America’s fascination with O.J. Simpson came long before the Bronco chase, and that’s one of the major things director Ezra Edelman wants you to take from part one of his ESPN "30 for 30" documentary, "O.J.: Made in America," which aired on ABC Saturday night.

The documentary begins by showing Simpson at the cusp of stardom, coming to USC in 1967 from the lower-income housing of the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco.

Edelman shows a shy Simpson dealing with his newfound attention at the plush campus of USC with his wife, Marguerite, by his side.

But when he gets on the field we see a different side of Simpson: a powerful and determined running back who is also agile enough to turn the secondary’s legs into spaghetti when he gets into the open field.

Simpson’s first taste of legendary status was his dramatic run against city rival UCLA in '67. His 64-yard run in the fourth quarter to give USC the win became known as “The Run.”

He was untouchable and that reputation only grew when he won the Heisman Trophy the next year and went to play for the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, where his rushing for a record 2,000 yards in the 1973 season cemented his Hall of Fame career.

The success on the field moved to off-the-field endorsements, something that a black athlete never got from white Madison Avenue before.

That’s where Edelman perfectly places the other big takeaway from part one of "Made in America." Something that would always be a haze surrounding Simpson: race.

Black leaders approached Simpson in the late 1960s to be a figure for the civil-rights cause — much like Muhammad Ali refusing to fight in Vietnam or Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists at the 1968 Olympics.

He declined, pointing out: “I’m not black. I’m O.J.”

With the Watts riots in 1965 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. still fresh on the minds of African-Americans by the early 1970s, Simpson was far removed from the frontlines of what black people dealt with on a daily basis.

But that didn’t mean he was without his own demons. One of the most revealing moments of part one is when a childhood friend of Simpson's describes seeing Simpson's father, divorced from his mother, in his apartment with another man, both wearing only bathrobes.

Simpson has rarely ever spoken about his father in interviews, and friends of O.J. say in the movie they never talked to Simpson about his father being gay. But Edleman plants a deep-seated issue that we will see more developed later in forthcoming parts of the documentary.

By the late 1970s, Simpson really did seem to transcend racial perception in his role as a pitchman for Hertz. 

Edelman doesn’t just give us a look at how the popular campaign was created, but also drives home the point that at this point in his life, Simpson was one of the most recognizable faces in the country.

With that kind of fame comes a lot of power and temptation. Simpson, now living in Hollywood and estranged from Marguerite, becomes obsessed with an 18-year-old named Nicole Brown, and there begins the next chapter in Simpson’s life and inevitably his self-destruction.

In part one of “O.J.: Made in America,” Edelman uses incredible detail — archival footage and interviews — to show us Simpson becoming the person he wanted to be since growing up in the projects. But what he also hints at is that the downfall of Simpson was not a moment of rage or someone snapping.

Simpson’s disregard for others has been around since the beginning. Whether it’s stealing his best friend’s girlfriend in high school or on his first date with Nicole Brown, ripping her jeans when she declines his advances.

But when you've spent your life being told you're great, and you're now one of the most famous people in the world, what you want becomes yours.

Part two of “O.J.: Made in America” airs on ESPN on June 14.

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The good news for the movie business this weekend was that a sequel did better than projected at the box office after weeks of them earning less than the originals ("Alice Through The Looking Glass," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows").

The bad news: The $160 million "Warcraft" crashed and burned.

"The Conjuring 2" took in an estimated $40.3 million to win the weekend at the domestic box office, according to Exhibitor Relations. Coming in second was "Warcraft" with a dismal $24 million on 3,400 screens.

The summer blockbusters are struggling at the box office this year and "Warcraft," based on the popular video game, is the latest example. However, the movie has earned over $280 million already overseas, showing that audiences abroad who are fans of the game came out in droves.

However, "The Conjuring 2" proved that sequels are not completely being ignored this summer. The beefy opening (for a horror) is just below the $41.8 million the original had its opening weekend in 2013 (the second largest all-time opening weekend for a horror).

In third was "Now You See Me 2" with around $23 million, which didn't slip much from the illusion-heavy original that opened with $29.3 million in 2013.

So talk of audiences being burnt out from sequels might have been a little premature.

Another sequel will definitely take the box office next weekend, as the much-anticipated Pixar movie "Finding Dory" opens and is projected to earn some major coin.

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You probably can't watch most of the shows Broadway has to offer before they take center stage at the Tony Awards this Sunday, but don't worry — one of Broadway's own is here to help.

Laura Benanti, a Tony Award winner and Broadway darling, teamed up again with TheaterMania to explain the musicals and plays that were on the Great White Way during the 2015-16 season. 

Benanti, who is a 2016 Tony nominee for her role as Amalia in "She Loves Me," takes a sarcastic and witty view of the shows. How else could she have gotten away with labeling "Les Misérables" a comedy in her 2014 video?

See some of the most hilarious ways Benanti described the recent Broadway shows below (full videos at bottom):

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Many commencement speeches are forgettable. A lot are filled with the same cliché advice. But some are so good — so inspiring and poignant — that they stick with us forever.

While certainly there's room for debate (was Stephen Colbert's speech at Northwestern really better than the one he gave at Knox College?), we've culled the best-of lists to put together a guide to our favorites.

From Steve Jobs to Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut to John F. Kennedy, here are the speeches you wish you'd heard on your graduation day.

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'Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer' — Shonda Rhimes's 2014 speech at Dartmouth College

The world's most powerful showrunner told grads to stop dreaming and start doing.

The world has plenty of dreamers, she said. "And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing." She pushed grads to be those people.

"Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer," she advised — whether or not you know what your "passion" might be. "The truth is, it doesn't matter. You don't have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn't have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real," she said.

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'If you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options' — David Foster Wallace's 2005 speech at Kenyon College

In his now-legendary "This Is Water" speech, the author urged grads to be a little less arrogant and a little less certain about their beliefs. 

"This is not a matter of virtue," Wallace said. "It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self."

Doing that will be hard, he said. "It takes will and effort, and if you are like me, some days you won’t be able to do it, or you just flat won't want to."

But breaking free of that lens can allow you to truly experience life, to consider possibilities beyond your default reactions.

"If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable," he said. "But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down."

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'Not everything that happens to us happens because of us' — Sheryl Sandberg's 2016 speech at UC Berkeley

During the Facebook COO's deeply personal commencement speech about resilience at UC Berkeley, she spoke on how understanding the three Ps that largely determine our ability to deal with setbacks is helping her cope with the loss of her husband, Dave Goldberg, just over a year ago.

She outlined the three Ps as:

· Personalization: Whether you believe an event is your fault.
· Pervasiveness: Whether you believe an event will affect all areas of your life.
· Permanence: How long you think the negative feelings will last.

"This is the lesson that not everything that happens to us happens because of us," Sandberg said about personalization. It took understanding this for Sandberg to accept that she couldn't have prevented her husband's death. "His doctors had not identified his coronary artery disease. I was an economics major; how could I have?"

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Led Zeppelin — and specifically guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant — is defending itself against charges that it pinched the opening from its 1971 epic "Stairway to Heaven" from "Taurus" by the band Spirit.

Page and Plant are currently being sued by the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe and will appear in court in Los Angeles next week — ironically, home to some of the most over-the-top legends from Zep's heyday.

If you want the details, read Business Insider's James Cook's post on the legal ins and outs of the case.

"This isn't the first time that Led Zeppelin have been involved with alleged copyright infringement," Cook reported. "The band previously settledwith Jake Holmes over 'Dazed and Confused,' Anne Bredon over 'Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You,' Howlin' Wolf over 'How Many More Times' and 'The Lemon Song,' and Willie Dixon over 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'Bring It on Home.'"

I grew up hearing "Stairway" — from the band's fourth album — something like six times a day on the radio (I'm not kidding), so over time it began to become the musical equivalent of the wind in the trees.

But I started listening to it again recently, and I agree with Page's assessment that it's Led Zeppelin's most well-thought-out piece of music — a synthesis of hard rock, folk, English classical music, and medieval music.

It also contains Page's most disciplined and carefully considered solo, which might be why everyone has it committed to memory, but no one has been all that influenced by it — Page's wilder, looser work inspires imitation, while "Stairway" just inspires awe, not least because it occurs in the context of such a sprawling composition with pretty much all the light and shade, as Page might put it, a person could ask for.

However, during the course of getting reacquainted with "Stairway," I also relistened to the rest of the Zep catalog, and I realized that although "Stairway" is supposed to be Zep's masterpiece, it's so finely constructed that it doesn't sound quite as epic as it used to — for me, anyway.

Here are three Led Zeppelin songs that outdo it.

"Kashmir"

After the first four albums, Zep entered what I like to think of its second phase, which would run from "Houses of the Holy" in 1973 to "In Through the Our Door" in 1979. (That band broke up after drummer John Bonham's death in 1980.)

"Kashmir" was on "Physical Graffiti," released in 1975, on the eve of the punk explosion. I've always thought of it as Zep's answer to Pink Floyd: A sprawling, booming, relentless piece of high, hard-rock meditation — the thinking man's Zepic. And naturally, this is the song that got all the music critics to take Zep seriously for the first time. The band had always been interested in what we now call "world music," and "Kashmir" showed off all those influences.

Whereas "Stairway" is composed in movements, with classically delineated sections, "Kashmir" is a swirling, purposeful, slamming drone, with Page, Plant, Bonham, and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones all integrated from the start. Page always saw Zep as alchemical: Four elements making a fifth. "Kashmir" is Element Five.

"Achilles Last Stand"

If "Kashmir" is middle late-Zep, then 1976's "Presence" is late-late-Zep. Everything is starting to go wrong in the band's world: car accidents, chaotic American tours, sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Page is definitely picking up on a big change sweeping through music, as the heavy blues-rock idea that he raised to unforeseen levels with Led Zeppelin has become monumental to a fault, inspiring raw new musicians to attack what we now label classic rock's pretense and excess.

So he puts everything he has into "Achilles Last Stand," the title of which now seems deeply ironic. The band is in a flagrantly powerful mode throughout the song's ten and half minutes: Page layered something like 12 guitar parts. It's hard to tell if Bonham had a drum kit left when it was all over, Plant sings like a possessed ancient warrior, and Jones holds it all together as it frequently threatens to fly apart. This is Zep at its late, great peak.

"The Song Remains the Same"

From Zep's 1973 album, "Houses of the Holy" (the start of late-Zeppelin), this is without a doubt the band's happiest song: A rollicking ode to hard rockin' joy (more so than even "Rock and Roll" from 1971, which, while a hoot, sounds like the band's thank-you to the American musicians they loved when they were kids). It's also the other song that Page played live on the iconic red Gibson double-neck that is known so well for live versions of "Stairway to Heaven." And the track title is the name of a film about Zep, released in 1976.

Say what you will about Zep and their sound, their attitude, the legacy — there's no question those guys adored music, and that love is all distilled in "The Song Remains the Same," which would fit right into the current upbeat pop landscape. Appropriate, given the idea that music is at heart timeless. There are two great live taped performances of the song: In 1973 at Madison Square Garden in New York, and in 2007 at London's O2 Arena. Separated by 34 years, you can see in either case a group that really, really loves to cut loose and play this tune for all it's worth.

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Even very successful people have to start somewhere.

And for a lot of them, "somewhere" was a summer job.

For some, those high school and college gigs were obvious steps toward incredible careers. For others, the path from summer job to success was a little more winding.

Regardless of the job done, these successful people prove summer jobs are universal in that they usually teach the value of hard work and responsibility.

We combed through interviews with business leaders, political leaders, artists, and tech stars to figure out what some of America's most successful people did over their summer vacations when they were younger.

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates served as a Congressional page

Already an accomplished computer programmer — he'd started at 13 — a young Bill Gates spent the summer of 1972 working in Washington, DC, as a Congressional page, according to CNN's timeline. 

At Inc., Bill Murphy, Jr. speculates that this might have shaped Gates more than one might guess. "It wouldn't seem to have much to do with starting Microsoft," he says, but "it could have sparked an interest in public policy that led him to launch the Gates Foundation."

Hillary Clinton had a brief career gutting fish.

On summer break from Yale Law School, the former New York Senator and current presidential hopeful got a job at an Alaskan fish-processing plant scooping out fish guts.

"They were purple and black and yucky looking," she told the New York Times. She had a lot of questions about the condition of the fish — too many, according the plant's owner, who fired her within a week. 

She was undaunted by the experience. "I found another job," she said.

President Barack Obama scooped ice cream

Even the leader of the free world once had an unglamorous summer job.

As a teenager growing up in Honolulu, Obama got his first gig working the counter at Baskin-Robbins, Time reports.

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

Though he admitted he was "less interested in what the job meant for my future and more concerned about what it meant for my jump shot" at the time, Obama said the job ultimately taught him valuable lessons about responsibility, hard work, and how to balance a job with friends, family, and school.

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During the 70th Annual Tony Awards, "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda delivered a sonnet while accepting his award for Best Score.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda was the big winner at Sunday night's Tony Awards for his musical "Hamilton."

But Miranda also took time during his acceptance speech for best score to address the tragic mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the worst in US history.

The "Hamilton" creator and star delivered a sonnet he wrote, saying he's "too old" to freestyle.

He started by praising his wife: "My wife's the reason anything gets done. She nudges me toward promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one; our son is her most beautiful reprise."

Then he touched on the Orlando massacre and became emotional, visibly tearing up as he said:

"We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play when senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall, and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer and love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. As sacred as a symphony Eliza tells her story. Now fill the world with music, love and pride. And thank you so much for this." 

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NEW YORK (AP) — As presenter Barbra Streisand noted, "tonight our joy is tinged with sorrow" — and she wasn't the only one making reference to the horrific Orlando shootings during the Tony Awards ceremony. But the night was also a celebration of the power of theater to bring joy. And there much joy for the cast and creators of the wildly popular "Hamilton," which won a whopping 11 Tonys.

A look at some of the night's top moments, both onstage and off, and a list of all the winners:

A SEARING SONNET

"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, the eloquent hero of this Broadway season, is known for giving acceptance speeches in freestyling rap. But on this night, he told the crowd, he opted to write a sonnet instead. His own tears over the Orlando tragedy were infectious, as he spoke of "when senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing is promised, not one day." But, he added: "Hope and love last longer, and love is love is love is love."

THE LOOK OF DIVERSITY

For all the talk about diversity and inclusiveness this season (absent at the Oscars, present at the Tonys), nothing could beat one powerful image: All four of the musical acting winners were black actors. "Think of tonight as the Oscars, but with diversity," host James Corden had said at the beginning of the show. "It's so diverse that Donald Trump has threatened to build a wall around this theater."

CORDEN'S BROADWAY CRED

Speaking of Corden, after his own somber opening referring to Orlando — a piece he pre-recorded to be sure to get it right — the late-night TV host delighted the crowd with an ode to what seemed like dozens of past Broadway shows, from "Les Miserables" to "Phantom of the Opera" to "Sweeney Todd" to "Grease." And there's no easier way to win over a theater-loving audience than to sing a few bars from "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy."

WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE

During commercial breaks, Corden worked the crowd a bit, and this included enlisting prominent audience members for impromptu singalongs. He got Jeff Daniels to sing from "The Sound of Music," and he got Jake Gyllenhaal and Sean Hayes to sing from "Aladdin." When he saw that Gyllenhaal was chewing gum, he simply took it and put it in his own mouth.

OUTSIDE ANTICS

Speaking of singalongs, Corden adopted the "Hamilton" practice of performing for a streetside crowd, actual putting on brief shows outside the Beacon Theater. This made for some odd combinations, like Miranda and Andrew Lloyd Webber joining Steve Martin and Edie Brickell in singing "Tomorrow" from "Annie" — or the cast of "Fiddler on the Roof" singing "There's No Business Like Show Business" from "Annie Get Your Gun."

A BLAST FROM THE PAST FOR GROBAN

Speaking of "Fiddler," Corden had a surprise for presenter Josh Groban: He unearthed, and played, a clip of the singer performing Tevye as a high school student. Groban seemed to have a good sense of humor about it.

GIVING THANKS

Many people thank their parents or their kids in their speeches, but Renee Elise Goldsberry, who plays Angelica Schuyler in "Hamilton," had an especially poignant moment speaking about her years-long struggle to become a mother. "If you know anything about me you know I've spent the last 10 years just trying to have children," she said. "God gave me Benjamin, he gave me Brielle — and he still gave me this," she said, gesturing to her Tony.

YOU NEVER KNOW

Ivo Van Hove, who won for best direction of a play ("Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge,") told the story of how when he first came to New York at age 20, he met a woman on a park bench, and told her he was an aspiring theater director. She asked for his autograph — because, she said, "you never know." So, the director surmised in his Tony speech: "She's watching now and thinking, 'See? I was right.'"

PARTYING LIKE THERE'S NO (PERFORMANCE) TOMORROW

If you were the "Hamilton" cast, wouldn't YOU be partying? The "Hamilton" bunch had a day off on Monday, and it's a good thing: their after-party Sunday night was way cooler than the official post-Tony gala. The show took over the Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park, and danced to a DJ until the early hours. Rapper Common, who introduced "Hamilton" at the ceremony, was among the guests. Besides eating, drinking and dancing, one could pose against a green screen and be inserted into a famous "Hamilton" photograph.

BARBRA DRESSES JUST RIGHT

Introducing Streisand, Corden warned that medical personnel were standing by, just in case her return was too exciting for some. She was appearing on the Tony stage for the first time since 1970 to present the award for Best Musical — to "Hamilton," of course. "You're making me verklempt!" she called out when the crowd gave her an ovation. Dressed in a ruffled, high-collared white blouse and black vest, she quipped when she opened the envelope: "Thank God I picked the right outfit."

A LITTLE SELF-ESTEEM CAN'T HURT

Sheldon Harnick, the 92-year-old lyricist, wasn't above a little healthy self-promotion when he received his Lifetime Achievement Award.

Responding to the accolades that had just been showered upon him, he replied: "Thank you. If I didn't deserve it, this would be embarrassing."

BELOW ARE ALL THE WINNERS:

Best Play
"Eclipsed"
"The Father"
WINNER: "The Humans"
"King Charles III"

Best Musical
"Bright Star"
WINNER: "Hamilton"
"School of Rock—The Musical"
"Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
"Waitress"

Best Revival of a Play
"Arthur Miller’s The Crucible"
WINNER: "Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge"
"Blackbird"
"Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
"Noises Off"

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Best Revival of a Musical
WINNER: "The Color Purple"
"Fiddler on the Roof"
"She Loves Me"
"Spring Awakening"

Best Book of a Musical
"Bright Star," Steve Martin
WINNER: "Hamilton", Lin-Manuel Miranda
"School of Rock—The Musical," Julian Fellowes
"Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," George C. Wolfe

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
"Bright Star" (Music: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell / Lyrics: Edie Brickell)
WINNER: "Hamilton" (Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda)
"School of Rock—The Musical" (Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber / Lyrics: Glenn Slater)
"Waitress" (Music & Lyrics: Sara Bareilles)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Gabriel Byrne, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
Jeff Daniels, "Blackbird"
WINNER: Frank Langella, "The Father"
Tim Pigott-Smith, "King Charles III"
Mark Strong, "Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge"

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
WINNER: Jessica Lange, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
Laurie Metcalf, "Misery"
Lupita Nyong’o, "Eclipsed"
Sophie Okonedo, "Arthur Miller’s The Crucible"
Michelle Williams, "Blackbird"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Alex Brightman, "School of Rock—The Musical"
Danny Burstein, "Fiddler on the Roof"
Zachary Levi, "She Loves Me"
Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton"
WINNER: Leslie Odom, Jr., "Hamilton"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Laura Benanti, "She Loves Me"
Carmen Cusack, "Bright Star"
WINNER: Cynthia Erivo, "The Color Purple"
Jessie Mueller, "Waitress"
Phillipa Soo, "Hamilton"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
WINNER: Reed Birney, "The Humans"
Bill Camp, "Arthur Miller’s The Crucible"
David Furr, "Noises Off"
Richard Goulding, "King Charles III"
Michael Shannon, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Pascale Armand, "Eclipsed"
Megan Hilty, "Noises Off"
WINNER: Jayne Houdyshell, "The Humans"
Andrea Martin, "Noises Off"
Saycon Sengbloh, "Eclipsed"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
WINNER: Daveed Diggs, "Hamilton"
Brandon Victor Dixon, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
Christopher Fitzgerald, "Waitress"
Jonathan Groff, "Hamilton"
Christopher Jackson, "Hamilton"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Danielle Brooks, "The Color Purple"
WINNER: Renée Elise Goldsberry, "Hamilton"
Jane Krakowski, "She Loves Me"
Jennifer Simard, "Disaster!"
Adrienne Warren, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"

Best Scenic Design of a Play
Beowulf Boritt, "Thérèse Raquin"
Christopher Oram, "Hughie"
Jan Versweyveld, "Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge"
WINNER: David Zinn, "The Humans"

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Es Devlin & Finn Ross, "American Psycho"
David Korins, "Hamilton"
Santo Loquasto, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
WINNER: David Rockwell, "She Loves Me"

Best Costume Design of a Play
Jane Greenwood, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
Michael Krass, "Noises Off"
WINNER: Clint Ramos, "Eclipsed"
Tom Scutt, "King Charles III"

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, "Tuck Everlasting"
Jeff Mahshie, "She Loves Me"
Ann Roth, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
WINNER: Paul Tazewell, "Hamilton"

Best Lighting Design of a Play
WINNER: Natasha Katz, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
Justin Townsend, "The Humans"
Jan Versweyveld, "Arthur Miller’s The Crucible"
Jan Versweyveld, "Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge"

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
WINNER: Howell Binkley, "Hamilton"
Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
Ben Stanton, "Spring Awakening"
Justin Townsend, "American Psycho"

Best Direction of a Play
Rupert Goold, "King Charles III"
Jonathan Kent, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night"
Joe Mantello, "The Humans"
Liesl Tommy, "Eclipsed"
WINNER: Ivo Van Hove, "Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge"

Best Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden, "Spring Awakening"
John Doyle, "The Color Purple"
Scott Ellis, "She Loves Me"
WINNER: Thomas Kail, "Hamilton"
George C. Wolfe, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"

Best Choreography
WINNER: Andy Blankenbuehler, "Hamilton"
Savion Glover, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"
Hofesh Shechter, "Fiddler on the Roof"
Randy Skinner, "Dames at Sea"
Sergio Trujillo, "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan"

Best Orchestrations
August Eriksmoen, "Bright Star"
Larry Hochman, "She Loves Me"
WINNER: Alex Lacamoire, "Hamilton"
Daryl Waters, "Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Sheldon Harnick
Marshall W. Mason

Special Tony Award
National Endowment for the Arts
Miles Wilkin

Regional Theatre Tony Award
Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, New Jersey)

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Brian Stokes Mitchell

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Seth Gelblum
Joan Lader 

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In a rare cold opening, John Oliver on Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" addressed the horrific mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando late Saturday night, in which 50 people were killed. The act is the deadliest shooting in US history. 

"This just hurts," Oliver said.

Oliver noted that the shooting, which is being called an act of terrorism, mirrors the one that happened in Paris in November. That shooting targeted what's wonderful about France — "culture, music, restaurants" — and the target in Orlando was a "Latin night at a gay club at the theme park capital of the world."

"For the record," Oliver added. "I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club at the theme park capital of the world as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America."

The open, which lasted just under two minutes, ended with Oliver calling the shooter a "dips--- terrorist." Though the shooter wants us to focus on his hatred and brutal act, Oliver said, hundreds in Florida raced to give blood in a show of solidarity with the victims. In many places lines were around the block to donate blood.

Here's an example:

 "It kind of reminds you that that terrorist dips--- is vastly outnumbered," Oliver said.

Watch the full video below:

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The Tony Awards audience got a unique performance of a fan-favorite Disney song by Jake Gyllenhaal and "Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes.

James Corden apparently kept the awards show buzzing even when it wasn't airing with a spin-off of his very popular "Carpool Karoake" segment from CBS's "The Late Late Show." During a commercial break, presenters Gyllenhaal and Hayes performed "A Whole New World" from Disney's "Aladdin" in "Commercial Karoake."

On Sunday night, Hayes posted the impromptu performance on Facebook and explained: 

"During commercial breaks at The Tony's tonight, the amazingly brilliant James Corden started up a Broadway-themed 'commercial karaoke.' He asked for volunteers. Jake Gyllenhaal & I were happy to oblige with our rendition of 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'"

Gyllenhaal played Aladdin, which left Hayes in the role of Princess Jasmine. Corden provided some key backup parts.

Watch the performance below:

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Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," "No One."

This week's "Game of Thrones" was packed with game-changing reunions, and fans learned whether Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) survived an attack at the end of the last episode.

But which moments had fans talking the most?

Social-media monitoring platform Brandwatch found more than 51,000 "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. Tommen bans trials by combat just ahead of his mother Cersei's trial. This also possibly killed the chances of a popular fan theory, Cleganebowl, from happening.

9:29 p.m. ET — More than 1,100 mentions. 

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

9:05 p.m. ET — More than 1,200 mentions.

3. Cersei chooses violence against the Faith Militant.

9:17 p.m. ET — about 1,320 mentions.

The 70th annual Tony Awards got political more than once Sunday night.

The show took aim at the presumptive presidential candidates — being largely negative toward Republican Donald Trump. 

While introducing the nominees for best leading actress in a play, Nathan Lane joked that he learned the value of winning an award at Trump University. Host James Corden said that the award show's diversity would prompt Donald Trump to "build a wall around this theater." 

Meanwhile, the comments were more positive toward Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. While presenting for best featured actress in a play, Jake Gyllenhaal gave Clinton a nod, saying "Women can do anything."

Most biting of all, Corden orchestrated spoofs of famous musicals about the presumptive nominees. "The Book of Mormon" became "The Book of Moron" starring Andrew Rannells as Donald Trump.

"Hello. My name is Donald Trump, and I would like to build a wall that goes straight through your house," Rannells sang.

Glenn Close starred as Hillary Clinton — blue pant suit and all — in a spoof of "A Chorus Line" called "A Clinton Line," in which she sings actual lines from the musical: "I really need this job. Oh god, I need this job. I've got to get this job!"

Watch the full spoof here:

The award show and CBS also dedicated the broadcast to anyone affected by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub that happened hours before the show. 

“Hate will never win,” Corden said at the start of the broadcast. “Together we have to make sure of that. Tonight’s show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle.”

Many Broadway stars and Tonys attendees wore silver ribbons in acknowledgment of the tragedy. 

"Hamilton" creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda gave a moving tribute to the victims in his acceptance speech for best score, proclaiming, "Love is love is love is love."

Frank Langella spoke out as well during his acceptance of the award for best leading actor in a play. 

"When something bad happens we have three choices: we let it define us, we let it destroy us, or we let it strengthen us," he said.

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After analyzing first-season viewing data on more than 100 shows in 190 countries for a period of seven months, Netflix doesn't just know that binge-watching exists — it knows exactly what it looks like.

It knows, for instance, which 13 shows you're likely to binge-watch the fastest and which ones you'll binge on the most. By combing through the data, Netflix also determined which shows and genres are most likely to elicit binge-watching behavior.

They delineated the programs along a spectrum called "The Netflix binge scale." At one end are the "Shows to Savor." At the other end are "Shows to Devour." Thrills and horror shows get gobbled up in a matter of days, as viewers sit rapt on the edge or their seat (or tucked safely under a blanket). Irreverent comedies and political dramas are more thought-provoking, prompting viewers to reflect between episodes.

Depending on your tastes, you probably fit one of three profiles outlined by the binge scale.

Because Netflix releases new seasons of its original shows all at once, spurred by research that finds people prefer to watch episodes in batches, the company is in a better position to analyze this kind of data than any cable providers.

As a result, it can measure with stunning precision what kinds of shows compel people to keep pressing "Next Episode." Then it can tailor future programming to those tastes, ensuring your binge-watching habits continue.

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Eat baby food. Go gluten-free. Reserve Mondays for yellow food and Thursdays for purple food.

These are just a few of the utterly insane eating plans that various celebrities have publicly admitted to trying.

Thankfully, there are better ways to change what you eat and feel healthier. (Spoiler alert: Many of them involve longterm lifestyle changes instead of jumping into a rigid eating plan for a few days).

Here's a list of some of the craziest and inadvisable things celebrities have done to look and feel better, along with a few suggestions that could be healthily incorporated into your life:

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Beyoncé reportedly used the "Master Cleanse" to lose weight before "Dreamgirls."

The scoop: Beyoncé reportedly did the Master Cleanse, which involves subsisting on nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, before staring in the movie "Dreamgirls" — the idea being that it detoxes your system and accelerates weight loss.

Should you do it? You never need to do a detox. Our bodies do it for us. While our kidneys filter our blood and remove waste from our diet, our liver processes medications and detoxifies any chemicals we ingest. Paired together, these organs make our bodies natural cleansing powerhouses. So stop eyeing that lemon squeezer. It's not worth it.

Reese Witherspoon did the "Baby Food Diet."

The scoop: The Baby Food Diet has been traced to celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, who's since denied supporting it. It involves eating 14 jars of baby food, with the option of adding in one actual low-calorie meal, each day.

Should you do it? Nope. The jars of baby food are 80 calories. Eat 14 and you end up with roughly 1,000 calories each day plus one real meal. So long as the meal you allow yourself is about 400 calories — think a small piece of grilled fish or lean meat and some sautéed veggies — you'll definitely lose weight. But it'll be because you're not eating food, not because mushed-up fruit is a miracle diet product.

Snooki went on the "Cookie Diet."

The scoop: Snooki reportedly lost weight in 2010 with a diet of cookies. For three weeks, she ate six of the 90-calorie treats a day and one small meal. Alarmingly, the Cookie Diet is not Snooki's creation: Now-retired Dr. Sanford "The Cookie Doctor" Siegal trademarked the plan.

Should you do it? Probably not. Cookie Diet cookies are no Girl Scout Samoas. The recipe's first three ingredients are glycerin (used to add sweetness and moisture), whole-wheat powder (for fiber), and beef protein. They've also got rice crisps (ostensibly for crunch), egg whites (for more protein), wheat bran (for fiber), and a smattering of B vitamins.

Despite getting into some recent trouble for comparing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to Hitler, Louis C.K. says he is still compelled to share his feelings on this year's election.

"Celebrities saying things politically is obnoxious, because you've got a bullhorn that was given to you for one reason and you used that bullhorn for something else," C.K. said in a new interview with New York magazine. "But also I think when there's somebody as terrible as Trump running, you're a little bit of a coward by keeping it to yourself if you're really concerned about it."

When the comedian was asked to describe his feelings for Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, he said Sanders "jars something loose in our system and something exciting happens." But in the end, he believes that Clinton's experience would get more things done.

But even if there's no other reason to appreciate C.K.'s take on this year's election, his use of an analogy about flying planes in this interview would be enough.

Read the quote below:

It's like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot. You have one person, Hillary, who says: "Here's my license. Here's all the thousands of flights that I've flown. Here's planes I've flown in really difficult situations. I've had some good flights and some bad flights, but I've been flying for a very long time, and I know exactly how this plane works."

Then you've got Bernie, who says, "Everyone should get a ride right to their house with this plane." "Well, how are you going to do that?" "I just think we should. It's only fair that everyone gets to use the plane equally." And then Trump says, "I'm going to fly so well. You're not going to believe how good I'm going to fly this plane, and by the way, Hillary never flew a plane in her life." "She did, and we have pictures." "No, she never did it." It's insane.

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"Now You See Me 2" couldn't muster up the surprise success of its predecessor.

The sequel to the 2013 heist film earned $23 million in its opening weekend, while its original managed a better $29.3 million. That's not a huge difference, but it will be a disappointment to the studio executives who hoped to cash in on love for the first title.

"The Conjuring 2" actually came in first place at the box office this weekend, earning $40.3 million — only 3.6% less than its original.

But most sequels, at least so far this year, have been bombing.

There has long been talk of Hollywood having a "sequel problem" — "sequelitis" as Variety calls it.

There are many to choose from at the theater nowadays. Do you want to watch the latest installment in an ongoing superhero franchise? (Take your pick between "Captain America: Civil War," "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice," or "X-Men: Apocalypse.") Or a live-action remake of an old cartoon? (It's a lose-lose with "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.")

Studios are trying to build the next big Harry Potter or Marvel franchise, but not every film can be "Captain America," which has seen a steady increase in its domestic gross since the first time Chris Evans' Cap graced our screens in 2011.

Take a look to see which of this year's sequels so far couldn't live up to their originals. Really, it seems only "Captain America: Civil War" managed to escape this list. But don't worry, you still have "Independence Day: Resurgence," "Ice Age: Collision Course," "Jason Bourne," "Star Trek Beyond," "The Purge: Election Year," "Bridget Jones's Baby," "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back," "Ouija 2," "Underworld: Blood Wars," and "Bad Santa 2" to look forward to this year.

All earnings have been adjusted for inflation to match their 2016 counterparts and are sourced from Box Office Mojo. Sequels that are still in theaters have been compared based on opening-weekend grosses.

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"Kung Fu Panda 3"

"Kung Fu Panda" gross: $257 million

"Kung Fu Panda 2" gross: $176 million

"Kung Fu Panda 3" gross: $143 million

Time hasn't been a gift to the "Kung Fu Panda" franchise. The franchise's third installment dropped 44% in grosses from the original.

"Ride Along 2"

"Ride Along" gross: $145.3 million

"Ride Along 2" gross: $90.8 million

The Ice Cube-Kevin Hart comedy opened big in 2014 but saw its grosses drop 37.5% with its 2016 sequel.

"Zoolander 2"

"Zoolander" gross: $68.4 million

"Zoolander 2" gross: $28.8 million

Though a quotable classic, the original "Zoolander" never seemed to truly shine at the box office. That was even more true for the sequel, which dropped 57.9% in grosses.

Theater is enjoying a huge rejuvenation this year — and it's not just the ticket sales that are proving it.

Hosted by James Corden, Sunday's 70th annual Tony Awards broadcast earned its biggest viewing audience in 15 years, according to Nielsen Research ratings. 

A total of 8.78 million viewers tuned into the awards show. That's 35% more than last year's show.

Significantly, the show bounced back from one of its lowest-viewed shows ever. Last year's Tonys attracted 6.46 million total viewers — the fourth-lowest TV audience in the show's history.

Not only that, but it saw huge increases in the audience most desired by advertisers. It was up 60% with people aged between 18 and 49 years old. That's its highest rating in the advertiser demographic in 13 years.

Much of the success of the show can be attributed to the huge buzz surrounding this year's runaway hit, "Hamilton." The hip-hop/historical musical earned a record 16 Tony nominations. It took away 11 wins, including including best musical, leading actor for Leslie Odom Jr., featured actress for Renée Elise Goldsberry, and featured actor for Daveed Diggs.

The only other show that has taken home more Tony trophies is "The Producers," which holds on to its record 12 wins in 2001.

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