The Daily Populous

Wednesday August 23rd, 2017 evening edition

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a tiny voice asked as the camera homed in on Theron’s bruised and battered back rising from a bathtub filled with ice cubes.

It was the scene the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern (not a fan) called “chillingly beautiful” and “almost worth the price of admission.”

Theron got out of the tub -- clearly not a man -- and poured a glass of vodka.

“Character is choked with a garrote, very visible and intense, lasts for a :30-:60 seconds,” is one note from IMDB’s parents guide.

If the parents say the kids qualify for admission, the theater has to take their word for it.

Here’s a way to improve it: Instead of charging children $3.00 less than adults at R-rated movies, charge them $5.00 more.

But if they just don’t want to pay a babysitter, they’ll stay home and let everyone else enjoy the show. »

Jon Jones tests positive for steroids, stripped of title

Authored by tmz.com

We're told most tickets cost $10k -- for a price tag of around $2 MILLION, and most are going to WME clients.

We don't know which clients got the tix, but there are a lot of happy ones.

He's already doled out the tickets he's been given, and he's not going into his pockets for celebs in search of a free fight. »

ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general's name

Authored by foxnews.com

In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., ESPN decided to pull one of its announcers from calling a University of Virginia football game -- because his name is Robert Lee.

Lee, an Asian-American sportscaster who started with the network in 2016, was moved to a different game "simply because of the coincidence of his name," ESPN said, referencing the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

On Aug. 12, violence broke out at a protest from a white-nationalist group opposing the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville. »

Dead stuntman’s family receives HK$5.8m donation from Jet Li

Authored by themalaymailonline.com

Dead stuntman’s family receives HK$5.8m donation from Jet Li.

Stuntman Liu Kun was a double for Jet Li during filming for ‘The Expendables 2’ in Bulgaria in 2011.

— AFP picHONG KONG, Aug 9 — Jet Li has donated HK$5.8 million (RM3.17 million) to the family of his stunt double, Liu Kun, who was killed on the set of The Expendables 2 in 2011. »

Stop hiding 47,000 net neutrality complaints, advocates tell FCC chair

Authored by arstechnica.com

The Federal Communications Commission is being pressured to release the text of 47,000 net neutrality complaints before going through with Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to eliminate net neutrality rules.

Further Reading FCC refuses to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints.

Chairman Pai's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) argues that a lack of formal net neutrality complaints may show that the rules aren't needed. »