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Welcome to Crash Zoom, a podcast where we accept a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news! Each week, participate Rough Draft Atlanta Associate Editor Sammie Purcell and indie filmmaker Aaron Strand as they explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist.
Moving forward, we’ll be switching up our format. Each week, we’ll be releasing two shorter episodes, one on Wednesday and one on Friday. Instead of covering multiple unlike news items, we’ll be diving deep on two stories.
This week’s Wednesday episode takes a look at the relationship between Warner Bros. Discovery and Turner Classic Movies.
This week’s Friday episode dives into the history of Laika Studios.
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By NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A review by Texas lawmakers into the catastrophic July 4 floods has no intention of second-guessing decisions by local officials or assigning blame over the tragedy that killed at least 136 people, a top Republican leading the effort said Wednesday.
“Our choose committee will not armchair quarterback,” Republican Sen. Charles Perry said, and would instead seek to depict lessons on flood prevention and preparedness.
Local officials contain faced scrutiny over why more warnings weren’t sent to residents in harm’s way along the Guadalupe River. State and county emergency response officials are scheduled to testify, but no officials from Kerr County, the area most hard-hit by the floods. Perry, the committee chair, said this would shun pulling them away from their work.
In addition to those deadly floods in the Texas Hill Land, the other major issue on the agenda for this summer’s 30-day particular session is a partisan redrawing of U.S. Home maps, which aims to give Republicans more winnable seats in the 2026 elections.
The session is already off to a combative start. Democrats want to address flood relief and new flood
The hours crawled as my family and I spent Saturday afternoon in a third-floor room at the Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Greensboro.
It was February 2024, and these forced weekend getaways were becoming routine for us. We were only about three miles from our house in the leafy, inner-ring suburbs of the city’s west side. My 10-year-old daughter was hunched on one of the queen beds staring intently at her tablet, as her 5-year-old sister jumped from one corner of the bed to the other. My wife switched on an episode of Bluey to try to settle her.
I perched over a narrow desk looking down on McGee Road, but my attention was focused on my cell phone, where I toggled between apps for our two separate security systems. It seemed as though the afternoon might move beyond without incident.
Then, just before 5 p.m., the cameras registered something. At first, it looked like shadows flitting behind the leaves of the large magnolia tree in our front yard. Then six human figures came into focus.
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Billie Jean King is many things: a pioneer, activist, champion tennis player and warrior for equality (for women and queer people).
In the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production Billie Jean, Lauren Gunderson has written a play that showcases the public and private struggles King fought on her journey to becoming an icon who has inspired millions. Windy City Times recently talked with Gunderson; actress Chilina Kennedy, who portrays King; and Dan Amboyer, who plays King’s first spouse, husband Larry King—and many items were revealed, including one of the trio coming out as part of the LGBTQ+ community for the first time in print.
Note: This conversation was edited for clarity and length.
Windy City Times: Lauren, there are so many people you could’ve written about. Why did you settle to focus on Billie Jean King? Also, what kind of research went into writing this play?
Lauren Gunderson: This was an opportunity that was presented to me, as opposed to something I initiated. Our amazing producers had connected with Billie Jean, and she was unwrap to a play; she and her wife, Ilana, are big musical-theater fans. When they came and said they wanted a show about Billie Jean Ki
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