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    Danai Gurira 'Blown Away' by Love She Received on Her Last Day on 'The Walking Dead' Set

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    The actress, who played Michonne for eight seasons on the show, filmed her final episode in July 2019, and recalled the difficult time after her remaining scenes aired on March 22.
    Mar 24, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “The Walking Dead” star Danai Gurira was dreading her last ever day on the set of the series but was thrilled with the send off her co-stars planned.
    The actress, who played Michonne for eight seasons on the show, filmed her final episode in July (2019) and recalled the difficult time after her remaining scenes aired on Sunday, March 22.
    “It was very, very, very emotional,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “It was a lot of love. I received so much love, I was really blown back by how much love I received from everybody.”
    And while the shoot proved challenging to face, the 42-year-old notes the big show of support really helped her get through it.
    “You’re dreading that last day, that last minute, that last frame, you’re dreading it,” Gurira added. “That’s it. And at the same time, there’s so much beauty and love around it that you’re able to just be in the moment with it. So it was great. It was beautiful. It was like leaving home. There’s nothing quite like it.”
    Danai previously revealed she was given her own special wrap party on the difficult day.
    “They did a lot of really cool things for me, which I didn’t expect,” she revealed to EW in February. “Norman (Reedus) organised this big fireworks display, which was really beautiful, and there was this really cool cake that was basically Michonne’s sword….”.

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    'American Idol' Recap: Top 40 Revealed in Final Night of Hollywood Week

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    The contestants are divided into three groups before the judges, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, announce which groups that will be heading to Hawaii.
    Mar 24, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “American Idol” returned with a new episode on Monday, March 23. The episode marked the final night of Hollywood Week with Top 40 being announced at the end of the episode. Opening the night was Kimmy Gabriela, who sang “I’m Here” from “The Color Purple”, much to Katy Perry’s liking.
    Later, Genavieve Linkowski followed it up with a stunning rendition of “In My Blood” by Shawn Mendes. Also offering an impressive performance was Jovin Webb who belted out Chris Stapleton’s “Parachute”. Perrin York, meanwhile, managed to get Katy to sing along with her as she sang “Good as Hell” by Lizzo.
    The next singers were Faith Becnel and Jeb Vonderbruegge who performed Elmore James’ “Cry For Me Baby” and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” respectively. As for Arthur Gunn, he took the stage to once again perform the same song he sang at his auditions, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain?” He made a few alterations though, and the judges loved it.
    That night, Robert Taylor, Amelia, Jimmy Levy and Julia Gargano sang original songs but the judges were not really impressed. However that wasn’t the case for Lauren Mascitti, who earned a standing ovation for her original song “God Made a Woman”.
    Meanwhile, Makayla Brownlee, who has a heart condition that affects the way she reacts to stress, didn’t get to perform because she had to be taken to be looked by doctors. The auditions continued with a performance from Camryn Leigh Smith who sang “Always Remember Us This Way”. Devon Alexander and Lauren Spencer-Smith wowed Katy, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan with their performances. Later, Makayla returned and gave a solid performance of “Rainbow” by Kacey Musgraves.
    After a few more performances, it was time for the big reveal. The contestants were divided into three groups. Room one had Johnny West, Arthur Gunn, Sophia Wackerman, Franklin Boone, Makayla Phillips, Kimmy Gabriela, Cyniah Elise and Lauren Mascitti among others. Room two held Margie Mays, Jimmy Levy, Kat Luna, Sarah Isen and Madison Paige among others, while room three included Louis Knight, Jovin Webb, Nick Morico and Just Sam.
    Later, the judges went to room one and told them that they were heading to Hawaii as part of the Top 40. They were joined by singers in room three while the ones in room two were eliminated.

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    'RHOA': NeNe Leakes Lashes Out at Producer After Storming Out During Greece Outing

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    The episode also sees Kenya leaving the filming site after being involved in huge argument with NeNe and Marlo Hampton last week with NeNe trying to spit on Kenya.
    Mar 23, 2020
    AceShowbiz – A lot was happening in the Sunday, March 22 episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”. The episode saw Kenya Moore refusing to bury the hatchet with NeNe Leakes and Marlo Hampton after they were involved in a huge argument last week with NeNe trying to spit on Kenya.
    Kenya seemingly had enough of them as she tried to leave the filming site. Kandi Burruss tried to stop her, saying, “Stop being a person that walks away. Stop it! Kenya, you can’t just say what you wanna say and then leave!”
    “I told you don’t insult me, that’s my point,” Kenya clapped back. “I don’t have time for this s**t. The s**t I’m dealing with, I don’t have time for this s**t.”
    In her confessional, Kandi shared, “I don’t even wanna do this. I knew this is not the time, Kenya was dealing with so much stuff at home and she doesn’t really have the fight in her right now.”

    The next day, it was NeNe who threatened to leave the filming site. NeNe seemingly was offended with the other ladies playing “greek tragedy” in which they imitated each other. She excused herself to use the bathroom but the other Housewives thought that they had upset her.
    That prompted one producer to intervene and try to stop her from storming out. NeNe, however, lashed out at him and said, “Don’t f**k with me, I’m for real.” It seems like viewers will find out why NeNe was so upset in next week’s episode.
    Season 12 of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” airs on Sundays at 8 P.M. on Bravo.

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    What’s on TV Monday: ‘Freud’ and ‘Ghost World’

    What’s StreamingFREUD Stream on Netflix. There is plenty of dramatic material to be found in the life story of Sigmund Freud. He successfully pioneered the theory and practice of psychoanalysis despite widespread resistance from his colleagues in the medical community and pervasive anti-Semitic prejudice. He escaped the Nazis after Austria was annexed by Germany. And he battled cancer for the last decades of his life. But in this new German-language series from Marvin Kren, fiction supplements fact: The young Freud, played by Robert Finster, is an ambitious doctor drawn into a murder investigation alongside a psychic (Ella Rumpf) and a police inspector (Georg Friedrich).CRUMB (1995) Stream on the Criterion Channel. Before directing films like “Ghost World” (2001) and “Bad Santa” (2003), Terry Zwigoff made two documentaries. The first, “Louie Bluie” (1985), was about Howard (Louie Bluie) Armstrong, a country blues musician, visual artist and gifted storyteller. Zwigoff continued his investigation of eccentric American creators with this portrait of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. The documentary surveys Crumb’s career and highlights his most notable creations, including the comic “Keep on Truckin’” and the character Fritz the Cat. But it also includes material about his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, herself an important cartoonist, and his troubled brothers Maxon and Charles. All three, plus Crumb’s two children, contributed to the life and work of one of the country’s greatest and most debated pop artists.MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS Stream on Acorn TV. This feature film is an offshoot of the Australian TV series based on Kerry Greenwood’s novels about a female private detective working after World War I. Essie Davis (“The Babadook,” “Game of Thrones”) returns as Phryne Fisher in the first new installment since 2015, when the third and final season aired in Australia. Fisher travels to British-controlled territory in the Middle East to solve a mystery that revolves around “priceless emeralds” and “ancient curses.” Along the way she saves a young Bedouin girl (Izabella Yena), whose tribe’s history might be connected with the hexed gems.What’s on TVTHE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on TNT. Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an autistic forensic accountant who helps criminal enterprises root out embezzlement and launder money, in this thriller directed by Gavin O’Connor. Chris, as he’s known, was submitted to brutal childhood training by his father, an army expert in psychological operations. This background, Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times, turned Chris into “a tormented loner” endowed with “prodigious abilities.” His relatively humdrum, hyper-ordered life is thrown into disarray when the United States Treasury Department tries to discover his identity. At the same time, an audit he undertakes for a legitimate client proves to be deeper and darker than he expected. By the end of the movie, Chris’s struggles in the present prove to be connected to his difficult familial past. More

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    What’s on TV Monday: ‘Freud’ and ‘Crumb’

    What’s StreamingFREUD Stream on Netflix. There is plenty of dramatic material to be found in the life story of Sigmund Freud. He successfully pioneered the theory and practice of psychoanalysis despite widespread resistance from his colleagues in the medical community and pervasive anti-Semitic prejudice. He escaped the Nazis after Austria was annexed by Germany. And he battled cancer for the last decades of his life. But in this new German-language series from Marvin Kren, fiction supplements fact: The young Freud, played by Robert Finster, is an ambitious doctor drawn into a murder investigation alongside a psychic (Ella Rumpf) and a police inspector (Georg Friedrich).CRUMB (1995) Stream on the Criterion Channel. Before directing films like “Ghost World” (2001) and “Bad Santa” (2003), Terry Zwigoff made two documentaries. The first, “Louie Bluie” (1985), was about Howard (Louie Bluie) Armstrong, a country blues musician, visual artist and gifted storyteller. Zwigoff continued his investigation of eccentric American creators with this portrait of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. The documentary surveys Crumb’s career and highlights his most notable creations, including the comic “Keep on Truckin’” and the character Fritz the Cat. But it also includes material about his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, herself an important cartoonist, and his troubled brothers Maxon and Charles. All three, plus Crumb’s two children, contributed to the life and work of one of the country’s greatest and most debated pop artists.MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS Stream on Acorn TV. This feature film is an offshoot of the Australian TV series based on Kerry Greenwood’s novels about a female private detective working after World War I. Essie Davis (“The Babadook,” “Game of Thrones”) returns as Phryne Fisher in the first new installment since 2015, when the third and final season aired in Australia. Fisher travels to British-controlled territory in the Middle East to solve a mystery that revolves around “priceless emeralds” and “ancient curses.” Along the way she saves a young Bedouin girl (Izabella Yena), whose tribe’s history might be connected with the hexed gems.What’s on TVTHE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on TNT. Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an autistic forensic accountant who helps criminal enterprises root out embezzlement and launder money, in this thriller directed by Gavin O’Connor. Chris, as he’s known, was submitted to brutal childhood training by his father, an army expert in psychological operations. This background, Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times, turned Chris into “a tormented loner” endowed with “prodigious abilities.” His relatively humdrum, hyper-ordered life is thrown into disarray when the United States Treasury Department tries to discover his identity. At the same time, an audit he undertakes for a legitimate client proves to be deeper and darker than he expected. By the end of the movie, Chris’s struggles in the present prove to be connected to his difficult familial past. More