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mar wowowin They’re defying gravity — and testing my patience. The new movie “Wicked,” based on the long-running Broadway show, is doing big business at the domestic box office. Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the musical “Wizard of Oz” riff is expected to gross more than $100 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, adding to its already robust $144 million take. I thought it was just OK — please keep yelling at me about that. But Hollywood needs strong performers after a rough year, and getting back audiences who’ve given the cinema the old heave-ho is a win for the industry. Yes. Except when they sing. Or whip out their phones to film the screen. Or generally behave like spoiled, mannerless brats. Audience members at “Wicked,” reports say , are culture-less barbarians who can barely comprehend that they are outside of their own home. They’re a pack of whiny preschoolers who paint their faces green and make a scene as they shriek the songs of Stephen Schwartz to the extreme irritation of those around them. Sitting with hundreds of paying strangers, the selfish jerks rudely belt out “Defying Gravity” and patter along to “Popular.” How obnoxious. This annoying glee club has been so coddled and socially deprived, they think they’re in the shower or doing karaoke in Koreatown. Or at Marie’s Crisis in the Village on a Tuesday. “They don’t know how to be in public places,” one peeved ticket buyer told The Post . My guess is they probably don’t know how to sing either. The impromptu showtune-fests have gotten so out of control that AMC was forced to ban crooning in their theaters like they’re the town from “Footloose.” Good on them, but it’s a shame the situation had to come to a proclamation. Is America so enamored with constant self-expression and my least favorite modern phrase — being “seen” — that people can’t politely sit still and watch a film for 2 1⁄2 hours? Must they make every second of this communal experience all about them? The bad behavior isn’t limited to concerts nobody asked for either. Self-absorbed photogs are capturing whole scenes with their mobile devices to post online — a practice commonly known as, um, piracy. So, we get to pay $20 to watch somebody’s blindingly bright phone make an illegal TikTok video for minutes on end. Hollywood, seemingly pleased with all the fan enthusiasm and the profit it generates, hasn’t decried any of this insanity. One “Wicked” star outright encouraged the rotten trend on national TV. Pouring gas on the fire, Erivo, who plays future Wicked Witch of the West Elphaba, gave the hell chorus the green light. “I’m OK with it,” the Tony Award winner said during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “We spent this long singing it ourselves, it’s time for everyone to sing.” Wrong! After the previews are over, it’s time to sit down and shut the hell up. I’ll echo what Patti LuPone shouted after she stopped a performance of “Gypsy” on Broadway in 2009 when a man in the front row started snapping photos of her: “Who do you think you are?!”

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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that's to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect's on all Canadian products entering the U.S., that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park." “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn't a trolling-free zone for Trump's adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A." In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden's spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns and launched other stunts to respond to Trump's taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

: Amid a debate on the EVM credibility re-started by some Opposition parties after the debacle in Maharashtra assembly polls, rights activist Medha Patkar on Saturday said many countries have stopped using them. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge recently suggested that ballot papers be reintroduced in the election mechanism. “I am not an expert on EVMs but it is true that many countries have stopped using them. Experiments show that certain systems can be changed with a mere electric connection,” Patkar told reporters in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city. She was conferred the honorary D.Litt by the Mahatma Gandhi Mission University. Patkar said the code of conduct for polls cannot be implemented impartially if the Election Commission has links with any political party. The activist said the monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,500 being given to women who come from poor families under the Maharashtra government's “Mazi Ladki Bahin” scheme won't resolve their problems.

Hologic Statement on USPSTF Draft Cervical Cancer Screening GuidelinesNationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) supremo Sharad Pawar said on Saturday that there was growing discontent among the people of Maharashtra over the outcome of the just-concluded Assembly election . He was speaking in Pune after meeting veteran social activist Baba Adhav, who was on a hunger strike alleging rampant corruption in the Assembly election. Calling Mr. Adhav’s agitation a “hope” for the common people, Mr. Pawar said: “This Assembly election was marred by the misuse of power and money; there is a need for people to join the cause. Irregularities are common in local elections, but never seen in State elections.” The Mahayuti coalition comprising the BJP, the Shiv Sena and the NCP had won 235 seats in the 288-member Assembly in the election. Protest fast ends Mr. Adhav got support from top leaders across various parties, including Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP leader Jayant Patil. They met the 95-year-old activist on Saturday and urged him to end the hunger strike. Mr. Adhav and his subordinates began their fast at Mahatma Phule Wada in Pune on November 28 to protest against the “mockery of the Constitution and democracy” in the election. Calling Mr. Adhav a guiding light, Mr. Thackeray said: “We need someone to guide us, tell us we are doing the right thing, and your agitation is the sign. But please don’t continue your strike.” On Saturday evening, Mr. Adhav formally ended his fast by drinking a glass of water offered by Mr. Thackeray. Voter is king: Ajit Pawar NCP chief and Baramati MLA Ajit Pawar also met Mr. Adhav and explained to him that the Mahayuti had no control over the Election Commission (EC), and the result was the public’s verdict. Mr. Ajit pointed out that despite losing the Lok Sabha election, none of the Mahayuti parties raised concerns over electronic voting machines (EVM). “In 1999, people voted for Atal Vajpayee in the Lok Sabha election; in the Assembly election, they voted for Vilasrao Deshmukh’s alliance. The public did not listen to anyone, within five months they changed their will, what we can do.” Responding to Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole’s query on the sudden increase in voting percentage post 5 p.m, Mr. Ajit said, “People stood in line around 5 p.m. and voted, how is this our fault, we can’t go around telling people when to go and vote. Voter is king, we can’t force them.“ On the Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, which is said to have helped the Mahayuti win the election, Mr. Ajit said: “I sat with the finance department, I discussed schemes that could benefit poor people. We had a ₹6.5 lakh crore budget, I asked the department to keep ₹75,000 crore aside – ₹45,000 crore for the Ladki Bahin scheme, ₹15,000 crore for electricity waiver and the remaining for other schemes like gas cylinders,” he said. Published - November 30, 2024 10:35 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 / MaharashtraJustin Trudeau Meets Donald Trump In Florida As Tariff Threats LoomTrump team reaches deal with White House to begin transition process

NoneTrump Does It Again: The Rise of New Media Share This article Donald Trump's win in November caused seismic waves across the country, and it shook up more than just politics. It served as a clear wakeup call to legacy media outlets. "They're doing soul searching, and I think it's going to be reflected in some of the content we see on the air and on websites and in newspapers," says veteran journalist Howard Polskin who now reports on the media. "I think everyone is going to be a lot more measured." MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski quickly saw the writing on the wall. "They are overseeing a sinking ship," says Curtis Houck with Newsbusters. "Joe and Mika, you could think of as the captains of the USS Resistance." After being vocal Trump critics, they met with the president-elect at Mar-a Lago and are now starting to play nice as they made clear recently on the broadcast. "Joe and I realize it's time to do something different," Brezinski told viewers. "That starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him." The move by Joe and Mika makes sense based on ratings alone. Following the election, MSNBC's total viewership dropped 38% and CNN is down 27%. Houck sees this as desperate times. "Part of that desperation is going to meet with the 'fascist' himself," Houck tells CBN News. "And they've admitted in previous weeks that they want to do the show differently, which I take that to mean, perhaps go back to the Morning Joe that it used to be." But it might be too late to do any good. Trust in the media has been fading for years. Back in 1972, only 6 percent of Americans said they didn't trust the media. By the Clinton years in 1997, that number increased to 15 percent. When Trump first took office, it jumped to 24 percent and now, 8 years later, 36 percent of Americans don't trust the media at all. "That is such an extraordinary number, and it should be a shock wave in newsrooms across this country," says John Solomon, the CEO of Just The News. "Unfortunately, most newsrooms are still in denial...so I fear the pattern of misreporting, of loss of audience, loss of connection with audience, loss of perspective with audience, is going to continue." In this news media landscape, we're already seeing a trend of out with the old and in with the new. Trump took advantage of this and added a new wrinkle in 2024 by reaching out to podcasters, streaming services and social media influencers. "You saw him go after podcast platforms," Houck says. "He talked to his son, Barron, about this. He had a young comms team that thought about, where do young people get their news?" CHECK OUT CBN News on Rumble! Houck believes Trump has changed the way campaigns will communicate in the future: more emphasis on casual connection and far less on what's seen as traditional media. "Candidates venturing into the podcast sphere, new media atmosphere, whatever you want to call it, is this generation's question of yesteryear, of which candidate would I want to get a beer with." This new playing field could pit two media classes against each other with the battle playing out at The White House itself. The legacy media has encamped in the briefing room for decades. John Solomon, though, recounts to CBN News a conversation with Trump in 2020 when talk had already begun about shaking up how business is done. "I would not be surprised if you saw in a few weeks, the announcement of a creation of a new White House Correspondents Association and an alternate correspondence association," Solomon speculates. That could mean a group of more conservative outlets and possibly popular podcasters. "Maybe create a second press room," Solomon says. "Maybe it's in the Old Executive Office Building, which was where the discussions were in August of 2020, and let new media come in and let's see who covers the press conference more accurately, more fairly." Whether that happens or not, it's clear this new media landscape is spreading from print and television to the social media terrain. With the platform X now owned by Trump-supporting Elon Musk, liberals are fleeing in droves, moving to Bluesky, started by Twitter Founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. "The news environment is going to be atomized even more," says veteran journalist Howard Polskin with the website therighting.com . "So now you're going to have social media platforms just for mainstreamers and liberals. You're going to have some just for the near right. Then you're going to have social media for the far right...that's just how the media business is going these days." It's all moving very fast. 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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer rifle. Scrim, a 17-pound mutt that’s mostly terrier, has become a folk hero, inspiring tattoos, T-shirts and even a ballad as he eludes capture from the posse of volunteers. And like any antihero, Scrim has a backstory: Rescued from semi-feral life at a trailer park and adopted from a shelter, the dog broke loose in April and scurried around the city until he was cornered in October and brought to a new home. Weeks later, he’d had enough. Scrim leaped out of a second-story window, a desperate act recorded in a now-viral video. Since then, despite a stream of daily sightings, he’s roamed free. The dog’s fans include Myra and Steve Foster, who wrote “Ode to Scrim” to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s 1961 hit, “I’m a Travelin’ Man.” “I’m a travelin’ dog and I’ve made a lot of stops/All over this town...” Leading the recapture effort is Michelle Cheramie, a 55-year-old former information technology professional. She lost everything — home, car, possessions — in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and in the aftermath, found her calling rescuing pets. “I was like, ‘This is what I should be doing,’” Cheramie said. “I was born to rescue.” She launched Zeus’ Rescues, a nonprofit shelter that now averages 600 cat and dog adoptions a year and offers free pet food to anyone who needs it. She helped Scrim find the home he first escaped from. It was Cheramie’s window Scrim leaped from in November. She’s resumed her relentless mission since then, posting flyers on telephone poles and logging social media updates on his reported whereabouts. She’s invested thousands of dollars on wildlife cameras, thermal sensors and other gear. She took a course offered by the San Diego Zoo on the finer points of tranquilizing animals. And she’s developed a network of volunteers — the kind of neighbors who are willing to grid-search a city at 3 a.m. “...And at every stop I own the heart, of at least one lovely ... “ People like writer David W. Brown, who manages a crowd-sourced Google Map of all known Scrim sightings. He says the search has galvanized residents from all walks of life to come together. As they search for Scrim, they hand out supplies to people in need. “Being a member of the community is seeing problems and doing what you can to make life a little better for the people around here and the animals around you,” Brown said. And neighbors like Tammy Murray, who had to close her furniture store and lost her father to Parkinson’s disease. This search, she says, got her mojo back. “Literally, for months, I’ve done nothing but hunt this dog,” said Murray, 53. “I feel like Wile E. Coyote on a daily basis with him.” Murray drives the Zeus’ Rescues’ van towards reported Scrim sightings. She also handles a tactical net launcher, which looks like an oversized flashlight and once misfired, shattering the van’s window as Scrim sped away. After realizing Scrim had come to recognize the sound of the van’s diesel engine, Murray switched to a Vespa scooter, for stealth. “...If you’re ever in the 9th Ward stop and see/My cute little mini poodle ...” Near-misses have been tantalizing. The search party spotted Scrim napping beneath an elevated house, and wrapped construction netting around the perimeter, but an over-eager volunteer broke ranks and dashed forward, leaving an opening Scrim slipped through. Scrim’s repeated escapades have prompted near-daily local media coverage and a devoted online following. Cheramie can relate. “We’re all running from something or to something. He’s doing that too,” she said. Cheramie’s team dreams of placing the pooch in a safe and loving environment. But a social media chorus growing under the hashtag #FreeScrim has other ideas — they say the runaway should be allowed a life of self-determination. The animal rescue volunteers consider that misguided. “The streets of New Orleans are not the place for a dog to be free,” Cheramie said. “It’s too dangerous.” “... and my Shar-Pei doll down in old Treme/Waits for my return ...” Scrim was a mess when Cheramie briefly recaptured him in October, with matted fur, missing teeth and a tattered ear. His trembling body was scraped and bruised, and punctured by multiple projectiles. A vet removed one, but decided against operating to take out a possible bullet. The dog initially appeared content indoors, sitting in Cheramie’s lap or napping beside her bed. Then while she was out one day, Scrim chewed through a mesh screen, dropped 13 feet to the ground and squeezed through a gap in the fence, trotting away. Murray said Cheramie’s four cats probably spooked him. “I wholeheartedly believe the gangster-ass cats were messing with him,” Murray said. Cheramie thinks they may have gotten territorial. Devastated but undeterred, the pair is reassessing where Scrim might fit best — maybe a secure animal sanctuary with big outdoor spaces where other dogs can keep him company. Somewhere, Murray says, “where he can just breathe and be.” ___ Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Brook on the social platform X: @jack_brook96 More articles from the BDNMessi's new Miami coach to sign soon; Mascherano favourite

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