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‘Stranger Things’ Actor Caught with Cocaine at LAX Airport

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‘Stranger Things’ Actor Caught with Cocaine at LAX Airport

Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton has allegedly been denied entry to the United States after being caught at the airport with cocaine. The actor was flying to Los Angeles for the season 2 launch party when he reportedly been caught with the substance by drug-sniffing dogs.

US border officials denied the 23-year-old actor entry to the country last Saturday and deported him back to London where he had flown from just a few hours before, according to The Sun.

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That said, the actor is missing from the premiere of the Netflix production press tour. Daily Mail also reports that his barring from entering the United States could mean his future on the show could be in trouble.

A source told the Daily Mail, “He was not arrested. He was held at the airport for a while and then put back on a plane to London that night. If you are a foreign national and it is a large amount of drugs you may be charged.But if it is personal use, the consequences are that you will not be allowed in to the country. US law is very strict on this.”

Heaton plays Jonathan Byers on the show. The new series, which debuted on Friday, October 27th, takes place a year after the first set in 1984.

The first season of the show centers around kids who started vanishing after researchers from the Hawkins National Laboratory accidentally opened up an alternate dimension. The second season will return to Hawkins around Halloween 1984 and will go into deeper detail for Will’s disappearance.

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The Cast of “Stranger Things” arrives at the Weinstein Company and Netflix 2017 Golden Globes After Party on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. (CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock, Inc.)

Marijuana Smokers Had 20% More Sex Than Non-Smokers, Study Finds

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Marijuana Smokers Had 20% More Sex Than Non-Smokers, Study Finds

According to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, people who smoke weed regularly have sex 20 percent more times than non-smokers.

Researchers at Stanford University’s School of Medicine examined the Center for Disease Control’s National Survey of Family Growth study. One of the questions in the survey asked how many times individuals had heterosexual sex in the past month and compared that data to how many times they smoked marijuana in the past year, and smokers had sex more often.

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WASHINGTON APRIL 2: Protesters rally in support of the legalization of marijuana in front of The White House in Washington DC on April 2, 2016 (Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com)

Women who did not smoke had sex 6 times the previous month in comparison to their smoking counterparts who had sex 7.1 times, and male smokers had sex 6.9 times in comparison to 5.6 to non-smokers. The sample size was 50,000 Americans between 25 and 45. Researchers say the increase in intercourse is not necessarily a result of smoking. While there is some correlation, it is important to note that correlation does not equate to causation. Overall, researchers ultimately concluded, “Marijuana use is independently associated with increased sexual frequency and does not appear to impair sexual function.” 

If the research results are accurate and marijuana does not negatively impact sexual performance, then the legalization of marijuana could cause America’s birth rate to rise. And that is great news considering the impact synthetic marijuana is having on individuals across the nation.

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Henderson – Circa December 2016: The Source Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Dispensary. In 2017, Recreational Pot will be legal in Nevada (Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com)

Talking Points Brought to Trump Jr. Meeting Were Shared with Kremlin

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Talking Points Brought to Trump Jr. Meeting Were Shared with Kremlin

Donald Trump Jr.’s infamous June 2016 meeting is undergoing further scrutiny. According to The New York Times, the Kremlin was made aware of the scheduled meeting between Donald Trump’s son and the Russian government connected attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya.

The New York Times reports Veselnitskaya shared her talking points with Yuri Y. Chaika, who is Russia’s prosecutor general and is known as the “Master of Kompromat,” which The New York Times reports is the man who knows how to find and deliver dirt on a political opponent. The news outlet says that “interviews and records” show Veselnitskaya showed the Russian government memos before sitting down with Donald Trump Jr. and associates.

“The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskaya’s account that she was a purely independent actor when she sat down with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, then the Trump campaign chairman,” the New York Times reports.

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Donald Trump, Jr. speaking with supporters of his father, Donald Trump, at a campaign rally at the Sun Devil Fitness Center at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. (Image Credit Gage Skidmore via Flickr)

NYTimes added, “It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that Ms. Veselnitskaya would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact — not mere “puffery,” as the president’s son later said.”

These memos were reportedly the same information that Veselnitskaya had given GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher when he visited Moscow. Rohrabacher’s role in the Russian-Trump election is confusing considering the U.S. officials had warned him that Russia was trying to recruit him as an operative. That said, Rohrabacher still visited Russia in 2016. During that trip, he used talking points to help organize a “show trial” of anti-Putin critic and human rights activists Bill Browder, who also had his visa revoked by the State Department this week.

It is important to note, Donald Trump Jr’s Trump Tower meeting was described by former Press Secretary Sean Spicer as a meeting centering around adoption and Magnitsky Act.

Fourth Woman Accuses of George H.W. Bush of Sexual Assault

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Fourth Woman Accuses of George H.W. Bush of Sexual Assault

For the last four days this week, a woman has come forward and accused President George H.W. Bush of sexually harassing them during photo opportunities over the last few years. The first three women all told similar allegations of meeting the elder President Bush backstage at events or productions while he grabbed their backsides from his wheelchair. Also, all three women claim that he told the same joke saying “David Cop-A-Feel!” while doing so. The fourth woman has come forward with another allegation.

According to the Press Herald, a former Republican Maine state Senate candidate, Amanda Staples, has alleged that Bush touched her during a Walkers Point photo shoot, but the incident took place over a decade ago. You can see a photo of the alleged incident here. In the caption to her picture, she wrote that he “grabbed my but and joked saying ‘Oh, I’m not THAT President.’”

It is reasonable to believe that Bush was referring to “THAT” former commander-in-chief, but Staples wrote that “I can only imagine how many women have had their butt grabbed in a photo op.” Staples continued by saying she never would want any of her daughters to “shrug it off because he was president.”

This news comes after actress Heather Lind broke the news that the former President allegedly assaulted her. Heather Lind claimed that Barbara Bush was present and rolled her eyes after the former president sexually assaulted her. Heather Lind shared a photo of Bush Sr. in his wheelchair shaking hands with Barack Obama during a gathering of ex-presidents to help with the hurricane disaster relief on Instagram. She says that she does not respect the former president and she felt compelled to speak out after seeing the photo of Bush Sr. and Barack Obama. Heather Lind said “he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo. He didn’t shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again.”

Health Officials are Warning Parents To Beware of Halloween Marijuana Edibles

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Health Officials are Warning Parents To Beware of Halloween Marijuana Edibles

This Halloween, New Jersey’s Gloucester County is warning kids and parents to be on the lookout for marijuana candy edibles. Officers issued a warning to parents on Thursday to beware of marijuana “gummy” candy this Halloween.

According to the New Jersey Department of Health, there is an influx of marijuana candy in New Jersey and other nearby states. Officials say the presence of marijuana in candy is a major health risk, especially to unknowing children who consume the candy on Halloween. It is important to point out, Marijuana candy is illegal in New Jersey and the edibles contain THC, the main ingredient that causes the “high” feeling.

“Parents need to be aware and check for unusual candy packaging. If they suspect their child has received marijuana candy they should immediately contact their local police department,” and Freeholder Jim Jefferson, Liaison to the Addictions Task Force explained.

Due to the similarities between marijuana and candy, sometimes it is difficult to spot the differences between the two. That said, as Fox 29 reports, the edibles may have a smell that is similar to marijuana.

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SUN VALLEY, CA – MAY 26, 2016: An edible medical marijuana rice snack labeled and packaged for sale at a medical marijuana dispensary in Sun Valley, CA on May 26, 2016. (Dan Holm / Shutterstock.com)

‘Ten Days in The Valley’ is Moving to Saturdays and That’s Not a Good Sign

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‘Ten Days in The Valley’ is Moving to Saturdays and That’s Not a Good Sign

It is never really a good sign when a TV series is “transitioned”. What does transitioned mean? That means a show is moved to a different day and time because not a lot of people are watching. But, it is definitely a really bad sign when it is a new TV show. According to Deadline, Ten Days In The Valley, starring Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agabje, is only 4 episodes into the show’s first season and ABC has already moved the drama from Sundays to Saturday.

“The series is being pulled from Sundays effective immediately and will take a break before starting its Saturday run on Dec. 16 with Episode 105 and 106 airing back-to-back at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m,” Deadline explains in their report.

When you look at the numbers it understandable as to why ABC executives made the decision to move the series to Saturdays. Ten Days in the Valley’s first episode had 3.44 million viewers, with only 0.5 rating in the 18-48 demographic. The ratings have only dropped since the premiere. The latest episode only had 2.2 million viewers.

Sedgwick complained about the lack of promotion for the series to The Daily Beast. “I also think ABC’s not doing a good job getting the word out there,” she told the Daily Beast. “When I was doing The Closer, literally the two weeks before we aired, Steve Koonin’s goal was that everyone living in a major city would be exposed to something about The Closer five times in a day. He used to run Coke, and he was the head of TNT marketing. And he made that happen. It’s great that I get to do interviews for this now, because I have a track record. But the truth is that no one knows [Ten Days In the Valley] is on. So that’s disturbing and scary.”

Moving to Saturday is probably not going to help the series.

About Ten Days in The Valley

The TV series centers around Jane Sadler a TV producer of a controversial show about law enforcement whose daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. The show focuses in on how a mother attempts to deal with her daughter’s disappearance and investigate the people around her.

‘The Matrix’ Code Was Really Just Sushi Recipes

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‘The Matrix’ Code Was Really Just Sushi Recipes

The Matrix became a hit movie when it premiered 18 years ago. The visual world of the Wachowski’s was ground-breaking and light years ahead of other films that premiered in the late ‘90s. Part of the green atmosphere with the lines of code that filled the screen was probably one of the most iconic features of the movie. To most people, it looked like a bunch of gibberish. But, apparently, the rabbit hole is deeper than that.

Simon Whitely is a production and art designer who was hired to design ‘The Matrix’ and that included the code you see in the movie. Whiteley is currently on a press tour promoting his latest work for The Lego Ninjago Movie and broke the news what that Matrix code actually means.

Whiteley told CNET that he scanned recipes from his wife’s Japanese cookbook to make to make the iconic green letters that flow across the screens in the movie.

 “I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes,” Whiteley explains.

The recipes could be anything. The whole time The Matrix could be giving us the recipe for a killer shrimp tempura dragon roll. Now, with The Matrix code revealed, it is only a matter of days before someone creates a video using a recipe they found in The Matrix.

The success of the first movie led to two feature film sequels, both written and directed by the Wachowskis. The franchise further expanded into comic books, video games, and short films. The Matrix received Academy Awards for several categories including film editing, sound effects editing, visual effects, and sound. That said, despite all of the acclaim, the movie was partly blamed for the Columbine shooting.

Rose McGowan Speaks Out Publicly Since the Weinstein Allegations (Video)

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Rose McGowan Speaks Out Publicly Since the Weinstein Allegations (Video)

Rose McGowan gave a motivating speech at the Women’s Convention in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday. McGowan spoke out publicly for the first time in the history of sexual harassment, and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein rocked Hollywood earlier this month. Since then, dozens of actresses have come forward with similar stories about the Hollywood producer.

McGowan started off by thanking all of the powerful women speaking out, because as she explains, “we are all me too.”

“I have been silenced for 20 years,” McGowan continued,”I have been slut-shamed, I have been harassed, I have been maligned, and you know what, I’m just like you. Because what happened to me, happens to all of us in society, and it cannot stand.”

McGowan’s speech became especially impassioned when she declared, “I came to be a voice for all of us who are told we are nothing. For all of us who have been looked down on. For all of us who have been grabbed by the motherf*cking pussy.”

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Harvey Weinstein David Shankbone 2010 NYC – Image Credit: David Shankbone/Flickr.com

McGowan continued by calling out Hollywood’s role in treating women. “It is the mirror you’re given to look into. This is what you are as a woman. This is what you are as a man. This is what you are as a boy, girl, gay, straight, transgender,” she said. “But it’s all told through 96 percent males in the Director’s Guild of America. That statistic has not changed since 1946, so we are given one view, and I know the men behind that view. And they should not be in your mind, and they should not be in mine. It’s time to clean house.”

McGowan is not the only woman speaking out. Mika Brzezinski explained early Friday morning the momentum shift and how sexual harassment in America is undergoing a significant transformation. “We are at a pivotal moment in history where unacceptable harassing behavior towards women will no longer be swept under the rug,” Mika explained.

You can watch the full speech above.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is Now The Richest Person in the World

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is Now The Richest Person in the World

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is super-rich. Not just kind of rich but, exorbitantly rich. Forbes has updated their rankings after a significant overnight development, and Bezos tops Gates as the richest man in the world.

Bezos’ net worth now sits at an incredible $92 billion while Gates trails behind with $90 billion. The difference is insignificant because they are so rich they can probably buy an entire country. Yet how this change occurred is notable. Bezos’ net worth rose up $9 billion between Thursday night and Friday morning, thanks to Amazon stock shooting up by 11% during Friday trading.

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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter (right) speaks with Jeff Bezos, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Amazon.com (second from left) and head of Defense Digital Service Chris Lynch(left) as they visit the Defense Digital Service as Bezos visits the Pentagon May 5 , 2016. (DoD photo by Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz)(Released)

Last July, Bezos became the world’s richest person for a few hours, but shares would later drop in afternoon trading putting him behind Gates. Then during Q3, Amazon posted sales of $43.7 billion, up 34% from last year, with net income of $256 million. That number encouraged Wall Street analysts to predict the stock will continue to grow.

That said, Bezos may not remain as the richest man in the world forever. For example, last year his net worth dropped by $3 billion in one hour a year ago, so there’s no telling how Wall Street will react. Still, it is incredible to imagine how much money Bezos has.

Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Overall, through Bezos dedication to innovation and technology, Amazon has become a leader in e-commerce and cloud data hosting. The online retailer is also releasing plans to have access in your home with Amazon key and is making noise about taking over the wholesale pharmacy market. Not to mention the fact over 200 cities are competing for the honor of holding Amazon’s second headquarters.

‘Stranger Things’ Filming Location: Here’s Where Netflix Show is Set

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‘Stranger Things’ Filming Location: Here’s Where Netflix Show is Set

Stranger Things is back and after several months of filming, the hit nostalgia filled Netflix series is here to take you back in time to the early ‘80s. The show opens one year after the “Upside Down” was first opened and the young Will Beyers disappeared.

About Stranger Things

The first season of the show started on November 6, 1983, when kids started vanishing after researchers from the Hawkins National Laboratory accidentally opened up an alternate dimension. The setting for the show is alluded to be a fictional Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. The rural backdrop is reminiscent of the hit supernatural movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is said to be the inspiration for the show.

The second season will return to Hawkins around Halloween 1984 and will go into deeper detail for Will’s disappearance. According to Variety, the original title for the show was Montauk for the Long Island beach town in which the story originally took place.

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The cast of “Stranger Things” arrive at the Weinstein Company and Netflix 2017 Golden Globes After Party on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. (CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock, Inc.)

Show creators Matt and Ross Duffer explained ahead of the show’s first season that they wanted a coastal town for the throwback series. “We were excited about the idea of doing something coastal,” Ross told The A.V. Club. “Probably our favorite movie of all time is Jaws, and Montauk is one of the bases for Amity, so I think that’s where that idea came from.”

Stranger Things and Georgia’s Film Tax Credit

Unfortunately, due to logistics, it was “necessary for production reasons to set this not in a coastal town.” In fact, production moved the show from the coast to the Midwest after the show started filming in the Atlanta suburbs, which is not a surprise. Many TV shows and movies are now filming in Atlanta, Georgia. According to Project Casting, there were over 60 TV shows and movies filming in the state in August. In addition, The Walking Dead, Dynasty, and nearly the entire Marvel universe filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. Why are so many shows filming in Georgia? You can thank the state’s film tax credits, which provide 30% tax credit on all productions filmed in the state that spend over $500,000.

Netflix Casting Calls for Speaking Roles

That said, before Stranger Things was ever a cult-classic, casting directors were searching across the ATL for actors to work on the show. A 2016 Stranger Things casting call posted on Project Casting reveals casting directors were seeking actors for speaking roles. After the show became a hit, it became one of the most top-secret productions to film in Georgia.

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The Cast of “Stranger Things” arrives at the Weinstein Company and Netflix 2017 Golden Globes After Party on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. (CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock, Inc.)
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