut, we've yet to see it.

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Susan Sarandon has had a troubled relationship with Hillary Clinton, and the actress has confirmed she won't be voting for the Democratic nominee in the presidential election.

"I don't vote with my vagina," Sarandon told BBC's Evan Davis of her decision not to vote for Clinton. She has said she's voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, after supporting Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary process.

She added that she thinks it's important to get votes for third-party candidates above the 5% mark, and that whether Clinton or Trump is elected, "it doesn't matter" to her.

"This is bigger than that and I don’t want to spend a lot of time talking about Trump and Hillary because that’s not why I’m here. This is bigger than who wins this election," she said.

Sarandon said she believes Clinton is "almost certainly going to win" because of support from "every neocon, all the press, all the networks, all the newspapers, everyone behind her."

“I am worried about the wars, I am worried about Syria, I am worried about all of these things that actually exist. I’m worried about fracking," Sarandon said. "I’m worrying about the environment. No matter who gets in they don’t address these things because money has taken over our system."

She added that in her view, based on what she saw during the primaries, the DNC is "so corrupt, it's not worthy of our votes."

You can see the interview below:

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