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    'Black Ink Crew': Ceaser Emanuel Confronts Ryan Henry in Heated Argument

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    However, the 9MAG owner feels that Ceaser is acting too sensitive about the whole situation, before alluding that Caesar is unnecessarily blowing things out of proportion.
    Apr 3, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ceaser Emanuel and Ryan Henry’s tension escalated in the latest episode of “Black Ink Crew: Chicago”. The two, who had been beefing over Ceaser’s ex-girlfriend Kitty, were having a tense confrontation after Ceaser was mad for being the butt of their private jokes. However, Ryan insisted that it wasn’t a big deal.
    Ryan told Ceaser that he was acting too sensitive about the situation, and that he was unnecessary blowing things out of proportion. Even though they managed to avoid getting physical, Ceaser made it clear that he had no intention of being in friendly terms with Ryan anytime soon.
    The confrontation seemingly led Ceaser to announce his plan on opening a Black Ink shop in the heart of Chicago to rival Ryan’s 9Mag. Ryan appeared to fire back at Ceasar in a cryptic Instagram post in which he wrote, “… Ahhhhhh youngsta… … when the hate don’t work, they start telling lies… Welcome to Chicago’#9MAG.”

    This arrived after Tati spread rumors of Kitty sleeping with Ryan. Not taking the rumors well, Caesar was livid. “The audacity of this motherf***er,” Caesar said in the midseason trailer of the show.
    “I was his friend, I was his mentor, and you got the nerve to mess with one of my exes and throw it in my face. Man, f**k that! It wouldn’t be no 9MAG without Ceaser, yo!”
    Kitty herself was feuding with Tati, who felt betrayed by Kitty’s move from “Black Ink Crew: New York” to “Black Ink Crew: Chicago”. The Korean tattoo artist allegedly punched Kitty in the face and the two continued fighting in front of camera. The face-punching seemingly took place after the altercation.

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    'America's Got Talent' Resorts to Online Auditions Amid Coronavirus Crisis

    The reality competition series, which features Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and Sofia Vergara as judges, are now asking wannabes to offer up their submissions online.
    Apr 2, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “America’s Got Talent” bosses have re-opened auditions for those who have been perfecting their skills during self-isolation.
    Executives at NBC – the network which airs the show – halted their in-person Los Angeles try-outs for the upcoming season last month due to coronavirus concerns, but now they are asking wannabes to offer up their submissions online.
    “Auditions for @AGT season 15 have re-opened. Submit your videos now,” a post on the show’s official Twitter account reads.

    The reality competition series will bounce back with Heidi Klum rejoining Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel as a judge and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara making her debut on the panel.

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    What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Virtues’ and ‘Blinded by the Light’

    What’s StreamingTHE VIRTUES Stream on Topic. By the time the kettle wails, Joseph is crying. It’s a couple of minutes into “The Virtues,” and Joseph (Stephen Graham), an Irishman living in England, is readying for a final meal with his ex, his son and his ex’s new partner, before those three leave to start a new life in Australia. That is the foundation of this four-part mini-series, the latest project from the British filmmaker Shane Meadows. “The Virtues,” written by Meadows and Jack Thorne, delves into loneliness, sexual abuse and trauma. It follows Joseph on a path of despair — and eventual reconciliation.STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019) Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. It doesn’t have Baby Yoda, but this most recent “Star Wars” movie has plenty of series staples to offer fans, including lightsabers and a heroic betrayal. Directed by J.J. Abrams, “The Rise of Skywalker” wraps up the dispute between the promising jedi-in-training Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren, the conflicted young villain played by Adam Driver. Here, the struggle of good against evil “feels less like a cosmic battle than a longstanding sports rivalry between teams whose glory days are receding,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. “The head coaches come and go, the uniforms are redesigned, certain key players are the subjects of trade rumors, and the fans keep showing up.” Which, Scott added, “is not entirely terrible.”What’s on TVBLINDED BY THE LIGHT (2019) 7 p.m. on HBO Signature. “It’s like Bruce knows everything I’ve ever felt,” Javed (Viveik Kalra) says of Bruce Springsteen. It’s a somewhat unlikely match: For one thing, in this musical drama, Javed is living in the suburbs of London, a long way from New Jersey. For another, he’s the 16-year-old son of Pakistani immigrants. These differences between Javed and Springsteen are part of the point of “Blinded by the Light,” a coming-of-age story that’s both very 1980s and very timeless: Javed finds Springsteen, then himself. The film was adapted from a memoir by Sarfraz Manzoor and directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham”), who infuses the story with Bollywood-style musical sequences and Springsteen lyrics that at times physically spring to life onscreen. “I didn’t want to make a jukebox musical,” Chadha said in an interview with The Times last year. “The film is about writing and words.”HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER 10 p.m. on ABC. After airing part of its sixth and final season late last year, this legal thriller series will return Thursday night for the first of its final episodes. Pieces of how the series will wrap up have been teased: Earlier episodes included flash forwards to a funeral for Annalise (Viola Davis), the law professor at the series’s center. But they also made it unclear whether she actually dies. More

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    'Masked Singer' Recap: White Tiger Is Unmasked as 3-Time SuperBowl Champion

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    The Super 9, consisting of singers from group A, B and C, hit the stage with Turtle opening the night with a stunning performance of Steve Winwood’s ‘Higher Love’.
    Apr 2, 2020
    AceShowbiz – The Wednesday, April 1 episode of “The Masked Singer” saw the Super 9, consisting of singers from group A, B and C, hitting the stage. Group A was made of Kangaroo, White Tiger and Turtle. Group B had Kitty, Frog and Banana, while Group C included Night Angel, Astronaut and Rhino.
    Turtle performed first, singing Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love”. The panelists, Ken Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke and Jenny McCarthy, guessed that he was either Drew Lachey, Brian Litrell, Nick Lachey or Chris Evans. Following it up was Kangaroo, who performed Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice”. The guesses included Amber Rose, Leann Rimes and India.Arie.
    White Tiger concluded the performance from Group A. He sang “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred, prompting the panelist to think he was either J.J. Watt, Rob Gronkowski or Joe Manganiello.
    Kitty opened the performances of Group B. She belted out Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” and the panelists’ guesses included Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Roberts and Avril Lavigne. Next up was Banana, who sang Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”. Among the guesses were Bret Michaels, Brad Paisley and Billy Ray Cyrus.
    Frog, meanwhile, wowed with a performance of “Jump” by Kriss Kross. The guesses were Sisqo, Omarion and Romeo Miller.
    In Group C, Night Angel took the stage to sing Andra Day’s “Rise Up”. The panelist thought she could be Tamar Braxton, Brandy or Tisha Campbell. Later, Rhino performed “What a Man Gotta Do” by the Jonas Brothers. The panelist threw out the names Vince Gill, Derek Jeter and Duff McKagan.
    For the final performance of the night, the Astronaut sang Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The guesses for him included David Archuleta, JC Chasez and Ryan Tedder.
    Rhino, White Tiger and Banana were later announced to be the three masked singers whose fate was in jeopardy. However, it was White Tiger who was eventually sent home. Prior to that, he revealed his identity and he was actually Rob Gronkowski!

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    ‘The Magicians’ Showrunners: Behind the Series Finale

    This interview includes spoilers for Wednesday night’s episode of “The Magicians.”During the table read for the Season 5 finale of “The Magicians” — before the cast and crew knew it would be the finale for the whole series — executive producer David Reed turned to Sera Gamble, one of the three showrunners, and said, “This feels a little more optimistic than we usually are.”After all, past season-ending episodes had been cliffhangers about absolute disasters — main characters killed, terrifying new villains introduced, the supply of magic to the universe dominated by a fascist authority (or disabled entirely). This time, the showrunners backed off their usual m.o. of whipping out some radical maneuver and worrying later about how to tidy it up next season. Now, they took a gentler tack, allowing the sexually fluid Eliot (Hale Appleman) to finally choose an emotionally available partner, for example, and opening a door for Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley), Margo (Summer Bishil), Josh (Trevor Einhorn) and Fen (Brittany Curran) to kick-start a new, improved Fillory, one with knife trees, bacon fields and naturally occurring pizza ovens. As Josh says, it’s all “perversely comforting” — not the usual “Magicians” tone, considering its ethos, that magic comes from pain.Gamble, who wrote the episode with Henry Alonso Myers, one of the showrunners, structured the script to work with or without a Season 6, leaving open the possibility of new adventures (and disasters). “Don’t worry,” she told Reed. “We can sprinkle a lot of pessimism on it in postproduction if we have to. We can make it a little more brutal.” But as it turned out, they didn’t have to. During a phone interview, Gamble and John McNamara, the show’s two creators, discussed bringing “The Magicians” to a conclusion, their unfulfilled narrative wish list, and the most real-world thing about the show, particularly now. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.For a show about magic, “The Magicians” has been surprisingly prescient. In order to save Fillory, they decide to quarantine Fillorians in a pocket world as they destroy the planet.SERA GAMBLE I was listening to a podcast deconstructing some of the rhetoric right now about where our priorities lie on the spectrum of trying to save the life of every American versus trying to save our economy. We didn’t know we were talking about the same issues regarding destroying Fillory. We all agreed that the right thing for Fen is saving the people and talking animals and unicorns. And yes, we mentioned pandemics, but we had no idea this was coming!JOHN MCNAMARA If we had pitched this story a year ago to Syfy, they’d be like, “Get out of here.” We’re living through something that not even a combination of Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut and Michael Crichton could have conceived: that the United States is the least capable country of dealing with a pandemic.In a weird way, Margo’s decision to sacrifice herself to save Fillory now feels like, “Huh, that’s an incredibly noble leader that we currently do not have.” Whatever I write with Sera next, it’s going to have a feeling of, the worst thing about a crisis is the person in charge.Could social distancing measures be considered a form of cooperative magic: the power generated when people in disparate locations do the same thing at the same time?MCNAMARA I like that idea. If I’m Zooming with five family members, that’s a form of cooperative magic.GAMBLE When we talked about cooperative magic in the mythology of our show, we used this word that people are using a lot right now: exponential. Exponential growth and power. If you get 10 magicians — or even regular people — all focused on the same thing, how much stronger is it?MCNAMARA Culturally, we’ve really embraced a somewhat self-destructive fantasy, which is the idea of a single superhero saving X — the city, the world, the girl, whatever X is. Historically, it’s almost never true. The greatest accomplishments stem from the group endeavor, from collectivism of some kind. John Adams didn’t write the Declaration of Independence. He encouraged Thomas Jefferson to write it, and then they all revised it, and in the movie “1776,” they sang a bunch of great songs about it. It was a collective experience of people who had huge philosophical disagreements, but one objective. That’s where I think collective, cooperative magic feels like one of the most psychologically and socially real things that we’ve done with “The Magicians,” because it reflects how we founded a new country, won World War II, got through 9/11, got through a pandemic. There was no one person who got us through 9/11; it was a collective consciousness, a collective kindness, a collective spirit.GAMBLE That’s what keeps me sane right now, focusing on all of the things people are doing for each other. I stay away from my neighbors now, yet I feel closer to my neighbors than I did a month ago, because we’re having the same experience. So I think about the idea of cooperative magic all the time, about the way that people are connected, even if we’re not literally holding hands.That’s where we came to in the last episode. The problems and the crisis continue, because they always do. You put the world together and it will fall apart again. But you have every confidence that Eliot, Julia and Penny-23 will stop at nothing to find their friends. You can fill in your own version of the epic tale of how our group find each other again, but it doesn’t rely on the relationships even being definable. It’s just they were alone and now they have each other. That’s the point we wanted to land most of all. It’s the way that we view the world, even if the writers’ room is full of people who look and sound and act like your classic fairy tale hero dude.MCNAMARA Well, to be fair, I look a lot like William Shatner during Season 1 of “Star Trek.”You’re only saying that because William Shatner is such a big fan of “The Magicians.”MCNAMARA It’s so true. Sera and I got to meet William Shatner. There had been a bit of kerfuffle over him live-tweeting nice things about “The Magicians,” and someone somewhere had tried to monetize that, and he got very upset about that on Twitter. We were mortified, because we had nothing to do with that, and said we would like to come explain that to him personally. He could not have been a more charming, attentive host. I have pictures of the three of us because I’m a total geek. They say don’t meet your heroes, but you should always meet your heroes.GAMBLE I was so star-struck, and getting to meet him as an extension of making this show was one of the crazier moments of my life.MCNAMARA He asked me, “Why are you wearing a suit?” “Because I’m meeting William Shatner.” He said, “Is it OK if I’m just wearing a T-shirt?” And I said, “Well, you’re just meeting Sera and John. This is no big deal for you.”Did you bring up the possibility of his doing a cameo on the show?MCNAMARA I’m sure we talked about it. But we were careful not to do stunt casting for the sake of stunt casting.Well, you have several actors who are completely unrecognizable. Sean Maguire this season, for example, was not only the Dark King but also Sir Effingham, thanks to the pig prosthetics.GAMBLE So what you’re saying is we could have had Mr. Shatner on the show and kept that hidden?MCNAMARA He played Ember. [Laughs] No, he didn’t. This is entirely our lack of imagination that we didn’t find the right role for William Shatner.I’m sorry to break it to you, but this is probably why you got canceled.MCNAMARA I wouldn’t doubt it. [Laughs]If you had the budget, what would you have done differently? What was still on your wish list?MCNAMARA I’m really bummed that we weren’t able to do a magical flying carpet.GAMBLE There would have been more dragons.We had a pitch for a place in Fillory called Cocaine Island, inspired by “Rick and Morty.”MCNAMARA Can I say the one that broke my heart? In last week’s episode, the original ending was that everybody from the heist starts singing their last song, the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There.” They’re in beautiful harmony, having closure in their relationships.In walk Penny-23 and Julia, who had been on a separate story line with no music, and Penny goes, “We missed the musical?” And Julia goes, “Thank God.” I’ll always be bummed that we were not able to shoot that. God knows what Season 6 would have brought. Probably an opera. More

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    Eva Marcille Taunts NeNe Leakes for Saying She Should Be Fired From 'RHOA'

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    In a recent interview, the 52-year-old TV personality revealed that her co-star needs to be replaced because she ‘doesn’t seem to have carried any weight this season.’
    Apr 2, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Eva Marcille didn’t take a long time to give her response after NeNe Leakes said that she should be fired from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”. However, instead of getting angry over her co-star’s comment, Eva let her know that she isn’t bothered in the slightest bit and even went to taunt NeNe.
    Underneath an Instagram post about NeNe’s statement, the “America’s Next Top Model” season 1 winner simply left a face with a stuck-out tongue and a sunflower emoticon. Not stopping there, she then took to her own account to share a video of her saying, “Oooh, she’s bothered,” in a mocking tone before sticking her tongue out and laughing.
    In a recent interview, NeNe revealed that Eva should get off the show because she “doesn’t seem to have carried any weight this season.” The 52-year-old continued, “I’m just being honest. It’s really like, when you look at a show like, everybody — like the whole cast — is away, and you don’t miss the person at all, it’s sort of like, we didn’t even know you were here, you know? And all season, doing a lot of scenes from FaceTime, that’s been the last couple of seasons … So, If I had to change, I would change her.”
    Despite her comment, NeNe made sure that she doesn’t have any “harsh feelings” towards Eva. “[Eva] proved it all season long, with her sitting in the car with Cynthia [Bailey] riding, rolling her eyes, having all these things to say, as if I really did something to her,” she explained. “Now maybe I stole her baby and I didn’t know it, who knows? Who knows? Anything happens with me, you know, everything is so elevated.”

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    'RHOA': Find Out Why NeNe Leakes Wants to Trade Eva Marcille for Kim Zolciak

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    ‘I would like to see her come on as, like, a friend of the show. Play around for a couple of episodes, because I still think there’s unfinished business there,’ NeNe says of the ‘RHOA’ alum.
    Apr 2, 2020
    AceShowbiz – NeNe Leakes is calling for a cast shake-up. “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star revealed in a recent interview that she thought her co-star Eva Marcille should be fired from the Bravo reality TV series.
    “We have a great cast right now except for one person, I think,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I think only one person on this cast doesn’t seem to have carried any weight this season. And I think that’s very obvious who that person is, and I don’t think they actually sit in the cast that well.”
    “I don’t feel like Eva brings that much to the cast,” NeNe reasoned. “I’m just being honest. It’s really like, when you look at a show like, everybody — like the whole cast — is away, and you don’t miss the person at all, it’s sort of like, we didn’t even know you were here, you know? And all season, doing a lot of scenes from FaceTime, that’s been the last couple of seasons … So, If I had to change, I would change her.”
    NeNe, however, made it clear that she didn’t have “any harsh feelings towards her.” Instead, NeNe thought that it was the other way around. “[Eva] proved it all season long, with her sitting in the car with Cynthia [Bailey] riding, rolling her eyes, having all these things to say, as if I really did something to her,” she explained. “Now maybe I stole her baby and I didn’t know it, who knows? Who knows? Anything happens with me, you know, everything is so elevated.”
    When asked if she had a name she would like to replace Eva on the show, NeNe admitted she would like to have Kim Zolciak returning. However, she noted that Kim had no interest to return as she has her own series, “Don’t Be Tardy…”, on the network. “Yeah, that’s kinda the bad thing about it, but still, I would like to see her come on as, like, a friend of the show,” NeNe said. “Play around for a couple of episodes, because I still think there’s unfinished business there.”
    “I think it is unfair for the rest of the cast to face people who they have issues with and then she doesn’t get to face who she has an issue with. So, the one time she had a real issue with somebody, all of a sudden, they have to be off the show? So, I don’t think that part is fair, and I think it’s OK for me to speak my opinion about that, Kandi, and I will continue to do so,” NeNe shared.

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    Pokémon, Stay

    I am a little figure on a big green map.I’m wearing an orange jacket and a luchador-style wrestling mask with pointy ears, the outfit of my avatar in Pokémon Go, the augmented-reality smartphone game in which you catch, collect and evolve tiny monsters for points and prestige.All around me, stretching to the horizon, there are no-go zones. The grocery store I should avoid because of social distancing. The playground where parents are being advised not to let their toddlers touch the equipment. The city park where Brooklynites craving fresh air have been coming too close for comfort.My avatar radiates a small circle around it, denoting the distance at which you can activate in-game features. (Suddenly, the concept of having a circle radiating from your person — six feet to be precise — is universal, and a lot less whimsical.) The figure stands on a single, long rectangle, the house I live in. And that, pretty much, is where I stay.If you’ve ever played Pokémon Go, you know the problem here. Unlike so many video games, this one was designed to get you off your couch, make you move and bring you into the world. If you want to advance and find rarities, you need to wander and explore. To get the balls, potions and eggs you need (I could go into detail; I won’t), you visit “Pokéstop” stations and “gyms” placed at local landmarks.If you don’t go anywhere, you don’t get anywhere. “Go” is in the name, after all. And yet here we are, in the era of Stay.Before Covid-19, my continuing Pokémon Go habit was just a mild embarrassment. It was the ultimate dad move to still be playing a game that became a pop-culture sensation in 2016, when Hillary Clinton joked about getting voters to “Pokémon Go to the polls.”Now the app is one more reminder of what we’ve lost — the casual ability to just go places and have real-world experiences, including the ones mediated by an augmented-reality game.Pokémon Go had been a constant low-key part of my life, an ambient presence in the back of my head as I moved about the world. On city bus rides to school, I would pass off my phone to my son so he could catch Drowzees and Eevees for me on the trip. I do not hand around my phone so casually anymore.I’d open the game while on a morning run or at rest stops on family road trips. When I traveled, it was a kind of alt-GPS that I would use to discover new cities. I collected Pokémon the way other people would collect souvenir snow globes. A trip to Miami for a book fair netted a region-specific Corsola. Visiting Mexico City to give a lecture in February, I went running in Tlalpan National Park and finally nabbed a long-coveted Heracross.The game even has a social aspect of sorts, a “friends” feature that allows you to trade in-game “gifts” with other players. I have friends in New York, elsewhere in America, in Europe and Asia. I hope they’re doing well; the game allows for no communication except gift-giving.Lately I don’t go out and collect many gifts, so I don’t send many. The world, once a delightful bounty of serendipity and lucky finds, is now a scary place to retreat from.One silly game experience, of course, is hardly humankind’s greatest loss at the moment. But this is part of what the pandemic does: It makes even harmless, time-wasting aspects of life into ominous, sad triggers.Before our great sheltering, people would often bemoan that screen entertainments were replacing “real” experience. If anything, this has firmed my belief that virtual experiences are, in their own way, absolutely real. When you lose them, along with the physical world they’re layered over, the loss is undeniable.Once upon a time, the makers of Pokémon Go mainly had to worry about reminding ardent users not to trespass or crash the car while on the hunt. Now, they’re making it easier for us suddenly homebound players to amass a stash of balls, hatch eggs with less walking and lure critters while sheltering in place. A recent news alert in the app promised “updates to Pokémon Go features and experiences that can be enjoyed in individual settings.”It’s nice. It helps. It also helps that there are ways of playing without leaving home, like a “battle league” feature that allows you to pit your Pokémon against other monster teams from around the world.But that’s not the game. The game is catching them all, hunting, exploring, moving. My weekly progress meter — which measures my walking for in-game rewards, in communication with my Apple Watch — would regularly log over 50 kilometers in a typical week. Last week I barely cracked 20. (Mostly, I assume, nervous pacing.)Still, I play. I see what creatures are lurking near my house. Occasionally, I see if the coast is clear and dash down the block to spin my local Pokéstop. In a stressful time, even the attenuated game is a distraction and a comfort.But it’s also a reminder of what Pokémon Go used to give me, and the one thing it can no longer deliver no matter how much it tweaks its code: the whole wide world. More