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Nothing is sacred on South Park. That’s why the show’s recent parody of Donald Trump worked so well. It didn’t matter that Mr. Garrison had previously stood in for Trump, because their latest idea to model the sitting president after Saddam Hussein instead was much funnier. So South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said “fuck it” and made a new version of Trump (their fourth to date).

The same can be said of the show’s canon: It’s not sacred either. As proof, here are five times South Park has been willing to rewrite its own history in service of a bigger laugh…

1 Character Names

Plenty of South Park kids — like Butters, for example — existed in the background of the show in non-speaking roles for years before coming to the forefront. So it’s not surprising that several of them received throwaway names that...

Jon Hamm is one of those actors who seem to have emerged from the past, who was born wearing a slick suit and holding a dry martini. That's why he's so perfectly utilized in the period drama Mad Men. His masculine baritone is also used to great effect as Jack Bergin, the protagonist of Audible's The Big Lie and now The Big Fix, which finds the former FBI special agent now working as an intrepid private eye in glorious film noir fashion. MovieWeb has an exclusive clip from the Audible Original, which is out today, April 24, and also features Ana De La Reguera, John Slattery, Alia Shawkat, Omar Epps, and Erin Moriarty.

You can find Audible's official synopsis below:

"A gripping, cinematic audio drama that transports listeners to 1957 Los Angeles, this standalone story in The Big Lie series combines historical significance with modern relevance, offering listeners both entertainment and...

Jon Hamm has done plenty of voice acting over his career, but voicing 1950s FBI agent-turned-private investigator Jack Bergin has proven unique.

Instead of recording his lines in a silo, Hamm was joined in the recording studio by a murderer’s row of performers — including Alia Shawkat, Ana de la Reguera, Bradley Whitford, Giancarlo Esposito, Omar Epps, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Hamm’s “Mad Men” co-star John Slattery — for the Audible Original series 2022’s “The Big Lie” and the upcoming new installment “The Big Fix.”

“This is better in every way, but mostly because the story is so intimate that it’s super helpful to have the personal connection with the person that you’re acting opposite,” Hamm said, discussing the series, created by John Mankiewicz and directed by Aaron Lipstadt, during Variety & Audible’s Cocktails and Conversations at Sundance. (Watch the full conversation in the video above.) “It’s like...

Prime Video has acquired rights to three feature-length documentaries about sustainability: Groundswell, Common Ground and Kiss the Ground.

Common Ground and Kiss the Ground, which were previously released, will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video on April 22, or Earth Day, including a never-before-seen director’s cut of Kiss the Ground. Meanwhile, the duo’s forthcoming documentary, Groundswell, wrapped production last year and will be released globally on Prime Video at a later date. The trio of films hails from filmmakers Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell.

Narrated by and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground reveals a detailed look into how regenerating the earth’s soils would help stabilize the earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. NASA and Noaa footage as well as graphics paint soil as the missing puzzle piece to climate change.

Common Ground combines journalistic investigation with anecdotes from those...

Two llamas are bounding up a small hill in Ojai, drawn to the sounds of filmmaker Rebecca Tickell yelling in a high-pitched voice, “Rama! Yoda!” Tickell has in her hand a bucket full of feed, and the two shaggy, snow-colored mammals are ready to eat.

“When the chickens got to an excessive number, they started getting picked off by coyotes,” explains Rebecca’s husband and collaborator, Josh. “These guys, they probably get rid of about 60, 70 percent of the coyotes.” What about the other 30 to 40 percent? “What happens is when you run a farm, you begin the cycle of predator and prey,” Josh says. He adds, “Most people have a bucolic fairy tale [image] of what sustainability in farming looks like. And then you get into it and you realize, ‘Wow, this is really hard.’”

At their all-encompassing home, film studio and farm in Ojai, the Tickells are working to practice what they preach.

South Park season 25 reveals that Token Black's real name is Tolkien, challenging the controversial nature of his original name. The episode satirizes South Park's own past and addresses issues of racism and performative allyship within the show. The name change is a meta move that retcons previous episodes and showcases South Park's willingness to acknowledge and rectify its mistakes.

Of all the characters in South Park Token Black has always been controversial thanks for no reason other than his name, which is why it was especially hilarious when season 25 revealed he is called Tolkien Black — and aside from Stan, Randy, and the viewers, everyone knew it. South Park season 25, episode 2, "The Big Fix," changes South Park lore and satirizes its own past. When Randy Marsh realizes their family has "no Black friends," he invites Token and his family over for dinner to make his marijuana business more diverse. During dinner,...

The World, public radio’s longest-running daily global news program, is now airing on a record 376 public radio stations across the United States and in Canada, more than at any point previously in the program’s history. The show, produced by GBH in Boston and Prx–– is heard by more than 2 million people nationwide on a weekly basis.

"We're delighted to welcome people from Florida, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio, Iowa, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Kansas to the hundreds of communities listening to The World's global coverage," said Dan Lothian, executive producer of The World. "As we reach this exciting audience milestone, we remain committed to bringing all our listeners nuanced coverage of the most critical global issues of the day, fueling informed conversations about international affairs."

Stations that have recently begun airing The World, hosted by Marco Werman and produced by a team of award-winning journalists, include Wusf in Tampa,...

Nicolas Coster, the soap opera stalwart who starred on Another World, Santa Barbara and All My Children and appeared in such films as All the President’s Men, Reds and Stir Crazy, has died. He was 89.

Coster died Monday in a hospital in Florida, his daughter Dinneen Coster announced on Facebook.

“Please remember him as a great artist,” she wrote. “He was an actor’s actor! I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father!!

A familiar character actor who often portrayed officious types, Coster played chief of detectives J.E. Carson on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo and later recurred as the millionaire father of Lisa Whelchel’s Blair Warner on another 1980’s NBC sitcom, The Facts of Life.

He appeared often on Broadway, and in his 1961 debut, he understudied for Lawrence Olivier as Henry II in Becket. Two decades later,...

Can Hollywood A-listers like Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, and Donald Glover deliver a timely and strong enough message about the benefits of Regenerative Agriculture and have it take root in the collective consciousness to spark positive change? Let’s hope so.

Eco-filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell have populated their new documentary, Common Ground, with as much celebrity hype as important facts about the state of the country’s soil. That could be a good thing. These stars, who take turns narrating the doc, elevate the couple’s latest endeavor, which recently nabbed the Human/Nature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. But it’s the filmmakers’ inventive mix of storytelling, graphics, and easily digestible information that will undoubtedly win audiences over.

True, there’s a sense that the Tickells are preaching to the choir here. However, anybody interested in the environment will appreciate learning...

Veteran actress Noreen Nash, who starred in the films The Big Fix and The Red Stallion and TV shows such as The Lineup and Yancy Derringer, has died. She was 99. Nash’s passing was confirmed by The Neptune Society, revealing that she died on Tuesday, June 6, in Sherman Oaks, California. No other details were provided. Born Norabelle Jean Roth on April 4, 1924, in Wenatchee, Washington, Nash started her show business career in 1942 after winning the Apple Blossom Queen competition in her hometown. From there, she was contacted by Bob Hope‘s agent Louis Shurr, who helped her get a contract with MGM as a showgirl. That same year, she worked as a model alongside Marilyn Monroe. She made her on-screen debut in 1943 in the musical film Girl Crazy, opposite Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. After a number of uncredited roles, Nash landed a part in Jean Renoir’s 1945 film The Southerner,...

Noreen Nash, an actress who starred in the films The Bix Fix and The Red Stallion and had a small role in James Dean’s classic Giant, has died. She was 99.

The Neptune Society confirmed her June 6 death in Sherman Oaks but gave no other details.

Nash received a screen test after being crowned Apple Blossom Queen in her hometown of Wenatchee, Washington while she was still in high school. She began acting in the mid-1940s in several small, uncredited roles.

Her big break came in 1947, when Nash starred in The Big Fix, a film about a gambling ring fixing college basketball games. That led to roles in such films as The Red Stallion, Assigned to Danger, The Checkered Coat, and Phantom From Space, among other movies of the 1940s and ‘50s.

Nash also appeared in such TV shows as “The Lone Ranger,” “The Abbott and Costello Show,” “My Little Margie,...

Noreen Nash, a starlet of the 1940s and ’50s who appeared in such notable films as The Southerner, Giant and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, has died. She was 99.

Nash died Tuesday of natural causes at her home in Beverly Hills, her oldest son, Lee Siegel Jr., told The Hollywood Reporter.

Nash worked on about two dozen features during her two-decade career, including several “B” pictures like Phantom From Space (1953), where she portrayed an abducted scientist in a movie shot at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

The blue-eyed, dark-haired Nash also starred as the wife of an owner of a Palm Springs tennis club on the CBS summer replacement series The Charles Farrell Show — it stood in for I Love Lucy in 1956 — and appeared on episodes of Hopalong Cassidy, The Abbott and Costello Show, My Little Margie, Dragnet and 77 Sunset Strip.

Nash played the...

Five top film documentary directors will reveal details behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Oscar contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Tuesday, January 12, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Joyce Eng and a group chat with Joyce and all of the group together.

RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.

This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Oscar contenders:

“Disclosure” (Netflix): Sam Feder

Feder’s career has included “Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger,” “House Devil, Street Angel” and “Boy I Am.

Jeremy Kagan, filmmaker and USC professor is reaching out to educational institutions about his new film, Shot which tells the story of what one bullet does to many lives.

Called “profound…mesmerizing….powerful….moving” this movie is being used as a stimulating way to engage in the essential conversations we all must have about gun violence.

The movie is an intense first person journey of what happens when you get shot.

Noah Wyle in Shot (2017)

We want high school and college students to see the movie and discuss it, and we have created a balanced study guide to go along with the movie.

You can screen the 90min. dramatic movie in a local theater, or in any screening room or class room, or in homes on TVs. And depending on timing, the filmmakers are available to participate in post screening discussions.

Enclosed are information on ways to show the movie,...

Frank Doubleday, who played a henchman in “Escape From New York,” died on March 3, his wife and companion Christina Hart confirmed in a Facebook post. Doubleday was 73.

Doubleday is best known for playing Romero in John Carpenter’s sci-fi cult classic, which starred Kurt Russell and Lee Van Cleef. Doubleday died on March 3 of complications from esophageal cancer at his home in Los Angeles, Hart told The Hollywood Reporter.

“John gave me total creative freedom. The voice and the look were my ideas,” Doubleday said in an interview about playing Romero. “I did a lot of character work and worked on Romero through voice, costume and movement. All my behavior was improvised. Once a character is created and is in one’s skin, the behavior just comes naturally. … If the character has been internalized, it all just happens.”

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Actress Susan Anspach, best known for roles in landmark 1970s films like “Five Easy Pieces” and “Play It Again, Sam,” has died in Los Angeles. She was 75.

Her son, Caleb Goddard, announced the news on Thursday, telling the New York Times she died from coronary failure Monday.

Born in New York City in 1942,...

This is the first trailer for a new film starring Noah Wyle (ER) called Shot. The story is set in Los Angeles and it follows a sound designer, who is struck by a stray bullet. This event will forever affect the lives of three individuals. I like what I'm seeing in this trailer. It looks like an intense film with an interesting story that's worth checking out. 

Shot begins as sound mixer Mark Newman (Wyle), is pumping up the volume on a bloody shootout scene in an action film. Hours later, after an argument with his wife Phoebe (Leal), Mark is suddenly felled by a real random bullet, and lies bleeding on the pavement with a chest wound. With Phoebe desperately trying to stop the bleeding, they both agonizingly wait for an ambulance to arrive as Mark fights for his life. Meanwhile, hidden behind a fence across the street, a teenager,...

By Don Stradley

Charles Bronson was 55 at the time of “St Ives” (1976). He was just a couple years past his star-making turn in “Death Wish”, and was enjoying a surprising run of success. I say surprising because Bronson had, after all, been little more than a craggy second banana for most of his career. Now, inexplicably, he had box office clout as a leading man. In fact, Bronson reigned unchallenged for a few years as the most popular male actor in international markets. Yes, even bigger than Eastwood, Newman, Reynolds, Redford, or any other 1970s star you can name. Many of Bronson’s movies were partly financed by foreign investors, for even if his movies didn’t score stateside, they still drew buckets of money in Prague or Madrid. Some have suggested that his popularity on foreign screens was due to how little he said in his movies (there was...

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. CNBC announced today that it has greenlighted two new reality series that will be part of its primetime rebrand, CNBC Prime. The series, announced today at TCA by president and CEO Michael Hoffman and Svp Primetime Alternative Programming Jim Ackerman, are the untitled Family Business Project and The Big Fix (working title). Both series will premiere in the spring. Hoffman said CNBC is moving into reality TV to beef up CNBC’s primetime lineup. “Not too long ago, CNBC’s primetime was the land of misfit toys, it really bore no connection to the core brand, which was a daytime brand,” he said. “That has all changed.” In each episode of the hourlong untitled family business project, from Embassy Row and executive produced by Michael Davies, viewers will meet three family businesses that “have the drive, ambition and desire to succeed,...

The Big Fix, a documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has been acquired by video-on-demand distribution company GoDigital. The film will be released June 19 on digital and cable VOD services. Santa Monica-based GoDigital is handling the digital VOD release of the film, while Lionsgate, which releases some of GoDigital's films via an ouput arrangement, will handle the cable VOD release. The Big Fix will also be released on DVD the same day. The film from husband-and-wife directing and producing team Josh and Rebecca Tickell examines the massive April 2010 oil spill in

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What's getting the thumbs going skywards and beachwards at this year's festival

Two jumping Croisettes and two stale croissants . . .

Lifts

In an effort to bring relief to their tired tootsies, Cannes delegates have taken to using service lifts. Saves time and gives a clandestine thrill.

Cosmic scenes

Both The Tree of Life and Melancholia feature planets drifting towards each other in lush slo-mo, while the best of Classic FM blasts out on the soundtrack.

Alex Reid

Is the cagefighter angling to be the next Jason Statham? Not only has the former husband of Katie Price been yacht-hopping, he also tweeted that he was dining with "Bruno Copplor". That'll be Coppola, dear.

America

No entry to the Us pavilion unless you've got a special pass, yet elsewhere we are welcomed with open arms and free sweets. And Peter Fonda, rallying support for eco-doc The Big Fix, has emailed Obama, calling him...

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Environmental activist and documentary filmmaker Josh Tickell has become increasingly cynical in the last few years.

His 2008 feature debut “Fuel,” which played at Sundance that year, was “filled with the naivety and joy of green energy solutions,” he says. Now, his latest “The Big Fix”—which premieres today at the Cannes Film Festival—”strips away any shred of delusions, gets right to it and shows how the system runs.”

Produced, in part, by actor Peter Fonda, who also appears in the film,...

Hike up your pants and do the Urkel Dance: today is Jaleel White Day. Well, not officially, but it should be. It’s at least a red letter day for the Family Matters vet — not only is the show’s first season coming out on DVD, but his new web series, Fake It Til’ You Make It, is launching on Hulu. We recently spoke with White about what it was like filming through the awkward years, the appeal of Family Matters, the metamorphosis of Steve Urkel, and why he decided to create his semi-autobiographical new web series.

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